Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-05-27
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence OF the Alexandria Gszette'l
WASHINGTON, May y.

81 ,..n
! ne Gnrtber interference with inter
.,ate commerce and the carrying OF the
1-sired States mails. They were brought
n.f3re the court for contempt and SEN
,cnc,d 10 from three to six months
The case was brought
b. lore the Supreme Court on mouon
for leave TO file a petition foi writ OF
h. beas corpus, which was fully argued
b. Debbs's counsel on the one side and
Attorney General Olney on the other
The decision of the Justice sustalns the
action of court below.
Those in position to know the facts
admit that Secretary Gresham is q
very sick man, but say that his condi-
!ion is not hopeless by any meals:
His ailment is pleurisy. He contracted
the disease by his night visits to the
Presidents country home, Woodley,
more than a month ago, the weather at
that time being raw and damp. On
Saturday last he was sitting up antici-
mating the time when he might with
safety leave his sick room. He was
unusually cheerful. He even discussed
narsooal business affairs and manifested
10 various ways outward symptoms OF
bis improved condition. II is believed
that on that day he contracted cold,
luce there is no other way of account
ing for the sudden change in his condl
ZION. This change came on during the
evening. He had q bad night Satur-
dav, was very i'll Sunday and at noon
to day was scarcely perceptibly better.
His relapse on Saturday night was be-
lieved to be due to local causes. presum-
a ,ly dyspepsia, to which be has long been
subject. 1t was discovered on Sunday
that his left lung was affected. Uutll
tina, time the pleuritic water had only
touched the right lung. This unex-
pected complication added to the gravi-
tv of the illness aud naturally gave his
family fresh cause for alarm. Not
outstanding Secretary Glesham's
dangerous symptoms distinguished
IN, deal authority of this city quot the
S-cretary's physician, who is thorough
~ familiar with the disease from which
the Secretary is suffering, believes that
The Secretary will ultimately recover
He asserts that not more than five pei
cent. of such cases die and he thinks
that the Secretary's vitality will enable
him to conquer the disease.
Paymaster Major Dodge, I. 5. a,
who is to pay off the troops in the
West, will be met by an armed escort
from Fort Reno, when he reaches Okla
noina Territory, for the purpose o.
guarding the public funds from the ex
press office to which the money is sent
by the Quartermaster's Department
the wild character of the country and
the presence ola lawless element rem
dering this safeguard necessary.
A telegram from Indian Agent Wis
don at Muskogee, Indian Territory, re-
ports that Chief Perryman and sam
Grayson, treasurer ofthe Creek Nation
have been arrested by an armed moi
of Creek citizens. The trouble grew
out of the two thousand dollars pei
capita payment and the three per cent.
paid financial agents for the passage o.
bill appropriating it by Congress.
The question is asked here if the in.
terest on the bonds the Treasury has
Just sent to England was collected be
fore they left this country but it has
not been answered.
An old Virginian here while
waiting on a corner of f street this
morning for hcrdic was asked if be
was a gold or a silver man. He re.
piled that he was neither, but copper
man, and then he showed three old.
time cents which he was to pay for his
ride.
Senator Morgan's severe criticisms
on the President and Secretary Carlisle,
in an interview printed here this
morning, are commented upon pretty
generally by those interested in public
affairs, and most of the comments are
favorable. People from the South say
that the democratic convention q
every Southern State will declare for
free silver.
Mr.. Kerr, Clerk OF the House, says
the government printer wants to con :
mence the work of printing the testi-
mony in the contested election cases,
and that therefore the papers in those
cases must be opened as soon as posi-
Bile. He will, however, he says, give
the counsel as much time as possible.
General FitZ. Lee is expected here
this evening to start with the other ex-
Confederates who will leave here to.
morrow for Chicago, where Confed-
crate monument will I've dedicated next
Thursday.
Ground was broken this morning for
the foundation of the building the
knights of Labor are to erect on the
lot just north of the Capitol. The
Knights sold their headquarters in
Philadelphia and will erect their new
building here with some of the none Y
they received from that sale. They
say they will keep off the grass in the
Capitol grounds, but they will watch
the proceedings of Congress and keep q
record of how the members of that
body vote on labor questions.
Congressman Updegraff of Iowa, re-
publican, here to-day, says the next
Congress will increase the tariff on
luxuries and on articles that compete
with those produced in this country,
and that it will force the country to
protection if the President shall sign
the bill, or to poverty, if he shall
veto it.
A few of the newspaper correspon.
dents of this city left here this evening
as the guests of the Southern Railroad
for Atlanta, to look at the buildings in
process of erection there for the South
ern Exposition next October.
Senator Mart n, Congressman Mere
dith Otey AMI Elicit ar.Cnn.