Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-05-07
FROM WASHINGTON.
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the fourth CLASS pOStOHlceS OF flrglHla
to-day: Henderson c. Phillips appoint
ed postmaster at Truman, Floyd coun,
ty, vice Elijah ]. Turman, resigned;
Miss Donna J. Sclater, at Union Mills,
Fluvanpa county, vice John II. Reigart,
removed; John w. Kegley at Crosses,
Smyth county, vice James Il. Heron,
resigned.
Congressman Otey, of Virginia, had
another interview with the President
this morning in behalf of ]. F. jameson
of Roanoke, now in Jail for violating
the internal revenue law. Sincehis i'm.
prisonment his wife has had baby, and
the rest of his children now have the
measles. and his family is in sore dis.
tress. The President promised to look
over the papers in the case and to par,
don him if possible. Mr.. Otey also
tried to-day to have ]. f. Chapman, OF
Sllem, appointed to a place in the ma
rine revenue service.
The full term of the republican post
master al Franklin, Virginia, has long
since expired, but the good and true
democrat who has been recommended
for the office by the democratic repre-
sentative from that district has not yet
been appointed.
Mrs. Colonel Lewis, of Norfolk,
whose first husband was Confederate,
but whose second one was federal OF
ficer, was to-day granted q pension OF
$12 month.
The minority report in the Yost-
Tucker contested election case will De
completed by tomorrow, and that case
will be called up in the House next
Tuesday. The report is being prepared
bv Congressman Walker, Col. Brady,
counsel for the contestant, and the con.
testant himself, and will be advocated
in the House by the former. MIR. Tuck
er's friends feel no anxiety about the
result, as Mr.. Mccall, the chairman of
the committee, and other republican
members of that committee, will speak
in favor of the majority report, and say
there will be no formidable opposition
to its adoption. :,
A special agent of the railway mail
service has been sent to Portsmouth,
Virginia, to reopen and examine the
case of w. w. Fearing of that city, q
postal clerk, who has been suspended
for allowing an unauthorized negro to
handle mail bags.
1t is understood that an inspector in
the internal revenue service, hailing
from the North, and consequently en-
tirely disinterested, who recently e1'
amined the Office OF the collector for
the upper district OF Virginia, recon-
mended Capt. Fowle for the place, and
that both the commissioner and the
President think the Captains's nomina-
ton should be confirmed.
Though it is impossible for demo-
Gratis to obtain Offices now, by reason OF
the civil service laws, there is hardly a
day that Virginia Congressman are not
appesled to by some of their constitu.
ents to get them places under the gov
eminent.
AS the District Commissioners and
the chairman of the Senate District OF
Columbia committee are pronounced in
their opposition to the admission of the
Falls Church and Potomac Railroad into
this, city by the proposed route, ferry
at Analostan Island, the prospect OF
that road is now obscured.
Chairman Carter of the national re-
publican committee issued call to-day
for the members of that committee TO
meet in St. Louis on the 10th of
June, and also for contesting delegates
to have their papers ready by that time.
The news of the arrest in Baltimore
OF the negro brute who murdered Elsie
Kreglo, of this city, was received here
with great satisfaction, and many ex-
pressed the opinion that he should be
punished as similar criminals are in
Texas.
All elected delegates to the Chi
cago democratic convention now in
Washington received in their mail this
morning formal notification from In
dianapolis that Governor Claude Mat
thews, of Indiana, was candidate for
nomination for the Presidency by the
Chicago convention. A circular let
ter to that effect, soliciting each
individual delegates vote, was &C.
companied by printed sketch
of Governor Matthews life and
of his past services to the democracy
The circular, which is signed by Sterling B.
Holt, chairman of the democratic State com.
mittee, states it to be au accepted fact that if
the democracy hopes to win in the coming
contest it must look to the great west for a
loader, and asks each delegate to give his can
did opinion as to the probability of Governor
Matthews receiving the support Of the dele
gates, district or state
The last hope of the anti-McKinley men
vanished to-day upon the receipt of the dis
patch that the Indiana republican convention
had declared for the Ohio candidate, who has
nothing to say on the currency question,
though that is the chief issue of the coming
campaign. 1t is now supposed that MIR. Nc
Kiuley will be nominated without ballot
and by reclamation.
The loving statement was given out this
afternoon: The State Department has been
automatically informed that, while of the per-
.ols captured on board the Competitor, some
wrre killed, during the fight that ensued be-
tween the Spanish steam launch and the
schooner, aud, while many more are supposed
to have escaped, only one of the persons cap
tured is an American citizen, who thus far
has refused to give his name
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