Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-05-08
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence Of the Alexandria Gazette
WASHINGTON, May S.

rested yesterday at Harper's Ferry, w.
Va, for the murder of Elsie Kreglo in
this city last Monday afternoon, has
confessed to killing the girl by cutting
her throat. Ford denies any attempt
at criminal assault. He says the girl
threw stone at him as he was passing
near where she was watching COWS. he
was angered by her actions and attack:
ed her. She fought him and he killed
her with a knife and made his escape
through the woods. Ford is confined
in the 9Th precinct station house in this
CITY secure from attempts at lynching.
Postmaster General Wilson to-day
denied the privileges of the mails to e.
F. Krieger and Company, of Chicago,
for selling devices to defraud at cards.
The President has further amended
the civil service rules by an order is
sued to-day bringing into the classified
service the interstate commerce COM
mission, which embraces about one
hundred and forty persons.
General w. II. Payne of Warrenton
sailed for Southampton yesterday
morning on the steamer Columbia OF
the Hamburg line.
The desk of the chairman OF the
House District committee was covered
with an immense bunch of magnificent
roses 10 day, the gift OF the ladies OF q
narrow street here through which, by
a Senate bill, railroad would have run
had not that committee blocked Its
way.
The House, to show that it has COM
pleted all its really important work,
and is now waiting upon the Senate, adj
ourued to-day until Monday.
To morrow the Venezuelan commits.
sion, four months after its creation, will
start an agent to Holland to examine
records in respect of the British and
Venezuelan boundary line in Nicara-
qua, and some months later another
one will be sent to Spain for similar
purpose.
Mrs. Allie H. Stephenson was to-day
appointed postmaster at Wilsonville,
Highland county, Va, vice Fannie NJ.
Stephenson, resigned.
A delegation of Richmond merchants
consisting of Messrs. Younger, Glover
and Saunders, escorted by Senator
Martin, called on Commissioner Miller
of the internal revenue bureau to-day,
and protested against the proposed abo.
ilion Of the bonded warehouse in their
city.
In the House to-day Mr.. Turner of
Virginia succeeded in having passed a
bill allowing the County Court of Rock
ingham county to use the federal court
house in Harrisonburg while the new
county court house is in progress of
erection.
People from Fairfax Court House
here to-day that if a resolution declar-
ing for free silver be introduced at the
mass convention of the democrats of
that county, to be held next Monday
week, it will meet with strong objec-
ton.
1t is reported that the friends of Mr..
Yost, who is contrasting the seat of Mr..
Tucker, in whose favor the elections
committee has reported almost unani-
mously, are taking tally ofthe repub-
lican side of the House in order to see
whether it is worth while to attempt to
defeat that report.
Mr.. Thorp, the newly.seated repub-
lican member of the House from the
Petersburg, Virginia, district, doesn't
hesitate to say that in the Cornett.
Swanson contested case, from his State
he will vote for Mr.. Swanson, the dem
ratio contestee, in whose favor the
majority of the elections committee has
reported.
Congressman Tyler of Virginia sue.
ceeded yesterday in getting Captain J.
l.. Young of Portsmouth q clerical
place in the Norfolk navy yard, such
places not yet being subject to the civil
service law.
In the Senate to-day Mr.. Mitchell, Of
Oregon, aunouced that upon the COM
pletion of the appropriation bills he
would insist upon taking up and bring
ing to vote the bill for the election oil
u. S. Senators by the States, instead OF
as now, by the legislatures thereof.
General Fitz Lee is still in Lynch
burg, but is expected to sail for Havana
next week.
AS the recent extension of the opera
ton of the civil service rules has been
accomplished, not by law, but by a
simple executive order, it is believed by
many that it will be revoked by the
next President, certainly, it is said, if
he be republican.
The House committee on foreign
commerce to-day ordered favorably re-
ported the bill authorizing the Secre-
tary of the Treasury to detail revenue
cutter to control excursion and other
vessels at yacht races.
The Supreme Council of the American Pro-
lective Association will meet in this city on
tho 18th instant. The council contains a
membership of $50. Its conclusions are final,
as it is regarded as the court Of last resort.
Chief among the matters which will come be-
fore the meeting will he the attitude which
ought to be assumed with reference to fnan-
al questions and what part, if any, the order
shall take in the next Presidential election.
The charges against Mckinley, of Ohio, that
he Disseminated against the ORDER will be
considered The order is said to include,
however, large number of members who
are strong supporters of Mr.. Mckinley.
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