Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-11-20
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence OF the Alexandria Gazette
WASHINGTON Nov 20

WASHINGTON, Nov. 20.
Major Mckinley will succeed the
23rd man who has held the office OF
President of the United States, but his
administration will be the 32nd in the
history of the country-Washington,J JEFF
ferson, Madison, Monroe, Jackson, Lin.
coln, Grant and Cleveland each having
been elected twice, and Tyler, Fillmore,
Johnson and Arthur filling the unex.
PRED terms of their chiefs. Mojor
Mckinley will come to the office with
the electoral vote OF % States. In the
war Major Mckinley served in the 23rd
Ohio regiment, regiment which has
given to the country two of its chief
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. and Mckinley.
The practicing attorneys before the
Court of Claims met this morning and
passed appropriate resolutions in mem
ory of the late Chief Justice Rich
ardson. Hon. Geo. A. Boutwell,, who
was Secretary of the Treasury when
Justice Richardson was Assistant Secre
tary, presided, and short addresses
were made by local members of the
bar.
Vice Rector Garrigan, of the Catholic
University, has received no official
knowledge of the appointment of Faith
er Conaty as rector of the institution to
succeed Bishop Keane. However, he
has no doubt that it is true, as it was
the understanding when the names Of
Father ConatY, Rev. d. J. Riordan, Of
st. Elizabeth's Church. Chicago, and
Very Rev. Joseph F. Mooney, Vicar
General of New York were selected by
the directors for submission to the Pope
that Father Conaty was Cardinal Sa
tolli's choice and that his recommends
ton would settle the matter. The uni
versity officials do not expect the new
rector to assume the duties of the posi-
ton under two weeks, and longer
period may elapse before be will be set
tied in Washington. Father Conaty is
we'll and favorably known at the uni
versity, having lectured there on one or
two occasions. No change in the per-
sonnet of the faculty is anticipated be-
cause of his appointment, but of this
nothing definite, of course, can be said
at present.
Lun Pearson, an old man, who is
we'll known in Alexandria city and coun-
ty, was convicted here last night of MUIR
der in the first degree for shooting
young Ford, of whom he was jealous.
He has applied for new trial, which it
is supposed will be granted
Agents of the New York sugar trust
and of the Milwaukee -four trust in this
city to-day, say there has been a great
slump in the trades in which they are
engaged since the election, and that
they can see no indication of revival
Of activity in either of them.
P. G. Robinett was appointed post
master at Johnson, Scott county, Va,
today, vice c. Bledsoe, resigned.
Among the visitors here to-day is
Congressman Jones of Virginia. He
says he has heard nothing of the re-
ported intention of Mr.. Tyler, his de.
feated republican competitor, to con.
Test his seat.
MIR. r. n. Harper, proprietor of the
Hotel drug store, has
been elected president of the pharma-
People from Alexandria county, Va,
here to-day, say that many of the old
est wells in that county have recently
gone dry.
Mr.. II. II. Downing of Front ROYAL.
Virginia, here to day, true blue dem.
ocrst, says his party in his State is not
cast down by the result of the recent
national election, but will pick its flint
aud try it again with better success four
years hence.
Mr.. James T. Broadhead, a native of
Nelson county, Virginia, but now
man of affairs in st. Louis and ex-U. S.
minister to Switzerland, and Mr.. H. I.
Kent, prominent lawyer of the same
city, passed through here to-day on
heir way to visit Professor Chas. Kent
Of the University of Virginia, brother
IF the latter and also of the late Linden
Kent of Alexandria.
1t is reported that the Washinton and
Falls Church Railroad having secured
some winter cars will resume their reg
liar through trips between the south
snd of the Aqueduct Bridge and Falls
Church.
Col. Brady, of the Virginia State re-
publican committee, is here to-day.
He says Mckinley carried Virgins by
from thirty to forty thousand majority,
but that the democrats swiudled him
out OF it, cheating the boilers even
worse than they had formerly cheated
the negroes. INDUSTRIOUS and faprant
cheating, he says, was practiced in ali
the Congressional districts of thu STATE
except the Sth, from which he has AZ