Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1900-01-22

| Senator, he was approached by Mr.
! Gallet. an alleged Clark agent, wht
offered him $1,000 for his support O
Mr.. Clark.
A coroner's jury today held to thu
grand jury DR.. Samuel F. Bond, charg
ed WITH having performed delicate
operation upon Miss Henrietta Speier
whose mysterious death at the Colum
bia Hospital Friday night COrODe
Carr has been investigating. Mis-
Speier was an employee Of the govern
IN snt printing Office and was from New
York city.
Mr.. J. S. Browning, a very popula
republican in the 9th Virginia district
and a man of fairs there, left here las
saturday for his home. He has an
nouoced hims II as candidate for tb'
| republican congressional nomination il
his, the Abingdon district, and people
from that district say he will likely re
the nomination as Mr.. Walker, wht
was defeated at the last election, anC
will be a candidate for denomination
has rendered himself unpopular will
many republi aos there.
AS the auti-Martin Virginia repre-
sentatives were not satisfied with tht
selection of their colleague, Mr.. Epes
for the Virginia member of the demo
cratic congressional committee, a meet
ing of the delegation was held this after
noon, at which, however, the previously
an nouDced selection was ratified.
The military committee of the House
will report bill appropriating sixty
three million dollars for the quarter
masters departments next year. Last
years bill appropriated thirty-seveu
million, and there was deficit o.
twenty five million. The government
now owns 33 transports and hires 35.
Congressman Otey of Virginia has re.
turned from Atlanta, where he was the
orator at the Lee anniversary. He says
he never saw so many Confederates be-
fore, except during the war, aud that
though he doesn't like to say 30 him
self, never in all his life did he receive
a greater ovation,
Col. O'Beirne, whom the administra-
ton would not recognize last fall as an
agent of the Boer government. on the
ground that he is citizen of this cOup-
try, though he did not appear as the
representative of the Transvaal, but
rather, of humanity, ard only to ask il
something could not he done to bring
the war 10 South Africa to close, il
the head of powerful organization in
this country whose influence is poten-
tial st al elections. The knowledge Of
this, it is said. may inspire Mr.. McKin.
ley to accord the new Boer agent better
treatment.
Messrs. Whitney. Morgan, Howlaod,
Sturgis, Ledyard, Lsnier, Rockefeller,
Bowdoin, Barton, French and Cowen,
the greatest millionaire railroad capital
list 10 the country, spent Yesterday
here, but went back TO New York last
night. They had a conference with
Senator Depew at the Arlington, cut
were reticent about the object Of their
visit. but it was made so soon after tina
of ex Senator Davis of West Virginia
and other railroad and coal magnates,
last week, that important developments
are expected.
Senator Mcmillan, chairman of the
Senate committee on the District OF
Columbia, said today he couldn't tell
vet what would be done about the pro-
posed retrocession of a large portion OF
Alexandra county to the District, and
that the bill for that purpose had not
been prepared. Several people from
the county had been to see him in refer
ence to the matter, but it would probs-
bly, be sometime before anything def
mite would be done. The slice of the
county be proposes to take will be all
that north of line running from near
Ballston to the Four-Mile-Run station
on the Mt. Vernon electric railroad,
even including the new county court
house. Several Virginia members of
Congress told the Gag correspond
ent this morning it would ne cool day
before any such bill would pass that
body, and cooler one before it would
pass the legisla ure OF their State.
In the House today Mr.. Rixey introduced
a bill to refer to the Court of Claims, under
the Tucker act, the claim of Joshua Shel-
wood and Elizabeth Gray, heirs of Lewis A.
Sherwood and Ellen sherwood Of Virgins,
for supplies taken by federal troops during
8 he war between the States. and petition to
accompany it; also bill for the relief of
about three hundred "loysl" citizens of Lou
doun county, Virginia from whom supplies
were taken by the federal army during the
war between the states.
A republican from the Eastern Shore o.
Virginia here today says that it Is pretty gen.
orally conceded. ne thinks, that Col James
A. Turner of Fredericksburg, probably the
most prominent and Influential republican of
the First Virginia Congress- onal district, who
IL not an officehOlder, will be one of the two
delegates from that Congressional district to
the nat Onal republican convention which
meets at Philadelphia on the 18th of next
June.
1t is the prevailing impression here that
the bill spprOprating one hundred and forty
million dollars for the Nicaragua interocean-
C canal, Though the commissioners appointed
~ the government TO inspect both that and
he Pansms canal routes have not yet made
heir report, will DO passed. by both houses of
congress, and stranger still, that both the
Virginia Senators and all the Representa- |
ives from that State but one Mr.. Jones, will |
Certainly vote for it.
James Derr, 80 years old. a we'll known |
esdent of Hyattsvile, Md, was struck and |
instantly killed this morning by train on |
he Chesapeake Beach railr Dad in the suburbs |
{ Washington.