Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-06-27
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence of the Alexandra 0a[e.''i
Washington, d. c., June q.

! Correspondents OF inc nioAA"
washington, D. c., June q.
President Roosevelt started for Oyster
Raw this morning in private car attach
ed to the regular $40 Pennsylvania
train. With him were Secretaries Loeb
and Barnes. two stenographers, two
messengers and two secret service men.
Arriving at the 23rd street station IN
New York, the President will be driven
across TO the 34th street station where he
will take the ferry for Long Island City
and thence proceed by train to oyster
Bay.
WINES Edward Thornton, who is tie
Thornton referred to in yesterday s
cablegram from Brussels as having been
murdered in the Congo Free State; was
an American and native of Washing
ton. For the past seven years Thornton
had been serving in the Belgian army
in the Congo Free State. Last summer
he visited his mother, but returned after
short stay. Thornton was 30 years OF
age At the time of his death he held
the rank of captain in the Belgian army.
Auditor Petty has handed his report OF
Watson's defalcations to the Commls-
sioner which he estimates viii reach so, :
600 In view Of the trust which he
placed in Watson and subsequent events
Mr.. Petty says: at is much to be re-
GREETED from every point Of view that
thew (the COMMISSIONER failed to exer-
else their vested authority by summarily
dismissing from the service which his
presence polluted, moral leper and de-
generate, lacking every noble instinct OF
humanity, whose cunning trickery and
studied betrayal OF sacred trust has
brought inexpressible shame and confu-
sion to honest hearts, and dragged in
the dust of contumely and reproach the
good name of an office whose record was
never before darkened by the shadow OF
dishonOr.
A large party of Washington news
paper men left here yesterday on
special train over the Pennsylvania
Railroad for Cape May. They arc
guests of the railroad, which annually
gives the excursion to the newspaper mer
of Washington, Baltimore and Phila
delphia. The party will remain unit
Monday. They are under the persona
care of General Passenger Agent George
w. Boyd and Col. Frank n. Barksdale
chief of the advertising department. A
ball will be given in their honor at thu
Stockton tonight. The railroad company
has provided for their free admission Il
every character of entertainment at
Cape Nav, including the yachts anC
lighthouses, so that they have PRACTICAL!
at their command every pleasure to D'
had there.
Postmaster General Payne visited the
department this morning after an en-
fore ed absence of two days on account 0
an indisposition brought about b,
stomach troubles. He said that he tel
in and weak though he thought his con
dition improved No final action ha
been taken relative to awarding the con-
tract for the printing of the money or
der blanks.
Third Assistant Madden is expected at TN
department Monday after an absence OF lev
days at Detroit. No action will be taken un
tilbis return: upon his request for an eXaInlni
ton of the charge that he was guilty OF an.
improperly in connection with the purchas
of registry books from the Franklin, Ia
establishment.