Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-06-11
FROM WASHINGTON.

Correspondence Of the Alexandra oaze''e'j
Washington, d, c., June IL.
A gentleman who used to be the
limited States Minister to Greece and
Sarr;o and who now occupies high Of
6c;ol nosition in this city, when APP
nr;sed of the assassination of the King
and Oueen of Servia, remarked that he
had been expecting some development
oS the sort for months. He said "King
Alexander was very unpopular, not only
with his people but with his ministers.
He was a very weak man intellectually
as well as in every other way. He was
tall. thin, and one of the ugliest men 1t
has ever been my fortune to meet.
Queen Draga was "a quiet, prepossessIng
woman, one of the ladies of the court OF
Queen Natalie, the mother of Alexander.
She was very ambitious and Of consider
able intellectual attainments. A woman
of that sort could do practically what she
pleased with a man like the King. 1t is
well known that she was his mistress for
some time Before he married her"
"a crisis has been precipitated in the
Postofice Department involving the
personal and official friendship OF the
Postmaster General and First Assistant
r. J. Wynne. The friends of Mr. Payne
are ND in arms because of the stories
now in circulation alleging conspiracy
to overthrow the President, in which a
member of the republican national com
mittee. a prominent u. S. Senator and
A. w. Machen and George Beavers
were accredited with being princl-
pals and the enormous power OF the
rural free delivery was named as the
agency whereby the defeat of the Presl-
dents ambitions was to be encompassed.
These adherenis of Mr. Payne insist that
the publication was inspired by First
Assistant Wynne, who, they declare,
has from the inception Of his duties been
undermining the Postmaster General. II
is further charged that Mr.. Wynne has
carried tales to the White House and
has attempted to poison the mind of the
President against the head Ofthe Postoft C.
Department They say that Mr.. Payne
can no longer remain quiesceni. Mr.
Wynne declines to discuss the charges
made against him. On account OF The
differences between the Postmaster Gen
eral and his First Assistant, the retire
ment of one or the other at an early dat'
would not be surprising.
Judge Pritchard today reduced TIT
bond in the case of James Nj. A. Wat
son, held for embezzling public funds, t
800. 900. Meanwhile the young man II
being held.
President Roosevelt and party, re
turning from Cleveland, arrived here a
9 p. m. this afternoon.
ouite disastrous fire broke out in tn
Fendall Building, at A street and Lousiani
avenue early this morning. Besides burning
the interior of the building a number OF yaiu
able libraries and law books were destroyed
The building was occupied by lawyers. =.
Despondent because Of his financial condl
ton. Robert A. Sedwick, a clerk IN IN
treasury department, committed suicide a
his home today by taking morphine poison
He was a clerk in the auditors office None,
lenders pressed the man for their loans, whlcl
he IVES unable to pay, and this made MIN des
perate.
Maurice Tally, a well-known business man
whose leg was amputated few days age
died last night.
The Comptroller of the Currency this morn
ing issued a call for statements of the con
dition of national banks at the close OF bus
ness on Tuesday, June 9th. ..
II is minated that the difficulty of findin
a suitable man TO head the House COMMITTEE
ON postofices and postroads no longer exist
and that Congressman Burton, of Cleveland
Ohio. has been decided on. This committe
no doubt will take up the investigation
the Postofice Department scandals.