Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-12-16
ALEXANDRIA.

4 MrRpERors ARRAY ON TIE NORFOLK BoAr.
Before daylight this morning Capt y. T.
Davis Of the Norfolk steamer Washington
stopped HE boat here al the foot Of Prince
stree. and with the help of the mate, brough,
ashore an Did soldier named James Woods and
delivered him at the station house charged
with stabbing and dangerously wounding Fred
Lepoldt. another soldier. on the steamer Wash
ington, in the Potomac river, last night This
being the first place OF landing the man was
brought ashore and delivered to the authori-
ties according to law. Capt. Davis held a con-
sultation with Mayor Strauss at daylight, and
late in the day the mayor heard the tes-
timony of John Frjl and Daniel Schindle,
from which it appeared that both Woods
and Lepoldt were in liquor and quar-
relied on the steamer when above
Point Lookout, Lepoldt calling Woods d--n
Irish -, but at that time tLey did not
fight, as Woods was comparatively sober.
Later Woods became drunk, the quarrel was
renewed and the stabbing took place. Woods
was committed &c jail for the grand jury. 1t is
said that Lepoldt cannot recover from his
wound. Woods came from Oswego, N. ", but
has been away from that place for many years.
ALEXANDRIA INITIATES WASHINGTON.
The very fac smile Of the case which oc-
CURED last week on Delaware avenue, South
Washington, in which a colored man and
woman we're suspected Of killing a colored
u.
five years old, died in q house on Franklin
street near Columbus and the occupants, Henry
Allen and Eliza Smith, both colored, said it
had been weakly, puny thing and
had fallen in spasm on the stove
and died from the effects Of the fall.
The neighbors allese i'll treatment, and a
coroner's jury having found on the child's head
fracture. which the physicians testified was
caused either by a fall or blow, verdict was
returned that the death was caused by "a blow
on the top of the head received in way not
known to the jury" In the Washington case,
after a somewhat similar verdict last Sunday,
no arrests were made, but in the Alexandria
case all the inmates of the house where the
child died were committed to Jail by Mayor
Strauss for the grand jury.
NOTES.
The corporation court has divorced Lewis
Hicks and Lille Hicks and has granted to
Bridget Brooks administration on the estate of
her late husband, Capt. VIM. H. Brooks, for
merly an engineer Of the Washington navy yard
locomotive.
The police last night arrested number OF
the fourth wards.
The Alexandria brethren Of the "Mystic Tie"
are represented in the Grand Lodge, now in
session in Richmond, by +. A. Reed, W. d.
Stewart, J. II. Fisher and W. X. Whittlesey.
Alexandria will soon be able to supply WASH
ington with painters if all the men who super
wise the painting of the market house learn the
trade by seeing painters at work.
Another movement has begun for the removal
Of the county court house from this city to
some place in the county.
Miss Roberta Cline. young lady we'll known
and highly esteemed here, died suddenly this
morning. She had just fitted up her mansion
on Prince and Pitt streets in fine modern style
when death came to be one of its first occu-
pants
Woods, who stabbed Lepoldt, will have
another hearing in q few DAYS