Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-10-30
LOCAL BRETITIES.
The schooner May Queen has been
sold by Mr.. G. w. Petty to Washington
parties for 5000.

The schooner May q leen has been
sold by Mr. G. w. Petty to Washington
parties for SOD.
Last night was the coolest of the sea-
soa and ice all eighth of an inch thick
formed in exposed places. This morn
ing there was heavy frost.
At the recent civil service examine
ton held in this city Mr.. c. A. Padgett
passed rs letter carrier, and Mr.. Har
~ Hammond as postal clerk.
Mr.. Robert Crook was painfully hurt
this morning in the shops of the Mid
land Railway. He was superintendent 6
the lacking up of Car when the
lever flew out and struck him across
the abdomen. He was taken to his
home where he received treatment, and
this evening was resting comfortably.
He was attended by DR.. O'Brien.
The Ladies' Auxiliary will hold q
meeting on Thursday evening to make
arrangements for repairing the railroad
reading rooms.
The remains of little David Yachel
White, son of Mr.. B. c. White, were
brought here this morning and inferred.
Rev Father Cutler conducted the SER
vices.
Messrs. Lacey and Mockabee. of
Washington, who were struck by a
train in this city last Thursday, are suf-
fering considerably from their injuries.
The committee on streets of the City
Coupci will meet at the Auditors
Office on Tuesday night to consider the
biz nov before Council requiring rail
roa! gates to be placed along the streets
sAroggL which trains pass.
JESS aciorc the Manassas train left
Washington This morning the mail car
als discovered to be on fire, but the
.iaJaes were extinguished by the train
men before much damage had oeen
done.
An old farmer living near Benning's
while walking on the track this morn
in@ vas struck by P. & B. train and
killed His body was talcn to Wash
ington.
On Saturday evening three coIorcd
men attempted to steal a ride on the
w. S. r. w. and resisted when the
train men attempted to put them of:
They were overcome, however, and
put off the car, force having to be re-
sorted to to dislodge them.
A marriage license was issued in
Washington on Saturday to Edmund
Clark and Susie Glessick, both OF this
city.
Peter P. Pullman, contractor of Wash
ingtOn, has made an assignment for the
benefit of creditors to Lewis l. O'Neal
George Brust, a baker from Phila-
delphia, was found dead hanging from
the rafters of an unfinished house in
Washington on Saturday.
Brigader General Batchelder, quar-
termaster general Of the army, recon-
mends the construction of a bridge from
Washington to Arlington.
Mr.. Luther Wood, brakeman on
the Washington Southern Railway, left
here for Quantico on q freight train on
Friday, since which time he has been
missing.
Tomorrow will be All Hallows' Eve.
or Halloween, a period of mirth and
curious ceremonials, which has been
celebrated by young and old alike for
centuries.
Mrs. Virginia A. Charlton fell into
bed face downward ct her boarding
house in Washington on Saturday, and,
owing to her condition, was smothered
by a pillow.
A jury in Washington gave Miss Ida
White $1,000 damages in her suit
against the owners Of Metzerott Hall
for injuries received by the falling of
wall of the hall.
In game Of football played at the
Episcopal High School on Saturday
evening last the team from that school
defeated the Duponts of Washington
by score of 80 to O..
Cardinal Gibbons spent Sunday in
Washington and was present three
times at the services at St. Dominick's
Church yesterday, confirming large
classes of scholars morning and evening.
The statement of the earnings Of
seven branch lines of the Richmond
and Danville system for the year end
ine June so shows net earnings for 1898
Of $434, 9S4, against 1928, 299 in 1892,
decrease of Sl94,3