Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-09-24
LOCAL BREVITIES.
The Z. S. Court will meet in this c

The L. S. Court will meet in this city
TO. morrow.
The "reminiscences published on the
first page of to-day's GAZETTE were ia
ken from the Warrenton linden.
The funeral of Mrs. Sarah Steiner
took place this evening from her late
home on Washington street and was
largely attended.
The Columbia fire company will to-
night hold a jolifcation in honor #
having won the prize at the Grange
Camp fair last week.
A track is being laid from the east
end of the tunnel across Union street
to the property of the Haskin Wood
Vulcanizing Company.
The remains Of Mrs. Doras V. Dow
den, daughter OF Jerome B. Dorman,
were brought here yesterday from
Washington and inferred.
A colo.ed tramp was slightly cut
Saturday night by a white itinerant
near one of the the railroad depots in
this city during an alteration.
The clerk of the City School Board
to-day issued IS permits to children to
attend the public schools !; 2 to white
boys, II to cclored boys and Is to col
ored girls.
Some excitement was caused on up
per Wolfe street this evening by tie
arrest of five colored men, three of
whom were members of the band which
took part in the emancipation parade.
The men were disorderly and when
the officers appeared they resisted ar
rest and we're dubbed. They were
subsequently, released on collateral.
A squad of mounted District of Co.
lumbia policemen made a raid on the
gunners who were violating the law
by shooting in the marches neal Shep.
herds, opposite this city, on Sunday
and captured "Bub" Arlington, of this
city. His skiff and gun were confiscat-
ed. Several others made their escape.
Palmer 3. Babcock, a telegraph op
orator, was arrested in Washington
yesterday afternoon on o warrant
charging him with conspiring to de.
fraud the Western Union Telegraph
Company. Babcock is alleged to have
been implicated with Fred j. Owens
aud Walter Gettus in the attempt
about ten days ago to tap the race
track wires on the Long bridge.
At meeting of the Press Claims
Company, of Washington, held in this
city on Friday last resolutions We're
adopted instructiug the president of
the company to institute proceedings
against w. R. Hurst, proprietor of the
San Francisco Examiner, and C. A.
Snow & Co., of that city, for publishing
and disseminating matter calculated tn
ininre the business of the Press Claims
Company.
In Washington on Saturday a bill in
equity was filed by VIM. 81. Thomas
against John w. Patterson, president
Maria L. Jordan, vice president. and
Mary F.. Wilson, secretary of the PEG
ple's Transportation Company, praying
for the appointment of o receiver, fol
an accounting, for the removal of al
the officers of the company. for a gen
eral election to fill their places, and fol
a thorough investigation into the affair;
of the company. The company, com.
posed of colored people, own the steam
er Lady of the Lake.
Yesterday morning, while Mr.. A. ". Har
rison and bis family, of lower Fairfax county
were attending services at the Second Presby'
terrain Church, the horses attached to his day
t9n ran away. They collided with a tree al
the corner of st. Asaph and Wolfe streets and
signify damaged the vehicle. The horse;
were then stopped and found to be uninjured