Evening star., 1895-08-16
AFFAIRS StNeALExANDRtA
Quite a Lively H. H. in That City Yes
! terday Afternoon. 49,
An. Electric system 81 Of Fire Alarm
Service Greatly Needcd-Police
Court-Some General Notes.

About O'Clock Yesterday afternoon fire
was discovered In the residence of Mr..
Manly Rust Southern railway conductor.
on upper Prince street, and on investiga-
ton It was found that a mattress was
burning in one of the rooms. An alarm
was turned in, but owing to the fact that
the city has no reliable fire alarm system
the engines took some little time to le-
spond When they did get to work, how
ever, the fire was quickly got under con-
troll, and the damage was not very great
by fire, but the water ,deluged the, whole
building and increased the financial loss
many per cent. 7'-s'' -' as-'
There is great complaint that an cleo
trio fire alarm system has not been put in
by the city fathers, as it would not alone
facilitate the arrival of the fire apparatus
at burning buildings, but would be a saw
ing to the city of much expense brought
about by false alarms.
ID. w. Holden Dead.
Mr. D. W. Holden who for the past three
years was superintendent of the Washing
ton,., Alexandria and Mt. Vernon electric
railway, but resigned about ten days ago,
died at his residence, on South Washington
street, yesterday afternoon about half
past o'clock, after an illness of about
g. week. His death was a great shock to
the many friends he had made during his
sojourn in this community. Mr.. Holden
leaves q wife and a child only few
months old. p -.., .e,
|, The Police Court.
In the police court this morning Justice
Thompson presided, and disposed of the
following cases: William Price, colored,
charged with disorderly conduct, was SEN
fenced to ninety days on the chain gang;
Patrick Cartright, charged with being i'm
pudent to ladies in the market, was sent
to the chain gang for sixty days; Tobe
Dixon, charged with using profana lam
guage on the streets, was fined 81; Waiter
Ger, all colored. charged with disorderly
conduct, were fined 81 each; Charles Has
kins, charged with assaulting Melvina
Swallow, was fined S.
Officers Elected.
The directors of the Dickinson and Ran
dali Joint Box Company, recently chartered
by Judge Norton, met at the Office Of Rob-
ert F. Knox. in this city, and elected the
following officers: E. S. Randall. president;
Alexander Grant, vice president; James
Watson, secretary; r. B. Brown, treas
urer, and Charles Dickinson, superintend-
ent. The patent controlled by this COM
pany will be useful to railways.
Notes.
The funeral OF Mrs. Annie Southard
Emerson. who died yesterday. will take
place this afternoon al o'clock.
Mr.. and Mrs. French Smoot have return
ed from Coloniaf Beach.
Mr.. w. B. Jones is visiting friends in
Culpeper county,
A large crowd. witnessed the cake walk
at New Alexandria, last night.
Out of the sixteen who took the eXamina-
ton for colored school teacher only one,
Rev. A. r. Lott,cpassed.
James I. jackson Council, Junior Order
y. A. NJ, initiated two new members at
their last meeting
A colored man whose name could not be
learned was struck on the head and Sc
verely cut while working the Third
Baptist Church this morning. His head
was dressed at the drug store of J. A.
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