Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-08-19
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colored, canal hand, and Arthur
Harris, colored, aged sixteen years.

colored, canal hand, and Arthur
Harris, colored, aged sixteen years.
Capt. w. ]. Flourney, travelling pas
senger agent of the Seaboard Air Line,
with headquarters in Atlanta, has been
ordered to Washington to relieve Mr..
Clemmons, district passenger agent,
who takes charge of the New York bus
mess of the company.
Alfred w. Clark was arrested by the
police in Washington yesterday charg-
ed with stealing a horse from D. J.
Talman, of Vienna, Fairfax county.
Clark took the horse to Washington
and Talman, following him, has claim
ed the horse as his own.
Mr.. Charles Zimmerman and family
while on their way to q visit in the
country yesterday morning were hurled
from their vehicle on upper King street
by the breaking of the linchpin. For
tunately Mr.. q. kept control of his
horse and avoided threatened injuries.
The steam yacht "A Merry Cuss,"
suffering from the late hot spell and
being tired as we'll as dry, about day.
light yesterday morning in Occoqusn
Bay stopped still and took bath. Her
jovial crew reached shore in safety and
later in the day boarded their newly
washed craft and arrived safely at this
port about sundown.
The contract for the new brewery to
be erected at Rosslyn by the Consum-
er's Brewing Company has been award.
ed to Charles Kaestner & b., of Chi
cago. The work of construction will
be completed in nine months and the
buildings will be entirely ireproof
The plant will have productive ca.
pacity of 100, $50 barrels year.
Julia Cheeks and Alice Peyton, both
colored, inmates of the workhouse,
concluded to run away from that insti-
tuition yesterday evening, but Keeper
Smith was watching their movements
and he fired his pistol at them. The
would-be refugees stopped Immediate
ly and begged him TO put the pistol in
his pocket, making all sorts of promise
as to their future good behavior.
Tonight Belle Haven Council, Jr.
o. q. A. M, will have visitation
from National Counsellor E. W. Tyler
of Richmond, and also from Past Ma.
tional Counsellor W. E. Orange, Of
Richmond. Alexandria Council is now
arranging for the celebration of its fifth
anniversary on September 10. Mr..
Frank E. Anderson, of this city, will
deliver the grafton of the occasion
Frank Miller, Mr.. Corcher and others,
of Washington, will also speak. Dir.
W. ID. Zimmerman is organizing o
council in West End, Fairfax county.
William Washington, colored, en-.
gagged in fight with several other ne.
groes at Jackson City early yesterday
morning, and was shot in the face by
one of them, whose name is unknown.
Washington, who is employed by Ben
nett Barnes, an owner of race horses
made his way to the Emergency Hos
pital, in Washington, where the wound
was dressed. The bullet struck his
nose, penetrated it, and glanced under
the skin to the eye, making an extreme
ly painful but not dangerous injury
The negro told the surgeons at the hos
pital that while examining revolver
ne accidentally shot himself.
Thomas Donaldson, of Washington, mana
ger of Harry Chandler's saloon i'll Jackson
City, fell early yesterday morning and broke
one of his legs. He was taken TO the Emer
gency Hospital. A few weeks ago Donaldson
was shot in the leg by Jackson City tough
and received bad wound. He was dis
charged from the hospital but few days ago
and the fall yesterday morning broke the leg
which had been weakened by the bullet
| Whether Donaldson fell accidentally OIL