Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-08-02

ant voluntarily engaged in, or aided
aud ahet Ell the Confederates his claim
should be rejected. A claimant who
was conscripted into the Confederate
army may or may not have rendered
voluntary service, and where from the
record it appears that any service rem
dered was not voluntary, but wholly
compulsory, he is excepted. The suf-
ficiency Of the evidence to rebuff the
presumption of voluntary service in the
Confederate army must depend on the
circumstances of each particular case.
Mr.. Cation, of Alexandria, attorney
for the Mt. Vernon Railroad, receiv d
instructions to day to commence pro-
ceedings at once for the condemnation
of trackway for that road through
the property of all the owners
VINO have not given 1t the right
of way. Arrangements for build
ing the road from the Alexandria Drlv-
ing Park to this city at once have been
completed. When the road shall be
finished the Pennsylvania Railroad will
stop running its local trains between
the two cities.
Miss Retsey Flagler, daughter ofGen.
D. W. Flagler, Chief of Ordnance, U.
S. A., shot and instantly killed negro
boy named Ernest Green, who was
stealing fruit in the yard of the Flagler
residence, 2144 California avenue,
northwest, about eleven o'clock this
morning. Boys had been in the habit
of stealing fruit in the yard for some
| time and efforts we're made to. prevent
them without success. This morning
Green with companion approached the
! yard intent upon carrying offthe fruit.
Miss Flagler saw them and calledfrom
the window warning them not to enter
the yard, but the warning was not
needed. She disappeared from the
window, for few seconds and reap
peared with an army revolver and TAX
ing aim fred at Green, the ball enter
ing his head, causing instant death.
Great excitement was aroused among
the negroes who congregated about the
scene, but the patrol wagon with Pc
licemeu, who were summoned to the
scene, had quoting effect upon them,
and the body was removed to the
morgue, and the young lady taken into
custody. General Flagler is at Toron-
to, Canada.
An investigation of the death OF the
negro boy Jesse Webster was held in
Alexandria county yesterday by Justice
Payne. The evidence was that the boy
with two others was walking along the
road near Falls Church. close to the
border line between the counties of AL
exandria and Fairfax, and at least four
miles from what is known as Dead
Mans Gulch, and that the bullet that
killed him must have been fired from a
distance as neither he nor either of his
two companions heard the report, and
that whoever fired it probably had no
idea it would hit anybody.
1t is conceded at the Treasury De-
partnent that additional taxes must be
laid to meet the immense pension ex-
penditures. 1t is also conceded that
no party can expect to succeed that
shall attempt to increase the tax on
beer, nor to put a tax on tea and coffee
But twenty million year, 1t is thought.
can be raised without any difficulty on
home made wine, on proprietary medi'
oines, and on bank paper.
A warrant for thirty-siX thousand
dollars was made out at the Treasury
Department this morning for Judge
Critcher, of Alexandria, as his fee as
attorney in an Indian claim. Of this
sum the Judge will only have to pay a
small amount to nominal assistant
counsel.
William A. Mendenhall, District
policeman, has resigned and left the
| city. A warrant has been issued for his
arrest on charge Of obtaining money
under false pretenses. II is estimated
that he has victimized friends and &C.
quaintances of about $4,000. Mrs,
| Mendenhall brought her husbands
badge to the station house and gave
notice of his fight.
| The photographic Office of the Navy
Department gives warning that logs
from a raft lost from tow of the tug
Asher J. Hudson, off Thimble Shosl, at
the entrance to Hampton Roads, form
dangerous distractions to navigation in
the vicinity of Cape Charles and the
lower part of Chesapeake Bay.
Among the visitors here to-day are
Senator Daniel and Representative
Jones of Virginia, and Commonwealth
Attorney Lloyd Smith, of Northum-
berlapd county in that State, who are
on their way to the meeting of the ma
tional bar association to be held at the
White Sulphur Springs; also General
Ransom, q. S. Minister to Mexico.
| The latter called at the State Depart
ment and had talk with Acting Secre-
tary Adee about the embarrassment
which confronts the United States gov.
eminent through the refusal of the
Mexican government to grant request
| for the extradition of Chester Rowe,
the fugitive Iowa embezzler.
Mr.. Cab. Maddu1 of Fauquier coun-
ty, Va, who is here to-day, says there
are three candidates for the place of
hoater delegate from his and Loudoun
county to the Virginia legislature Mr..
John Scott of Warrenton, Mr.. Dan
Hatcher of the Middleburg neighbor-
| hood, and Mr., Gilbert Gibson of Upper
vile, two lawyers and farmer, and
that the latter, Mr.. Hatcher, will sue
coed.
The Golf Club of this city, composed
chiefly of rich Englishmen, has leased
one hundred and sixty acres of land
near Rosslyn, Alexandria county, and
are inclosing it with high fence.
Congressman Cobb of Alabama ar
rived here to-day He says the facts
of the trace war" in his State are that
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