Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-05-27

It will be known as Ladies' Day.
when each member is expected to b.
accompanied by lady.
A woman named Nellie Whalen wa!
arrested last night alta house on norti
Pitt street by Officers Ferguson ant
Beach for dsorderly conduct. a row
was going on in the house, but tn,
woman refused to make statement il
the Police Court this morning and wa
fined S..
Mavor Strauss to-day received tele
gram from Saginaw. Mich, stating tina
q horse corresponding in description t.
Reef. which was stolen from the st
Assph track some time since, has beer
found in that city. The Mayor turned
the telegram over to the st. Asapt
track officers.
Some confusion was caused on the
1890 ferry boat this morning by some
men who had charge of number o.
race horses which were being taken tc
Washington refusing to make room for
teams which were being driven on the
boat. During the confusion one of the
race horses was hurt.
Those who have tapped the various
sewers in the city have been notified to
paw the tax for so doing under the re.
cent law passed by Council on the sub
isct. and while some have already com
plied with the law, others have shown
q disposition to "kick," and it is more
than probable that the matter will yet
find it's way into the courts.
Decoration Day will be suitably OBJ
served in this city on Friday next,
Davis Post, G. A. R., will have charge
of the exercises, which will consist OF
singing, a prayer, decoration of graves,
sc. An address will be delivered by
Rev. w. II. McAllster and in the even
ing the Alexandria Light Infantry will
fire salute over the graves of the dead
soldiers.
The services at the jail yesterday al
ternoon under the auspices of the Union
Mission were conducted by Mr.. Alvin
Powell, who gave an earnest talk
which seemed to impress the prisoners
very much. The meeting tonight at
the mission will be conducted by M r.
T. Fl. Netherland, assisted by members
of the M. E. Church South. Everybody
is invited to come.
Woodward Dorrell, the nineteen-year-
old son of Mr.. ]. A. Dorrell, of Round
Hill, Loudoun county, was killed there
on Saturday evening. Young Dorrell
and others had been engaged in build
ing barn and were in the act of plac-
ing the last piece of heavy timber in
position when it fell and struck the
young man on the head, crushing his
skull and killing him almost instantly.
The residence of Mr.. Thomas Cation,
who lives on Cameron street, near the
local depot, was entered one day last
week by some petty thief who stole q
miniature safe containing several dol
lars belonging to Mr.. Caton's little
child. Two days afterwards some
money which Mr.. Cation had left on
his sideboard to pay bill was also
stolen.
Ten colored persons we're baptized
in the river off Battery Rodgers yester-
day evening. While the crowd was
assembling to witness the ceremony a
heavy shower of rain fell which caused
the spectators to scatter in all direc-
tons and seek shelter under trees and
in the neighboring houses. Many of
them got as wet as if they had been
immersed.
The executive committee of the Co.
lumbia fire company have asked the fire
wardens for permission to take their en-
CINE to Frostburg, Md, next month to
contest for the prizes to be awarded at
the fremen's association to be held
there. The wardens will act on the
request at an early date. The Colum-
bia engine is now one of the hand
soonest and best of its class in this Sec
ton of the country,
A buggy in which were seated two
little children of Mr.. Geo. Head broke
down on King street, between Royal
and Pitt, yesterday, and both children
were thrown out of the vehicle, hut
fortunately, neither was much hurt.
The accident was caused by the Inch
pin breaking. The horse which was
attached to the buggy came to stand
still as soon as the accident occurred.
Geo. Mankins, white man living
near Fort Myer, got into an election
row near the Virginia end of the Aque.
duct bridge last Thursday night with a
gang of negroes, and was injured so
badly that he is not expected to recov-
er. The negroes dubbed him and beat
him with large stones. His skull was
fractured, and he received internal in
juries from kicks on the body. He was
left in the road to die, but was found
by some white men and taken to his
home. Sheriff Veitch was at Rosslyn
Saturday looking into the affair, but no
arrests have been made. Mankins was
for many years driver and gripman
in Washington.
A Washington sharper on Saturday
evening entered Mr.. Jacob Brill's ga
loon at the foot of King street and call
en- Tor glass of beer, handing out a
dollar bill in payment. The proper
change was laid upon the bar, but
while Mr.. Brill's back was turned the
man deity distracted quarter from
the change, and then called attention
to the fact that only seventy cents lay
upon the bar. The proprietor handed
out another quarter and the man left
Some time after he had gone Mr.. Brill
had occasion to look over his cash
register and found himself quarter
short. The man is known to have Wis,
tied MIR: George Petty's and Mr.. Eddie