The morning times., 1896-09-09
NEWS FROM ALEXANDRIA
Potomac C0mpany's Efforts to Buy
the Light Plant Blocked.
City Council Refused to Accept It's
Offer-Other business Trans
acted by the Board.

at called meeting OF tie city council
last night S42o was appropriated TO repave
and put IN condition the two squares on
Pitt street, between Queen and Princess
streets; $3.50 for extension OF a pipe sewer
on Lee street, south from Prince, and 81 200
iii additiOnto 81 ,oOgheretof0re appropriated
for the proposed engine house for the
Hydrauion Engine Company.
AIR. Miller, represe ntIng the Potomac
Electric Light Company oil Washington, ap-
peared before the council in advocacy Of a
proposition to furnish the city with IN
electric current. \ resolution was pre-
pared and presented. with d recommendation
that the same pass, adopting the proposition
OF the Potomac Electric Company The
proposition submitted was that the city
would be furnished electricity for 90 arc
lights, aud that the company have exclusive
control OF furnishing ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
lamps and electric power to citizens.
Atpresent there are but n.net y-three lamps
used to light the city. 1t was also claimed
that about 500 could he saved annually
by the adoption OF the proposition. J,how-
ever met with considerable opposit, ION, and
being put upon its passage the bill was
defeated.
The clerk Of the city school board has
issued ,221 permits to children tn enter
the schools, 631 to boys and 5s4 to girls;
80 more than Were issued at the same
time last year.
Alice Jasper, the young coiored woman
who attempted to commit suicide on Mon
day night, is considered out OF danger
The repaving OF King street along the
line OF the new Sc wer was begun yesterday
A ball and musical entertainment Will
be given the Mount Vernon Hotel tonight
by employees Of the electric railway
4 meeting of the Golden Light Lodge
OF Good Templars was held last night
Delegations from several Washington lodges
Were present.
When Mrs. E. E Eldridge, who has been
absent from the cit y for about three months,
returned to her home on South Washin gton
street yesterday, She found that during her
absence the house had been ransacsed The
police Were notified, but an examination
proved that nothing had been removed.
The mayor and members Of the police
force We're photographed in front Of police
headquarters yesterday afternoon
In the police court yesterday Alexander
Dean. charged with habitual drunkenness.
was orde red TO he locked up; Marion Stokes,
colored of WashiDgton fol drum kenness and
cruel treatment to his wife. was fined Sl2;
Rozier Campbell, colored, for indecent
conduct and assault, was fined S12: Maggie
Pendleton and Jennie Gordon. cciored
drunk and disorderly, thirty days in The
workhouse: Maud Tippett, Grace hewitt
and Pearl Hart, vagrancy, sent to the
workhouse for thirty days each; James Ed
wards, q colored boy for shooting q cat
rifle in the streets. had his gun confis-
Gated; Edward Bell, charged with Tres
passing on Southern Railway trains, was
dismissed with thra Shing aon,iniSi tered
by his father: Thomas Fairall. colored- for
assa ulting Martha Smith, also colored,
fined SO.
The county board of supervisors met in
this city yesterday. The only business
transacted was in regard 20 improving the.
roads in the county
A meeting will he held on Thursday night
for the purpose of reorganiZing the camp
of the Sons of Confederate Veterans A
committee for this purpose was appointed
at meeting OF Lee Camp Monday night