Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-05-09
AFFAIRS IN ALEXANDRIA
Gases Disposed of in the Police
Court.
Looking for the Prisoners Who Eff
fected the Jail DeIivery-Other
Interesting Local Notes.

Mayor Thompson this morning disposed
of the following cases:
Robert r. White, a Baltimore drummer,
arrested by Lieut.. Smith, charge, selling
liquor by sample. continued until Thursday,
the 18th, and accused released under 500
bond.
Charles Rogers colored, arrested by Of
ficer Knight, charge, stealing s. from
Lewis Gordon, colored, dismissed for want
of evidence
Edward Schiller and James Cook arrest
ed by Officers Ferguson and Young, charge,
larceny Of a watch from William Schiller,
fined So each, in default Of which they will
serve twenty days in the gang
Henry Stevens. colored, arrested by Spe-
cial Officer Baker, charge, obstructing
crossing at local depot. fined 81.
Moses Comfort arrested by Officer At
kinson, charge, escaping from the chain
gang, had twenty days added to his SEN
terce.
Willis Williams colored arrested by
Ofhcer Young, charge, suspicious char
acter, held at station house for further ex-
amination, as he answers the description
of a boy wanted in Fredericksburg for
grand larceny.
EpwOrth League Annual Conference.
The second annual conference of the
Washington District Epworth League will
be held at the NJ. E. Church South Tues
day ard Wednesday, May II and IL. Ses-
sions will be held at $50 am. and pm.
each day. The sessions will be devoted 10
addresses on the principal aspects of league
work by many well-knoWn league work
ers. A mass meeting will be addressed by
Rev. A. Cook Smith of LyncEburg. Rev.
- w. GrGbb, district president, and others.
JAN Inspectors' Report.
DIR. Purvis and Messrs. Boothe and Moore
yesterday preseI ted to the corporation
court their quarterly report of the mspec-
ton of the city Jail. They say that the
general condition of the Jail is good. There
are twenty-eight prisoners, six white men,
twenty colored men and two coiorcd wo-
men. They recommend that the front steps
be repaired; that the coping around the
wall be removed, and that the cells in the
second story be renewed. The inspectors
say that the five prisoners who escaped
Tuesday night last could noJ have done so
without tools OF some kind.
Kindergarten Association.
A meeting of the Alexandria Kindergar-
ten Association was held last night at the
residence of Mr.. @. VIM. Ramsay, on Cam
eron street, and was very largely attended.
The annual report of the secretary was
read and approved, after which the follow
ing program was rendered: Song, Past
and Present" by Miss Annie Uhler; song
The Sweetest Story Ever Told" by Miss
Blanche Rotchford. Miss Rotchford also
sang Mary of Argyle" which was greatly
EMO! ed after which the meeting adjourned.
FaIse Alarm
Yesterday afternoon, about 4:30 o'clock,
there was considerab bic excitement crea led
on South Royal street by a young man who
stated most positively that he had seen
Mike Thomas. one of the men who recent
ly escaped from the city Jail, an account of
which appeared IN The Star at the time
going down South Royal street. and that
ne mad entered house. Several policemen,
followed by a crowd OF about 500 persons.
went to the house. but the rumor proved
TO be false one for instead of Thomas
being there, a well-known riyerman said
mat he had just entered the hotse and
that Thomas was not anywhere around.
Notes.
The steamer Wakefield has been with
drawn from the lower river route and the
Arrowsmith is running in her place. The
Wakefield is 10 be thoroughly overhauled
before the summer.
Judge Norton, in the corporation court
yesterday, in the suit of John A. Saaton
against Benz Frank and others, entered
a decree sustaining the exceptions of /
l.. Hodge to the commissioners report and
overruling those OF C. E. Cupid
Miss Alice Thompson OF Fairfax county
IS the guest of her sister, Mrs. Ella Kid
well. in this city
Mrs. Clarence R. Walker, who has been
Visiting Mrs. Walker on Upper Duke
street, has returned TO her hons, in Upper-
VILE Va.