Evening star., 1896-04-07
AFFAIRS IN ALEXANDRIA
Notes of Interest to Residents and Tax
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payers
A Mother Held for Numbering Her
Child-Meeting Of r.. e. Lee
Camp.

In their rooms on st. Asaph street last
night. The annual election OF officers took
place and the following officers were elect
ed: Thomas Perry. commander; q. VIM.
Ramsay, first lieutenant commander; Edgar
Warfield, second lieutenant commander; A.
c. Wyckoff, third lieutenant commander:
J. c. Milburn, adjutant; Andrew Sullivan.
Quartermaster: r. F. Knox, treasurer; Rev.
J. T. Williams. chaplain; DIR. Bedford
Brown, surgeon; W. w. Sherwood, officer
Of the day: s. c. Boush. vidette; F. J.
Power, color bearer; Thomas White, ]. 8.
Blackburn and w. H. Bacon, executive
committee.
Mr.: w. A. Smoot, who has been COM
mander of the camp for the past ten years.
declined a reelection.
stance Of Mary Custis Lee Chapter. Daugh-
ters Of the Confederacy, to present the
claims Of Alexandria in the locati OF
the Battle Abbey Of the South before the
United Confederate Veterans. after which
the meeting adjourned.
Police Court.
Mayor Thompson this morning disposed
Of the following cases: George Johnson
and Alice Pine. colored, arrested by Officers
Goods and Beach, charge, disorderly con-
duct: fined $1.50 each. VIM. Parker, ar
rested by Officer Wilkerson, charge, dis
orderly and fighting: fined $3.50. Ruth Car
roll. arrested by Officer Beach, charge.
numbering her child; sent on TO the grand
son, arrested by Officer Goods charge, dis
orderly conduct: fined 81 each. VIM. Webb,
colored, arrested by Officer Arlington,
chasee. shooting pistol in the street;
fined s.. Maud Tippett and Nellie John.
son. arrested by Officer Howson, charge,
discrderly and fighting: fined s. eacn.
Samuel Maderson, arrested by Officer Ar
rlngton, charge, assault and beating Alice
dismissed
c. r. Peterson, q hobo" arrested by
Special Officer Henry, charge. trespassing
on property of the Southern Railway Com
pany; fined s. or ten days.
Poss md Henry Again Try to Escape.
Harry Poss and Thomas Henry, the two
Alexandria men who were sentenced to
serve nine years in the state penitentiary
at Richmond for assaulting and robbing
Alexander McClintock. and who escaped
from the Fairfax Jail some time ago and
were captured by the Washington authori-
ties, made an attempt to again break Jail
few days ago by saving one of the iron
bars of the cage in which. they are confined
Fortunately Sheriff Gordon caught them in
the act and removed them to another cell
A Narrow Escape.
A oolored tramp giving the name of Clar-
ence Bright, who says he is from South
Carolina, very narrowly escaped being
Southern Railway Company. He was steal
ing ride on train No. 36. which arrives in
this city about $50. As the train was near
ing the depot he attempted TO jump off, and
his foot slipped. and he fell, breaking his
leg and crushing the knee cap. He was
picked up ard carried to the niirmary.
where DR.. O'Brien, surgeon of the COM
pany, attended him and found that his leg
was so badly crushed that il would have to
be amputated.
COrOner's Inquest.
The ccroner's jury in the case Of Ruth
Carroll, the colored girl who threw her
newborn baby into the tan yard sewer
on South st. Asaph street last Wednes-
day, and who made a full confession to
The Star man yesterday, as published in
yesterdays Star, returned the following
verdict:
I'VE, the jury, find that the infant Of
Ruth Carroll came to it's death by gross
careleSsness and criminal neglect on the
part of the parent by tearing the umbilical
cord and allowing 1T to bleed to death ard
throwing 1t into the sewer ST. Asaph
street between Wilkes and Gibbon on We'd
nesday night, April i, at or about 10
o'clock.
"F. T. EVANS, Foreman"
This morning Mayor Thompson. after
hearing the evidence, committed her to jail
to await the action Of the grand jury.
Notes.
Belle Haven Council of the Junior o.
U. A. NJ. at its meeting last night con-
ferred the degrees of the order upon five
candidates.
The Junior German Club last night gave
another of their delightful germans in
McBirney's Hall, which was attended by a
large crowd from this city, Washington
and Baltimore.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Warfield last night
returned from their wedding tour. They
will be at home to their many friends at
the residence Of the brides parents, on
King street, tomorrow evening
There will he a called meeting of tho
beard of police commissioners tonight at
the mayors office to elect an officer to
fill the vacancy caused by the death OF
Policeman George w. Jones.