Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-05-13
AFF AIRS IN ALEXANDRIA
Board of Supervisors and the Site for
County Seat
Three Places Chosen to BE Voted on
Other Local Notes of Gem
eral Interest.

The board Of supervisors of alexandria
county held their regular monthly meet
ing at the county court house in this city
yesterday, with all the members of the
board present. The matter of selecting
three locations for the proposed new court
house was the first business taken up.
Hunters Chapel, Fort Myer Heights and
Addison Heights were selected. The loca-
tions with Alexandria, will be voted for at
the special election, and the location re-
ceving the highest number of votes will
become the county seat.
The scale of payment for road work was
fixed as follows: For team. wagon and
driver, s. per day, or 30 cents per hour;
horse, cart and driver, $1.75 per day;
man, $1O0 per day, or 10 cents per hour.
A letter from Mr.. w. H. Brown, chief en-
gineer Of the Southern railway, was read,
which stated that the tracks on Chadwick
avenue, which had been put down by mis-
take, would be removed.
City Council.
A regular meeting of city council was
held last night A petition from the board
of health requesting that the unpaved al
leyS be paved was received and referred to
the committee on streets. Several petitions
were read from citizens in different Sec
lions Of the city asking for setting of curb
stones and paving Of cutters. This was
also referred to the committee on streets.
The resolution increasing the appropriation
for the King street sewer was referred to
the committee on finance. The petitions
of the Washington. Alexandria and Mount
Vernon electric railway and the Wash
Ington and Southern railway companies
praying for a reduction in assessments
were reported upon adversely by the
finance committee, after which council adj
journed.
Out on Bail.
VIM. Arlington, who was committed to
Jail some months ago by Mayor Thompson
for attempting to break into the freight
house Of the Washington Southern Railway
Company, was yesterday afternoon brought
before Judge ]. K. NJ. Norton on a writ
of habeas corpus, sued out by his counsel,
Mr.. Samuel G. Brent, and released on bail
in the sum of $500 for his appearance be-
fore the next grand jury.
Police Court.
Mayor Thompson this morning disposed
of the following cases:
Julia Cheeks, colored, arrested by Officer
Wilkerson, charge, escaped from the chain
gang;had twenty days added to her original
sentence. B. D. Foster, arrested by Of
ficer Goods, charge, vagrancy; sent to Jail
subject chain gang for ten days. John
Curry, Edward Turner and 'Laddie''
Blackstone, three negro hobos arrested by
Officer Young, charge, trespassing on prop
erty of Southern Railway Company; sent
to chain gang for ten days each. John
Williams, colored, arrested by officer Rob-
erts, charge, disorderly conduct; dismissed
for want of evidence. BERTHE Gibbons ar
rested by Officer knight, charge, disor-
derby conduct; fined $3.50. Rozier Taylor,
colored, arrested by Constable Webster,
charge, disorderly conduct; fined 81 Ger
tie Spillman, arrested by Officer knight,
charge, selling liquor without a license;
fined 81.
Notes.
The registrars Of the different wards
were at the voting places all day yester-
day to register new voters. Only about
100 new names were added.
In tho corporation court yesterday:
Washington Steamboat Company Qimited)
agt. w. S. Towson; judgment for plaintiff
for possession Of property On the Strand,