Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-07-28
LOCAL BREYITIES.

Church.
A number of persons from the Wood
/ lawn neighborhood went on an excur-
sion to Colonial Beach to-day.
Father Ruthven, an ex-priest, is ad-
vertised to speak to ladies at Sarepta
Hall tonight and to men tomorrow
night
Belle Haven Council, Jr. o. U. A.
NJ, last night initiated two candidates.
One application for membership was
received.
A marriage license was issued in
Washington yesterday to George G.
Wedderburn, jr., and Katherine Law
son Neumann.
James Grant, colored, was arrested
this morning on suspicion of being a
party to the robbery of Richards q
Bros fruit store.
The work of laying switch through
Mr.. Frank Hume's place in the county
to the grand stand at the st. Asaph
track has been commenced.
The electric trains have run regular
~ between this city and Washington
all day and the travelling public seem
satisfied with the service.
Johnnie Jenkins, the fourteen-year-
old son of Mrs. A. Jenkins, of Washing
ton. was drowned while in bathing at
Colonial Beach Saturday evening at
about o'clock.
A horse stolen last week from the
pasture of Mr.. John o. Evans, in the
county, was seized in Washington Sat-
urday last in the market and this morn
ing returned to its owner.
The Aqueduct bridge was lighted up
last night for the first time with incan-
descent lights. The event was cele-
brated by very large number of peo-
pie, who crossed and recrossed just to
admire the novel scene, and the faint
breeze which was found there.
1t is reported that few nights since
three young Alexandrians who do not
enjoy enviable regulations attempted
to "hold up" a telegraph operator on
the road between this city and Wash
ington, but they became scared and
ran of. The police are looking for the
three men.
The colored people of Washington
held another anti-lynching meeting last
night at Shiloh Baptist Church in that
city. J. NJ. Langston presided. No
committee was appointed, however, to
bell the cat. A woman named Barnett
suggested that an anti-lynching bureau
be established from which literature
could be distributed.
Attorney c. Maurice Smith, who has
been engaged by the River View and
Marshall Hall steamboat companies to
defend the unlicensed bar case brought
against them by the anti saloon league,
OF Washington, yesterday filed mo-
ton in the police court to quash the in
formation against Capt. Randall, OF the
River View company, against whom
the test case is brought, with an effort
OH the part of the league to compel all
the excursion steamers to carry Ii
cense from the excise board.
An instance of cruelty to animals
was perpetrated near the city limits
yesterday. A drover brought two
mich cows with their calves to this
market for sale, and when purchaser
went to examine them he found the
COWS in pasture, and the calves with
their mouths bound to prevent them
from sucking, and which INSTRUCTED
their breathing. Under this treatment
one of the calves had died, but the
other, by the timely arrival of the pur-
chaser. was released in an exhausted
condition.
About $50 o'clock yesterday evening
while workmen were engaged in lower
ing large terra Gotta pipe in the
trench on King street the derrick slip
ped and fell to the ground, striking sew
eral of the laborers. DR.. Howard, who
was standing near by, watching those
employed, was struck on the arm, but
otherwise escaped serious injury. Sew
eral hours before this occurred, as stated
yesterday, difficulty arose near the
same place between William Breen, the
sewer contractor, and Mr.. Barney
Simpson, a looker-on, during which
Mr.. Simpson was hit in the face. Later
MIR. Breen was arrested and at the trial
this morning ne was fined S.. Shortly
after Mr.. Breeu was released this morn
ing he became engaged in quarrel
with Mr.. Ed Lawler, during which he
assaulted that gentleman. Another
warrant was sworn out against him and
the case will be tried tomorrow morn
ing.
A game of baseball will be played on Friday
evening next. at 4:30 O'Clock, between a nine
from the Methodist Protestant Church and
one from the Southern VI. E. Church.
Tho committee to select an executive COM
mittee of the Bryan and Sewall Club will
meet on Friday night.
st. Swithin is now close competitor with
the ground hog for meteorological honors.
The mercury today registered 90.
S3---Washington 10 Atlantic City and
Rcturn---S3.
The Peunsylyanis Railroad Compapy will