The times., 1897-06-02
NEWS FROM ALEXANDRIA
Charges Against Police Sergeant
Smith and Private Ferguson.
Order Extending Prince Street Com
firmed-The Condition of Young
Foley ey-Trackwalker Held Up.

! Alexandria, Va, June l.-Chief of Police
| Webster today presented written charges
| to the mayor against olice Sergeant Smith
and Private Ferguson for alleged infrac-
| tions OF rules and dereliction OF duty. The
| Information ON which the chief makes the
| charges is TO the effect that the two Of
| fcers visited a saloon on North Fairfax
| street and spent an hour or more there
while on duty; that they had visited other
places and retuainedan unreasOna BILE length
| of time, III violation OF the rules OF the
| force.
Mr. Ferguson is also charged with hav-
| ing been intoxicated, and with absenting
himself from his heat. Officer Ferguson
signified his willingness TO have the in
vestigation at once, but sergt. Smith
asked for three days time i'll which to
| prepare his defense.
meeting of the police board viii prob
ably be held Thursday night. Mr.. Leonard
Marbury will represent the officers.
Harry Day, a member Of the chain gang,
escaped from the station-house today, and
was gone for sometime before his escape
was discovered. Day had been confined
| for refusing to work on the streets with
| the gang.
In the county court today Judge Love
confirmed the order establishing the pro-
longation of Prince street to form a con-
| nection with the Leesburg turnpike. The
cost for this change will be paid by Mr..
i. L. Daingerfield. DIR. Rust, who is op-
posed 20 the change. made vehement
protest. A new bridge will have to be
built on the new road as extended.
Il. NJ. Slaughter, D. n. Rust. U E. Garrett
and E. T. Sisson were appointed viewers
for a proposed new road from Mount
Vernon avenue, near St Asaph Junction,
to connect with the Prince street road ex-
tended.
The Young Mems sodality ball team
will play game with the Alexandria GvIn-
nasium baseball team at ColIoss Thursday
afternoon at 4 p. m.
Mrs Roxie V Whalen, wife of Mr.. NJ F.
Whalen, died at her home, No. 20 North
Payne street, last night. Funeral tomor-
row afternoon.
At the Young Mems Lyceum tonight
william II. McBlide threw AZ for Owen
J. Nugent and won the handsome Hartford
bicycle p. II Downey thew Al Tor K. W
French.
The attending physicians have heen un
able to locate the bullet in the foot of
young William Foley, who acCiden tally
shot himself last week.
Engineer B. Z. Foley, father of the 10y,
was in consultation with DR.. Stone, of the
Emergency Hospital, today, and was ad
vised that it would be seven or eight days
before the X-rays could be used on the
wounded boy.
James Davis, colored, was fined $50
by Mayor Thompson this m orning for
shooting at Anna Sims, also colored. and
Dan Freeman, colored, charged with strik-
ing colored waterman n with bottle, was
also fined 500; George Carter, colored,
charged with assaulting John Penn, was
fined SO, and Mary Bundy, colored, for
disorderly conduct, was fined So.
Trackwalker Otis Dolmau. of the South
ern Railway Company, forgot that he had
pistol last night, and permitted three
negroes to hold him up near the glass
factory. Dolman was compelled to de-
nude himself of his clothing, which the
negroes carried off.
Edward Clarke is locked up at the police
station, charged with disorderly conduct.
Mr.. C. F. Neale, of this city, has been
awarded the contract for placing ablet
in Zion Episcopal Church at Fairfax Court
House in memory of the late Judge D. NJ.
Chichester.
The Alexandria Light Infantry has de-
clded to have street parade on Mon day
evening next at 7:30 O'Clock The Third
Regiment Drum Corps will participate.
1t is expected that the A. L. I. will, duing
the summer, give public drill once month.