Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-10-29
AFFAIRS IN ALExA,N DRIA
Movement 70, Removal e Internal Revenue
Collectors 0fise tpxlexandria.
Delegation Has an APPOINTMENT With
ment-GenersA ard Personal.
Evening Atar Bureau.
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ALEXANDRIA. Wax October %. 1897.
Ever since Mr.. Pafk A1new was appoint
ed collector Of internal revenue for the
sixth district of Virginia there has been
talk OF moving the revenue offices from
Lynchburg to this city, where they were
at one time located. The Lynchburg peo-
pie have strenuously opposed this change.
The matter will be settled at the Treasury
Department tomorrow morning at 10
O'Clock, when Senator Daniel and Represen-
tative Rixey, with delegation represent
ing Alexandria, will appear before Secre-
tary Gage and the commissioner of inter-
nal revenue to urge the claims of the two
cities. Collector Agnew, whose residence
Is In this city, is strongly in favor of the
change, and Alexandrians hope that he
will carry his point. The offices employ
about fifty people
A Mixed Up Affair.
case of assault under peculiar circum-
stances was tried before Mayor Simpson
In the police court this morning, when John
Dogan, colored charged that Walter Wash
irgton, member of the chain gang, had
struck him in the face on Pitt street yes
terday afternoon. When Officer Atkinson
telephoned to the Jail to hold Washington
iC was 1klloI IHtu tHdt "
Lewis Darlington lad escaped from the
gang. This morning at o'clock Washing
ton returned to the Jail.
In the police court Mayor Simpson ques-
toned Washington closely as to his escape.
Washington said that when he got through
his work yesterday afternoon he went up
the street to deliver note 'for a party,
and that when he got through it was SO
late that he decided not to go back, he
was afraid he would be locked out.
Il came hack this morning at o'clock,
said Washington.
Officer Atkinson said that no report of
the failure of Washington and Darlington
to spend the night in Jail had been made
at police headquarters.
Young I'm Years, Old In Vice.
In the police court this morning Harry
Jackson, diminutive colored kid, sent
to the workhouse for thirty days as
vagrant for tampering with seals on the
freight cars of the Southern Railway Com
pany. Jackson, though young in years, is
old in vice. he having been before the
mayor many times on charges of larceny.
The Star Leads.
The Star was the first paper to give the
news Of Henry Georges death to the people
of Alexandria. Within three minutes after
the news was received at the office of the
Postal Telegraph Company it was posted
on the bulletin board in front of The Star
bureau, and hundreds of people read the
announcement. The extra Stars with
full account of Mr.. Georges death, was
on the streets but a few minutes later and
were readily sold.
French Shoots Funeral.
The funeral of the late French Smoot
whose death was mentioned in yesterdays
Star will take place tomorrow at o'clock.
Friends and relatives are invited to attend.
Rev. P. P. Phillips, rector of st. Pauls
Episcopal Church. will conduct the services.
Captured in WashinEt ton.
Yesterday afternoon a telephone message
was received from the seventh police pre-
cinct in Washington stating that August
inc Lee had been arrested in that city and
was held for the Alexandria authorities.
Lee escaped from the Alexandria Jail the
Goth instant. He was a county prisoner.
and got out of jail at the same time; as did
one Ell Grayson, who was soon aftegWard
recaptured. tt-fs--
Democratic Committee Meets.
{ There was a short session of the city
democratic committee last night, at which
the final arrangements for Tuesdays, cleo
ton were made. All the official ballots
have been stamped and are now in the
hands of the electoral board. So. H.
Lectures in Prospect.
Tuesday next, November q at noon the
delivered at the Virginia Theological Sem
inary by Right Rev. G. w. Peterkin bish-
op Of West Virginia. Rev. Father H. J.
Cutler, rector of st. Mary's Church, will
deliver a lecture on the life and times of
Rev. Father Mathew, the apostle of tenn
perance, Wednesday night next.
Judges of Election.
The judges of election for Tuesday have
been appointed for this city as follows:
First wards. A. Mankin, commissioner;
J. D. Stanton, w. P. Graves.
Second ward-R. NJ. Latham, commission
er; r. L. Adam, ]. E. Johnson.
Third ward, court house precinct-Chas.
Yohe, commissioner; Thomas Fisher T. J.
Edelen.
Third ward, Friendship precinct-R. H.
Cox, commissioner; Ed. Padgett, w. H.
Yeatman Temporary.
Fourth ward-C. r. Davis, commissioner;
Chas. Fisher, Edw. Hughes.
Registrars-First ward, Oscar Phillips;
second, Geo. Schwab; third, B. F. Penn;
fourth, Champ Walker.
Brevities.
lobe Dixon a colored citizen, died at his
home this morning.
Mr.. Bathurst Daingerfield has returned
from a visit to Fredericksburg
Mr.. Charles Cogan continues quite sick
at his home on King street.
Portraits of Mr.. and Mrs. Mckinley
Free at d. J. Kaufman's, 1907 Pa. ave-Ad
College Society Officers