Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-12-05
LOCAL BREVITIES.

Twenty dodgers were at thel station hous
last night.
J. 81. Crane & Co., stock brokers, of Wash.
lngton, have suspended business.
young man, arrested by Sergeant Smith
and Cticer Knight charged with stealing
was dismissed.
Rose North was arrested this morning on
the charge of stealing hat from house OF
north Lee street and locked up.
The Woman's Auxiliary to Lee Camp will
meet at $50 o'clock Tuesday evening at Lee
Camp hall.
Mary Custis Lee Chapter. q. D. O., will
meet at Lee Camp hall tomorrow morning at
10 o'clock.
The rain and wind Storm which passed over
the city to the north last night played havoc
with the telegraph wires beyond Washington.
number Of water sprinklers belonging to
the government were to-day sent from st.
Asaph to this city to be shipped to Baltimore
| and thence to Savannah on their way to Cuba.
A fine dog belonging to Mr.. Louis Kraft,
and which once belonged to Gen. Miles, while
sick one day last week ran away from his
MASTER and has not been seen since.
As will be seen by an advertisement else.
where, 90la is offered for corporation bonds.
of which $1,000 are wanted. Thi is the
highest price ever offered for city bonds.
The Alexandria kindergarten Association
will be addressed by Miss Mel, of Washing.
ton, at No. 81 / south Fairfax street, to.mor-
row afternoon at 3 o'clock. Her subject will
be Some Aspects of the Kindergarten"
The Washington Alexandria and Mount
Vernon Railway Company have adopted the
pay car system of paying its employees. The
| car will make its first run over the road to.
morrow morning.
Mr. W. c. Bsggett, who returned yesterday
| from trip through the South says he saw
Police Officer John Proctor, who recently dis
appeared from this city, IN Augusta, Ca, and
that he is working in an eating house there
Capt. Vaughan, of the Fourth regiment has
gone to Warrenton and Culpeper TO enlist
men for his regiment. He was not successful
at Fairfax. If any more Alexsndrians want
to enlist they can report to Capt. Atkinson by
tomorrow night.
We have received copy of the one hun.
dred and eighteenth annual statement oil
| the finances Of the city of Alexandria.
with department reports, &c. This little
volume has been carefully compiled by City
Auditor Price and contains matters of interest
to every citizen.
| The Ladies Southern Relief Association"
of Washington will have an encsmpment and
luncheon, beginning tonight, for the relief Of
the families of needy Confederate Veterans.
The members of Lee Camp of this city will at
| tend in body,
In the Circuit Court to-day the commits
sioners report as to the division between the
city and county of the old court house and
/ Jail properties was confirmed. The city gets
the Jail and the court house will DO sold some
| time next spring.
The modification of President Mckinley g
attitude on the civil ssrvice question, which is
to issue shortly in the shape of second or der,
| is being snxiously awaited by republicans in
| this city. 1t is said that it will furnish op.
portunities for the removal of several demo
Gratis.
T. B. Stahl, a promineut real estate dealer,
and for many years identified with religious
| work in Washington, died very suddenly at
the parsonage of Tripi Y NJ. E. Church. in
that city, on Saturday evening. Mr.. Stahl
was born near Harpers Ferry 50 years ago,
but most of his life was spent in Washington.
Jennie Gordon and Frank Payne, both COL
| ored, were arrested this evening by Officer
Beach Tor an assault on Mary Belle Gibbons,
also colored. Payne WAS serving term III
al and was employed about the kitchen.
This evening he left the Jail kitchen, went to
! the Gibbons womsn's house and made the as
sault.
a man who had received telephone mas.
sage from the Office of the Potomac Ferry
| Company on Thanksgiving Day, went there
this morning to have its import explained.
No one seemed to know anything about the
message and the man became insolent aId ag
gressive. q fight followed in which one of
the attaches of the ferry company partici.
pated. All were arrested and fined $3.50
each.
The case against the Washington Jockey
Club will hardly come up for trial again, and
| it is understood that at 6 conference held on
Saturday between Henry E. Davis, q. 8. at
torney for the District of Columbia, and his
assistants, it was decided that the law regard
| ing gaming in the District of Columbia was
not sufficiently defined to warrant any further
steps being taken in the case 1t is reported
that should the case be finally decided against
the club it will be dissolved
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