Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-07-25
AFFAIRS IN AL EXAM DRlA
Called Meeting of City Council to Be Held
Wednesday Evening.
important Changes in Regulations
Governing Police to Be Acted
Upon-General News.
Evening Star Bureau.
No. 500 King street.
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ALEXANDRIA, Va. July %, 1898.

ALEXANDRIA, Va, July D. 1898.
A special meeting of the board of police
commissioners has been called by Mayor
Simpson. to be held Wednesday night al
the station house at o'clock At this
meeting Mayor Simpson will make several
suggestions in regard to changing the rules
now regulating the working of the police
force. Among the most important will be
the changing of the time each squad shall
stay on a beat. The mayor proposes to
change the rule so that each squad shall
serve in one circuit one week instead of
two months, now This change, 1t is
thought. will work great improvement.
Another important change that the may
or desires is in the rule governing the ac-
tons of the officers on duty at night. The
present rule require that they shall visit
the men on their beats at least once during
the night-that is. between the hours of 10
o'clock pm, when the men go on duty, and
6 O'Clock am, when they are relieved.
Phis rule. 1t is said, will be changed so that
the officer in charge will be required to
visit the men twice during the night, and
| that the stationkeeper shall note the time
that such officer leaves the station house
and the time that he returns.
1t has been further suggested that each
man shall note the time at which his SUI
perior officer meets him, and that the sta
tionkeeper and privates be required to
| make a weekly report of these visits to the
mayor.
1t is bell we'd the request of Lieut. Jas
Smith that he be allowed a third day" off
as the priv@tes now have, will be granted
Several other matters of minor import
ance will come up before the council meet
| ing. 1t is safe to say that after the meet
| ing of the commissioners Wednesday night
| that matters in police circles will run more
smoothly than for soma time past.
Fined for Malicious Assault.
James Sullivan, well-known character,
was fined So with the alternative of serv-
| ing sixty days on the chain gang, in the
police court this morning. for malicious
| assault on John Anderson and Frank
| banks, privates of Company + of the 4th
Battery, now stationed at Fort Sheridan.
| Anderson and banks were in the saloon
| of Mr.. George Finch, on North Royal
street, as stated in The Star at the time.
where they met several men. They soon
| left, and soon afterward Anderson saw
| man strike his companion tDanks) with
stone Anderson grabbed the man, who
proved to be Sullivan. whea the latter
stabbed him in the throat. Sullivan made
| his escape and was not captured until
Saturday night, when Officer Arlington ar
rested him in the northwestern part of the
city. He was taken before the mayor this
morning, with the result stated.
Accident Avertcd.
Yesterday morning the motor of TIE
north-bound electric train, in charge of
| Motorman Van Horne, which left here at
s o'clock for Washington, jumped the
tracks when rounding the curve within
few hundred yards of Arlington Junction.
The motorman Immediately applied the air
| brakes and checked the train within few
hundred feet. An examination proved that
the front axle of the motor had broken.
| Traffic was delayed for while, and trains
| returning to this city had to be run back
ward.
For Porto Rico.
The New York and Pennsylvania troops
| of cavalry from Camp Alger Va. en- route
| to Porto Rico, passed through the city yes
| terday afternoon over the Southern rail-
| road. The train bearing the troops was
| followed by freight train from the corral
| at st. Asaph, the load consisting of one
| hundred and five mules, twenty-five army
wagons and two ambulances. A number of
| drivers accompanied the mules. Among
| those from this city were Mike O'Neal,
| John Hughes and Tony Wade.
Mayors Court.
Mayor George L. Simpson this morning
| disposed of the following cases: James
| Sullivan, charged with assault, fined $25,
and in default of payment ne was sent to
| the chain gang for sixty days; Richard
Williams, charged with disorderly conduct
and fighting, fined So, Philip Wright,
charged with disorderly conduct. dismissed
| John Dogan, charged with an assault on
| John Crittendon, dismissed.
General and Personal.
Mr. Edgar Warfield, jr., and wife have
returned from Ocean City.
Mr.. Mears. employed at the corral at ST
Asaph, had his arm broken Saturday after
noon by being kicked by mule.
| Vespers at St. Mary's Church will be dis
continued for the summer Benediction
will be held every Sunday after late mass
| A horse belonging to Mr. VIM. Downey
| of Washington was stolen from Hayfield
| Farm, in Fairfax county, Saturday night
| George Cant, a welf-known aged citizen
died at the infrmary this morning after a
| long illness.