Evening star., 1898-09-13
AFFAIRS IN ALEXANDRIA
James Sullivan, Charged With Murderous
Assault, surrenders to Police.
Work of Ladies' Relief Association
Meeting of County Supervisors
General and Personal.
Evening Star Bureau,
No. 127 King street,
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ALEXANDRIA, Va, September IL. 1898.
Early this morning James Sullivan, who
has been wanted by the police for cutting
a young man named Arthur Harrison, in
an affray Saturday night, appeared at the
police station and surrendered himself. The
principals in the affair were before Mayor
Simpson in the police court this morning,
but, as an important witness was absent,
the trial was postponed until @ o'clock this
evening.
Both men showed marks of a bloody en-
counter. Harrisons hand, which had been
severely cut, was bound and his face bad
ly disfgured. Sullivan asserts that he act
ed entirely on the defensive, being savage
ly attacked By Harrison with knife 1t is
stated, however, that Sullivan eluded the
police, while Harrison appeared at the sta
ton Saturday night badly wounded and
bleeding.
The trouble occurred near the corner of
Queen and Royal streets. Sullivan was i'm
pllcated in cutting affray only few
weeks ago, with Anderson and Danks, SOL
diers from Fort Sheridan, for which he
was fined S25
Relief Associatfon.
During the forty-two days that Armory
Hall was kept open by the Ladies Relief
Association for the entertainment of SOL
diers, lunches were served to 1000 men,
and 1,200 names were placed on the regis
ter. Five sick soldiers were cared for at
the infirmary, and lunch room for sick
soldiers was established near the Southern
depot This work, under the charge of
Miss Katharine II. Stuart as president and
Mrs. j. Z. Alexander, vice president, was
supported entirely by voluntary contribu-
tlons. Valuable aid was rendered by the
w. c. I. L. working with the association.
AS the association was first organized
with view of assisting only the Sd Wiz
ginia boys, there has been an erroneous
impression that its work was confined to
this regiment. The books show that The Sd
was only one of large number of Volun-
teer organizations whose members were
entertained at the armory The list of reg
iments represented are the 9Th, 18th, 18th
and 10th Pennsylvania; the Sd aid 65th New
y 1ork the Sd and 4th Missouri, the oh and
9TH Massachusetts, the 33d Michigan, the
Atm United States Artillery, the Sd United
States Cavalry, the I'D Kansas and the Sd
Virginia.
Mt. Vernon Avenue.
At a meeting Of the Alexandria county
board of supervisors yesterday it was de-
cided to begin work Immediately on the
Mt Vernon avenue extension, to push it to
completion in two weeks and to find a just
compensation for Mrs. Williams land,
through which the avenue will extend.
The board also decided that the delin-
quent tax fund should be equally distrib-
uted between the three districts, and ap-
piled as follows: Forty per cent for roads,
80 per cent for county purposes, 80 per cent
for public schools.
Alexandria Light Infantry.
There is some speculation as to what the
members of Company f will do when the
Sd Virginia Regiment is mustered out in
regard to resuming their old organization,
the Alexandria Light Infantry, and as to
their relation to Armory Hall. Nothing can
as yet be definitely determined as the boys
are only on a furlcugh of thirty days, after
which they must report to Richmond: but
the general impression is that the Alexan-
dria Light infantry will be reorganzed and
Armory Hall again opened for its use.
Brief Mention.
The ticket office of the electric railway
al Arlington Junction vas robbed Saturday
night of number of tickets. The stolen
property can be of I.o value to the thief as
the tickets were good for only two days.
Their numbers were promptly reported to
the office in Washington.
The body Of Charles Throckmorton. a pri-
vate of the 22d Kansas Regiment. was
brought to this city from Bristow. Va, and
shipped today to Columbus, Kan, for in
terment
today and carried back for trial Harry Da-
Wis. colored, who recently cut and shot q
nan at Motley Hall.
Yesterday an old, needy colored man,
named Joe Garrett. picked up a purse con-
tanning $50, and gave it to the mayor. Mrs.
Chas. Perkins owEed it, and literally re-
warded the old man for his honesty
No business WAS transacted in the corpor-
alton court yesterday or today owing to
the absence of Judge Norton. The court
will convene tomorrow.
Mt. Vernon Council, Daughters of Amer.
lea, enjoyed a bus ride last night on tho
Great Eas-ern'' to Washington, where
they paid a fraternal visit to Independent
Council of that order.