Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-05-17
LOCAL BREEITIES.


There were fvJ dodgers at the static n
house last night.
A called meeting of the City Council
will be held tonight.
There were no cases for trial in the
police court this morning.
Sharps and Flats have been invited
to sing at the Memorial Day exercises.
Someone lifted the lid at the fertilizer
works yesterday evening and-whew P!
Donations of old linen and cotton
will be gratefully received at the In
Urinary.
Rev. J. Ernest Thscker will conduct
the services at the Baptist mission, on
King street, tonight.
The price of bread was raised in
Washington yesterday to cents for
loaf that had been sold previously for 5
cents.
The Hydraulion fire company will
meet to-night to consider an invitation
to take part in the Memorial Day SER
vices.
The price of bread has not yet been
advanced here, and the bakers say they
will not change prices if they can pos
sibly help it.
A marriage license was issued in
Washington yesterday to Charles R.
Beach and Halle L. Farr, both Of
Loudoun county.
A called meeting Of the Columbia
fire company will be held tonight 10
make arrangements for the parade on
Memorial Day.
The horse attached to Flejschmann's
yeast wagon ran away to-day and
caused some excitement. But little
damage was done.
Several members of the the Alabama
Press Association spent short time
here yesterday in a visit to Christ
Church and then left for Washington
on the electric cars.
Lightning struck the brick warehouse
of g. w. Cissel & Co., on K street,
Georgetown yesterday morning and set
FIRE 10 it. The damage is about So 5000,
covered by insurance.
A hen at the Aims House recently
laid an egg, on one side of which is
perfect representation of the dial OF a
clock. The egg is on exhibition AT
Capt. George Young's cigar store.
In Washington yesterday Justice
Hagner ordered that Geo. A. Fowle be
committed to Jail for failure to pay his
wife the alimony awarded by the court
unless the same is paid in three days.
The Sherman House, large sum-
mer boarding house, situated at the
corner of Emporia and Oath streets
northeast, Langdon, suburb of Wash
ington, was totally destroyed by fire
last evening.
A colored boy entered the yard OF
Mr.. r. w. French, on south Washing
ton street, this morning, and stripped
q fine lemon tree which was growing
there. The boy was arrested by Officer
TIGER and locked up.
Arlington Ruling, F. M. c., held
very interesting meeting last night.
Officers for the next six months were
nominated and during the good of the
order cigars were dispensed to the en-
joyment of all present.
Dennis j. CAVITY, formerly stock
broker in Washington, was put on trial
for his life yesterday in Criminal Court
No. /, in that city, charged with the
murder of George NJ. Rye on March 10
last, at the corner of F and Fourteenth
streets.
Mr.. Wm.H. Glasgow, while assisting
in placing an engine boiler in position
at the Alexandria Chemical Works yes
terday afternoon, by an unavoidable
accident received 8 severe cut on his
head aud face. Surgical attention was
promptly rendered and the Injured man
made as comfortable as possible.
Thomas W. Angel, while drunk last
night, staggered On the car track OF thu
Washington and Georgetown Railroad
at Third street and Pennsylvania ave,
nue., Washington, and was struck by
train. He was badly injured. He was
was taken to the Emergency Hospital,
where he lies in g precarious condition.
The funeral of the late Walter 10th
rop Woodward took place yesterday
afternoon at o'clock, from his parents
home in Washington. He was in Paris
with his father aud mother, Bar. and
Mrs. S. w. Woodward, and his sister
Helen, when he died suddenly. Ser
vices were held in the Rock Creek
Chapel by Rev. DR.. Greene, OF Calvary
Baptist Church.
The side TRACKS ct St. ASaph have nearly
been completed and the arrival of mules 10
b, stabbed there by the government is expect
ed tomorrow.
Nellie Tebbs, colored, was arrested today
for indecent and disorderly conduct.
COMMUNICATED.