The times., 1899-07-07
NEWS FROM ALEXANDRIA.

Alexandria. July 6.-In the corporation
court today. Judge Norton granted char
ter to the Capital Stone. Company. The
capital stock is to be $4,000, divided into
shares of s100 each. and the objects OF the
corporation are to operate quarries and
deal in stone products and general build
| ing supplies. The officers named are;
| President and General Manager. ]. For
rest Manning; Vice President. Jacob Vein
meyer; Secretary. Joseph Tanning; Treas
urer. William ]. Acker; Directors William
j. Acker, George c. Esher, Joseph Fan
ming, William Jardine William b. Bair-
| stow ]. Forrest Manning, Jacob Veih-
meyer, Rudolph Jouvenal. Antonio Moinati.
and John Harrigan. all of Washington.
The agent in this city is Gardner l..
Boothe
Capt. James E. King, First Lieut.. p. ].
Murphy. and Second Lieut.. R. w. Payne.
of the Alexandria Light Infantry. have re-
! turned from Richmond, where they were
yesterday examined for commissions, at
| the Office of the Adjutant General. The
result Of the examination will not be made
! lasted seven hours.
| James w. Jackson Council, Junior Order
| United American Mechanics. met last
night and installed officers recently elected
| for the ensuing term
Master Harry Helwig. soprano soloist Of
| the Church of the Advent. Boston, is Wis
iting his parents in this city.
Cards are out for the marriage Of Arthur
II. Schwartzman and Miss Lena Hepburn.
which will take place in this city on the
18th instant.
| D. X Roberts, of Cheny Lodge. No. 10.
of Norfolk, Va. will deliver an address
before Mechanics Lodge. Knights Of
Pythias OF this city, tonight.
In the United States court today the
grand jury returned an indictment against
E. G. White, alias Frank Raden, charged
| with being an accessory to the burglary
of the postoffice at Waverly. His case vas
set for trial tomorrow. A nolle prosequt
was entered in the case of w. II. Brawner.
charged with violating the internal revenue
laws. In the civil suit of the United States
| against W. A. Baker and others, YER
dict was rendered against Baker and the
| United States Fidelity and Guaranty Com
pany of Baltimore for s1l5. Sidney Smith
Lee eolored was convicted of stealing a
mail pouch and sentenced to serve one
year in the Raleigh, N. c., penitentiary.
James E. Waters and Frank Williams,
both colored, indicted for burglarizing the
postoffice at Wheatland, Loudoun county,
were convicted and sentenced to the Alex
andria jail for six months The case oi
Thomas Bagley, of Lunenburg, indicted
for making false returns of stamp cancel
lations, was ordered removed to Richmond
for trial.
Workmen were engaged today in ar
ranging for the repainting OF Christ
Church.
Mr.. Blackwell, of this city, won the
third prize in the State tennis tournament
at Lynchburg yesterday.
The excursion OF the Union Sunday
schools to River View today was well at
tended.
Malachia Ballard. colored, who was ar
rested in Washington yesterday by Police
man Sullivan, charged with stealing q
horse belonging to Thomas Arlington and
James Arlington, of this city, was today
committed to Jail by Mayor Simpson to
await the action of the grand jury of the
corporation court Ballard claims that he
borrowed the horse to drive to Washing
ton and that the team was offered for sale
by a companion of his, named Bowden
Rowe, at horse baZar At the trial II
was stated that the authorities in Wash
ington declined TO make the purchasers
of the stolen property deliver the same
ard, upon the authority of the prosecuting
attorney, Sergeant Smith was directed tC
call on Attorney Davis, in Washington, ant
prefer charges, so to have the receiver
of the stolen property prosecuted.