Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-12-06
LOCAL BkEyITiES.


The materi.l to be used for Improvements
at the Custom House have arrived here.
The Woodiawn Farmers Club will meet on
Saturday at the home of MIR. CORTLAND Lu.
kens.
Mrs. Thomas Downey, an old resident, is
seriously i'll at her homo on west Franklin
street.
Mr.. Vim. Burroughs had his hand painfully
mashed while 1t work at the Southern Ral!-
way shops yesterday.
& meeting eff the Hydraulon Engine Com
many was held last night at which only rou-
the business Was transacted.
commonwealth Attorney J. B T. Thorn
ton, of Prince William county, has gone to
the far West on private business.
A marriage license was issued in Washing.
ton Yesterday to Cl4udius /. Hutchinson, OF
M,ddleourg, and Mildred P. Lacey, OF Bloom
field.
Mr.. T. Burke has sold to Mrs. Emuela
Rurson for 81 200 tee ground lent apon the
Oh, -halt square of ground bounded by wash
inptoo, st. Asapb, OroDoco and Pendleton
Streets.
The large and hand some brick stable being
erectsd on Union street near King, for MIR. 5.
Harper by ar j. F. Rodgers, contractor,
WAS topped off today. The brick work was
done by Messrs Gilroy and Howard.
AT the oyster supper and entertainment to
he y,yen toni ght aud tomorrow night at Odd
Fellows' Hal by the ladies of lmmsnue
Lutheran Church Mr.. Harry Fleischmann
will render several selections on his grand
graphophone.
At the regular monthly meeting of the
hoard of directors of the Alexandria Rlnder-
eareu Association held last night at 3ol
soutn st. Asaph street, little business OF In
,ere.t was transacted, but the directors CRATE.
fully acknow dge the receipt of an amount OF
,loth;ne donated by the Needle-Work Guild
and $40 so in cash.
train of passenger coaches without an
engine crushed through the Sixth street rail-
rosd station in Washington yesterday morh,
iny and did some damage to the bullllhg anu
train eatea. One man was lDJured-John
xcI sneblip. a brakeman, who stuck to his
noat ana tried 10 stop the cars as they rosneo
Var tho ubumpers," The accident was due
w fsnIty brakes. Mclaughlin will probably
recover.
Joseph Jones, a !gr,, aged 26. was aIrsst-
Cd by officer ertler in Georsetown ye'tsI,
d4v ts,noon and locked up on the cnsrse OF
at,amnted criminal assault. julia Sullivan,
Won p girl, complained that Jones made ID
s s rsmsrxs 10 her on the road in VIZ
mia, nqar KOs.lyn, early in the forenoon I;
Io WAS tnrped over to the Virginia autho5i
,ies Inv Lieut.. Swindells, and will PROBABLY oe
yiysn hesring in few days.
WIN Robinson was arrested yesterday o5
p, 1iceman Bettis on all cid warrant charging
him wit, stealing grain from CIT on the
Washington southern galway p t5G proPsI.y
of T. Ierrc't. shortly before Robinson i, Eh %
raot q communicstion wss received from on,e'
o rfs Detectives a. NJ Tomlnson, of sichmona
81 0st po that Wm Robin. on be arrested: Bob lob
sson the later stated LIT Aeza Rh and
worked in tae gl'ss Iac;oty st si'nm nUn.
from where he suddenly de a ogss ns sS s.
bshlnd large board bull. De was nne s;r ed
,h;s morning. Detective Tomlinson arrived
d. TO t.is Rob,nson back with NM on
s.q hs had not paid his fine he was sent to jail
poh h is an Alsxsndrian, his parents d.
present re,idiog here.