Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-06-19
LOCAL BREVITIES.

Up to noon today $50 dog licenses had
been issued.
Another free crab picking will be given at
MI. Jacob BfllPs restaurant tonight.
a calf without tail was foaled on a Hay.
marxet farm, IN Fairfax county, on Friday.
During game of hall at New Alexandria
yesterday small boy was struck with ball
and badly hurt.
man named Schultz has been arrested in
Washington charged with obtaining money
under false pretenses in this city
The steamer Occoquan has been purchased
by }. Sidney Stewart and mas been repaired
and greatly improved at the shipyard.
The tug McFadden has been purchased by
contractors for government work at Annapo-
lis, and left for that place on Saturday.
Mr.. Charles A. Cogsu has sold to Messrs.
Charles Fleiscbmann & Son graphophoDe
grand, very expensive machine, which they
now have on exhibition.
Before o s. Master Fowler to-day testi.
mony was taken in the case of the Baltimore
Trust and Guarantee Company vs.. the Con-
sumers Brewing Company.
A colored boy on King street on Saturday
night attempted to snatch pocketbook from
ISLANDERS who chased him off
The Junior Alexsndria Light Infantry has
reorganized, and all old members who wasn't
to join will meet at Mr.. Lambert Sullivan's
residence on Saturday evening next at two
o'clock.
Marriage licenses were issued in Washing
ton Saturday to Robert c. Cove and Laura
A. Splitter, both of Rockingham county, and
to David II. Oertley and Mary a. Bowen, of
Brentsville.
James Gilbert, colored tramp, who hailed
from Pitteburg, died at the Infrmary last
night of typhoid fever. The man was i'll
with the disease when he reached this city
a few days since.
The weather yesterday was cloudy in the
morning, but the skies soon cleared. The
temperature was rather cool for q June day.
but it was most enjoy able. The churches
we've fairly we'll attended.
David Stevenson, colored. was last night
brought here by Detective Smith, OF Washing
ton. and J. B. Distall, of Hampton. Steven
son escaped from jail at Hampton while
awaiting trial for HOUSEKEEPING
A game of baseball was played at New
Alexandria yesterday afternoon between the
Dewey Boys of Bulltown and the Rebels of
Tunneltown, which resulted in victory foI
the former by score of 10 to
The United States cruiser Detroit, which
arrived at Old Point from Bluefeds, Nicara.
qua, Saturday, passed up the river at one
o'clock this evening for Washington with the
body Of General McCauley aboard.
Some excitement was caused by fire at sn
early hour this morning in the rear of the
Mount Vernon dining room at 9th street and
New York avenue, Washington. Many of the
guests of the Mount Vernon flats rushed from
their rooms in scanty attire. The loss was
about 81 200.
In the NJ. E. Church South yesterday morn.
ing Rev. E. Y. REGISTER announced that bids
would be invited for the proposed improve
ments on the receipt Of drawings. No action
has rs yet been taken by the building com.
mittee on the invitation of Trinity Church to
uso their church pending the improvements.
fight took place Saturday evening be.
tween number of tramps near the Southern
Railway freight yards, during which several
of the participants received cut heads. Five
of the men were arrested and this morning
they were fined $40 each and in default Of
payment sent to the chain gang for 80 days.
The funeral of the late Thomas Moore took
place from his home in Fairfax yesterday al
ternoon and was largely attended, The SER
vices were conducted by Rev. W. H. k. Pen
dleton, and the pallbearers were Messrs.
Louis Machen, F. W. Richardson, K. E.
Thornton, Captain Joseph E. Willard Rosell
Donohoe aud Thomas Z. Keith.
VIM. Farnsworth. 63 years old, known to
the police as a notorious crook and confidence
man, was taken to Washington from Norfolk
on saturday to answer charge of false pro.
lenses preferred against him by James W.
Fultz, OF Nokesyille. Farnsworth played the
bu1co game on Fultz, borrowing $40 for
few minutes to pay freight bill and then
disappeared.
George Bowers, 90 years old, a canal boat
man, who lived in Washington, was instantly
killed as the result of an electric shock re-
ceived under the Aqueduct Bridge at the
Georgetown end about 1O40 o'clock last
night. The man grasped the arc circuit wire
which extends under the bridge to Rosslyn
with his light hand, the full current of about
LOCO volts passing through his body. lie
was thrown with great force to the deck of
tho canal boat ON which ne was standing.