Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1900-06-04
LOCAL BREVITIES.

IU6 w OmhD 3 AuAiHdIy viii tnoot W.
morrow evening at 7:30 o'clock at Lee
Camp hall.
The Alexandria baseball club went
to Washington this evening to play the
Y. Nj. G. A. team.
Complaint is made of the use of Cat
rifles by numbers of boys in this city
and the Mayor has been urged TO have
all offenders arrested.
Interesting Cnildren's day exercises
were held 10 the Methodist Protestant
Church last night. The exercises con.
sisted of mu ,ic, addresses, recitations,
SC.
Messrs. Roy Beach and Fred. Jack
son today caught large COW sturgeon
10 the river just below this city. The
-turgeon will be for sale by Mr.. G. E.
Price in the market tomorrow.
There are now two Baptist church
schools in Charlottesville, w., and a
strong fort Is being made to secure the
removal of one oftbem, a female school,
to this city.
Miss Strickland, of New York, will
give her lecture How to Keep Young"
this evening at seven o'clock promptly
at Miss Burke's studio. All are in
vited to hear her.
MIR. Bernard Cline, who was long
keeper of the Alexandria Jail, has been
appointed temporary jailer by City Ser-
se ut VIM. II. Smith during leave
granted Jsiler Hayes.
Marriage licenses were issued 10
Washington on Saturday to George ..
yashou and Bernard p. Phillips, Of
Albemarle county, and Thomas &.
Donaldson and Ida Watson, of Brooks.
The Epworth League Union OF
Washington, this city and vicinity will
meet 10 the Rockville, Md, M. E.
Church South Tuesday evening. ADJ
dresses will be delivered by Rev. q. V.
Register, of this city; Rev. J. w. Duf-
fy, of Washington and others.
James Selden Cowden. who is a
standing candidate for President, Gov
ernor and Congressman, was tried by
Mayor Gross, Of Vienna, Wednesday,
on a charge of assault on members OF
his family. Sentence was suspended
upon his promise of future good be-
havior.
Mary Fitzgerald, white, who claims
her home as LoudOun county, but who,
about six months ago, claimed to come
from Dumfries, was arrested Saturday
night for being drunk in the street.
Yesterday she became violent, saying
she was possessed of cats and monkeys.
| This morning she was sent to the work
house as vagrant.
Henry Smith, who he's kept grocery
stores in South Washington for several
years. made an unsuccessful attempt to
hang himself in a woodshed in the rear
# his home on F street southwest YET
terday afternoon. He did not succetd in
,etting the rope around his neck before
ne was taken in charge by two officers.
smith, 1t will be remembered, during
last winter conducted grocery store in
Alexandria,
A tremendous downpour of rain, driv-
ing winds, and an electrical display on
Saturday afternoon held sway for more
than three hours over Washington dur
inc which more than 81 inches Of rain
| fell. Streams OF water flowed along the
street curbs, choking the sewers and
rendering the crossing impossible, flood
ing cellars. filling the conduits OF t G
electric lioes, and stopping the car
The fury of the win tore branches from
the tree 8. and shrubbery was bent to the
ground before the blast. At Auacos 10
the lightning killed one colored child
and irjured two others.
All the churches we're we'll attended yester
dsy. At st. Mary's Church Rev. Father Cole
man, of Fredericksburg, preschedi aad o.
Christ Church Rev. L. K. Msssie, OF The
seminary. conducted services. The othe
M lpits were occupied by the resident clergy
Mr.. +. NJ. Adams has sold his grocery store
at the corntr Of Fairfax and Wolfe streets tc
afr. Barry Mckinney, who keePsa store di
sgonslly opposite. -,
. The little four months-old daughter Of Mr.
Edward Della, who lives in Del Bay, dieC
, Yesterday and was buried this evening.