Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1900-07-26
LOCAL BREVITIES.

The County Court has adjourned for tt Q
term.
Rain fell at intervals lsst night and duriDg
today.
The mercury at 3 O'clock this evening regis
tered SO.
little child of Mr. Fred II. Simpson died
yesterday evening at 32S north Payne street.
Mr.. Chsrles Zimmerman sent to this office
today bowl of fine crab soup, which he is
now serving to his customers.
The schooner G. w Robertson, loaded with
canned goods from Cambridg e Md arrived
here today for Alexandria merchants.
large audience is expected at the NJ. E.
Church South tonight to hear Rev. j. f.
Thacker lecture on "The Twentieth Century
Woman"
The ticket Office of the Chesapeake Beach
Railroad in Upper Marlboro, Nd, was broken
open Tuesday night ard the cash drawer
robbed of about $45.
The Mayor has iDstru cted the police officer
to notify sill property owners to have the
grass removed from tho cutters in front OF
their premises.
esterdsy that his stable had been entered
some time Wednesday night and a brown
hoTs, taken therefTom./
The meeting of the executive committee Of
the Northern Virginia Fair Association will
be held at Fairfax on Saturday and not on
Friday night, as heretofore stated.
Arthur, the two sar-o1d son Of Mr.. Robert
Penn, who lives on north Patrick street, was
badly burned about the chest yea terdsy even.
| ing by upsetting pot of hot soup.
Marriage licenses were issued In Washing
| ton yesterday to Richard E. smith and Ross
| lie Cropp, both of Fauquier county, and TO
Stuart Thornton and Lulu Bell, both OF Tho.
roughfare.
KsIl Sbultz, picture csnvasser, was az
rested yesterday evening by Policeman Bet
| tbs on charge Of insulting Mrs. Carley Wood
on lower Fairfax street. The Mayor this
morning fined him So.
At the Manassas horse show yesterday An.
rors. Mrs. Cortland II. Smiths roam roDy,
won fret prize in the pony jumps. The four.
| finland is a new feature, and there was n
magnificent display, but CORTLAND II. Smiths
pair captured the first prizs.
The new "sircuson dea' boat of Messrs
Arson, Watson and Mclean, of Washington
has been on the river on trial trips several
| times lately and has attracted much atten
ton. The boat makes fairly good time and
her inventors and designers are confident
they will get high speed out of her yet.
An exempliHed copy of the will of John #
Birch, OF AlexsndIia county, was yesterday
| fled in the Office Of the Register of Wills COR
the DistricS of Columbia. The document is
( dated February 10, 1897, and by its terms
the teststor bequesths certain RIAL estate in
the District to his daughters, Paulina Ger
trude Collision and Althea Gibson.
Heroine Beuchert, youog German baker
| % years old, died at the Georgetown UNI
| versity hospital yesterday morning from in.
| jUries received in collision near ROsslyn
| last Sunday night. He was riding a bicycle
on the Falls Church road in what is no~n
as "dead MANI hollow" and was struck by
the shaft of farmers wagon moving in the
opposite direction, and going from the city.
John Mckinley, a middls-sged white man,
was picked up yesterday evening by the po-
lice on suspicion of lunscy. il WAS thought
no WAS wanted at st. Elizabeth's Asylum, but
officers from that institution failed to identify
MIN. Word has been sent TO Bellevue, Bsltl-
| more, TO ascertain If he is wanted there. Nc.
Ginley was taken before the Mayor this
morning and was, after an examination
detained at the station house.
Mr.. g. Z. Price will have for sale in mar
ket tomorrow a fine supply of salt water tail
oIs. trout, msckeIel aud sheepshe I'D.