Evening star., 1901-12-17
AFFAIRS IN ALEXAN NDRIA
FREE FIGHT REPORTED TO HAVE
OCCURRED AT REEDS WHARF.
Several Participants Severely Injured
ceedings Postponed-Briefs.
Evening Star Bureau,
No. I01 King Street,

Bell Telephone No. 1O6,
ALEXANDRIA, Va, December II. 1901.
Policeman Herbert knight this morning
notified Mayor Simpson of free fight
which occurred last evening at Reed s
wharf when the steamer Harry Randall
stopped on her trip down the river. Some
of the deck hands and others of the crew
of the steamer became involved in quar-
rel, it is said, which soon developed into
actual hostilities Henry Scott, colored
deck hand, was struck with a piece of TIM
ber and so severely wounded that he had
to be conveyed to the Emergency Hospital
in Washington for treatment. George
Tumblin, another colored deck hand. was
hit with stone and painfully hurt Others
received injuries more or less severe. AT
the time of the row there was no po-
liceman on the spot, but Officer Knight,
who arrived soon after the boat left, inves-
tigated the matter and made a report last
night to Chief Webster at the station house.
Mayor Simpson this morning directed the
officers to apprehend the parties engaged
in the fight at the earliest opportunity.
Quo warranto Case Postponed.
A special session of the circuit court for
Alexandria county, which was to have
been held yesterday for a hearing OF the
quo warranto proceedings against the Po-
tomac River Power Company, to show
cause why its charter should not be for
feited, has been postponed by Judge
Charles E. Nicol until the first Monday In
March. This was done because of the Ill
ness Of Attorney A. w. Armstrong Of coun-
sci for the commonwealth.
1t was alleged in the bill brought against
the company that it had not commenced
the work of constructing a plant for the
utilization of electricity near the Chain
bridge, on the Virginia side of the Poto-
mac, within the time specified by law. The
company has Joined issue, declaring that 1t
did commence the work within the time
prescribed. 1t is said the case will be
warmly contested, as there is a large
amount of money involved.
Retained Military Property.
]. B. Waters, jr., was before Mayor Simp-
son in the police court this morning on the
charge of unlawfully retaining military
goods belonging to the commonwealth.
Some of the officers and other members Of
the Alexandria Light Infantry appeared as
witnesses against the defendant, whom
they charged with refusing to surrender to
the company certain equipments which had
been apportioned to him while he was a
member of the command. The mayor as
sessed the defendant $40.
Richard and Estele Taylor, two small
colored children who were picked UP by the
police, were returned to their home in Fair
fax county. Lynn Mondy was assessed s.
on the charge of destroying private prop
erty. William Th0maS and slim Clark,
both colored, were fined S. each on the
charge Of fighting and disorderly conduct.
General News Notes.
Mount Vernon Chapter, Daughters of the
American Revolution, of this city has elect
ed Mrs. S. L. Monroe delegate to the con-
gress of the Daughters to be held in Wash
ington next February. The alternates are
Mrs. Dabney Herndon, Mrs. H. C. Ansley
and Mrs R w Fuller.
Judge ]. K. NJ. Norton of the corporation
court has granted a charter to the Knights
of Columbus Building Company Of Wash
ington, the object of which organization is
to construct a home in that city for the
Knights of Columbus of the District. P. T.
Moran of Washington is president and ].
T. Callahan is named as local secretary.
The capital stock is placed at $4,000.
Operations have been resumed at the
overall factory of Mr.. j. r. Zimmerman, at
the foot of Queen street. The building was
recently badly damaged by fire.
The work of paving the two squares on
King street between Union and Fairfax
streets with vitrified brick has been about
completed.
Margaret E. Foster, the little child of
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Foster, died last
night at the home of her parents, No 1923
Duke street.