Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-05-25
ALEXANDRIA AFFAIRS
CoRoNER's INQUEST. OVER Re-
MAINS OF JAMES srRoTHER.
Verdict Of Accidental Death-Meeting
Of City Council General
and Personal.
Special CORRESPONDENCE Of me Evening Star.

| Special Correspondence of The Evening Star.
ALEXANDRIA, Va, May Is, 1904.
coroners inquest over the remains of
| James Strother, colored. who was shot by
| Thomas Fairfax, colored. about o'clock
yesterday afternoon at the house Of An
thony Cloe, also colored. SIS North Henry
street, was held this morning at 10 o'clock
at the undertaking establishment of W.
Domaine & Son on King street. The in
quest was conducted by the city coroner,
DR.. William r. Purvis, and the jury was
composed of the following persons: Messrs
H. c. Ashton, John H. Trimyer, Carter
Smith, C. ]. w. Summers, L. Ruben and
F. Warf1eld.
DR.. William M. Smith. who performed
the autopsy, stated that Strothers death
was due to pistol bullet, which entered
the left breast, passed through portion of
the left lung, also through the heart ana
penetrating the right lung. The testimony
of Anthony Cloe and C. Randolph, also
colored, who were present at the time OF
the shooting, was to the effect that Fair
fax entered room occupied by Strother
and several other negroes and picked up
revolver owned by the proprietor of the
house. He was lingering the weapon, 1t
was stated, when it was discharged. the
bullet entering Strother's breast. 1t was
claimed that the affair was entirely acct
dental.
Immediately after the shooting Fairfax
went to the station house and gave him
self up. The Jury returned verdict find
ing that the man came to his death by &C
cidental shooting in accordance with the
facts stated, and without holding FAIRFAX
responsible The prisoner was then released
from custody without hearing before the
police justice.
Meeting of City Council.
At the regular semi-monthly meeting Of
the city council last evening the board of
aldermen and the common council met In
joint session for the election of a clerk
of the gas works to fill the unexpired term
of Mr.. S. L. Monroe who recently rendered
his resignation. Those placed in nomina-
ton were Messrs. John b. Waller, Carter
H. Smith and Capt. James E. King. Mr..
Waller was elected, the vote standing: Wal
Ter, Is: Smith, 8; King, l. According to
constitutional requirement the voting was
viva voce. The appropriation bill for the
ensuing fiscal year. beginning May 81, was
taken up. 1t was passed unanimously, the
estimates Of expenses in the various de-
partments being as follows: For salaries.
schools, $500; repairing streets, $500;
cleaning bitches, $500; Alexandria gas
works.. 81, 500; Alexandria Hospital, $500;
electric lights $500; courts and JAIL 81
500; law expenses $500; coroner's inquests,
500; lunacy commissioners, 500; interest
on bond issue of 1872, 81, 1870; interest on
bond issue Of 1902, 5000; sinking fund for
the redemption Of bonds, issue of 1902,
$500; streets and sewers. s1s,625; pumps
and repairing, $500; chain gang. $500; poor
and workhOuse 1880; outdoor poor and
emergency fund, $1,SOO; printing and adver-
Using, $500; fire department $500; fire
plugs, $500; public property, 81 $50; city
council, 81 $50; contingencies, $3.50; election
expenses, $500; ground rents, $780, The total
that of last year. In the. report of the
finance committee 1t was stated that on
conservative estimate the receipts for the
city during the coming year will be s123, 800.
Expense Of Attending Smallpox
Patients. a
A bill from Dr. E. A. German, health Off
Ger, for 1854. for attending smallpox pa
tients, was reported. the committee recon-
mending the appropriation of 81 100 and ex-
planning that the amount had been volun-
tarily reduced by DIR. German. 1t was
adopted were also favorable reports of
the committee on a bill from the Kuhn
Formaldehyde Company, for 1887 for dis
injecting, and q bill from w. H. Peck for
S4O5 for groceries furnished quarantined
families, as we'll $50 for the payment of
attendants at the small pox hospital.
Council unanimously passed an ordinance
reported by the committee on general laws
regulating the sale of cocaine and similar
drugs with penalties for violation. reso-
luton for the appropriation of 1,275 to con-
struct a sewer IN the vicinity of the inter-
section Of Royal and Gibbon streets was re-
ferred to the joint committee on streets and
finance. After the transaction of several
other matters council adjourned.
Southern Memorial Grafton.
More than a thousand people gathered
around tie confederate monument at the in
tersectlon Of Prince and Washington streets
at O'Clock yesterday afternoon and listen
ed to the southern memorial grafton deliv-
cred by Mr.. John H. Alexander of Leesburg.
Following music by the drum corps, the in
vocation was offered by Rev. Dr. Frank ].
Brooke, chaplain of R. E. Lee Camp The
drum corps again played and Mr.. Alexander
was introduced by Commander E. H.
O'Brien Of the camp. At the conclusion of
the Grafton the veterans decorated the mon
ument with flowers and then marched to
Christ Church yard, where the Alexandria
Light Infantry fired three volleyS over the
mound in which were inferred the remains
of several southern soldiers.
General Matters.
The game of base ball between the teams
representing the Methodist Protestant Sun
day school and that of the Episcopal Sum
day school played yesterday afternoon at
Colross resulted in a victory for the Epis-
copalians by the score of 10 to 8. The bat
teries were: Methodist Protestant, Hicks
and Glasgow; Episcopal, Poole and Tenny-
son.
Rev. Clarence Ernest Ball, who has been
rector of Grace Episcopal Church for sew
eral years. has resigned and will preach
hts 10 OF L.