Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-11-23
ALEXANDRIA AFFAIRS
CITY COUNCIL REJECTS CLAIM OF
PROPERTY OWNERS.
Reimbursement for Expense Of King
Street improvement Denied
General and Personal.
Special Correspondence Of The Evening Star.


ALEXANDRIA. Va, November %, 1904.
At the regular semi-monthly meeting OF
the city council last evening action was
taken which will probably result in legal
proceedings to determine the validity Of
the claim of several property owners on
King street for a return of sums aggregat-
ing about $4,000 which was paid to the
corporation by pro rata assessment for
street improvements under the thfrty-third
section of the old city charter. Reporting
on the petition of the property owners the
committee on finance suggested that the
signers had received full value for the
amounts they had paid and recommended
that the petition be not granted. The re-
port was adopted by a unanimous vote.
The request of the property owners was
based upon a decision of the state court
Of appeals in a somewhat similar case
which arose under the new constitution.
The money for the improvements on King
street was raised partly by assessments
made under the old constitution. and it Is
contended on the part of the city that the
process was entirely legal, while the petit
TONERS claim that they are now entitled to
have their money refunded.
Disposal Of Electric Plant.
The chair called attention to the fact
that the matter of the disposal Of the city
fore council on a resolution adopted at the
preceding meeting. Upon motion of Mr..
Uhler the consideration of the question was
postponed until the next meeting owing to
the absence Of four members Of the COM
mon council A report was received from
the committee on finance and public prop
erty recommending the appropriation OF
$500 for the purchase Of hose for the fire
department and the report was adopted
Upon the suggestion of the committee on
public property the resolution providing
for certain improvements at police head
quarters was referred to the Joint COM
mittee on public property and finance. At
ter the transaction Of other minor matters
council adjourned.
Referred to Grand Jury. ,e
Four colored men, answering to the
names. respectively. of John Baker, Frank
Baker. Thomas Fairfax and Chancellor
Christmas, were given q hearing before
Justice Cation in the Police Court this morn
ing on the charge of breaking and entering
the house Of an alien named Pavo Todon-
over near Four Mile Run, In Alexandria
county, Monday night The men were
brought to the station house yesterday aft
ernoon by Officers Roberts, Allen. Nichol-
son and Henderson. Several Of the foreign
railroad workmen who boarded at the house
of Todonover testified through an interpret
err that the negroes had entered the house
shortly before midnight and had thrott1ed
one OF the occupants, taxing $tO from MS
person. Other depredations were commit
ted, it was testified, and the negroes es-
capped. The prisoners were represented by
Attorney L. H. Machen and Commonwealth
Attorney Brent conducted the prosecution.
Justice Cation referred each case to the
grand jury.
General Matters.
The fresh disturbance among the foreign
laborers employed at the camp, of Messrs.
Reiter, Curtis & Hill, railroad contractors,
near Four Mile Run, was quelled yesterday
afternoon without much trouble. Several
officers from this city and Constable Cornell
of the county FASTENED to the camp in re-
Spouse to calls for assistance. They found
that about a score of men had attempted
to start a new strike, but the effort proved
unsuccessful and finally all OF the laborers
returned to their work.
The remains of Mrs. Edith Dennis, whose
death occurred In the District of Columbia
Sunday, were brought here this afternoon
and inferred In Union cemetery. She was,
thirty-three years of age and was a former
resident of Alexandria.
Mr.. r. F. Knox, trustee, has sold for Mr..
James r. Cation, trustee, the square lot,
Madison, Montgomery, Alfred and Patrick
streets. The property had been transferred
by Mr.. Cation to Messrs j. K. M. Norton
and C. c. Carlin.
This week Is being observed as a week OF
prayer by the Woman's Foreign Missionary
Society of the M. e. Church South. and APP
propriate services will be held this evening
in the lecture room of the church.