Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-10-29
ALEXANDRIA AFFAIRS
SATURDAYS HAPPENINGS IN OLD
VIRGINIA TOWN.
Democratic City Committee Meeting
Suit Compromised-Sunday School
Work Planned.
Special Correspondence of The Star.

Special Correspondence OF The Star.
ALEXANDRIA, Va. October % 1905.
A brief meeting of the city democratic
committee held this evening at s
o'clock in the Hotel Fleischmann. George
L. Simpson. who acted chairman dur
ing the period in which Chairman Charles
Bendheim was engaged as a candidate In
the contest for the nomination for the
clerkshp of the city courts. relInquished
the position. which was thereupon assumed
by Mr.. Bendheim. A resolution was adopted
thanking Mr.. Simpson for the able and
impartial manner In which he had presided
over the meetings of the committee.
resolution, which was presented by TheO-
dore Cook, was adopted. providing for the
appointment of committee to investigate
charges of certain Irregularities at the polls
| in the second ward during the special
primary for the clerkship held October l..
Under this resolution a committee OF three
| members was appointed and will probably
report at the next meeting. After dis
cussing matters pertaining to the general
election in November the meeting ad-
Journed.
Damage Suit Compromised.
In the circuit court for Alexandria county.
Judge c. E. Nicol presiding, the case of
Mrs. Nettie c. Elsom against the Wash
ington, Alexandra and Mount Vernon Rail-
way Company, a suit for damages for per-
sonal injuries, terminated this evening in a
compromise which was reached by the at
torneys after all the evidence had been
heard. The amount agreed upon was not
made public, but ii is understood that II
was $500. The case occupied the atten-
tion of the court for the better part of two
days. The plaintiff was represented by At
torney Leo Harlow, while the case for the
defendant company conducted by At
torneys r. Walton Moore and James r.
Cation. The damage suit of Wells against
the same company was continued until the
December term
Referred to Grand Jury.
Edward Johnson, colored, who was ar
rested in Fairfax county yesterday on the
charge of placing distractions on the tracks
of the Washington, Alexandria and Mount
Vernon electric line. was given hearing
today before Justice Richard Triplett of
Mount Vernon district. The prisoner was
represented by Attorney Robinson Moncure
Some witnesses were examined, but none of
the testimony in behalf of the defendant
was presented Justice Triplett referred the
case to the grand jury.
In Interest of Sunday Schools.
Under the auspices Of the American So
ciety of Religious Education union meet
ing will be held tomorrow afternoon at 8 80
o'clock in the Washington Street Methodist
Episcopal Church South in the interest of
Sunday school work The meeting was de-
cided upon by the Ministers Association of
Alexandria, through which the invitation
was extended to the American Society of
Religious Education to have general charge
of the affair. The secretary of that So
ciety. Rev. DR.. J. f. Gilbert of Washing
ton, and other prominent Sunday school
workers from Washington will be among
the speakers.
General Matters.
Mrs. Margaret J. Walsh, whose death oc-
CURED yesterday at her home in Washing
ton, was the widow of Thomas ]. Walsh
formerly of this city. Mrs. Walsh was
seventy-seven years of age. She is sur
ylved by four daughters and one son. The
remains will be brought here and inferred
at noon on Monday in St. Mary's cemetery.
The Episcopal High School foot ball team
today kept up It's record of unbroken vic
tories for the season by defeating the Army
and Navy Preparatory School of Washing
ton on the grounds of the high school near
this city by the score of II 20 o. The game
was hard fought and exciting 1t was wit
messed by large gathering, including sew
eral people from this city.
Rev. DR.. f. P. Ramsey, president of King
College, Bristol will preacf~at the morning
and evening services at the Second Pres
byterian Church tomorrow.