Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-09-10
LOCAL BREyITIES.

The weather continues warm, Inc
mercury at noon registering &C..
George w. Hawxhurst has been sp-
pointed postmaster at Falls Church vice
l.. +. Croker, deceased.
A meeting of the male members OF
the choir of st. Mays Church will be
held next Thursday hight.
Complaint has been made to the sta
lion house that tools have recently been
stolen from toe Southern Railway depot.
w. A. Barnett has sold to @. W.
Dean. a house and lot on the west side
of West street, between King and Cam
eron.
The Circuit Court meets again tomor-
row, when the case of Marlborough VS.
the Southern Railway Company will
come up.
A number of fine black bass were
caught by anglers near the old Hunting
creek bridge yesterday. Crabs were also
seen swimming in that vicinity.
Mr.. J. D. Knight had one of his feet
badly cut with an adge while at work
at Fort Washington today. Later he
was brought to his home ia this city.
The remains of Sarah Alex inder, wife
of Isaac Freeman, well-known colored
man, we're brought here yesterday from
Atlantic City, where she recently died,
for inerment.
William Walters, eighteen years old.
of Langley, Fairfax county, was drowned
Saturday afternoon, while bathing in
the Potomac river, on the Virginia side,
about a mile above the Aqueduct bridge.
The work of renewing the gas pipes
on Fairfax street, between King and
Cameron, is 10 progress, preparatory TO
removing the cobblestones, after which
granite curbs and yitri6ed brick road
way will be laid.
Mr.. George w. HUNT, an old and well
known native of Fairfax county. died al
the residence of his brother, Mr.. Orlando
w. Hunt, in Washington, yesterday.
He was 70 years old. The deceased
was we'll known in Alexandra.
1t is understood, from reliable sources,
that restitution has been made Tor the
. recent depredations to the property OF
Mr.. Z. II. Kemper. The acts were done
by an irresponsible person who is en-
titled TO sympathy, rather than censure-
= The vacancy in the Office of spperin-
! tendent of the national cemetery at Ar
) lugton, caused by the recent death OF
! Capt. Drum, has been temporarily filled
by the designation as acting sopefintend-
I, ent OF Mr.. Robert l.. Dye, who has
been assistant superintendent for several
years.
Friends Of John Penn called at the
station house today and asked the aid oil
t the officers in locating Penn, who, they
p say, disappeared from his home last
Wednesday. They say they believe be
a had deserted his family and has gone to
s southern Maryland.
Residents OF Alexandra county state
that they will ask the State Corporation
u Commission for formal investigation
i into the rates and service of the Fsll'
II Church electric railway. The patrons Of
T. the road have protested against the
| rates charged and the condition Of the
g rolling stock of the company.
The game OF baseball played Saturday
afternoon on Cats field, West End,
between the Skidoo Club of this city and
=. the Mount Vernon baseball team Of
: Fairfax county, resulted in victory fol
= the Alexaudrians, the final score stand
:. ing II to 10. Owing to the darkness
the game was called at the end Of the
h sixth inning.
Justice of the Peace Henry Parker, o.
Rosslyr, reported to the police at head
quarters in Washington Saturday that
a William n. Arnold, of 1912 II street
Il northeast, had been folnd dead 10 th'
e roadway on Livingstone Heights, seve
'r raj miles beyond the Virginia end OF th'
Aqueduct bridge. Inquiry was made by
the police on Il street, and it Was ioane