Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-10-05
ALEXANDRIA AFFA AIRS
City Council to Resume Ses-
SionS Early Next Week.
GUARDIAN FOR RIXEY
J. G. Hiden Named in Decree Hand
ed Down in Corporation
Court Today.
Special Correspondence of The Star.

Special Correspondence of The Star.
| ALEXANDRIA. Va, October ), 1911.
| After an adjournment for the annual
summer recess of more than two months
the city council will reconvene Tuesday
night next for its first business meeting
since July 2s last.
| AT this meeting much business will be
presented for consideration
| Since the adjournment the members of
| the street committee have been actively
engaged in planning additional street inn
provements, and the coming meetings
promise to be interesting ones, a plan
of work for the spring will, it is thought,
be outlined
| In the work of street Improvements
many are already in progress. and ap
| preparations have been made for many
Others the old town keeping in line with
| the march of progress. The indications
are that within the next twelve months
considerable more work along such lines
will be accomplished, and before long this
city can boast of streets as good as any
| is this section of the state for a city Of
| It's size
Appointed Rixey's Guardian.
j. G. Hiden has been appointed guar
dian ad Item for c. Jones Rixey, head
of the defunct Virginia Safe Deposit and
Trust Corporation. by decree given to-
day in the corporation court. Rixey was
| recently adjudged insane and is now a
patient in the Western State Hospital, at
Staunton, Va. The decree follows:
1T appearing to the court that c. j.
| Rixey, q party to this cause, has been
| adjudged insane, it is adjudged ordered
and decreed that j. G. Hiden, a discreet
and competent attorney at-law, practic-
| ing before this court, be and is hereby
appointed guardian ad litem for the said
| c. J. Rixey."
Personal property, including horses,
mules and farm implements. sold at pub
| lie auction yesterday by Receivers J. X.
| NJ. Norton and Howard w. Smith, at Gull
pepper. brought between 5000 and 5000.
| This property was turned over to the
| Virginia Safe Deposit and Trust Corpora
| ton by C. Jones Rixey. president of that
concern, Immediately following the col
| lapse of that institution. The money
| realized from the sale will swell the
amount which the depositors of the con-
| Germ will receive.
| In the corporation court today decree
| was entered confirming the report of G.
| l.. Boothe, special commissioners in chan
Gerry and a decree for sale was entered,
and Julian T. Burke was appointed trus-
| tee in the chancery suit against Edith
glastonbury.
| Arrangements have been made by the
Elks Dancing Club for the reopening of
it's club. which will take place October 10
next at the Elks' home. Dances will be
| held thereafter every Wednesday.
Fined as Lumber Thief.
lumber from Peter Aitcheson. was fined
$40 in the police court today. A colored
man named Hunter testified that several
ed
tjnuous barking of dog, and, going to
his gate. heard a crash made by falling
lumber There was a man beside the
lumber. and he recognized Evans as the
man who came from the barge wharf
and assisted in carrying away the lum-
Archie Finney, colored. charged with
an assault with knife on Susan Nelson,
coIored. was fined $40.
A fine of S. was imposed by Justice
| Cation in the police court today In the
case Of Peter Francis. who was charged
with erecting shed in the rear of his
premises, at King and olumpus streets'
without taking out the required permit.
CITY Engineer Dunn testified that the
shed contained 226 square feet. The court
in sizing up the matter said that the only
way in which to force people TO take out
the required permit is by the imposition
of a fine. Afterward permit was OBJ
| tanned from the office of the city engineer
| by Mr. Francis.
Assault Case Continued.
When the cases of Joseph Carroll. col
ored. charged with disonderly conduct
| and fighting, and Charles Sorrell, white.
| charged with an assault Oh Carroll, were
called for trial in the police court today
SorreIl asked for a continuance in order
| TO get witnesses. and the case was con-
| tinued until tomorrow.
| During an alteration between the
| men yesterday afternoon Sorrell. it is
alleged, struck Carroll over the head
with a brick and as a result Carroll had
| to go to the hospital. Sorrell, however,
claims that Carroll threatened him with
| knife.
The funeral of Frank Taylor, who died
| yesterday at his home, at 200 Wolfe
| row morning from st. Marys Catholic
| Church. The deceased was siXty-three
years old and son Of the late Robert
| Taylor
| Emmett Rhiner's funeral will take place
| at 3 O'Clock tomorrow afternoon from
| the residence of his uncle, John D. Mat
| ter, $50 South Fairfax street. Services
| pastor of the First Baptist Church. and
, burial will be in Bethel cemetery.
| In the corporation court yesterday Lee
p Harlow qualified as administrator of
the estate of the late George H. Harlow.
| slight fire at the residence of Will
| liam Dove, 920 Franklin street, brought
| out the fire department at O'Clock yes
/ terday afternoon.
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