Evening star., 1912-11-16
ALEXANDRIA AFT AIRS
Five Hundred Odd Fellows to
Come to Capital.
WILL ATTEND LODGE RALLY
Special Trains to Garry Delegation
Washingtonian
Draws Heavy Fine.
Special Correspondence of The Star.

special Correspondence OF The Star.
ALEXANDRIA. Va, November 16 1912.
Final plans for participating in the big
Odd Fellows rally, which will be held in
Washington Tuesday night were COM
pleted last night at a meeting of Potomac
1 Lodge
Five hundred members from this city
and northern Virginia will assemble at
Odd Fellows Hall Tuesday evening and
| board special trains for Washington.
Fifty candidates from the local and lodges
Of northern Virginia will receive the first.
second and third degrees that night. The
| Alexandrians, together with those from
the visiting lodges, will assemble in Odd
Fellows Hall at 6 o'clock Tuesday even
| ing and at $50 they will march in body
| to Prince and Royal streets, where they
will board the special trains. The dele
cation will be headed by the members OF
| the. canton, who will wear their lodge
uniforms.
Among the distinguished visitors ex-
pected to accompany the local delegation
are the following: A. NJ Southall, grand
master, Danville; w. f. Allen, deputy
grand master. Covington; Park T. Deans,
| grand warden, Windsor, Va
-" Fined for Beating Wife.
|. J. ]. Grace of Washington was fined
! $50 in the police court today on a charge
| Of assaulting and beating his wife. His
wife appeared in court as complainant
against her husband and a blackened left
eye was mute testimony Of the assault
According to the wife the husband
knocked her down and beat her. She
asserted that she has been separated
from Grace since last April. the matter
at one time having come before the Ju-
venile Court in. Washington.
The husband admitted the truth of the
wife's statement regarding the separa-
t,on but added that they had never been
legally separated. He claimed that he
pays her 50 week and that the court
had given him permission to see his
children Grace then told of his coming
to Alexandria last night to see the chill
dren and OF finding his wife on the streets
in company with another man. He de-
manded, he claimed, an explanation.
whereupon the escort of his wife struck
him. He returned the greeting, he said.
He also admitted assaultng his wife.
but claimed that the latter spat in his
face just before he did so.
The assault took place on King street
siderable excitement Grace was arrest
ed by Policeman Nowland.
Will Start Operations.
Within the next month, it is announced,
the firm known as the Washington Re-
f1ning Company, which recently pur-
chased the plant Of the Cotton Oil and
Provision Company, located at Relee,
Alexandria county, will begin operations.
The company is capitalized at 100000,
and many of the officers are Washing
tonians.
The following are the officers Of the
concern: J. L. Cooper president, Atlanta:
J. w. Hall. vice president and general
manager; Fred Craig. secretary; John
w. Martin. superintendent.
A Southern railway freight engine,
running backward toward this city.
jumped the track at . o'clock last night
In front of the Armour icing station, at
the Potomac railroad yards, and Fireman
John T. Curtin. 321 North Henry street,
this city, who was on the pilot of the
engine, received sprained ankle and
badly cut hand. A broken rail, it is
said, caused the accident.
Moncure Is Acquitted.
A jury in the circuit court for Alexan-
dria county yesterday afternoon. without
leaving the jury box. returned verdict
of not guilty in the case of r. c. l.. Mon
cure. an attorney charged with the con-
version of trust funds which 1t was al
legged had been held by defendant as
assignee of the property of w. III. Ken
drick, Clarendon, Alexandria county. The
case was heard before Judge Bennett T.
Gordon, Nelson county. Commemorative
Attorney S. B. Whitehead of Nelson coun-
ty conducted the prosecution and Mr..
Moncure was represented by Common
wealth's Attorney S. G. Brent of this
city and Commemorative Attorney C.
Vernon Ford Of Fairfax county.
Charles Benheim. chairman of the city
democratic committee. today received an
oy~t tn >lol.,,
ton which will be held in Richmond the
night Of November 26 in honor of Will
sons election. 1t is expected that q
number of democrats from this city will
participate in the affair.
The funeral of John A. Travers took
place at 3 O'Clock this afternoon from his
late home, JOS South Henry street. Serv-
ices were conducted by Rev. Edgar Car
penter and Rev. III. M. Canter. Burial
was in Union cemetery. A number of
members of r. =. Lee Camp, CoHfed-
crate Veterans, attended the services,
. The progressive euchre held last night
at the Young Mems Sodality Lyceum