Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-10-27
ALEXANDRIA AFFAIRS
Appellate Court May Decide
Local Cases Next tuesday.
COLORED MAN FOUND DEAD
Fraternal Americans Hold Memo
rial Services-Funeral Services.
General and Personal Items.
Special Correspondence of The star.

Special Correspondence OF The Star.
ALEXANDRIA. Va. October % 1913
The state court of appeals. which will
meet in Richmond Tuesday next will. it
is expected, hand down decisions in three
cases of Importance in this city.
One is the eligibility of Julian Y. Will
liams. member of the common council
from the second ward, to hold his seat
as such. Some time ago ,iuo warranto
proceedings were instituted against Mr..
Williams on the ground that he lived in
Alexandria county. A jury in the corpo-
ration court returned verdict against his
eligibility. However Mr.. Williams
tains his seat pending the decision of The
| appeals court, to which he took the case.
| Another case is that OF the B. f. Board
Motor Truck Company and the Board
| Armstrong Company against the Mutual
Life Insurance Company of New York to
! recover policies amounting to $1,000 held
with these concerns on the life OF the
late B. F. Board. who president of
both of the foregoing companies The
defendant company refused payment on
! the policies on the ground that plaintiffs
| had no insurable interest in the deceased.
! Mr.. Board died at Wake Forest. N. c.,
| March Is, 1912, as the result of d fall
| from water tower. The compliments
obtained verdicts in the courts here.
Has Been Thrice Tried.
| A third case of Importance is that of
Alice McMenamin and husband against
the Southern Railway Company, suit
to obtain damages in the sum of $500
for injuries alleged to have been sus-
tanned to home of plaintiffs at southeast
corner of Duke and West streets by
smoke and SCOT from roundhouse and en-
| gines of the defendant company. This
| case has been tried three times in the
| local courts. The first suit resulted in a
verdict of 81, $50 for compliments In the
second suit the jury was unable to agree.
| and in the third suit the defendant COM
pany demurred to the evidence and Judge
| Thornton, in the circuit court, sustained
| the demurrer and the appeals court grant
! ed a rehearing.
| The last time the case came before the
| local court was January = last.
| The following cases were disposed OF
today in the police court: Ernest Clark,
colored. disorderly and fighting. forfeited
$50 collateral; William Higgs. colored.
suspicion of the larceny of $3.50 from
Hugo Herfurth. jr, continued until to-
morrow: John Lewis, colored, a non-resi-
dent, drunk on the street, fined So
Rhode Wilson, Colored, Found Dead
| Rhode Wilson, colored. about thirty
five years old. an employee of the Po-
tomac Fish Company. was found dead
yesterday afternoon in an ark where he
lived, near the shipyard. at the foot of
Franklin street. Acute indigestion is sup
posed to have been the cause of his
death. BY order of Coroner S. B. Moore
the body was removed to Demaine's I'M
dertaking establishment and prepared for
burial
| Memorial Services.
] At the annual memorial services of
Alexandria Council, No. 5, Order of
Fraternal Americans. held last night at
| Trinity NJ. Z. Church, the principal adj
dress was made by Rev. G. A. LuttreIl.
pastor. Others who spoke were G. N.
Cradlin, o. H. Daniels and J. n. Trimyer,
past presidents The names of the
sixty deceased members who have died
| since the institution of the council
| twenty-three years ago were read by
1 Fred w. Ebhardt, past president.
| The bazaar which has been in progress
during the past week at Armory Hall
| for the benefit of the Alexandria Hos
pital building fund was brought to a
that between $1,000 and $4,000 was net
| ted as a result.
The Offering taken up at the Rally
day services at the Second Presbyterian
John Lee Allison, the pastor. preached
on 1.-The Sacred Obligatio nof Parent
hood" w. H. Melchior. superintendent
of the Sunday school, presided, and spe-
cial anthems were sung by members of
the Sunday school,
Recent Deaths.
John p. Rodier. painter. died this morn
ing at his home. Ill North Washington
street, after a short illness. Mr.. Rodier
was sixty-nine years old. His wife and
one son survive him. He was born in
Georgetown, D. c.
The funeral of Mrs. Ellen Lindsey, who
died Saturday last, took place at $50
O'Clock this morning from st. Mary's
Quoted by Rev. III. ]. Cutler. and burial
was made in the Methodist Protestant
cemetery.
Funeral services for ]. William Man
gum, the Southern Railway freight
brakeman who was killed at New Glas-
grow, Va, were held at IL o'clock this
morning at his lat home, 1901 Duke street.
They were conducted by Rev. J; w.
Miss Anna Miller Dempsey's funeral
took place at 10 o'clock yesterday MORN
ing from her late home. 126 South Wash
ington street Services were conducted
by Rev. John Lee Allison, pastor of the
Second Presbyterian Church, and burial
was made in the Presbyterian cemetery.
The pallbearers were: g. William Ram
say, DR.. J. Stewart Jameson. James
Kennedy, Alonzo Houck.
General Mention.
The October term of the circuit court
| for Alexandria county, Judge J. B. T.
Thornton presiding, convened today, when
| a number of cases were called and set
| for trial.
| F. L. Siddons, Commissioner of the Dis
| trict of Columbia, yesterday morning de-
liyered an address at the M. E. Church
South. the occasion being a Fathers
day. celebration.
| Alexandria Lodge Of Elks at it's meet
ing tonight will discuss arrangements for
its memorial day exercises and its an
nual Christmas entertainment.
| M. B. Harlow and wife have sold to
William G. Simpson a house and lot on
the east side of Lee street between Glib
bon and Franklin streets. A deed of
transfer was recorded today.
| THE COURTS.