DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA - NEWSPAPERS - The Washington Post, January 21, 1896, pg. 8 ----¤¤¤---- This file is part of the DCGenWeb Archives Project: http://www.usgwarchives.net/dc/dcfiles.htm ********************************************* http://www.usgwarchives.net/dc/dcfiles.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ********************************************* Contributed to The USGenWeb Archives Project by: Jamie M. Perez (jamiemac@flash.net) --------------------------------------------------- The Washington Post, January 21, 1896, pg. 8 ALEXANDRIA. The trial of Harry Poss and Thomas Henry will take place at Fairfax Court House to-day. Mrs. William B. Smoot will on Thursday evening next hold a reception at her residence on upper Prince street. Judge Norton left here last night for Richmond, where he has gone to use his influence in trying to get the Legislature to enact some law to prevent the present system of gambling at the race tracks. Nelson Keith was yesterday arrested by Policeman Betlis for beating George Hamilton Sunday night because he was walking with his girl. Keith was fined $7 or given thirty days on the chain gang. The will of the late John Dixon was admitted to probate in the Corporation Court yesterday, and his son, Arthur Dixon, qualified as executor. The entire estate is left to his widow during her life and at death will be divided between the son and daughter. Some of the liquor men are complaining about the enforcing of the liquor law, where they pay a license to do business, and not enforcing the gambling law, where those who are engaged in gambling do not pay a license. They claim if the laws are to be enforced they should be enforced all around. Robert Compton, a young white man, from Little Washington, Rappahannock County, was yesterday arrested on a charge of stealing $5 from Mr. Clifton Pelton. Compton stole the money from the cash drawer in Pelton’s store, and then ran away. The money was found on his person, but Mr. Pelton refused to prosecute Compton, and he was released. In order that vessels drawing twenty-eight or thirty feet of water could pass over them with saftety, the league will also ask the Washington Board of Trade to aid them in their petition before Congress on this measure. This committee will also ask for an appropriation to dredge a channel between this city and Maryland. The league also decided to ask Mr. Meredith to use his influence against the District bond bill, which he recently indorsed. They claim that if the bill is passed all of the District’s garbage will be deposited just opposite this city from the proposed sewer, and they do not desire their Representative in Congress to aid in this nuisance. The Business Men’s League met last night in their new headquarters, corner Washington and King streets. Their parlors were handsomely covered with rich carpets and rugs and brilliantly lighted. The league last night took action against the bill which is now pending in the Legislature, looking to the removal of the old court-house from this city. Mr. Strauss moved that the Representatives from this city and district in Richmond use their influence to defeat the charter of the Washington, Arlington and Falls Church Railroad, which seems to want the whole State of Virginia. The thanks of the league were also ordered to be sent to Senator Mushbach, for his efforts in relieving Alexandria of alleged insurance companies. The league also received a letter from Supt. Bannard, of the Pennsylvania Railroad, in which he stated he would meet a committee from the league on Thursday, January 22, at 11:30 a. m., to talk over the matter of erecting a new depot in this city. Ex-Mayor ! Strauss, A. D. Brockett, F. E. Anderson, Park Agnew, Charles King, and City Engineer Dunn were appointed on the committee, and they will entertain Mr. Bannard in the league’s parlors. A letter received from the Cramp shipbuilding firm was read, in which they denied the report that they contemplated buying a site in this State on which they would build a shipbuilding plant. The election of officers then took place, and resulted as follows: M. B. Harlow, President; Isaac Eichberg, First Vice President; Worth Hulfish, Second Vice President; John May, Treasurer, and the Executive Committee, Park Agnew, J. R. Zimmerman, George R. Hill, A. D. Brockett, N. Lindsey, W. B. Smoot, G. S. French, Ashby Miller, J. F. Muir, and G. L. Booth. A committee, consisting of Messrs. Agnew, Wheat, and Smoot, was appointed to wait upon Congress, and see if an appropriation could not be secured to deepen the Potomac River at the Kettle Bottoms.