Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-10-03

corporation of said association and praying
for the aid necessary to accomplish this end,
and also in becoming shareholders in the asSo-
citation, which il literally supported can offer
home forl 600 worthy families of our poor and
destitute workingmen. II the association is
successful other cities will follow our example,
and the great question of labor, what shall be
done with the thousands of suffering and I'M
employed worklngmen in our oyercrowded
cities? will be speedily solved. J.S.
Buckeye Mans Reply to HoosEcr
Woman.
EdiOr Stnr:-Permit me to reply to the
HoCsier Woman in Tuesdays issue. The
feverstricken sections of the south are i'll the
agonies OF death and want. at this moment
have been for six months past. Thirty or sixty
days hence the charity we are now sending
south would do the present sufferers no g0Od.
Shall we sullenly give what we are giving.
dollar will have any the less when called upon
for home charity this winter. The Lord VIII
provide. a BUCKEYE Man.
TWO RUNAWAY GIRLS FROM BALTIMORE
IN BAD HOESE.-NeSter0ay afternoon Mr..
q. III. Kuhns, of Baltimore called upon Major
Morgan, at police headquarters, and repre-
Sented that his daughter, Mary L. KuhnS, aud
another girl, named Belle Roberts, both SIN
teen years of age, had ran away from their
homes, in Baltimore. and were thought to be
in this city. Major Morgan at once sent out
Lieutenant Vernon and some of the detective
officers. and after searching through the dens
bored in a house of illfame on E street, kept
by Kate Waters. The girls were removed TO
police headquarters, and Major Morgan read
them lecture on the consequences of such a
choice Of occupation and associates, and
placed them under charge of Mr.. X. who re-
turned TO Baltimore with them, and they will
be put In the House OF the Good Shepherd.
Major Morgan proposes to take the case in
hand OF procuring the passage of a more
stringent law for the prompt and adequate
punishment of the female hyenas who keep
Gated girls and bring ruin upon them and dis
grace upon their parents and relatives.
How DENNIS DID DUNN.-Last Tuesday
evening John Dunn, stranger from Hayre de
Grace, who had Just arrived in town, feii in
with colored thief named John Dennis. Den
lis conducted Dunn 10 boarding house On
18th street, where the latter left his valse. and
then went out on a prospecting tour Dennis
theTeupOn returned 10 the house and said that
Dunn had sent him back to get the va!ise. AS
everything appeared 10 be All right the yaiise
was delivered TO him, and Den,Is proceeded
TO appropriate It's contents, which Included SD
in cash, to his own use. Dunn made com
plant 10 the police, and Officer Miller list eve
ming arrested Dennis and had him locked up
was arraigued in the Police Court On the
charge of grand larceny, and held in bonds OF
S)to FOR the grand Jury.
BUILDING AssOCIATIoNs.-AJ the third an
nual meeting of the Hamilton Building AS7o
clatlon last night, officers were elected 10: the
dent: j. ID. Terrell. vice president: Jas. Fra
ser. treasurer: John A Prescott, secretary:
Z K. True, J. d. Free, j. p: Herman, Samue
Miller. Samuel G. Lovejoy, julius Sondheimer
ard A. B. Jameson, directors. The report of
The treasurer, j. A. Prescott. shows the finan-
ments, $32, 347 10: aggregate now advanced on
as shares. $46.S58; assets, ST. 4299 SO; original
number of shares, 3,279; number of shares set
tied, 1868; value OF each share, si136.
CHARLES JOHNSTON shouted the bailiff of
the Police Court outside OF the court room to-
along in front at the time, responded. He
walked into the court room, stood at the bar,
and was told that he was charged with OBJ
alleged cuIprit looked non Pulsed, and said
he hadn't been in Georgetown in three mon his.
Then it was found that he wasn't the man that
having. by the strangest coincidence in the
world, happened to be passing the Police
Court when Charles Johnston was called.
THE ARMY MEDICAL MUSEUM CLOSED To
DAY.-A new building is being erected on the
north side and adjacent to the Army Medical
be lower than that of the museum EXcavat
ing for it was begun today, and as the north
side OF the museum Will have to be- underpin-
ned, the building was closed to visitors, and
all the goods and effects on that side OF the
building are being removed to prevent the
walls cracking. There was report to-day
falling There was also considerable alarm
among the employees inside the building for
awhile.
ONLY One OF THE WASHINGTON NURSES ES-
CAPEs THE FEvER.-This morning Major Mor-
gan , received the following teIegrama from one
OF the Washington nurses who left this city
some weeks ago to tender their services to the
yellow fever sufferers:
MEMPHIS, Tenn, oct: 3, lS1S-Maior Thos;
Mrs. Davidson are down. Mrs. Cromwell and
Messrs. Berbee and Lowe. and probably r )w-
lette, are dead. Mrs: Beasley, Oxe and myself
ISigIed,] J. D. UzELL.'
Charles s. Willis and Nellie M Tibbetts;
James j. Walker, OF Prince George county
Mm and r k MaS A q Fsf Wash19n
II. Anne Pettet, of same place; Henry Steiner,
Of New York: and Elizabeth Deckman, OF
G Mashngton p. e; VIM 0ckershagssp, Of
Washington, D. c.: Afford Warner and Addie
Milton Plummer and Alice Gibson.
JUST ARRIVED, new and beautiful dress
goods. Pure wool colored and back cash.
meres, SOC: Excellent black silks, 75c., 81 and
sl.25. Colored silks. immense assortment
every color and every shade OF colored silk.
S Ssaftb s,r ~ Msrket space Dr. Warmers
ings, immense assortment. Ladies' real Eag-
lish stockings, 25c. Pure wool white blankets,
50: Cloth for boys wear, soc. Lace for cur
tains.-Adrt.
THOSE who like superior bread-and who
doesn't? will be interested in the card OF
Messrs WIN. nj. Gait Co.. in another column.
They advertise three of the best brands of
flour known in this market.
arThe king OF Burmah died yesterday.
AgrI The negotiations between Germany and
the Vatican have resulted in failure.
H1-Serpent skin boots for he ladies are the
latest novelty in Paris.
Rg-A saloon keeper at Paducah. Ky, puts a
nickel into the yellow fever contribution box
every time he sells a l5cent drink.
Ra- Two tramps brutally outraged Mrs. Nc.
MILAN, widow, living near Newark, O. A
vigilance committee went in pursuit.
R1- Lightning struck the Russia leather
pOcketbOok Of Mrs. Chenery, of Salem, Mass,
which she was carrying in her hand, and $50
in greenbacks was burned to a crisp, silver
coin blackened on one side, and q railroad