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Fifty tramps lodged at the station.houses
Saturday night.
Tho police made thirty.four arrests Satur.
day and saturday night. Nineteen were reg.
istcred 'drunks.
A regular hotel dinner for twenty-five
cents at the Bayard House, corner of Tenth
and T. streets northwest.
Early Saturday morning the house and
stables of Peter Miller, in the county, near
Uniontown, were destroyed by fire.
A mass prohibition meeting at Odd Eel.
lows Hall at half-past three o'clock next Sun
day afternoon, April 90 IS announced.
The great closing-out sale of books and
stationery at Mr.. Crandall's corner of Seventh
and ID streets, is attracting general attention.
Goods are sold at a heavy sacrifice.
Mr.. William II. Stephenson, the well.
known restaurateur, foot of Eleventh and
Water streets southwest, who has been i'll for
some days past, Is much improved.
Mr.. George Williams, the courteous and
efficient messenger for the money order divi.
sion of the Sixth Auditors Office, is lying very
i'll Mt his residence, on G street south.
General Hunton having been appointed
chairman of the House District Committee,
legion of Virginians after Offices under tho
District government is daily expected.
Mr.. Paul Brodic, who lives at No. 1418 S
street northwest, while digging in his yard
last Saturday unearthed quantity of human
bones They are supposed to be relics of
an old cemetery.
james, alias Cotton, Boland, was arrested
by Officers King and Thompson last Saturday,
charged with being concerned in the outrage
on Miss Maggie CLANCY, and was committed to
Jail for a hearing.
A colored boy named Frank Upsher was
run over by coal cart near tho Fourteenth
pppla SATURDAY. La.
passed over the lower part Of his abdomen,
lnjuring him seriously.
Mr. S. W. X. Handy, the assistant superin.
tendent of the Great Falls Ice Company was
robbed Saturday morning of a large number of
box plants, which he intended to plant around
the office Of that company, foot Of Tenth street.
DIR. George Sylvester died at his residence,
on Seventh street, last Saturday morning after
n short illness, of pneumonia. lie was sixty.
six years Of age The funeral will take place
from the house at three o'clock this afternoon.
Mr.. Frank II. Howe, member of the Dis.
trict bar and well known as a young prac.
titioner Of considerable ability, has been ap.
pointed by the District Commissioners to assist
Mr. L. G. Ingersoll in codifyng and arranging
the civil laws OF the District.
About haf-past one o'clock Saturday after.
noon fire was discovered in house on Car
roll street, between b and G aud First and
peeu"" s''ee'a s"ut"cast' IL is supposed that
tho house was set on fire by two little children.
The fire was confined to closet and the damage
was trhing.
Early yesterday morning a colorcd man
named Robert Connors, thirty-cight years OF
age, was found dead in his room, corner Of
Second and NJ streets northwest The Coroner
was notified, and after an examination by DIR
Hartigan gave n certificate OF death caused by
CONGESTION Of tho lungs.
l.. n
Elizabeth j. Ward will be panied to learn thai
they have suffered an affiiction in the death 0
their little daughter Mabel Ward. The funera
will take place from the residence of her pa
rents, No. 3ls First street southeast at twt
o'clock to-day.