Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1881-07-05
LOCAL NEWS.
CONDENSED V,0ca1S,

Street lamps will be lighted az II o. m. and
extingulshed at 3:45 a. %.
~, The dealers Of the street market will to-
morrow hold marketin the TYSON House wagon
yard. corner OF It'll and P Streets. They are
unuer canvass Tor the present. and Will con-
tinue there until the new building on 7th
finished.
In the Police Court o-day there was large
NUMBER OF persons charged with firing OFF fire
crackers within 900 yards of a dwelling house.
the line In these cases is from ST. to S. The
court imposed the lowest fines In some cases,
put where the offence occurred where IL was
likely 10 disturb the President the maximum
fine was imposed.
Trouble occurred at picnic at Lp fflers
garden last night In which outsiders were In
vowed; and man named Burns had his eye
injured. and another named Kelly was cut
about the face and head
A little girl. named Mary FInuacorn, No. 1925
9th street northwest. was badly burned about
the legs and abdomen by her clothes takin G
IRE While playing with matches yesterday.
This morning early Private LAWYER found a
white man named John O Leary on LIST street
over the embankment at that place. He was
taken to the station and DR.. Rice summoned,
who stated that he thought one OF his legs was
broken, cut could not decide positively until
the man had recovered his normal state.
Mag. Matthews died.suddenly IN Prather's al
ley, between 4th and 5th and and streets
that the cause of death was consumption.
MI. Robert s. Hulse, Well known citizen OF
the First ward, and father of eX Speaker Hulse,
died yesterday Of enteritis. Notice OF funeral
elsewhere.
The Virginia avenue Baptist Church, whose
books have been open for several months for
subscribers to the building of said church, col.
lected on Sunday, July Sd, $41l 81.
w. II. Williamson, agent for Williamson &
Bethel, OF Danville, Va, was arrested to. day
by Fl. Raft, assistant inspector OF licenses. for
doing business In this District without license
as commercial agent
A Scene i'm the Circuit Court
Mr.. w. A. Cook REFUSES TO GO ON WITH CASE
BECAUSE OF THE UNSETTLED CONDITION OF THE
PUBLIC MIND.
This morning in the Circuit Court, Judge
James, the ase OF Thomas ACT. Dubois. action
for damages for false arrest was pending,
Messrs. Cooke, Cole and Cahiu, for plaintiff and
F. Miller for defendant. The court suggested
In view OF the unsettled condition of the
pubic mind, that ii would be better for the case
TO go over or that they should take a mis-.
trial and continue the case. Col Cook coin
clded With the suggestion as eminentiy proper,
Mr.. Miller suggested that although he per-
sonally preferred to go on, he would leave it to
the court and jurors. The jurors then con-
suited and announced that they favored the
trial proceeding.
Mr.. Cook entered an objection, and MIR. NIL
Ter commencing his argument as Col. Cook was
!eaVlng, that gentleman returned and stated
that he withdrew from the case; that at this
Time he could not consent to the trial proceed
Ing, and as to all other cases in which he was
engaged he asked that they be continued If
called at this term. He stated that he objected
also because after having agreed to go On with
ten Jurors last week 1.-TWO being sick) Mr.. MIL
Ter objected, and that the resumption of the
with the junior counsel, and to which he was
not party,