Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1881-08-01


A FIRE took place this afternoon about 800
o'clock in H. Dempster's photograph gallery,
guy 9TH street, supposed from spontaneous COM
bustion- 1t was eXtinguished with a loss of
about 800.
The Courts.
EQUITY COURT-Jldge Hdgner.
Saturday. Purdy agt. Young; fund ordered paid
to trustee. Heck agt. Heck; sale confirmed nisi
koon agt. Budd; confirmation Of auditors re-
port and sale decreed. Mclean agt. Barker
Stinemetz admitted party complainant. Lip
pold agt. Thieleke; order that fund in court be
paid to defendant and bill be dismissed. May
hew agt. Rupert; bond for writ of error APP
proved. Dulany agt. Quirk; application for in
junction fixed for first Tuesday in September
Williams agt. Williams; pro contesso agt. Scott
NOurse agt Ashford; auditors report ordered to
be filed. Nicholson agt. Nicholson; hearing post
poned till September.
POLICE COURT-,Judge S,eu
SATURDAY, Shakespeare Lee was charged with
trespassing on a parking. He stated that lie
was stranger here, and did not know the law.
He was released on his personal bonds VIM
Mattingly, do; So or Is days. Mary Jackson
do; do. Henry Allen, throwing stones in the
street; 50 or days. jeremiah Johnson. tres
passing on parking; s. or Is days. Joseph
Owens, VIM. Hahn, Frank Moore, bathing in the
Potomac at unlawful hours; Hahn and Moore
were fined 81 each and Owens forfeited collate-
raj. Patrick Maloney, charged with making an
light on it; So. JAS Williams, assault on Eliza
Adams; $5 or Is days. Cornelius Smons
threats of personal violence to Annie Williams:
personal bonds to keepthe peace for six months
annie Williams was charged with assaulting
COrnelia SimOns, who got excited while testify
ing, and when she got to where Annie struck
her On the head with broomstick. she -four
lshed her umbrella over Bailiff Barton, and
brought it down on his head. The testimony
was somewhat conflicting and the court LET
n1VjnO owl ca,,I+
on Elizabeth Turner; SIS or Is days. Lula Hill.
cOlOred girl, was charged with stealing half
peck of potatoes from Henry Francis Williams.
and was sent to Jail for one day in default of a
Bowie; IS or Is days. James Whitney. assault
on Kate Downing; 800 bonds to keep the peace
Mary Harper forfeited collateral.
POLICE C0URT-Judqe Bu,ady pro tenn,
To-day, Lewis Price, John F. Langdon and
Henry Strobe forfeited collateral for loud aad
boisterous conduct. Horace Payne, Scott Poin-
dexter, VIM. Campbell, Henry Lewis and Am
herst j. Faust forfeited collateral for trespassing
on parks. Mason Shanklin and JAS Held for
feted collateral for cursing and swearing. VIM
Ward forfeited collateral for making an indecent
exposure of himself. David Underwood. va
grancy; bonds or workhOuse. Sallie Robinson
white girl was charged with being vagrant
an idle and disOrderly person, of evil life and
fame, and public prostitute, and was sent to
the wOrkhOuse for 60 days in default of bonds
Kate White, vagrancy and prostitution; 80 days
Humphrey Howard, a colored boy, was charged
with being a suspicious person. 0ff1cer Burgess
testified that he belongs to gang of boys that
make business of stealing in the market
houses. He was sent to the wOrkhouse for 80
days. VIM. Nolan, vagrancy: 80 days. Wilbur
I. Ford, neatly-dressed, rather good-looking
middle-aged white man, was charged with being
an habitual drunkard, and pleaded guilty. He
was released on his personal bonds. JAS Har-
rngton, pleaded guilty to vagrancy. and got 80
days. Thos Cooklev. cursing and swearing;
IS or 10 days. Reuben Jackson, trespassing on
park; IS or Is days. Also charged with carry
ing pistol; S25 or 20 days. Solomon COPELAND.
loud and bOisterOus in the county; 5Or Is DAYS
Kate Smith, loud and bOisterous; IS or Is days
John Frazier. trespassng on a park; SIS or Is
days. John Leonard, cursing and swearing in
the streets Of West Washington; SIS or Ii days
May Dulin do: do. John Foster trespaSSinr on
park; S. or Is days. Mary Moriarty, cursing
and swearing in house loud enough to be heard
in the street; S. or days. Chas. Hill, do: do
Fannie Porter, loud and boisterous profanity;
$5 or days. Henry DOdkins, colored, was
charged with making an indecent exposure of his
person on ~ street, and fined IS OF Is DAYS.
Chas. Goodrich, carrying slungshot; $40 or 80
days. Richard Nolan, vagrancy; 60 days.
ARRESTED ON SERIOUS CHARGE.-Two
years ago man giving the name of James
Waite arrived in Lynchburg, Va, accompanied
by woman and five-year-Old child, who were
represented -: 10 his wife and daughter The man
soon opened grocery : ord sgnnly store, in
which he prOspered. His alleged VIE ,,,, cd
few months ago. Friday last Mr. John Waite.
of Bay City, Mich, arrived in Lynchburg and
De James Burgess, arrested ON the charge of
bigamy and seduction. It appears that Burgess
had eloped with Yates wife two wears ago
taking with them Waite's little daughter Bur,
CESS leaving helpless family. Waite mad been
travelling for two years in search of his child
and only learned short time ago that his wife
had died in Lynchburg.i The Lynchburg Ana
lanche says: 'Whenshis little daughter was
brought to him at the Lynch House by a police
ana mutual IL reSognton took place. the
affecting and Joyous that they had ever wit
messed. The little girl is pretty and attractive
child, seven years old and seemed fully to an.
R Pre- the position she occupied, knowing
charge of her was not her father The mavnr
OF Lynchburg committed Burgess to iail tn await
a requisition from the governor of Michigan.
YOUNG MEMS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATIONS OF All.
LANDS.-A cable dispatch from London Satur
Gay says The ninth triennial conference Of the
Young Mems Christian Associations of all lands
met In Exeter hall this afternoon. At $40
O'Clock meeting of the worlds COMMITTED con.
slsting OF one delegate from each connfrv ranre
sented In the alliance, was held. At $50 o'clock
there was welcome meeting, Mr.. George VIII
sne iounaer OF tne associations presiding.
responses to addresses Of welcome were made
6y Mr.. John Wanamaker, president of the PhiIa-
delphia association; Rev. Theodore Cnvler Mr.
Carey Thomas, OF Baltimore, and Rev. Nj. Cook.
Of Paris. The closing prayer was by Rev. DR..
Newman, OF New York. The meeting was fol-
lowed by dinner and devotional meeting.
On Monday the regular business of the conyei5-
ton viii be taken up. About i've hundred del
egates are IN attendance, some sixty being from
Ine United states and the Dominion of Canada,
the remainder being from Great Britain. France
Switzerland GERMANY and other corutriou s