The Evening critic., 1883-05-26
THE EVENING CRITIC.
EaTABLIBHED AUGUST 1858,
LACONIC LOCALS.
E6TABLIBl
YOUTHS suits at Strauss & Marks.

YOUTHS SultS aU ptrauSS " MARX s.
WARRANTS were sworn out to-day by
Detective Raft against Isadore Bach and
James Lynch as unlicensed commercial
agents, soliciting trade for Baltimore deal
ers.
MILE RODGERS was charged in the
Police Court to-day with assaulting Ella
jackson. Tho evidence was that Millie
found her husband in Elias house and
went for Ella with bottle. Millie was
put under personal bonds to keep the peace.
SEVERAL posts of the Grand Army will
attend in body at the Lutheran Church,
on Capitol Hill, tomorrow morning. Rev.
w. L. Parson, pastor, will preach the an
nual sermon, in accordance with the re-
commendation of the department COM
mander.
MEssRs. EDMoNDs AND BARNARD, as at
torneys for Benjamin f. Gray and Jane L.
Mickle, have fled bill in equity against
Edwin A. Mcintyre and others for an ac
count and to redeem lot 90, subdivision of
lots and A, square AIT, and lot SO Of Sher
mans subdivision Of square 720.
THE arbitrators in the case of Strong
against the District of Columbia have ar
ranged for meeting in the old Equity
Chamber next Monday morning at 10
o'clock. Mr.. Strong will be represented by
Messrs. Cook & Cole, F. T. Browning, o. d.
Barrett and perhaps Governor Butler, and
the District by Messrs. Riddle and Miller.
JOHN JOHNSON and Robert Wedge, two
colored boatmen, were in the Police Court
to-day, johnson charged with assaulting
Wedge. The testimony showed that John
son was not guilty of making an assault,
and, on the contrary, Wedge assaulted him
with an anchor chain and struck him on
the head. Wedge got thirty days in Jail
and johnson was dismissed.
JOHN CoLDwELL, of Shreveport, La, has
filed chancery suit against Oscar 4. Huss,
of this city, and Friend w. Smith, OF
ment by Huss to Smith be decreed null
| and void, and that they may be restrained
| of making any disposition of letters-patent
| for a snow shoe and lock hook until the
| partnership account is settled and regularly
dissolved.
A LARGE and interesting meeting is an.
ticipated to take place by the new Odd.
Fellows Lodge, of Hillsdale, ID. c., on Sun,
day, May "a, at 3 o'clock p. M, at Bethle-
hem Baptist Church, at which time an
address will be delivered by Rev. Sandy
Alexander, pastor of First Baptist Church
Georgetown, D. G. Music will be fur
nished by Mt. Jesrael Church choir, unde
the leadership of Mr.. Edmond Scott.
WILLIAM ROBINSON and Andrew Jack
son, colored, engaged in fight at the cor
ner of Ohio avenue and B street about II
o'clock last night. Robinson was too drunl
and got the worst of it. He then reclaimed
his pistol, which he had left with saloon
keeper, and proceeded to fire it at his an
tagonist on L street, near Thirteenth. Hi
aim was poor, and he only burnt Jackson'
coat. Both men were locked up. Charge
of ARRAY were preferred against each Of thu
men to-day, and they were fined S. each.
Mr.. RANSOM GUINNIP, of the firm o
Guinnip & Co., appeared in the Polic'
Court to-day against Dennis Harris, col
ored employe Of the store, charged will
stealing a number of articles and receiving
Others, knowing them to have been stolen
A halfgrown boy named William Arm
strong took the stand and stated that h
had been persuaded by the prisoner to stea
number of articles, shoes, ribbons, etc.
and give them to the colored man, who sol'
them and returned him portion of the re
ccipts. Armstrong said that he was EN-
ployed at the store and accompanied the de
livery wagon which the prisoner drove
and that he In this way got in with the de
fendant and got under his influence so tina
he began TO steal for him. Harris was sen
tentenced to six months in Jail for tn
larceny, aud the receiving of stolen prop
erty case was suspended. Armstrong wa
merely used as witness and was not prose
cuted.