Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1883-03-19

FrODaOIe Murder.
CHAs. DRAEGER FOUND IN DYING CONDITION.
ABOUT 10 O'clock, yesterday morning, a report
was received at the second police precinct station
that man was lying apparently dead In pond
| OF water near the corner OF ist and Boundary
streets northeast. Officers Slack and Sullivan
Draeger, clerk, not dead but apparently I'm dying
condition. He was taken to the station house and
| DIR. Purvis summoned and rendered assistance,
stating the trouble to be conclusion from a
blow on the head which would probably prove
fatal The patient was then removed TO bis home,
The officers arrested Ferris NJ Waters and Stuart
wilson, who were near the place where Draeger
was round, but on investigation nothing was dis
covered against them, and they were released.
FINED FOR KEEPING POLICY SHoPs.-Geo Myers
Frederick Ross, ThOs Ennis, Paul Reed, George
Beckett, and Albert Beckett were charged in the
Police Court this afternoon with keeping policy
eoUpse ch Paham ana bad nes stSusS Of 5 eac
| Prosecuting Attorney Moore stated that he would
| remember them, and II brought In again he would
| insist On jail sentences.
FATHER AFRAID OF HIS DAUGHrER.-A young
woman named Mary FOuk, with an infant IN her
arms, was called up to the bar in Judge Smells
court this morning on complaint OF her father,
Timothy sullivan an old gray-haired man, who
the court that his daughter gets drunk, and he is
afraid to stay in the house with her. He also
stated that on Ct Patricks day She ran him out OF
the house with kettle OF hot water and the lids
OF the stove. The court called her up to the desk
and said: This is a pretty story for father to
his daughter gets drunk. think a woman has as
much right as man to get drunk, but II is more
9lsgraceIul ana shocking" She was released on
her personal bonds to keep the peace for six
| months
SUIT FOR $4,000 FOR Loss OF FooT-Messrs
Cook q Cole to-day entered suit for Scott Warren,
by his next friend, Charles A. Warren, against
the M oI Baltimore Ohio Railroad company, for
ahor
when the complainant alleges he was compelled
to Jump from one OF the company's cars while In
motion, by an agent OF the company, and falling
under the car had his foot severed from his ankle
by the wheels passing over it.
THE JONES DIVORCE CAsE-To-day, fn the case
OF Elizabeth A. Jones against j. H. Jones-bill for
divorce nled last week-Mr Campbell CARING
charges OF drunkenness and as proof states that
ne has for 13 years past filled position In the
III dTeasury ga department He also denies the charge
house 1S open to his wife, and he is willing and
anxious for her to return TO him.
Affairs i'm West Warrington.
FIRES ON THE VIRGINIA sIDB.-Friday, while
Capt: and Mrs. Kenyon were in the city, their
Va, on The Vienna road, burned down, with all its
furniture. insured for $780, about one half its
value.-The te1ant house OF Albert Peacock,
above Langley, Va, burned down several days
ago. Loss 5000 Insured.-The dwelling of Mr..
John Magar1ty, above Langley, Va, caught fire,
UuS % QVO CuV UCAOI0 MuCu uAI0a&0 0aO O6en
done.
.. NEW BUILDING Association: meeting is called
70 organize new building association at God
dards Hall tomorrow night The plan proposed
Is TO make the maximum OF advance $GO A stock
nolder taus buying Will pay just per cent for
money. See advt.
CoNF1RMAr1oN.-Rt Rev. william Pinkney,
bishop OF the diocese OF Maryland, administered
the solemn rite OF confirmation to eight candi-
dates at Christ church yesterday.
The FUNERAL OF the late J. n Collins took
place yesterday afternoon and was attended by a
large number OF friends, including Logan tribe,
no 8, LORM under the marshalshlp OF Mr.. VIM
patterson, and American Guard council, No /,
order United American Mechanics. The Dash
away reform club, OF which he was also member,
was well represented The funeral cortege moved
from from the late residence Of the deceased, on aOth
street, to Grace church, where the Episco opal
Baker. Messrs. j. Sell, VIM. Golden, VIM. a.
Brewer, VIM. Foster, F. Cost and B. Caldwell
acted as pall-bearers The tnterment was at the
Presbyterian cemetery
PoRT-Sch j. N. Fitzpatrick, Fleming, cleared
GEORGES CREEK FAvoRED.-TheLonaconin
Rerie,c says that the differences between the
Pennsylvania and the Baltimore and Ohio rail-
roads have been settled, and the advantage Is I'm
favor OF the Georges Creek region; that the coal
shipped from that region by canal can be put into
the Atlantic cities from 10 to 70 cents lower than
by rail; thus making in coal shipped by canal
difference favorable to this region OF from IS to 40
cents per ton to say nothing OF the superiority or
our coal over that OF the Clearf1eld region.