Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1883-04-26
District Govern ment Affairs.

District Government Affairs.
MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS.
f1re-alarm box is to be placed On the Army
Medical Museum building, No. 5ll 10th street
Mr. John P. Rice for the past five years messen-
ger at police headquarters, resigned his position,
and was not dismissed, as published.
BUILDINGS CONDEMNED.
Building Inspector Entwisle today notified the
occupants of the wooden buildings on the north
west corner OF NJ street and Bank alley, West
Washington, TO Immediately vacate the premises,
the buildings being condemned and ordered to be
taken down within thirty days. and II not vacated
In the time stated they Will be taken down, re-
gardleSs or the occupancy.
REPAIRS OF GAS MAINS.
The Commissioners, in reply to the request OF
Chas B Bailey OF the 10th inst, for permit to lay
therein, states that the gas company is authorized
TO repair the main on Maine avenue, between
sd and ~ streets, but that the remainder OF the
application Is held for further consideration.
MARRIAGE LIcENsEs.-Marriage licenses have
been issued by the clerk of the court to John
Henry Mahoney and Letitia Rollins: Stewart Roy
and Louise McKenny; Christian Excl and Emma
Elise Schafer; Charles Phelps Williams and Juliet
Richard Shankin and Minnie Campbell: W. II.
Davis and Eddie Raynor: Columbus Sewall and
Elizabeth Smith; Edward Johnson and Charlotte
Brine; Jenny Desmond and Mary Leary; W. J.
Fulton, of Philadelphia, and Annie X. Dorian; w.
Waldo Dodge, or Stockton MINI. and Mary Amelia
F. walker and Annie NJ Follln, both OF Fairfax
county. Va; Thos. Brown and Lizzie Johnson
both OF Montgomery county, Nd.
HEATING AND ILLUMINATING CoMPANY.-The
United Illuminating and Fuel Gas Company To-
corder OF deeds office. The object is to acquire
real estate, erect thereon suitable buildings with
machinery Ior the manufacture OF gas, to be used
for lighting or heating, or both, in the cities Of
Washington and Georgetowon; to open streets,
&c, under such rules and regulations as the Com
mlssloners OF the District may prescribe. sc. The
"a ty-id dal int II,
and the trustees are Albert W. Fletcher of Phila-
delphia; II. E. Loane. of Baltimore; VIM. Dickson,
CnaS. II. Parsons and John n. Oliver, this city.
Political Points.
wHITELAw REID ON REPUBLICAN HARMoNY-rRE
GEORGIA ELECTION, ETC.
Whitelaw Reid has written a letter to Edward
Mitchell, the chairman OF the New York republi-
can committee appointed to suggest plans for Sc
curing harmony in the party, in which he says
that any plan should rest on two cardinal princI-
pies, that every resident OF district who voted
for the last republican presidential ticket should
be entitled TO q voice, and that no man should be
asked for pledge as to how he Will vote in the
future.
The MASSACHUSETTS, house Yesterday recons,dered
and passed to be engrossed the bill permitting
women attorneys to be justices of the peace.
The total vote cast for governor in the recent
election in Georgia IS estimated at from rs GOO to
300O0
The Michigan senate yesterday defeated the
prohibition amendment to the Constitution.
THE BEACHAMP MURDER TRIAL-The trial Of
Mrs Beachamp. at Ridgeiy, Nd, for the murder
Of her husband by poison, was continued yester-
reached the house he found Mrs. Beacnamp Very rS
much excited, and she said she hoped people
would not suspect foul play. Miss Tamsey An
drew testified that as soon as she entered the
house Mrs. Beachamp began to talk about poison,
and said IL her husband was poisoned she did not
crtmlnahty. -
CURIOUS TESTIMONY OF CAREY, THE INFoRNER.-
At the trial OF Michael Pagan, In Dublin yester-
day, James Carey, the lnformer, testified that he
arranged to stab ex-Secretary Forster after the
plots to shoot him had failed He said he did not
Sunday on account OF Sabbatarian scruples He
declared that even now he wished to remove
tyrants, and said he believed that 1t was sin to
kill Mr.. Burke. TWO cOmpOS1tOrS sWOre that they
saw Pagan in Phoenix Park on Maya
SLIPPERS MADE FROM HUMAN sKINs-At the
Tewkesbury almshouse investigation yesterday,
Christian Mueller testified to tanning human skins
received from various doctors and students, and O
skin were shown. Prank G. Haverin testided that
he remembered patient who had received extreme
unction from priest being taken by the back Of
the neck and forced screaming into q bathtub
He died thirty-six hours afterwards
A MINISTER'S Unconstitutional accusations
have been presented by q committee TO Bishop
Newton, OF the Protestant Episcopal church, with
uaVlug uenieu tue ulSiulty OI SuTlSI, MS COQCep-
ton by the Holy Ghost OF the Virgin Mary, DIS
crediting the miracles OF the Old and New Testa-
ments, denying the second advent OF Christ anG
preaching doctrines In direct conflict with the
teachings OF the church. II Bishop Potter elects,
the accused minister may be tried within sixty
days
A GIRL STUPEFIED AND OUTRAGED.-Lulu Post,
OF Troy. n T., a pretty girl OF 1e, procured war
rants yesterday for the arrest OF Walter Scott
Brooks, James E Lansing and Sarah Hill Brooks
ls charged with taking her to drive and chloro-
forming her at the house OF Lansing, and then out
raging her, Sarah Hill being an accomplice.
Sullivan, the pugilist, who was taken with hem
orrhage Tuesday, was better yesterday. The
general opinion Is that he ha, been living too
fast He has spent over $4,000 within very few
years.
Mile Resi- Millmer leading lady OF Nine. Gels
fingers company, now performing at FOrd's Opera
House, Baltimore, was arrested last night, charged
with assaulting Edward Zemetsk1, OF the same
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