National Republican., 1884-11-03
THE BREvITY BASKET.


FILLED with Brief Mention OF Many Minor
Events Of Yesterday.
The National Rifles hop Saturday night was
well attended.
The house Of Miss f. Pilgrim, COL street,
was robbed of $3.50 Saturday.
A fall down the hatchway Of Havenner's
bakery fractured Charles +. Millers MP
Dennis Hickey was fined s. by Judge Smell
Saturday for choking Laura Chamberlain
A box of hats, valued at SIS, was stolen from
the store of :. Fishman, 4dV oeNenth stree'i
Saturday night.
Felix G. Anderson, colored employe Of r.
X. Ward was held in $500 bonds Tor embezIle-
ment Saturday.
Property owners now protest against the
much prayed for fencing along the Baltimore
and Ohio tracks.
A colored man attempted to rob the house
of Ernest Rupert, COS Ninth street. Saturday,
but was frightened OIL
The report of the district fire alarm service
for the year shows that ST., ,42i.VI WAS expehueu
and l47 alarms recorded.
John King is held in default Of $500 bond for
the grand jury on the charge OF robblng Mrs
Maggie Murray in the street.
An old colored man named Taylor Reddick
was sent TO Jail for five days Saturday rather
than kill his dog or pay the tax.
The choir of St. Johns Episcopal church
held its first annual festival Saturday night,
giving a very pleasant entertainments
Charles Keating, foreman to Felix May, who
is building a church in Alexandria county,
embezzled s5j from his employer Saturday.
Richward l.. Sedgwick, who is Stopping at the
st. James hotel, has reported that he lost two
notes for 81 600 and sj5 cash saturday night
Frank Harvey, colored, dIslocated his ankle
by IL fall from the second story of the new
I Gall ta.NE ola HtaN
heap.
car company ON the southeast corner of Sew.
cnth street and Pennsylvania avenue to pro-
toct passengers.
The police made 1s0 arrests during the
| twenty.four hours ending at n. m. yesterday.
The majority of these arrests were for keeping
unlicensed dogs.
NJ. A. MCGOWAN proposes to make the Cogs-
well fountain of some use to the public, but
will have to define his proposition before the
| commissioners can entertain it,
The cars on all the lines of the Washington
and Georgetown railroad will run up to
o'clock wednesday morning next to accom-.
modate belated seekers for election returns
| Tuesday night. The last cars will leave the
downtown termini at o'clock a. m.
| The National Law School Literary society
| was organized Saturday evening as follows
| President, l.. L. Phillips; vice president, T.W.
]
/ retary, q. L. Pollock; treasurer, +. G. Liggers.
The society meets Saturday evening.
The fair of the Arthur Rifles will open Nov,
| 10. Preparations have been made to insure a
complete success. Musical instruments silver
ware, clocks watches, and other articles have
been contributed to the corps for the purposes
/ of the fair by enterprising merchants.
While Mr.. Rollston was driving horse at
tnchcd 10 buggy down Seventh street ycster.
day afternoon the horse took fright and dashed
down seventh street toward the ferry wharf
at II furious pace. on the corner of | street
the horse tripped and fell. This enabled Mr..
ROllstOn TO descend. He was somewhat shaken
up but not injured.
The hearing on the habeas corpus in the case
OF Wm. II. Dempsey, remanded to Boston to
answer an indictment charging him with navy
voucher frauds, was heard by Justice Wylio
last Saturday. District Attorney Worthington
and his assistant, Mr., Coyle, appeared for the
.ycrnment and Mcssers Jere Wilson aud
:. Il. Williams ior Mr. Dempsey. After argu.
ncnt the Judge deferred his decision until
his morning.