Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1884-07-09
District Government Affair.


COLLECTIONS FOR YEAR.
Couector Cook to-day turned over his annual re-
poft 70 the commissioners, showing total coilec-
1ons LOT the nscal year just ended OF ls1S,0oSis.
WANT THE srArIoN-HousR RrNovKp.
The Commissioners are In receipt to-day OF pc
uton nom citizens living In the neighborhood II
the sixth precinct station-house asking for the
movai OF that building the station being very OBJ
Jecuonaole and depreciating the value OF property
SCHOOL TE.PURCHAsEp.
The Commissioners have purchased school,
house site In square Ss between 9th and eth streets
noJheaSt Tor $500 The size is IA by l52 feet.
A NEW LUMBER INSPECTOR
Inc commissioners to-day appointed Mr.. ThosR.
Riley as lumber Inspector. Mr.. Riley was recon-
nended by the Lumber Dealers association
BUILDING PERMITS
issued by Inspector Entwisle: K III. Minor erect a
small store, northeast corner eth ard East Capitol
streets; $1oQ Conrad Z. Slukurd, erect two-story
and basement dwelling, Maryland avenue, be
Grinder, erect a two-story dwelling. Isl between
ID and Z streets southwest; Sl.40o f. W. Dartin,
repair brick lso2 street northwest; $500. q. i.
ton. between 18th and l4th streets, Columbia
Heights $500. John I. Ford (Nullett, architect),
repair, subject to the approval OF the inspector
Intersection OF 9th street and louisiana avenue
northwest; $4,000. NJ. A. MCGOWAN, repair brick,
north side LIST street, between High and Potomac
streets, West Washington: $500
VITAL STATISTICS.
The number OF deaths occurring during the week
ending July 5th was gis white and 40 colored. the
rate or mortality per 900 per snnuIn being IL. 10
for the white sS! for the colored and 2 20 for the
total population. The principal causes OF death
We w tS Consumption, 10; pneumonia 5; congestion
whooping cough. 2, and diarrheal diseases. 10. or
the dscedents white and colored were over 60
under years OF age. There were white and
c0lored st1u births Marriages reported; 5 white
and colored. Births reported: White male Is;
white female, 49, c0lored male, ~; colored female,
CONTRACTS FOR SUPPLIES AWARDED.
The District Commissioners yesterday awarded
the contracts for furnishing general supplies 10 the
District as fOilows:-Stauonery, W. ii. Dempsey,
s. $50 20: blank forms OF printing Judd Detweiler.
gibson BIOS, and NcGiil; school books, VIM. Bal
lantyne Son; furniture. W. b. Noses and Julius
Lansburg; hardware, j. l. savage and T.. IT, Wheeler;
tinware and street lamps, h. !. Gregory: plumbing
material, I. somerville and Robert Letch q Son;
boots and shoes, VIM Hahn drugs and chemicals,
T. ID. Gilman aud Shelter Stevens; glass. paints,
&c, Martin Butler; lumber. George A. Shehan;
forage, Z Z. hewitt; fresh meat II. /. Narnell: ba-
con and ham, Z. Hume ice bids rejected. supply 10
be purchased In open market: lamp posts and cast
lngs, George White Co.; fuel, ". f. Hodge; dry
goOdS. not awarded; cement and lime, J. NJ. Wheat
ley; bricks, Washington Brick Machine company;
6uestone and curbing, Acker & Co.; granite curb
ing, s. N. Emery. The contract for furnishing
$50 zoe granite blocks, or as much as may be nect,
Sary Tor street improvements, was awarded 10 the
New York and Maine Granite company at $40
per 1000.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The District Commissioners heve invested num-
Der OF the Janitors OF the public school buildings
with police power.
A Posr MoRTKN EXAMINATION OF TIE RUSSIAN
MINISTER'S DoG.-A post mortem examination was
made at the pound yesterday 10y health officer
Townsend, Prof Dr. Smedt, DR. L. j. Murphy and
Chief Clerk AcGinR. OF the health Office, upon "A
large New Feundland dog belonging 10 the Russian
minister, which attacked and bit a little daugh-
ter OF one OF the Russian minister's employees on
of the 4th OF July. After the child bitten the
dog was taken to the pound, where it died yester-
CAV In TIT. AS IL feared the dog had the hy-
drophobia the examination was made at the request
OF Mr.. WUllamov, Secrn'"rv OF the legation The
examination showed Jnat the saliva contained
none OF the microbes peculiar TO rabies, and that
the dog was not suffering with hydrppEoDia
THE ACTING CHIEF OF ORDNANcE-During the
absence OF the chief OF ordnance, Lieut.. Col. j. NJ
Whittemore, ordnance department, Will, by direc-
ton OF the President, take charge OF the Office Of
the CHIEF OF ordnance and perform his duties
Why Hart Still Lives.
FURTHER PARTICULARS OF THE MONTGOMERY COUNTY
oUrRAGE-THB STORY OF THE PKIsoNER-CoNsID-
ERABLR DOUBT As TO HIS GUILT ENTERTAINED.
Correspondence of TIE EVENING STAR
ROCKVILLE, Nd, July g.
John Hart, the colored man who was arrested on
Monday, near Dickerson station, on the Metropoli-
tan branch, charged with having committed an
outrage last March on the person OF a white girl
named Molle Walters, the daughter OF George
walters, living near the mouth OF the MOnocacy,
was brought to this place and incarcerated in the
Jail Monday evening. Through the courtesy OF
Sheriff John 81. kelchner, The STAR correspondent
obtained an interview with the prisoner. When
the party with the correspondent reached the cell
OF Hart he was found crouching in a corner, appa-
rently frightened, as there had been rumors OF
lynching him. He, however, came to the bars, and
was seen to be a light mulatto. with rather good
cOuntenance. He Is f1ve feet ten inches in height,
weighs 1S5 pounds, and he says he is about IS
years old In reply to questions he stated that he
was arrested at the house OF Mr. Sellman, with
whom he had worked for the last seven or eight
years, and was taken TO the house OF MI. George
Walters, the girls father, where Squire Donohue
held an examination. He said that MT. Walters
advantage Of the girl in March last. Hart
said the girl stated that he had as
saulted her while down In the kitchen at her
fathers house, and she also said that she never
condition, because she was afraid IL her father
learned 1t he would kill him fllart.) When closely
questioned, Hart said that the truth would come
out. and that no longer ago than saturday he had
learned that while last March a woman neighbor
OF the girl was sick with the measles, the girl
nurSed her. At that time certain married man
became intimate with the girl, and, somebody hav-
ing told this mans Wife, IL was neces airy that the
crime should be laid on third person. They had
put 1t On him {Hart.) He stated that he was born
and raised near Port Tobacco, In Charles county,
Nd, and had lost his wife during the war. He had
known the complainant since she was baby, hav-
ing worked seven or eight years for her father.
The people in this vicinity were much enraged at
1rst, and threats OF lynching were openly made,
which DeggeS was hung for similar ofTense three
years ago, but the delay OF the girl In making
charges had the effect OF allaying excitement An
examination into the circumstances or the case
made Monday by some OF the citizens S1b rosa, and
had 1t been an undoubted case OF outrage, Hart
would have been strung up.