National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-08-30
THE BREvITY BASKET.
Filled with Frief Mention OF Many
Minor Events OF Yesterday.

Filled with Frief Mention OF Many
Minor Events OF Yesterday.
Tho advertised list of delinquent tax
payers will be issued next week.
Judge James has returned to the city
and will hold the orphans court to-day.
The charge against Charles Clarke of
receiving o stolen watch was dismissed in
tho police court yesterday.
Alico Thomas kissed Susan Donowick's
husband last Monday and Susan thumped
Alice, for which she paid 81 in tho police
court yesterday.
John Powell, bricklayer had his legs
crushed by bricks falling on him at tho
pension office yesterday. He was re-
moved to his home in Alexandria.
Henry Ginger was charged in tho police
court yesterday with kceping dangerous
dog, which bit Rosetta Wells, colored
woman. The man was ordered by Judge
Mills to kill tho dog.
Dorsey Fultz, q colored boy, will spend
his minority In the district reform school.
He was sentenced there yesterday by
Judge Mills for cutting William Adam
son, a white boy, in the arm.
L. w. Whitaker, chairman of tho
republican executive committee, was
granted permission yesterday to swing n
banner over Pennsylvania avenue bo-
tween Fourteenth and Fifteenth streets.
The young mems Bible class, No. 90, Of
tho Christian church, gives its seventh
moonlight excursion twenty-five miles
down the river and return on the steamer
Corcoran on tho evening OF Wednesday,
Sept. 3.
Tho West Virginia republicans are re-
questod to call ut the office Of Maj. It.
Games, in the 10 Droit building, and
leave their names to secure the half faro
rates homo and return in October and
November.
Tho district attorney has instructed
Drs. Godding and Williams to examine
into the mental condition of Patrick
Fechan, who assaulted two of his fellow
workmen in tho government printing
Office last week.
The printers of the Free Press, q weekly
publication, refused to go to work on
Thursday on account of non-payment of
wages, and g. A. Pearce, one Of them. en-
tered suit to recover SlS, and swore out
an attachment against the material in tho
Office.
Some boys walking along b street, near
Seventh southwest, about $3.50 o'clock
Thursday evening heard thief moving
about in new house. The boys got an
old carbino and club and started ON q
hunt for the intruder. He was short
thick-set colored man and escaped over u
back fence. Nothing was missing from
the house.
The congregation of tho Union Wesley
NJ II 81. L.,
as the Second Colored Wesleyan Metho-
dist church. have elected the following
trustees for the ensuing year: David
Banks, Andrew c. johnson, Charles
Chase. William Henson, Miles Simmons,
John jackson. John Watkins, Albert
Smith, and John IL. Mason.
The case of Mr.. T. Humphrey Brooke,
formerly proprietor of tho Washington
Times, charged with obtaining money un-
dor false pretenses from Mr.. Frank AID
rich, an account of whose transactions
was published in yesterdays REPUBLIC
CAN. was called in the police court ycster-
day and continued to next Wednesday,
bail being fixed ut 5000. Brooke found
no bondsman and was locked up at the
seventh precinct station house.
In the case of Henry Muller and others,
Prussian heirs to the estate of the late
Charles Muller. of this district, against
Thomas L. Waggaman, trustee, for dis
tribution of the estate, Mr. Waggamap
has put in his answer. He admits gem
orally the truth of some Of the allegations,
asks for proof of others, and says he Is
willing to pay over the money when the
claimants establish the Justice Of their
claim.
In the two cases of Bierman, Heidel-
1 berg & Co. against Moses F.-Eiseman, the
clothier, in which Justice Hagner dis
missed the attachmentsN and fixed the
appeal bond at $4,000 in each case, ME-.
n. Ii. Miller, as counsel for the plaintiffs,
has filed a motion for reduction Of the
bond. He says that since the quashing
of the writ Of attachment all Of the prop
erty taken by the United States marshal
has been replevied by Mr.. Eiseman. who
has made an assignment. transferring the
stock to Zachariah Tobriner as assignee.
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