Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-06-09

The grand jury to-day made their nnsi report
| for the term and were dascharged with the
thanks OF the court The indictments wsV
| follows William Tippits, ssssuls with tntsnt 20
| kin Lucretia Tippitt; Charles Csans, slias
Thomas Kelly, alias John Raymond, larceny
the Of r. H sss. kas
housebreaking In night, Oscar Turner, do; Han
Jackson, secoId oiIsnss petit i.Icsay; ssn'ess
ceny from the person; Charles johnson, hoe.e
Brun, selling oleomaVarine without label;
MhsIssre' Riley 49, Annie r,snos 90; A,ss or;
alias Winfield, rape on Ella Wheeler:
S; u, CANT, alias Jenny CANT. .s.auiiing oticer
Briscoe, assaulting Officer Hagan.
They also made a written report stating hat
s aa hnd been ~ session SO days s,sIrSsd
state that In no community 10 human life and
property more safely guarded, but the increaee
speak OF the pool room. as having ademorslixing
erect on youth. speaking OF sentences az jail,
MheIe the prisoners are kept In idieness, they
crime, or does il not foster crirnef They also
speak OF the number OF young men who ere
pect 10 be deplored.
THE COURT ON FREE POOL" AND TRADES
UNIONS.
The court thanked the jury for the report, and
said that while he knew nothing of pool he haA
| noticed that the signs free pool are associated
with free lunch AT the liquor ssloons--evk
IDENTIFY tue liquor only il 10 be paid for. He
r remarked too on the boys growing up
without trades. attending dime museums and
other theaters, and reading dime literature,
While some branches OF trade seem to be en-
cleties are In some manner responsible. TOT they
smut out boys from work. lie hoped this sub.
jet would be taken up 10y the public and = rem
edy be applied.
The fishy Odor Of Potomac water.
A COMMITTEE OF PHYSICIANS To INVESTIGATE
THE cACsE-Is 1T FROM VEGETABLE GROWTH
OR FISH sPAwN:-wHAr THE HEALTH oTTI.
GER SAYS.
committee OF physicians consisting Of
| Health Officer Townshend and Drs. Bayne
Magruder, McKim and Kieinschmidt went up
TO the receiving reservoir this afternoon ~
| inspect the water and collect samples of the
same for the purpose Of determining whether
| pr not the fishy odor, 30 much complained OF In
Washington, Is 10 be traced TO that reservoir
In conversation with a SArR reporter Health
Officer Officer Tow. Townshend said he believed The
fact that the past lew weeks has been
the spawning season for the several
thought thai o good deal of the spawn OF nah
had washed down through the conduit and
SSen aisaf STA h, through re pipes Or Town.
Brooklyn had the same fishy odor, and every.
body complained of IL. There II was traced 70
that might be the cause OF the trouble In the
water supplied TO Washington. The health On.
Ger said that while vegetable growth In the
reservoir might have something 10 do With Il,
he believed the fish spawn coming down
through the pipes was the principal cause or the
odor
II is the purpose Of the health officer and his
associate physicians upon the trip 10 make q
thorough investigation. There In another
| source TO which the unpleasant smell OF the
water may be attributed, and which, perhaps,
the Investigating board have not yet thought
| OF The reservoirs null OF schools OF small
| hsh, commonly designated winter shad." They
resemble the shad in formation and color, but
are very small In Size. These fish live In schools,
and often get down against the outlet screens
OF the reservoirs and there die by the Thousand.
| IL is principally i'm cold weather that they die
in such large numbers, but possibly the iucreus.
Ing number OF this species OF 1lsh Ina the reser.
| voir may have something 10 do with the nshy
odor impaired TO the water.
THE CABINET MEETING To-pAY.-Secrctaries
Bayard and Whitney were the only absensees
from the regular cabinet meeting to-day.
News Briefs.
The Gladstone government was defeated In
the house of commons last night ON the second
reading of the budget by a Vote OF 264 TO 252.
The British cabinet yesterday reached q COM
promise on the Irish crimes act sir Charles
bike and Mr.. Chamberlain accepting mod.
fled act 10 run two years
There was no sale at Mrs. Parneils rexidenes
at Bordentown, y. j., yesterday, the claim
| against her property having been settled.
Robbers wrecked a train on the railroad from
kosof TO Roston, Russia, yesterday, ninety
persons being killed Or injured. The robbers
then plundered the passengers.
Walter I: Whippie, aged twenty-four. son Of
Adjutant General Whfppie, of Gov. Hancocks
stall, committed suicide In New York last even
ing by shooting himself He was student at
medical college and is thought TO have been
suffering from the effects OF over study.
1t is now learned that there have been eleven
cases OF Asiatic cholera In Madrid.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. ID. Osterhottz, OF Charleston.
S. e., have died from drinking water from .
Iouled cistern.