Evening star., 1885-06-08

D Sent TO JAIL FOR AssAULrINe HIS
BROTHER.-Edward Turner, a young colored
man, appeared in the Police Court this MORN
ing with his eye and lip seriously injured. and
battery. He said that his brother had beat
him, but he did not know what with. His
brother, who had razor i'm his pocket when
piece of wood because he abused his mother
and attempted to strike him. AS the assault
was serious one, and may result i'm the loss OF
sentence of three months and fined him $50
for carrying the razor, in default of three
months on the farm.
FINED FOR ALLOWING GAMBLING IN Hrs
HoUsE.-Saturday night, about 10 o'clock ,Sergt
Duvall, with Officers Shanks and Nugent, ,raided
an alleged gambling room at lilo q ST., occu-
pied by VIM. Clark and arrested Clark as proprie-
tor and five alleged players, who We're held as
Clark was placed on trial, charged with permit.
ting gaming in premises under his control.
Joseph Ware testified that when the officers
raided the room he was playing "f1ve-up" cross
hand for ten cents corner. He said that he
paid the defendant 2l2 cents an hour for the
use of the room. Other witnesses gave similar
testimony. Judge Smell said that the gambling
law was not worth cent, according TO the rui-
ing of the upper court, and he thought that the
present case would not stand If it went there.
He fined Clark S25 and one day in jail.
A SUIT FOR 81 900 FOR Loss OF HUSBAND.
use Of Mary A. Price, against the Baltimore and
Ohio railroad, Judge Merrick delivered the
opinion of the court overruling the demurrer
and remanding the case for trial. Mrs. Price
sues for 81 600 on account of the killing of her
husband an the 10th OF July, 1881, by an en-
gine of defendants at Hyatsville, Md. The de-
fendant admits the fact and raises the questions
whether the statute Of Maryland under which
the suit Is brought had extra territorial force
beyond the limits of the state and whether the
suit can be maintained here. Judge Merrick
said that the U. s. Supreme Court had settled
the point, and therefore he overruled the de-
murrer and remanded the case.
MARRIAGE LIcENsEs.-Marriage licenses
have been issued by the clerk of the court to
j. Allenan and Missouri OBrien; Thomas
Henry Jones and Alice Moore; Benjamin Kidd
and Annie Ragan; Henry Boudurant and sallie
Sapp; James II. Harce and Lulu May Gillian:
Willie B. Hammond and Laura E. w. Lamb;
Joseph A. Dempsey, of Orange county, Va, and
Emma Lee Smith, of Madison county, Va.
DECISION AGAINST A RAILROAD REVERSED.
To-day the Judgment in the case of Thomas
Company was reversed in the Court in General
Term, and the case remanded for q new trial,
Judge James delivering the opionion. Mrs.
when the former was struck by q horse just un-
hitched from q car and knocked down. and
tsid being In a. delicate condition % she was badly
the trial below q verdict Of pa, 900 was given,
and the case went up on exceptions.
INcENDIARIsM.-This morning about one
o'clock the frame house at 11th and streets
northeast, owned by Mary f. Baldwin and oc-
cupied by Milo Sweeney as q wholesale beer
saloon, was discovered to be on fire by Officers
Daley and Clinton, who extinguished the
flames. They found paper and rags, saturated
with oil, stuffed in q crack OF the weather board
Ing, and 1t had just been lgnited.
For STEALING SO BILL-Wm, Eastwood.
the young man who confessed to Detective Cox
that he stole q SO note from James G. Saun-
ders, pleaded guilty to the charge before Judge
Smell this morning, and he got 60 days.
RANGE OF THE THERMoMErkR.-Thef follow.
ing were the readings at the signal offce to day:
8 q M, 72.Os q M, 74.3: IL q m, 1877: 2
p. m, TAO. Maximum, 61.0; minimum, 7i.2.
IOWA EDITORS AT THE WHITE HoUsH.-The
President this afternoon received the deleea-
ton Of Iowa editors In the east room OF the
White House.
PENNsYLvANIA POLITICIANS In the city TO-
day say It is generally believed at Mr.. Hays
home that he win resign the arst assistant post
master generalship, and that Delos Sanders, O
reiauve OF his. VIII be appointed In his place.
GovERNHxNr BANDs AND PRIVATE Musr-
cIANs.-Secretary Whitney has written to
Capt. A. B. Yates. q. g. n, commanding the
United States steamer New Hampahire, I'm re-
gard TO the employment at the Newport Casino
Of the naval band attached TO the training ship.
bands ere permitted to supplement their regu-
lar compen.ation BY ps1vaae employment, the
government cannot permit its employee TO
enter into unfair OomuotftiOn With pFivafa fndi-