The Washington critic., 1885-09-26
SOUTH WASHINGTON.

Lewis King, a mechanic residing with his
wife at No. PA Seventh street southwest,
has for some time been drinking heavily,
seldom putting in his appearance at home,
His wife, with newborn baby, was left
with few pennies to get along as best she
could. She struggled bravcly against the
adverse circumstances until she became
prostrated with sickness, and having no
one to aid her was unable to either send for
assistance or attend TO the wants OF herself
and child. This state of affairs lasted sew
eral days, when the child died, tits supposed,
from inanition, and the mother, who was
too i'll to leave her bed, was left alone with
the corpse to await death to relieve her OF
her sufrerings. Last night one of the
neighbors forced way in the house and
found the half-dccomposcd body of the
child in the cradle and the mother in bed,
too weak to raise herself, The police were
Informed of the circumstances and the coro-
ner, who was notified ordered the child's
body to be removed. Kind ncighbors came
to the assistance Of the mother, but her life
is despaircd Of.
About two weeks ago Allen, the 1l-ycar-
old son of Special Officer John Scott, on
duty at the Baltimore & Potomac Depot,
who resides at No. BAG X street southwest,
while playing in the street, accidentally ran
n nail into his foot. No attention was paid
the wound, which was thought to be slight,
as 1t began healing in a few days. Last
Wednesday the little fellow was taken i'll.
DIR. d. II. llaZen was summoned and found
that the unfortunate hoy was suffering
from lock Jaw which had advanced to such
a state that the case was hopeless. The suf-
ferings Of the lad were intense, and were
only relieved by death, which occurred last
night.
Mrs. Laura Sheckelford, residing on c
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Sixth southwest, reported to the police sew
eral days ago that $04 had been stolen from
the bureau drawer in her bedroom. Last
night about IL o'clock Officers Lewis and
Howell arrested Emma johnson, colored,
who was employed as n servant in the house,
and charged her with the theft. She at first
denied the charge, but afterwards acknowl-
edged stealing the money, and that she had
given it to Mary Coleman, friend, to keep
for her The officers at once went to Cole
mans house and placed Mary and her hus-
band, Robert Coleman, under arrest. On
being searched at the station S5S was found
on Mary and S165 on Robert. The three
were sent to the Police Court this morning.
The women were held for the grand jury
ON charge of grand larceny, and the man
for receiving stolen property.
James w. Briscoe, a colored man %
years of age, residing at No. Alb Eighth
street southwest, while in the back yard of
his residence yesterday afternoon, was taken
with hemorrhage of the lungs and died
before medical assistance reached him. He
was employed as messenger in the Dis
trict buildings.
Rev. Father j. V. Edelin, of st. Dominc's
Church celebrated the cd year of his birth
ut the residence of Mr. William johnson,
No. 633 + street southwest, last evening.
The Father was the recipient of many hearty
congratulations and several useful pres
ents, to which he responded in terms that
expressed his felicity of the occasion.
''The Mysteries Of Atheism,n the second
OF the series of discourses, will be delivered
by the Rev. Robert Nourse at the Taberna
Gle tomorrow evening. No admission fee
is charged, only those who attend are re-
quested not to contribute less than 10 cents
to the collection.
The funeral of the late William b. Browne
| took place from st. Dominic's Church this
morning at 10 o'clock and was largely at
| tended. The services at the church con
sisted of requiem mass, at which Father
| Logan was the celebrant. The floral dis
| play was profuse and elegant, among the
tributes being an appropriate design in
choice cut flowers from his late colleagues
| in the State Department; also broken col
umn from the Endowment Relief Associa-
ton, of which he was secretary. The pail
bearers were from the board of directors of
the association, and were Messrs Il. j..
Burtt, W. H. Baum, w. II. II. Church. X.
| +. Bartle, j. j. Dermody and W. A. Thomp-
son. At the conclusion of the ceremony
the cortcge proceeded to Mt. Olivet Gene
terry, where the interment took place.
ALL clothing we sell is manufactured at
our factory, II S. Howard ST., Baltimore,
| Md IiSpmnn BROS. cor. 9TH and H..
| nn MOTT he deceiyed ask for and take only