Evening star., 1886-06-17
Local Notes.

Free Grace lodge, No. 1343, @. U. O. OF O. F.,
has elected Past WorshipIul Grand Master w
III. A. Young delegate 10 the b. NJ. c. at Phila-
delphia in October, ana z. n. F.'s Rev. William
Gibbons and Leroy Harvey delegates to the
The Women's Foreign Missionary society Of
morrow evening on the Lady OF the Lake. The
boat leaves at $50 p. IN.
DTS J. L. Johnson h II. A. kleinschmidt ].
W. II. Lovejoy, n. g. E Elzey, F. Baker. q. L.
Magruder and ]. B. Hamilton as managers
have filed a certificate OF the incorporation OF
The Company OF the Medical Department OF
Charles w. Fox, a bookbinder in the Gov
ernment Printing Office, was arrested yester'
day by Detectives Block and Raft on charge
ofselling lottery tickets, and ne gave bonds for
his appearance on Tuesday next
AN ALLEGED HOTEL THIEF ARRESTED -
Yesterday Lieutenant Arnold arrested a
colored man named Joseph Williams, en-
ployed at the National hotel. on = charge OF
stealing jewelry from room in that hotel. and
held him on suspicion. 1t Is charged that he
entered the room occupied by Misses Clara and
Ida Toney, sisters-in-lawof Congressman Oats, OF
Alabama, and stole breastpin set with
diamonds and other jewelry, all of the value OF
about $500. The officer states that when ar
rested the boy was trying % dispose OF the
jewelry for $3.50 The young ladies to-day
Identified the jeweiry AS belonging to them.
ing were the readings al the signal office to-day:
a. M, rs; a. m. az: IL a. M, SO; p. N =.
ss; maximum, ss; minimum, "A
TWELVE FINE HOUSES TO BE BUILT.-Nr
Geo. f. Emmons of b. II. Warner a Co. took
out permit to-day for b. III. Warder TO build
twelve houses on the corner OF 2Ist and r
streets and on X street, between 21st street
and Connecticut avenue northwest. The
houses are to divided into six white marble
and six brown stone fronts, and will contain
eleven rooms each, cellars and bath and but
ler's pantry, and will be finished in frst-class
style, embodying several new ideas as to in
terror arrangement of stairs and sleeping apart
ments, and will be departure in the line OF
buildings.
RoBBERIEs REPoRTED.-Wiiliam H. Shields,
No. 2OOO Columbia terrace, reports stolen from
his person while asleep near the corner OF 2lst
and Z streets northwest, last Saturday night q
silver watch aud chain worth SO. William
Carroll, 400 o street alley, reports stolen from
his person a silver watch and chain worth So.
ports stolen from her trunk $40. Elizabeth
johnson, 522 10th street, reports that an en-
ploye embezzled % OF her money.
A HoMEsIcK BUFFALO GALA live buffalo
calf wat tied to . tree in the Smithsonian
grounds to-day, and spent its time fighting dies.
The calf arrived last night, and was the rrst
instaiment Of the collections made by Mr.. VIM.
I. Hornaday, OF the National Museum, In his
recent trip to Montana. 1t was brought here
from Montana in a large crate by Mr., A. II.
Forney, who accompanied Mr. Hornsday on
his expedition. The calf which is dye or six
weeks old, looks quite homesick.
CALEB CusHING's WASHINGTON REAL Es-
TATE.-Yesterday, John II. Cushing filed bill
OF VIM Cushing, setting out that he is helr-at-iav
of Caleb Cushing, and that while Caleb Gushing
was in Spain in 1915 he decided certain lots in
this city to VIM. Gushing In order that he might
manage them rs trustee, but that VIM Cush-
ing had no beneficial interest in these lots. He
asks that the court divest the heirs OF Vim.
In the plaintiff, to whom he claims they be-
long.