Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1886-10-06
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detective office to-day, threw down his badge
belt and clue upon Lieut. Swindell's desk, made
some remarks indicating that he did not care
whether school Kept or not, and .hen passed
out on the street again a private citizen. BY
resigning this way he anticipated & e action OF
the trial board and OF Major Walker only a
snort time. He was before the trial board to-
day charged with ineffcency and with nom
payment of debts. He pleaded guilty to the
&c, go, ouaTse. Awo honths ago ne was required
10 pay $40 month To the property clerk to be
distributed among his creditors but he failed
TO keep the order. The board to-day recon-
mended his dismissal, though they found him
mot guilty" OF the charge OF iuefficency. The
nndlng was very promptly approved oy Major
walker, and subsequently by the District Com
miSsioners.
CONTRIBUTIONS FOR CHARLESTON.
Inc Commissioners have received for the
Charleston sufferers $50 from the Citizens
Protective Association. composed chiefly OF
German citizens, and So from Robert =.
harton.
CHARGES AGAINST POLICEMEN.
=, Inc police trial committee, com posed of Capt.
M. A Austin and Lieuts Kelley and Arnold,
met at police headquarters this morning and
heard the testimony OF a number of witnesses
in the case of Officers Walker aud Skidmore
charged with being in the club house at the
base ball grounds for ffty-five minutes, when
.ney should have been on duty. Testimony
was also heard In the case of Officer McLucas
charged with a similar ofiense, at a different
place and for q shorter time.
BUILDING PERMITS
were Issued to-day by Inspector Entwise as
ioiiows: john Seimon, repair dwelling, 9:S9 h
street northwest; $500 Mrs. NJ knorilon erect
one two-story brick dwelling, corner OF North
SWaplaol ana Patterson streets; 81 800. John
street aud tennessee avenue southeast: So 600
ROBERT Il. Taylor, erect three two-story dwell
lngS, on New Jersey avenue, between and f.
streets southeast; $4,000. Walter III. Acker.
erect one brick dwelling, corner of New Jersey
avenue and street northwest; $1,000. l.. e.
Loomas, erect three brick dwellings,, corner
i2tn and ID streets northeast; $4,000. w. A.
henderson, erect iour brick dwellings on q
street between Sd and Attn streets southeast;
$|,OOO. Thomas A. Griffith, erect back
building, at 2239 18th street northwest; S4Oa
W. j. Jackson, erect one brick dwelling, on 41o
street southwest; $1,000. r w. Tyler, repair
house, 621 East Capitol street; SlOO. p n
DWyer. erect 1--WE two-story frame dwellings on
street, between Delaware avenue and LIST
pair dwelling, isl New YORK es ayenae: a 500 no.
John Grinder, erect two brick dwellings, on Ii
street northeast; $500. Michael Mullan, re-
JOS W. Cornwall, erect blacksmith shop, in
alley between 9th and 10th, Virginia avenue
aud street southwest; $1,000. Baltimore aud
Potomac railroad, erect one frame signal tower
AT Benning S; $500.
VITAL STATISTICS.
The health officers report Tor last week shows:
Number OF deaths, 1O7; white, 81; colored, 49,
Death rate per 900 per annum-white D. 3D.
colored, 34.6.; total population, 2..14. Forty.
thfee We're under years ot age anu II over %
Group, 1; cerebro-spinal meningitis 4; con-
sumption, IL; .iarrhoea, 4; diphtheria, 4;
typhold lever, 4; malarial fever, .; pneumonia,
1; congestion of the lungs. 2; bronchitis, a
Whooplng cough, 1. Births reported-4O white,
10 coiored. Marriages reported-l2 white, Z
colored.
NISCELLANEOCA
Station Keeper w. C. Wilkerson, Of the fourth
precinct, has been appointed an additional pri.
Nale Oh the police force.
Tue District Commissioners, on the recon.
mendation of the major of police, have de-
termined to discontinue the granting of per-
mits to sell on the Streets
Mr.. w. &. Dodge calls attention to the neces-
sity Of placing gas lamps in the alley In square
TBS.
A number of property owners on NJ street,
between I'd and Attn streets southeast, petition
Tor a sewer.
DIR. j. b. Moore complains of the dumping OF
of1ai from sewer traps on square GA, near LIST
street.
On the recommendation OF Major Walker
Private Thomas Britt Was to-day made a
mounted officer, vice Private w. Ii. White dis
missed, and Alex. Hurd was appointed q nrst-
class private, vice White.
Transfers OF Real Estate.