Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1888-05-16
District Government Affair.

VITAL STATISTICS
Health O1icer TOwnshend's report for the week
ending May IL shows: Number OF deaths. 60
white, 80; colored. 33. Death rate per !. 600 per
a sI,Gn White Vi loao; coored total popu:
age, and IL over sixty years The principal causes
Oh death were: Ger bro-spinal meningitis .; con-
cough, 1; diphtheria, l. Births reported: l2 White
males, 10 white females; z colored males, ID col
0rei females. Marriages reported: IA white, 8
colored
The Commissioners have about wound up the
issuing OF liquor licenses for the current year
although quite number OF applications are hung
up because OF certain technicaties or the lack OF
signatures The anxious ones, however never
cease 70 work up such matters as may be lacking
In their cases, and every day or two the major OF
police has conference with Commissioner Webb
on the subject OF one and another OF these cases,
and once and while the necessary requirements
the license issued.
BUILDING PERMITS
W. Pran has Deen granted q permit to build
an addition to the Hotel Arno, at cost OF $50 1000
The addition consists OF a lve-story and base.
ment brick dwelling, % feet front, 1O3 feet deep
WIN; kerkus Is the architect L {. Loomis, one
Trott, one brick dwelling at 400 street north
west, $500. Mrs. II. Campbell, two brick dwell
Lewis one brick Dwelling at S24 18th Street north.
east, 81 500 w. w. Cordell, one frame dwellin g
on jackson street, Anacostia, 500: Chas Schnei-
ley, between 4th and 5tn streets, 81, 700 Charles
Shaefer, one brick bakery In rear $40 and $780,
street southwest. 5000.
SEWER TO BH LAID.
In accordance with the wish OF property-owners
in square $50, between 1lth. l2th b and c streets
southeast, sewer will be laid in alleys In said
square when funds become available under future
appropriations, the work to be done under the
compulsory permit system"
CONSOLIDATING TELEGRAPH LINES
The Commissioners have determined to consoli
date the two lines of telegraph poles on the Bunker
Hill road, and locate the united line on the
north side of SAID road. one line belongs
and the western Union Company disclaims any
interest therein. Investigation win be made TO
determine the legal Responsibility Of the Western
upon shall be done In the case.
MIsCkLLANEOUs
s,oners the LOADING and unloadn9 or
OF the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company on
LIST street between and streets northeast, and
condition OF the street be Improved
Capt: Symons has received numerous complaints
regarding the slow action Of the Anacostia draw
bridge, and Is now looking into the subject with a
view OF remedying the diiiicuity.
BoOgher. by MI. J. J. Johnson, filed suit against
THE EVENING STAR Newspaper Co, for libel laying
the damages at S3O,oOO He states he has been
samuel Blodget, deceased, and charges that the
intending to injgre his pub
satisfied with Mr.: Booghers disposition OF their
money; came TO washington and requested Mr..
Morrison to deal with them directly" (meantng
that the plaintiff had converted 70 his own use the
moneys advanced him 70 prosecute the Blodget
claim, and that the Larmores were suspicious OF
his honesty and integrity. "Early In 1857 Mr..
Morrison learned that BoOgher had received nearly
$4,000 from the Larimores for the purpose OF de-
fraytng the expenses OF prosecuting the Blodget
claim, and that he (Boogher), according to his own
statement, had only paid over TO Morrison about
$1,000. laesning that plaintiff had frsudulently
difference between $4,000 and e, 900 and had
confessed tho same) .That Blodget and Boogher
had issued bonds based on the Blodget estate, and
that such bonds had been disposed OF wherever
they could be sold or hypothecated between the
Atlantic and Pacinc." cleaning that the plaintiff
bad consp,red VITA one Lorin blodget 70 cheat and
defraud the hetF1 Of 6amuel Blodget ny cucumber.
ing the estate with fraudulent bonds issued and
disposed Of 70 countless innocent holdersl
Oyyyouns HDcrHD.-At meeting OF the stock.
holders a tn Virginia Brick Co &C the once one
+ street. NORTHWEST the following o0hcers were
elected: PTeuI6ent lewis Clephane; vice-prs11-
dent, B. n warner; eocseeaSy, ~. H Dempsey;
treasurer and MANAGE ChaA y Pearson; anoleoe,