Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1888-09-15
District Govern memt Affairs.

Building Inspector Entwisle has written to the
building. He says the building has been very
much Injured by water in the basement. The
damage, he says, Is due to R-inch sewer pipe,
which is obstructed In several places. He recon-
mends that the sewer department connect this
inner sewer with the large brick sewer In the
roadway.
VIM. H. wilkes and Charles Tack have been ap-
pointed additional prvates on the police force.
The Washington Brick Machine CO. have petl-
Trinidad avenue, from Boundary street north 70 n
street, as they contemplate building q number OF
houses upon that avenue, and suggest that some
arrangement. be made whereby the cost or the
main be derited from q tax on abutting property
on the west line Of the avenue.
The Commissioners are In receipt OF q commu-
nicaton from the ILLINOIS state Board OF Agricul-
ture inviting them to appoint a commitlee con-
sisting OF three butchers, who shall select one
Fat stock Show which Is TO be held In Chicago at
the Exposition building from November IL 70 the
oath. Six hundred dollars Will be offered in prizes
" the butcher most sklled In killing and dressing
The Commissioners have receiveda petition from
the properly owners on and 4sa M street. streets north.
north side OF X street, between New jersey avenue
and 4th street; also, one on the corner Of 4th and
Place, between 4 street and Boundary.
The Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Co. have
made application TO the District &C SSopmissioners
railroad purposes on square 695, near GARFIELD
Park, and also q freight house square 493. be.
missioners have refused the permit as being con-
trary TO the building regulations
District Chemist Richardson has analyzed a
sample OF water from the pump at 18th and n
streets which was reported TO be In bad CONDITION.
and found 1t toleraoy good drinking water.
A stag HOnnd for lru. Clevelana.
From the New York World. to-day.
when the steamship Colorado. OF the wilson
line OF ocean steamers arrived at her dock foot of
I'd street. Hoboken, yesterday morning, the most
noticeable thing on board was magnincent-look.
ing Russian stag hound Chief Orncer Halsworth
he was trsnsSipped At Hui, EnSiSnd. fos uis snis
country. He came from the Russian court &C Sd.
Petersburg. The dog IL one OF the nnest OF his
An Associated Press dispatch says the animal
was sent here BY q United states consul
ssanley's Anxious Frienaa.
nMsWRD xRHoRrs MAKING m LONDON 10 sgxp out
oBAkCn PARTY.
The murder OF Major Bartteloc I'm the Congo
country has determined 6tanleyS friends in Lon
don 70 make renewed efforts TO discover and rescue
the famous explorer, II he is alive. It is argusd
that Major Bartselot has been murdered In ths
comparatively peaceful region Of Aruwimi stan
leyb chances In an absolutely unknown country
are not such as 70 make his safe passage through
For some time . movsmsnt has been On loot 70 Or
ganlze Stanley relief expedition entirely tnde-
Emin Bey, though Il the English expediuon -
comes an established fact ls VIII nkely cooperate
With the 0eFman and the oegani1em are csssang
about to nnd . competent man into whose hAnos
70 tntEnsc the lea0efSh1p.
cerning the death oe MAJ Bartts1os ~ the ArAns
nom Tie susplc1on q 0oochery. H 20 tSey
mn diapsscS sssasd sSss Mppoo TlD We e Mysa-
give The socond ooe ooo6 mol Indicate wneso~
he u now there e has reeurne0 % eean1ey lAu
Capk Deckse stasss nom nrve.els O eunoay
Icg IL Cong0 he pGopo1sA win so m, p ex-
ploge tho horthogh an1 eo1eg1 yspooo g u
coogo ntAta u6 hoDo4 0As - VA oeof eome-
01I9 q oeaalog.