The Washington critic., 1889-01-17
CITY NEWS PARAGRAPHS.

The Six O'Clock Club will dine and dis
cuss ''Robert Elsmere' tonight
Tine X. +. Il. Society reunion will take
place at IIarvey's tomorrow night.
Charles Sumner Post No. 0, &. a. r., In
stalled their new officers last night.
The new Gurley Presbyterian Sunday
School will be opened tomorrow night.
The Blaine Invincible Club met and in
spected their new uniforms last night.
The Technicher verein celebrated its first
anniversary at Edels Hall last night with
dance.
The Ideal Minstrel Troupe gave an inter
esting performance at Carroll Institute Hall
last night
"A Raymond excursion party Of about one
hundred persons will arrive at Wizards next
Saturday.
"A large audience attended the |. o. o. f.
Canton entertainment at the National Rifles
Armory last night
DR. Charles H. Hagner has been chosen
medical examiner Of the Clerks Mutual Bene-
fit Association.
"A fair for the benefit OF st. Augustine's
(colored) Catholic Church will be opened on
the 1ltli of next month,
Professor j. W. Chckering lectured at
All Souls Church last night on the botany of
the Roam Mountain regions.
Colonel Samuel Strong, who was reported
as having mysteriously disappeared, is said to
be on a farm of his down the river.
e F. Droop has issued handsome souve-
mir portraits Of Beethoven, Abt, Brahms, Wag-
ner Listz, Mozart, RuDinstein and other
composers.
Colonel G. p. Lincoln, and not p p.
Lincoln, MS published yesterday, is the re-
Gently reelected president Of the Michigan
State Association.
Mrs. Lucy A Leggett delivered q lecture
on "Lessons of Literature" at the Women's
Educa tional and Industrial Union, SIG
Eleventh street, last night.
Albert Frank, white man about 40 years
old, fell in fit at the corner Of Ninth and l.
streets northwest last night. lie was taken
to his home, 935 street, by Officer Jones.
-Four insane soldiers, Frederick Schultz,
Joseph Wongard, Gebhardt Meyer and Henry
High, were sent to St Elizabeth's yesterday
They were brought from the Hampton Home
by Wardmaster Bagley.
George Northridge, Jimmie Childs, jim
mie Keenan,, Billy Young, Reddy Kenny,
Jimmie Gordan. james Foster and number
of Others will give sparrlng exhibition in
Alexandria tonight
The trustees OF the Washington Brick
Machine Company have elected Il. L. Hol-
brook, president; A. Pollok, vice-presdent;
b. White, treasurer
The new officers Of the Grand Lodge, /.
o. NJ. Of the District of Columbia Were in
stalled al Red Mems Hail last night The re-
mainder OF the session was spent in consider
ing the revised constitution OF the order.
Samuel ID. Sewel OF Rocllhall, Kent
County, Md, has been missing for over two
weeks. His father Captain George T. Sewell,
is in this city trying to find him. Samuel Ii
is years old, blonde, and weighs 140 pounds.
AN electric light wire came in contac,
with an iron platform on + street last night
and several people who stepped on the plat
form received shocks serious enough to knock
them down. The wire was cut by an en-
ploye of the company.
George d. Cantine, messenger in the
Treasury Department. was taken i'll at the De
partment yesterday afternoon and died soon
after being removed to the Providence Hospi-
tai. lie lived at 1924 Thirteenth street, and O
post mortem examination was held to-day
"A partial eclipse of the moon occurred
last night and would have been visible in thi:
city but for the rain. IL will occur again to-
night. The eclipse is,visble generally through
out the United States, Europe, Africa
America and on the Atlantic and Pacific
oceans.
Robert Holiday and w. II. Gray have
sued the District for $500 and 81 800 re-
spectively, because, when their houses on L
street, near Twenty-tlrst caught dire last
month, the ire-boX was out of order and sc
the engines did not arrive as soon as they
should
The Ladies' Relief Corps last night in
stalled officers as follows; President, Mrs
Eliza Taskey; senior vice-president, Mrs
Mary Howard; junior vce-presldent, Mrs
Emily Gordon; secretary, Miss Flora Cole
treasurer, Mrs; Francis Freelinghuysen; con
ductor Mrs. Fanny Grady; guard, Mis-. Jose
phine Fowler; chaplain, Mrs, Eliza Green; as
sistant conductor, Miss Rosie Grady; assistan
guard Miss Caroline Allen.
The following board Of managers Of tn
National Safe Deposit Company for the ell
suing year have been elected Benjamin L
Suydcr, Il. Francis Riggs, Charles g. Glover
Henry A. Willard, Albert J.. Sturtevant, Joh
+. Rodgers and John u. ParlSe. The boar
has elected the following officers; President
Benjamin p Snyder yice-president, Charlie
q, Glover; treasurer, e. Francis Riggs; secrt
tary, Albert L. Sturtevant.