Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-01-09
The Columbia Hospital.
ANNUAL MEETING OF THE DIRECToRs-rH


yANCY IN THE BOARD FILLED.
The annual meeting of the board of directors
of the Columbia hospital was held last even
ing. Officers to serve for the ensuing year
were elected as follows: Rev. Rush r. Shipper,
president; Gen. Townsend, first vice-president;
John I. Mitchell, second vice-president; DIR. P.
J. Murphy, surgeon in charge; Drs. James E.
Morgan, Stephen C. Richey and - Hedge,
advisory board; Mrs. Thorn, matron.
To fill the vacancy on the board, caused by
the death of Thomas j. Fisher, Edward J. Steli-
wagon was elected; to fill the vacancy caused
by the death of Rev. DIR. Giesy, the present
rector of Epiphany church, Rev. DIR. McKim
was chosen.
THE BoorH-BARRETT ENGAGEMENT IN BALT1-
MoRE.-The engagement of Mr. Edwin Booth
and Mr.. Lawrence Barrett and their strong
tragedy company at Albaugh's Holiday street
theater, Baltimore, will begin ON Monday
evening next. AS usual, large number of
seats for the seven performances have been
placed on sale in Washington. and in addition
arrangements have been perfected by which
people who purchase seats for Tuesday and
Friday evenings will be taken to Baltimore and
brought back here by special train free OF any
extra charge. On Tuesday evening The
Merchant of Venice" will be the bill. while on
Friday ''Othello" will be given, each with all
the elaborate scenery and stage effects which
made the Booth-Barrett productions of these
plays in New York memorable. Seats are ON
sale at Miller d Herbert's. 1417 PENNSYLVANIA
avenue. On the other evenings of the engage
ment the following plays will be given: Mon
day, Julius Cesar; Wednesday, ''Othello;"
Thursday, Hamlet Saturday matinee, .'Mer-
chant of Venice" Saturday night, 'Yoricks
Love" and THE FOOLS Revenge"
FOUND IN THE WRoNa RooM.-A genteel-
looking man alighted from the Riggs house
carriage last Friday evening and registered in
the hotel as &c. A. Constantine, Boston. Mass"
He was assigned to a room on one of the upper
floors. Yesterday, while the guests of the
house were at dinner, the bell boy found Con-
stantine in a room near his own which he had
entered by means of pass-key obtained from
one of the employees. The intruder was placed
under arrest and held in custody until the
arrival of Detectives Mattingly and Wheeler
when he was taken to the first precinct station
and locked up on suspicion. He had cents in
his pockets From the information received
by the officers they think the prisoners name
is Edw. A. Gildea and that he Is from San An
tonic, Tex. Among his effects was found a
program OF an entertainment given at the Bos-
ton reformatory, which leads the officers to be-
lieve that he was once an inmate of that insti-
tuition. He is held at the station until he can
be further investigated.
SAYS He BoUGHT THE STOLEN WATCH
About month ago, w. H. Palmer of No. I4l4
9th street. went to Albaugh's theater in answer
to an advertisement in The STAR, and obtained
employment as a super to appear in the Mid
summer Nights Dream" After the perform
ances one night Palmer discovered that his
gold watch and chain had been stolen. De-
tectives Carter and Mahon investigated the
case and suspected Harry Sellers, the general
utility man, because he was the first one to
leave the theater after the theft was discovered
Nothing was heard of the watch until yester-
day when Sellers appeared at Burnstine's pawn
shop for the purpose of pawning the watch
Detective Mattingly arrested him. He claims
that he purchased the watch from another su-
per whose name he does not know To-day
in the Police Court the case was continued.
A Boy KILLS ANOTHER AT A CHURCH Doom
A Charleston, s. c., special to the PHILADELPHIA
Press SAYS: Pink Floyd, sixteen years of age,
about the same age, at the door of the Metho-
dist church at Abbeville on Sunday night. The
church was full Of people at the time. FLOYD
accused Sowden with having been drunk at a
church oyster supper a few nights before
This Sowden, who was an active Methodist. re-
scented and struck Floyd light rap on the legs
with rattan cane Floyd drew a large pocket
Floyd seized a brickbat and struck him heavy
blow on the head. Floyd then walked into the
church, where he was arrested.
The seventy-second Pennsylvania regiment
yesterday answered the Gettysburg Battlefield
fling bill in equity asking the court to re-
strain the association from moving the monu-
ment, and to fix a location for 1t. This will
force the association to take action and answer
the bill.
The Norwich, Conn, National bank, incor-
porated in 1876, and having q capital Of e220,-
600, at the annual meeting Of the stockholders
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