Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-12-07
GEORGETOwN.

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| GEORGETOWN.
| AN ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.
Richard Fraction, native of Pittsburg, Pa,
was found las: night on the street BY Officer
Jett H. an UNCONSCIOUS and seemingly intoxi-
Gated condition. He Vas taken to hie board
| ing house. 1927 Q street, when it was discov-
cred he had taken some suicidal drug DIR. A.
D. Shekell was notified, and after viewing the
man recommended his removal to a hospital
The patrol was accordingly summoned and the
still unconscious man sent to the public sick
house, where the stomach pump was used with
erect. This Is the second time within six
| weeks that Fraction has attempted suicide
ihe first time he chose his boarding house to
die in, but friends discovered his condition be-
fore 1t was too late. Family trouble was the
| cause OF he attempts. 1t seems that a short
time ago the twice weuld-be suicide married
girl who proved unfaithful to him. She took
up WITH another man and positively refused
to return to her husband. This has proved
| upo his mind that he resolved to end the
aches Of both mind and heart. and laudanum
OF morphine was the instrument chosen to
do 1t with.
coLORED BOY SHOT.
On Saturday night Isaac Brooks, q colored
boy about eighteen years old. came near meet
ing an untimely end on 28th street near NJ As
| one OF the seventh precinct officers was patrol
ing his beat on that street he heard three shots
fired in rapid succession and Fastening to the
| fired found Brooks lying on the sidewalk GOV.
cred with blood. Summoning the patrol. the
wounded boy was sent to the station and Dr.
kleinschmidt sent for. After examining the
| victim three bullet holes, one in tho mouth
one in the arm and one in the hip, we're discov-
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the balls were extracted, but the one in the hip
could not be safely probed for. After dressing
| the wounds Brooks was sent to Freedman 8
HOSPITAL, where he is lying in a precarious con-
dition No clue was obtained that viii lead to
the Identity OF the person who fired the Shots
Jim Brooks, brother OF the victim, was sbo.
and killed on Herring Hill about five years
ago. The slayer. man named Walker, WAS ac-
quilted OF the charge brought against him.
Brooks claims that he was shot for trying to
prevent man and woman from having fight,
but the police say that Brooks was walking
| with p woman and the shots we're fired from
across the street by another man. Brooks
claims that he does not know who shot him. but
the police think the shooting was done by one
OF his rivals on account of the girl
LIVELY RUNAWAY.
About 10 o'clock yesterday horse driven by
a white man became frightened SGD street at
| the falling of the vehicles shafts and rushed
| madly up the thoroughfare, threatening death
and destruction to both the driver and all who
came in his way. Officer Brkigt. however,
bravely grasped the rcins near the mouth with
firm hand and succeeded In stopping the
horse.
COMPLAINT OF THE WATER.
The water that is being furnished the people
OF town is the subject Of quite little discus
sion attimes. Some Of the Prospect street resi-
dents say ithas very unpleasant odor, while
at other places it is disgustingly dirty. Then,
again. it is Of thick, white, milky appear
ance and can be drunk to advantage only when
it has been allowed TO settle. 1t often raises q
loud gurgling sound, too, when it is drawn
from the spigots. This is accounted for by
some who say it is caused by the proximity Of
these houses to the pump house and the water
is consequently received with greater force,
thus causing the sound on its escape.
CRAP SHOOTERS ARRESTED.
Dave Mason, Eddy Brown and several other
colored ''laddies'' were INDUCING in a game Of
crap at the corner Of 30th and X streets at 2
o'clock yesterday, when Officer Bloom appeared
on The scene. captured the bones and re-
quested the participants to accompany him to
the little lookup on the canal.
REAL ESTATE SALES.
C. H. Tickling, real estate agent. 1864 32d
street. West Washington. DC, reports the
following sales: For Hannah E. and Josephine
Davis to F. 1. Gregory, lots II to AZ, inclusive,
square &c., Washington, DC, for go, 900.
For Gordon and .Padgett, trustees to Leonard
G. Wood. through Weller Il Repetti. lots 22 to
%, inclusive, and lots 80 to A. inclusive square
937. Washington. DC, for S25,378.2S For
Geo. T. Byns to Daniel johnson. part lot 65.
square 20, improved. Georgetown. DC, for
Il 400. For b. H. Warner 10 p. J. Clarke,
part lot 80, square As. Georgetown. DC, for
81. 900. For Adelaide A. Jones to BENZ. Miller.
sub As, SO. 100. Georgetown. DC. for 81 800.
For +. C. Homiller. rough J. L. Dyer. part
town, DC, for $4,000 10 Annie s. Rick, sub
15S, square IA, improved. Georgetown. DC;
price, "A. 500. For Barber 4 Ross ct al. to
L. S. Trapier, Sub so. square Il2. Cooks Park
Georgetown. DC, for II, 263.G0. To E. j.
Huese sub II, square l07, Georgetown, d. c..
for II 1872. 20. To II. b. King sab Z, square 1O7
Georgetown, DC. for S2,0a673. To Samuel
Bieber, subs 4. 5, 6, 10 and u, square lO7
Georgetown. DC, for Sll, 644.24.
NEW COMPANY ORGANIZED.
A branch Of the Middle States Loan, Build
ing and Construction Company of Hagerstown,
Nd, has been organized in Georgetown, with
| the following prominent citizens officers and
directors: ". Taylor Birch. president: G.. H.
Flcklng, vice president; j. Tickling, secretary
and treasurer J. II. wilson, attorney. and di-
rectors, W. A. Gordon, G W. Offutt, Il. d.
W. A. Custard, Geo. b. Lockhart, C. i. Crop.
ley, W. I. Birch, j. Fickling, c. H. Fickling
and j. II. Wilson. The valuation commit:ee
is composed OF G. W. Offutt, W. A. Custard
and C. H. Tickling
ADDITIONAL MAIL FACILITIES. .-r @.
Georgetown has been provided with addi-
tional mail facilities under the recent additions
allowed to the carrier force. Now there will
be four deliveries n day in the business center
instead Of three, and, as heretofore. two deliy-
cries iii the county and three in those sections
Of the city not considered in the business CEN
ter. Before the LIST OF December the last COL
lection was at $50 pm. ana the last regular
pouch vas dispatched at $50 pm. Now the
last collection is made at pm. and the last
regular pouch dispatched at 6:I5 pm. An ad-
ditional dispatch or increased service has been
put on for Tenleytown and Bethesda, leaving
the Georgetown station at 4:30 pm, which will
| carry The EVENING STAR to residents OF those
towns
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