Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-09-10
GEORGETOWN.
A POLICEMAN HAS A HA

POLICEMAN HAS HARD STRUGGLE.
James Parker is the name of an amateur
negro pugilist who lives near the Twenty
Buildings and night before last Officer G.
W. Mason was passing along that way he was
overheard to make use of some very profane
expressions. The officer stopped and told him
to be more select in his language. whereupon
Parker suddenly threw ont his fist and struck
the peace guardian a severe blow in the mouth.
Then he ran through q neighboring doorway
and the officer followed. Just as Mr.. Mason
entered the unlighted house his arm was seized
from behind and his baton wrenched from him.
Not stopping to see who had done this, the Off
Ger drew his pistol and pursued the pugilist.
In the next room he WAS encountered and a
fierce hand-to-hand scutfle in the dark ensued.
The pistol was dropped and for some time the
two men struggled hercely for the supremacy.
Inc otlcer finally overpowered Parker and was
bringing him toward the door when the shirt
by which the prisoner was held came off and
Its owner broke, ran and escaped, but yester
day he thought it would go easier with him in
the court If he surrendered, and he did SO. The
man who wrenched the club from the officer
grasp Is unknown.
RESCUED FROM DROWNING.
VIM. Cassie. a white boy sixteen years old.
was bathing in the Potomac yesterday near the
unlucky neighborhood of the Three Sisters
when he became numbed from the cold,
for help he went down for the first time, but
fortunately assistance was near in the shape of
Jim Wilson, colored man who had been
watching his antics from the bank, and, plung
ing in with clothes and shoes on he swan
boldly toward the sinking boy and grasped him
by the hair. After struggling for some time
Wilson dragged the boy out OF deep water and
harms way. The boy offered Jim 81, all he
possessed, in payment for his kindness, but
Wilson refused to accept it, and ne walked to
his home. several squares away, in cold and
dripping clothes
USs1GTTLY NUIsANCEs.
Resting in Rock creek between the N street
bridge and the canal are two old canal boat
bulls, which protrude several feet above the
water and cause to hang about i'll their vicinity
most all OF the vegetable matter that is brought
down the stream Tho impe dimentS to the
waters free flow have been here ever since the
great freshet of several years ago, when SO
many boats on the creek were damaged and
wrecked. They are not only garbage collectors,
but they are unsiShtiy and the citizens wish
them removed.
A RUNAWAY ACCIDENT.
A horse attached to buggy and driven by
Mr.. Whitside Of Washington took fright yes
terday afternoon on Stoddart street and
started to run. He had not gone far when he
cOlliled with a tree box. The driver was
thrown out and cut about the face. The
slightly injured man soon bound up his
wounds with handkerchief and, after giving
a colored boy who came to his rescue and adj
justed the harness 20 cents, got in the vehicle
again and drove off.
NOTES.
Mr.. George W. King of the First Cooperative
Building Association leaves today for the Blue
Mountain House, where he hopes to benefit his
health.
Mr. ]. William Riley, after a severe spell Of
sickness, is out again.
The Glen Echo cars are again running.
Benjamin Lewis, colored, living on the Con-
duit road. was badly injured yesterday by
barrel of flour falling on him as he was unload
ing wagon on NJ street.