Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-08-01
ABOUT GEORGETOWN
Still Making an Effort to Find
Swift's Murderer.
TRAPFIC0N THE CANALS GOOD.
Police Court Cases of Offenders
Living in Georgetown.
MANY MINOR MATTERS

for the colored people Of Rosslyn, Falls
Church and all the villages about town.
And two well-known attorneys. who have
summer residences in the Old Dominion,
thinking they could probably get a clew
that would lead to the capture Of the Swift
murderer, spent two or three hours last
Saturday night walking among them and
engaging in conversation on the subject
whenever an opportunity offered. Nothing
definite however, about the murderer was
learned
Real Estate Matters.
Georgetown's real estate transactions
yesterday amounted to $6,3N.50. T. o.
Ebaugh sold to w. X. Swan and L. M.
Saunders. for s., 307.50, the west one-haf Of
and J. ]. Wilmarth and ]. H. Gordon trans
ferred to Geo. w. Wise. for $1,000, parts OF
lots l7S and l79. Bealrs addition, located at
streets
The property holders of Harlem. the well
built up tract lying between the Conduit.
tributing reservoir, are hesitating about
further improving the place by the erection
Of buildings; owing to the fact that the
streets. which must inevitably pass through.
have never been run. and they do not care to
run the risk of putting their homes at the
thoroughfares.
Traffic ON the Canal.
There have been no more arguments of
late among canal men on the subject of
the mule versus electricity" for the rea-
son that the former has lost his cham
pions. and by the time the Erie experiments
have proved successful the animal will be
looked upon for canal purposes as an an
tediluvian.
Boats to arrive at Georgetown yesterday
Meredith, Winship and Company-No l02
!V4 tons; J. X. CoWen, 103 tons; Lafayette,
Ridley, 1O1 tons. and H. CLANCY, los tons
The Florence was the only boat to clear
Boats to clear Cumberland for George
Sponge, ios tons; No. iss Capt. Carroll Sips S
Grove. Capt Dolly, 80 tons; No. I24. Capt.
Stevens 5. 80 tons: Thee. Dean. Capt. French,
tons; j. J. Alexander Capt Renner los
tons; Judge Douglass. Capt Bowers. 70
tons tons. and Landoun, Capt. r. Williams. 80
The Cattle Market.
At the. Arlington stock yards Monday
ninety cattle were up and sold to butchers
as follows: Best, IA to IL cents; good
IL to cents; medium, "a to 3 IA cents !;
common, to 1-2 cents. One thousand
"a to IA cents; sheep, 10 to 4 cents;
calves. l-2 to 1-2 cents. Twenty cows
with calves, $40 to $40. Market good.
Police Matters.
Garfield Active. a young colored man,
whose friends reside On Herring HILL
has been wanted by the police for a long
| time on a charge of being disorderly and
figuring in crap game. Several times he
was sighted by the police. but it not
until yesterday that, one of the officers
managed to get him. He was near Rock
creek playing crap when the officer saw
him from street car and arrested him be-
| fore he could get away. Three charges
were made against him this morning and
| he was fined SIS or forty-five days on the
| farm. He went down.
Policeman Jett complained against Dan
| lei Benton for alleged disorderly conduct,
| There was disorderly crowd on the street
| a few nights ago and Benton passed them
| on the way to meet his sister. That was
| all he did SO the proof showed, and Judge
| Taylor dismissed the charge
| Walter Hillery, who had been drinking
| Georgetown liquid refreshments, had about
all he could comfortably stand this hot
| weather, and the police picked him up for
his own good. He was given three days
in which to get the liquor out OF him and
| start life anew.
| DrThomas ]. Jones, the dentist, has re-
| ported at the seventh precinct the theft of
a gold watch and chain from his residence.
| 3105 NJ street.
| Israel Sedgwick, the colored man who was
| taken Ill with cholera morbus at the cor
| ner of sd and NJ streets yesterday and re-
moved to the Emergency Hospital, died
| there.
Misses Berthe and Lulu Trunnell Of sns
| P street have gone to visit in the Blue
| Ridge mountains.
Dr. Thomas j. Jones is back from Colon
| ial Beach.
Road street between sd and 35th has been
! cut down to correspond with the grade of
| the last named thoroughfare.