Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-02-06
GEORGETOWN.
ATTACKED BIZ NEGRO RoUaHs.


At II o'clock Saturday night. while Motor
man Patrick J. Cooke and Conductor Howard
Bachelor OF electric car No. were awaiting the
minute to start from Union depot at the Dis
trict line, four negro roughs entered the station
and began to make haunting remarks. Howard
said something in return and the whole crowd
fell upon him. Seeing that it WAS time for him
to assist, Cooke started in and was Immediately
attacked with long bladed knife. For some
minutes he managed to ward off the blows
aimed. but a well-directed one caught him at
last in the neck and blood began to show. Then
the negroes made off. leaving their identity I'M
known. Had it not been for Cookies thick
clothing the wound would evidently have been
dangerous one. Around this depot on Satur-
day nights a crowd Of the toughest negroes in
Montgomery county may always be found, and
as they manage to keep just over the line. the
Georgetown officers are powerless to prevent
disturbances.
THE OLD PREsBYTER1AN CEMETERY.
Mr.. E. W. Burdette. the sexton Of the old
Presbyterian graveyard, is about to give up his
position and move to the country, where he will
engage in farming. The old burying ground
is now the subject Of universal condemnation,
as Its torn-up graves, fallen trees. broken tombs
and decayed vegetation give it the most miser-
able appearance imaginable. When its sexton
goes owing to the fact that almost all sites are
now hidden and otherwise obliterated. it will be
extremely hard for a stranger to locate par
ticular grave. Among the bodies which still
remain in the old place uncared for or not
known about are those of John Murdoch, who
died in 1920 possessed of thousands of acres Of
ground north of this place, a large mill and
other valuable property (Murdoch road
named after hin0 Thomas Beall. who is said
to have been the SLAYER OF the last Indian in
these parts; John Kurtz. who at one time was
the president of the Farmers and Mechanics
Bank and of the Potomac Insurance Company:
the mother of DR.. Bohrer a once prominent
physician; the infant son of Baron Bodisco; the
son of once Russian minister. and John Hay
dock. the eccentric stonecutter who laments in
his epitaph the fate of sinners.
AN OLD BRIDGE PLAN
Apropos of the proposed construction of a
bridge across the Potomac near the Three Sis
tiers, Mr.. Charles H. Trunnell has in his pos
session copy of the plans of the suspension
bridge drawn in 1852 by Engineer Charles
Ellet. jr. in compliance with an order of the
board of aldermen and common council of
Georgetown at the time when the old Loudon-
Hampshire road endeavored to enter town.
For these plans 81 900 in cash was paid, but as
a dispute arose between Mayor Addison and
the Dodges as to who should be the president
of the extension the whole thing was settled by
the vetoing of the bill.
GAMBLERS BREAK THE ICE
The enterprise of the parties who run the
gambling dens on the Virginia side of the river
was shown yesterday when they hired one Of
the largest of the tugs employed by the Dis
trict to clean the harbor of ice to break a good
sized channel from the Aqueduct bridge to
their resort. SO that their patrons might be ac-
commodated. Tugs are regularly employed bv
these proprietors to transport those who
anxious to try their luck. Yesterday morning
the Aqueduct bridge was thronged with
people watching the tugs at work. and it
was the opinion of many spectators that
this ice was being broken at the expense of the
government After the channel had been
cleared and was free of floating ice the passen-
ger tugs resumed their regular trips to the
gambling places, and despite the cold weather
they went up every time pretty well crowded.
During the last cold spell when the river was
hard frozen and the ice too thick to break q
good many of the patrons of these places man
aged to secure seats at the gaming tables by
walking up the towpath to the Independent
Ice Conpany's store house and walking across
on tine ice.
s. c. Hurst has sold to Richard Ough for
s765G0 the north half lot 10, block 7. of White
Haven, and A. T. Whiting has sold to A. ].
Miller for $40 lots l and 2, block 20, of Wesley
Heights
Around the fire plug in front of the old NJ
street market for at least twenty feet there is a
solid mass of ice which makes it extremely
dangerous for people who are marketing. 1t is
stated that the plug has been in this broken
condition for three weeks.