Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-08-11
AFFAIRS IN.GEORGETOWN
A Peculiar Shooting Accident to Officer
Eli Riley.
Dhaptdnted Grnve Ysrd-Canal Ar
rivals and Departures-Thcir
Marriage n Surprise.

A peculiar ana painful accident happenes
yesterday to Officer Eli Riley of Tenley-
town. In playing around the front fence
Mr. Riley's little son discovered a loaded
cartridge lodged tightly between the ran
and paling. After trying for. some time
to extrfcate IL he called his father The off,
Ger caught up a stone and began TO care
fully peck at the cartridge, taking care not
10 strike IL in the spot usually reserved for
the trigger. Continued tappings. however.
with stone did the work of a trigger for
suddenly there was an explosion The next
instant Mr.. Riley realized that his hand
had been penetrated by the bullet IL en-
tered near the middle of the palm. and.
pioughing through the heshy base of the
thumb. cut a shallow track for some dis
lance up the wrist, and then glanced of
into space. No piece of the bullets copper
case could be found. The muscles of the
hand have become so much affected that
Mr. Riley Is able to move his fingers only
with extreme difficulty No one knows ex-
aotly how and when the cartridge became
lodged in the fence, though IL Is supposed
IL was unthinkingly pushed IN bv some N
those who carelessly hang about the neigh
bcrhood.
Diisptaated, Affair.
The Presbyterian. graveyard is nov so
IN tht clutches OF a wild. ill.,
smelling vegetation that IL is with the
greatest difficulty a passage may be made
through ii. The weeds struggle with each
other even across what was once graveled
walks. All along. the fences the refuse mat
ter of a thickly -pcpulated square Is b.ine
dumped. Tombstones are obscured mounds
completely hidden. According TO the recorJs
IN the possession of Mr.. Burdette formerly
the sexton Of the cemetery there are nearly
two thousand bodies still there Hardly
INC hundred have been removed since the
order or the authorities TO cease making
interments and abolish the cemetery. No
removals have been made for nearly six
months Fences are down everywhere
Canal Movements.
The following boats laden with coal left
Cumberland on the sth for Georgetown:
Consolidation. No. II, Capt Hun: No. LA.
Capt Bowers: No. 1o4. Capt Benner: Judge
McComas. Capt Gloss: No. LIZ, Can't.
swain M E. Grove. Capt. Little: ]. K
SHAW. Capt. Bowers; Park Agnew, Capt.
Lack, A. Reed, Capt. Wright; c. r. r.
lieale. Capt. Hun :, No. ia Can't Quinn. O.
X Lord. Capt. Heb: No. liz, Capt. Baker:
X u Johnson. Capt. Craemer; Little Fred
Capt Hall Several others left on the same
all with 2.ls5 tons of the soft fuel of the
Cumberland ana Georges creek regions
The coal Is consigned TO Meredith. VIM
snip q Company and John Z. Agnew a Co
Notes -------. .1s
Mr.. William Fritch and Miss Marion Raw
have surprised their friends by getting mar
RED The ceremony took place some DAYS
ago at the Methodist Church, corner 9Th
and streets. Mr--aud Mrs Fritch will re-
side In Washington. On Cleveland avenue
rhe parkings Of the western streets of
the town are becoming overgrown with
grass and weeds. .-tr
Inc contract for excavating and grading
The grounds for the athletic club al George-
,o"n Coiieee and removing the old manslon
Mds awarded TO Mr.. BARLEY Thornton
The work will be pushed