Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-02-14
ABOUT GEORGETOWN
Sudden Death of Mrs. johnson While on
Her Way to the Theater.
Funeral of Rev. Mr. ThOmns-An An.
nivcrsary Celebration Other
Interesting Items.

While on her way to the theater last
night. in full enjoyment<o Of her health, and
in company with husband and daughter,
Mrs. Daniel Johnson, wife of the chief en-
gineer of the State, War and Navy Depart
ments, was stricken with apoplexy, which
resulted in death thirty minutes later.
Mrs. Johnson had left her home, 1011 31st
street, but few minutes before, and had
gone hardly one square away, when the
fatal stroke came. 1t was received While
waiting for car In front OF the FARMERS
and Mechanics National Bank. She fell,
and a crowd gathered quickly. She was
carried to the drug store of Groom & Ali,
opposite, and immediate remedies applied.
Drs. Birdsall and ]. F. r. Appleby did all
that medical skill and experience suggest
ed, but their efforts were in vain, and at
about o'clock she died. Her husband and
daughter were at her side. Mrs. Johnson
was about fifty-three years of age. She
spoke only once after receiving the stroke
That was as she fell. The words uttered
were, "Oh, DAM Dan!'-the name of her
husband.
Rev. MIR. Thomas Funeral.
The Rev. Mr.. Thomas (colored) was
buried yesterday at Mt. Zion with ap-
propriate ceremony. His death was due
to the severity of last Thursdays weather.
He had worked at outside lay employment
steadily all day. unmindful Of the terrible
existing conditions of the temperature.
Toward night he was so affected with
numbness that he became deranged and
wandered out into the suburbs. He went
on until nearly 10 o'clock without food or
temporary heat. Finally he made his way
home. On Friday the exposure resulted In
death.
Working on the Canal.
The canal bed in and about WilliamspOrt
Is being cleaned and made ready for the
spring trade. There is a big force at work,
with Superintendent Hughes in charge. At
the upper end of the four locks there is
another gang of workmen operating, the
repair of the funnel being their principal
object. Aloysius Flynn, an employe of the
company, met with an accident there on
Saturday last of painful nature. He fell
from the lock, distance of thirty feet.
The operations on the canal this coming
season are expected to be extensive. More
coal will be transported than ever before.
In confident anticipation of this, boat
building is going on with a rush. There
are many improvised boat building houses
all along the waterway.
An Anniversary Celebration.
Mr.. and Mrs. Alex. Bean OF SD street
celebrated appropriately on Tuesday even
ing the twenty second anniversary of their
marriage. Friends in numbers gathered to
and Mrs. Dieudonne assisted In receiving
guests.
Snow Complaints.
Complaint has been made to the police
station here about the snow and ice on the
rol tn side Of Road street east of sd. This
thoroughfare is beyond the corporate limits
OF the town and not subject to the regula-
tons governing similar conditions in other
sections of the place.
The NJ. p. Pennsylvania avenue and K
street bridges are thickly covered with
snow. causing slushy Inconvenience during
the day and slippery surface at night.
The police complain that their courtesy
iii notifying people to clear their sidewalks
of snow, instead of swearing out warrants
without notice, is being misConStrued. The
law does not require them to notify at all,
but states explicitly that offenders shall be
fined.
Notes.
John e Lbbey yesterday transferred to
Francis B. Iibbey part of lot 123, Beall's
addition, being imp owed property on the