The Washington times., 1895-01-30
LOCAL NEWS OF ALL SORTS
The Weather TODAY.
Fair; warmer; southwest winds.

Income Tax Case Brief Presented-A brief
in the suit OF John C. Moore, the New York
banker. to enjoin the collection of the income
tax, was presented in the United States Su-
preme Court yesterday. The nneonstl-
| fionaiity of the act providing for the income
tax is assailed on nearly the same grounds
/ presented in the argument on the demurrer
/ before Jud e Hagner. The brief is in sup
\ port OF ex-Attorney General Bristow's mo-
I tion TO advance the case for an early hearing.
The attorneys for Mr.. Moore decided yester-
day not TO amend their bill in equity. and the
| case was formally dismissed by Judge Hag
ner.
Burglars at Mount Pleasant -Housebreak-
ers entered the residence of Mrs. Alice l.. Hill,
/ yelling place. Mount Pleasant, Monday night,
and got away with two hunting-case gold
watches.
! Eother and Children Turned out-Marie
4 Resch q German woman with three young
children, tramped al the way from the Rock
! Creek Church road through the snow and
slush yesterday 10 police headquarters. She
I informed Humane Officer Wilson that herself
and little ones had been turned out into the
cold by her husband, an employe OF Kline's
1 conservatory on the Bladensburg road. The
sufferers were sent back home in the police
ambulance. and the husband notified that he
would be arrested if he turned his family out
! again.
Cases in the Police Court-In the police
court yesterday Martha Mergent. eolored.
was held for the grand jury, III $500 security,
for obtaining coat the property of Mary
Brent also colored, under false pretenses.
! John Littleton. burglary. in smashing tho
/ window OF Flanagan's jewelry store: grand
4 jury. Robert Mcdaniel, of No. ll05 street.
northwes unlicensed Junk dealer; fined So
and given until Saturday 10 take out a Ii
cense. Samuel C. Raub OF No. II05 Il street
northwest: John Hawiey. of No 1880 G
street northwest, and Henry Miller, OF No.
1921 Seventh street northwest unlicensed
/ dealers: cases continued until February :.
i James BroOkings. colored. housebreaking in
entering Luchs Brothers stable; grand jury
in $500 security. Frank Seals, larceny OF six
bottles OF wine from Mrs. Alice Seligson; $40
or thirty days in jail
LIouar Cases Disposed of-There were sew
/ eral liquor law violation eases passed upon
/ by the juries in Judge Millers court We ter
| day afternoon. William Simms. the cOlored
1 man known as "a walking speakeasy." VINO
was arrested by Sergt. Daley while dispens-
] ing lireHater IN the alleys OF South Washing
ton. was found guilty. His counsel gave
notice Ola motion for a new trial. John
/ Green was also found guilty. and a similar
I motion entered. In the case of Herman
! Thurm. charged with conducting wholesale
liquor business in Twining City under re
tail license. was found not guilty Judge
n retail license can sell liquor in quantities
less thar five gallons.
Fine Clothes Did Not Save Him--Frank n
Hall, a neatly-clad young man. appeared in
the police court dock yesterday to answer 10
a charge Of vagrancy entered against him by
Officer Jordan. The policeman stated that
( Hall had begged money OF passers-by or Con-
ne ticut avenue, and was intoxicated when
arrested. The young man denied the beg
ging part OF the charge. but said he had been
drinking. Judge kimball sent him TO the
Workhouse for three months in default OF
$500 real estate bonds.
Drunken Men Are Not Responsibility the
cases of ". II. Nelson and William d. Neal.
| hackmen. who charged Angelo E!more and
William Wessendorf, respectively, in the po-
lice court Yesterday with failure to pay hack
hire. it was shown that both defendants were
under the influence OF liquor when they en-
gagged the vehicles. In dismissing the cases
against them, Judge Kimball held that as the
men were drunk when they hired the car
riages they we're not responsible, as drunken
man cannot enter into contract and be held
to IFS terms
Eight Chain Gang Recruits-When James
/ Whitney. Charles Horseford, Samuel Sanders.
William Gillespie, William Whitney, Michael
Shondley, Charles Crump, and William Brown,
all white made application at No. police
station Monday night during the snow storm
for free lodging they were hustled into cells
and charged with vagraney. Yesterday Judge
Kimball gave them each ten days in the chain
gang.
Married Under Fictitious Eame--John
| Scherdemann yesterday sued Mary Elizabeth
Seherdemann for divorce. At their wedding
he gave the fictitious name John Chatter
mann, aid she called herself Elizabeth Web
ster. her true name being Mary Elizabeth
Webster. They lived together till January /,
1895, when he left her. He discovered on
that day. he alleges. that she had been un-
faithful TO her marriage VOWS.
New Washington Ios Company-Thomas
W. Smith, by paper filed for record yester-
day. leased the Pioneer Mills property. "A.
Potomac and Grace streets, TO Geor-e Ii. II.
Moore. foI Il $50 q year. Mr.. Moore trans
ferred his lease 10 the Potomac Ice Company
for the manufacture of ice. The lease is to
run three years from January !. 1895, with
the privilege 10 the lessees to buy the place
at tie close OF their lease for 528. .0G0 or any
year thereafter for 1000 additional unit
S90. 900 is reached.
Fifth Battalion Parade and There
will be a battalion parade in full dress, fol
lowed by a battalion drill OF the Fifth Bat
TALON. ar which all prescribed commands vii
be transmitted on the bucle, at the Cente
Market Armory On Friday next at $50 p. m
10 which tie public and the friends of TIA
battalion are invited.
On Philosophical inquiry Bent-The lee
ture-room of the Colombian University WI
filed with a large audience yesterday after
noon at 4:30 O'Clock TO hear the lecture of tn
Rev. J. Mcbride Sterrett on 1.-The sensational
!, idealism of Loche, Bentely, and Hume, de
livered before the Society of Philosophical
Inquiry.