The evening times., 1895-08-05
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TAKEN FROM The
MORNING TIMES.
Local Happenings Of Interest Briefly
Told to Complete the History
Of Twenty-four Hours.

veiopn,ents affecting possibly the future
! ofCentral America may be expected within
the next thirty days.
These advices state that President Bar
| rios, Of Guatemala, has formed secret
alliance with Costa Rica, looking to the
| formation of n union of all the Central
AmericanStates with Guatemala exercising
the dominant influence in the new fedora
/ ton.
\ The first step in this programme will be
| the downfall of the present Boajlla admin
istration in Honduras, and the appoint
| nlent of his successor in the person Ok
| Marco Soto.
| The last-nanred gentleman is favorable
| to the proposition and if the presented plans
| are perfected SO that he-nay by q coup
| detat assume the Z re sidentiai office, the
| assistance of Honduras can be obtained in
the plan for a federation of the five States
and Nicaragua and Salvador viii thus, it
| is claimed. compelled to Join with
| the other republics as a matter Of self
| interest
| The funeral OF Ernest W. Green, the
| young colored boy killed last Friday after
| noon by Miss Elizabeth Flagier, was
held at Shiloh Baptist Church, on L
street between Sixteenth and Seventeenth
| streets northwest, at 3 O'Clock yesterday
| afternoon.
The church doors were opened at 1:30
! O'Clock and the thrung that had been
standing for fully half an hour waiting
| for admittance filed in. In a minute every
seat in the audience room and balcony
\ was filled, save the row OF dozen or
| more reserved for the immediate mourners,
| and number or pewson the east side Of the
fla,t
by young Green's Sunday school friends.
| At ESQ O'Clock the funeral procession
| arrived. There were fully 200 people
| in the street, and fully two-thirds as many
| more inside the church. When the little
| rosewood coffin, covered with flowers,
| was lifted from the heatse and carried
| into the church the crowd drew close
| about the entranceway ard the multi
| tude inside the church grew suddenly
| quiet.
Dr. Taylor. then touk a text from Job
xiv. 2: He cometh forth as flower
and is cut down" After dra wing q
picture OF the morning blnom OF a flower
| and its noontide witheriug the minister
| said:
why is Ernest Green dead this morn
| ing? Because human sentiment in this
| broad land has been so mulded that human
| life amounts to little. But God grant
that public sentiment will so go out that no
man ever dare to point a firearm at q
fellow being.
DR. Brooks had been requested by the fam
lily to speak at ttachurch. and he acquiesced
at the conclusion OF DR.. Taylor's remarks.
'.The life Of man of my race is worth
little in the minds of many people. But
God will have a reckoning. No people can
sin against God always. The Almighty
says: vengeance is mine. Juries may say
wrong is right. hut God will eventually
show what is right"
a as OF :
and borne to Harmony Cemetery for in
terment.
The ladies of the Y W. C. T. q. and the
''w's" have arranged an informal recep-
tlon to be rendered to Mrs. Frances f.
Beauchanp assistant recording secretary
of the National Wonnn's Christian Temper
ance Union at headquarters of the local
society, room No. go street northwest,
Tomorrow afternoon at $3.50 to 8 o'clock.
All White Rjbbuners with gentlemen friends
are invited, and cards are not required.
Mrs. Beauchamp is one OF the brightest of
speakers, and there will be music, lem
onade, etc.
Nj R. Ross Perry. counsel for Miss Flag
ler, was seen last evening, and said that
General and Mrs. Flagler would return to
the city to-day. Miss FlagleI is at present
staying with the family of a physician in
the Immediate neighborhood, where she viii
I.rnain until her parents return to their
own home.
Frequenters of Riverside Park, the prin-
cipal summer resort of Alexandria, near
Mt Vernon, were treated to q free-fur-an
fight at p. IN. yesterday that resulted
in Alexandrians carrying away with them
cut heads and bruised faces.
The men injured were LIE Roy Beach,
timer, who lives on Prince street, neal
Lee; Robert Evans, No. COZ South Lee
street; John Evans, his brother, Of No.
424 Fairfax street.
L. E. Burkardt, for nearly q quarter of
century gate keeper al the entrance to the
passenger trains at the b. p. depot, died
at p, M. yesterday at his home with his
sister, on Ohio avenue, near Fourteenth
street southwest.
Mr. Burkhardt was 73 years old, and
had been sick about two mouths with a
complication of diseases
While the consolidation of the two great
government gun plants-of the Army at
Watervleit, N Y, and of the Navy at
Wasirington-has been suggested, the in
dications at present, are that the proposition
will not be carried out.
George Wise, nineteen years old, of No.
2611 P street northwest, employed as
hill-horse boy by the. Metropolitan Rail-
way Company, was thrown from a horse
at the corner of Nineteenth and h streets
northwest at about 1880 O'Clock yester-
day, resulting in q badly disloca ted left
shoulder.
R. 8. Shepherd. motofman, who lives
at Anaeostia, was treated last night at
the Emergency Hospital by. DR.. Furlong
for a badly confused hand and lacerated
fingers.
The honor of leading the labor hosts as
chief marshal on labor's national holiday
has been conferred upon Mr.. James F.
McHugh, the presiding officer of the Dis
trict Federation, and the privilege of oc-
cupying the right of the line is conceded to
the Horseshoer's organization.
The proposed portion of the route
by way of Four-and-a-half street to
Pennsylvania avenue was stricken out,
and First street substituted, leaving the
in most respects as it was last
year.
Thomas J. Taylor, whose sentence to
hang on July 26 for killing his wife last
September was commuted to life imprison-
ment by President Cleveland, was taken
to Albany prison at 1901 a. m. to-day
over the B. o. railroad. He was ac-
companied by Chaplain of the Watch E.
3. Ransdeii, Mr.. Finch, OF the Depart
ment of Justice, who seemed ashamed Of
bis connection with the affair and would
not give his name, and one OF two news
paper men.
His departure was hurried against the
wishes of Warden Leouard, and his son
aud private secretary, Harry Leonard, and
to meet the views of some authority, the
nature Of which could not be accurately
1t was Assistant Warden
RIisk who insisted that the removal should