The morning times., 1896-05-30
City Brevities
y. e Breckwith. HALIFAX, N. g.,


is at Wizards.
Mr.. and Mrs. j NJ. CryIe Of Newark,
N. j., are at the Ebbitt.
Judge j. W. Bookwalter of-the Spring
field, o., court, is at the Riggs.
H. H. Hancock and Waiter Smith, from
London, England, are ut Wizards.
Mrs Nelson Thurber of New York city is
registered at the National.
Comptroller Eckels has gone 10 Atlanta
to deliver speech i'll favor of sound money.
1t is said that Chief Justice Bingham
will probably go away again for his health.
Judge Cox will sign the supplemental
decree in the street extension case next
Monday
Messrs. T. A, and j. NJ. Norwood and
their wives, from Brooklyn, n. Y, are
stopping at the National.
The naval examining board has recon-
meBded the retirement OF capt. Theodore +.
Kane on account OF physical disability.
George H. Reynolds was yesterday APP
poiuted administrator OF tie estate Of Ellen
Reynolds Bond was fixed at 100000.
The jury in the contested will case over
the estate of the late James Burns yes
terday afternoon returned sealed verdict
Tie President yesterday approved the act
amending the act to incorporate the Cdpltal
Hallway Company OF the District or Co
luntbia. J
The State Department is looking for
| George Hay, jr. His father died recently
| at Galashieis. Scotland, leaving him about
| 1000.
John Sayles and William II. Walker have
been appointed additional privates on the
| police force for duty OH the steamer Mary
| Washington.
Checks To the number of ,09O. aggregat-
ing S126, ,S22. in payment of JuEe interest
| OH the funded loan Of 1891, were yesterday
! mailed ut the Treasury.
There was Il large attendance at the re-
| hearsaI of the AriCn Singing Society held
| last evening at the headquarters, No. 430
! Eighth street northwest.
Mr. Thomas +. Brown, Of 4S3 street
southwest. and Joseph Heaiey. of 62i F
street southwest have returned from II
short trip TO Pennsylvania.
Capt. j. y Smith, pa aymasier, L. >. NJ,
| is at the Ebbltt House for few ia VS.
Capt Smith has just returned from
| three years cruise 10 China.
Hotei managers report ln increase in the
| number Of people who come here FOR me
! purpose Of watching the Decoration Day
| exercises and the closing sessions Il Con
! gress.
Judge Hagner yesterday signed decree
| i'll tue suit Of Catherine Y. Reed against
George F. Reed requiring the husband to
pay his wife alimony in the sum OF Sloo per
| month.
Richard LuSkey, cart driver. seventeen
| years of age deposited So collateral at
! No. 8 station last night, for violating the
police regulations by dropping dirt along
tie streets.
Policeman j. A. Duvall, who has been
| mounted on bicycle, landed another cyclist
in the person OF Frederick NJ. Gibbs, AT the
| Second precinct station last night, for reck-
less riding.
Clerk Young of the supreme court OF the
District is now the recipient OF almost
daily clerical visitors making inquiries
! concerning the new marriage law whict
goes into effect June 4.
The receipts from internal revenue yes
terday were So %, ,4S1 ;fromcustums, S363,
075, and miscellaneous, S1S,3So. Tn
national bank notes received for redemp
ton amounted TO $685. ,501.
Clarence Wilson. aged seventeen, la
hurer living at Silver Hill, Md, fell off a
wagon yesterday and was run over. He
sustained a severe injury about the head
and 4 fracture of the right knee
The board of control Will meet al Foundry
NJ L. Church Wednesday evening, Jun'
3, at O'Clock. The Harrisburg convention
| J uHt -p--S. W IA DS tiS' aSst~i ah'i ONhN'
items OF interest Will be Presented.
. At meeting OF tie Association OF Ec
centric Engineers held last evening {
committee was appointed TO decorate tlt
! graves Of their late brother. Mr.. f. j
Rcd, and his wife, who died some month
ago.
The Treasury gold reserve at the clos'
of business yesterday stood al S10T ,4U3,
434 Tie withdrawals for the day wcT'
S1,919, 700 i'll gold. and there was deposit et
in gold by banks i'll exchange for CurTenC.
81 ,000, 900.
a shade tree which was half uproGteC
by the winds of Thursday and which leans
over the street from the west payemen
of Eleventh. street, between X street anC
Massa chusettS avenue, is a constant menace
to passersby.
Fred Warner, a colored butler, ninetcei
years old. was arrested last night by Po
liceman Barrett and locked up at No.
; station for an assault and battery upc'
Frank Dent, conductor on the ChcT.
Chase railway.
1t was ordered by the Commissioners yes
terday that Private w. J settTight of til
police department, be transferred to IN
: mounted force, vice Michael Breen, de
ceased, and that Private f. Fl. Herbert b
promoted to class 2. both changes to tax
effect the 2oth instant.
The twentieth meeting Of the Columbi
[ | Historical Society Will be held at the res
: deuce of the president, DR.. ]. NJ. Tonel
: 1445 Massachusetts avenue, on Monday a
, O'Clock p. IN. The program includes
paper on The Development of the Nation
| Capital by Brainard Fl. Warner.
The police ambulance was called to NJ
S22 street southeast yesterday aftel
noon to remove Margaret Peck, an insan
, | woman. When the men arrived the wOma
| rayed and fought the Officers. After man
| attempts TO get the woman to the wa go
the men drove away without her.
In a communication addressed to I'll
t mayor OF Cleveland, o.. and dated yeste
: day, the Commissioners state the numbt
, | of miles of paved streets in the District /
| be 1T6, and the miles of dirt streets to |
i | about eighty, exclusive of suburban road
: whose length has never been closely con
: putcd.
q Prof Fanciulli was particularly please
+ to play for thefircmen' S families benefit las
, night be counted it a celebration OF h
birthday and wedding day The direct'
L of the Marine Band was born in Port s
. Stephen in 1853 and is now forty-thre
p years Old. He was married in New Yor
city in 1882 The Marine Band leav,
tonight for Nashville Tenn. where the
r play at the opening OF the Tennessee Ce
: tennial Exposition.