The morning times., 1896-04-29
CITY BREvITIEs.


Policemen Rogers, Wheeler, and stearn,
of the Ninth precinct, are confined to their
homes by Illness.
Mr.. W II. Nelson OF the Normandie is
| booked to take charge this season of the
Stockton at Cape May.
The bill TO place John NJ. Quackenbush
| Of this city on the retired list OF the Navy
| passed the House yesterday.
The Treasury gold reserve at the close of
business yesterday stood at 81 % $40, ,5O2.
| The days Withdrawals were $16S, 700.
! The resignation OF Mr.. j. Alexander
| Falls was announced at tue recent meeting
OF tle trustees OF the Boys Reform School.
About 100 members of the First Bat
| talon OF the Boys Grammar Schools OF
| New York will visit this city on May 10.
Secretary Carlisle has rejected all the
bids for erecting the additional eight stories
OF the appraisers warehouse, in New York
| City.
The third lecture of the University Ex-
tension course was given yesterday after
| noon by Prof. W. Hudson Shaw at Metzerott
| Hall.
Policeman Darlington, of the Second
! precinct, who has been on the sick list
| FOR one month, has recovered and is again
| on duty.
Judge Shellabarger is quite i'll u t his resi-
dcnce, No. 912 Sever enteenth street north
! west. He has been confined to his roomfor
| about two weeks.
The War Department has made the usual
| arrangements for the participation OF the
regular troops in Memorial Day exercises,
| including the firing of salutes.
The play OF The Two Orphans will be
! given at Masonic Hall, Ana costa, on the
evening of May for the benefit of the
choir boys OF Emmanuel z E. Church.
! Hugh Allen Saxon yesterday began di-
| vorce proceedings gainst Kittie L. Saxon
! TO whom he was married in Baton Rouge,
! La, December 10, 1890. DcSertion is
! alleged.
| The Business Mems Eible Glass of the
First Congrc gatiOual Church will give a
| social and reception this evening at the
! church. corner of Teuth and q streets
northwest.
Tue will of John r. Knapp, dated July
10. 1895, was filed for probate yesterday
afternoon. Tue widow, Ann l.. Knapp, is
made sole beneficiary and named eXecu-
| triX Of the estate.
There VIII be meeting a Israel Baptist
! Church, Eleventh street northeast, this
! evening. to organize permanent club 10
prepare for the emancipation celebration
| during the ensuing year.
The case OF Mary Moore, who was ar
rested by the police OF the Sixth precinct
! III Il raid on No. 333 Maine avenue 1e W
| nights ago, as told in The Times, will come
| up in police court this morning.
An Illustrated lecture will be given to-
! night in tie tent on the lawn OF st. Paul's
/ Church, Fifteenth aud streets northwest,
| by Miss Janet Richards, on the Worlds
/ - =.
| fund.
The supply OF spring water from Frank
! lin PARK has again been diverted to furnish
( tie White House. Complaint was made
! last evening that residents who had grown
| fond OF the clear water had 10 go with
| out 1t.
| Louise NJ Nellis brought suit through
! her attorney, A. c. Hunte, yesterday for u
! divorce from Maurice F NeIis. Under
tie maiden name OF Louise NJ. Watson she
was married to him October 10, 1892.
| DeseFtion is alleged.
Wheelmen and whcelwomen Were very
much in evidence ut fire on Fourteenth
| street last night. Forty-six single wheels
and three tandems We're counted by
/ Times reporter. as they stood within
block OF where the fire was located.
This afternoon at O'Clock the subcum-
mittce on street railways OF the House
! District Committee VIII visit KcncSaw
| avenue and adjacent streets TO investigate
! the protest of owners against the pro-
| posed extension of the Beat line railway.
| Robert Brown, coIored, engaged in a
| fight with his brother-in-law, Horace
! Bailey. at The corner OF New York avenue
| and Ninth street northwest last night,
which resulted in the latter being arrested
| by Policeman Morgan and locked up AT the
| Second precinct station.
The Washingtou's Birthday entertain
| mcnt by the pupils of the German and Eng
| Hsh school, which was postponed on ac-
| count of the prevalence OF measles among
| the scholars, will be given tomorrow eVeu-
| ing at German Trinity Church, corner of
| Fourth and L streets northwest.
! Policeman Clifford. OF the Second pre-.
| Cinct, spatro!ingh beat yesterday morn
| ing when he noticed two colored lads try
ing TO dispose OF pair OF pruning shears.
| The boys were Luther Pinn and William
| Anderson. The officer took them into
custody and locked them up at the station.
| Mr.. Babcock has introduced in the House
a bill to establish certain labor regula-
| tions in the District which will make it
! unla wfui to throw dirt, ballast. oyster
| shells or any refuse i'll the river within
| the District limits, unless engaged in
| building a wharf with the permission of
| the COmiplSS lOnerS.
Maria Kenney. colored woman, who
I lives at No. 1924 Second street northwest,
| created some excitement yesterday by
| suddenly throwing up her hands and falt-
| ing in dead faint at the corner Of Seventh
street and the Avenue. She was sent to
| Emergency Hospital and soon recovered
sufficiently to be sent home.
| The attention of several people among
| them Senator and a Congressman, was
| attracted yesterday afternoon by two little
| birds that were building their nest on the
| ielt foot of the bronze statue OF Gen.
| Mcpherson The foot was partially COW
vered by the stirrup and its attachments,
! which made safe and comforta BILE home
| for its feathered inhabitants.
The Viscount Santo Thyrso, the new
| Portuguese minister, who succeeds Count
| Thedim, deceased, took rooms yesterday
| at the A rIington Hotel. The viscount is
! accompanied by his wife. Both are young
| and will be welcome additions to the diplo-
| mats and their American set. The family
name of the new minister was old even
when Virgil wrote the Eclogues.
A party of twenty young lady and gen
| tlemen cyclists made a tour of the city
yesterday afternoon. The start was made
| from Massachusetts avenue and Seventh
| street about O'Clock. The procession
| moved westward on Massachusetts to
| Connecticut avenue, where the -circing OF
the city commenced. They made the
| circuit in little more than two hours.
| The fifteenth regular meeting Of the
| Library Association of Washington will
| be held at Columbian University this even
| ing at O'Clock. The program is: Miss
A. K. HaSse. Some bad features of good
| books continued; discussion of the First
| draft OF a proposed bill TO increase the
value and simplify the methods of pubca-
| ton of public documents furnished To de-