The morning times., 1896-06-01
City Brevities

The Hon. c. Stanbopc OF England, N. r.,
Is stopping at the Raleigh.
Mr.. Armand Maine, of Paris, France, is
registered at the Arlington.
Mr.. c. + Brown and wife. OF New York
city, are registered at the National.
Major and Mrs. Butler and Mrs. Schiff, OF
London, England, are at the Arlington.
Mr. Wayne W. Cordeu and wife have
gone to Nashville on the newspaper spe
cial
W j. Sims and wife and party OF
young ladies uf Providence, K. l., are at the
Hotel Regent
Ex-United States Senator Charles X.
Buckalow and Mrs. Buckaiow are registered
al the E5bitt.
Lieut.. Rebray Cervantes and Yudalino
Gimales. Mexican tourists, are stopping
at the Riggs House.
The work of repairing the dismantIed Y.
NJ. c. A. building is progressing rapidly.
The front is regalning It's old and familiar
appearance.
benefit performance in aid of the BuX-
ton family VIII be given at the Gaithersburg
Town Hall tonight by the Burnt Cork Club
OF that place.
Two huggies collided on Pennsylvania
avenue. near Thirteenth street northwest,
last evening about 8 o'clock. Fortunately
no one was hurt.
Policemen Gibson and Reith arrested
George Fastner yesterday and locked him
up at No. = on the charge of immoral
conduct on the street.
Judge William Montgomery, of Lansing,
Mich, who for many years was a member
OF the supreme court of the District of
Columbia, is at the EbDitt.
Rev. Charles H. Butler preached an in
teresting sermon last evening on The
Retum Of the Prodigal Son. ut Keller
Memorial Lutheran Church.
The annual concerts by the pupils OF
the Van Buren, school and annex took
place n Masonic Hall. AnaCostia, last
Thursday and Friday evenings.
A program of impressive services Is being
arranged for the dedication ceremonies for
the new NJ Z. Church at Fifteenth and r
streets, OF which Dr.. Van Arsdale is pastor.
Prof John Simms, formerly instructor
i'll the local NJ. &. A. gymnasium, but now
OF the West Philadelphia Y. NJ. c. a. school,
wasiu the city yesterday on a visitto friends
Mr. and Mrs. Robert f. Wood. on their
way east, on their bridal tour, are at
Wizards. Mr. Wood is one of the most
prominent young members Of the Louis
vile, KY, bar.
Samuel Strivcr, colored, occupies q cot
at Freedman's Hospital as result OF
colliding Satur rday night with cable
train al Seventh street and Rhode Island
avenue. He will recover.
Eva Washington, sixteen year-old col
ored girl, was arrested Saturday night
by Policeman Thaddeus K. Bean, on the
charge of incorrigibiIity. The complain
ant is Martha II. Jackson.
Chemical fire engine No. . responded
TO local alarm for a blaze in the rear
n Erln N viz NJ,
3026 Fourteenth street northwest, Sat
urday night. Damage slight.
While riding bicycle on II street north.
east, +. Flagg of No. 537 Ninth street
northeast colIidcd With Columbia cable
car No. 81. He was badly bruised hut
attaches no blame to the railway EN-
ployeS.
Maria st. Clair, 4 white woman, forty
seven years of age, who looks as though
she has seen better days, VIII be required
to face Judge Kimball this morning oh the
charge OF yagranCy. She was arrested by
Policeman YOe.
A new colored preacher prcoched in the
open air at Seventh Streetand Penn Sylvania
avenue last night. His theme was the near
approach of the day of judgment, as proved
by the Western cyclones, the b street fire
and the Buxton tragedy.
Gen. and Mrs. r. W Hardin and the Misses
Jane and Julia Hardin of Frankfort. Ky,
and NJ. d. Hardin and william Longwood
of Danbury, Ky, are stopping at the Nor
mandc They are here to attend the mar
mage OF Miss Stevenson.
In the police court today James Malvin,
twcnty-Onc years of age, and huCkStcr
by occupation, and Annie Morgan, alias
West, twenty yea rs old, both colored,
Will be charged by Policemen Evans and
Copeland with violating the Edmunds act.
Mr.. Rufus PrentiSS, brother OF the gifted
and lamented journalist, George d. Prem
tiss, is seriously ill at his home, No 924
street northwest. Mr.. Prentiss is in his
ninety-f!fth year, and untila recent attack
OF the grip, enjoyed remarkably good
health.
Mr.. I. O Powell, superintendent of the
Asylum for the Insane, at Atlanta, Ga,
and Mr.. 7. q Murphy superintendent OF
the Morgantown, n. c., asylum, who have
been attending the convention OF asylum
superintendcnts in New York are at the
Metropolitan.
The following young ladies and gen
tlemen have received their diplomas from
the Eaton. Burnett and Darling Business
College: Amo l.. Sanford. Eta l.. San
ford, Rose T. Baker, Chester a Baker,
Elizabeth f. Cole, Mary c. Cotter and
Blanche E. Perry.
Mrs. Lucy Underwood McCanD Will leave
in few days for tie Pacific coast, where
she will take an active part in the cam
paign work which, under the new plank
in the Republican platform of California.
is to give the women of ber State the full
right of suffrage.
A very pretty echo of Memorial Day was
observed on Pennsylvania aven ue between
Ninth and Tenth streets, yesterday after
noon, when three little girls, one in blue,
one in white and one in red We're out on
dress parade. The red girl was the tottcst
of the three tots.
Policeman Michael B. Flynn, the police
but when he saw Clara Wallace, colOred,
ton, he locked her up in No. .. This
morning he will appear against Clara in
Judge Kimball's court, the charge being
disorderly conduct.
Harry Gates, the eleven yea r-old boy who
was so badly injured last Thursday dur
ing the storm, is getting along very COM
fortably at the Emergency Hospital He
can now recognize his parents and friends
and intelligently answers the questions
put him. The chances for his ultimate re-
covery are quite favorable.
John Ray, the youth who fooled the peo-
pie of South Washington by exhibiting
bogus mummy or petrified infaut, was
arrested last night by Precinct Detective
Michael Muller, OF No. 4, on the charge Of
conducting an unlicensed entertainment
Ray alleged mummy is said to be an arti-
Gle manufactured Of parchment