The morning times., 1896-08-10
City Brevities

Flooring $3.50 per 100 feet. all one
width. F.Libbcy & Co.. .6thandN Y ave.
From Greenland's Icy Mountains" etc.
was a popular hymn In the churches yes
terday.
The work of remodeling ard cnlaTging
the shelving OF The WLrLinemah's LiLIars
Association will be commenced this week.
sheridan Brown, coiored, ,entneteen Years
old, was locked up at No. station by
Policeman Van Horn last night, ON
charge of disorderiy conduct.
Jashep Lampkin, ,colored, got into trouble
Saturday night, by filling hin. self with
whisk and displaying a revolver. which he
flourished In q Western fashion about the
heads of several friends, Policeman Colts
saw him with the weapon anu locked
him up at the Eighth precinct station
The labor committee in charge OF the
beer troubles, net yeste rday at the ICONS
OF the Workingman's Library Association
to formulate plans for the enforcement
OF the boycott The line OF action agreed
on will not, however, be made pubic
until tomorrow evening.
1t was reported yesterday tEat the dis
satisfaction among the employees or the
lexington and Soldiers Hcine read was
Iascd on The rumor Mat wLfn tie iGLd
changed its motive power the drivers w0nld
be replaced by men experienced In the
new system of lOcumotion.
While driving on the Marlboro road at
8 O'Clock yesterday morning, John Brooks.
white, aged thirty years, RESIDING in
Prince George county, Nd. wus thrown
from his buggy and sustained serious
injuries. The wounded Inln was CON-
veyed to his home by friends, where he
lies In "a critical condition..
Edward Smith, ooiured, aged twenty
eight, was arrested in Tenieytown at .
O'clock last night by Police Officer Giles
OF the Seventh precinct for robbing the
house of Adde Jones OF u coat and vest,
valued at 81. Smith was taken to the
Seventh precinct station-housc and locked
up. A charge OF housebrea king will be
entered against him.
A coiored nan, Bimon. Harold by name.
aged seventy-four, who lives at 1910
Nineteenth street northwest, while getting
off cable car On Pennsyivania avenue,
near Twenty-second street, last night, fell
and received a severe gasf on the back of
his head. He was taken 10 the hospital
where the injury was attended to. He was
afterward taken to his home.
Rev. Robert P. Kerr of the First Pres
byterian Church uf Richmond, Va, who
has been filling the pulpit OF the New
York LveUue Presbyterian Church the
past two weeks, leaves today for six.
y
bee Province. Canada. For the next five
weeks the pulpit will te filled by the
Rev. Francis A. Horton, d. d.. pastor OF
the Temple Presbyterian Church Of fh!la-
delphia.
Georgetown boys suffer little from the
heat and incidentally pay little attention
to the police regulations relating to the
bathing In the canal. AT all hours OF the
day and during half the night the canal
f.rtp snfv k,,y I.,Ss-a
locks to the upper level If one stands on
any one of the bridges that span the Chesa-
peake and Ohio water course they will
iear yell and splash at frequent inter
vais and viii find upon investigation that
it is only Il boy that has dropped off into
the water for Il swim. He is scantily at
tired, or perhaps perfectly nude, but that
is OF little consequence, for he goes in and
out and is not mnlested by any one but
policeman who tries to m axe him go bath
ing In a respectable way. - 10,
.