The evening times., 1896-12-17
City Brevities
The lobby of WIZARDS Hotel is being re-

The lobby of Wizards Hotel is being re-
painted.
Capt. and Mrs M B. Hughes will be ut
| the Ebbtt House for a few days.
Senator and Mrs. Arthur Brown are OK
| pected at the Ebbitt House this afternoon.
The Anacosua Railway Company has
placed several additional cars on the main
| line.
| The soldiers stationed at the Barracks
ar. being put through a skirmish drill
| daily.
The police auction sale or confiscated
| and unidentified stolen property VIII take
place tomorrow.
The government launch Petrol is tied up
| for the winter in the south shiphOuSe dock
| at the navy yard.
Tramps are making a rendezvous OF the
| ruins OF the burned DrIck works near the
Ivy Clty race course.
| Master Mechanic Gills of the navy yard
| Is still in precarious condition from an
attack OF typhoid fever.
Rev. DR. Nourse lecturcd last night at
Howard Avenue Church for the benefit OF
| the iadies' building iund.
The trial OF the alleged violators OF the
| oleomargarine la ws is expected to be con-
cluded by saturday morning.
Virginia and Maryland woods in the
vicinity Of Washington are supplying many
| churches with Christmas trees.
For the first time in many months the
| colored ward of the Emergency Hospital
was without patient yesterday.
Il is stated that another effort is to be
made to induce the government to locate
| a hospital for contagious diseases on Ana
| lostan Island.
Tie Ladics' Aid Society of the Metro
| politan NJ. E. Church will give an exhi-
mtisl OF wax works in their pariors to-
| morrow hight.
The jefferson Hotel, at the corner of
! Sixth street and Louisiana avenue, under
| the management OF Mr.. II. Pothman, was
| opened yesterday.
il laa Dee.i practically decided that Rev.
| DR.. Stakely, pastor of the First aptist
Church, Will not accept the call to Rich
| inond recently rendered lin.
Hon. S. b. Buckner, of Kentucky. late
| Vice Presidential candidate Oh the gold
| Democratic ticket, is in the city. guest
of the Metropolitan Hotel. His wife ana son
accompany hum.
Henry May. a clerk, forty wears OF age.
was found wandering ainlessiy about West
Washington by Policeman Hester alter
, o'clock this morning. He was locked up
at No. 5 until sober
| Tie temporary engine house which was
! use,I ia c.,tavatlig .I.c large sewer On
| street. bet Tern Fourteenth and Fifteenth
northwest, was load"ti ol a heavy irlIck ycE
! tcrday afternoon ana carried away.
| Brainard Yale, who was arrested as a
! vagrant Monday by Policeman Bell and
| given four months sentence III the WORK
| house by Judge Kimhall has been released,
, his mother furnishing 4 bondsman.
The Anu-S saloon League has nlacd on
| file protest against each Of six appii-
/ cations for lIcrnS, Jnt object being Ia mold
! up the cases until further invests cations
! can be had. The names of the applicants
I were not made public.
Health Officer Woodward has placed In
| the han nds of the ommisSiOners u number
( of suggestions upon which amendments 20
the health laws will be based. Bills are to
/ be formulated for anne nding defective SAM
/ tary regulations, and to establish others.
Tie Washington Loan Il nj Trds. Company
was yesterday appointed a comtnittee On
! the estate Of Admiral tlitz, vino was re
| Gently adjudged insane after he had been
! confined for some time al st. EliZahcth's
/ Hos Bis4. np1n Jhe finding bri he nava! board.
Congress will be asked at the present ses-
! sion to pass bill for the establishment OF
reciprocal track privileges between the
| Metropolitan and TenleytOwn street rail
ways. permitting the latter road to Tunoy
| the Metropolitan tracks the entire length
! of the line. In return the Metropolitan.
will he permitted to traverse the subur
! ban tracks of tie OF her line.
! The police made forty-five arrests during
| the twenty four hours ending at 9 o'clock
! this morning. OF the prisoners, 81 were
/ white. 4 colored. and females. Nine OF
the cases Were plain DRINKS, with no
( penalty attached. The Ninth precinct, in
! Northeast Washington, sent in a clean
| sheet no arrests having been made IN
| that section since o'clock yesterday
morning,