The morning times., 1896-05-09
City Brevities


cinct is Ill.
"A license TO marry has been issued 20
william Frazier and Esther Adams.
Private ]. +. Preston OF the Fifth pre-
cInct was yesterday granted leave with
pay.
Policeman Herndon has returned To duty
at the First precinct, after Il long and
dangerous Illness
Ex-Goy. William A. McCorkle of West
Virginia is at Wizards Hotel. He has
many friends here.
The stand which will ncircle the Han
cock monument during the unveiIing cere-
monies Is nearly completed.
Edward Hagan was arrested yesterday
by Officer Cowne on warrant charging
him with assault and battery.
Consul Gen. Lee is now at Fredericksburg
arranging his private affairs preparatory
TO sailing for Havana next week.
The police made a raid on the push-cart
yenders yesterday and the court docket Will
be filled with them this morning.
The Epworth League chorus and Or
chestra Will rehearSe at Foundry M f..
Church on Wednesday evening next.
Rev. Louis A. Banks, Of Brooklyn, will
address the District Epworthers at Nc
Kendree NJ f. Church next Friday night.
The funeral OF Capt. J. B. Faunce will
take place from his late residence, 803
street south west, today at l O'Clock.
An excursion party numbering twenty
two persons is making its headquarters
at the Howard House durIng its stay here.
Mrs A P Lacey of No. 1915 Clifton street
entertained the resident alumni OF Ohioan
Wesley University last evening j her resi-
dence.
Mrs. a. l. Strasburger and Miss Camille
Strasburger have gone to Baltimore. where
they Will spend a couple OF weeks with
Mrs. NJ. Hamburger.
One of the clerks at Wiliard's has COM
posed Musical Letter for publica tion
in one OF the best magazines. 1t is an ill.,
genious composition.
Postmaster General Wilson yesterday
denied the privileges OF the mails to
G. F. Krieger & Co., Chicago, for selling
devices to defraud a t cards.
The Central Union Mission wagon made
trip through the city last night. and the
usual large crowds gathered on the cor
nerS to listen TO the services.
Engineers Union, No. 667S, at their last
meeting, adopted resolutions indorsing the
efforts Of the steamfitters and helpers to
enforce the eighthour law system.
Solomon Brown the Iaborer who was
at Convention Hall and was conveyed TO
Freedman's Hospital, is convaescing.
a colonizing party OF pupils in the East
ern High School visited Chevy Chase yes
terday afternoon. There were about fiji
teen girls and half dozen boys in the
party.
The funeral of Mr.. James Dixon Hendley,
member Of the Oldest Inhabitants AS
sociauon, who died Thursday, will be
held today from the Church OF the AS
censlon.
Shakespeare Lee, colore1. pleaded to
false pfetcaces and was sentenced to Al
bdny for year and day in Judge Bing-
hams court, criminal division. No. 2, yes
terday afternoon.
William c. Leitcb son of Mr.. Robert
Leitch, ST., died Thursday at his resi-
dence, Ala New Jersey avenue The
funeral services will be held from his
home, today at p m.
Martha Banks, colored, who was so bru-
tally assaulted by Alfred Madison in Clicks
alley Thursday night, and who was taken
to Freedman's Hospital, was reported last
evening as much improved.
Mrs. A W. La Fetra, for many years
preceptress in English at the ladies' coi-
lege, Santiago, Chile, who has been visit
Ing her sister. Mrs. Sara D. LaFetra, left
yesterday for New York.
The receipts from internal revenue yes
terday were $4S2 COL; from customs,
Si46 ,266, and from miscellaneous, So, ,263
The national bank notes received for re-
| demption amounted to S435,412.
Isaac w. Ba yne, carpenter a { the Ma
| tiOnal Museum, was taken ill while at
work yesterday morning and had to be
removed in the police ambulance to his
homo Ctr bpyn CT
The team of c. o. Sanderson, No 11O6
| Seventh street southeast, ran away ycster-
| day and COllided with lamp post at he
| corner of Firth aud NJ streets southeast. The
driver. Lemuel Barker, coIored, was in
! jured.
Mrs Webster. No. 1241 Florida avenue
| northeast, fell from a Columbia cable car
! yesterday at the corner OF Thirteenth and
| II streets northeast aud was remov ed to
| her home by Policeman 0Dea OF the Ninth
precinct
Alta meeting ofthe colored dpeopIeof South
| Washington to discuss the condition of the
| Bowen School building committee was
| appointed Ia ask Congress for a sufficient
| appropriation to erect a suitable structure
| in its place.
waiting stations are being erected by the
| Falls Church Electric Railway Company
| one of which is located at Arlington and
the other on the Virginia side Of the river
| at the Aqueduct bridge. Tie structures will
| cost about 81 ,O0o each.
| A blockade OF cars was occasioned yes
| terday afternoon at O'Clock on street,
| near Ninth, by one of the horses of the
| Metropolitan line taking the blind staggers
| just when people were in a hurry to get
home. The animal recovered.
| Vacancies at the hospital school at Wash
| ington Barracks will be filled today. the
| vacancies having been caused by the trans
| fer,of Messrs. d. Nicholson to Fort Warren,
| John G. Craig to Fort Hamilton nd
| John n. Hiltcn to West Point
Mr.. Blue of Kansas, yesterday intro.
| duCed in the House resolution providing
| that eX-Uniou soldiers. carried upon the
| House payrolls as session employees. shall
| hereafter be paid their regular salaries
| during the Congressional interim.
Rebecca Hawkins, coIored, thirty five
| years old, living in Genther's alley south
| east was taken Ill on street bet tween
| Second and Third streets southeast yes
| terday and conveyed to Providence Hos
| pital in the patrol wagon Of the Fifth pre-
| cinct.
Scientific people say that the pending
| cool snap is a special dispensation to save
the shade trees this summer. The result
| of it will be to kill the whole army oi
microscopic caterpillars now in process oi
preparation for assault on the elm tret
| leaves.
Miss Belle Kearney. of Mississippi. on'
of the most popular speakers of the Worlds
W. c. T. T.. will address the local brancl
OF that organization at Convention Ha
during the Christian Endeavor convention
She will also lecture for the benefit OF tn,
Florence Crittenton Home.
Miss Frances Z. Willard, who Is now in
London, short time ago presented Mrs
| Sarn d q Eatra with q set of hanls