The evening times., 1896-11-27
City Brevities

The Zoo had large audiences yesterday
| Senator Gibson of Maryland has taken
| the house. 1918 N street, for the season.
| Judge Miller has fully recovered from q
severe attack oil neuralgia, which afiected
| his eyes.
Rev. E. d. Bailey and wife have returned
| from Chicago To their nome, No. 81 North
Carolina avenue.
| Police serg5. John G. Daley, of the Fourth
| precinct. has returned to duty after n Short
| leave OF absenc
lnlnissioner Truesdell left the city on
| Wednesday evening to be absent on private
| business for several days.
:, The steam yacht NADIA, owned by Mr.; G.
N. Busch, of This city. Is on cunning ex-
i pedition to Occoquan, va.
| Local cpmmssio on merchants say honey is
| quite scarce this season, owing 80 the In
| ceSsant rains last summer.
Col Joseph Hickey. of Missouri. the in
| veniOr of the we!l-known warm-weather
! drink. is registered at the Riggs.
| Policeman King of the river squad is
| detailed at the police court during the
| absence OF Turnkey Madigan.
The Protestant Episcopal Home for Boys,
closed recently by direction Of Bishop
| Satterlee. is to be reopened next week.
Gen. C. G. Watts. the defeated candidate
for governor Of West Virginia on the Demo
cratic ticket, is guest at the Raleigh.
The funeral of Joseph Colignon took place
at O'Clock this afternoon from the family
residence, No 7l6 Seventh street north-
west.
\ delegation of Washington Elks went
IT, Norfolk Yesterday to participate III the
Thanksgiving celebration Of the order
there.
Gunners were out in force yesterday.
There was a continual popping or fire-
arms al day in the marshes and along the
river shore.
Walter Bryan W as seized with a fit It his
home, NO. 9lS Liberty street southwest,
last night. The police removed him to the
Emergency hospital.
Charles Wood and Andrew l.. Munday
were arrested about 12:46 O'Clock this
morning by Policeman ], A. Mcdonald for
engaging in street light.
The Geographic Society VIII meet at
the Cosmos Club tonight. Judge Emory
F. Best VIII read Il paper on The Utillza-
ION II the Vacant r'niiic Lands
owing to the heavy formation Of dew on
the concrete roadways last night tncy were
slippery and uncertain this morning, and
many bicycllstS and horses had falls.
Capt. William Ennis. U. S. A. command
NJ Battery q, Fourth, Artillery, now
on Temporary duty at Fort Washington,
clme up To the city yesterday TO spend
Thanksgiving.
Hon. Simon Wolf was one of the speakers
at celebration Of the ttirtieth anniversary
Of Mr: julius Bicn's presidency Of the In
deipha yeste rday.
Jim, the big grey horse OF the Emer-
gency Hospital ambulance. in answering
call this morning. slipped on the damp
asphalt rounding Tenth and the Avenue,
injurIng one OF his knees.
The mother Of Mr A r. Mullowny, as
sistant District attorney at the police
court, WHO has lust returned to me cry
from the Pacific slope, is lying quite Ill at
her reside nee on Q street
1t is expected that the test OF the electric
liEll'ins apparatus connecting with the
t;g.et hfIt h,an fstk,
place Tuesday night following.
Invitations are out for the wedding of
Mr.. Albert A. Vernon. of the Fourth police
precinct, a nephew of Lieut.; vernon. and
Miss Nellie Z. Downey, at st. Dutnlnicks 5
Church. on Wednesday, Decem Der z.
Hon c. +. Dorr. Congressman elect from
the Third West Virginia district. and the
successor TO Mr.. HaiIng. of the House Dis
opponent was ex-Gov. +. W. Wilson.
The custom OF the excise board having
been 10 devote Saturday OF each week to
of renewals will be authorized tomorrow.
An attempt was made to bgrelarize the
northwest, last night by prying the door
open The thieves were frightened by the
approach of Sergt Shilling, and got away.
a tramp. who gave his name as Martin
Lynch, fell from freight tram ON the
Baltimore pnd Ohio railroad near Eckin gtOn,
last night. and was injured about the legs
and shoulders. He was removed TO Freed
mans Hospital.
Two fire alarms were sent in from
Northeast Washington yesterday. The
first was for n $40 blaze at the resi-
dence of J l.. Sollars No. las ID street
northeast. The second was false alarm
for an imaginary fire in Eouse No. 329
Eighth stleet northeast.
While Mr. ID. Rosenthal, of No. 120 g
street southwest, was driving in his buggy
last evening, his rig was run into at Ninth
81 roots al.
and two-horse drag. Mr.. Rosenthal cs-
capped without injury, but his vehicle was
badly DANA ged in the triple collision.
Lewis Willis, an eDterprising colored man.
invited lhs friends to Thanksgiving
''parlor social at his home in South wash
ington last night. When the guests arrived
Willis charged them an admission fee, and
Policemen Bryarly and Scramlin arrested
him for giving an unlicensed entertainment.
a stag theat.r party and supper was given
last night in honor of Messrs. Sam Hoover.
asrr 2f WSods,oek "a RoFe1, GFeq Of
Baltimore. Md. James NJ Bailey, of De-
troit, Mich. and Howard Butler, of this
city. all of whom are guests at the Howard !
House
A white man who refused to give his |
name was struck this morning by a brick +!
falling from a wall of the building now |
In process of construction on Tenth street |
near the Times building His head was
cut severely. but he would not accept |
Emergency Hospital treatment and went |
away in n cab. |
Thomas F.. Duckctt, the Sparrow'S Point |
evangelist, says he believes Willow Tree |
alley can oe reclaimed. He viii arrange |
next week, if possible. To hold gospel-tcm- |
pcrance meetings in that byway OF many |
III rdmiiications. Rev. Duckett attributes the |
woes OF the alley Largely to hummer
whisky and gun.
The grand officers of the District Grand |
Chapter OF Royal Arch MaSOnS will pa V their |
annual visit to washington Chapter. at |
Masonic Temple. corner OF Ninth and + |
streets northwest, next Monday evening. |
The annual address will be delivered by |
Grand Master Matthew Tiimble. of the |
district Grand Lodge OF Masons, who is also |
pa ;. nigga priest OF .saSniii.to Chapter.