The evening times., 1896-06-03
City Brevities

C. II. j.. Taylor. the recorder OF deeds,
was admitted to practice before the court
of appeals yesterday. on motion OF Assist
ant District Attorney Jeffords.
Two policemen and score of pedestrians
started around the corner on run last
night at Eighth street and Market space III
answer to what appeared to he pistol
shot. When they turned into Eighth street
they found chagrincd bicycclist who had
Just punctured the tire of his wheel by
running over a piece of glass.
Christian Endcavor headquarters on +
street presents IA beehive appearance just
now. All day young people may be seen
passing in and out with books and papers
in their hands. and it is late at night before
tine light is turned off in the brilliantly
illuminated rooms.
District Attorney Birney states that never
in years has the number of people walt.
ing trial i'll the Jail been so small as at
present. A half Score would cover all those
cases that the grand jury has acted upon,
and that body Is now having tie lightcst
work il has had in many terms.
Justice Hagner. OF equity court No. 2, is
absent from the city on brief vacation.
The ladies' OF MOUNT fledSdDl COnSTeSst-
tiouaf Church will give u missionary supper
this evening at the home of Mrs. j b.
Stcmau, No. 300S Fifteenth street north
west Rev. DR.. Newman of the First Church
and Mr.. Rcoch will make addresses.
An unknown wheelman collided with the
electric car ut Ninth and l. streets last
night. He was thrown from his machine,
aud when carried into Williams drug store
was partly unconscious. He soon revived
aud left without giving his name.
Mr. Howard Robson, secretary and treas
urer of the Cleveland Baseball Club, has
his family here with him, and spends part
of every day sightseeing.
Posters are up for the firemen's benefit
on June g, in which Mr.. Goodwin Patten
and Col. John A. joyce are taking the lead
ing interest. They are in bright blue and
start with the traditional. Fire! fire!
fire."
A division of the Christian Endeavor
choir will meet at 7:30 this evening for
rehearsal in the Gunton Memorial Chapel
on Fourteenth street The chorus will be
unde, the direction OF J. Arthur Rose.
How the Other Half Lives" will be the
subject of the mission meeting this even
ing at the Western Presbyterian Church
| on II street near Nineteenth.
fstic encounter between two well
| dressed men last night at the corner of
| Second and E streets Northwest created
| side,abiecxcitenent. MarquisofQ Queens
berry rules did not prevail, and the com
| batants were separated before the arrival
Of tho police. Beyond a bloody nose no
| damage was done To- either party. Their
| names could not be learned.
The amendment presented by Senator FL
kins to the District appropriation bill, trans
| fsrring The street sweeping department EN-
| ployes from the per diem to the annual pay
| roll, has been approved by both houses Of
| Congress IN the adoption Of tue conference
report
Based upon careful poll OF the Senate.
| II is predicted tha but ten votes will be cast
| in that body against the river and harhor
| bill when the measure shall come up Tor
| final determination
The new electric track Of the Metropoli
| tan street car line is being wired from
Ninth street east. to the terminus Gangs
| of workmen are busy at several points, and
| the work is progressing rapidly.
An amusing incident yesterday afternoon
Was the spiling of a talf-bushel Of moth
| eral postoffice building. The street in
| clines at that point, and the white balls
! rolled by twus and threes and in heaps
| leisurely toward The gutter, while passing
| clerks stepped giHgerly among them. The
unfortunate porter tried t. scoop them up
with his hands, and half dozen ne wsi'oys
| lent their help.
The new chief examiner of the civil
| service commission, Mr.. a S Severn, of
| tie Treasury. was a the commission huid-
| ing yesterday, and said he expected to
take up the work within week or two
| soon after his confirmation.
| Samuel Delaney. alias VIII Miles. alias
| MurdoCk, the young negro charged with
| stealing a horse and wagon. the property
| of Mr.. Winfield OF Hyattsviile, was brought
| to police headquarters this morning and
| measured by the Bertillion apparatus oy
| Detectives ROardman and German. be
| WAS afterward Photographed for the rogue's
gallery. Delaney was captured Monday
morning on the Bladensburg road.
| Mrs. Emma E. Martin. a venerable lady,
| living al No. 1lS Sixth street, was pain
fully injured last evening by falling head
long from the porch in front of her resi-
dence.
pet canary bird killed and devoured by a
vagraEt cat several days ago. She invested
in quarters worth of strychune, and the
deaG-animal wagon has been busy carting
dead felines from tue Deighborhood ever
| since.
| Tie Treasury Department has Ust issued
| n synopsis of the Departments decisions on
the construction of the tariff Ia W. together
With the report of the board OF appraisers.
IT falling off his bicycle yesterday TO avoid
| injuriBg a Child crossing Sixteenth street.
| William Mccoy dis!ocated his elbow. He
| was taken to the Emergency Hospital and
| later removed to his home, No. 1911 N
street northwest
Deputy Health Officer Harry Mclean
will leave Friday to become spectator the
succeeding day on the Princeton College
baseball grounds, OF the final game Of a
series between Yale and Princeton teams.
| Mrs. Mclean will leave later to be with
her husband to witness the commencement
exercises at Princeton. their son, Wallace
Donald, being a mcmher of the graduating
class iG the la department.
Albert Prater, sixty-five years Of age,
was overcome by sudden attack of ILL.,
ness at Thirty-second and streets, George
town, last night. The patrol wagon con-
veyed him to his home, No. 3013 2 street
northwest.