The evening times., 1896-12-15
City Brevities
w. ID. Bynum is a guest

at the National.
Muller Try. the New York artist, Is max
ing a BRIEF Visit to this city,
Frank l.. Woods, OF Kansas City, is VISIT
ing his parents on II street northwest.
Dr. Fred &. Van Vliet. Of Shrewsbury,
vneE
Warden Leonard left last night with
eaten or prisoners for the Albany peniten-
uary.
The guard mounts at the Marine Barracks
have been discontinued since cold weather
set IN.
Dan Donnelly y, the bookinaker, wen known
| here has scared a divorce from his wife In
| st Louis.
work Will shortly be begun on the new
| roof over the gun carriage shops at the
navy yard.
worKmen were engaged this morning in
putiigs - tei-fooi sIIre on the 1rfpity ii.
r. Church
The regular three months examination
or the apprentice boys at the navy yaru
| was held today.
A small fire dIl Sl5 damage in the house
| of Isaac Levy, No. 622 l. street north
west, yesterday.
A patent has just been issued to an At
| lanta, ia, inventor for machine Tor piiins
| lumber automatically.
| A large crowd attended the secondiEdoor
| concert this season of the Marine Eand
| at the barracks last night.
The tournament Of the Ladies' Golf Club.
l
postponed until tomorrow.
Master Mechanic Giles of the navy yard
| Is confined Ia his home wrh typhmd ieVeri
and Is rcgardedaS scriouslyin.
| Congressman J L. Hutcheson, OF Texas,
| returned yesterday rTonsi Maryland hunt-
| ing trip, ANA is ;it tie \ rlinstOl.
| Congressman II Ii. Turner, OF Georgia,
| after several Gays absence, returned y"ster-
! day, and is registered at the Riggs.
| Future appointces at st. Eli2abeth's gov
| mi tai bga
| luired To pass Il Ciyli service examination.
The Young Mems League OF the + Street
| baptist Church discussed We iiiiSsiuH topicd.
| their meeting at No. 2l3l l. street last
| night.
The reconstructed machine shops at the
| navy yard VIII tie ready for occupancy III
| two weeks. aud give employment TO Il large
number or men.
| George +. Newton has obtained Permit
| for the CONSTRUCTION or SIX dwellings at
| Nos. 1873 to 1879 r street northeast,
| To cosv Sl2,UOO.
| The Golden Rod Pleasure Club will give
| its FIRST annual ball tins evening at HlineS'
Hall. at Eighth street and Pennsylvania
| avenue southeast.
Mrs. Dean, wife OF Medical Director
| Richard . Dean. L. =. N, has been called
| to Inc,iauapoLig by the death Of her father,
, Hon. j. j. Bingham.
The omiads.' "a new Mandolin club. has
| been organized In East Washington, with
| Messrs. N. r.. weaver, w 1odu, Is. Roane
and Dleudonnc, as members
George Smith is locked up at the Second
precinct charged with the larceny of cnth-
| ing worth $50 from Martha Washington.
| Policeman Lichtfoot made the arrest.
The rear center basement entrance 10 the
city Han has been closed. ana that por-
| ton or the corridor Is being converted INTO
| a room, to he used by the court copyists.
d. The A Anti-J Golden Club OF the Nineteenth
| ward. of Philadelphia, is trying to secure
quartz here for the inauguration. The
| club VIII be in the ina usural PROCESSION Zoo
. strong.
The friends OF George +. Pyle are urg-
! ing Tim for appointment as postmaster or
| Anacostia when Mr.. julius IOlson's term
| expires. Mr.. + yl-s was Mr.. Tolson S pred
| eccSSDr.
John Jennings was fined $40 or thirty
| Ga ys In jall by Judge Miller today for as
sauiting John Taylor IN pool room. PMS
| oner and complainant were wcll-dresst'd COL
Ored men.
pr. W. II. Hawkes. will conduct the COM
| Detitive examinations for the position or
assistant resident physician OF tue EmeT-
gency Hospital at the institution next
| Thursday.
Mai John e y. Colby, who was indicted
by the grand Jury on a charge of setting up
gaining table. yesterday pleaded not
guilty before Judge finghdIn, ana was re-
leased on $500 btl-
Policeman u Dea. or the Ninth precinct,
arrested James rridgcon, yesterday after
noon, charged with the larceny Of lcwciry
| from MI Milo Ballantyne, OF No. 1885
| Emerson street northcast.
| Policeman Whalen arrested Michael Sui
| livan on Sixth street this forenoon on
warrant charging him withstealing q razor
| and other articles from j. II. HICKS, No
80 Pennsylvania avenue southeast
| In criminal court, No. =. yesterday
Blanche Johnson pleaded guilty 10 the
| larceny OF SILK dress, and was sentenced
by Chier Justice Bingham To one year and
one day at the pcnitentiary at Albany.
While driving n fractious horse in East
washington yesterday, A. A. k;iser was
l fl.4F 1.vf fa.g al
seriously injured lie was removed 10 his
home, No. 12S Washington street, Ana
costa. III the tirrh precinct patrol wagon.
An alarm was turned in yesterday after
noon to engine company No. by Police
man Van Horn OF the second precinct
FOR Il slight blaze in the third floor Of No
| 622 l. street northwest, which Resulted in
a damage OF Sl5. The house is owned by
Mr.. Leroy Isaacs.
Mrs. j. ". Babson and Mrs. |. + Mac
| Tarland are making the Arrangements Tor
the annual dinner to. the newsboys. They
request that those who Ccsirc To con
tribute money or provisions send their gifts
10 tie Maulsby Home for Ncwsooys, No.
23D street northwest.
! TWO permits have been issued by the
commissioners 10 the Potomac Electric
Power Company. one to extend sutlSici1ry
conduits on the north side OF VI street, To
connect with premises No. 3O6I on that
street. and the other to connect with sun
dry other premises on NJ street.
James Pndgcon, a white youth. en-
| plOyeI as a SteaIi-uJtcrS assistant. WIS
fined 500 or three months IN jan ny Judge
Miller today for stealing a diamond set
ring. valued at S26, and a brooch, worth
IS. from Waldo ". Valentine, IN whose
house the prisoner was working.
James Dolan, painter. who lives at No
| 63S North Carolina avenue southeast, Iei
| from a scaffold yesterday, Willie painting
the front OF No. $40 L street southeast
and fractured his left arm and shoulder
blade. He was removed to the Providence
Hospital in the navy yard ambulance.
MIR. Harry c. Steres. n flagman stationed
| at Eleventh street and Virginia avenue
southwest, was taken to Providence Hos
| pital yesterday AFTERNOON with badl!
| and he was able to return to his home on
Eleventh street, near Virginia avenue.
! Additional privates have been appointed
on the metropolitan police force as fol
tween sixth and Eighth streets, Rhod,
Island avenue and y street; George A
LoveIess, FOR duty In and about The Hy,
: | nerlc Ice Company's works, at Fifteentf
. | and streets northeast.
Jim Riley, colore6;, wanted money last
night, but he has natural repugnance FOR
| work. Jim concluded that the cheapest
way was TO rob John Clarks till. Nr
| Clark keeps a saloon at Seventh and
D | streets southwest James abstracted S13
and later in the evening Policemen Peck
and Schneider took HIM in and recovered
, So or the stolen money.
: Ralph Sherwood, a white boy. sixteeI
| years old. lisIng mt No ga l. street north
1 east, had his right hand badly crushed
in printing press at the office OF tn,
. | Age Publishing Company, ElShth ana
streets northwest, tins nlorf Ing. A rinl
+ on the lads finger was embedded deeI
into the flesh, and gave Dr. Lawrence con
I siderable trouble in removing it and dress
4 ing the wound at the Emergency Hospital
, where the boy was taken.
L Ira B Giles, twenty-four years old, il
= | locked 1t No, y station insane. Ht