The morning times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1897, 1896-09-18
City Brevities

run 10 Inulan Head yesterday.
The seamen Gunners at the Navy Yard
will give their annual tan tonight.
The north front of the Marir barracks
wall is receiving a new coat OF FAINT
E. ]. Renick of the State Department has
| returned from his vacation at Cape May.
Flooring, $1.5O per 100 feet. all Que
width. +. Lbbey 4 Co.. 9Th and N. Y. ave
| Messrs. Clarke aud Nordenur have re-
turned froih Il weeks hanting trip through
Maryland. nj
| The street pavement Is icing repaired
on Sixth street, between l. and n streets
northwest
| Mr. Bailey or Fourth street northwest
has returned from Maine, where he spent
| the summer.
Bruce Howard OF Frederick, Md, is
visiting Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Ellis, on
| Vermont ave nue.
! a stray homing pigeon waits claimant
at No. 10 engine house. It's registered
number is t4,i
| &. william Ramsay OF Alexandra. who
has been spending his vacation at Atlantic
City. has returned home.
Secretary of the Interior Francis returned
TO Washington yesterday from visit 10
lis family at Jamesto wn, X. 1.
Mr.. y. W. Canson has returned from
Bait.nUre, where he has been visiting his
mother for the last two weeks.
| Arthur Roy, OF I.augdon, Nd, was treated
at Emergency Hospital last night for a
dog bite received one week ago.
Mr. Frank c. Rice OF the War Depart
ment has returned from a vacation spent
in the Fishing districts of West Virginia.
| Hal hnr
Twelfth street, was treated at Emergency
Hospital last night Tor a case OF ivy poison
| ing.
| Bricklayers have started to rebuild the
| old walls in the noiding shop at the Navy
| Yard, which were torn down several weeks
ago.
| The sum OF SO month was yesterday
| allowed Robert RatheTdale, blacksmith at
| the Washington Asylum, In Communication OF
| ratio rs.
| Work is progressing rapidly on the Meth
| odist Episcopal Church corner Fifth and
C streets southeast. The brick work has
reached the second story.
The Central Cycle Club will meet tonight
| at the residence OF Miss Bo WIDEN, No. Sl3
| Fifteenth street, and take a spin through
the northern section OF the city.
An electric car and delivery wagon
coliided yesterday Afternoon, at the COR
ner of Ninth and p streets northwest. The
| shaft OF the gou was broken.
Robert Barnett. colored, eighteen years
| old, was arrested by Officer A uldridge yes
| tcrday morning Tor the larceny of u watch
vaiuei ut So from Henry Drascher
Candidates for the Eastern High School
| team are practicing back CT Lincoln Park.
The foundations OF the new wing or the
| Wallach school building are being laid.
George Paine. colored, twenty-five years
| old, was arrested last night, by Policeman
| Hartley. on a warrant charging him with
crap shooting on lot near North Capitol
| and L streets.
George b. Shane was, by order of the
| Co mIuissiUners, yesterday appointed AN
| inspector in the District engineer de-
| rartment, with compensation At the -ate
| of 81 per diem.
Amos II Pruitt has been appointed . ssist-
ant Inspector OF the street ana alley CleIning
department, with comrensa ton n he late
| OF $3.50 day The appointment dated
| from yesterday.
Nina Turner, fourteen years old, No. 4O7
| Seventh street northwest. fell yesterday
and sustained an abrasion of the right
| elbow She was attended by Surgeon West
at Emergency Hospital.
Mr. Walter E. Burnley, CHIEF clerk of the
| stat.stician's Office or the Interstate Com
merce Commission, is spending his vaca-
| ton in the mountains OF New Hampshire.
Mrs. Burnley accompanies him.
Rev. F. ID. Power, who Is conducting
services at tho Gospel tent on Four INDIA
half street south west, has complai med to
the police that the services are seriously
disturbed by boys in the neishborhood.
A runaway horse attached to buggy
attempted 70 run into the store or Quong
Sang Lung at No. 3l4 Pennsylvania ave
nue. northwest yesterday afternoon, but
was caught ufLer having broken the Shafts.
Lewis Miiovitch, eight years old. No.
ZOOS E street Northwest, received an ugly
liberation OF the left foot by stepping on
broken bottle. The wound was dressed by
| Surgeon Lawrence at Emergency Hospital.
William F. Ryan, the proprietor of the
merry go-rDund which S stationed on
Warner street, near New Jersey avenue
| northwest, was arrested last night by
Policeman Cooper for failing to have a
| license.
Thomas Dorsey. fourteen years old, No.
| 1910 Thirteenth street northwest, fell and
| 6lslucateu one hand yesterday. He was
Conveyed TO Emergency Hospital, where
the Gslccation was reduced by Surgeon
Lawrence.
The Commissioners yesterday approved
the appointment by the Eoard Of trustees
OF the Girls Reform School, of Mrs. Anpa
j. Rule as superintendent OF that ifs.ilu-
| ton, to succeed Miss Annie N. Baden,
resigned.
Jacob Fisher, u farmer was arrested by
Policeman Hcrndon of the Fist precinct
last night on a charge of larceny preferred
by Mrs. Mary Offenstein. The woman
charges that Fisher Withheld So change
from her.
Bessie, the little daughter OF Mr.. Fred
Walker, residing at No. 1906 II street
northwest. while pla ying in front of her
house last evening, fell, breaking a glass
bottle she was carrying and was severely
cut about the hands.
John Rowser. who conducts feed store
at Fifth and X streets northwest, Was
arrested yesterday morning, by Policeman
Ellis, for an assault upon Charles Queen,
colored man, who lives at No. 324
Eighth street northeast.
A horse attached to huckster's wagon
ran away yesterday afternoon near the
corner of Twenty second and G streets, up
setting and completely demOlshng the
wagon and scattering its contents along
the street for several blocks
The Riggs Fire Insurance Company will
move into its new building on Fourteenth
street this week. In addition to striking
fire alarms, the bell in the tower will
ring at O'Clock in the morning, at noon
and at 6 O'Clock in the evening.
BY order of the Commissioners, issued
yesterday, Private G. W. Jenkins, of the
fire department, was fined SO for Icing
absent on a recent occasion without have.
He was warned that a repitition of the
offense will result more seriously.
About IL O'Clock last night, Edward
Beckett, colored, seventeen years old. was
overcome by the heat at the corner OF