The evening times., 1896-07-18
City Brevities

| ing washington.
The Riggs House is the stopping place of
James Collins, of Boston.
Fishermen report GELS and catfish galore
| III the upper Rock creek.
| An engineers license of the third class
has been issued to Paul Belt.
| Mr.. l.. NJ. Whitaker is at Greenhrier
| White Sulphur Springs, w. Va.
Mr.. r. L. Dutton and wife have gone to
! Cape May Point for few weeks vacation.
Bishop George W. Peterkin. of the West
Virginia P E. diocese, is registered at the
| National.
Mr.. John H. Robb, OF No. 600 street
southeast, is in Philadelphia visiting his
mother.
Mr.. John C. Logsdon is visiting his
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. ~ C. Lossdon, OF
| Reistertown.
Miss VirSie keech is spending the sum
mer with her uncle, Mr.. William s. keech,
OF Towson, Md.
| Rev. Charles L. Pate, of the North CaDitoI
ME. Church, is home after weeks outing
at Monmouth Park, Va.
| Wallace Warren, of No. S25 n orth Capitol
street, has been appointed pitcher in the
| Woodstock baseball nine.
| The detective office was filled with boxes
and bundles, continuing The uniforms and
helmets for the new policemen.
Joseph Kitchen, wife and daughter, of
Omaha, Neb., are OD an Eastern tour, and are
spending few days in Washington. '''
| F. M. Higgins. John T. Doyle and E. D.
4 ina nod fl,.,s t;<,-,
board of the Civil Service Commission.
| Druggist creese. of No. 2ol Pennsylv
avenue. will leave this evening for sea
son of recuperation in the interior Of Vir-
ginia.
Mr.. James Campbell clerk in the ex-
/ ecutivc office at the District building left
today for an outing of two weeks in Vir-
ginia.
Mrs. Margaret b. Platt, of this city, is
now at Washington Grove. She will be
present at the large w. C 7 U. meeting to
be held at that place.
Congressman John K Cowen was in the
city yesterday on business connected with
the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, of which
heis one Of the receivers.
Frank Talbert, Granville Mills and
Charles J. Hughes have been added to the
force of additional privates, each to serve
without compensation from the District
Mr.. K. Fl. Martin treasurer of Columbian
University, has gone To Hamilton, Va, for
the summer. Mr. Martin will be in the
city as his business engagements may re-
quire.
Columbus Lynch. who was dangerously
| al n hp St.
hoisting the Senate flag last winter is able
to be out again, but is obliged to go on
crutches.
a number of applicants for appointment
on the police force were examined by
Surgeons hewitt. HicSling Mayfieid ancs
Cannon at Lieut.. Keily's station yesterday
afternoon.
The excursion to be given under the n a,.s-
pices of Minnea Kleeburg and Capitol
Lodges, .. X. S. b.. to River View has
been postponed until Wednesday evening,
the ED instant.
The railroad track through the northeast
ern portion OF the city have a sSumcd light
| blue color, owing to the bmeStone ballast
ing recently placed in large quantities be
tween the rails
| toibTeU, iiity years
died suddenly without medical attention ut
her home, No. 1119 Sixteenth street north
west, and Police Lieut. Boyle has reported
the case to the coroner.
Chief Clerk Sylvester will take his family
TO Harper's Ferry today, where lis house
hold will be established during the heated
term. lie will attend to his duties in the
police department, as usual.
Hon Charles A Towue, who is spoken
of as a candidate for President ON the Pop
ulIst ticket. is only a year or two older
than Mr. Bryan. He graduated from the
University orMichigan in / sSl.
The residents OF Anacostia have COM
planned to the police that their favorlte
pump, al the corner OF Harrison and Pierce
streets, is out OF rruer and refuses to yield
its usual cool aud sparkling flow.
Police Lieut.. Tceple reported to head.
quarters this morning that the pavement at
the northeast corner OF Thirteenth and G
streets, was sunken and dangerous to pe-
destrians- 1t is also filled with water,
forming an ugly place in the sidewalk.
The number of cats that infest Judiciary
Square after nightfall has become mat
ter of frequent comment by persons who
have walked through the park. One gentle
man, few nights ago, counted thirty-seven
felines that crossed his path during walk.
Catherine Shreeves, colored, went do wn
to'jail from police court for thirty da VS.
this morning, because she carried a razor.
Catherine admitted that she had no use
| for the razor. She had sewn a pocket
| ~, SO Einc - order to carry the
knife still more easily.
The usual quiet reigned in Georgetown
yesterday. During the twenty-four hours
, ending at O'Clock this morning the Sew.
enth precinct police were called upon tC
make but two arrests Matilda Edwards
alias Catlett, on suspicion, and Charles G ole
man, for disorderly conduct.
The weekly report of the Contra! Un!or
Mission shows that thirty one meetings
were held last week. with an attendance
of 1S,493 persons. There were forty-two
seekers and five conversions. Lod sings
were furnished 3S4 men and women ant
. two sick persons were sent to hospitals. -,
"Col." Perry Carson has discovered thai
Salt river flows through Lincoln, Neb.
Candidate Bryan's home town, and tina
the Platte lies miles away from that sec
ton. The Colonel asks why 1t is tia,
Mr. Bryan should be called the boy Orato
of the Platte" when more suggestiv,
title can be picked up at his own door
1t is believed by the District authorities
that the cotton bands placed by many citi
Zens about the park trees as protect oil
from worms have become the nests of tn
caterpillars. aud that an inspection viii