The evening times., 1896-08-28
City Brevities

Mr.. Harry Packard. OF Twelfth street.
is visiting friends at Warren, o. -o~t
The st. Ann parish fair closed las: Eight
after two very successful evenings.
otto Williams, OF the Postofficc Depart
ment, Is taking trip to Boston by sea.
Flooring $l.5O per 100 feet. all enc
width. +. Libbey& Co. Gth and N. Y. ave.
Tie Georgetown Mckinley and Hobart
Club will meet this evening at 2e13 Dunn
barton avenue northwest.
Mrs. Ada Williams. of 633 @ street
northwest. has returned from a months
visit to friends on the Hudson.
The Mount Pleasant Field Band will
go to Burnt Mills Saturday night to attend
the Democratic meeting at that place.
The Republicans of the Eighteenth Penn
sylvania Congressional district yesterday
nominated Thad. NJ. Mahon for Congress.
pr. Zaremba one of tie staff at st.
Elizabetl's Hospital for the Insane, hus
resigned TO attend to his private practice.
Contracts have been awarded for street
improvement for the current year, which
call for an expenditure agsregating $780,
600
PrOf F Menefee will preach at the Met
rOpolitan Baptist Church Sunday. The
pastor. Key. &. W. Williams, will return
September 4. a""'f
Some broken glass in the road in front
of the Smithsonian Institution was re-
spOnsible FOR several puuctured bicycle
tires last night.
Postmaster Willett, who has EceD So
journing at Cape May has returned to tie
city He will leave shortly for tiip to
the Blue Ridge
The roll of trunk-ladep express wagons
over the streets indicates that the col
weather is bringing the summer visitors
back to the city.
Judge Cox yesterday gave an order OF
publication in the suit of the Fow lcr Cycle
Company against Eugene De Riva, tie mis-
sing cycle agent.
\ merry party from the vicinity of Ninth
street northeast chartered three teams
last evening and took Il straw ride re-
turning about midnight.
The poliue assert that the number OF
''vags' found in the city now is unusually
small when the stringency of the times is
taken into consideration.
Henry Lewis. colored, fell yesterday on
the Aqueduct Bridge, cutting IA deep cash
in his forehead DIR. Turner, at the Emer-
gency Hospital. treated him.
james l . Helm, leading attorney Of
Louisville. KY, Is at the Shoreham with IA
Party ,f friends from the Blue Grass State
who are here to see the capital.
There was heavy fall OF rain ast hight
in vienna. which continued throughout to-
day. The review of tie troops ia honor
of the czar was therefore abandoned.
The Mayflower Socia Club held lis regli-
lar weekly meeting last night Mt the
house of Miss Williams. ON Half street.
between N and n streets southwest.
George Williams. oolored, fell over the
Humane Society trough. corner OF Fourth
street and the Avenue, southeast, yesterday,
and badly bruised both legs. He was ale to
go home unsssisted.
Robert Riddle, of Boston, who was ap-
pointed collector for the estate OF the
late Kate Field, made application as next
OF kin. II is understood that he is j
nephew.
The report of the appraisers, Smith
Thompson, jr.. aud L. V. Barry, for The
estate of Mrs. Caroline W. Morgan. flied
yesterday, places the personality ut
S362TO. =.
Two lamp posts are being placed iu
front of the new engine house which has
been erected for No. 9 fire company Oh
Z street between Fourteenth and Fifteenth
streets rorih west
J. tsfT Of r
Pensions Dominic !. Murphy, with a bio
graphical sketch, appears In the August
number OF the American Countcrfeiter and
Literary NJ gazine.
The funeral of Jacob CEr~,an, who died
Tuesday morning at his home 246 Madison
street northwest. took place yesterday
afternoon a Liberty Baptist Church, Eight
centh and + streets northwest
An investigation as 10 the sanity of
John Harris, the coored man found wan
derug on Pennsylvania aTenue near
Twentieth street Saturday night viii
probably be held this afternoon.
Major C. J. Moore, provisional commit
teeman of the national committee for Ar
kansas, yesterday made public . call for
convention of sound money men of Ar-
kansas, to I've held in Little Rock Augusta.
Charles Warren, while racing with the
electric car on the Chevy Chase line last
night, struck a stoue in the road and was
thrown to the ground Both his machine
and face were badly narred by the COL
Hsion.
T. Fred Alvey, Commissioner Truestlril's
private secretary, went to HagprStowu, Md.
la knx.,
He is arranging for the return OF Mrs Al
vey to the city and with her an interesting
juvenile.
The garden fete of the Junior Gr,er OF
ReciIabites, which has been in progress
for two days at the corner of Pennsyl-
wanna avenue and Sixth street southeast.
was concluded last night. The event was
\ success
Dr. Aaron Baldwin. well known here 4
few years ago. as "a successful hoaIeopat hic
practitioner, n tile earnest request of many
of his former patients. has concluded to re-
snme practice at No. 1905 Eleventh. street
northwest. ..,,
The pink water lilies in the lake in the
northwest section o. the Mall are now at
their prcttiest. Scores ef stroliers may be
seen each afternoon stopping before the
handsome flowers that are be- yoad reach of
the hand.
Commissioner OF Pensions Murphy has
shown his patriotism by causing two flag
poles to he erecteiSover the Pension Bald
ing where there WAS formerly only one.
A handsome specimen of Old Glory now
waves from either side of the great red
building
II is reported here that the Brazilian
minister To Italy has LEFT Rome and gone 10
por c0pSanuonco nr tho ,pa.i r,I,,