Evening star., 1896-11-16
G OND ENSEO LOCAL S

James IL. Bell Of Piedmont w, Va who
Is Ia me city on visit to his sister, fell
GOWN the steps at the union depot in
Georgetown Saturday night and was badly
hurt about the head. He was taken To the
Emergency Hospital.
Saturday afternoon about : o'cloek the
mouse or Policeman John Boland or the
Anacostia road between Auaccstia and Ran
ming, was destroyed by fire defective
nue. is supposed to have caused the fire
which resulted in about 81, 200 damage. The
property was fully insured.
Saturday night about o'clock John h.
farson' Baltimorean, fell on the side
walk near 36th street and Prospect avenue
HIS head as SO badly cut that he had to
be sent to the Emergency Hospital tor
treatment.
Saturday night about o'clock a colo-cd
man named Enoch Smier, who lives at
the head with a hatchet and painfully in
1ured. The wound was received during a
fight in which Sarah Scott and Name
Grant are alleged to have figured. Smiler
was taken to Freedmen's Hospital for
treatment.
squares seldom fail to get covered with
bill posters after they have been erected
several days. Complaint about this method
of advertising has been made by the own
ers of ferces who do not want them dis
Inquired, and the police have given no.ice
to the bill posters that fences are not to
be utilized in this way without permission
of owners.
Henry Wilson. alias Wilzen, and James
Howard, who are under arrest in Philadel-
phia to answer charges here, have been
held under bail for the local authorities.
They will probably be brought here to-
morrow by deputy marshal.
The Virginia Republican Association will
hold ratifo alton meeting tonight at its
headquarters, No. !23 F street northwest.
Several well-known speakers will make ad-
dresses.
Encampment No. 23, Union Veteran Lee
gion. has passed resolutions cons:atulat-
ing Comrade William Mckinley of En-
campment No. IS Of Columbus, Ohio, on his
elevation to the presidency.
While the new city post Office is slowly
creeping toward completion, the supe-i,
tendent's offices in the one-story frame
structure at the northeast corner of the
square have just undergone thorough reno
walton. The walls have been newly kali
scmined and frescoed and the woodwork
freshly painted.
Officer William Amiss, assistant to SAM
tarV Officer Frank has gone to Dayton,
Ohio, where his wife is visiting relatives.
He will not return for two weeks
A new ambulance for service in :he po-
lice department was received from the
shop by Sanitary Officer Frank Saturday.
There are now four ambulances in the
service.
The gypsy camp in Berry's wood, near the
Catholic University, has been re:nforce
by about a dozen families, and the female
members did thriving business yesterday
telling the fortunes of the large number
of bicyclers and pedestrians who stopped
to view the picturesque tents and sur
roundings.
"Hllsdaie was as quiet as a graveyard
yesterday" said one of the mounted po-
licemen today. Judge Miller once said
that there was pigs foot in almost every
window and a jug in the back room But
now we've cleared away the speak-easieS.
Such places caused most of the Sunday
troubles"
During the forty-eight hours ended at
o'clock this morning the police made one
hundred and twenty-nine arrests and only
eleven of the victims We're fortunate
enough to be released when sober without
a charge being preferred. There were
thirty-one females arrested.
One morning last week Policeman Kelly
of the fifth precinct caught a good string
of black bass in the Anacostia river near
the asylum trestle. The fish averaged a
little less than a pound each.
Twenty-one dogs a mule and COW were
captured last week by Poundmaster E,n-
stein. Thirty dogs were killed at the pound
during the past week. Money from sales
and redemptions amounted to SIS.
Food Inspectors Mothershead and Hoover
last week condemned 342 pounds of beef
30 pounds of mutton, 30 pounds of veal
400 pounds of pork, turkeys G. birds, III
rabbits, % squirrels and quantity of
fruits and vegetables.
Last week there arrived at the river front
9,475 punches of fish, ITO carp, IL bass
16200 bushels of oysters and 1000 CLAIMS
Inspector Harris condemned 357 punches
of fish and 500 CLAIMS.
Early Sunday morning the front door of
Mr.. Mckay's house, No. 40 H street mort H.
east, was found open. The occupants of the
house were notified before a thief ha!
visited the place.