The morning times., 1896-12-01
City Brevities

Senator Squires left yesterday for New
York.
No. / engine has not been out since
Thursday.
Mr. Harry Nesbitt, of the Oxford, is in
Warrentown, Va.
Master Mechanic Giles, of the Navy Yard,
is confined to his home by sickness.
All of the committee rooms in the Cap
itol are being furnished with new carpets.
Capt P. II. Cooper, superintendent of the
Naval Academy, was IN tne city yesterday.
Mr.. R. A Guess, of Scranton, Pa, is
visiting Mr.. John Kane, of Z street north
east.
Capt. Robert n. Getty, Twenty-second
Infantry, is at 1909 Corcuran street ON
leave
Three brick dwellings have been erected
on Kentucky avenue southeast, near East
Capitol.
There is a dangerous hole in the side
walk on Thirteenth street southeast, near
E street.
Mir. Reuben Harlow. OF 1874 Park place
| southeast, has been confined to his nome
| by Illness.
Mr.. Shelby Williams, of Texas, is visit
| ing Judge Chester Rees, of the Treasury
| Department
Mr. w Il. Carr of Third and East Cap
| itol streets has gone on short trip to
BrlstCc, "a.
Tie operating room at Emergency Hos
| ptal has Just been fitted with new
steel ceiling.
South Carolina avenue southeast, be-
tween Twelfth and Thirteenth streets, is
| being graded.
Mr.. j. j. Dugan, of 200 Eleventh street
| southeast. has gone down the Potomac
ON ducking trip.
Mr.. E. r. Bacon, president of the Balti-
| more and Ohio Southwestern Railway Com
| pany, is in the city.
Mr. and Mrs. John Brennan of No SO
| e street. are receiving congratulations on
| the advent OF son.
\ number of limbs from trees are ly-
| ing in the roadway ON Fifth street south
| east between \ and u.
| Mr. and Mrs. Cox of Toronto, Canada,
are visiting Rev. DR.. Hugh Johnston and
| other friends in this city.
The west sidewalk of Thirty-second street
| Georgetown, is in a bad state of repair
| betw 7 and Q streets
! Mr.. Percy Foster OF this city attended
| the last meeting of Evangelist Crittenton
Sunday night in Baltimore.
Mr.. J. D. Knox, of the Government Print
| ing Office, who has been ON Il aun,ing
trip in Virginia, has returned.
j The regular Monday dress parade at the
| Marine Barracks was not held yesterday
| owing TO the inclemcnt W weather.
Work was begun few days ago on the
| laying of new payements along Thirteenth
| street southeast, between B and C.
Only one arrest was made in No. 5
police precinct during the twenty y-four
hours ending at a. III. yesterday.
The Trades unonist the official organ
| OF the Central Labor Union. has been
| increased in size to five-c column weekly.
| The members of the Social Science Club
are making arrangements for the winter
series OF meetings, which will begin shortly
A horse attached to farmers wagon
ran away On H street yesterday and over
| turned the wagon at the CORNER OF Twelfth
street.
Mr. Arthur Fitch OF H and Fifteenth
streets northeast returned yesterday from
Washingtonyille, N. Y, where he spent
Thanksgiving.
Bicycle Policeman Duval was in evidence
last night and arrested Charles Sorrel
and Joseph Minor, charged with scorch
ing on the streets.
Commodore Melville, chief OF the engin.
eering. bureau of the Navy. has gone tc
| New York to inspect the machinery of the
vessels at the navy yard there.
Two heavily laden wagons belonging t.
s. S. Daisll & Sons got stuck fast in the
mud OH Florida avenue near Seventh stree,
1 yesterday, and could not be moved.
The grading and curbing of the park
around Hancock statue have been COM
pleted and workrnen were yesterday Ell
gagged in placing the shrubbery in position
An iron railway similar to the one used
in the digging of the street trunk sewer
has been raiSeda the corner OF Twe wenty- six til
and NJ streets, where a sewer is under
construction.
Two Knights ofLabor assemblies met last
night and considered the resolutions re-
ferred to them by District Assembly66 at
its last meeting. What action was taken
would not be made public.
The entertainment department of the
Epworth League Chapter of Trinity NJ
Z. Church will tender reception to thei
retiring president, Mr. Enos r. Berkeley
on Wednesday evening, December 8.
Glen w. Buckingham. the well-knowI
proprietor of "Slug 52.'' a cigar store a
o. II street, made an assignment today Il
Charles Il. Groome. The liabilities art
S1l7.46 and the assets $140. 10.
The Carson and Allis on Club of the Fif.
teenth assembly district will meet Wednes
day evening for the purI ose of reoIganiza
tion and to take steps looking tn participa.
ticn in the Mckinley inaugural parade.
Mr.. John Coyne was taken from one O
the Navy Yard cars last night. at the corne
of Second and streets, suffering from
an attack of epilepsy. He was convene,
to Providence Hospital in the patrol wagon
Charles R. Newman and Carroll Merce
filed 4 Judgment creditors bill toda,
against David NJ. Lea for the sale of lot
81, 121, 125, 142, square 913, on NintI
street northwest, to satisfy judgment 70
$4,657.
The thirty-first annual session of the
Grand Lodge OF the District l. O. G. T., will
convene this morning at Wesley Chapel,
corner Fifth and F streets puSlictempe
ance meeting will be held in the evening
at the Fifteenth Street NJ. E. Church.
Arrangements for the Republican jollifi
cotton which will take place next Thurs
day evening at Center Market Hall are near
ing completion. A feature of the evening
will be the singing of male chorus OF
fifty voices under the direction of Percy 8