The evening times., 1896-11-21
City Brevities

The water main at Thirteenth and
| streets southwest has bursted.
Consul Curtis, of Stockholm, Sweden, lef,
Washington yesterday for his post.
New brick store buildings are in course
| of erection on Harrison street in Anacostia
Judge W. C. Caldwell, of the supreme
| court or Tennessee, is guest at the Nor
mandie.
The +. S. Carmody Construction Company
| of this city was yesterday granted charter
| IN Alexandria.
| A mission has been opened on the Bla-
| d.nssurt road by the ladies' of the Four
| dry NJ. L. Church.
The Secular League will begin holding
| It's series OF meetings tomorrow afternoon
| at 8 o'Cluck in the hall in Typographical
| Temple.
Ex-senator Patrick Walsh, of Georgia
| who arrived ut the Metropolitan last night,
VIII remain in the city for Il few days on
| political business.
Grant Bennett. colored, was arrested last
| night in Clicks alley by officer Colts for
| beating his wife. whom he found enter
tanning IA stranger.
Congress will convene this year on De
| -'eIiJ-ri the latest possible date. With tie
holidl Us taken out, il Will make an unu-
| sually short session
Three plain drunks We're the sum total
| of arrests at the Georgetown police station
during the twenty-four hours ending at
O'Clock this morning.
An allotment OF 81 800 from the appro-
priaticn for main ana pipe sewers, for use
in the current quarter, has been approved
by the commissioners.
Tie annual meeting of the Alumni $50
ciation OF the Columbian University has
been set for December s. Invitations have
already been sent out.
John T. Craven and Henry J. Allen have
each been granted a license as master
| plumber and gas-fitter, conditioned that
they file the necessary bonds.
Tie Rev. Edward Warren, pastor OF Faith
VI. L. Chapel, Will address meeting for
men tomorrow afternoon at the Y. NJ. c.
tury.''
The Dist rict Commissioners have ap-
proved an allotment OF $50 600 from the
water fund for cnntinnuing the extension
oi the hgh-Scrvice system Of water dstri-
button
Sevchi y-onc dodgers were registered at
the municipal lodging house last nj igilt, and
% at the Central Union Mission. Both
Institutions are filled 10 their sleeping ca
pacity-
There are fifteen Senators and about twice
as man! Representatives. in the city. A
| number OF others are expected early next
week, and prepas ations are being made To
receive them.
Last night a brilliant reception was ten
| dcred Rcv. Stowcll l.. Bryant. and the
official beard at st. Paul's NJ. f. Church,
Eighteenth street and Massachusetts ave
me northwest.
John Madison, u Young white man, WAS
brought To the Emergency Hospital yes
! terday afternoon with several cuts ON his
head. the result of a bicycle accident ON
! Eighteenth II street, near l..
| John Sullivan, who stole three turkeys
| from a cuuntryHian named John Burrel.
! as told in The Morning Times, was sent To
| jaIl for three months-thlrty days for each
| bird-by Judge Miller today.
Tie committee on Thanksgiving dinner
| for the poor held q meeting vest erday after
noon al the Central Union Mission. Certain
supplies wer" ordered purchased and ililes
! Of work given to the collectors.
The body of Henry NICK emma, who was
! killed h ' the cars in Philadelphia Thursday y
| nj giu, Will he sent here Ior intcrmeni,
! upon instructions sent to the chief or 20
/ lice by his brother, John z. Mckenna, last
night.
The body of Jordan Dickinson, colored.
| who died Wednesday of heart disease at
| FrecdInan's Hospital. was buried III the
! Potter's Field today by CnderJaker Mich
ui>, none OF his friends having claimed the
remains.
\ course Of lectures pn political his'Or y
( aud current events is being given every
TiurS'ia morning ut A.i5 O'CLOCK AZ wash
iugton Seminary, Sev enteenth and q streets.
The y include domestic and foreign topics OF
timely interest.
The executive committee of the Virginia
Republican 4 Association decided last night
at a meeting held at No. 923 + street o.
purchase 100 uniform "vercoats and SIX
hats for the members to wear III the IN
auGurai parade.
An order has been issued from the office
of the Commissioners for the la wing of
water pipe connections in Phelps place.
| Detwceu Leroy place and Connecticut ave
| nuc. The cost is to re asScSSed against the
/ prOpert Y To he served.
! The Iuncn room belOngin cto the District
| government AT the wholesale market, Tenth
and Il streets northwest. VIII pTGbabiy
| he icfsed for another year by Mt: sexiu.
! Ross. the present occupant. 1t VIII be let
I the second week in December
An elaborate program has been arranged
| for the observance of Thanksgiving Day IN
| the First Presbyterian Church. The audi
ence room will he handsomely decorated
| and especial musical selections VIII De
| rendered Dr. Talmasc will preach
| Dr. T. Douglass Webb was yesterday re-
moved as committee nt Ills brother, George
| Webb. now confined at st. Elizabeth S.
| This action WIS taken upon the petition OF
! the ;iIeg ged lunatc. Mr.. PcytonGurdon was
appointed by Judge Cox to ill the posi-
! ton.
An old man calling himself j. Abel, OF
! Boston. Mass, passed through Rockville
| yesterday on ak from San Francisco
| la boston. He had been out since early IN
April. He expects TO write book on MS
| trip when he arrives at home, about Christ
| HAS.
Rev william r. Turner and Mr.. William
| Z. Horton viii discuss the Pittsburg con
! vention Of the BrothcrhOod Of st. Andrew
| at the Churchmcn's League OF the District
! of Columbia IN Epiphany parish rooms Mon
day night. Dr W IL Wilmer Will alsc
make an address.
| The first enlarged number of the Monthly
Bulletin of the Bureau of American Re
puliliCS was issued yesterday, including sew
| ersl pages of paid advertising: this inno-
| vation in government publication having
| been approved by all the republics taking
! part III the bureau.
Rev Walter II. Brooks, pastor OF the
| Nineteenth Street Baptist Church, called
upon the excise board today TO enter u pro
| test against the renew al of licenses in what
| is locally known as the ''Bl ack Belt" a
| neighborhood in the vicinity of Twentieth
| and l. streets northwest.
| Joseph Wall. a fourteen year old school
| boy, fell from wagon IN IT ont OF
Sloau's auction store. on street, this
| wound by striking his head against the
| curbstone He was treated by DR.. Law
| renee. at the Emergency Hospital
The District auditor, today through
| Contractor Cabell, and with his approval.
| dishursed a sufficient amount OF the re-
tanned appropriation due for the construc-
t!Ono the stevens School building to satisfy
| the 81 AIMS of the wOrErncn employed by the
| subcontractor. W. II. Johnson.
The Public Printer has just completed
| the report of the joint Congressional Com
! mittec on the Dedication of the Chicka
manga and Chattanooga National Military
| Park. 1t was compiled for the committed
| bv Gen. Il. V. Boynton n. the historian of tn,
| National Park Commission Itcontain 37s
pages
| Resolved. That the United States shoult
| assist the Cuban insurgents in their Strug
| gle for the independence of Cuba" is tn,
! question which Will be discussed by the Lit
| erary Society of the Young Mems Chris
| tian Association tonight. The debaterS viii
| be Mr.. q. c. Heubncr. affirmative, and Mr.
| W. c. Eldridge, negative.
Lewis Carter, who has for many years
been "a character about the City Hall anC
| police headQuartcrs died at $50 o'Clocl
this morning, in his quarters OH the upper
| floor of the Bradley Law building, cor
| Iter of Four-and- a-half street and Indiana