The morning times., 1896-07-01
City Brevities

| "A. g. Crews OF Toronto is at the Rigg
| House.
| Mrs I. 8. Constantine of New York regis
tered at Pages last night.
Capt. W. Peftiiohn of LyDcIburg, Va.
Is al the Metropolitan Hotel.
Mrs. s. B. Pole and family are speudin,
the summer al Booths Corner, Pa.
DR.. Talmage left this city yesterday fo
bis summer home at East Hampton. L.
Col. a. H. Hudson. chief engineer Of tile
Southern Railway is registered ut the
Metropolitan Hotel.
superintendent or Public Schools j. W.
| Powell will spend his summer vaca tion il
the Catskill mountains
Senator Stephen b. Elkins has closed hi
| homo on Rhode Island avenue and /.
stopping at the SEorcham
| There are eight big schooners lying along
side The Georgetown docks waiting 10 load
with coal for Eastern ports.
Miss Mary Kimberly O: New York. who
has been spending the winter in Washing
ton left Sunday y for Old Point. Va.
An enjoyable entertainment was given
last night NJ the Georgetown Lutheran
Church, Thirty-secoDd and @ streets.
4 A"' hOii itscENc db tuC Ciost VI
business yesterday stood at 1878, ,s1s.
The days withdra wais were $73 500.
The many closed and boarded doors OF
| the northwest tell how many of the resi-
dents are out OF town on their vacation.
The roof OF Anthony Ruppert's ice house
| on the B'adensburg road was burned yes
tcrdiy afternoon. The loss is about 81 90.
Ralph Haistead. John H. Rawlins and T.
! Il. Schutt OF Northeast Washington started
for Baltimore yesterday afternoon on bi-
cycles.
Mr. Joseph McElroy, postmaster of the
House of Representatives,. has moved from
FL East Capitol street to Forest Glen, for
| the summer
DIR. Zaremta. formerly OF Eleventh street,
has returned from q lengthy visit in Paiti-
more and accepted a position on the medi-
| cal siaffat st. Elizabeth's.
Work on the colored cemetery at Fort
Stanton, Anacostia, has been stopped. The
protests of ofthecitizensa saresai1teha We ca used
a hitch in thep.ans ofthe company.
The field day events at Athletic Park
Saturday, July IL will he exceptionally
Interesting as the entries in the several
events are assuming large proportions.
horse attached To Cs yton wagon ran
away last evening on II street. near Fifth
north east. Mr.. Alfred VIII ia ms the
driver. was thrown out, bit not tadly in
jured.
By her last will. filed yesterday, the late
Mrs. Mary }. ID. c. Claudy makes her hus-
band her sole feneiIciary ma lie executor
OF the estate. The paper bore date Of Ocio-
Der 4, 1888.
Arthur HastOn, coiOred, was arrested
last night by Policeman Trumbo and locked
up at No. station for the larceny OF half
barrel OF gasoline valued at about So
from Jacob AtZ.
Mr. and Mrs. a. Z. Randall OF Congress
Heights are a Wizards s. aS are also Stanley
C. Wyman and Mrs. W. b. Brinton and Miss
Brinion, wife OF United States Marshal
Brnton OF Illinois.
The will OF the late Richard McAiister
was filed for probate yesterday. Mrs Mary
i. McAllister. the widow is made sole hem
eficiary and executriX. The paper was
dated November 81, 1885.
A sorrel horse attached to black
wheeled side-bar buggy was found astray
on G street, near the Pennsylvania rail-
road depot, shortly before midnight last
night.
Edward n. Botcler, undertaken. at No.
735 Eighth street southeast, made an as
sgDnent yesterday TO l.. CuEell William
son. The assets are said 10 lie sec, ,2TT.SS;
liabilities, $2l.465. 6s.
The proprietor OF the Ebbitt House has
obtained permission 10 suspend II flag
hotel, to be kept there during the week
OF tho Christian Endeayor convention.
The public alton. office of the Court
n tanhur NJ Ia q
the proprietor. has been removed from the
Power House on Pennsylvania avenue to
No. sos 1-2 f street northwest.
Mr.. and Mrs. G1ndeifinger OF Johannes
burg, South Africa. arrived in the city
yesterday and are stopping at the Airing
ION. Reginald Meakin and Il. l.. Farniloe
or London are aisj at the Arlington.
Early Monday morning, Il burglar entered
the residence of Mr.. james Lansblrgh,
OF No. 2511 Fourteenth street northwest,
and stepped upon an alarm button. The
bell frightened the intruder, who made
his escape. frt
The Personal Liberty Lea que, an organ
ization of weilknown colored men, has
decided to send Il delegation of five to
represent it at Chica 20 during the Demo-
cratic convention. They will be QutItered
at the Keystone Hotel.
Douglass Harrison. colored, was struck
over the right eye with a blunt instru-
mcnt last night in disturbance on North
Capitol street. between q andP 7. Aragged
wound was inflicted, which was dressed
at Freedman's Hospital.
Edward Cummings was scorchng In the
White Lot last night when he was thrown
from his machine. The Young man fell
on his elbow. nearly breaking his arm.
He was carried 10 the Emergency Hospital,
where he received medical attention.
Mr.. Page L. Zimmerman. leader of the
Mount Vernon NJ E. Church choir. was
presented, Monday night, with Il handsome
silver service, the gift coming from the
cnorus members with whom Mr.. thinner
man has worked SO long and faithfully.
In the Polo game Mo nday between
Chevy Chase and the Philadelphia City
Troop, Louis Earle lost his glasses on the
field The ace ident happe ned in tho
first two minutes Of the game. and notwith-
standing his poor eyesigbt the Chevy Chase
man put up good ga me.
James Macarthur did not learn the car
pcpters' trade in his youth. and so, yes
teriay, when he attempted to saw piece
of board he left his thumb in the track OF
the blade Oh the under side. What was left
of it was dressed and bandaged at Emer-
geDcy Hospital last night
Joseph Fields walked into Emergency
Hosmtal last night with the upper part
of his right ear hanging by shred of
flesh and asked to have his injuries dressed.
Fields told DR.. O'CoDnor that he had been
out for a good time on Saturday night, and
did not know in what manner he had been
injured.
Albert johnson attempted to correct his
little nephew yesterday in the absence Of
the boys father. The usurper of parental