The evening times., 1896-05-13
City Brevities

A dead infant was found by workmcn in
the sewer at the corner OF Third and L
streets southwest yesterday morning. 1t
was taken to station No. 4 and Coroner
Hammett notified. =.
Much indignation is expressed among the
mail carriers and pOstoffice employees at
the manner in which one OF their number
was treated while attempting to break
through the ranks OF the parade during yes
terdays unveiling ceremonies. II gray
coat was on duty and his passage was OBJ
structed at the corner of Seventh street and
Pennsylvania avenue.
The patrolman at the corner of Ninth
street and New York avenue had lively
chase about 9 O'Clock last night after two
small colored boys who were acting in a
suspicious manner. They were captured and
afterward released.
The meeting of the Single Tax Club this
evening in Typographical Temple viii be adj
dressed by Mr.. Charles =. Newbureh on the
subject of Single Tax and Its Effect Upon
Labor" Mr.. .Newburgh wiilfully answer all
objections to the taxation reform in this con-
nection, and especially the arguments pre-
sented by Mr.. Smart at the meeting last
week.
Representatives Miller and Dayton OF
West Virginia. Col. John Slack, assistant
index clerk of the House. and others inter-
ested will leave this afternoon for Clarks-
burg, W. Va, TO be present tomorrow as on
COOKERS at the Republican State convention,
called to elect delegates TO st. Louis
The three-year-old child OF Mrs. Martha
Gray of No. 6l7 Third street was seriously
Injured last evening by tumbling headlons
from high back porch.
While motor car No. l, OF the Ninth
street line, WIS nearing the Boundary last
night, Lucy LipscoInb. Coored, twenty
years of age. pitched to the roadway,
striking on her head. She was picked
up III an unconscious condition by Police
man Hall, and removed to her home, No.
912 v street.
A sentence of thirty days in Jail was i'm
posed today upon william Chambers, col
ored, 10y Judge Miller. for assaulting his
wife, Rosa. DIS man." the woman les
titled, knocked rne down an kicked me,
jess like | wuZ Il beast Oh prey. l won't
lib wild Bill no mo, an | guess he wants
ter kill me-
Policemen Adams and Lynch, OF No. 6,
had Andrew Blunt. a young mulattO, before
Judge Miller today, charged with assault
ing John Scott during an argument over
Il bucketful OF lemonade. Blunt was fined
SO.
The charge of assault preferred 10y Rob-
ert Miller against James Arthur, both
colored, was dismissed by Judge Miller
today.
Mr.. John Riley has obtained a permit
to reconstruct and repair the building on
the southwest corner Of Louisiana ave
nue. and Sixth street northwest. for the
purpose Of converting IT into "A hotel
General Improvements, including a Man
slrd roof. are III contemplation, the cost
being estimated at s. 500.
Detective Robert Boardman had Clifford
J. Dewey before Judge Miller this fore
noon, charged with stealing bicycle val
ued at 500 from CHARLES 4. Cabrera.
manager of the Eclipse Company, at
Fourteenth and II streets. He was sent
10 the grand jury n $500 bonds. The pris
oner went to JAIL
house in the rear OF Mrs. Suess residence,
No. lTl5 street northwest Yesterday.
by sparks from the kitchen stove. The
flames were eXtinguished by Policeman
Hester without turning in an alarm. Dam
age, slight.
The District sewer gang while at work
in the sewer at Third and f streets south
west this morning. hauled a dead infant out
If the filth and slime OF the cesspool. The
-iny corps was removed to No. police sta
ton.
George c. Brown. Of No. 335 Third
street southwest. was overcome by the
neat in the White Lot yesterday afternoon.
Policeman Seymour had Brown conveyed
20 The Emergency Hospital in a SWISS
.aUndTy wagon.
Station Keeper F. Veinstein. Of No. 8,
IS confined to his home by sickness.
Police Lieut.. MCCathran reports a dam
serous hole in the pavement in front OF
No. 6l2 u street southeast.
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