The evening times., 1896-06-11
City Brevities

City Brevities
The annual concert by Prof. BiShoff's
| music pupils will be given wednesda yfeven-
ing. June II, at the First Congressional
Church. =
Assistant Building Inspector yermilion
went to Baltimore yesterday evening BY
invitation to inspect a 1ire-escape outfit i'll
use there.
Three patents were issued yesterday to
Washington inventors. The first of these
was to William II Robinson, for "a novel ap-
paratus for playing indoor or parior base
ball. George W. Litueholes patented an
engraving machine. and Frederic P. Dewey
process for treating mixtures containing
sulfids.
workmen are leveling and sodning the
grounds ON the south front of the Con-
gressional Library Building.
Five hundred bicyclists attended the
concert of the Marine Band at the Capito.
yesterday evening.
The police court is being newly wains-
coted and floored.
The board of lady managers of the Old
Woman's Baptist Home will hold their
ANIMAL moonlight excursion to Indian Head
on June 26. The proceeds will be devoted
| to the home
The Mississippi Association met last night
at the residence of Or. Walsh. No. 1904 H
street northwest. A musical and literary
| program was rendered.
The Morning Star Social Club has been
organized. The club is an outgrowth of
the temperance lodge of the same name.
BY an order of the District Commits
sioners. issued today. Privates Thomas
| Inscoc aud W. A. Dixon Of the fire depart
| nient have been promoted to the positions
| made vacant by the decease OF Assistant
! Forenen Giles aud Griffin. Private Thomas
| ID. McLane or the fire force. WHO was cen
| vic,ed OF having been absent withoutieaye,
| was fined SO.
| William Strivcrs, cuarged with assault
| ing Lucien Jackson, was fined $20by Judge
| Miller today, william McKenny was also
| IN court upon complaint OF Policemen Houscr
| and Bre werni;in for seriously assaulting an
/ Italian boy, aud received "A like sentence
! The excise board, acting upon the ap-
| peal OF counsel, has given Mr.. Fred Miller
| proprietor of The saloon on the corner OF
| Eighth and streets, IN extension of IL
ccnse until June 80 He will have to
| close on that date
Detective Ben Rhodes is looking for the
"tapioca pudding game worker who rob-
| bed the house al Mrs. Mary +. Bartlett No
| 9lS II street northwest, as exclusively de-
scribed in The Evening Times yesterday y
| Mr.. Rhodes heiieves the crook left Wash
| ington quickly after turning the trick at
| Mrs. Bartlett's.
vicious dog sIrang upon Nellie o'Brien,
| eight years old, at No. 2i44 + street, yes
terday afternoon aud fastened its teeth in
| her ear and chin. The wounds were cauter-
| lied at the Emergency Hospital.
Mrs. Susan Adams OF No. 9T1 New York
| avenue, was painfully cut and bruised yes
terday by being Knocked down by Il bakers
| wagon on Ninth str
! was tssutN 10 hlUp
and j. W. Thomas for the construction
OF ten twostoTy dwellings ut Nos. $40 to
! go Morris street northeast. to cost SIS
GOO. Also 10 the Phillips estate for the
| rebuilding of four business houses, Nos.
| 926 10 932 louisiana avenue, estimated
Ia cost Si2 coo.
Howard May, ten years of age. WIS run
over last evening by u horse and wagon
driven by Gcorge Bailey, colored. The
| boy was pla ying IN the roadway i'll front OF
| No. 2o1s Seventh street. After treatment
| at Frcedmen's Hospital he was taken To
his home, No. 2O39 Seventh street
| Policeman Rogers OF the Fourth precinct
| arrested Wiiliam Stone -year-old
schooiboy. last night ON the cha rye of in
corrigibility- Humane Officer Samuel VII
son is complainant.
Thomas J keating. the well known wheel
man, has returned after an extended trip
through Maryland. He reports the roads
| i'll good condition.
II was inadvertently stated in the Morn
ing Times today under the caption Want
| More Delegates that Hon Frank r.
Conger Of this city was formerly Postmaster
| General. Mr. CoDger may have deserved
| the place, but his host of Washington friends
know he was satisfied with the honor of
| being postmaster Of the National Capital
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