The evening times., 1896-09-02
City Brevlties

benjamin Faweett, OF NO. Szl u street.
is enjoying visit to the seashore resorts
Flooring $1.50 per 100 feet. all one
| width f. Libbey& Co. 9Th andN Y. ave.
Mr.. Dyer, ,ofthe Adams Express Company.
| has returned from a business trip to New
York.
Paymaster Phillips, now stationed at the
navy yard, will be shortly transferred to
Hampton Roads.
Arthur b. seibold, Of No. 110 Maryland
avenue northeast, is spending his vacation
at Niagara Falls.
X. Harris and c. Goldsmith, two well
known merchants. have reformed from n
trip to Atlantic City.
Policemen of the Seventh precinct report
numerous pumps throughout Georgetown
as being out of order.
Will Amiss, OF Sanitary Officer Frank $
office, has taken a short vacation to eTjoy
cunning trip down the Potomac.
A meeting of the Short Story Literary
Club will soon be called, TO outline an en-
tertanrHenL program for the coming season
Rev. Sam Small the evangelist -politi-
clan, who was here yesterday, left today
for Illinois, To take the stump for Bryan
and sewall.
Laborers were employed yesterday in
removing dead limbs from tees on Penn
SylvaDia avenue from Twenty sixth street
to Rock Creek.
Lewis Edmunds, ColOred, lost two fingers
of his left hand while feeding a straw
cutter yesterday. He was treated at
Emergency Hospital.
Two large leaks in the main OF the
Georgetown & as Company were discovered
yesterday in the neighborhood OF Thirty
second and NJ streets.
joseph Krouch and Prot Holmes OF Brook
land returned yesterday from an extended
trip South in the interest of scicnLe. bring
ing home many rare specimens
A large gang of laborers went to work
yesterday on Fifth street southeast, near
n street, on the construction OF sewer
main, which viii run up from the river
Kentucky avenue, from Lincoln Park or.
is undergoing improvement and repair. 1t
will become one OF the handsomest thor
oughfares in the eastern section of The city
Minnie Crounse, WHO yesterday attempt
ed suicide by drinking laudanum, was this
morning removed TO her home frcm froyi-
dence Hospital She is entirely out OF dam
ger
The Comm issoners yesterday certified for
admission to the government insane asylum
Richard E. Williams. He has been ex
amined by a ma arshal's jury and found 10
be crazy.
The choir of Trinity NJ. L. Church VIII
he increased to fifty voices for tie services
in connection with laying the corner stone
OF the new church. corner OF FifSi and
streets southeast
The local colored Odd Fellows viii r.'e5
tonight at I p. m, in the new Odd FeI-
lows Hall to consider ways and means FOR
celebrating the fifticth anniversary of thu
order, which occurs in October.
A meeting of tire committee having
charge or the visit of Candidate Bryan
70 this city will be held this evening TO
decide the question OF admission 10 the
hall on the evening OF his speech.
The gurners mace things lively for IT,.
reed birds in the marshes along the East
ern Branch this morning. This class of
birdsis said To be more than usually numer-
Gus and in excellent condition this year.
The West Virginia Republican CLUB Is
arranging Co secu re hall in which to cstab-
l!sh headquarters and hold regular weekly
meetings fer the remainder Of the cam
paign, beginning about tho 10Th instant.
John d. Leonard. OF No 8, Tenth street
northwest, was informed by the Commits
sioners yesterday, III answer to his letter,
that the assessment against his property
had been made upon due notice and he mt
pay.
John Wilson. colored. a laborer working
On the sewer un Fifteenth street and Penn
sy.vania avenue northwest, fell into The
trench yesterday and cut his eye. The
wound was dressed at the Emergency Hos
pital.
An unknown cycler " as thrown from his
wheel last night at the corner of Thirteenth
street and the Avenue northwest by COLI
sion with a cable car. No damage was
done to the rider but the wheel was badly
twisted.
Assistant Correspondent Elan, of the
local bureau of the New York World, has
returned from his vacation at Atlantic
City, aud is in charge OF the bureau IN
the absence of Mr.. Thomas Alvord In In-
dianapohs.
non L. wat hdTuiu. OF ketltucky, mas
been summoned for political conference
with Chairman Faulkner, OF the Democratic
Congressional committee. Word was re-
ceived that he would arrive last evening,
bui his visit is delayed for day or two
A new rule at Democrats Headquarters
requires all visitors to announce them
selves by card to the officials whom they
wish TO call upon. and Representatives of
morning newspapers are admitted only
between the hours of 8 aud O'Clock p. m.
j. T. wightman, a grocer atEarnson and
Taylor streets, ADacostia. reported yester
day that Monday morning. early, his hoy,
about fifteen years old, was held up on
Harrison street by white man. The hoy
had no money and the man disappeared Up
the road
Miss George Bush OF z street, between
Sixteenth and Seventeenth streets north
west, while on her bicycle, was run down
last night at the corner OF Fourteenth and
II streets by a cart. Her wheel was smash
ed, but the young lady escaped with no
further injury than sprained finger.
james S. Atkinson. of this city, SCALED
10 Charleston, W. Va, several days ago
by the serious illness of his mother. The
lady died on the 31st ultinio, aged eighty
four years. One of her surviving children
is Hon. George W. Atkinson, Republican
candidate for governor of West Virginia.
A singular accident happened to one OF
the Willard Hotel baggage wagons yes
terday morning. 1t was backed up against
the sidewalk near tin, big tree at the corner
OF Fourteenth street and Pennsylvania