The evening times., 1896-08-26
City Brevities

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width. F. Libbey s Co.. 9th and N. Y ave
Policeman Bean, OF the Sixth precinct.
left yesterday TO spend ten days 'Coney
Island.
Capt Edwards, of the Corcoran Cadets,
has returned from a ten days plea sure trip
to Colonial Beach.
Plasterers and frescoeB are engaged In
retouchiDg the ceilings at the State, War
and Navy building.
The old pavement in front of No.
police station has been torn up and a new
one put in its place.
G. S. Southwick, OF Dover, England is
a guest at the st. James. He will remain
here a week, sightseeing.
Last evening Officer Sullivan found an
abandoned Rambler wheel in front OF No.
353 Pennsylvania avenue.
Policeman Walsh, OF the Sixth precinct,
leaves today for a fifteen days trip to
Syracuse and Niagara Falls.
W. R. Speare. of street northwest, re-
turned to the city this morning from
short business trip to New York.
L. T. Ridgeway and J. E. Heath were to-
day appointed on the Metropolitan police
force. for duty at the Agricultural Depart
ment.
Detective Carter yesterday secured
number OF milk cans stolen from Dairyman
Thompson. They were returned to their
owner.
The crossing at the corner OF Thirty
second and N streets, Georgetown, is COM
pletely harricadcd by piles OF gravel and
paving stones.
1t is said that Miss Kate Field was
member of the New York Cremation Society,
and her will probably will direct that her
body be cremated.
The District engineering department is
relaying the pavement on various streets
wher re torn up to put do W n the Pintsch gas
pipes. The Fintsch company pays the bill.
Dr. withers, who lately resigned as sur
geon OF the Emergency Hospital. will leave
for his home IN North Carolina next week.
He has not yet decided where he Will To-
cate.
Miss Alice Wade Rice OF Baltimore will
address the young people OF the West Wash
ington Lutheran Church tomorrow evening
| in the interest OF Home and Foreign Mis-
| sions..
Engineers licenses were ordered today to
| be Issued as follows A. F. Condscy, first
class; James W. Conover and Eli Giclas,
second class and Fenton Horad and j. B.
Malone, third class.
Baron Fava. the Italian ambass ador,
was at the State Department yesterday.
| coDferring with Acting Secretary Rockhiil
concerning the recent lynching OF three
alleged Italians in Louisiana
| Extensive improvements are being made
| upon the interior OF West Washington Lu-
| theran Church, corner OF Thirty-seC ond and
| o streets northwest. a new pancled ceiling
| OF galvanized iron will be one of the chief
| additions. .l.r.
n. I. Crutchfield, for ten years connected
with the House of Representatives as
clerk to Speaker Carlisle and in other ca
pacites, has returned from his home at
Louisville, KY, where he has been cam
painging for Bryan and Sewall.
The Seventh precinct police station at
Georgetown did land office business yes
terday. The record was twcnty-four ar
| rests. Fifteen of these were victims of the
| unlicensed dog regulations. The others
We're charged with drunk and disorderly.
The time within which the amendment
to the schedule of limitations and provi
sioDs relative to the projections of portions
OF buildings, recently promulgated shall
take effect was today extended TO include
the ''thirtieth day after its official publica
ton
The Free Library, on II street, near Yer.
mont avenue, opposite the Cosmos Club
by assigning a space to each important
author OF fiction, and likewise com.
partment to books relating to each leaGing
nation.
a bold theft, in the open day, was among
the novelties recorded in police circles
yesterday. So income, as yet unknown,
broke open show case in front OF Wal
ford's cutlery store, about 9 O'Clock in the
afternoon, and stole therefrom a number o
articles.
The extension of the patrol box servic,
to the suburbs seems to be assured, favora
bic responses to the request for permission
to string the necessary wires on the poes
of sundry corporations having been re-
ceived from the majority of them by tn,
Commissioners.
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asked the Secretary of War for copy o
| each OF the reports on TEST of Metals.
made ut the Watertown. n. Y. Arsenal TO
the years 1892 to 1885, inclusive, the in
formation being required for the use Of tn,
District building department.
Mrs. w. II. Douglass, who fell from
Metropolitan car in Georgetown, Sunday
evening, rs told exclusively in The Tirres
: IS improving and will recover She sus
tanned q severe nervous shock. in addition
to being greatly bruised, and will be con
fined to her bed for Some time
District Master Workman Simmons, o
the X OF L.. expresses great interest il
the proposition advanced by the schoo
trustees for the construction OF manua
training school buildings in the city, ant
says ii will have the undivided suppoE
OF organized labor. 1t is a move whicl
the labor unions have long advocated.
The Federation of Labor, at its meeting
last night, purchased fifty of the tickets
for the excursion to be given September 4
for tue benefit of tile unemployed printers
and turned them over to the manager O
the Labor Bureau, 10 be distributed gra
tuitously among the unemployed working
men whose names appear upon the registr,
there.
Willie Carter. the boy who was yesterla.
committed to Jail to await the action O
the grand jury upon the charge of having
stolen diamond pin, is the sam precociou
lad who testified before the excise boart
several months ago against the Emricl
Hotel proprctors, when tl.cir application
for liquor license was pending He told o.