The evening times., 1896-05-29
City Brevities

Mr.. Willis OF Delaware introduced bill
In the House yesterday providing Tor the
examination by the Civil Service Commits
sion oil all persons employed in the CLASH
fed service OF the United states, who have
not passed said examination and filling
vacancies caused thereby.
Detective Gallaher, Of the central office,
reported to Sergt Perry last hight that
some one had stolen his bicycle lamp. A
general alarm was sent out With q Gescrip-
ton of the thief and the detective started
oil hunt for his property. Shortly altcr
dark he saw u wheemau approaching, and
recognized his lamp on the bicycle. The
officer claimed his property and was about
to arrest the man when the latter gave
satisfactory explanation and was allowed
to so.
Ex-Joumai Clerk Nat Crutchfield, who
is in Kentucky fighting for free silver. is
expected to return here Immediately after
the State convention /
Ex-Representative John ID. White OF the
Eleventh Kentucky district is seeking the
nomination of the Republican, party again,
and expects to return here. He may run as
an Independent candidate.
DR.. o. Z. Howe Mil soon take u trip to
Kansas on business.
Several stores oil Seventh street, Just
south of +, were drenched with rain and
damaged from $40 to $50 each yesterday
afternoon. The proprietors beld "a CONSUL
tation in the walk in front OF their places
just after the storm passed aud talked OF
making the owners of the buildings pay
for their losses.
II cost the District emergency fund $500
TO remove the tree bOughs and other
debris left in the streets and parks as the
result of the storm of a week ago, and
now another allotment ofiprobably twice
that amount will be necessary.
To illustrate the constant danger to
which the people are subjected at the
street railway crossings, District Off
ciai today related an incident that he
witnessed at the junction of Fourteenth
and II streets, when a Metropolitan car
was stopped before clearing the Capital
Traction tracks for the hill horse to be
detached. A Fourteenth street cable car
ran into the rear of the horse car and
slightly damaged it-a circumstance that
might easily have been more serious.
Upon the suggestion OF the building in
| spector the Commissioners have decreed
that no wooden awnings shall be built
| Oh % street. Ill tUc WOTk Oh TttOuStTuttlI1E
| the burned-out business houses. Iron work
! is TO be subs titutcd.
Congressman DOvener left last night for
/ Wheeling, VIVA. He is shocked for "A Decora-
! ton Day address. and will not return to
| Washington until next week.
Past Commander Major Anderson of the
| &. A. X. will go 10 Fredericksburg early
ptfNtr f.,E .tl, IA
Memorial Da y exercises at that pla ce. upon
/ invitation of the Department of Virginia.
During yesterday afternoons storm
| lightning struck chimney on the house OF
! Mrs. Auiby. No. $50 / street southeast,
! aud demolished it. No other damage was
| done TO the building.
The sailors quartered at the navy yard
| and the seamen gunners will lake part i.+
| the street parade tomorrow aud attend
the exercises at Arlington.
James Moffett. aged twenty-seven, was
| thrown from his wheel On Twelfth street
last night by coming In contact with a
! fallen limb. He sustained a slight fracture
| OF the knee. -
| The bronze Statue OF DR.. Gross. the
| pedestal for which is now being erected in
| the Smithsonian Grounds. is expected to
arrive from New York in d fe W days.
The horse and trap donated by the Na-
tionai Fcncibies for the aid oftiie firemen's
| relief fund will he sold I'M shares of ST. each.
the purchaser holding the ticket bearing
| n certain number to take tie outfit. Five
| hundred tickets are to he disposed of.
Messrs. John Shannon and Michael Fla
| herty OF the Bureau of Engraving and Print
ing, are considerably worried about their
| parents. living In ST. Louis. They have sent
a number erOftclegramsinqui bout them,
but have not yet received replies
| During the storm yesterday Public Prin-
ter Benedict did much to reassure the women
employees of his office. He made a tour OF
the building, and had those in the old and
dangerous wing take refuge in the new
| warehouse
The police are getting nice green checks
today.
One OF the dead at East st. Louis is identi-
fled as Judge Faulke OF Vandalia, Ill
| This. il is feared by friends here. is Il mis-
print for the name of Judge Jacob Fouke
for tiIirty-fiye years one OF the prominent
| attorneys at vandaia. and the leader in
stronghold. He and his sister. Miss ri,
were well known in Washington twenty
| years ago.
Lieut. L. NJ Koehler of the Ninth Cavalry
is at the Ebbitt, accompanied by his wife
The lieutenant IS station is at Fort Duchesne.
Utah.
Capt. William P. Hurley, one of the lci.d-
ing Democrats of Maine, isa I the Riggs.
Messrs. s. Sakurai and S. Tia kakura, who
have been sent 10 this country by the
japanese government 10 inspect American
shipbuiiding, are at the Ebbitt.
The trough notes. book OF Clerk FRANK
Smith, of Judge Coles court, criminal part
No. 1, had two murder charges upon it in
one day this week. 1t is an occurrence
not seen once i'll five years on an'average
The Memorial Day holiday began a noon
today. Many of the depa rtment clerks tool
advantage of the two da VS. vacation to visit
their homes.
During yesterdays storm the tail spirt
of the Metropolitan NJ. E. Church was seer
| to sway i'll an arc almost Il FOOT long while
the wind was at the highest.
George W. Wise has brought suit against
Eliza A. Brooks for the enforcement OF ;
judgment creditors bill OF S127, by thu
sale of lot 2, Fife and Fife subdivision.
Edward Fitzgerald has taken out per
NIT for the erection of dwelling at No
91O First street northwest, to cost $4,000
The Seventh Commandery OF Knights o
St. John will be organized tonight at Schlos
ser's Hail, Thirty-first and NJ streets north
west.