The morning times., 1896-11-19
City Brevities
to continue


IN town yesterday, visiting friends OH
| Capitol Hill.
Mr.. Harold Seudder, of s22 New Hamp-
| shire avenue, has returned from an outing
in Maryland.
| In the nty-four hours ending at
p. III. yesterday there We're no arrests at
| No. 9 station.
Yesterday the express wagon of j.
Mitchell, u cuiored man, was smashed in
| runaway.
There was another large crowd in al
| tendance last evening ut st. Dominic
| Church fair.
Mr.. r. g. Manicure, of eli Fifth street
northeast, has returned from il visit in
| Stafford county, Va.
Twofoot terracotta sewer mains are
! being laid along street southeast, be
| tween First and Second.
The roof Of the Fifth Street Baptist
| Church, corner Fifth and Virginia avenue
southeast, is being repaired.
Mr.. Ralph Harlan. well known in local
musical circles, will leave tomorrow for
a visit to friends in st. Louis
| Mr.. and Mrs. John c. Williams. who were
| injured in an accident ON Monday, are re-
ported as rapidly improving.
! The Washington Gaslight Company is
! eNcavatingthe roadway between Sixteenth
and Seventeenth streets, on z.
| Tie winter frame covering is now being
put on the statue OF George Washington
on the east front OF the Capitol.
| The warm weather has produced a new
| crop of hoboes who are daily coming and
| going on the B. & y. tracks.
Yesterday the Trinadad football team
held practice game on the open ground
near the roundhuuse OF the b. II ..
Mr.. Horace Hodge OF New Hampshire
| avenue northwest left yesterday for a
| try at the deer in the mount aims OF West
Virginia.
Tie two-master schooner Star Of Two
Lock-, from Perryville, Nd. is tied up
| AT Williams wharf, foot OF Third street
| southeast.
gagged III making repairs TO THE concrete on
! l. street, between NInpIeentR and Twenty
| second streets northwest
| The funeral of Mr.. Joseph BrumnIctt
late chief clerk Of the Naval Ordnance
Bureau was held yesterday afternoon from
| his residence, No. 105 Fifth street north
east.
John L. Chrismond, a carpenter. was ar
| rested on "a warrant sworn out by Jennie
Brent, and taken TO the U street station
last night, charged with assault and bat
terry.
Aloysus Langley, painter by trade.
was locked up at No. . station last evening
| by Officer Fitton charged with the EN-.
| beZZlcment of S26 from Baker AdoIph
| Gasslnan.
Col. Charles Chaille Long will lecture
| tomorrow evening before the Nationa
Geographic Society, at the First Congrega-
tional Church, on Egypt and her lost
| provinces"
A force of men was yesterday enjoyed
| Ill eNcavating on Pennsylvania avenue,
! between Seventeenth and Eighteenth
| streets northwest, for the U. s. Electric
Lighting Company.
There is a dangerous hole in carriage.
| way in an alley between Nineteenth and
| Twentieth, L and NJ streets north west,
| caused probably by the bursting OF u water
pipe.
y slight change for the worst is reported
in the condition of Mrs. Albert Martin
who has been lying seriously i'll for some
time at her home, No. 316 B street
| southwest.
Eugene Wilkins, colored, twenty years
of age, was arrested by Patrolman Cats
List night and taken to the L street sta
ton because he carried a large revolver
| W.tn cartridge in every CHAMBER
The Woodburn Club gave an entertain
Il
Brightwood Tuesday night. Among the
features of the evening was the singing of
Mr.. William L. Smith and Mr.. Robert
| Lowry.
Journeymen BARRIERS Union No. 81 have
decided to give ball about the middle
of next month. The arrangement com
mittee are Messrs. g. W. Brown, B. B
yost r. Solmon, L. II. Nicer. E. NJ
Mendenhall
1.
| Eolten riding faster than the law allows
and started after him. Holten was Tot
disposed to be caught and for a few blocks
let, Estes lively chase but the officer
| overhaulcd him.
John Mcmahon, who assaulted Police
| man Dalrymple OF the Ninth preci net
] some months ago, and who has been / n the
| hospital almost ever since as the result of
a hasty contact with the officers club, ap.
peared for sentence yesterday and was
fined $25.
The Standard Oil Company is now run
ming underground pipes along Half street
from its warehouse, at the corner of Half
and X streets TO the river front. They will
he used for the transmission Of petroleum
from the tank boats to a large tank at
the warehouse.
Patrolnan Owens arrested Charles Wal
ker. an Englishman, who gave his occupa
| tion as trained nurse, and John Smith
who said he was laborer, last evening
whilethey we're wandering about TIE streets
of lexington. At the U street station the,
We're 10th charged with vagrincy
Commander-in-chief of the G A. r., Col
T. $. Garrison, will arrive here this after
noon OH his way to New York. He will
be met at the depot by Department Com.
mander John Nc cElroy a nd staff and escorted
to his hotel. In the evening he will b,
rendered a reception at G A R. Hall.
The election for officers Of the Wash
ington Stock Exchange held yesterday re
suited as follows: President, Lewis T
Davis; vice president, W. II. Slater: secre
tary, William A. Mearns; treasurer, John
v. Barross; governing committeeman,
Stilson Hutchins and Frederick C. Stevens
The Grand Chapter of Royal Arcl
Masons paid its annual visitation tn Bright
wood Chapter, No. 8, last night. Ad
dresses were made by Hon. John ". Ross
aud Dr. Thomas Calver, who also recited
an original poem. After the exercises a
banquet was served by the ladies of STAINS
bury Lodge.
William H. Waddy and Hy Brown, both
colored, proceeded to give Eighth street
extended vermllion hue last night after
they had filled up on the very reddest
liquor, and Patrolman Hall found it neces-
sary to place them under arrest. They
were both charged with engaging in q
disorderly assembly.