The morning times., 1896-06-04
City Brevities

NJ. Ostrcgoeski, Of Paris, is al the Shore
| ham.
Miss J Friendless OF Denver has regis hred
| at the American.
W G. Berd of Cheyenne, Wyo., is at
! the Hotel Regent.
Miss King Dyer OF New ORGANS is one of
the Metropolitan's guests.
Sanitary officer Frank enjoyed days
outing yesterday down the river
Charles E. willis aud wife. Of Halifax,
have registered at the Shorcham.
James Sinclair and wife, OF New Castle
ou-Tyne Eng, are at the Arlington.
March Sexton Legan secret divorce pre-
CeedingS against Nicholas Sexton yes
| terday.
Senator C. D. Clark and Gen Warren T
| Edgarton, of Philadelphia, are guests at
| villa rd's.
L. N. Tbelen OF Darlington, Wis, and
| II. C. Reynolds OF MontevalIo, Ala, are
| guests a the Howard House.
Tie Treasury gold reserve at the close
| OF business yesterday stood ut S106.?e9,
| 637. The days withdra walls were $50,
| 900.
F L. Shank of Caracas, s. A.. Miss Mabel
| L. Smith, Sacramento, and James Gardner
of san Antonio, Tex, are guests at the
Vendome.
| Manager Allen returned TO the city last
| night from New York. where he went
| to make arrangements for next season al
| the Grand Opera House.
F j. Haeseler OF The United States Navy
| is al the st. James. L. 81. Mathews OF
| San Francisco and G w. Skies OF Helena,
| Mont, have also registered th ere.
Mrs. j. C. McKibben, wife of Col. Nc
Kibben, superintendent of the Mount Yer
| non and Marshall Steamboat Company, is
| quite i'll at her home at Marshall Hall.
| A small boy who was standing in the
| crowd near the batter's box was pain
| fully hurt yesterday by glancing foul
| tip, during the game at Marshall Hall.
Work on the Y. NJ. c. A building On New
| York avenue is continued daily. but it will
| take many days OF hard and sklful labor
| before the place will be ready for CcCu-
! pancy.
Among yesterdays arrivals In this city
| were w. II Black and wife, who are
chaperouing a party Of young ladies from
Marshall Mo. They are stopping at the
| ST. James
Officer Bryan reported at the Second
| precinct station yesterday that chimney
at the rear of No. 1912 NJ street north
west, is in a dangerous condition and liable
! to fall ut any moment.
The receipts from internal revenue yes
/ itftldS WfEt D. SstVS- IiViilf TSfNi
| 6S5: aud miscellaneous, $113, 800. The ma
| tioual hank nCtes received for redemption
| amounted to $629, ,624.
| Patrick Maloney was the cnly contractor
| who bid yesterday for the job Of furnishing
| asphalt paving tiles for District use for
| the ensuing year. His proposal was at the
| rate of $50 Fer thousand
The work OF laying the Sc wer pipes IN
| II street, between Fifteenth and Sixteenth
| streets, requires the services of nearly
! fifty men and necessitltes the closing up
| OF the north side of the street.
The Rev. William A Henderson and
| wife. OF Highland. Nd; A r,hur K. Moon-
| fMauchester, and George A Greenwood, Of
| Hackpcol. Eng, and George =. Howell, of
the U S. A, are at the Ebbltt House
Mrs. Donald Mclean, president of the
| Cuban Fair Association Of New York, aud
| New York society OF the ID. A. R, is
stopping at the Arlington Mrs. Mclean
Catne to attend Miss Stevenson's wedding.
Mr.. Charles d. Fowler. a prominent young
member of the Gay Street Baptist Church,
has Just issued little book entitled Blessed
| A Assurauce. or the Christian Helper The
| book is arranged especially for young peo-
| pies societies.
The Sunday school cf st. Paul's Episcopal
| Church Twenty-third street, below Penn
| sylvania avenue. gave strd wberry festival
| utSudN uiGlt, lbE llbS !DufIOSt bi IdiSIlt
| money with which TO purchase u new motor
| for the organ.
The painters who have been at work nn
the interior iron work at the Washington
| monument completed their task yesterday
| The job was hard one. bur as completed
| il adds much TO the good appearance Of
/ the big shafts interior.
The change from the cable to the un.
! derground trolley on the Washington and
D,;l,
| anticipated. One of the Officers OF the
company is reported to make a special
| daily study of the electric system.
Ii is authortatively stated that 10 action
| Will be taken by the House ut present upon
| the resolution adopted month ago by
the Senate, accepting the Marquette statue.
| The latcneSs of the session is the principal
| reason for a pcstponement of the matter
| until next winter.
| A passenger amused himself counting
| the number OF bicycles on Fourteenth
street last night between Massachusetts
| avenue and street on north-bound car
| just after $50 O'Clock. Tue cable car met
| 169 cyclists. This did not include the
| number going north.
A veteran cyclist was asked last night
| why many cyciers so persistenuy rode
close to the rails or between the street rail-
| way tracks the situation Of most apparent
| tracks are avoided by other vehicles and
are. therefore, the safest place for bi-
| cycles''
George Klink and Taylor McCready We're
driving down Tenth street last night about
| 8 O'Clock, W hen the horse suddenly became
| frightened al a passing bicycle and dashed
| into the curling at the corner Of X street
| Both men were thrown to the ground and
badly shaken up. Their injuries We're
| dressed at Emergency Hospital and later
| they went home.
| lauehabie mistake was made in The
| police court yesterday. Clerk Harper was
reading an information to prisoner who
was charged with cruelty to dog. In
preparing the paper the word horse
had not been marked outin the printed part
of the blank. Mr.. Harper in bis blanfiest
tones. read: You, john Smith, are Charg-
ed with cruelty treating and torturins an
animal of the horse kind, to wit, Il deg"
FOR THE THEATER ATTACHES.
ENJOYABLE Benefit Given at the La
fayette Square.
The attaches Of the Lafayette Square
| Opera House last night took their first
| iy f,n iInt Ints IF