The morning times., 1896-11-20
City Brevities

Booker Sldnor was arrested yesterday for
selling rabbits which were diseased.
Gas mains will be laid along Second street
from X TO NJ southeast in few days.
An experimental test of rapid fire guns
was made at the navy yard yesterday.
Mr.. Bert Richmond, of 130 Tennessee
| avenue, has left for trip to New York.
The Dove Social Club gave an entertaiI-
ment last night at Odd Fellows Han SOUTH
! east.
Mr.. Andrew Geoble, of No Ninth street
northeast, has returned from trip to
| Iowa.
Policeman Cox arrested Bernard O'Brien
for intoyication and dsorderl y conduct last
night.
Edward Whitson was arrested for 'scorch-
;n"" on his bicycle last night by Policeman n
Estes.
Mr.. Thomas Payne OF 7 street northwest
Went yesterday Oh a hunting trip to West
Virginia.
|. Drillings are now being made for placing
pump AT the corner of sixth and b streets
north west.
The Treasury yesterday received a con-
science contribution OF $26 from Syra-
cuse, n. Y.
Mr.. Thomas Coakley, OF s14 B street
northeast, has returned from trip to
New York.
Mrs. d. p Ryan, of No. 2216 street
northwc est, is reported quite ill with ty-
phoid fever.
Thirteen unfortunate dogs and a COW
were yesterday captured by the District
pound master.
Mr.. Edgar q. Wright, of the House Sta
tionery department has returned from a
trip to Indiana.
Miss Marion Halstead, of Eighteenth
street northwest, is visiting friends in
New York City.
Mr.. JonR hastings, of London. who is
making a. tour of this country, is in the
cit for u short visit.
The Sixteenth Club, of the Eastern High
School, Will give a dance at Carroll In
stitute, on November %.
The Concrete between Tw enty second and
Twenty-third streets. on L northwest, was
yesterday being repaired
Judge Clarke has returned to the city
after Il months visit to the mountains of
Pennsylvania, near Crcsson.
Mary Gray was arrested on a charge of
disorderiy conduct by Policeman Stangc
of the Sixth precinct yesterday.
The Avenue cable slipped off the wheels
under the track at Seventh street yesterday
and the line was blocked for a short time
Hc ibti bttt Ihtctu ON Inc newly
constructed Trinity Methodist Episcopal
Church, corner of Fifth and C. streets south
east.
The Washington Auxiliary of the Wu-
mems National Independent Association
VIII meet tomorrow at IL O'Clock at the
Riggs House.
Mr.. j. L. Jett succeeds Mr.. Wood as
night clerk at the Metropolitan Hotel. MIR.
Wood in the future viii welcome the guests
during the day.
Capt. j. d. Porter, in charge of the
Reform School, reported last night that
Charles Sla er. an inmate OF the school, es-
caped yesterday.
Prof. Sousa cabled to his sister, Mrs.
Bernoys, WHO lives in this city that hn
would start for America on the Teutenia
which sailed yesterday.
William Jones, colored, while trying to
dodge an express wagon on Is street last
night had his loot run over by one OF the
wheels, but WAS not seriously injured
John W. Collins was thrown from his
bicycle last night at the corner Of Ninth
street and New York avenue and received
a broken leg He was removed to Emer-
gency.
In payment of an election bet Mr.. NJ.
j. jenkins will tonight ride Mr. Slater
Rowe in whcel-barrow from Fifteenth
anu - StiCCbS " IdIlIDl ana
return.
David Keefe, a hunchback. was begging
and insulting those who failed To respond
To his requests last night, near the Sixth
street depot, when Policeman Gordon ar
rested him.
Secretary of the Interior Francis has
appointed Price Lane, OF st. Louis, Mo.
as his private secretary. He is the firth
person serving in that capacity during this
administration.
Hon George T. Barnes, OF Augusta Ga.
father of Mr.. John Barnes, who was seri-
unsly injured by falling from cable car
near Thomas Circle, arrived in the city
yesterday from Georgia.
James Duncan, colored, grew brutal under
the influence OF LIQUOR last night and
beat his wife, Hattie. She had him ar
rested and Patroiman Stewart took him to
the U street station-house.
Mr. John W. Ewing died at his home,
No. LOG Fifth street northeast, yester-
day morning after a long illness. The
remains will be taken TO Mattoon, ILL.,,
his former home, for interment
An unknown crank sent Judge Kimball,
OF the police court, yesterday a rambling
screed, closely written and covering eight
foolscap pages. The writer predicted that
the world would soon come to an end
Clara, the little daughter of Mr.. Mark
Lacy, Of No. GIG Twenty y-third street north
west, while playing with matches yester-
day morning, set her clothes on fire and
was quite severely burned about the face
The building at the corner of Fifteenth
and H streets northwest. for many years
occupied by Wormley's Hotel will soon De
reopened under the name of 1.-The Co
lonial." 1t will be managed by Col Nc
Culloh.
meeting OF the members of the court
of claims and the practitioners before
that body will be held this morning at
IL O'Clock to take action to the memory
Of late Chief Justice William A. Richard
son.
Rev A. G. Harrison, pastor of Faith M.
Z. Chapel, has been called to the Independ-
ent NJ. E. Church, Eleventh street SOUTH
east, To- fill the vacancy left by the death
of the Rev. ]. B. Wilson, for nine years
pastor of the church.
Louis Tomison, a white man, was found
at the foot of New York avenue near the
garbage wharf last night suffering with
some puZzling ailment and he was carried
to a drug store and then to his ONE, at
No. 2O16 Virginia avenue northwest
A small fire, caused by a defective
flue, broke out at 4:3O O'Clock yesterday
afternoon, in the place of r. j. Mitchell
No. 1870 Fifteenth street northwest The
alarm was imm ediately given, but the
blaze was extinguished before damage was
done.
Edward Roach and OrtonMe yers, cyclists
collded on Penns yivania avenue, near First
street, l2st night. Roach was injured
about the shoulder and side, and had his
hands badl Y injured and his wheel damaged
beyond repair. Meyers and his wheel es-
capped uninjured.
DR.. Stearns, OF Philadelphia, will give an
exposition of the BIRD chapter of Isaiah
at the Central Union Mission, 622 Louis
lana avenue, at IL O'Clock today. DR..
Stearns, who is the pastor of large and