Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-04-13

Jealousy Claimed to Be the Motive Of q
Cutting ARRAY.
Hearing In the Electric Street Cur
Gases Various Matters and
Happenings of Interest.

Saturday night about $50 o'clock Patrick,
alias Dutch" Bren came very nearly
killing James Phillips by slashing his head
and face with a knife. Shortly after q
o'clock Officer Young heard distress calls
coming from the neighborhood Of South
Washington and Franklin streets. He has
tened to the scene. and found Phillips lying
on the ground injured as stated above He
was given medical attention, and removed
to his home. Breen was arrested some
hours later. Breen was given hearing
before Squire Sinclair. and the evidence
plainly showed that Phillips. who had been
drinking, was the cause of the entire trou-
Bile, and that Breen had simply cut him
50 and costs and dismissed the case. 1t Is
said that both of the young men are very
much taken with Mrs. Burns, and that
Jealousy was the cause Of the whole trou-
bic According to the statement of Mrs.
Burns, made to The Star man. Phillips
came to the house and Breen, who boards
there. opened the door for him, and an al
tercation ensued.
The Mayors Court.
Mayor Thompson this morning disposed
Of the usual Saturday right and Sunday
DRINKS and misdemeanors. The first case
called was that Of George Sullivan, who
was found helplessly drunk late Saturday
night. He was fined 81. John Roberts had
also imbibed too freely. and was unable to
find his way home when Officer Beach met
him. He was also assessed 81. Harry
Jones, colored. was charged by his mother
with threatening her life and being disor-
derby. He was fiji ed 81 and gave bond in
the sum of 500 to keep the peace. E. B.
Fleming and j. T. HinEigan, two Washing
tonians. were arrested by Officer Harrison,
charged with being drunk.
Hearing POatDOned
The hearing of the motion which was to
have been made today Before Judge Nicol
to dissolve the injunction restraining the
Washington. Alexandria and Mt. Vernon
Electric Railway Company from running
its lire through the property of Mr.. Frank
Hume. near this city, has been postponed
until Friday next, when the motion will be
heard ard argued at Manassas. On the
same day and place the motion to dissolve
the Injunction granted on the application
of the Was hington, Alexandr and Falls
Church Railway Company restraining the
Washington. Alexandria ard Mt Vernon
Company from interfering with the tracks
used by both companies at Ross!yn will be
heard.
Real Estate Sales.
Mr.. Robert Elliott, auctioneer, on Sat-
urday sold at public auction a lot of ground
on tho west side Of Washington street be-
tween Oronoco and Pendleton streets for
w. b. Harlow. trustee, to Dennis ]. Nor
moyle, for $3.50.
Mrs. Mary L. Guy has sold to Mrs. Mar
garet Head house and lot on the north
side Of Cameron street between Patrick
and Henry, for 81 1900.
Not the Man Wanted.
1t was thought here that the man calling
himself Otto A. Beard, who was arrested
by the Washington authorities as he was
eavoring to have a bogus check cashed,
was the man who registered at the Hotel
Fleischman in this city as Otto Blum, and
who swindled several merchants here.
Lieut.. Smith went to Washington Satur-
day evening to see him. and found that he
was not the man wanted here
Notes of Interest.
The ladies of Mary Gusts Lee Division,
Daughters of the Confederacy, are now
gathering confederate relics to be sent to
the Confederate Museum at Richmond.
The Independent Pleasure Club Of this
city have decided to give a May ball at
McBurney's Hall May 1.
Miss Dorothy Little, who has been spend
irg the Easter holidays with Mrs. James
E. Johnson, on North Pitt street, has re-
turned to her home in Baltimore.