The morning times., 1896-05-11
City Brevities

of Brooklyn. N. Y, is registered at the
Normandie.
Eight candidates for baptism were i'm
mersed at Pleasant Point Peach, Anacostia,
yesterday morning.
Policeman Banagan of the Fourth pre-
cinct has returned to duty, after. sick
leave OF two weeks.
The mass meeting of the Anti-saloon
League, which was postponed yesterday,
will be held next Sunday.
Patro!nian r. E. Herndou OF the First
precinct, who was seriously ill for several
weeks, has returned to the city
The ydrant at the corner of Twelfth and
Water streets southwest Is out OF order
and the flow cannot be stopped.
Lieut.. Kelly of the Sixth precinct is re-
ceiving congratula tions fer the precautions
be took to secure Ford's safety.
The regular monthly meeting OF the
board of trustees of the public schools or
the District will be held Monday afternoon.
The graduating exercises of the medical
department of Georgetown University will
be held Thursday evening at Metzerott
| Hail.
The graduating exercises ofthe Spencerian
! Business College will be held at La Fayette
| Square Opera House Tuesday AFTERNOON at
| 3 o'clock.
| Mrs Lucy Thurman will deliver an adj
| dress at a parlor meeting OF the District
w. C. T u, at the La Fetra Hotel, tomorrow
| at 2 p. IN. :"
The good-natured members OF the Jolly
Fat Mems Club are completing arrange
ments for two excursions to River View
i'll the near future.
| Willie johnson, thirteen years old. was
| arrested yesterday and locked up at the
| Fourth precinct station, charged with steal
| ing suit of clothes.
Edward Dorsey reported to the police
Yesterday that a lady's Credenda wheel had
| been stolen from i'll front Of No. 1914 Cor
| coran street on Saturday night.
The Christdelphians League OF Young
| People met III the church on Eighth street
| last night for the study of the Bible. The
league elected Officers last Sunday.
The Interstate Democratic Association
| has adopted resolutions 10 the effect that
the association, or as many of its members
as can do so, attend the Chicago convention
Ill a body.
Thomas d. Lodge, OF No. 10 II street
! northwest, reported TO tie police yesterday
that some one had made off with kit
OF steam filters tools he had left at the
Ice Palace.
Police station No. 6 maintains many Of
the features of a barroom. Part OF the
space behind the railing is piled high with
beer cases. demij johns, a I'D bottles, captured
In the various raids.
Mr William Moffatt OF Ontario, Cam
ada, has just arrived in the city to settle
up the affairs OF his brother, the late DR..
Moffatt: who was killed by a cable car.
He will remain several days.
The erotto summer house on the Capitol
xf IN
the city yesterday afternoon. The spot
was evidently appreciated as il was filled
nearly all day by sweltering crowd.
EXcursionists were out in fun force
yesterday and the steamers for the river
resorts were crowded. The suburban street
cars, too. carried a great many people out
to the cooler atmosphere OF the country.
The name OF Mr.. W. j Robinson of Chicago
appears on the register at Wizards. He
is in Washiugt on to prepare quarters for the
Windy City's delegation to the great
| Christ ian EndeayOr convention in July.
w Maupn OF No. / 81 Eleventh street
southeast left his safety bicycle standing In
the yard on Sunday night, and when he
went to get it in the morning he found
that someone had heen there before him.
Dr. Staples of Baltimoreis stopping
at the Riggs He is u nephew of Mr.. o. G
Staples, the proprietor OF the hotel, and has
| recently graduated in medicine in one oi
the Monumental City's medical colleges
The teachers, Officers, and scholars of
the Sixteenth Street Baptist Sunday
school will tender reception To the mem
bers of the congregation on Friday evening
, next in the Sunday-sChool room OF that
! edifice.
Among the guests at WIZARDS Hotel are
Mrs. y. L. Van Zant. a popular descrip
tive writer of Buffalo, and \. \. Fulle
e Of the same city, representative OF on'
Y of the Ia rgest candy factories in the
, country.
A prominent lady member OF the Anti
Division Society is III receipt of an aGony
i nous letter asking many impertinent ant
S irrelevant questions in reference TO tn
final disposition of reformed women from
. the Division.
A man named McAuiffe, who lives a
{ Eighteenth and G streets, had his Carriag
e run into by another carriage in q fuGera
g procession on Maryland avenue, near Eight
n street, yesterday u afternoon. Mr. McAuliffe'
carriage was bathy damaged.
= The following gentlemen constitute
u party Of we'll known New Englanders VIII
y are sightseeing in Washington: MessrS. \
If | c. Newton, c. E. Hallewell, j. s. Craven
=. RIB. DUla, Harrison Drammond and John
" Harrison. All are at the Ebb!tt.
l. Bishop Satterlee Ofthe diocese of Washing
e ton will make visit TO st. A udre W S Char pt
De at College Park to administer the rites
confirmation, May 16. He will confirI
candidates at Rockville, on the morning
May IT. and will visit Gaithersburg IL
same afternoon.
70 Two female devotees of the wheel &C
r, ided at the intersection OF Fourteent
~ street and Massachusetts avenue yeste
VI day afternoon, but met with no serio
| npHpEtrian assisted thpm r
y mount and they rode off before their nam
. could be ascertaineG.
Clarence smith twenty-four years oil
81 living a No. 1870 Fourteenth street, Wa
IS hit in the head last night with a Stor
n. thrown by colored boy, a Brilrs Hote
70 in Montgomery co unity, Md. He was brougl
- TO the Emergency Hospital in this city whe
or his wound was dressed.
e, A broken piece of porcelain, lying on t
lie south side OF Pennsylvania avenue, ne
IA Thirteenth street, brought dismay to
careless wheelman yesterday evening. T
omnous crack of his bursting tire W
s; audible for quite distance, but lie e
e, off and cheerily pushed his wheel along.
mt The irrepressible black tot known
fame as the snowfall king OF Sixth street
;, has formally opened the season with
~ inseparable team OF goats. The quaint lit
Ir- outfit is familiar picture in many par
of of the city where his nightly patrons we
In eagerly for the cry of "sn blls' piped o
in Il shrill, childish tribe that can be hea
eu for squares away.
OF Thomas Hogan and Thomas Baldwin we
cir arrested for disorderly conduct Saturd,
an night by Policemen Carbon and Virgins
.u the Sixth precinct. On the way to Il
III station Hogan kicked Gordon, but Il
lie latter, 1.-THE giant of the Sixth" masters
es the man without recourse to his club.
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