The evening times., 1896-06-23
City Brevities


Fish Commissioner Brice has gone TO
the west coast of the United States in con-
nection with his official duties.
Andrew Sullivan, timer, left So
last night for an assault and battery upon
colored man named Tillman jenkins.
Several CT the visiting bishops and pastors
Of the A. NJ Z. Zion conference were enter
tanned en- Sunday by Recorder OF Deeds
Taylor.
Bishop Hearst. of the American Univer-
sity. has gone to bis summer home. near
Marion. Mass, where he will spend his
vacation.
Mrs. William Vaughn of Winterhayen,
Fla has been visiting her relatives, Mr..
. and Mrs. William Holman, OF No. 404 East
Capitol street.
The Metropolitan Sabbath-school of Cap
itoi Hill will take its annual outing July g.
The program is to go to River View and
spend the day.
The fund for Lillian Lovelace has been in
creased by contribution from an anony-
nous source, of So. d. b. Croft has sent
The Times 50 for the Davis family.
The l,cal Epworth Leaguers will leave
ShCiuE pNSi ehS boaSs4.o'N ""A
Ohio road for Harrisburg, To atte nd the big
convention to be held there June 20 to 2S.
The Red. White nd Blue Club, an asso-
ciation of police court employees. will go to
Marshall Hall on, their annual excursion
next Tuesday.
Mr.. Russell II. Scott of this city, has i'm
ported one of tue finest Irish settlers ever
brought to America. The dog comes from
the famous Castle Greagh kennels, near
Dublin.
Charles Arndt, seriously Ill, was brought
to the sub-police station at Anacostia in
wagon last night He was sent i'll the
patrol wagon to the Washington Asylum
Hospital.
Rev. DR. T. S. Chiids. who was overcome
by heat Sunday evening in the pulpit OF
Christ Church, is rapidly improving and
will doubtless he able TO resume his daties
tomsrrow.
Twelve saloon keepers, including six in
the Division quarter, are cited to appear
before the excise board on Saturday next
! to show cause why their applications shall
not be disapproved-
The Smithsonian has relief map of the
faEh, WHICH sl.oWS tIN
ton OF the cages and grounds assigned To
the animals. II is at present, however, not
accessible to the public.
| Mr.. Frank Z. Mason, who was Sc
riousiy injured about six weeks ago by
! falling through the hatch of a steains hip
at the Baltimore docks, will bc broIght
| 10 his home, No. 916 h street. this city,
| tomorrow.
Dr. Granville Long. of No / "a Eleventh
| street southeast. was arrested this morning
by Inspector Beaumont of the health de-
partmcDt for violation of the garba ge
regulations. He was fined So by Judge
Kimball later.
] A man who gave his name as Nc
! Cannon and his residence as No. 22I Massa-
ehusetts avenue northeast, fell in IN
epiieptic fit ut Twelfth and f streets north
west about O'Clock this morning. He
was removed TO the Emergency Hospital.
| Assistant Building Inspector Frank Yer
| million is absent from the city on a Jaunt
I for pleasure. He did not outline his timer
ary prior TO Iris departure, but when last
heard from he WAS AT the Atlantic Hotel,
Ocean avenue, Long Branch, y. j.
Secretary Tindall Of the District Commis-
sioners' office. returned yesterday from
tSt. Louis. and was at his desk today.
Mrs. Tindall. who accompanied him TO the
convention city. remained for protracted
visit to friends in Alton, H., and else
where.
Articles of Incorporation were filed with
the recorder OF Deeds today by Messrs
William Fl. Roach, Stevens NJ. Taylor and
j. L. Waring on behalf of the Alpha So
eiety. The term OF the Incorporation is
for twenty years.
A leaky gas pipe in the Girard boarding
house, No. 5l1 Thirteenth street northwest
caused the pipe toexplode Ia st evening witt
load report. The center of the ceilin;
directly over the leak was blown out
and great excitement caused among the
guests.
At midnight last night Mary Brown
colorei. twenty-six years of age, was taken
suddenly and seriously i'll in Washington
Circle. She was removed to the Emergency
Hospital in the Third precinct patrol wag
on, She resides at No. 242 First street
southwest
George Batson. coiored, twenty-five,
years old, living at Ivy City. attempted t,
jump from a northbound Baltimore ant
Ohio freight train while in motion at the
Ivy City station this morning, and in Sc
doing he was thrown against "a passenger
car on the next track and badly cut about
the head and face. He was taken to hi,
home. where his wounds were dressed
The estimates made by the school trus
lees for repairs to the several schoo
| hui i,, ,bo tr,r
s26. II, which is SS,s26.17 in excess O
. the appropriation for the ensuing year
This will necessitate a scaling of thu
: estimates. The matter was the subjec
of a conference yesterday afternoon he
tween Building Inspector Brady anc
Trustee George a. Harries.
Many of the valuable papers received a
the Smithsonian Institution in connection
with the Hodgkins prize competition las
year have never been published. They ar
now in the printers hands, and are e.
pected soon to appear Several of III
! papers for which awards were made weE
in foreign langua ge, and these bave jus
5 been translated. They are included in I'll
forthcoming publications.
Willie riding on his bicycle at Thirteent
r and II streets northeast last night. Dl
. Houston ID. Scirrader. who resides at Nc
So4 Ninth street northwest. ran into 4 cal
rage belonging to CHRISTIAN C. West,
butcher on Bladensburg road. and wa
thrown to the ground striking on his hea
and infiicting painful scalp wound. Til
5 wheel was badly dana ged, and the docto
: was Obliged to take a carto his home.
I A team or norses attached to one of til
& large wagons used by Benjamin Il. Smi,l
, son, the bother, OF No. 519 NJ stree
south west, took fright Yesterday afte,