The morning times., 1896-10-12
City Breyities

Ties are being laid above Reeves on the
b. aud o. galroad.
r. Ar. g. NJ ID. Hampton of Bristol, Tenn,
IS at the National Hotel.
Mr.. Henderson, returned to duty at No. 10
engine house yesterday.
A number of the walks In the. Capitol
grounds are heing repaired &.
TWO buildings are being erected on Tenth
street southeast. betw cen g and l..
Mr.. P. T. d. Pyles is building new store
AT NO. IL Seventh street northeast.
Mr.. Williams, OF the Ninth precinct, who
mas peen on sick leave, has returned oduty.
water mains ara being laid on Van street,
between First and Second streets southeast
Fourth street. between East Capitol and
fchnsyivania avenue, is still blocked dur
ing repairs.
Mr. Chapel OF Ninth and II streets is
| building five new houses on K street, near
Seventh. northeast
Mr.. Walter II. NARROW, ST., is confined
to his home, No. 305 Maryland avenue
| northeast, by illness.
The Cosmopolitan Shakespeare Club Will
meet next Tuesday at Mrs Thomson s. 324
Eighth street southeast
James Coughlin, of 100 street northeast,
| was arrested for disorderly conduct by
Policeman Adams last night
| john bailey, eolefed, was locked up at
the Ninth precinct late Saturday night on
charge OF indecent exposure.
A new curhing and gutter is being laid
ON Fourth street southeast, between Penn
syivaDia avenue and A street.
The iron pipes lying on the lot at the
| corner OF New jersey avenue nd N street
southeast, are being carried away.
The Home Missionary Society will meet
at Hamiipe NJ. E. Church tomorr The
sessiun Will be continued for two days.
Mr. Wilton G. Woods. of the Pension
Bureau, has gone to his home in Rhode
| Island TO remain until after the election.
Messrs. George II. Pointers and T. j.
Norrfs,' or CircieviIle Ohio, are in town
ON business. They are at the National
| Hotel.
! First street between East Capitol and
southeast, is blockaded on account OF
The asphalt being renewed in front OF the
I Library.
Edna II. Pogue, large three -mastcd
| schooner from Fhiiadeipnia, is lying at
| Williams wbarfa at the foot of Fourth street
southeast.
William Key and Rosa Kicker. both col
ored. OF Madison alley, Were arrested for
| diSorderiy conduct last night by Police
man STANCE.
On account OF repairs OH the Eladensburg
road the greater number of cyclists taking
spin III The northeast took the Benning
road YESTERDAY.
Nat haniel Spurock and Goldsborough
| Walker, Of 1880 Tenth street northwest,
| Were arrested by Policeman Estes for fast
riding last night
The city department has completed the
work OF repairing tie south side of G
| street northwest, bet ween Twelfth and
| Thirteenth streets.
| Rev. and Mrs :. ~ Hartscck returned
To the city saturday from their country
home at Har Lew. Md, where they had
| been spending the summer.
The water main on / street southeast,
| between Seventh and Eighth streets south
east, which has been leaking for several
days.was repaired Saturday.
The tug James IL Richards IS lying at the
dock of the Great Falls Ice Company at the
| foot of Third street southeast. where she
is being repaired and re novated.
| A. l.. Sousa OF No. 619 street last night
| reported the loss of bicycle lamp, and
j. T. White notified the police that a
| thief had made off with his wheel.
Granite for new curbing for Hancock
place, about the new statue, has been
hauled TO the site and will soon replace the
1
| Cornelius Bush, il colnred scorcher. was
| captured by Policeman Belts ON l. street
northwest yesterday afternoon. and left
| So collateral at the Third precinct station
| house.
Ida Jones. a vagrant, who was arrestedby
| Officer Houser. of No. 8 police station was
sent to Free iman's Hospital yesterday
| Afternoon suffering from illness brought on
| by exposure.
| The water i'll the Potomac Eivcr, which
for the last month has been ruInin;; from
| foot to eighteen inches higher than uS.al,
has got down 10 its normal condition. the
| guages showing nineteen feet in the chan
| mel.
A meeting Of the board of directors OF
| the Metropolitan Electric Road will be
| held on Wednesday to choose a SUCCESSOR
to President Phillips. whose resignation
takes effect on the 18th OF the present
| month.
| Louisa Dunlap. colored was creating a
lively scene in ..Helrs Bottom last night
| by flourIshing a loaded revolver, when
| Policeman May arrived upon the spot and
took her into custody. -n--af-
| The Times was serneaded by the John B.
| Henderson Drum Corps, kids of '69,"
| Saturday night This corps is composed OF
| boys all under sixteen years of age. They
accompanied the Union Veteran Legion to
their cncampnent at Buffalo last year.
| An interesting Union Mission service was
held in the Wesley NJ. E. Church. corner
| Fifth aud + streets northwest, la st even
ing. The service was wholly under the
direction of the Central Union Mission
| The coal traffic on the Chesapeake and
| Ohio canal is very heavy at this s,;iseii Of
The year. the boatnen trying to get Is much
| coal through to tide water as possible be-
fore the cold weather closes up The canal
| Roman Beckett, colored raised big
| disturbance on II street, near Twelfth
northeast, Saturday night. and now he
wishes he had not. Policeman Dalrymple
| locked him up at No. . station for being
| drunk and disorderly. I.
| Dr.. Philip P. Werner, of COS Massachu-
| se,ts avenue northeast, died yesterday,
aged seventy-five. The funeral will be
| held from his late residence tomorrow,
| October 13, at O'Clock. Friends are
| invited. but the intermcnt is private
There is a horse and buggy at the Third
| precinct station house awaiting claimant
| The animal, attached to a side-bar buggy
| With red running gear, was picked up
on a vacant lot near Twenty-fifth and E
streets yesterday morning by Policeman
Quarlls. tssA s,t
William Banks, colored. who was stabbed
six times by Henry Porter Saturday night,
is resting quietly at Freedman's Hospital
and the physicians are now quite conf
dent that hc viii recover. 1t will be some
| days. however, before he will be able to
move about.
Gertie Middleton, colored, who was shot
| in the neck by her husband, last Tuesday,
is still ats Freedman's Hospital, and is
/ rapidly improving 1t has now been de-
cided to locate the ball by means of the
X-rays as soon as the woman's condition
| yvriy