The evening times., 1896-07-28
City Brevities

! Mr.. Provost OF Harrison street, Ana
costa, mas gone to Baltimore for u week.
| Mr.. William Jones of lexington left last
night OIL business trip 10 Danville. Va.
DR.. s. n. White and wife, hypnotists,
| inston.
Secretary of State Chiffon, OF West vir.
| ginia, Democratic politician of note, if
In the city.
| Messrs White and Moore, students at the
University of Virginia, are guests of the
| ST. James Hotel.
| Stephen Knowles, of Redd's Crossroads,
Nd, reported 10 the police last night the
| loss OF bay mare.
Inspector Hollnbcrger continues sick.
| Sergeant Johnson is performing the exact
ing duties of inspector.
MI. Andrew Y. Bradley, son OF Justice
Bradley, will leave tomorrow to begin a
summer vacation at the seasiore.
N. Carroll bowers, clerk Of the criminal
court, returned from Ocean Grove today.
lie willspend the remainder OF his vacation
in the mountains.
Robert johnson and John Bailey, colored
laborers, We're overcome by the heat yes
tertay. They were removed 10 their homes
iii tie patrol wagon.
That old landmark, Odd Fellows Hall
on Seventh street. between ID and E streets,
is having new front put in ami is under
going general repairs
metropolitan car, No. 22s, east-bound.
collided last night with the buggy of Mr.,
Irwin Baumgass. at the corner of Twenty
seventh and p streets.
Only one robbery was reported at police
headquarters today. John W. Lewis, of No.
925 Tenth street northwest, reported stolen
black serge sackcoat.
The District Commissioners have files
of number OF Washington publications.
including the daily papers, which they Of
fer to donate to the free library.
Col. j. II. Wilson'S men are at work on
the reservation at the corner OF Ninth
and the Avenue. cutting the grass and
beautifying the park generally.
Baiiiff Rice Hooe, of the police court.
left this afternoon for White Sulphur
Springs, where he will spend his vaca-
| tion OF two weeks with reia tions.
Detective Boar1maD was busy yesterday
| In sending out notices OF stolen bicycles
| to the town sergeants of most of the small
towns in Maryland and Virginia.
Dudley Porter, thirteen years Old. living
at No. 203i Fourteenth street north west,
| fell from n tree in front of his home last
night and received a slight injury,
Policeman Dyer, who has been stationed
! at Benning, will, under the ne " division Of
| precincts. be allotted to Anacostia. giving
an increase of one to the servIcs - that
| town.
| Mr.. Prescott Galley, clerk o: Justice
| Hagner's court, will start on his summer
| vacation Thursday to make tour OF
| northern New York aud some of the New
| England States.
Vice President Baldwin and Traffic Man
| ager Culp of the Southern Railway have
returned from Atlanta. Ga, where they
| attended the meeting of the Southern States
| Freight Association.
William Scott, u colored bicyclist, ran
| into wagon yesterday evening at the cor
ner OF Eleventh street and Pennsylvania
avenue, and was slightly injured. His
wheel was wrecked.
The will OF the late JAMIE P. McCauley
| was :Ici for probate today. naming Joseph
McCauiey, her father. the xecutor and chief
beneficiary OF the esta:s. The paper bears
! date of July 4. 1888.
The Junior Epwo:ts League of the Ten
icytown N. E. C.rr.h gave a lawn party
last evening In vacant lot on Grout ave
nue.. The league was but lately organized
with q mem bership OF forty.
1t is announced that the examination
of applicants for the position of inspector
in the water department will be held at
the rooms CT the United States civil serr-
ice commission on Saturday next.
Miss ReIle Waters of H street northwest
vas run into by an unknown bicyclist at
the corner OF Eleventh and the Avenue
about 10 o'clock last night. Both were
thrown to the ground, but were picked up
| uninjured
Mrs. Mary Stephenson, of No. 400 Fl
street northwest, was thrown to the pave
| ment in aiighting from car at Seventh
street and Pennsylvania avenue yester-
| day afternoon and received q number Of
| painful bruises.
John Martin, No. Burk's alley, fell
| from brick cart at the corner of Four and
| half and Z streets southwest yesterday
| evening, and sustained a scalp wound at
| the back of the head. He was treated at
| Emergency Hospital.
A majority of the men at police head
| quarters and many of the privates and
sergeants in the field have made application
| for membership in new commandery Of
| the United Order OF the Golden Cross,
which is being organized by Chief Telephone
| Operator Ossie Klinger.
A conductor on the G street branch of the
| lexington line yesterday afternoon quench.
| ed his thirst by drinking oopiously of lem
onade made on the car. Three stops were
made, lemons were procured from store
! en- route, piece OF ice from an ice wagon,
! and water from pump.
The Commissioners will have photo-lith-
ograph plates made of the subdivisions OF
| land in that part of the city formerly
known as Georgetown for the use of the
| assessors office, and to have the same
| to conform to the general plat of the city.
| The work will be awarded to the lowest
bidder.
Col. Albert s. Berry, who represents Mr..
| CarlisIe's old district, is in the city for a