The morning times., 1896-12-14
City Brevities

NO. = engine is III d new btdii
of steel gray horses.
A new Sc wer is being put down ON Third
street, near northeast.
EX-tiOy Patterson, of North Carolina,
left for home yesterday.
Mrs. X. d.. Hill, OF Tenleytown, is visit
ing friends in Baltimore.
Mr. M Langsin, of 701 North Capitol
street, has gone TO Pittsburg-
Penns ylvama avenue, near the ROCK
Creek bridge, has been repaired.
The new mosaic floor i'll the main corri-
dor of Wizards has been completed
Mr.. Nathan Manning, OF Richmond, Va,
spent Saturday and sunday i'll washing
ton.
Mr.. Henry Mills, of p street, in George
town, has gone on u business trip to New
York.
Congressman L. W. Royce and wife, Of
Warsaw, Ind, arrived yesterday at the
Ebbitt.
Mr.. George Bosom and wife, of 642
Fourth street northeast, are visiting friends
in Baltim ore.
Senator Aldrich, of Rhode Island re-
turned to the city yesterday after several
days absence.
Mrs Cleveland returned to Washington
Saturday night Ut O'Clock rroIn visit TO
Princeton, n. j.
Hon. X. j. Tracewell, of New York city,
member of the House, arrived yesterday
and is at the Ebbitt.
Baltimore and Ohio brakeman fell
from a moving freight car at Trinidad, yes
terday, but escaped with few bruises
Miss Edith Bail, while on her bic yce, ran
into the curbing on Thirteenth. near 7
street, yesterday and received bad fall.
Policeman Edwards, arrested Richard
Burgess yesterday n Georgetown on
charge of lntoXiCation ana dlSorderly CON
duct.
Gen. Green b. Raum. of Illinois, is
among the recent prominent arrivals at
! the Capital, and is registered at the
| Ebbitt.
| Congressman Jesse Overstreet, OF Ken
lucky, ana I II Shirley, Of Indiana, were
among yesterdays arrivals, and are ut
! the EbbItt.
The reservation between Eleventh and
| Twelfth streets. L street and Massachusetts
| avenue, is being regarded and beautified
with additional shrubbery.
Mr.. G. y. Crittentun, the well-known
| evangelist, yesterday subscribed Sl60 to
! the II Hopc and Help Miss or on the eve of
| his departure from the city.
Harold NJ Sewall. OF Bath, Ne, son of
| the recent candidate FOR Vice President
| Oh Tue iitIiD'EdliC llthtt, dIIlNtt AtstPi
| day ana ls ct the Arlington.
John Green, colored, was struck on the
| head by Ellis Crawford during an alterca-
ton on Seventh street southwest, Satur-
day night, and cut quite badly.
| All The churches ami seNcral of the So
| cieties in Georgetown are making eX
tensIve preparations for entertainments
during the ,nrisGuiAs holidays
Mr.. Henry J Baron, OF Wiliamstow wu
| Mass. is visiting friends at 323 Elm
street. Mr.. BaroniS on his way to Florida,
where he Will spend the winter.
Hon. h. F. Marsh, of Warsaw, Ill, and
his son, arrived in the city last night
md are at Wizards. This is the first
appearance of Mr.. Marsh this session.
y large number of Cuban refugees driven
out Of the island 10y the cruetics prac
ticcd by the Spanish armies, arrived in
the city last night by way of the Southern
Railway.
The lay readers of St Michacl's and All
Angels Church yesterday conducted serv
ices i'll the absence OF a rector. Rev. Mr..
Ward resigned as rector OF the parish one
week ago.
The fe nder of Columbian car picked up
| a big Newfoundland dog, yesterday, at
Seventh and III streets, but Il cyclone could
not have picked him up when he started
down II street.
y delegation OF over Il hundred younl
lady students of the PENNSYLVANIA Stat,
Normal Sci oyl, located at Bloom sburg, vii
make a descent upon the city toGay for .
weeks annual vacation.
The stone work of the east wall Of tho
new st Thomas Church has been com
pIeted to the oof of the old church ant
VIII form the west wall of the latter unit
the church is torn away
played by the Weber Dramatic Company
last Tuesday evening, at odd Fellows
Hall, for the benefit of Martha Washington
Lodge, No. 3, Daughters of Rebecca.
Fire broke out in a brick stable in til,
rear of No. 63l g street southwest owned
by Mrs. Quill, at 2:30 O'Clock yesterday
morning, and destroyed about $500 worti
of property. The Ori gin OF the fire i.
unknown.
y meeting Of the executive committee o
the District Anti-saloon League will ht
held this afternoon at the office of Prcsi
Gent Ewin, Loan and Trust building tC
consider some business referred to il b,
the recent convention.
Col. Ed Roberts, of Easton, Md. in the
service OF the Treasury Department as
building Inspector, arrived in the city
last night from a 5,0D0mile tour Of in
spection of the government buildings in
the larger cities of the South and West.
The condition of Miss Marie Harvell q
! 1920 W street northwest who was in
jured on Thursday afternoon in a bicycl
collision on Fourteenth street, continue
critical. 1t was discovered late last nigh
that one of her ribs was fractured.
! Both doors of a horse car on the Fiftl
! street line yesterday became fastened il
such manner that they resisted all ci
forts TO open them. When the car reached
New York avenue the few passengers in
sid: were compelled to make their eXi