The morning times., 1896-06-15
City Brevities

Officers Williams and Schuyler OF th(
First precinct are enjoying leaves OF alb
sence.
Associate Justice Shepard OF the court Of
appeals will leave today for his summer
vacation.
Judge McComas OF circuit court Nc. 2 has
gone TO Atlantic City. He will return
Wednesday.
Rev. DR.. Sunderland OF the First Presby-
terian Church is frequent attendant at the
Holt will trial.
Postmaster General Wilson left for Nash
| vile, Tenn, at l0:43 last night over the
Southern Railway on official business.
The annual excursion and picnic of the
Calvary Baptist Church Sunday school will
be given to Marshall Hall on Friday next.
The White Lot was perfect rendezvous
| for cyclists of both sexes last night, ther,
being at least 500 touring the circle at one
| time.
/ The funeral of Charles Thomas, who died
| Saturday at his home, No. 1114 First
| northwest, will be held this afternoon at 2
] clock.
| The Capital Traction Company's Ave
| nue. cable was blocked for several minutes
last night through strand in the cable
| catching in grip.
TIE officials of the local bicycle clubs q &c
trying hard to impress on wheelmen gener
| ally the Importance and the necessity Oi
complying with the police regulations
The Gospel services at Salvation Army
headquarters last evening. in the absence
| OF Staff Captain Blanche Cox, were cen-
Quoted by Capt. John Gail and his wife.
Under the new marriage la ws justices OF
the supreme court OF the District aud other
duly qualified judicial officials will be
authorized To perform marriage ceremonies.
Messrs W. C. and R. w Hobbs, general
freight agents of the Chesapeake and Ohio
Railway at indianapolis. are at the Ma
tional Hotel. They are here en- business
connec cted with the road.
James Gattis. colored, forty years old.
was kicked In the leg yesterday morning
while grooming horse. At Emergency
Hospital it was found that the bone was
fractured and the leg was set aud put in
splints.
drunken man was found lying in the
gutter on Fourteenth street, near H street,
at 10 O'Clock last night by a wheelman near
the Eclipse agency. A policeman took the
intoxicated bicycle butt to No. l station
house.
A young woman who declined to give he .
name was thrown from her bicycle in the
Soldiers Home grounds yesterday after
noon and received serious Injuries. She was
taken to her home on Ninth street In the
Soldiers Home ambulance.
George Micklish reported to the Police
yesterday that a Colored man to whom
he had given yalise to carry from tie
Pennsylvania station to the Cutler House,
had failed to deliver his property. The
man claimed to be porter in the en-
ploy of the hotel.
Clifford Rose, a young newspaper man,
living at No. III Eleventh street north
west. fell from his bicycle yesterday morn
ing while riding through the Capitol grounds
and fractured a small bone in his left heel.
His injury was dressed at Emergency
Hospital.
Judge Cole will this morning hear the case
OF Chun Kun, tie alien Chinese Cook, whom
District Attorney BirDey has asked to have
deported under the new Chinese exclusion
act. Until n disposition Is made OF his case
Kun must lie in Jail, his offense being an
unbailable one.
Mr. J. W. Schofield, from New Mexico.
is registered at the National Hotel. Mr..
SchOfield is rated one Of the wealthiest
men in the Territory. and it is rumOred
that his visit here is in the interest of
having New Mexico admitted as a State
during the next session of Congress.
The Rev c. q. Butler pastor OF the Keilar
Memorial Church. Ninth street and Maryland
avenue, an enthusiastic wheelman, who has
been making a tour of the West Maryland
mountains on his bicycle. returned to Wash,
iDgton a day or two ago. He will visit the
same resorts during his vacation in the fail,
going from place to place on his wheel.
There was very noticeable increase
in the attendance at the open-ai meeting
OF the Washington Single Tax Club, held
yesterday afternoon in Market Space.
over that of the Sunday previous. Adj
dresses were made by Mr.. 7. F. Monahan 1
of Wilmington. Del. and Messrs. ID. Webster
Groh, j. A. Deacon, DR.. j. Steiner, and DR..
William Geddes of this city.
Mr. Milton E Phillips. dean of the college
of liberal arts of the University OF Southern
California, situated at Los Angeles. arrived
in the city last night and is at the Metro
politaD Hotel. Mr.. Phillips is here TO visit
the National Museum. after which he will
go to Philadelphia and then East, where
he will visit all the large museums in the
interest of his home institution. to which
he will report on his return.
The Rev DR.. T. c. Easton OF the
Eastern Presbyterian Church, Sixth street
and Maryland avenue, preached the bacca-
laureate sermon to the students OF Mary
land College, near b Baltimore. yesterday after
noon at O'Clock. The reverend gentle
man took for bis text the passage OF
Scripture found in Acts xxvii:4I: They
ran the snip aground" Among those who
listened to the discourse was Gov Lowndes
of Maryland.
The Ladies' Memorial Association Of
Richmond has made a request of Gov.
Evans of South Carolina, now visiting in
the city, for portrait of his distinguished
father, TO grace the halls OF the White |
House OF the Confederacy at Richmond. |
Gov. Evans father was Major Gen. N. q.
Evans, who fought cut the war to a finish |
and who was promoted to the last military |
title he held for gallantry in the closing |
fights OF the struggle. Gov. Evans. who |
is at the Raleigh. has replied to the ladies',
and will have made for them COPY OF |
the portrait OF his father which was painted
at the close of the war. the old soldier |
being in full military equipment