The evening times., 1896-07-31
City Brevities

gang OF men are engaged in pruning the
trees along C street northeast.
100 IT. nice wide boards, 81; any length
you wish. F. Libbey s. Co., 9Th & N. Y. ave.
Frank Coyendale, q well-known Phila-
delphia cyclist, is visiting friends In the
city.
Mr.. H. D. Barrett, of this city, is the
principal speaker at the Onset Bay camp
ground this week.
Ma. Stacey, OF Tenth and X streets, was
overcome by heat yesterday, aud had TO be
carried TO his home.
Rev. John II. Baxter OF Grand Rapids,
Mich, is the guest OF Mr.. T. c. Alien ct
northeast Washington.
Prof. Frank Chittenden OF the Bureau
of Entomology has justcompleted an inter-
esting book on destructive insects.
The garbage crematory was closed to-
day for the purpose OF making repairs. but
operations will be resumed tomorrow.
The metropolitan electric cars were
stopped for an hour this morning by
break in the circuit east of Lincoln Park.
The excise board today rejected the ap-
plication OF Henry Senay for a retail IL
,ensc at No. q Eleventh streetnorthwest.
A series of new paths, leading through the
circle which surrounds the fountain in the
center, are being laid out in Mount Vernon
Park
DR.. A. W. Sweeney, of this city, was one
OF the speakers at yesterdays session of
the Jersey State Dental Association, now
In convention at Asbury Park.
Senator J. C. Prtchard. the leader OF
Republicanism in North Carolina, Is at the
Ebbilt House. He hopes to swing his Com
monwealth into the Mckinley line.
W. F. Underwood OF this city has been
appointed manager OF the Harlem ex-
| change OF the Metropolitan Telegraph and
Telephone Company of New York city.
The contract for grading THE cross streets
In the northwest suburbs, between Seventh
and Fourteenth streets, has been awarded
TO Andrew Gleason, he being the lowest
| bidder.
| A horse belonging TO Mcdowell, the feed
merchant. of Georgetown. was Frustrated
by the heat yesterday afternoon at the cor.
uer OF Seventh street and New York ave-
nue., nd died in about fifteen minutes.
| Keeping barking dog" was the charge
entered against Joseph Wells, a citizen
| or Northeast Washington, on the Ninth PFC
| cinct blotter last night. he was arrested
by Policeman r. G. Yates, who Is also
complainant.
| Additional police privates were ap-
pointed By the Commissioners today as
| follows Dennis Harrigan, Nicholas Cahill
| and William Henderson, for duty at the
1 United States Naval Observatory, and
| james Fisk, at tire Northern Market, cor
ner OF Seventh and o streets north west,
| Edward Robinson. nineteen years Of age.
ivirg at No. 1918 Georgia avenue south
east, was overcome by heat in front OF No.
| 2031 Seventh street northwest last even
ing. The Eighth precinct patrol wagon
| conveyed him to the Freedman's Hospital.
| George Peyton, twenty-t wo ears old.
of No. 5o4 H street northeast, while
| coasting on his bicycle on Maryland avenue
last night, ran into a herdic. striking
his head against the hub of one OF the
wheels and receiving a severe scalp wound
The Holland Republican Club of the Sec
ond district last night elected the folio W.
| ing officers: r. Henderson, president:
Oscar Brown, vice president; George II.
| Howard, secretary; s. Scott, assistant Sec
| retary; A. A. Hartman, treasurer, William
Terry, sergeant at-arms; s. Jackson, chap
| lain.
A sewer caved In on Kenesaw avenue,
| near fourteenth street, last evening. and
| john Robinson, colored. fifty-five years Of
age, residing on Marion street, was caught
| under tile falling debris and severely in
jured He was removed to Freedman's
Hospital.
Maggie Bell, a pugnacious colored wo-
man, created scene OF great disorder on
Thirteenth street northeast, alb out 1
O'Clock this morning. While bowling like
dervish Policeman C. B. Peyton placed
her under arrest. In the police court TO-
day to forfeited So collateral.
The policemen and all other attaches of
the police department are receiving theii
pay for July today, and the detective OF.
flee presented an animated appearance
The officers formed in long line and re-
ceived their checks, one by one. from
Messrs. Ma attingly and Cotteli.
Willard FAINT seven years old. was found
wandering in the streets Of Alexandria yes
| terday afternoon. He was turned over to
the police, and the child's parents, who live
at No. 408 East Capitol street, this city,
were notified. The boy stated that cab
driver in Washington had picked him up
| and had put him aboard an electric car
bound for Alexandria.
Flooring $150 per 100 feet: all one
width. F. Libbey &c Co, 9Th and N Y. ave.
Mr.. Carl E. Pelz, an einpleye Of Tie Dis
grict engineer depa rtincnt, was thrown from
lis bicycle this morning on Thirteenth
street, above Boundary, and sustained in
juries of such severity that it becaine nee
cssary to send him to Garfield Hospital fol
| treatment There were no bones broken
but Mr. Pelz's face and head sustained q
number of Iacerations. His wheel war
badly damaged.
Family Day at River View.
| Another uf those delightful family days
| at River YieM will be given Saturday next,