The morning times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1897, 1896-09-16
City Brevities

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/ gone to Norfolk for three weeks stay
I Flooring $1bO per 100 feet. an one
| width. +. Libbey& Co.. 9Th andN. Y. ave.
| The OFFICE of Harbormaster Sutton i.
undergoing repairs and being reprinted!
Mr.. j. c. Harper, of Delaware avenue
northwest, Is visiting friends In Balti
more.
Mr.. w. shonenberger will leave toda,
for Baltimore where he will remain two
weeks.
The Eugene Field Monument fund is
being literally subscribed to by Washing
tOnians. "
.Aiessrs. Watkins and Harmen have re-
turned to the city after u weeks trip to
Virginia.
row OF eight brick houses is being
erected on Second street, between ID and
Z southeast.
New cross ties are being laid on the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, at First and
Myrtle streets.
+. c. Bartlett, OF Second and streets
northeast. reformed Tuesday from Wash
inston Grove
The funeral of Mr.. Jesse Little, a we'll
known musician OF East WashiAgt On, took
place yesterday.
Four carloads OF I3-inch guns were
shipped from the Navy Yard yesterday to
the brooklyn yard.
Work Oh the miniature turret. which is
being erected in the Washington Navy Yard
Is progressing rapidly. SO"
$50 Mr Eugene Foete OF New York. who has
been visiting his parents. Capt. and Mrs.
F"ote, returned home yesterday.
so, Mr, Victor johnson, leader of the orches
ira at the Lafayette Square Theater. re-
turned last week from Lake George.
Mr.. Bailey Kelly. of No. 22S street
southeast, has gone to Little Deer Island,
near the Maine coast. to join his family.
Contractor Blunden has built row of
twentyfour houses on Q street. between
North Capitol and First streets north
east ""'' we. ~~.
Rev. DR.. and Mrs. W. G. Davenport OF
Anacostia have gone to Vermont TO attend
the marriage OF their son. George W, to
Miss Sallie Diggs.
The cornerstone OF the new Methodist
Church. at Brandywine, will be laid to-
morrow. The Masonic fraternity Will have
charge Of the services.
The daughters OF the American Revolu-
ton VIII on uext Saturday celebrate the
centennial OF the issuing OF the fare well
address OF George Washington
An alarm Of fire was sent in Tor slight
blaze at Nc. 6l9 Fourteenth street north
west at l0:3o yesterday, hut the services
or the department were not needed.
W. b. Mason. driver, was arrested
yesterday by Policeman McNaInee of the
sixth precinct, for cruelty to animals, on
complaint OF Agent John Reiplinger.
The lo0-mile ny q; tie National FEEDER
alton of HomiDg Fauciers viii take place
next Sunday. The birds, numbering 1885,
wi lao nd s,f, 4.
Louis Rech, ten years old. living on ID
street. between Fourteenth and Fir"elth
streets. stepped on Lioken bottle last
night and Inflicted an messed .r.I iId OF
the right foot.
Eugene Chase. colored, was locke up at
the -senoGd precinct station 10y Detective
Barnes yesterday, for the larceny nf
pair oi shoes from Howard Freeman. Gne
OF the prisoners pla ynIatcs.
A young white man giving the name OF
Welsh was thrown from his wheel. yeSter-
day. by the grove n "a. car ira ks at First
street and Indiana avenue. and received a
badly skinned farce and elbow.
Celia Markell, cnlored. who was stabbed
in the back by her husband, Il 5 told IN
yesterdays Morning Times, was reported
last nignrras slightly improved, ANA that
She has a fair chance for recovery.
Il ad' Punrruy streets northwest. was bitten
on the left thumb yesterday Afternoon by
a dog, with which he was troiicking. h.
walked To FreednIan's HOSPITAL, where the
wound was ,auteriZed.
Walter Marshall, n salesman, whose home
is IN Vermont anu VITO il stopping ut the
American House, va found unconscious at
the corner ui lni.,eeG' Il ana [ stTcol st
night HcwaS conveyed TO Emergency Hos
pijal, where lie was revived b. Surgeon
Lawrence.
I.e =, ,c0n appropriation by tire lass
Congress for improvements at Tie vast
ingt0n Navy Yard. aad an UDeXpended
balance of $500 from the previous
appropriation Is being used in perieCting
long needed improvements.
John Gates. eighty years old, living at
Eleventh and u streets southeast. while
seated III the Baltimore and Ohio depot
waiting for train Monday night, was
taken suddenly Ill with an aifIiction OF
the stomach. The police ambulance was
called aud removed the sufferer to Provi-
deuce Hospital
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