The evening times., 1896-08-31
City Brevities

Earnest A. H. Dunn will return today
from a trip through the West
Flooring, S1.5O per 100 feet. all one
width. F. Libbey & Co.. 9Th and N. Y ave.
The Grand Council. Jr. o. U. A. NJ, is
having on excursion today at River View.
The power house at st. Elizabeths for the
electrical plant will be completed in few
| weeks
Beginning with next week, the regular
choir will be heard at Trinity Episcopal
Church.
Ernest NARROW, of this city, is in Europe
with a party OF fellow-students from Har-
ward College.
Henry Cruthfield, boy, was arrested
last night by Policeman n. Lynch for jump
ing on the lexington cars.
| Cal o'Laughlin, the young newspaper
! correspondent, who has been critically i'll
with typhoid fever. is oonvalcscing.
]. Emerson is having some Improvements
made To his residence in block 2, Maple ave
nue., which are estimated to cost $500.
| Frank Trezzare, of Eleventh street south
east, left this morning for two weeks
vacation, to be spent at Wheeling. W.. Va.
William ]. Mayer, who has been spend
| ing month with a party of friends in
camp near Colonial Beach, has returned to
the city.
Prof. Albert Wilkinson. of Baltimore. who
has been visiting the family of Frank Allen,
90 Jefferson street, AnacoStia. returned
home yesterday.
Fred Buckler, accompanied by several
| otier memhers of the Eastern Bicycle Club,
rode to Shadysidc, Md. yesterday. They re-
turned late last night
DR.. Withers, OF the Emergency Hospital,
who resigned recently, will leave the in
stitution tomorrow. He will return to his
home in North Carolina.
The second railway mail car OF the Capt.
tai Traction Company. running between
Georgetown and the Navy Yard, made its
initial trip yesterday morning.
Residents in the neighborhood of the
| Baltimore and Ohio depot ire complaining OF
the smell from number OF dead rats left
| lying in the gutter next the depot grounds.
Secretary Gardner, OF the Democratic
| campaign committee. left Saturday for a
| trip to one or two Northern cities. 1t is
| supposed he is gathering campaign funds
S. Geoffrcy Stein, who will go on the
road with X ecne this winter, rs spending
few weeks before the opening OF the season
at his home on II street, near Fifth north.
west.
Attorney ]. w Mckinley left last even
| ing for Marietta, Ohio. He expects Ia he
absent several days. When ne returns Mrs
Mckinley and the two juniors will accom-
pany him.
Consul General Ellis Mills, at Homo
lulu. says in repOr. to the government here
that the exports from the Hawaiian Islands
to the United States will be nearly double
! last years total.
Rev. T. NJ Hawcs of Highland Presby
rerian Church, Louisville, KY. is filling
the pulpit at the Eastern Presbyterian
Church, in The absence of Rev 7. Cha liners
EaSton, the pastor.
The crop of tomatoes his year was over
large, and they are a glut on the market.
IN the commission houses Eastern Branch
tomatoes are selling cheaper than they
have fer some time.
The State Department has advices that
large importations of Zante curants may
be expected here this fall, as result of a
change in the tariff ria ws of the countries
where they are produced.
A branch of the Anacostia Protestant
Episcopal Church has been established at
Congress Heights. Rev. W. G. Davenport
| is the pastor, assisted by Rev. DR.. Ernrrons.
The first services were held yesterday.
Building permits have been issued as
follows: To A B. EaumaD, for construc-
tion of a dwelling at No. 31s n street
southwest, to cost 81 500. David = efferlilIg,
for dwelling on Benning road, 81 900.
Private Secretary Burke. in the office Of
the Engineer Commissioner, Is absent on
| leave. TO he gone a week, and his duties
are assumed by ". II. O'Connor, temporarily
transferred from the office Of the chief
clerk.
A bicycist, whose name could not be as
certained, was pitched from his machine on
the large hili near Great Falls Hotel yes
terday afternoon, and suffered a fracture OF
his Collar bone. He was brought to his
home in this city.
a horse attached to a buggy ran away on
II street northeast, near the Graceland Gem
etcry yesterday afternoon. Willard Nor
ris, the driver, was thrown out and badly
bruised. The horse was caught on the
Bladensburg road
Bishop Satterlee, who arrived in New
York Saturday from his European trip, is
expected in Washington some daythis week.
He viii only remain a few days TO select
residence. when he wiIlgotot the mountains
for a month before beginning his clerical
duties.
Deputy Clerk Joseph Harper, Of the pjIicc
court, returned from Harpcr's Ferry on
hearing of the Williams defalcation. Judge
Miller has written Chief Clerk Potts, >S.lo IS
N Pc ms sylvania, to return. as his pra"Huce
is needed here. Docket Clerk Hall Colgate
is still away.
Considerable complaint is being IN I'd. e.
garding the custom of certain bicyclists
in riding as close to street cars as possible.
Sunday night gentleman stepping off j
Ninth street car while in moJiJa wns
knocked down by wheelman who had Deen
hugging the track. He was uninjured.
The cornerstone of the new Trinity NJ. E.
Church will be laid Wednesday, September
20. The building is being erected at the
corner of Fifth and C streets southeast.
The program has not been entirely COM
pleted, but the services will he conducted
with Masonic rites by the Grand Lodge Of
the District
Thornton Burrows and Thomas Fisher,
Colored, left last night, for Sing Sing, N Y.
Burrows, who was convicted of murder.
was sentenced for life. Fisher house.
breaking, was sentenced to five years
The prisoners were taken to the train by Po-
liceman Hayes, of No. 6 precinct, and were
guarded on their journey by warIen
Leonard.