The morning times., 1896-05-20
City Brevities

Officer Geagheu of No. 8 is rapidly re-
| covering, after an Illness OF about siS
| weeks at the Garfield Hospital.
| The Treasury gold reserve at the close
| oflusiHess yesterday ystood at $1 z 2,310. LOG.
| The days withdrawals amounted to
| $50, 200.
pointed a private OF the first class in the
| police department the appointment To take
| effect at once.
Policemen Stearns and Riley of the
| Ninth precinct. who have been i'll for
! number of weeks, were reported last night
| as couyalescing.
Ex-senator walsh editor of the Augusta
| (Ga.) Chronicle, passed through the city
| last night on his way from New York to
| his Southern home.
Mr.. Clifford Howard, of the executive
| office, District building, leaves this morn
! Ing for i sojourn of two weeks in the
| Pennsylvania mountains.
| A large tree was blown down during
the storm yesterday morning and lies
across u street southeast, nearly closing
| the thoroughfare tn traffic.
william Greene has been given the re-
| Quisite authority TO serve as an additional
| private on the police force, In the employ
OF The steamboat George Leary.
william A. Orr has been appointed am
| bulance driver in the police department,
| vice Richmond resigned, appointment to
| take effect on the Sth Instant.
The enomination ofcx-Representative John
| c. Tarsney OF Missouri as associate judge
| OF the supreme court OF Oklahoma, was
| yesterday confirmed by the Senate.
Prof. Trentanove. whose statue of Perc
Marquette. in Statuary Hall, at the Capt.
tO!, nearly became political issue, is
| now enea ged on a bust of James G..
Blaine.
The receipts from internal revenue yes
| terday were $254,119; from customs
| $3l0 ,6S4; and miscellaneous ST ,492. The
national bank notes received for redemp-
tion amou uted to 1851 $50.
One hundred thousand copies of the vari-
| Gus speeches delivered by Secretary Car
Isle in favor Of sound money during the
past six months. are now being distributed
from here to points In Kentucky.
on K street uear Lincoln avenue, north
| east. the rain yesterday washed several
cart loads of loose stone into the street.
As they have not been removed the street
| is particularly dangerous for wheelmeu.
The blottcr at No. Police station yes
terday bore the names OF thirty seven
violators of the health law. who were
summoned to the police court in tie morn
ing for their failure to obtain the proper
garbage receptacle.
AlonZo Bell. young Virginian, who
has been staying at Central Union Mis-
sion for several mouths past, was seized
with fit on Louisiana avenue last night
and removed in the Sixth precinct patrol
to Emergency Hospital.
Col. TEuestlel has dedicated 16.2CO feet
OF ground for the extension of Twentieth
street from Wyoming avenue To Kalorama
street in the northwest, the amount OF
land necessary to continu the th0roug ghfare
the full length OF the square.
BY the will OF Sarah 81. Goodrich, filed
for probate yesterday, the entire estate
is left to her husband, John A. Goodrich
and her three sons, Charles B. Cornwall,
Edward w. ana Eugene Goodrich. ChaStaiu
c. Medor is nom iuated executor.
The Senate Committee on Pensions yes
terday ordered favorable report on the
nominations of ID. |. Murphy, OF PennSyl-
yania, to be commissioner OF pensions, and
Napoleon j. I, Dana of New Hampshire to
be first deputy commissioner OF pensions
Commander Lamberton. who was the
host OF President Cleveland on his various
duckiug expeditions to QuantiCo, was in
the city yesterday. He arrived from Bal
timore, al which place he attended the
funeral OF Chief Clerk Williams, OF the
lighthouse service.
Orders were issued yesterday from the
Navy Department detacIing Chief En-
gineer J. McEimell from the engineer
examining board, at Philadelphia. June
/, ana providing for his retirement from
active service with the relative rank OF
commodore the same day.
Postmaster General Wilson has denied
the privileges OF the mails to the follow
ing coucerns for violating the postal reg
ulaJions: Charles Heller aud A c. Sil-
bury, OF Mount Pulaski, III: Lewis l.
Ve7nier, ir., OF Louisville, O., and W
K. Bond, of Kingston, y. c.
Mr., odeil has introduced in the House
resolution directing the Postmaster of
the House to employ two laborers, at
S3 per day. for q period OF not more than
thirty days, TO assist in facilitating the
work OF distributing TO members the seeds
now being delivered by the Department OF
"A AgriCuiture.
The Capital Real Estate Investment AS
SoCiation has elected the following Of
ficers for the ensuing year Frank L Nc
Quade, president; John Shughrue, vice
president; William NJ. Becker, secretary;
I. A. Duffy, treasurer; board OF directors,
Frank B. McQuade, John Shughrue, d
Connell, Thomas T. Biggins, NJ O'Dono-
ghue, John B. Murray, R c. Lohneyer, T.
A. Duffy. R. e. Lowey; Trustees, John
Shughue and ID. Council