The evening times., 1896-09-09
City Breyities

William G. Stafford has returned from
his vacation
Mr.. Charles Green is visiting Mr.. II. a
Dawson OF Rockville
William +. .Downey. the iiyerynlan, iss
returned from a European tour.
/ Flooring $3.50 per 100 feet. all one
width. f. Libbey & Co. 9Th apdN.Y ave.
Mr.. Sweeny, of Capitol HILL has returned
from two weeks outing at Atlantic City.
L. Maurice Smith, the well known lawyer.
4 is back from months jaunt on Jersey
i sands
i The laying Of conduits for electric light
wires in the Capitol grounds is nearly COM
pleted.
4 Victor Kaufman and c. A. Coolidge have
returned from bicycle tour along the
| Hudson.
1 The West E nd Mckinley Club had. a rally
yesterday at Catholic Hall, No. 1114
i Eighteenth street northwest.
| e. W. Barrett, formerly secretary to
Speaker Crisp, returned yesterday, after
a vacation in the mountains.
| A sigInund, of 1924 Sixteenth street.
| returned this morning from trip down the
1
| Prof. Lane, of the Central High School,
/ is respected to arrive home from East Glou-
cester, Mass, the last OF this week.
| Maurice F. Wilson, OF Monroe street.
Anacostia, has returned home after sew
4 eral months In the mountains OF Virginia.
| C. A. Hamilton, the Washington Cor
respondent, has returned from Atlantic
| City, where he spent u months vacation.
B. R. Van Mater, of s41 K street NORTH
| west, has gone to Chicago to look after
some bicycle works in which heisinterestcd.
DR.. Cyrus Adler, of the Smithsonian In
| s,itution. left for New York today in order
| to meet Prof. Langley on his return from
Europe.
Fifty-four applications for membership
| Ia the national association OF Democratic
| clubs were received at local headquarters
yesterday.
W. Hamilton Smyth, of Springfield. Mass,
who is making an extensive trip through
the South and West, left this city last even
ing for Richmond.
District L. A. W. Consul William T.
Robertson left with his family this n.urE-
ing for a weeks visit to the resorts on the
lower chesapeake
There was an unusual run on the marriage
license clerk at the City Hall yesterday.
Fifteen licenses were issued before 3
O'Clock in the afternoon.
Mrs. Eleanor F. Rowley of the Nautical
Almanac office is dead. She had been AZ
her home Rochester, n. Y, where her
death occurred yesterday.
yViIiiatn 7 Gibson of Naw
IS visiting friends in this city. Mr..
Gibson is known as one of the fastest telc-
graph senders in the world.
Assistant Secretary McKeen OF the
national association OF Democratic clubs,
has gone to New Jersey, his hoinc. - 'tf-
tend the Democratic State convention.
Henry Thomas, eoiored, fell from his
wagon on Twent y-first street late yesterday
afternoon and broke his left ann. DIR. West
set the broken member at tie Emergency.
Two bicy collided last evening IL
front Of the Baltimore & Ohio depot
One wheel was wrecked but the other es-
capped injury. The riders Were not hurt.
y car fender saved James Terrell from
serious injury last night He was struck
By cable car at II nd Fourteenth streets
assisted him home.
Experiments with the Pole gas motor
car for the ADacoStia and Potomac River
Railway Company have been temporarily
discontinued and the car is left ON the
track of the cemetery branch.
The health office authorities have mott
fled number Of dairynen who are not
complying with the milk law that unless
there is immediate amendment they will
be brought into police court and fined.
Criminal court room, No. 2, at the city
hall. where the Breckinr:dge-Poi Poilard case
was heard, is undergoing a thorough clean
ing and kalsomning preparatory to the
opening o; court at the close Of this month.
The United States Civil Service COM
mission will shortly hold an examinatioa Of
applicants for the position OF photographic
engrayer in the geological survey. Tic
salary attached to this office is So per day.
a runaway team attached TO a hack was
was stopped by Officer Gordon at the cur-
Ber of Pennsylvania avenue and Third street
last night. One wheel of the carriage was
smashed and the horses received numerous
cuts.
sydney L. Mudd. Republican Nominee for
Congress from the Fifth Maryland district
Including Montgomery and Prince George
counties, registered at Wizards last night.
He is in the city looking after his po-
liticai interests.
William Harris, fifteen yea r-old col
,rcd boy, was brought to Providence Hos
pital this morning with a fracture of the
ankle, caused by collision with a heavy
ice wagon on Eighth street, while he WAS
riding a bicycle.
A car on the Columbia line over ran
the track at the junction of Fifteenth
street and New York avenue last night,
twisting the grip and delaying traffic for
half an hour. A similar accident hap
pened Sunday night
George p Chandler. living in South Wash
ipgton. slipped on Il banana peel yesterday
and fractured his leg. II e was taken to the
Emergency Hospital by the police of the
Fourth precinct and afterward removed to
his home at 1914 Hunton place.
An aged colored man, whose name could
not be learned, was knocked down by a
bicyclist at Ninth and @ streets northwest
last night. The old man lay upon the side
walk for time, and was later able with
some assistance, to arise and walk away.
Miss Esteile Reitz, OF SO Fifth street
northwest, while riding her bicycle on the
Avenue yesterday, was run into by another
bicycle and thrown TO the ground. The
wheel was badly damaged, but the young
lady received no injuries, further than
few bruises.
Capt. ". C. Myers, of the executive de-
s,ar rtyx ont Ct rif huild