The evening times., 1896-09-04
City Brevities

morning Tor new 1Ork Oh DusiheSs
Capt. Edwards. of the Corcoran Cadets.
is confined to his bed on account of illness.
Representative Wheeler, of Alabama. is
in Tie city on business for his constituents.
Flooring, $1.5O per 100 feet. all one
width. F. Lbbey & Co.. 9Th and N. Y. ave
day from New York on the steamer Nor
MAMMA for Hamburg.
Hundreds of tree limbs are scattered over
the city, which were torn from the trees by
the storm of yesterday.
Mr. Ernest A A. Dunn will return tomoI-
row from Hagerstown, where he has been
spending his vacation.
The Commissioners have revoked the COM
mission OF Anderson A lien as an additional
private OF the police force.
Samuel Ray was nominated for Congress
in the Ninth Illinois district by the Demo
cratic convention there yesterday.
The Democrats OF the Fifth Minnesota
district yesterday indorsed the Popullst
nomination OF 8. N. owen for Congress.
Secretary Diffinderfer Of the Silver
party committee is expected to return to
local headquarters from Philadelphia to-
night.
The free silver Democratic Congress
sional convention O: the Eleventh Ken
lucky district yesterday nominated James
ID. Black.
Mr. Samuel Hamburger, a wellkDown
Baltimore ciothier, spent few hours in
this city yesterday on his way home from
the South
Mr. W. E. Schoenborn, an assistant ex-
aminer in the Patent Office. has left for
a three months visit to England and the
continent.
Squire Lane. of Jackson City, yester-
day postponed all gambling cases on the
docket for n hearing next Thursday, Sep
teniber 10.
Mr. Frank Bunnel. of this city. was shot
In the cheek yesterday while cunning in
Little River. The wound is rot Sc. ioas, but
very painful
Ex-Congresstuan Charles II. Turner, the
attorney at law. isin Maine making speeches
Democratic tickets.
The Democrats. Populists and Silverites
OF the Sixth Michigan district fused yes
teslay and nominated Quincy A. Smith, OF
Lansing, for Congress.
Mr.. Solomon Fague, of Fagie Son. has
gone to Mountain Lake Park, Md, where
his sister, Mrs.. NJ. A. Ball, died yesterday.
His wife accompanied him.
Mr. John W Albaugh, OF the Lafa yette
Square Tbeater who has been sunmering
In his cottage at Newport, is spending
-,
Work OF sending out campaign matter
from the local headquarters of the Popu-
list national committee has been dela ycd.
but will be rairly begun on Monday next.
H. H. Thorpe, sole owner of the Citizens
Bank of sabina, Ohio. filed a deed Of as
signment last night. The assets are esti-
mated at $50 900. with liabilities about
the same.
Democrats OF the Fourth Congressional
district OF Nebraska yesterday indorsed
the candidacy for Congress of Judge W.
l. Stark. OF Aurora. already nominated
by the Populsts.
The demands Tor help made upon Sani-
tary Officer Frank for the first three days
OF this week were far in excess Of what
they were in any similar period during the
coolest OF last winters weather.
Thomas Crane, aged twenty-five years.
of Philadelphia. was stabbed in the left
breast. and /; is believed, mOrtaliy wounded
by Jules Stocked, who is in custody. They
had quarrelled over the ownership OF a dog
The heavy rain yesterday came near wet
ting the clerks files at the courthouse.
The water stood an inch or so deep over
bap h,,t h,i nF ha ,rar
office had a janitor go out and sweep it OFF.
A wbeelwonan ran into car conductor
this morning at North Capitol and
streets Just rs he stepped from the car
10 turn the switch. Both fell to the ground.
but neither was injured.
Herman Mataler, a rancher living eight
miles northeast of Denver. Colo, shot his
wife yesterday and then himself and then
cut his throat. The W woman will die. but the
man will recover. Jealousy was the cause.
The Paris Figaro says that the Due
dAuinale has invited the czar to visit the
chateau of the Due at Chantiliy, but it is
expected that the cZar wiiideclinc the invita-
,ion upon the ground of the shortness of his
stay in France.
The British steamer, Ravensheugh, from
Alexandria for Hull, came into collision
off Finsterre yesterday with the steamer
Fusiyana, from Antwerp for Leghorn. sink
ing the latter almost immediately. No
lives were lost.
The committee OF arrangements for the
visit OF William J. Bryan to this city is
constantly at work. Preparations at Con-
vention Hall have already been begun, and
an announcement to the public will be
made in a few days.
Representative Settle, of North Carolina.
is in the city, and says the Republicans will
make good showing in his State. The di-
visions between the Populists and Demo-
Gratis make it sure there will not be Demo-
cratic Senator elected.
The District Engineer Commissioner esti-
mates that granolithic pavenients will be
laid this year over a larger surface than is
shown to have been put down in any pre-
vious year. He regards cement as the only
sidewalk ma terial of the future.
The Union Republican Club win hold a
meeting this evening, beginning at 7:30
O'Clock, at which a report will be SUBJ
mitted recommending the consolidation of
the organization with the Mckinley and
Hobart Interstate Campaign Club.
mo. 49, fire department horse,
whose days of usefulness as such are
over, has been condemned and in due
time viii go hence over the auction block
to sonic purchaser who can make him
useful, Notwithstanding bis frailties
The Metropolitan Street Railway Com
pany last night answered the Commission
ers' letter regarding its temporary tracks
on street, near the Baltimore aud Ohio