The morning times., 1896-09-19
City Brevities

The trees on Ninth street, between anC
. streets, are being trimmed.
Mr.. Ii. Spencer of Baltimore. is visiting
in Washington for few weeks.
Carloads OF coal are being received daily
| at the Washington navy yard.
Mr.. f. Nye of the Postofficc Depart
ment. has gone to Mount Holly, Va.
A number OF trees in front OF the United
States Barracks are being cut down.
The concrete pavement on Fifth street
between and III streets, Is being repaired.
A lawn parly was given Thursday night
at sO6 North Carolina avenue northeast.
Mr.. Harry English of the Central High
School, VILE return today from his vaca-
ton. 64-iu
Mr.. p HaHson of Seventh street north
| west has returned from trip to New
| York.
Tenth and Eleventh streets, is being re-
| paved.
Mrs. A. Bfadsbaw of 9OI street north
east. who has been very sick, is slightly
| improved.
The new Grtcnleaf school building is
completed and will he ready for opening
on Monday.
Mr. Ben Graves of Havener's Bakery
| Company. northeast, is at Hancock, Va,
| on a hurting trip.
| Further dumping has been prohibited on
| the lot bet wcen Sixth and Seventh, l
| and streets southeast.
| Tri:amers are at work among the trees
along street, between Nineteenth aid
] Twenty-third streets northwest
| Arthur Orison Of Capitol Hill has gone
| TO University of Virginia, where lie VIII
take Il three years course in medicine.
MIR. william T. Southard OF No. 1888
| Massachusetts avenue northwest enter
| tanned last evening party OF musical
| friends.
The hose carriage OF engine No. y was
| sent To the repair shop yesterday. A
| spare carriage belonging to No. is being
! used in its place.
| Mr.. Maurice NJ. Splain, Washington Cor
respondent of the Pittsburg Post, has re-
| turned from q two months trip to the
| Catskill Mountains.
Twenty-Five pupils applied yesterday for
4 admission TO the first grade in the Arthur
| school. forty lone at the Gales. and twenty
| four at the Seaton.
Miss Mary Walsh of South Washington
| left yesterday for northern trip, during
| which She viii visit Niagara alls and
| other places of interest.
Major L. Pruden is spending his vacation
1
| Is acting as the Presidents assistant sec
| rotary during his absssnce-
| Tickets for admission of first year pupils
| will lie issued Today from tie different
| schools between 3 and 10 this morning
and 3 and this afternoon.
| Thomas Jackson. No. 633 $ street. was
| treated at Emergency Hospital last night
| for Il confusion Of the abdomen, ca used by
| a fail received one week ago.
| j. J. Tracy.a waiter. who lives at the
! corner of Second and ! streets northwest,
| WAS treated Tor Il DOG bite Oh the hand at
| Emergency Hospital last night.
horse attached To the delivery wagon
| of John Richie ran away yesterday after
noon near the street bridge, deIEolishing
| the wagon and severely cutting himself
The dwelling occupied by Mrs. ID. d.
| Beechrr No 905 Fourth street northwest.
| caught fire last night, but the flames were
readily cxtiuguished before damage was
done.
| The hydrant at the corner OF twenty
| tnri and \ streets northwest, which has
| been In bad state OF repair for the past
| two months, was yesterday put in working
| o rider.
| Jennie Harris, Colored. was struck in the
| face with cobble stone by her husband,
| Ed Harris, at their home in Phi lips court
|
| to Emergency.
| Rev. Dr. Rogers, pastor Of the Church OF
| Our Father, returns today from his vaca-
| ton, which, he has spent in northern Yer
mont and Canada, and Will occupy his pull
pit tomorrow morning.
| Mr. Harry ,Rlen Of No. 1888 Fifth Street
l no rthwest celebrated last evening the
| twenty first anniversary Of his birth by
| entertaining alta bountiful supper part y
| Of thirty friends.
| A slight fire occurred early last even
| ing in a clothing store, corner OF II and
| Eighth streets northeast. 1t was ex-
tinguislied by engine compa MES Nos and
| 8 with slight damage.
| Hi. Dawson, timer, No. T25 Twelfth
| street DorthEes sustained a fracture of
the wrist yfsserday afternoon and was
| attended at Emergency Hospital last night
by Surgeon Lawrence.
George PiSr1e, a bicycle rider will prot
| ably under taiId the scOrChng regulations
better in the future. as Policeman Robert
son surprisel-hiIu during burst OF speed
last night. He left So collateral.
| John Murphy was arrested yesterday by
Special Officer Mcbride on n charge OF
4 vagrancy- When searched a revolver was
| found on him and another charge was
f, placed against him OF carrying concealed
| weapons.
| Jacob Shepherd, colored, No. 424 Nine
| teenth street, fell from the window Of his
| house yesterday and sustained confusion
| of the left shoulder, which was treated at
Emergency Hospital by Surgeons West and
! Lawrence.
| AG Randall, d clerk in the Coast Survey
office lcft his wifsei in front Of a store on
| + street. between Twelfth and Thirteenth
streets, yesterday morning, while he went
\ I,.r. h., no. a.
| wheel gone.
| The Second Regiment Band OF the Ma
tional Guard treated the members of truck
| company ID last night to au impronptu
| concert, which was held at the rear OF
| their quarters, on l. street, near New
| Jersey avenue northwest.
| Edward Benjamin, colored, residing at
| No. 9IS Eighteenth street northwest, was
| carried to the Emergency Hospital ycster-
day afternoon in the Third precinct patrol
wagon, suffering with badly cut head
| the result of a family brawl.
Arthur Mccormick. living at GLIB F street
northeast, was knocked down by an I'M
| known bicyclist at the corner OF Fifteenth
| and X streets northwest last evening about
9 O'Clock and sustained a cut across the
forehead and badly spraiDed wrist.
Richard Nancy, white, aged twenty four
| years, whose occupation is that OF Il paper
hanger, was arrested by Officer Hall, Of
Nos police station, yesterday afternoon.
| The warrant charged him with committing
an assault on S. II. Hines, an undertaken.
| Last evening about 9 O'Clock some one
| of wd of boys who frequent the corner
| of wenty-fourth and II streets northwest
threw u club at an old colored man named
| Andrew Wall, who was passing on the
| oppo site side of the street, injuriDg him
severely about the head.
| Ex-Commissioner JamesW. Poe chairman
| of the National Republican Protective AS
| ISOLATION. has issued a call for joint
| meeting of the generaland eX- COM issioners