The morning times., 1896-11-25
City Brevities

Mr.. Will Cross of street has gone On n
hunting trip in Maryland.
Mr.. James Ryan, of No. 2611 P street
northwest. II IA ~I-n typE0!d.
Alice Jones was arrested for assault by
Policeman STANCE last night.
Mr.. Dungley Berdine of Laurel visited
friends on Capitol Hill yesterday.
John Anderson was arrested for scorct-
ing last night by Iolceman Estes.
Mr.. Harry NesbltJ 0r tie Internal Rev
enue office is IN Baltimore on business.
Mr.. Edgar Degges. of L street northwest,
returned To the city yesterday from Roch.s-
ter, y. Y.
board walk has been laid along Heck
man street southeast, from First 10 Second
streets.
Maine avenue southwest. which has been
In a filthy condition, WAS Cleaned by hand
yesterday.
TIE banquet of the Union soldiers Ali
ancc Will he held AT the Ehbitt House De
ccInber 80.
Mr.. W. L. Spencer journal clerk If Tie
Senate, has returncd from Il lengthy visit
in Wisconsin.
James Ketchum was arrested last night
by Policeman Estes for having no light
on his bicycle.
Private GoGcher of the patrol service.
Third precinct. is on leave. iottcr is act
ing in his stead.
Repairs are being made to the electric
wire cuHdgii at the Curuer OF Eighth and
q streets southeast.
Mr. George Anderson is confined To his
beu wl,n n-uiIiuIna at Ills iirur ON N
street northwest
Mr. Franklin Murphy. tlcNew Jcr~ryrnan
whu nominated Mr.. HobIrt for Wee Trysi-
dent, is in the city.
An entertainment for the benefit of the
building fund viii he given at st Steph-
ems Church tonight.
Several bad spots III the roadway on X
street, between Twentieth and Twenty
first, are being Repaired.
Workmen Were engaged ~ strr,lay in re-
pairing The tracks OF the PcnHs ylvanis Raj
road, near the roundhouse
Detective HartiGan arrested Thomas
Peacock for profanity and Joshua Roy for
disord"rly conduct last nj ght.
MIR. Leroy Purdy, OF Seventeenth street
northwest, who has been very III FOR S"v, raj
weeks. is reported convalrSc,ut.
a cycliSt giving his name rs John Jones
was arrested last mi SHIT 10y Policeman Estes
Tor having no light on his bicycle.
Mr. William Byrd of @3l Eleventh street
southeast has just returned from an ex-
tended tour through New York State
Mr.. John /. Ryan Of T. street northwest
returned yesterday from West Virginia.
whittier hc went on a visit to his parents.
The second floor of the Government
Printing offire annex has been fitted I'D
very handsomely as Il proofrcadcrS' room.
Wizards Hotel is undergoing cxten>iy.
repairs, neccsSitating the closing OF the
principal entrances and the disusc of the
lobby.
Llnernen Were at work yesterday string
ingtelegraph wires Oh the poles along Fourth
street southeast, from Pcrus yivdnla avenue
70 street.
The alley in the rear Of the Western
Market, which has been in a bad state OF
repair for some time, was Yesterday be-
Ing repayed.
Policeman Eeith Of Tie Second precinct
reported yesterday that the sewer Id in
the alley back Of 301 l street northwest
was missing.
The Spurgeon orphans will give Il con-
cert this evening at the First Baptist
Church for the benefit of the mission fund
of that church.
The funeral services of Miss Alice Nc
Cabe, who died on Sunday, were held from
her home, No. 943 $ street yesterday the
Rev. Father Ryan officiating.
Work is progressing rapidly on Trinity
Methodist Episcopal Church, corner of Fifth
and c streets southeast, and it will he
ready for occupancy in about six weeks
Fire consumed a frame shed Yesterday
morning in the rear OF 20i5 Vermont ave
nue. northwest, occupied by Rev. Robert
Johnson, causing a damage of $50, fully
covered by insurance.
Prof. +. W. Williams OF 633 0 street
northwest, formerly of the Eastern High
school, returned the city yesterday from
n visit TO New York, where he will begin
practicing law shortly.
A wheelman named Charles Davis re-
celved cut head and Sundry bruises as a
result of collision with another wheel
man at the corner OF Nineteenth AMI l
Streets northwest yesterday
Hon. W. Is. Fleming, late chief of the
law and records division of the SUPER
vlsing architects office, returned to the
city last night after n two weeks visit
to his old home in Richmond, KY.
George Waller, John Rollins, and Harry
Thornton, three colored youths. are locked
up at precinct No. s, charged with the
larceny OF a bicycle and its attachments.
from DR.. T. s. Caldwell, who lives at 949
street northwest.
Mr.. Clarence E. Young, private secre-
tary of Senator John w Daniel of viz
glnla, Is about TO exchange his present
connection for the attorneyship for large
New York corporation having extensive
Virginia interests.
w. E Hogan, stableman, employed at
the Benning track by W b. Burch, became
diSof0erly this morning whie under q @
influence of liquor, and was arrested by
Mounted Policeman Collins, and locked IN
at the Ninth precinct
Because his bicycle SIZED no raw of light
young Frank Ruggles was arrested mt the
corner OF Sixteenth and K streets northwest
by Patrolman jacobson last night and
caused TO leave So collateral at the Third
precinct.
Albert Richardson, o colored man, re-
siding at No. 1l21 Twentieth street north
west, was knocked down by bicyclst last
night at the corner of Nineteenth street and
Pennsylvania avenue northwest, and sc.
vereiy hurt about the head.
The rapid progress of the work on the
new Library building insures an early re-
Inoval of the Congressional Library to its
new abode. As result there is an active
competition among several hundred ap-
plioants for the forty appointments to be
made by Mr.. Spofford as extra assistants
N the new building.