The morning times., 1896-11-18
City Brevities

southeast nave, been relettered.
Pennsylvania avenue in the vicinity of
Washington Circle is being repaired.
The work of asphalting South Carolina
| avenue southeast has been completed.
Repairs were being made yesterday on
the c. o. tracks near Benning crossing.
The old frame office buildings at the
| Metropolitan car shed have been torn down.
MI. Wiliami Taylor. OF tho Pension Of
flee, has gone to Virginia on hunting
| trip.
A fcur-horse roller was in use on Thir
| teenth street, back Of Lincoln Park, yes
terday.
The members of Carroll Institute will
| give comlimentary smoker tomorrow
| evening.
| northeast has left for short trip TO
| Pittsburg.
Mr.. j. W. McCausland of No. 500 T
street northeast has left for short trip to
| Philadelphia.
Charles Brown was arrested by Police
man Estes yesterday for having no bell
on his bicycle.
Mr.. W. j. Byers, of 219 E street north
| east, has returned to the city from trip
to Philadelphia.
Several sewers at the corner of Tenth
and Pennsylvania avenue southeast were
repaired yesterday.
Mr.. Charles McGill has returned to his
| desk in the Pension Office after an ILL
| hess OF two weeks.
The carcass of large dog was last even
| Ing lying on the sidewalk ON Fifth street,
| near + street southeast.
Mr.. John Brennan of No. 33 G street
northwest has gone on n hunting trip in
| Montgomery county, Nd.
several large loies IN the street on New
| Hampshire avenue, near l street north
west, were yesterday filled in.
Fourteeirinch water pipes are being laid
along East Capitol street, between Thir-
| teenth and Fourteenth streets.
Mr.. Samuel Hilton, OF Twenty-second and
| L streets northwest, has returned to the
city from a bicycle trip in Virginia.
| The monthly meeting OF the National
| Statistical Association will be held this
evening at the Columbia University.
| The patrol box at Eighth and II streets
northeast. which has been ont Of order
ever since the storm, has been repaired.
Mr.. John Clark, OF No. 30 Myrtle street.
| who has been dangerously III with typhoid
| pneumonia, was somewhat better yesJer-
| day.
The threC-masted schooner. Mary and
Emily, from Perryville, Nd, is tied up at
| Sr this wharf foot of Fourth street sou,u-
| east.
Workmen are engaged in laying off 4
| park on the large reservation between
| ana ", Fifth and Seventh streets SOUTH
| east.
James b. Halliday was arrested yes
terday by Policeman Lynch for cruelty
to ANIMALS on complaint OF Agent Reip-
linger.
| Some embryo shade trees to take the
F.! place OF those destroyed by the storm were
| yesterday being planted In front OF the
! White House.
Lieut.. Boyle. who has been away on a
vacation, has returned and directs the
| movements Of the Third precinct police
| establishment.
Last night the Sunday school teachers
| OF st. Marks gave an entertainment for
| the amusement Of the infant classes IN
| the parish hall.
Thomas Burns. a young white man, was
| locked up at the Third precinct station
house last night charged with being an
| habltual drunkard.
The big three-masted schooner Mabel
| from Portland, Me-, Capt Emory Raub, is
| afloat with load OF lumber OFF the foot
| of III street northwest.
Waldo Ferrie, wheelman, collided with
| the gutter at the cprner of Seventeenth
| street and PENNSYLVANIA avenue Yesterday
and had his face badly bruised.
Mr.. James F. English, chief pa.e Of
the United states Senate, got bdcs I1st
| night from his California home, W., IL. he
| has been since the Chicago convention
W. p. Roberts, prominent bauHcr Of
| southwestern Virginia, is in Washington on
| business connected with the telephone cases
| now pending before the supreme Court
In the absence of staff Capt. Blanche
| Cox, the services at Salvation Army head
! quarters last evening were conducted by
Ensign Worthinglon and Lieut.. Hopkins.
| Dwe!lers IN the ncighDorhuod OF 4 wentv-
| third and + streets northwest are com
| planning of the nmsomc odors emitted
| from the mouth of h. Sc wer on tha ucorner
1t was reported yesterday that Mr..
NJ. j. Corbey, station Keeper OF the Third
precinct. who has been i'll for some time
| al his home in Muir Kirk, was sinking rapid-
| ly.
| The building nEcommittee U fthenew Trinity
| NJ. l.. Church met last evening at the
| old church on Fourth street southeast to
| select furniture and furnishings for the
| new building.
A conscience contribution OF Sl2 so post
marked st. Cloud, Mimi, October Z, 1896
reached the Treasury yesterday through
|
been sent by error.
Clarence L. Young, Of Lynchhurg. Va,
| Who has been in the city for several tla VS.,
| left last night for his huTne. Mr. Young
| is the private secretary OF Senator John
| W. aniel, Of Virginia.
| The Old Folks Concert given on Mon
| day evening Tor the benefit of the relief
fund of Colurabia Typographical Union will
| be repeated this evening at Typographical
| Hall for the sam g purpose.
| Arrangements are being made for
| fair, for the benefit of Carroll Institute
10 be given during the month of February
| The fair will be given in the Institute hall
and will run for two weeks or longer.
Silds Wells was quite painfully hurt last
| evening while coasting down New Jersey
avenue near b street northwest. Wells
received two ;cag scalp wounds and
| sprainel wrist. His hurts Were treated
| at drug store.
Smith Allen, a colored man. upon com
| plant of his friends, was last night re-
| moved from his home in Summers alley
and locked up ut the Third precinct sta
ton house as insane. He will De sent
| 10 st. EliZabeth's today.
Mt. William Carne, for n number of wears
q representative at the courts here of sew
| eral newspapers, has given up that work
| He will henceforth attend TO correspond
| ence only for Alexandria, where he has
| been engaged in newspaper work for over
] forty years. u
| The accidental upsctting of an oil stove
/ yesterday Y caused a'sliEht bia ze at the house,
| of Marbury johnson, No. 2409 Virginia
avenue northwest, and orcasioned the send