The evening times., 1896-12-04
City Brevities

| Mr.. John w. Cole Is very i'll at Garfield
Hospital.
| the ehorehfffn today or tomorrow.
Martin j. RUSSELL editor OF the Chicagt
| chronicle, is registered at tue Ebbitt.
Rev. W. j. II Hogan OF the Catholic Uni
versiiy is in New York city for a few days
Ralph b. Barnard was yestertla y admitted
to practice before the district court Of ap
| peais.
Writs for an inquiry into the sanity o
Charles Brueih ana Margery MiIberg wer
| issued yesterday.
Goodwill Council. No. 8, Sons of iona
| dab, VIII entertain their friends with
| box party tonight.
A proposition has been made to orga anize
| o Gatling gun squad, to be connected with
| the District National Guard.
Lieut.. swlndeIls reported today a bat
| leak in the water main in front of No
| 56l7 y street, Georgetown.
Gen. william A. Draper, OF Massachusetts
| who Is spoken or IN connection with the
| French mission, is In the city.
| The Workingman's Club, with heatlquar-
| ters at No. 2105 Pennsylvanie avenue, will
have its opening tonight at O'Clock.
| defective fluc caused bfaze last
| evening in the house OF Frederick Scheede,
| No. 500 East Capitol street: damage, SO.
The viii OF III Late George a. williams was
| testamentary granted to Josephine VIII
| liams.
lar. IL. l.. T.. johnson has returned to the
CITY from his attendance nDon the Sessions
OF the Pan American Medical Congress In
the City OF Mexico
This lis pension day, and many old soldiers
We're rambling around at midnight look
ing for place to execute their vouchers,
Tor early niinS at the agency.
The Northeast Mission OF Epiphany p.
IL. Church has been removed To street,
between Fourth and Firth streets northeast,
where larger quarters We're secured.
Mrs Elijah eth Abbey. OF BriGhtwood,
broke the point of needle in her finger
y esteriay, and the piece was removed by
Or. Lawrence, OF Emergency Hospital.
James Bard, a patrol driver, fell from a
pennsylvania avenue car yesterday after
noon and sustaineia a cut tandseVeral bruises.
lie was treated at Emergency Hospital.
The commissioners have given one-haif
OF each day since Tues s1ay tothepreparatlon
OF their annual report to Congress, which
they expect to have ready for submission
on Monday.
AT the next meeting OF the Silver Crescent
Social Club of southeast Washington off
GERS Will be elected for 1897. The club
VIII hold a reunion ut Washington hall soon
after Christmas.
The police made sIxty-three arrests dur
ing the twent y-rour hours ending at
O'clock tins morning. Three OF the
prisoners were women: forty-one whites
ana tweilt vi w0 GolOred.
Some telegraph wires charged with a
heavy electric current from Crossed light
wires are wrapped around trees between
Ninth and Fourteenth and B streets and
virginia avenue southwest.
The case of cruelty to animals preferred
against the lexington and Soldiers Home
Railroad by Humane A gents Rabbit and
Reiplinger has been continued for n hear
inL In the police court until December :.
The remains of Mrs. Susan A. BlnXtOn
Will be taken to Spotts ylyania county, Va.
for 1nterrnent tomorrow. She was eighty
years of age, and The inothcr-in-law OF W.
IA
west.
District Attorney Birney stated yester-
day That he expected thai III, ertun Cnar-
man. the convicted broker, w!iu refused Ia
testify in the sugar trust investigation
"oHid give himseH dp before the emu oI Tins
Week.
The Washington a ind Great Falls Railway
Company has had its attention officially
minded that under the law it will beobliGed
to make repairs without delay
George Harcomb was struck on the head
with billiard cue last night by Frank
Brown, also colored. in HensOn's pool
rooms, Third and E streets south west. A
cash in Harcomb's head was sewed up
at the Emergency Hospital
Pension day commenced at midnight yes
terday, and from that hour until this
morning there was a steady line ul old
soldiers dropping their vouchers in the
box at the pension agency, at the corner
During trial in Judge Miller's court
yesterday, it was testified that boys pro-
cure Intoxicating drinks, in spite of the
strict anti-minor selling cl ause of the
liquor law. Dy hiring q man to get them
beer / II tin bucket or whisky n a bottle.
Funeral services over the remains OF Har-
rlS C., only son of Ohm K. Leonard, warden
or the Jail, took place at . o'cIock this
afternoon at the family residence, No.
2io North Capitol street; Young Leonard
died at Sar;fnac Lake, n Y. The body
will be taken. to Indianapolis, Ind, for
burial.
with sudden sickness at Seventh street and
Maryland avenue. while on his rounds
last evening He was removed 10 his home,
No. ~ street southwest, in the Fourth
precinct patrol wagon and his mail bag
was turned over to the South Washington
postal station.
Richard Skinner. colored. seven years
OF age. was run over and severely injured
last evening on street. between North
Capitol and First streets northwest. b ythe
buggy of Dr. Van Rensselaer,, who was In
the vehicle at the time. The physician
dressed the boys wounds. and he W as re-
moved 10 his home, No. 1UO1 Majors
alley.
TIE Confederate Association of this city
is Informed that Mr.. NJ. A. Harrison has
presented to the Confederate Museum, in
Richmond, the roster OF 900 boys IN gray
who died during the war in the prison at
Elmira, n. Y. Several hundred of the
names are those Of Virginia and Maryland
soldiers who served in the Southern armies
with Lee, Jackson and other leaders.
Judge klmball this morning sentenced to
ninety days in the workhouse Fred Far
ron. a crippled boy, about sixteen years of
age, walking with a crutCh from the ef-
fects OF a sore on his leg. which the
judge thought was self-iDfiiCted for beg
ging purposes. The boy was arrested in
the Capitol yesterday by Policeman Sin
mott and Joyce of the Capitol police. with
John Jones. a big Individual who is al
legged In have made fool uf the and
who received q sentence Just two-thirds
less than the cripple. The pair was asking
people for money around the building. and
solicited the two Officers who placed
them under arrest.