The morning times., 1897-02-02
City Brevities

SAly LII SFIIiCS
The case OF Nelson Powell, charged with
setting up gaming table, was yesterday
dismissed in the police court.
r. Davis has been appointed an addi-
tionai private of the police department
for duty at the Agricultural Department.
Judge Kimball yesterday fined William
Gordon SO for breaking window
belonging to John MassiuS, last Saturday.
Senator Mcmillan yesterday favorably
reported the bill permitting the trustees
OF GIaceland Cemetery to borrow money
to complete the removal Of bodies.
Two little white boys fought to stand
still on Tenth street, just north OF F street,
yesterday about dusk. The belligerent
youngsters attracted quite a crowd.
The case of Richard Payne, charged
with driving his cart into the wagon of
William Sanderson last Saturday, was
dismissed yesterday 10y Judge Kimball.
James Riley was yesterday sent down for
fifteen days, and George Young for two
Il. .oaths on the charge OF assaulting Will
lam Murray and J. K. Evans respectively.
The clock III the tower Of st. AIovsius'
Church is being repaired. The machinery
OF the great timepiece was injured during
the storm, and since it has never kept good
time.
Clara Richards, a flashiIy attired den
izen of Essex court, was before Judge
Miller yesterday, charged with the lar
ceny of ST. She was sent down for 120
days.
DR.. Grafton D. p. Bailey, No. 223 Four
and-a-half street, reported yesterday aft
ernoon at detective headquarters the theft
of a satchel of surgical Instruments valued
at $50 from his office earlier in the after
noon.
The following Washington men have
passed the examination for steel inspectors
and viii be appointed at the places indi-
Gated: julius f. Rettig, Homestead Steel
Works; John T Gala CHAN, Homestead;
Eugene Mel. Long, Homestead.
DR.. A. G.. Rogers VIII give an Illustrated
recital of Edward Egciestons THE Hoosier
Schoolmaster'' at s o'clock this evening
at the Church of Our Father, corner Thir-
teenth and L streets northwest. The
recital is for the benefit Of the poor.
Mr. W. Ra!nes Appleton, of Crawford, N
J., who is temporarily in this city, COM
pldiiitu DIT utltttiht StSttl-
day afternoon of the theft of satchel
| containing draftsnens Instruments, from
| a lodging house on Pennsylvania avenue,
Sergt. Lombardy of the Sixth precinct
| last night put the patrolmen through a
| searching inspection. He closely exam
ined their revolvers, batons, badges, whis-
ties and other paraphernalia while they
| were in line ready to go out on their beats.
The police of the First precinct gave
| cash contribution yesterday to be applied
| to the burial expenses of Henry Scherb,
| the aged German flower vendor, whose
| pathetic death at his lodgings, Eleventh
| and E streets northwest, has been de-
scribed.
| For failing to remove snow from the
| sidewalk collateral was forfeited yester-
day by the following: B. j. Islin, s. s.
Hoover, Augustus Sepreux, E. j. Stel-
wagon, NJ d. Allston, james Frazier
Mary Cruit, Nj. c. Seymour and w. L.
| Wilkerson.
| Judge Hagner yesterday divorced Caro-
| line Il Marshall from Richard IL. Marshall
| The latter's cross bill, filed last May,
was dismissed by the court, and Mrs
Marshall given the custody of her minor
| child Adelweiss. The costs Of the suit
| were placed on the defendant.
| President G. N Luceock and Secretary H
w. Ennis, of the Presbyterian Ministers
Association of Washington, petitioned the
! Senate yesterday to act favorably on the
| bills to prohibit the sale of liquor in the
| Capitol: TO raise the age of consent tC
eighteen, and the anti ti-gambling bill.
Senator Blackburn introduced yester-
day an amendment to the District of Co
| lumbia appropriation bill giving $4,000
or so much OF the same as might be neces-
sary, to pay for land condemned under the
highway act for the extension of Rhode
Island avenue from Second to Third streets
northwest.
George Knott, q twelve-year-old school
boy, who lives in East Washington, was
arrested by Policeman Bell and Schuyler
last night on Thirteenth street, south OF
Pennsylvania avenue, as he was wheeling
an empty baby carriage, which it il
charged he stole in the southeastern sec
ton of the city.
Mary a. O'Leary made application 70
divorce from Eugene B. o Leary yesterday
She alleges that her husband deserted hel
November Is, 1898. The parties wer,
married at Crown Point, Ind, in Sep
temher, 1898, and the abandonment i:
said to have taken place the next month
Mrs. 'Leary wants to resume her maideI
name Of Gibbons.
John Walker, colored, seventeen years Q
age, got transportation to Baltimore yes
! terday from Sanitary Officer Frank. Th
boys feet were badly frozen, and he ha
several scars on his head and face, th
result of blows administered by a bruta
schooner captain. on whose vessel Wake
| was employed as dredger on the lowe