The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1897-02-17
City Brevities

ards SIS for diSorderiy conduct.
Robert Z. Weaver was today fined 81
for scorching on the Avenue last night.
The regular meeting of the Central Union
Mission directors was held last night.
Chief of Division White, of the Indian
bureau, is back fIom a protracted stay
in Arizona.
Isaiah Gates was convicted OF cruelty
to animals today, and paid So fine to the
Humane Society.
Boston Jones and Charles Anderson were
each fined $50 for vagrancy in the police
court this morning.
The Florence Crittenton mission car,
Good News, is CHARTERED in the Baltimore
s Ohio depot yards
MI James Hutchinson, of New York city,
a well-known Eastern travelling man, is
stopping at the Raleigh.
Assistant Secretary of the Interior Rey
nolds is again at his desk, after visit
to his home in Pennsylvania.
The regular meeting of Mithras Lodge,
No /, was held last night at the cathedral
Of the Rite, No. 1907 q street northwest.
An order has been issued at the Pension
Office prohibiting bicycles in the build
ing pending preparations for the inaugural
ball.
There is no Improvement in the condition
of Mrs r. w. Avery, who has been seriously
i'll at the Hotel Bancroft for some time
past.
MI David T Day, chief OF the mineral
resources division OF the Geological Sur
vey, has returned fIom a briefinvestigadon
in Florida.
Willard Gatewood was arrested last night
on the charge of stealing Sl1.50 from
Thomas jefferson Costley, colored, who
lives in Silver Springs.
The elevator service in the District
building was temporarily crippled yester-
day by an accident to one of the cars. The
evil was speedily remedied.
Congressman-elect Sprague, of Massa-
chusetts, has moved his household effects
from his Brookline home to the Morton
mansion on Rhode Island avenue.
Secretary Carlisle and Postmaster Gen
eraI Wilson have returned from Winchester,
Va, where they went TO attend the
funeral OF John Randolph Tucker
The electric lights on New York avenue
were turned on for the first time last
night The avenue is equipped with
them from Ninth to Fifteenth streets.
The case of Mary Swan and Grace Bond,
waitressesiuanE streetlunch room, charged
by officer Shilling with disorderly con-
duct, was dismissed by Judge Kimball this
morning.
A six DAYS bicycle race at Convention
Halls one of the features contemplated for
Inauguration week. All OF the riders who
took part i the New York city contest are
| expected to ride here.
An open meeting OF District Assembly,
No. 66, X. OF l., will be held tomorrow
night at PlaSterers' Hall. Prominent mem
bers of the Knights of Labor will be present
/ and address the meeting.
An everyday street sight at present is
a wagon or van loaded with Inaugural
tion''cots One merchant yesterday stated
that he had already disposed of over 500
such articles OF furniture.
MI Edwin B. Hay, teacher of elocution
at the Linthicum Institute, delivered an
| illustrated lecture before large audi
ence last night at the Institute Hall. His
| subject was Rome, the Eternal City"
c. c. Mothersead, receiving clerk at the
western Union Telegraph office, has
almost completely recovered from in
| iuries received in a fall on the ice several
weeks ago, and will resume his duties in
few days.
| The Society of Columbian Women have
issued cards for a reception to the trustees
and faculties of the Columbian University,
| for the 22d instant, at s O'Clock. The
exercises will be held at the university
building.
There is slight falling off in the
number of applicants at Sanitary Officer
Franks office who desire to be sent tt
their homes in other cities. They are
supposed to be waiting until after the
Inauguration.
The entertainment department Of the
Epworth League of Trinity NJ E. Church
will hold its monthly business meetin.
this evening at the home of its president
Mr.. William j. Palmer, at Third street
and Pennsylvania avenue southeast.
Imam ARRAY yesterday afternoon between
Charles Harris, a colored boy, fifteen years
old, md an unknown youth, which took
place on the ash dumps at the foot of Fifth
street southeast, Harris received an ugly
gashinthe left hip from the blade of knife.
The last of the new lamps around the
Congressional Library are being put il
position All OF the posts are of handsome
bronze design. Beyond the ornamental
lamps on the steps of the building, The
posts are fitted with simple gas burner
tops around which are TO be placed foul