The morning times., 1897-02-20
City Brevities

Miss Linthicum, of Baltimore, is visiting
the family of Rev. ". r. Stricken, pastor
OF Hamline NJ E Church.
Miss Stella Reinhardt, Of Baltimore, is
visiting Miss Grace f. Hobbs, at her home,
No. 81 Fourth street southeast
The cadets of the Colored High School
Battalion held a successful drill yester-
day afternoon on the White Lot
\ mass meeting of Virginia citizens will
be held on Sunday afternoon next, at the
BaIlstnn Presbyterian Church, under the
auspices of the Alexandria County Citizens
Association.
Mr.. j. Frank TraZzare. managing editor
of The Republic. the official organ of the
American Protective Association, is con-
fined To his home. No. 720 Fourth street
southeast, by illness.
4 concert was given last night ut
the North Capitol NJ E. Church by the
combined choirs OF that church and Grace
NJ. E. Church. The proceeds viii be devoted
to general church finances.
The Washington and Maryland Railroad
Company obtained a permit yesterday to
construct an overhead trolley line from
Fourth street extended, beyond the city
limits, to the District line.
A party OF ladies and gentlemen from
the Quay Republican Club, of Baltimore,
have completed arrangements to attend the
Inauguration in a body, and have engaged
prominent position on one OF the Avenue
stands.
Rev. Luther B. Wilson, presiding elder OF
the Washington district. will reside with
the family of his parents, in Baltimore
during the session of the Methodist Con-
ference, which will convene in that city
on March 8.
An entertainment and hop for the bene-
fit Of the relief fund of the joint lodges
Of the Independent Order of the Sons of
Benjamin will be given under the auspices
Of that order, at National Rifles Hall, ON
Monday evening, February %.
A mass meeting OF the help and mercy
department OF the District Epworth League
was held last night at Hamline NJ. E
Church. A collection was taken at the
close of the service for the benefit of the
Deaconesses' Home and a good sum real
lied
In day or two the stonecutters will
finish the pedestal of the bronze statue of
Neptune, and the figure will be lowered
into its place in the center of the fountai
that forms the central decoration of the
entrance to the new Congressional Library
building.
An order has been issued to propertv
owners from the building inspector S office
that all balconies which are to be used
for observation purposes Oh the day of the
inauguration parade shall be supported by
uprights of by 4 material, to avoid the
possibility of disaster.
Mary Brown. colored living at No. PIT
! street southwest jumped from a second
story window at her home yesterday after
noon and broke her leg. The fracture was
reduced by DR.. Hooe at Emergency Hos
pital. A drunken man entered the house
and pursued her with knife.
The Commissioners have ordered the
United States Electric Lighting Company
to remove three wires strung overhead on
Fourteenth street, between street and
New York avenue; six overhead wires on
Fourteenth street, between E and F streets;
andeight overhead wireson Fifteenth street,
between Pennsylvania avenue and Al
baugh's alley.
The Rev. Father Mackin, pastor Of St
Paul's Catholic Church, who returned
Thursday afternoon from his trip to Rome,
spent a restless night after the excitement
| of the HOMECOMING and from the effects
| OF Tie sprain to his back which he SUI
fered in Baltimore previous to his de-
parture for home He rested quietly yes
| terday, and last night felt much improved.