Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-06-21
CONDEN ED LOCALS

The dead body of an infant was found
Saturday morning on 18th street above
Florida avenue. A policeman had the poay
removed to the Sth precinct station and
the coroner was notified.
Howard Lee. colored, six years old. was.
Friday morning. bitten on his hands ana
arms by bulldog belonging to William
Lancaster, who lives at No. S3 Fenton
place Policemen Hoagland and Hendricks
took the boy to the Emergency Hospital Tor
treatment
Edward Penn, colored, twenty-five years
cid, was knocked down and run over Fri
day afternoon by a wagon in Charge OF
Charles Hicks, colored. Penn's arm was
broken by the heavy vehicle. He was
taken TO his home No 1l41 Connect 1
avenue where a physician was called to
attend him.
Charles B. Riley, charged with assauiting
ard striking Fred Harrison. was Saturday
afternoon sent to Jail for three months by
Judge kimball.
A pei nit was issued from the health Of
flee Saturday afternoon for the lnterment
of the body of a cJlored widow named Nan
cy Ball. Nancy, according to the death
certificate was born just one hundred
years ago in the Old Dominion. Her hody
will be buried in Paynes cemetery tomor-
row.
Ella w. Bailey has petitioned for divorce
from James Warren Bailey. She states
that they were married here December g.
1872, and charges that her husband de-
serted and abandoned her four years ago.
She is represented by Attorneys Duckett
and Dent
John Mcmahon and William Brown were
Saturday before Judge Kimball on the
charge of assaulting and striking Georgia
Williams and May Hawkins. Brown was
sent to Jail for four months and Mcmahon
released on his personal bonds.
Stoneby Lyddane ten years old. who lives
t,1yp
| suddenly ill in lexington Saturday after
noon. He was conveyed to his home in
the eighth precinct patrol wagon.
female cyclist, about thirty-five years
| old. whose name the police did not ascer-
| tain. collided with an express wagon near
18th and U streets Saturday night, and
she was slightly injured. She was taken
home by friends.
Branch avenue extended. near Pennsyl-
vania avenue, was reported to be in q
dangerous condition yesterday. This bad
state of affairs resulted from landslide.
The pump at South Carolina avenue and
| 10th street is reported to be out of order.
The cover of sewer near 18th and d
streets southwest has disappeared.
An alarm was turned in from box PA
about o'clock this morning for the burn
ing of sheds In rear of Nos. 51.J and 517
Florida avenue. The houses are occupied
by Charles Schnebel and James N. Davis.
W nat CduSeu Tic lie Coulu iloI W o~oSSh.
tanned. The damage amounted to about
$3.50.
Mrs Lydia Gray, colored. forty-three
years old, was taken sick on the street
near 9th and streets southwest yester-
| day She was removed to her home, No.
126 NJ street, in the patrol wagon.
An unknown man was found the
streets in lexington about { o'clock last
| evening so sick that he needed medical
| treatment He was taken TO Freedmens
| Hospital by the police.
Annie Stewart, colored, who lives at No.
14i2 14th street, fell from a cable car near
| Florida avenue and 18th street last evening
| about . o'clock. She was so painfully in
jured that the police took her to Freed
| mems Hospital for treatment.
Edward Oliver, twenty-five years old.
whose home Is near 18th and 1 streets
southeast, was taken sick on Monroe
street. Anacostia, yesterday afternoon.
| The patrol wagon was called, and he was
sent home.
William Northridge, a former saloon
keeper here is under arrest in New York
| for the Baltimore authorities, who want
| him for trial a charge Of violating the
election laws. He was arrested in this city
| several months ago, and was taken to Bal
| timore, where he was tried. The jury
| could not agree and he gave bond for his
! appearance. Recently his bond was for
feited, and now ne will have to return to
Baltimore for a second trial.
The official visitation of the officers of
| District Lodge, No. 3, to Goodwill Lodge,
| No. I. l. 0. G. T., will take place tomor-
row evening.