The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1897-01-30
City Brevities

The January term petty juries will be
discharged Monday.
The police received their salary checks
for January at headquarters today
Eugene Howard was given sixty days
this morning by Judge kimball on the
charge OF vagrancy.
Supreme President John w Echols, of
the American Protective Association, is
i'll at his home on East Capitol street.
The police reported today that the water
main in front OF No. 405 Maine avenue
southwest, mad frozen and afterward burst
4 Dolle pros has been entered In the case
OF John I. Finney, who was arrested in
Georgetown, charged with assaulting Mary
L. Finley.
A local fire alarm was turned in vest err
day afternoon for blazing SCOT in the Chin
ney of house No. 1143 Connecticut avenue
northwest. No damage.
The funeral OF Mrs Ellen Gray, widow
OF the late Thomas Gray, took place yes
terday afternoon from Emmanuel P E.
Church, Rev. w. q. Davenport officiating.
Messrs. H. a Jones and J. A Blundon
of this city have purchased at receivers
sale the old Antietam cement mill, near
Sharpsburg, Md, paying $40 900 therefor.
Mr.. W. Preston Williamson, who has been
i'll with the grip for nearly. two months,
has sufficiently recovered to walk about,
but his physicians refuse to allow him to
go out.
About 800 men have been thrown out Of
work on the electric conduit lines of the
Potomac Company by the coming of the Sc
vere cold. They were earning from 81 TO
S4 day.
William Henakle and Joseph Powell were
sent down for fifteen days by Judge Kim
ball this morning for having engaged in
disorlerly assembly yesterday on Tween
tietb street north west.
Upon hearing before Chief Justice
Bingham yesterday it was decided that
the costs in the recent Barrows habeas
corpus proceeding should devolve upon
the Reform School authorities.
Tie Gay Street Baptist Church will have
a benefit lecture on Tuesday evening, at
1880 O'Clock. Mr.. A W Hawks, of Balti-
more, known as THE Laughing Philoso-
pher," will talk on People l Have Met"
The citizens in the vicinity of Eighth
and A streets northeast, have complained
To the police that the pump on that corner,
which has long supplied them with clear,
spring water, is out OF order and useless.
Henson Hutton, colored, living near Hills
dale, was before Judge Kimball this m orn-
ing charged with leaving an injured horse
exposed to the inclement weather OF last
Tuesday night. Henson's personal bonds
were taken.
Gen. Albert Ordway has sailed for Eu-
rope, to be gone as long as the business
which calls him away shall require at
.entlon. In his absence Col Cecil Clay is
the ranking officer of the District Ma
tional Guard.
Marion E. Bradley, painter, eighteen
years of age, and Joseph b. Burns, q
clerk, nineteen years, were arrested last
night by Bicycle Policeman j A. Duvall
for ''scorching" They left collateral at
No 2 station.
During the extremely cold weather of
the past few days the members OF the
workh ouse chaingang have not been
compelled to work out of doors on south
east improvements. They were allowed
to remain indoors and spin yarns to each
other about their past lives and experience
ION the road
The United States Civil Service Com
mission will hold an examination in this
city and elsewhere, February 20, to es-
tablish registers for positions in Marine
Hospital Service, the Steamboat Inspection
Service, the Government Hospital for the
Insane OF Washington, and for the office
OF pension examing surgeon.
s. Kann, Sons s CO.. are preparing for
the erection of a modern business building
on the lot adjoining their business house on
Eighth street and Market Space, the ground
having been leased for the purpose. The
old structure will be torn a way and four
story building, with a frontage of twenty