The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1897-11-12
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City Brevities.

Lucy Hnl has beer appointed cook 1t
tlic Washington Asylum.
Senator Zones, Of Nevada, had talk
wuh Secretary Bliss yesterday.
Two large beds OF chrysanthen INNS Ia W
been planted m Mount Vernon square.
Calls for the works of Henry George. es-
p,SiaIly Progress and Poverty are stin
frequent at the Congressional Library.
Arthur blackburn was today appointed
l;.iorer in the scarlet fever and diphths!ia
service of the health department..
wurkmen are uieaning the offices Of
Judge Ryan, First A sssitant Secretary -
the Interior and are laying carpets.
Col. Lee CrandalI. formerly OF Wash
mgton, hut now Of Glohe, AriZ., vas a
caller at the Interior Depart IN erit today
Az average Of ESQ people weigh daily
on the scales at the F-street entrance 10
tie Patent OFFICE.
Postmaster George F. Pyles, of AnacOs-
tin has not yet IA ken charge of the Office.
buI VIII do 80 about the LIST OF December.
John u. Nelson today Instituted suit Tor
divorce from Annie Nelson. 20 whom he was
married April 1e, 1898. He charges
dcsertiOn.
John Brown raised disturbance In Union
court last night. Hewas arrestedand Judge
SCOT; gave han fifteen days ID the work
house today.
The " ark of LAYING asphalt along the
south roadway of = street, which has been
torn up since the Ia wing OF the large sewer,
VIII he completed this week.
Lieut.. Heffnrr this morning reported to
the police department that there is dan
g,.rous hoIe m side walk in front Of No.
1870 Eigith street northwest.
Andrew a Boyd of No SIS Four-ard-a-
half street southwest, reported to the pc
lice TO-DAY that some one yesterday stole
a china clock from In front OF his place.
The Commissioners have appointed Coo.
ID Campbell assistant inspector in the
SIcet clnaniug department to fin the Va
curcv created 10y the promotion of lhGip
II Kraft.
Dr. sheldon Jackson agent OF the eduUa
tional bureau of Alaska. hello a conference
with secretary RlisS this morning on the
subjects OF public education In that Ter
lf.ory.
Managers Kurn and Beatty, Of the Co.
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football teams, met last night and peri ected
cert air arrai gemeDts relating to the
Thank sl;iving Day game.
Jom ~. Schmidt, OF New ORLEANS chief
clerk TO the Mississippi Commission, rs the
guest of his brother in-law. Charles ".
Schneider, of the stationery division,
Department Of the Interior.
Nj, Bedford Downing is still c0ufinCI
g. lis room az NJ. $40 Sixth street as =
rcslltUfthe Elm Juries received i'm d fight with
a ingi waynan at Sixth street and Florida
aveIlu, last Monday night.
Chief Justice Bingham took the per
sonsl bonds of Marie Delcomyn, the nurse
who was recently con icted before him Of
petty larceny, ON the condition that size
would live in the future at the Bruen Home.
Hayes ArnsteHd, an aged colored man.
was found III AT Ninth and Pennsylvania
avenue this morning by Policeman Temp
kins. Who summoned the patrol wagon
and had RE sufferer taken to the Emer
gcncy Hospital.
The WORK IN the eight blocks of sewer on
J. street, from Fifteenth TO Seventh streets,
has been < ing on since before inangura-
tiOn day, witt short stay of proceed
mgs atthat time out OF respect FOR the new
President.
Rosa Blue and Abraham Coleman, 10th
colored, who were convicted of perjury YES
tcrday, Were sentenced today by Chief JUS
tee Bingham 10 serve two ana -four years
respectively, 81 ma rd labor IN IA, Trenton
penitentiary.
Samue. Hunesty's name is a very much
better one than his character, according
TO officer Harrison, who arrested him
for Nagrancy. Judge Scott imposed a fine
of $50. u, in default, sixty days i'm the
wUrk house.
Spencer Barnes, Cuored. was held la
5000 bonds for the grand jury By judge
Kimbal todayon a charge of having broken
into ;he foundry e W. n. Douglass, on y
street, and taking alarge amount of brass
nioldingS and other material.
Helen Randolph, colored, recently con
victed before Chief Justice Bingham of
false preteiSes foI securing 81. worth
~ gVce ries from the store OF n. II Brooks,
on Fourteenth street 10y the alleged author.
lily OF Ms. Effie }. Heron, for whom he
worked. was released on her personal fsJnds