The evening times., 1898-11-29
CURRENT EVENTS
In GEORGETOWN
Clarence Key Dies in MexicO-LocaI
SchoORers Victims of the storm.
Fined for Selling Liquor.

Clarence Key Dies in MexicO-LocaI
SchoORers Victims of the Storm.
Fined for Selling Liquor.
Col. r. d. Johnson. who is one of the
receivers of the Chesapeake and Ohio Ca
nal, having been appointed by Judge AL
yey in 1889, Just after the freshet of that
year, which wrought such havoc with
the canal banks, in conversation with ore
of the most largely interested men in ca
raj affairs of this Section, deplored the
probability of the passing away of the
canal as water way Colonel Johnson
believes that the canal 2fhas an assured
future. He said that project to extend
a canal from Pittsburg, Pa, to connect
with the Chesapeake and Ohio at Cum
berland has been Under promotion for
some time and 1t appeafs that negotia-
tions for the contamination of this pro-
ject Were about TO assume practical form
This would open up q new field and a
great market for the coal of the Cum
berand region. The trade between Cum
beriand and Pittsburg, Colonel Johnson
said, would assume at once very profita-
BILE proportions. The only trouble with
the canal at the present time is that 1t
terminates too far from the railroads.
He said even If Georgetown had a rail-
road into which the boats could discharge
their cargoeS, the canals traffic would
call for no thought of abandonment
Should the Pittsburg canal project go
through which result will be certainly ac-
complished if the Chesapeake and Ohio
canal is not sold al the present time the
larger boats and barges which will be
introduced to accommodate trade will of
necessity demand a widening and deepen
ing Of the present great trough" con-
Meeting Georgetown and Cumberland.
Col. Johnson has the utmost faith in The
canal and is doing his utmost to dis
courage every thought to the contrary
News has Just reached Georgetown of
the death Of Clarence Key, which oc-
CURED Thanksgiving Day in the City OF
Mexico. He was-a grandson of Francis
Scott Key. the composer of The Star
Spangled Banner" and resided in George
town in the Key mansion. near the Aque-
duct Bridge. Mr.. Key was translator
and teacher of languages
The schooner John s. Ames. one of the
last vessels loaded by Meredith, Win
ship K Co, in Georgetown. was blown
ashore near Boston HaIbor in the recent
gale on the New England Coast She is
largely owned by Georgetown men.
The schooner A. Z. Babcock, in charge
of Capt. A f. Babcock, a cousin of Capt.
Lee, of Georgetown, recently went down
in Boston Harbor with ali on board She
carried a cargo of coal and the loss Is
| estimated at $4,000.
The BGbiuger brothers, who conduct a
roadhouse at Cabin John Bridge, were
tried at Rockville yesterday for selling
! liquor in Il prohibition county From the
evidence in the case II was found that
/ tho defendants had continued to sell
! liquor after their Indictment by the grand
: jury, and for that reason the judge gave
! them the full extent of the law and i'm
! posed fine of 5000 There are still sew
eral indictments against the defendants.
/ Taylor Gaiert, Arthur Simmonds
I Charles Shipley and Char.e5 Smm onds
| became engaged IN a fight last glt in
! Curtins saloon on VI Street near hirty-
/ third. While the fight was in progress
! officer Bruce appeared on tie sceEe and
/ placed the participants under arrest, an /
| while waiting for the patrol wagon
! Charles Simmons. one of the quartet
! suddenly turned upon the officer, grasp
! ing him around the body and scratching
/ him badly in the face With the help Of
/ Officer Steinbaker who had been attr c..
/ ed by the fracas, Simmonds was suhduc1
and finally lodged in the police s.aticu
where 4 charge of assauIting an otfic r
/ was put against him. The other men
! were charged were disorderly conduct.
/ Mrs. W. Barnheim has presented to
the Mizpah Chapter. Eastern Star. a
handsome water scene painting, which is
/ now on exhibition in O'DonneITs drug
! store.
James r. Shanks. who has been so Sc
! riously i'll with typhoid fever, is much
improved and his complete recovery is
assured.
The formal opening of the new lunch
! system at the Western High School has
been postponed until tomorrow
The will of George Hill. dated January
%, 1894. was filed today According to it's
! terms the deceased directs that 50 900
! shall be invested in the purchase of a
| home for his sisters, Mary Louisa EN-
ma and Virginia Hill. He also directs
that his real estate, including the parer
| mill property in Georgetown, except such
as specially mentioned shall be sold To
his daughter. Mary Ellen Hill, he leaves
the house and lot at No 1909 B Street
| together with the greater part of his per-
| Sonal estate. He also leaves considera-
BILE personal property to his daughter.
Mrs. Ida Hill Mann. and his granddaugh-
ter Emma Beall. Parts of lots 76. Il and
IS near the Georgetown University are
left in trust for his son George c. Hill
his wife and children. To William Hill a
! grandson, he leaves $500. and to Lula Hill
| and James Towers. other grandchildren,
| $3.50 each: TO Martha A Beall jackson,
| William Magee Beall and James Towers
| s. The remainder of the estate is to be
equally divided among Mary Ellen Hill
| Ida Mann, Fannie Owens. Martha Berry
and Emma Beall. Henry P Gilbert. Ru.
fus HI. Darby and Joseph Lee are named
as executors.