Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-01-01

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| wnch appointment, under the act con-
| tinues until his successor is nomtpsta,
| ana connrmed Later in the spring q IA
). Iaylor of Kansas was succeeded as r..
| corder of deeds by ex-Repros.nfatt'.,
henry ,rry r. cheatham of North Carolina.
Inc long-pending sugar trust cases
| against President Havemeyer and Tees
uler searles OF the sugar trust, Corr,..
pohuents Shriver and Edwards and Rr,I.
| rs mccartney and Seymour We're finally
| uasposed OF by the 1uries returning by direc-
! .,on OF the court. Judge Bradley. y.riir,z
| on not guilty. Elverton r. Chapman s,.r,,a1
ms sentence of thirty days in iaII r..
,ohg,contested Van RiswIck will case was
| nilaily compromised out of court 60,
| van Rlswicks will had been set ASIDE
| ny jury. The case against & a. Co.,
Sn,' nng aiiesed criminal hbeling of District
,n G,i'ssioher Truesdell. resulted in a dis
| ihissai by the court. Billy WilIians
| noted Character in local police circias -
| eisc"here IN the country WAS Sent "a ~.
| penltehtlary for seven years for hirbUay
In July last the Djstric, was o,o,,,., -.
ehe assault by Pat Carr, a Young ,,hi,,
| man, on little Rosa Robinson with intans
" commit rape. He was finally captur,d.
| sentence "u. received only the minimum
| .se' year and a day i'm the D,rI,
.eh,lary. DE Nunzio. an Italian. was en-,
| Iicted OF a similar offense hut Judg. RI
| M, ,e,i mn new trial when the govern
| nieht holle pressed the charge bac,Is.. e
| me doubt Ia the case Ex-poiicpnan n.
| WIiilatns, was convicted of cmbezzIinp nn'I
| mnich ne had collected In the Police ron,.t
| ior me District, but Judge BRADLEY -, -,
| conviction aside on the pro,,n1 IL, MI ~
| iiahs was not In the meaning of Tho 60,
an shp.oye or agent of the District
| Ai,er the United States Supreme rourt
| aa last spring held the highway rxt.nsinn
| act or March ., lS.r, to be consti;ut,,nai
| ana Nalli. proceedings were renewed i'm Inc
| District court last fall. Five cases w,ra
| heard, ana the jury of appraisers rendered
| their verdict The juries declared bou,.,,,.,
| that they were unable to carry ont Tho
| proNlsiofs OF the act requiring assessments
| toI general DEMENT'S. No further proceed
| ings are contemplated until Congress mas
| passed upon the amendato act pr.Darad
| by the Commissioners in connection with
| tne board of trade. This am.ndatory ACT
| uoes away with the assessment for general
| benefits, and also provides that the I'pitad
| states shall bear half of the expenses. IL
| VIII be introduced in Congress in a few
| days. " AZ"
| The records of the District Supreme -our,
| show that during 1891 there were filed o5S
| law suits, as against 1.5l2 filed i'm 1886 I'm
| 1876 there Were $50 equity suits Instituted
| Nnhe IN he year just passed 9Si were in
| sttuted. During 1897 24S divorce cases
| were commenced. against 224 i'm the pre-
| cedi1g year. In 1896 lis lunacy cases were
| lied, while the number in 1881 was 1Dl The
| criminal cases filed during 1886 were 80,
| wlHe SSa were filed during the past year
| The marriage licenses issued in 1897 were
| 2,3oS. the number in 1896 Icing 2145 Dur
| ing is'" 5l6 mechanics licenses were flied,
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| Extending District Limits.
| The beginning of 1897 Witnessed a revival
| Of the proposition for the recession of that
part of the District of Columbia as original
| ly laid out, south of the Potomac river.
| This proposition was made by Mr. McMH-
Ian, chairman of the Senate committee ON
the District of Columbia. He offered res
oluticn in the Senate calling upon the War
department for Information relative to
this matter. and the whole subject thus re-
| ViVed was strongly approved among 9TH
ers, by Senator Sherman of Ohio and Sena-
| tor Harris of Tennessee each of whom had
| served for a number of years as chairman
OF the District committee. and had become
iully cognizaht OF the many advantages
| that would accrue by an extension of The
| limits of the District OF Columbia to their
| original bounds. The Star at the time Sc
cured the views of both of the Virginia
| senators, together with those of representa-
nVes or that state, the result being a
| unanimous condemnation of the project ON
| the part of that delegation. OF course I'm
| the FACE of such opposition, the matter was
allowed TO drop, but il has not been forgot
! ten by many people interested in the future
| greatness Of the District of Columbia
The Lincoln Building.
Inc historic building on 10th street he-
| tween e and streets northwest. where
Abraham Lincoln died. was purchased dur
| Ing the past year by the United States for
the sum of $4,000. provided by a special
act of Congress The building was In need
OF many repairs. most of which were made
during the year, including a general repair
OF the roof. Application has been made %
Congress for additional appropria ton for
| the Improvement Of the building.
Potomac Park.
Congress, by act approved March B. 1856,
set aside the reclaimed fats of the Potomac
opposite the city of Washington, together
with the tidal reservoirs forming a part OF
| the improvement of the river as a public
park, under the name of the Potomac
Park, &c be forever held and used as 4 park
for the recreation ard pleasure of the peo-
pie. The original project for the improve
ment of the flats was adopted by the act OF
Congress OF August 2 1852. In addition 20
the improvement of the navigation Of the
Potomac by widening and deepening its
channels. II had for its object the reclama-
ton of the fats by depositing on them the
material dredged from the channel the
freeing Of the Washington channel so far
as could be DONE of sewage and the estab-
lishment of harbor lines beyond which 70
wharves shall be built To effect these i'm
provements the project provided for TWEEN
~ feet depth in the channel at low water
for filling I'm the fats TO a height of three
feet above the flood plane of 1877 and for
tidal reservoir or basin above Long
let gates of ample dimensions to work au-
tomatically. and so arranged as to admit
OF the basin being filed from the Virginia
channel on the flood tide and discharged
into the washington channel on the ebb
An ample system of drainage for the re-
claimed arec Is also contemplated During
the past year considerable work was done
In laying the sea wall on the Virginia chan
mel front and In the tidal reservoir: also in
relaying part of the old sea wall along
the Washington channel front of the fats
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