Evening star., 1898-07-04
AFFAIRS IN GEORGETOWN
Electrician Receives Fatal Injuries From
Contact With Live Wire.
Lineman ON Electric Road Severely
Shocked-Raflway Col
lfGfOn.

HALEY Williams, an electrician. was in
stantly killed yesterday at Glen Echo. Mr..
Williams was in the employ of Mr.. Towers.
the contractor for lights at that resort.
Williams was instructed to go down into
the grotto undt meath the amphitheater. to
change an arc light. In doing so. and
while standing on the damp ground. his
thumb came in contact with the live wire
and 1000 volts passed through his body.
He died standing, and when his fellow-em-
ploye. Walter Collins. rushed to his relief
the contact between the thumb and wire
was so strong that, to detach him. the
lamp was pulled down. The young man
was twenty-six years Of age and resided
with his father, DR.. ]. ". F. Williams, 1913
9th street northwest. who is employe in
the Office of the sixth auditor of the Treas
ury Department.
Lineman Severely Shocked.
Theodore Canada, one of the linemen on
the electric railroad, while working near
Glen Echo yesterday morning, fixing the
trolley wire, received a shock from the live
wire, which came near ending fatally. He
was taken to his home by friends. His
condition is reported to be all right this
morning.
Railway Collision.
A collision occurred on the Great Falls
railroad last evening shortly before IL
O'Clock which resulted seriously to several
people. Lincoln Fitzgerald of SIT H street
northwest suffered crushed arm, while
Mrs. Krug of S05 l. street northwest had
her ankle injured.
Rufhan1y Assault.
While riding on Metropolitan car. motor
2o2 and traile: 25s about $50 o'clock
last night, a lady, whose nam, is
withheld hn
dren was slapped in the face by a white
fufi1an, who boarded the car with his Wife
The cause of the assault was the failure
OF one of the children to re,incuish his
seat to the wife of the man after fare had
6een paid for the seat. The conductor of
the Car. It Is SAID, endeavored to make the
child get up and give his seat aWay bur
the mother refused to permit ii because
the price of the seat had been paid.
Rector Whitney Installed.
Rev John Whitney, S. j., the new rector
of Georgetown University, who was to
have been installed in office Saturday after
roon at o'clock, did not reach the insti-
tuition until yesterday, and the ceremonies
attending the induction were then held. He
reached the place early in the forenoon
nd was escorted about the buildings and
grounds, and shortly after noon dinner was
served to him, with the faculty and sew
erai invited guests, at the conclusion of
which he was formally given the keys of
the building. Rev. Father Purbrick S. j.
the provincial OF the New York Maryland
diocese, officiated, and administered the
oath OF office to the new incumbent.
Unseen Assaflant.
Charles Cooper, colored, aged fifteen
while sitting in front of his home on Fac
tory HILL last evening, was struck in the
head with stone, thrown by some unseen
person. He was knocked unconscious, but
recovered in short while, and was taken
to the Emergency Hospital, where it was
found that his skull had been fractured.
The physicians of the hospital performed
an operation, and the recovery of the boy
is almost an assured fact