The evening times., 1898-12-26
CURRENT EVENTS
IN GEORGETOWN
AN INSANE MAN LOCKED VI
John Callahan Found Riding on
Car Eender-Sickness ON
the DecreEse.

John Callahan, laborer, aged forty
four years, was arrested This morning by
Officer Trussell on NJ Street near Thirty
second When found by the officer Cal
lahan was riding on the fender of Cap
ital Traction car and otherwise acting
strangely. For some time before his ar
rest the man had been running about the
streets, in and out of stores, and endeav-
oring 10 crawl between the legs of pedes-
trians lie was taken to the Seventh pre-
cinct station and locked up. A charge of
insanity was placed opposite his name
An examination into his mental condition
will be made this afternoon.
The amount of sickness in Georgetown
seems to be on the decrease. About Two
weeks ago a large number of scarlet fe-
Yer cases We're reported, but since tnat
time there has been no alarming increase,
and aside from the cases already under
treatment there have been but few new
ones. Diphtheria, also appears to be on
the decrease and the blue signs are much
less conspicuous than a week ago. The
cold weather is apparently stamping out
the typhoid fever, as physicians report
but few cases. The Illness just at present
is confined to colds and sore throats, the
result CT the uecldeueiy lHcleHiciit ~ edtii-
er of the past week.
The commissioners of Montgomery
County, Md, have granted the right OF
way to the Washington and Rockville
Railroad Company over a part of the
Rockville and Bethesda turnpike and
part of the old Georgetown road. The
Rockville and Bethesda turnpike is at
present being made into splendid road
The railroad company is not allowed to
use the forty feet being graded by the
commissioners of the county. The COM
pany is to pay for the use of the road,
the considera ton being at the rate of 500
per mile.
James p. Wallace, n son of the late
James Wallace, died last night at late
hour after long Illness. The immediate
cause of death was paralysis, the result
of Il third stroke about two weeks ago.
The deceased had been i'll about year
and was suffering from locomotor ataXia.
Mr.. Wallace was for many years associ-
ated with his father in the tobacco busi-
ness next to Masonic Hall. He was for
a number Of terms the secretary Of
George c. Whiting Lodge. No, o. He will
be buried with Masonic honors. The fu-
neral arrangements have not yet been
made.
Funeral services over the remains of the
late Mrs. Fredrica A. Georgii widow of
the late Johns Georgii and the mother of
Mrs. Eugenia Petersen, We're held yes
terday afternoon at o'clock from the
home OF Mrs, Petersen, 1918 Thirtyfourth
Street. lnterment was made in the Ger
man Cemetery. Mrs. Georsi was a ma
tive of Germany and is said 10 have owned
Valuable property there. She died Friday
after an illness of several weeks duration.
The freshman class of the Georgetown
Medical School held their election of off,
GERS just before the holidays with the fol-
lowing result: I'll. Moran, president; j.
Rigli, vice president; I. eastman, secre-
tary. and V. Berth, treasurer.
Miss Zeppa 10y. Of Barnesville, Md, is
the guest for the holidays of Miss Fannie
Clarke at 1920 Twenty-fourth Street.