The evening times., 1898-09-03
CITY BREVITTES.

Pensioners will not receive their pay GER
tiicates until Tuesday. on account of
Monday being a legal holiday.
Mr.. Stephens. superintendent of the
bathing beach, has arranged an excellent
program of aquatic events for the an
nual tournament which will take place
Labor Day.
Justice Cole OF the Supreme Court of
the District of Columbia, who has been
spending his vacation at Asheville. n. c.,
passed through the city on Thursday, on
his way North.
The Underwater Company was incor-
porated yesterday with Levi Maish. A II.
Chase, and Levi II. Patterson as directors
end incorporators- The company will do
a publishing business.
Rev Sylvester F. Scovel. D. D, presi-
dent of Wooster University. Ohio. and
father of Sylvester Scovel, the newspaper
correspondent will preach tomorrow at
the New York Avenue Presbyterian
Church.
DR.. Charles BirdsalI. living at 1918 Thir-
tieth Street northwest, was slightly in
jured last evening by falling from car
No 2l7 of the Capital Traction Company.
at Pennsylvania Avenue and Fourteenth
Street. His head was bruised and bone
of his left hand dislocated.
cycle yesterday at Pennsylvania Avenue
and Third Street southeast and broke his
right wrist. He was treated at the Prov
idence Hospital, after which he went to
his home on Eleventh Street near NJ
southwest.
Sergt ]. C. Daley, of the Second precinct,
with Precinct Detective Barnes, made raid yes
terdav afternoon the house of James Hill, COL
ored. and arrested the proprietor on a charge Of
conducting unlicensed bar.
The special train which will carry the Wash
ington delegation TO the thirty-second annual 1e-
union Of the Grand Army of the Republic in
Cincinnati next week will leave the PENNSYLVANIA
station at O'Clock Monday morning.
Robert c. Green and Edward Watts two young
colored men, used to play in the same band.
Watts had valuable cornet, which suddenly
disappeared, and he charged Green with stealing
it. Green was arrested yesterday by Detectives
Boardman and Gallagher, and admitted his guilt.
Nest of the scientific experts of the Govern
ment who left Washington several weeks ago
for the purpose Of attending the flsieth ami
versary of the American Association for the Ad-
vancement OF Science, which held in Boston
last week. have returned to their homes in this
city.
of Good Templars two grand lodges will meet
in Joint session here in Washington. On next
Wednesday evening the Virginia Grand Lodge
will take trolley ride 10 this city and pay
return visit to the District Lodge. The meeting
will be held in Columbia Lodgerooms Fifth and
G Streets northwest.
Samuel Altman and Morris Melerick, cabmen
at the Baltimore and Ohio depot, were arrested
last night by Sergt. Falvey and Policeman Cor
don, and locked up at the Sixth Precinct Police
Station, each charged with assaulting the ether.
| The two men engaged in a fight on the cab stand,
| and when they were arrested each charged the
| other with being responsible for the affray.
The incorporators of the Washington and
| University Railroad Company met yesterday and
elected the following directors: F. C. Kennedy.
| of Burlington, president; J. D. Croissant, vice
president; David D. Stone secretary; G. W.
Rickett and G. o. Ferguson The office OF
| ing of the directors. An executive committee
consisting of F. c. Kennedy, j. D. Croisslnt,
| and David d. Stone was also chosen.
| Robert and Thomas Cleveland and Johnnie
| Jones, all colored. made a disturbance in the
| premises CT Alice Patteu, in Essex court, in
| the Sixth police precinct last night, and nearly
| all of Alees furniture was in the street be.
| fore Policemen STANCE and Plemmons, the latter
| of the bicycle squad, reached the scene. While
| the officers were locking the negroes in cells
| Cleveland seized the hand of Policeman Stangc
| and buried his teeth in it before the policeman
| could make move