The times., 1898-02-19
City Brevities.

Judge Scott is stiil confined to his home
by Illness.
The Northeast Glee Club viii. next
Monday evening. begin practicing for its
Nav da- musical festival.
Henry Jenkins. colored. was YESTERDAY
fined s. by Judge kimball for assaultina
Elizabeth Wood, also colored.
The regular services viii be held To-
morrow at the Hamline ". =. Church.
The Sunday-sehool will hold its mission
ary anniversary.
The work OF constructing the new North
Carolina Avenue VI. +. Church will be re-
sumed in Il few days. 1t is expected that
the edifice viii be ready for occupancy
next May.
Katie Buchanan was yesterday granted
divorce from Albert Buchanan. Cruel
ty, drunkenness and desertion, extending
over period of ten years. are alleged as
causes.
James Page, colored. was convicted in
the police court yesterday of assaulting
Mary MoultoE and Joseph Price. Judge
kimball sentenced him TO jail for nine
months.
The ladies Of the Church OF Our Sa-
viour. Broohland. ID. G.. viii give a George
Washington tea next Tuesday (Washing-
tons birthday at the residence of Rev
]. T. Grove, on Twelfth street.
W. s. Altdorfer and John ]. Kavan-
agh were placed on trial yesterday be-
fore Justice Bingham for passing a $40
counterfeit bills on George Waram a
saloonl5eeper on Sixth street northwest.
Mrs Margaret Dye Ellis. national su-
perintendent Of the W. c. T. L, viii de-
liver an address on Personal Purity at
p. IN. tomorrow before the y. NJ C A
She viii alses describe the work OF the
White Cross Society
The smoker which was to have been
given by the Virginia Club, of Columbian
University. last night, was postponed. Ii
VIII take place next Friday evening at
the oxford Hotel, Fourteenth street and
New York avenue northwest.
While rounding the street railway
curve at Delaware avenue and { street
on his bicycle yesterday afternoon Mr.
Arthur A. Reed was thrown to the road
way by coliding with the curve plate.
He was painfully bruised about the head
and shoulders.
The residents on Sixth street between
% and f streets northwest have entered
complaint about the condition of the side
walks along that thoroughfare. The
pavements on both sides of Sixth street
are covered with sticky clay and mud.
which render them almost impossible.
The wiIl of the late Louisa H Dick
was filed yesterday afternoon. All prop
erty. both real and personal IS devised
10 TWO infant children of the deceased
and married daughter Ida V Terry.
Charles w. Darr is named as executor
and guardian of the two infant children.
Police Detective Watson and Police
man McGraw had lively chase over the
Potomac flats yesterday afternoon after
j. w. Thompson, colored who was want
ed on suspicion Of being a policy runner. !
He was finally arrested. William Hall /
was also arrested on the same charge
Thieves entered the jewelry repair shop /
OF James 7. Unsworth, Monroe street. |
Anacostia, late Thursday night by cut
ung through a panel of the front door 4
A number of cheap watches. rings. and
a small amount of other jewelry were
stolen. valued at about $25. The loss was
reported 10 the police yesterday
"A Trip Through Coal Mine" was the
subject OF an illustrated lecture by Rev.
u w. Skeilenger. pastor of the Sixth
presbyterian Church, last evening in the
lecture room OF the Young Mems Chris
lan Association. While stationed at
scranton, Pa, the lecturer made study
Df the coal mining industry. which en-
ibled him to give his auditors MANY in
eresting details, illustrated by eighty
tereopticon views
The Commissioners Yesterday informed
VI. T. A. King, Of No. 46i q street south
vest, that the Waterman assessment re-
entity levied against him is in strict ac-
ordance with the law. and that they are |
ihaoie TO grant his request for its cancel |
alton. They say that the assessment was
properly levied under the law which re-
uires that all lots or lands abutting upon |
ny street, avenue or road in which a Wa
ermain is laid shall be so taxed