The evening times., 1899-01-05
CITY BREVITIES.

\ direct exchange of mails has been arranged
FOR by the Postoffice Department between Miami,
Fla, and Nassau. Bahama Islands
While working the Winthrop forgery case
last week Detective Lacy contracted cold
and as Il result he Is confined to his home
Ninth Street with an ugly case of grip.
Tony Damn ate lot of plaster yesterday He
seemed 10 like it. but it didn't agree with him.
Emergency Hospital physicians pumped him out.
and he is apparently none the worse of. Tony
is an Italian urchin OF very tender years.
Mr.. Charles f. Fairnan will give the half
hour talk before the Capital Camera Club to-
morrow. His subject Will he: Outdoor Work
with the Camera. During the month there viii
also be lecture Landscape Photography"
hy Wallace c. Babcock; exhibit OF work by
+. Lee Ferguson. and series of receptions and
exhibitions Of work by the club members.
An interesting meeting, in the interest of the
Indians took place the Interior Department
Yesterday afternoon. Secretary Bliss. Commits
sioner Jones and Others were present. II was de-
cided To establish complete school system in
the Indian Territory, which Is to be under the
control of superintendent appointed by the
Secretary OF the Interior.
Senator Allen has received from the Commission
ers letter relating to Improvements in the po-
lice stations in the District. The amount de-
sired for repairs is $1,000 exclusive of the cost
of constructing central police station in No. l
precinct. The chief item i, the substitution of
modern steel cells for the oidfastloned anJlquated
ones now in use.
Policeman Goss yesterday saw a strange boy at
the Baltimore and Ohio station who appeared to
he acting queerly. He took him in. The young
ster said his name Harry Stenwachs, and
confessed he had away from his home in
CoateSville. Pa. In reply To message that the
boy was here his father wired last night that he
would make provision for the prodigaTs return
The folowing-namcd ladies anpounced 10
read for the blind at the pavilion in the Library
of Congress the dates given: Friday, January
&. Mr.. Thomas Nelson Page; Saturday, January :.
Miss Helen Offiey: Monday, January .. Miss
Florence Heine Behrend; Tuesday January 10,
Mr. Otto Luebkert (song recital); Wednesday, jar
uary H. Mrs. Newton Bowman; Thursday, January
u. Mrs r. l.. Andrews; Friday, January Is, Mrs.
John Russell Young.
Northern Mutual Relief Association, Columbia
Associates, No. 26, has elected the following off
GERS to serve the ensuing term: President Guy
W. Wines; vice president. J. C. Peacock; secre-
tary, III. \. Jenkins; collector, c. f. Spencer;
treasurer, +. b. Dalrymple; marshal, ]. W. Love
less: chaplain, H. c. Swan; inner warder, W. H.
Main; outer warder, J. f. Juenemann; trustees
g. II. Cooper. W. t. Rosenbaum and W. r. Brad
ley; representative, Nathan c. Munroe install
lation will take place January IL.
Miss Minnie Lacy, of 20e Fifth Street southeast.
twenty years old. committed suicide yesterday by
shooting herself in the head with pistol For
a week past she has been suffering from grip and
in the morning complained of unusual pain. Her
sisters heard shot in her about ] o'clock
and found her lying on the floor dead. The cor
oner reviewed the remains and gave a certificate
| The funeral will take place tomorrow afternoon
at o'clock, from her late residence. and inter-
| mcnt will be made at Congressional Cemetery.