Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-07-05
AFFAIRS IN GEORGETOWN.
General and Personal Items Gathered
West of Rock Greek.


John Carter, colored resident Of 1914
9th street, was taken violently Ill this
morning at 1870 o'clock on Grace street
near s2d street. He was discovered by the
police in great agony and was removed to
the Georgetown University Hospital where
he received medical attention.
The funeral of Mrs. August Voigt was
held this morning, the cortege leaving the
family residence on the Grant road at 1880
o clock Services were held at IL o'clock
at ST. Adams Church. The interment was
at Prospect Hill cemetery. Mrs. Voigt was
fifty years of age and the wife Of August
Vogt. The death occurred Monday after
noon.
An alarm was turned in last evening
about o'clock from box 731 for slight
fire in the roof of the two-story frame
dwelling 1915 31st street. The engines re-
sponded, but did not go into service, the
damage being less than $40. Sparks from
fireworks supposed to have caused the
fire. The house is occupied by Henry Rob-
inson and owned by Mrs. William H. CAT
ford.
There was lively ARRAY last evening at
5:45 O'Clock near the Aqueduct bridge. in
which John Calhoun. aged nineteen; VII
liam H. Shupp, aged thirty-five. and John
Mccarthy, aged thirty-two. all white. par
ticipated. Mccarthy received several
wounds about the head and sent to
the Georgetown University Hospital, and
later all three were taken to the station by
Policeman Edwards where q charge Of af-
fray was lodged against their names. An
additional charge Of assault was preferred
| by Shupp against Mccarthy.
Roy Birch, the president of the c. L. B.,
| is at Hampton, Va, where he is spending
few weeks.
James Oliver, nine-year-old colored
child. died suddenly and without medical
| attention Tuesday evening at his parents
| residence, 2O4O 35th street. The coroner was
| notified and rendered a certificate OF death
from natural causes.
| John M. Boyd, a conductor on one Of the
| new cars of the Metropolitan railroad, was
| severely injured Tuesday evening at a curve
| on the road between Glen Echo and Glen
| Echo junction by coming in contact with
| one of the poles along the track while the
| car was in motion. He knocked from
| the running board of the car and thrown
| Violently to the ground, being unconscious
| when picked up. He was taken to the
Georgetown University Hospital. where he
| received attention. The car on which the
| conductor was serving was one of the new
| pattern with movable trucks. which, when
| rounding curve, throw the body Of the
conveyance some distance over the track
| The old frame building on the west side
! Of 31st street opposite the post office has
| been demolished and the site cleared. 1t is
| stated that a siX-story building will be
| erected on the ground, which will be used
| as branch of the Chesapeake and Poto-
| mac Telephone Company.
| The Pennsylvania avenue bridge. which
| has been closed for some time while work
men were engaged in putting in new
flooring, will be thrown open to traffic fr
| few days. The old boards had worn sc
much to make 1t necessary to replace
| every timber.
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