Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-05-09
LANSBURGF1 & BRO.
42O to APO 9TH st. Az to 425 Sth st.

Messrs. ]. T. Sweeney and Thomas w
Clark for the board of aldermen and AL
bert Bryan, F. c. Spinks. jr q James Nc
Cuen and Charles B. Marshall for the COM
Committees were appointed to collect
funds to defray the expenses of the cam
paign and also to look after the interests of
the candidates in each of the wards.
Local Base Ball.
Arrangements have been completed for a
local base ball league, to be composed of
four mines, representing, resp ectively. the
Episcopal, Southern Methodist, Methodist
Protestant and Baptist Sunday schools.
Two games week will be played, Tuesday
and Saturday afternoons, and the season
will last three months. The first game will
be played next Saturday. According to the
rules, only actual members of the Sunday
schools will be allowed to participate in the
games, and no profanity or ungentlemanly
conduct Of any sort will be allowed on the
field.
In reference to the proposed closing of
the public schools of the city following the
failure of the council to order special
appropriation. Mr.. F. ]. Paff. president of
the common council and candidate for the
democratic mayoralty nomination, has
made the following statement as to the
probable action of the city council.
II do not know what the report of the
committee will be, but share the popular
hope and belief that 1t viii find way by
which the schools may be kept open, and
there Is no question in my mind that the
council will cheerfu1ly appropriate the
money, even at a sacrifice to other work.
ITO close the public schools earlier than
the end Of the usual term would not only
work a hardship on the teachers and the
pupils, but would establish bad precedent.
Personally, am heartily in favor of the
appropriation, and from the converse tons
I have had with different members of the
council am confident that it will meet
with little, If any, opposition"
General Matters.
A small colored boy named Herbert
Bowles died at the Alexandria Hospital Fri
day night from injuries sustained by having
his legs crushed by a shifting engine in the
yard of the Southern railroad yesterday
afternoon. The injured members were am
putated by Drs O'Brien. Snowden and Glib
son. The boy died about s o'clock. 1t is
said he was in the habit Of jumping on
trains in the yard and had been repeatedly
warned.
In the case of L. p Haslip and s. T.
Beacham AGAINST the Alexandra ca,. Fire In
plaintiffs for FOR sese.oi. ~ - '
In the corporation court Friday
Messrs. A. T. Schoeni, G. H. Bassart, H.
L. Poss and ]. L. Lawler qualified as reg
listers, having been recently appointed by
the electoral board.
Justice Harry B. Cation. in the police
court this morning, disposed of the follow
ing cases: Rosa Roberts, for harboring
minor, was fined $50. William Johnson,
d. unk and disorderly, was dismissed. Ger
trude Jones. color ed. was fined IS for dis
orderly conduct and fighting, the same
amount being assessed Susan Tate, col
OF ed. for similar offense. The case Of
Robert Bryant, charged with having made
an assault on Arthur Robinson with
knife, was continued until tomorrow.
A negro youth named Arthur Miller shot
and severely wounded himself yesterday
afternoon while playing with revolver at
his home on Pitt street.