DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA - NEWSPAPERS - Washington Post, February 1, 1893
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The Washington Post
February 1, 1893
pg. 2


MINOR ITEMS OF CITY NEWS

   Walter Howard has applied for a divorce from his wife, Caroline B.
Howard.

   Three husbands were granted divorces by the equity court yesterday.
Simon Thoms, Edgar Francis Thompson, and Lewis W. Johnson secured the
decrees.

   The motion was made by Samuel C. Reid to advance his famous claim case,
based on the estate of Henry Coit, has been refused by the court in general
term.

   The Mozart Chorus Club, under the direction of Mr. J. H. Hunter, is
preparing an entertainment and will devote the proceeds to the benefit of
the poor of the city.

   The Christ English Lutheran Church has bought of R. E. Emmert two lots in
square 555, which is between New York avenue and First and N streets.  The
consideration was $8, 269.61.

   A suit for $10,000 damages was brought against the Metropolitan Railroad
Company yesterday by Edwin W. Trimmer, who asserts that he was run over by a
car on Ninth street, near the Boundary, February 2, 1892.

   Mrs. M. D. Barrett, living at 1717 Twenty-first street northwest, has
reported to the police that on last Monday her pocket was picked of a
pocketbook containing a diamond ring and a pair of diamond earrings.

   The charge against Alphonzo Amarossa of violating the internal revenue
law, and an old charge against W. M. Brooks were nolle prossed in the
criminal court yesterday.  Joseph Burke, indicted for housebreaking, was
released on bail, Barney Cole furnishing the bond.

   George Collins, the white boy who several nights ago broke into the store
of John Gaegler, 1610 Seventh street, and stole a gold watch and quantity of
cigars and whiskey, yesterday pleaded guilty to the charge of housebreaking,
and was held under $1,000 bonds for the grand jury.

   John Johnson, the negro, who stabbed William Robertson, another negro, in
a drunken quarrel in the neighborhood of James Fortune's saloon, on N, near
Fourth street, on Monday night, was yesterday arraigned in the police court
and sentenced to six months in the District jail.

   Those interested in the subject and object of Mrs. Jenners Miller's talk
upon "Artistic and correct dress" at Mrs. Charles M. Ffoulke's, 2013
Massachusetts avenue, to-day at 11:30 o'clock will be able to secure tickets
at Brentano's.  The proceeds will be turned over to the poor relief fund.