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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Oct 21, 1905
Page
47
District commissioners transmit appropriations for next fiscal year ending June 30. They seek $11,433,070 from general revenues and $164,165 from water funds, with expected revenues of $5,567,549. The plan splits current expenditures from extraordinary improvements, notes large federal advances, and outlines street work and aqueduct transfers.
Edward Horan, 45, before Judge Kimball on assault charges after striking his wife who had given him $40 to buy groceries. Police captured him returning with a bundle. Wife urged leniency, saying not more than three years. Judge Kimball fined $25 or 60 days in workhouse.
Police Sergt. Thomas W. Anderson of the Anacostia substation faced the police trial board at the First precinct station house. Prosecution witnesses testified about the woman and Andersons relations, most testimony deemed inadmissible. Charges were brought by Private Crouch. proceedings adjourned to this morning for defense witnesses.
The district issues several actions and changes. The well at Thirty-second Street and Dumbarton Avenue is to be abandoned and filled. Ida M. Wright’s resignation as clerk in the engineer department’s record division is accepted. $350 is allotted for road repairs to macadamize Canal road. Subgrade prep and macadamizing by day labor are ordered for Bladensburg road at a cost of 3690. The cement sidewalk order on C Street between First Street and Arthur Place NW is canceled. A 25 by 4 foot channel will be dredged from the boundary sewer outlet to the Anacostia River at an estimated $900. Fire hydrants will be placed at Ninth Street and Michigan Avenue, Twelfth Street between Otis and Perry, and at Thirteenth Street and Rhode Island Avenue. Frank Stowell, water department inspector, is sent from Lynchburg to Burlington to inspect materials for department use.
Declared insane and arraigned before Justice Gould were Robert Able Nannie Cooper Frank Cushing Jessie A Legge Lizzie Lowe Hattie Middleton and John W Perry. Fall sale ads for plants rugs and furniture appear alongside notices from various shops and societies including the Hebrew Literary Society at Pythian Temple.
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