The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-09-25
news FROM GEORGETOWN.
Litigation Over the McCaffrey Is.
tate About Ended.

All the sites Offered for the Ten
1cytOy,n Police station Rejected.
Many transactions in Real Es-
tate-Per~onaI and General Items.
Litigation among the bcneficiaries of the
estate Of John McCaffrey. the Georgetown
canal loatmau. who abandoned mis- family
here, went to Chicago and died in the
possession of over SJoU.o00. is about end
Cd Emma r. Davis yesterday sent 10y
mail requests To the Orphans Court OF
HagtTSJCwH 10 dismiss the Cavcat filed 10y
her ana her brother, Wyncoop ShipIey,
eight months ago. TO the viii of their
mother, Margaret ShipIey, daughter OF
john McCanrey.
In her viii, Mrs. Shipley left her share
Of the McCafrey estate. $4,000 TO hcI
seven children in trust for life. appoint
ing two Baltimore attorneys as eX cUtors.
The caveatees conteuded that thoi- moth
CT signed the Will when i'll and was un-
duly Influenced.
The Orphans Court. because Of prior
Instructions. has declined TO dismiss ths
caveat until Mrs. Davis makes an APP
pearance OF dismisses her attorneys. II
the CavCat is dismissed, the esta tc VIII
be distributed at once.
NEnCOOp Shlpley some time ago with
drew his opposition TO the Will as il eX-
lists. Charles Bcal, who WAS chiefly in
Strumental in establishing the claim Of a
Georgetown lOCkteudoTS' children to a
large part of the McCaffrcy estate. died
in the North a few days ago.
All the sites offered for the proposed
Tenleytown subpolice station have been
rejected. Three sites were offered. one
on Wisconsin Avenue above Grant Road.
one at the corner Of Belt Road and South
Street, and the third at Belt Road and
Kearney Street. The prices ranged from
81 500 To 5000. Ii is said that the site Of
fered by l. T.. Shoemaker on Wisconsin
Avenue, near Grant Road. Immediately in
front of the public school was aCknOWl-
edged to be the most desirable one sub
mitted, but that the carrying out of the
street extension plan would take away a
considerable part of the back lot
Several transactions in Georgetown real
estate took place yesterday The trustees
of American University Park transferred
10 Mary +. Sweeting lot 3. il block q, for
500. and 20 William II. Swt ating lot $. I'm
block a, for $500. Frank L. Craig sold to
Edmund Lyddane improved property de
scribed as part Of lot III, in square 1854.
being houses and pm mises 1904. 1906 and
3.US - Street northwest Emile NJ. Oar
nellie and Philip A DGrneiIie sold to
Alice Henderson part Of lot g. in square
l256, being improved property on the north
side of . Stree between ThITty-flrSt and
Thirty second Streets William - Gwynn
bought Of Helen Johnson. trustee. part Of
lot %. IN square 1888, being PIoperty on
North Street, between . and = Streets.
The Virginia authorities have disco cred
some new facts in connection with the
shooting ARRAY which took place near
Falls Church Saturday night. They
learned yesterday that Frances Coates,
the colOred woman injured, was IN limo
cent victim Of the ARRAY, having been
shot by Henry Thurston. c0lOred who
fired At William Kennedy. Kennedy is
now being treated at the Georgetown Uni
Ncrsity Hospital II is stated that the
trouble arose over q dice game. in which
! hurstOu and Kennedy were the partici-
pants Ihurston, having lost all of his
money. became angry, IL is alleged, and
drew his pistol and fired five times one
bullet striking the Coates woman, who
was looking at the game, and one strik-
lnS KENNEDY The former IS being treat
ed at Freedman's Hospital. Kennedy, il
Is alleged, inflicted q severe wound upon
Ihurston with a razor.
The remains Of DR.. Arthur c. Mac
Knight who was drowned in Lake Erie
last Sunday. while out sailing with
friends, viii be inferred in Oak Hill Gene
terry Friday afternoon
The profits derived from the Georgetown
University Hospital Fair. which was held
on the Georgetown University campus
curing the week beginning September .
amounted 10 1880
Last Tuesday William r Singleton
Lodge OF Masons, Of TenIeytowu. appoint
cd the following committee to investigate
sites Tor the proposed new Masonic HIIl-
Or A. NJ. Ray. William COuley. Frank
Hdey, David Weaver. and /. l.. Shoe
maker