Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-14
AsPIRoz FUNERAL oBsEaUIEs.
Arrangements at Annapolis for Satur
days Cortege.
Special Correspondence Of The Evening Star.
ANNAPOLIS. Md. April H. 1905

Special Correspondence Of The Evening Star
ANNAPOLIS. Md. April Ii, 1906
The final orders for the funeral cortege
on Saturday. when the remains of Don
Manuel de Aspiroz. the late Mexican am
bassador to the United States. will arrive
here, have been issued at the Naval Acad-
envy.
The escort will consist of two companies
of marines from the Naval Academy. one
company of marines and two companies
of blue jackets from the L. s. S. Columbia
The Naval Academy Band will form a part
of the escort, and the whole will be COM
manded by Lieut. J. II. Reid. L. S. N The
officers from the Naval Academy will as
semble at the station at 3:2D o'clock and
VIII march in the funeral procession.
The Standsh will convey the remains
! from the dock to the L. s. S. Columbia
( which lies in the Annapolis Roads, and
when the Standish leaves the dock with the
remains, a salute of nineteen minute guns
will be fired. The funeral arrangemeuts
are in charge of Commandant ]. Badger,
L. S. N, cOmmandant of midshpmen
The following officers of the Marine Corps
have reported for instruction at the school
OF application; Second Lieutenants c. A
Lutz, III. S. Green, IL. G. Bartlett, R. s.
Shepard, II. w. Stone. ]. d. Nevin, H. NJ.
Smith. J. R. Henley. R. s. Keyser A b.
Drum, ID. NJ. Randall, v. V. Sweeney c,
Ansrum and V. l. Morrison.
Lieut.. L. c. Bertolette, L. s. N. has been
OTUSTeu before the naVdl examining board.
Washington, April %. for examination foS
promotion.
There has been a change made in the
schedule for sports at the Naval Academy
on Saturday to avoid conflicting with the
funeral arrangements of the Mexican am
| baSsador. The base ball game and boat
| race Will occur in the morning instead OF
| in the afternoon customary. TIE double
| header boat race will start at 1890 a. m
| tomorrow Saturday, when the midshipmen
will row the Georgetown crew, and at Ii
am, the base ball game with the Univer-
! sity of North Carolina viii be played on
/ the acaaemy grounds.
The preliminary contest to decide the stu
dent who shall represent st. Johns College
| in the intercollegiate oratoricaI contest was
held in Mcdowell Hall last night Cadets
Fox and Mcbride. both of the senior class,
were so close that the Judges could not
! decide. Others contrasting were Cadets
! Filling. %: .Raisn. '05; Clark, 06. Another
contest will be held next week.
General Freight Agent R. D. Johnson Of
the Short Line railroad received a message
this morning announcing the death of his
father at Warrenton, Va. The message
was received over the wire by the son
of the deceased, who was at the tele-
graph instrument.
| Galloway Cheston, fffty-nine years old, a
WELL known farmer of the first district OF
Anne Arundel county. died at his home
yesterday morning Of cirrhosis of the liver.
He was prominently identified with demo-
cratic politics in this county and had served
four years as judge of the orphans court
and several years as a member of the board
of county commissioners. The funeral took
place. this afternoon from Christ Church.
West River, the Rev. w. NJ. Mayo, rector,
officiating.
Arbor day exercises were held today in
the public school
The entire peach orchard of George d.
Stinchcomb, at Jones station. on the Short
Line railroad, has been DESTROYED by the
severity of the past winter. The orchard
contains between 5000 and 10000 trees, not
one of which has blossomed.
The marriage of Miss Myrtle Ray of Har-
mans, Anne Arundel county, to Mr..
George CLANCY of Odenton took place last
night The ceremony was performed by
the Rev. o. C. Beall at Friendship NJ. d.
Church.
Naval Academy society was well repre-
scented at lecture at Mcdowell Han, ST.
Johns College. last night. II WIS gwen by
Prof. Henri Marion, under the auspices or
the Annapolis group Of the Alliance FRAN
caise. The subject was "Old French cas-
ties" and was illustrated with stereopucon
views.
On the base ball field at ST. Johns Col
lege yesterday afternoon the MAE OF the local
institution played a game with the team
of the University of North Carolina. This
score was ) to I in favor OF the North
Carolina University.
The April term OF the circuit court Tor
Anne Arundel county will convene Nom
day There. are two murder cases on the
docket. The principal one is that of VII
liam Leazer, colored, who shet and killed
Patrolnans John G. Mcnamara of the
county police force.