The Washington herald., 1907-10-16
NEWS CUT SHORT
FOR BUSY READERS.

Miss Julia Thompson, eighty-seven
years old, died at Garfield Hospital yesterday.
Justice Gould yesterday signed a decree
granting a limited divorce 10 Gustave knabe from
Mamie knabe
". T b Williams. recently appointed
supervising principal Of the tVeIfth division Of the
public schools has rendered his resignation.
Rather than stand trial on the charge
q selling Jobacco 10 Minors persons forfeited
- collateral iu the Police Court yesterday morning
Washington Camp, Sons Of Confederate
Veterans, IS considering the purchase OF site for
a memorial hall Nca Ctcers Wsre elected at lis
last meeting.
On request Of President Mellen, the Ia
koua Park town c9uncil. AZ its last meeting r.
vUked the charter Of the Baltimore and Washington
Transit Company
The Treasury Department has awarded
the contract fcT the erection of TIE post-offce and
courthouse building at Eau Claire Wis 20 Charles
". Gindale, q Chicago. for SI3,He
4 fraud order was issued by the Post
Office Department yesterday against John X Com
stock & Co. Of Chicago for using the mails FOX
advertising system Of gain speculation.
Although no final decision has been
reached. IT Is believed the government will take 10
steps toward enforcing the payment Of the 800 900
Aat AH avn. A-lN "utNotNhA a4HatAANu AlA-l
BY VIII dated August 27. 1900 Mrs.
Louise Fricdmann who died October 5. 1907 filed
yesterday for probate. beIueatEs her entire estate
L her children. Jacob J. Arpich IS named a.
executor
The engineer Of highways has recon-
meajed that the contract with the North Penn
Iron Company. for furnishing the railing Cor the
Connecticut avenue bridge. be extended from Oc-
toher 10 10 5.
A voluntary petition in bankruptcy was
filed yesterday by Howard 4. Rhine automobile
rsTairer doing business at l3ld and 1872 stanton
court. The debts stated TO be S2,07a6s, and
the assets Al7.
Richard d. White has been recon-
meuded for a temporary position as clerk in the
Department OF Insurance. vice Y. #. Rogers. re
signed, for a period Of two months and a half
al $50 a month.
Miss Nina Thomas, first and Emery
Bal0rd, second, were declared SINNERS Of the Gait
prizes offered pupils q the Business High School
for the best essay. under rules prescribed by the
Board Of Education
The erection Of two naphtha lights at the
First street entrance 10 Soldiers Home and Of
four arc lights on street southwest and i've on
Ninth. between c and d. have been announced
by the Commissioner
The existence of a combination among
the purpose Of maintaining prices is shown IN an
application for writ Of certiGan presented % the
supreme Court yesterday.
Wellington B. Herbert yesterday ap-
peared before Justice Barnard and furnished d
Sl000 rcc0gnianoe for his appearance in court.
Herbert is charged with having shot and wounded
his wife September last.
Funeral services over the remains Of G.
4. Wood one Of the oldest residents Of the north
east section. who died az his residence, l0l Eighth
street southeast Monday morning viii be held to
morTow afternoon at O'Clock.
Committees on jurisprudence and cleo
ton of the supreme council Of the Scottish Rite
Masons are at work completing their reports for
presentation az the opening Of the second Hiennial
convention, TO be held here next week.
William Mason. coIored, was yesterday
sentenced by Justice Barnard 70 serve two years
IN the Trenton penitentiary- Mason pleaded guilty
TO an indictment which charged him with robbiug
white man named Riley Of a pOcketbook con
tanning S2S.
Secretary of the Navy Metcalf went TO
New York yesterday afternoon for the purpose Of
looking iutOfhe tangle growing ont Of the failure Of
the contractor fer dock No. at the New York
navy yard. He viii also make general inspection
Of the yard while there.
Maj James II. Reeve, superintendent Of
the stamps division in the Post-OfiCe Department
yesterday voluntarily exchanged places with his chief
clerk, W c. Fitch AiT. Reeve explained that he
was getting old and wanted to shift his Tesp0nsi-
bility, and both men seem pleased at the change.
Mrs f. F. QualthroUgh, who lives at
the Connecticut apartments, reported to the police
yesterday that some one had entered her house,
1901 street northwest which, for several seasons
has been used by Assistant Secretary Of State
Pierce and had stolen a number Of valuable
bronze figures.
After refusing the officers admission for
more than a half hour, and declaring that they
dare not enter the house to arrest him, Charles NJ
Kaiser a maclinist suspected Of being the man
who passed a bogus so certificate at the ticket
Office q a local theater Monday night, unlocked
The front door Of his residence. $50 street south
east, yesterday afternoon, and consented to be
plaeed in custody
The validity of the fines of $4,000 each
imposed by the Federal court in Missouri upon the
Armour Swift. Morris, and Cudahy companies, for
accepting rebates from the Burlington road On
shipments Of meat products between the Mississippi
River and the soabosra. came before the supreme
CouTt yesterday on applications made by the pack
ing companies FOR writs Of cerigTaH TO review the
judgments against them
Advices received at the Insular Depart
mcnt from Manila say that the Philippine Planta-
tion Company. which has been s,lling stock in the
United States. and has been exploited in New York
cSbCd TO It's manager IN the Philippines on August
81 that the company had sold all its interest in
the claim ON the plantation known as the Gala
bacca estate. in the CaEayan Valley. to Charles
I. HumDhTeys. attorney Of San Francisco