The Washington herald., 1911-04-09

Alexandria, Va. April S.-Courtland
Lukens, about eighty years old, for the
last fifteen years secretary of the Iude-
pendent Mutual Fire Insurance Com
;pany of Fairfax County, died 1T o'clock
this afternoon at Alexandria. Hospital
following an operation on Thursday
last Mr.. LukanS had been i'll for two
weeks.
Mr.. IukenS was a native of Pennsyl-
vania and located in Fairfax County
in 1S5n He had been engaged in the
framing business. He had his Office in
rthis city at the northeast corner of Royal
: and Prince streets.
Besides his wife, who was Miss Mary
Tees, the following children survive:
SCharies Lukens, Roanoke; Lewis Lukens,
Fairfax: Miss Mary Lukens, Fairfax;
miss Ellen Lukens Washington; Mrs
fJudson Baker. Fairfax, and Miss Sallie
.Lukens. Washington. Arrangements for
the funeral have not been completed.
Post +, Travellers Protective Associ-
alton. held its annual meeting tonight
at the rooms of the chamber of COM
merce, which was followed by a smoker
The meeting was largely attended. The
officers elected follow: J. Y. Williams.
president; II. X. Field. vice president;
r. M. Graham. secretary and treasurer;
c. c. Carlin, counsel; Rev. II. M Can
ter, chaplain. Directors-C. c. Lead
beater, R. s Jones, W. c. Davis, George
d. Hopkins, W. w. BaIlinger, and R T.
knight
A list of the delegates elected to the
State convention, which will be held in
Danville, Va, May u and IS next. fol-
lows: J. Williams, o. II. Kirk, NJ L.
Price, jr., Raymond Hulfish, T. A Som
ers, r S. Jones, J. H Trimyer. ii. L.
Reed. II. D. Kirk, Wallace Lindsey, AL
fred Thomson, P. Won de Westelaken,
J. E. King, w. H. Brooks, and R. Z.
knight.
Five soldiers of Fort Hunt Va. are
locked UP at police headquarters as the
result of an alleged free-for-all fight
which occurred in the Tenderloin tonight.
Coleman Joyce, a soldier, is being treated
at the Alexandria Hospital for a badly
lacerated scalp and a broken finger. His
injuries were dressed by DIT. w. 4.
Warfield.
Policemen Wilkerson, Campbell, Kell,
Nicholson and Reed appeared on the
scene and rounded up the soldiers.
The husband of Mrs. Samuel Harring-
ton expects to go to York, Pa, and have
her released from custody tomorrow.
This statement vas made at HarringtOn's
home tonight Mr.. Harrington, who is
an engineer, was out on his run on the
railroad. Mrs. Harrington, with two
other women eIoped to York, Pa, several
days ago. So far as can be learned Will
lam Powers, of this city, has not made
any arrangements to secure the release
of his wife.
Announcement is made that Or. Ar
thur Snowden. designated by Common
wealth Attorney Samuel q. Brent TO
hold a consultation with the physicians
of G. Jones Rixey. president of the de-
funct Virginia Safe Deposit and Trust
Corporation, and ascertain whether Rixey
is physically Mt to stand trial Monday
next in the Corporation Court here, has
declined. So far as known. the Common
wealth attorney had not yet secured the
services of any other physician to take
the place of DR.. Snowden. Should he not
get any by Monday. it is supposed that
certificates from RiXey'S physicians set
ting forth that he would be physically
unfit to stand trial Monday will result
in another postponement by the court.
When the board of supervisors of Alex
andria County met to-day at the county
courthouse, permission was granted for
The construction of an electric line from
Bancroft to Glen Carlyn. a distance of
seven miles 1t was announced that work
on the road will be begun within a year.
1t is provided that the railway COM
pany shall construct a forty-foot mac
adam roadway along the line. large
number OF bills were audited and ordered
paid.
AS a result of falling down a flight of
a brewer. had his left leg broken. He
was taken TO the Alexandria Hospital.
where the injured member was reset by
DIR. LIeweIlyn Powell.
The body OF William Beverly Corse.
formerly civil engineer of this city, who
died at the Johns Hopkins Hospital.
Baltimore. will be brought here to-mor-
row and the funeral will take place at
10 o'clock Monday morning from St.
PaulS Episcopal Church. Services will
be conducted by Rev. P. p. Phillips,
rector. COrse was forty-three years old
and a son of the late Gen. NJ. D. Corse-
He was a civil engineer and after leav-
ing AIexandria he had lately been identi-
fed with the Pacific division of the Pa
mama Canal. Besides a wife and two
children he leaves two sisters and 4
brother. They are Mrs. Albert Muir
taugh, Washington; Miss Virginia Corse.
Fauquier County, Va, and Montgomery
Corse, Lexington, Va.
Final arrangements for the joint cele-
bration here April 2S next. in observance
of the ninety-second anniversary of the
founding of Odd Fellowship, will be
made at a meeting Of representatives
from Potomac, Sarepta, and Falls Church
Lodges which will be held Thursday
evening next at Falls Church.
Useless Drugs Opposed.