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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-10-31
COMMITMENT SET ASIDE,
DEFENDANT OUT OF JAIL
Troubles Of Charles L. Woodward
and Wife to Be Aired in
Open Court.

Charles L. Woodward. q carpenter Of
Richmond, who has been In jail under
writ Of ne exeat. sued out by his
wife. Eva V. Woodward. was released
today by Chief Justice Clabaugh Of the
Supreme Court of the District Of CO.
lumbia Woodward was indicted for
non-support and brought here from
Richmond. While in jail his wife
brought suit for maintenance and had
issued a civil order of arrest against
her husband.
Some days ago the indictment was
nolle pressed, and todays order of the
court quashes the civil writ.
Declines to Issue Order.
Chief Justice Clabaugh announced
that under the unusual circumstances
OF the case he would take all the tes-
timony in open court within the next
two weeks Attorney for the wife
has filed his affidavit in the case. say
ing that much of the testimony will
be unfit to be taken in open court. He
asked the court to hear 1t In cham
bers, but this the court declined
Last July the husband asked the po-
lice to aid him in locating his wife.
who had left the Union station osten-
sibly to join her husband In Rich
mond. but had not arrived there.
Woodward located his wife in Phila-
delphia, where a short-1ived reconcile
alton was effected. Later the husband
came from Richmond and took his
child to his mothers home in that
city.
Attorney J. r. Hit represents the
wife and Attorneys r. l.. Jeffords and
T. NJ. Baker appear for the husband.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-10-31
ASKS THAT HER HUSBAND
BE KEPT IN THE CITY
Wife Alleges That He Threatens to
Sell Business and De-
sert Family.

ALLEGING that her husband, Michael S.
Cady, threatened to sell out his bust
ness and leave Washington to avoid
caring for her and their two children
and has advertised the business for
sale. Mrs. Julia A. Cady today asked
the District Supreme Court to prevent
the sale and to enjoin her husband
from molesting her and the children
Mrs. Cady also asks that her husband
be placed under bonds not to leave the
city. pending the determination Of her
suit by the court.
Through Attorneys Topper & Gusack
Mrs. Cady tells the court she was mar
ried May II. 1893. and has two children.
Ever since the marriage. the wife says.
her husband has been overbearing, self
ish and cruel. frequently loses his tenn
per and abuses and swears at her and
the children. Last May Mrs. Cady says
the husband took to drinking. which. she
AYERS. so aggravated his ill-temper that
his conduct became undesirable. With
the children she left home and went to
the house Of her brother-in-law.
Chief Justice Clabaugh signed an or
der Of civil arrest. requiring Cady to
give bond not to leave Washington.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-10-31
COAL MINERS TO DRAFT
NEW SET OF DEMANDS
Workers From Three Anthra-
cite Districts in Convention
at PottsviI|e, Pa.

POTTSV1LLE Pa, October 31.-A con-
vention of United Mine Workers from the
three anthracite coal districts opened here
today, and before final adjournment Is
taken tomorrow or Thursday the dele
gates expect they will have formulated
set of demands to be presented to the
hard coal operators next spring, when
the present three-year working agree
ment expires.
John P. White, international president
of the United Mine Workers Of America.
will preside at most of the sessions and
also will address the delegates. John
Mitchell and L. L. Lewis, former presi-
dents of the national organization, also
are expected to make addresses.
Each Of the three districts comprising
the anthracite coal fields has held it's an
nual convention and each has adopted
resolutions containing certain demands
on the coal companies. The principal one
of these is an increase Of wages of 20
per cent. An eight-hour day for all en-
ployes and recognition of the union also
were asked, along with other more or
less important concessions.
The Present Agreement.
The tridistrict convention is expected
to formulate demands embodying those
asked for by the separate district con-
ventions. The working agreement under
which the employers and employees are
operating is the one drawn up by the an
thracite coal strike commission and ac-
cepted by both sides after the strike of
1902. This agreement went into effect in
the spring Of 1903 and ran for three
years.
In 1906 President Mitchell. after nu-
merous conferences, negotiated con-
tinuance of the agreement, with little
change. for another three years, and in
1909 practically the same agreement was
renewed for three years after negotia-
tons with the operators, while Il. T..
Lewis was at the head of the miners or
ganiZation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-10-31
POLICE TO KEEP ORDER
ON ALL HALLOWEEN
Some Superstitions the Prank
ish Small Boy Had Bet
ter Beware.

Halloween, which for celebration pur-
the sun is sufficiently low to insure
darkness upon the streets, has siegener-
ated partly into mere game Of wits
between the police and the boys Maj
Sylvester has made his annual threat to
see to 1t that Halloween pranks DO not
interfere with the life and liberty Of the
unfortunate pedestrian who goes abroad
tonight; ami the boys who have boarded
flour sacks and ticktacks for weeks past
declare that the entire seven hundred
cops with which the city is blessed can
not take away those rights which the
boys hold as sacred as the grown up man
holds the rights under the Constitution.
One Lingering Superstition.
Time was when Halloween meant
much to the superstitious Ono supersti-
ton connected with 1t now is that It is
unlucky to linger too long with q new
suit Of clothes near a group Of grinning
urchins armed with paper sacks full Of
-four. To many the fun Of Halloween
is jolly.
There are open fires and roasted apples.
burning raisins in a bowl of flaming
DranQy-SnapQTaSOn they call IT, ana on
this night they still play the games OF
long ago that have not fallen into disuse
entirely. 1t is a good old night, and SO
closely do the old-time performers follow
the rules that actually one would think
that ghosts are really about.
Halloween parties have been given al
ready this season. Many Of them occur
red last week, SO as to escape the danger
of running afoul merry party Of young
folks armed with flour.
Orders to the Police.
Tonight policemen who go on duty at 8
o'clock will be reminded that they have
a duty to perform in enforcing the Hal
loween ordinance against annoyances by
children who are permitted to carry their
Americanized version Of Halloween cele-
brations to the street. Young children
will be warned by the police, while older
ones who fail to take warning will be
sent to the house of detention. There is
a superstition connected with that insti-
tuition to the effect that those who go
there have to appear in the Juvenile
Court next day.
Public school teachers took advantage
of the Halloween spirit today to use the
figures Of witches, COLLINS. fairies, Jack
o'I4anterns and broomsticks in their
blackboard work and in paper cut-out
work In the lower grades. Clay modelins
today took pumpkins and wierd ghosts
for the outlet Of this spirit; and in the
kindergartens stories OF old time Hallow-
Gems were told.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-10-31
TROPHIES OF VICTORY.
Watch Fobs Presented to Champion
Post Office Ball Team.

Members of the champion base ball
team OF the Post Office Department,
this years winners In the Departmental
League. were today presented by Man
ager John II. Anderson and Director Ar
thur l. Davis with handsome gold watch
fobs as individual trophies. Those who
received this recognition were Messrs
Vaughn. Ferguson. Ryan. Gertman. Fen
ton. Barnhart. Bradley. Kerr. Middlekauf
Lynch and Kause.
Manager Anderson made the presenta-
ton speech. The silver championship
trophy won by the club was on display In
Chief Clerk Weeds ONCE during the
presentation ceremony
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-10-31
POSTAL BANK PROSPERS.
Officials Think the Washington Office
Will Endure Comparison.

The Washington postal savings deposa-
tory closed its first months business last
evening with record that the depart
ments believes is very gratifying. when
compared with other Offices. The num-
Der of accounts opened during the month
was f,16. the value of the certificates OF
deposft issued $24.6s2. the value Of cards
and stamps sold for deposit purposes.
$50 10: the value of certificates cashed Ia
a ter issue $3.50; the number Of accounts
closed out, "a, and the number Of ac-
counts now standing. $50.
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Sale Of Land on Georgia Avenue.

deed has been placed on record by
which land on Georgia avenue near Piney
Branch road. where the latter crosses
Georgia avenue, north of Brightwood. has
been transferred by James NJ. White and
OF theirs to s. w. woodward.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-10-31
PARENTS MUST ANSWER
FOR DEATH OF CHILD
Coroner's Jury Decides That Fatal
Burning Was the Result
of Negligence.

That the death of Ethel Clark. colored.
four years of age. was due to negli-
gence on the part of her parents. John
Clark and Lillian Clark, was the verdict
of a coroner's jury at the District
morgue today. The parents. who reside
at 1912 Meigs place northeast, were
therefore held for the action of the grand
jury.
The child was found dead, due to burns,
in the family home shortly after ) O'Clock
yesterday afternoon. The mother and
father had left the house about one hour
previously.
According to neighbors. who testified
at the inquest, the couple had left Ethel
in charge of her younger brother. plac-
ing them in a front room and shutting
a door leading into the kitchen. When
they returned to the house the eldest
child was found on the kitchen floor
dead The younger child was not in
jured.
Parents Had Been Drinking.
Witnesses testified that both the
mother and father had been drinking.
Clark told the coroners jury that he
left the children in the house to make
trip to the dump to gather cinders.
and had several drinks with friends he
met The first he knew Of the death OF
the child. he said. was when he opened
the kitchen door Of the home and found
the body on the floor.
Bicycle Policeman Broderck OF me
ninth precinct. who investigated the case
and arrested the father and mother, les
tilted that he had learned the parents fire.
ouently locked the children in room
while they went away.
The father and mother were renamed
to jail, while the infant child was turned
over to the board Of children's guardians.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-10-31

Harry Winters. sixteen years old, son
of Luther Winters OF Woodsboro. Md.
has disappeared from homo and Ne
trace Of him has been diacoveroA
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-10-31
FOR SOUL FREEDOM
Union of Church and State o.
posed by Adventists.
WILL APPEAL TO PEOPLE
Series of Meetings for Advocacy Of
Religious Liberty-Conference
in Business Session.
WILL APPEAL TO PEOPLE

Opposing any movement that would
tend to unite church and state. the gen.
eral conference of Seventh Day Adven-
lists today at Takoma Park voted to hold
series of big religious liberty conven-
tons In different parts of the United
States the coming winter.
Seventh Day Adyentists believe in alb
solute religious equality the committee
on religious liberty reported. land are
opposed to all movements which would
tend to unite church and state"
Any attempt at religious legislation in
Congress or In any Of the state legisla
lures. they declared, is a direct violation
of the great principle of soul freedom.
1t is for the purpose of calling the at
tention of the people of the United States
to the principles of religious liberty and
soul freedom that the council voted to
adopt the recommendations of this com
mittee to hold these conventions.
Convention Schedule.
ten days. and will be held as follows: At
Graysville. Tenn, January s-1s. 1912;
New York city, January so; Lincoln,
Nebraska, January 16-February 4; Nash
vile. Tenn. January 1898; Kenne. Tex.
February Ill: Los Angeles, Cal, Febru-
airy lis; Pittsburgh. Pa, February 1928;
Calgary, Canada, March $40; Milwaukee.
Wis, April 1928; Toronto, Canada, June
@7-July s.
The committee on appropriations rec
commended and secured the adoption of a
report recommending that special evan
gelistic work be carried on in the cities
of the east: $1,000 was voted to the New
Jersey conference, SET to Maryland and
Delaware, 1921 to Pennsylvania. 1912
to Virginia, SSH TO West Virginia, max
ing So, Isl to these states.
Work Among Negroes.
The committee on negro work in the
United States recommended that the
Chesapeake conference, composed OF
Maryland and Delaware, be given
$1,000 for that cause; the southeastern
union conference be given $4,000; the
southern union conference. $4,000; the
southwestern union conference. $500;
the Virginia conference. $1,000; the
West Virginia conference. $500; the
New Jersey conference $500; the west
Pennsylvania conference, $500; the
lakewood Industrial School, which is a
training school for colored orphans
$500; making a total Of $4,000 for
the cOlOFe0 work In the Cnlteu states.
Two thousand dollars was voted to the
work among the Jewish people in the
United States.
Money for Foreign Department.
The sum Of $4,000 was appropriated
to cover the expenses of the North
American foreign department of the
general conference. which is carrying
on eyangelistic work among thirty diff
ferent nationalities in the United
States, and is expanding $4,000 a year
for this purpose.
The committee appointed early in
the session Ito consider the present
status Of the controversy Of the Ad-
ventistS with Rome submitted it's re-
port. The report called attention to
the rapid growth of Roman Catholi-
cism in this country and pointed out
what the committee considered to be
the dangers of such a growth.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-10-31

Stories by c. ]. Cutcliffe Hyne, Louise
Collier Wilcox, Harrison Rhodes and
Jetfery Farnol. in our next Sunday Mag
azine.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-10-31
DEPRESSED BY ILLNESS
|. ENDS HIS LIFE WITH GAS
Edward Owen Discovered Dead
in His Room This
Morning.

Edward Owen, aged sxty-seven years,
formerly prosperous resident of the vicin-
ity Of Rockville, Montgomery county.
Md, committed suicide last night or this
morning in his room at 4O4 9th street
northwest by inhaling Illuminating gas.
The body was found in a sitting posi-
ton on a chair near the front window,
the gas tube being held tightly between
his legs.
Charles W. Owen. only son Of the de-
west, suggested illness as the cause
which prompted the act. The deceased
wrote three letters and left them on a
dresser in his room. They were stamped
and ready for mailing. One was ad-
Graham. 1923 street. and another to
street.
Had Been Dependent.
Mrs Devlin, who conducts the room
ing house. says that she ana others in
the house knew of the dependency of
Mr. Owen last week, but this week he
seemed cheerful.
Only a few days ago Mr.. Owen re-
marked that all the money his wife had
saved was gone
'sMy rent is paid until the first of the
month";" he stated. II don't owe anybody
a cent and ! hope I never will
Mr.. Owen last night visited his son and
spent some time with him. He said moth
ing about his pecuniary condition. but he
did complain OF illness, remarking: only
God knows how much I suffer-
He told his son that he had physicians
prescribe for him, and what they gave
him for one trouble aggravated another
He had reached the conclusion, he said,
that he could not get well.
Unable to Get Employment.
Mr. Owen had lived in this city nearly
six years. He was employed as cashier
in a lunchroom some time ago, but had
not been able to obtain employment re-
Gently Conversing with persons in the
house about his condition, he said nobody
wanted to employ a sick man or an old
man.
Last week Mr.. Owen gave Mrs. Devlin
a card containing instructions what to dc
in event of his sudden death. Coroner
hewitt viewed the body this afternoon
and gave certificate Of death from in
halng Illuminating gas with suicidal in
tent The body will be sent to Rockville
for burial Mrs Owen died several years
ago.
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TAFT IN PITTSBURGH
Witnesses Demonstration of
Rescue Work in Mines.
HELPS FIRE DEADLY BLAZE
Prizes Awarded to Teams Making
the Best Showing.
CONTINUES TRIP TONIGHT
President Will Leave Pittsburgh at
Midnight for Morgantown, w.
Va.-Greeted by Crowds.

PITTSBURGH, October 31.-Ten thou
sand persons crowded the grandstand at
Forbes Field today and cheered President
Taft as he stood in the cold raw October
air and watched with absorbing inter
est the explosions under the direction of
the bureau OF mines and the work of
forty rescue teams from all parts Of the
country.
Once he pressed a button which ex-
ploded charge. Instantly smoke and
flame burst from the long steel gallery
erected in the park, and a rescue team
dashed for the main opening. The men
were clad In the armor provided for such
happenings. and returned quickly with
dummies representing injured men.
A1nbulances in Waiting.
An ambulance was in waiting, and they
carried the unconscious" victims by the
Presidents box. He applauded the real
istic scene.
At the close of the experiments he went
to stand erected in the field, in COM
pany with Secretary of the Interior
Fisher, Gov. Tener Of PENNSYLVANIA and
Gov. Glasscock of West Virginia and a
number Of other distinguished guests
There he made brief address and pre-
scented the winning teams with the
trophies they had won
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-10-31
FORMER SLAVE DIES
IN VIRGINIA AT 106
Jeremiah Jackson Had Been
Owned by Members of the
EIzey Family.

AT the age of LOG years, jeremiah Meyer
Jackson, colored. Familiarity known as
"Uncle jerry to the older residents of
Nairfax and Loudon counties, Virginia.
and believed to have been the oldest man
in northern Virginia, died Thursday The
body was buried at his farm near Fairfax
Station Sunday afternoon. He had
passed the century milestone six years
and two months before the date of his
birth, according to the records of the
ElZly family, who owned him in slavery
days having been born August %. 1905.
Practically all the members of the Elzly
family in Fairfax county attended the
funeral.
He was the last living example in Fair
fax county of the farm foremen.' an
ante-bellum institution in Maryland and
Virginia. which carried with 1t the duty
of supervising all slaves, both in the
fields and in their quarters. Uncle Jerry"
was made foreman of the Elzey farm. in
Loudoun county, probably fifteen years
before the outbreak Of the civil war. He
was born in tho slave quarters on what
is now known as the Mar Middleton
farm, q short distance from Leesburg. at
that time owned by the late William
Elzey
Al tho death OF William Elzy, his
brother. Graham Ely. inherited much of
the property and Ely slaves. About a
year before the civil war he moved to
another farm near the present Fairfax
station, taking Uncle Jerry" with him.
In the Confederate army and took Uncle
Jerry with him as body servant
Later, the negro was made a teamster in
one Of the commfssary wagon trains OF
Gen. Lees army and served in that
capacity throughout number of i'm
portant campaigns. He was one Of the
slaves in the Confederate army at the
time who refused to desert when Presi-
dent Lincoln issued his emancipation
proclamation.
Returns to Fairfax.
After the civil war Jackson returned
to Fairfax county and farmed there for
the Elzly family for several years. He
saved money and was permitted to pur-
chase $50 acres of farm land part Of
one of the original Elzly tracts. He had
q clear title to this property at the
time of his death. During the war
Uncle Jerry married a slave in the
family Of Rudolph Ford of Alexandria.
She survives him and recently passed her
ninety-frst birthday. Uncle Jerry" was
exceptionally active, mentally and ply
sically, until about five years ago. when
he became blind.
He had been in declining health for
several years. and his death last Thurs
day was primarily due to the infirmities
Of old age.
In addition to his wife, he is survived
by five children, including a son and a
daughter living on the farm near Fairfax
station. and Joshua jackson, another
son employed as a hostler III the stables
of William J. Lee.
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BANK INSPECTION Plan
APPROVED BY MURRAY
Controller Says Washington
Banks Have Taken a Iona
Step Forward.

Strong commendation today was
voiced by Lawrence o. Murray, con-
troller Of the currency. for the plan Of
the Washington banks, which only re-
Gently announced the appointment Of
a local bank examiner whose super
vision Of the affairs of the financial
institutions of the District will be en-
tirely separate and yet supplemental
to the supervision which Is exercised
by the national bank examiner for this
jurisdiction. In statement covering
the field In which the local bank ex-
aminer will operate. Controller Muir
ray said:
Statement by Controller.
Washington is ono Of the fifty reserve
cities in the United States. and about SIS
per cent Of all deposits. or more than
eleven billions Of dollars are in the banks
OF those cities It Is OF greatest i'm
p0rtance that the banks be kept at all
times not only in q solvent condition, but
that the assets should he in liquid form.
This movement for clearing house ex-
aminations in the large cities extends
over the entire country. and it Is essen
TALLY a movement by all the banks in
any particular city to regulate them
selves by the general authority Of all over
each luQlVluudl IucmDcT.
''In my opinion 1t Is a splendid move
ment. and l am for 1t most earnestly
Each city that has adopted the policy
has a different plan under which the
clearing house examiner works, the plan
being made to conform to local condi-
tons as they exist There are, however.
two things essential: first. competent
man for examiner and one who will have
the entire confidence Of each and every
bank making up the clearing house asso-
citation. and secondly an efficient clearing
house committee authorized by proper by
laws to take prompt action when unsafe
or dangerous conditions are reported to
it.
Necessary to Success.
IF either OF these two essentials are
lacking tho plan will not be effective.
Some objections were raised to the plan
in certain cities before the plan was
adopted, but after fair trial every single
objection disappeared and the banks are
most enthusiastic for the plan wherever
1t is in operation. and the experience of
other cities will be repeated here in
Washington. The banks of Washington
took long step forward toward most
when they determined to fall in line with
other cities to adopt progressive methods
Of supervision and selected a clearing
house examiner, and ! congratulate them.
The controller and the clearing house
committee not only in Washington. but
tho clearing house committees In every
city whore there are clearing house ex-
aminatious will work at al times In the
very closest harmony"