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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-11-29
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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-11-29

FOR SALE, ONE RUBBER TIRED
runabout, / rubbcrtire storm buggy
and business buggy several top
wagons. A MEYERS SONS. !3l z.
Cary Street
The Washington times., 1912-07-16
WILLIAM F. Dunn
DIES OF PARALYSIS
At HIS RESIDENCE
Popular Printer and Proof
reader Who Had Wide
Acquaintance.

Funeral services for w. f. Dunn. the
well-known printer and proofreader,
who died shortly before midnight last
night, will he held Wednesday after
noon at o'clock from the family resi-
dence, 323 Eleventh street southwest
His interment will be at Mt. Olivet. The
details of the services have not yet
been arranged.
"Bilr' Dunn, as he was affectionately
known to every printer in Washington
and to a large number of crafts
men all over the United States, was,
until two months ago. head of the proof
room on the Washington Herald. He
had been connected with that paper ever
since II was founded.
Mr.. Dunn loved his work, and few
men of his trade were so widely known.
He was prominently connected with the
Printers Union, and at the Interna-
tional convention at Buffalo he repre-
sented Columbia Union, 10l.
He had long been sufferer from pa
ralysis, and for many weeks had been
confined to his home. His friends knew
that the end must come, but were not
expecting 1t so soon. Mr.. Dunn is sur
Vtved by son and daughter, William
and Mary Dunn
The Washington times., 1912-07-16
Suit by District
Proves Boomerang

That the District of Columbia Is
guilty Of nuisance for which it has
been trying to prosecute Frank A.
Baxter. Of 1915 Eighth street northwest,
was brought to light today in the Police
Court where Mr.. Baxter was arraigned
on a charge Of maintaining unsanitary
conditions on a lot belonging to him
near Chevy Chase.
A. s. Woodland. Health Department
inspector testified that for many days
ne had noticed that the lot was over
run with foul water, which remained
stagnant and was Injurious to the
health of the vicinity. Mr.. Woodland
test1hed that he had warned the de-
fendant repeatedly to remedy the evil,
No evidence on the part Of the de-
tendant had yet been heard when the
Yourt asked the Health Department
inspector who was responsible for
the running of the water on to the
Baxter premises.
THE water drains from a sort of a
duct running from a piece of property
owned by the District OF Columbia, "
answered Woowdland. The court ask
ed whether or not the Baxter prem
lses were lower than the District
property and was answered in the
This .s a peculiar case" said the
cutting for an offense of which 1t is
itself guilty" Inspector Woodland
was notihed to make the authorities
responsible for the nuisance aware
OF the conditions caused on Mr., Bax-
teF's property
The Washington times., 1912-07-16
PROGRESSIVE PARTY
OPENS LOCAL BRANCH
Petitions Circulated and Many
Signatures Are Being
Obtained.

With offices at 512 F street northwest,
the local branch of the new National
Progressive party is assuming a def
mite aspect.
Promoters of the local branch of the
organization have circulated the fol-
lowing petition and secured many
names:
we. the undersigned. citizens of the
United States and voters in the States
which are appended to our names. do
hereby pledge our hearty support II
the National Progressive party and
acknowledge the leadership of Hon.
theodore Roosevelt and favor his cleo
aon to the Presidency Of the United
states, and to this end we promise 10
honorably and faithfully work, irres
spect1Ve OF our former political affilia.
tons. We welcome as our co-workers
all men over twenty-one years, who
may feel interested and invite their
Among those signing the petition were
Joseph E. Sardo, William - Hickey.
J: J. McCurrey, r. F. Seiby, F. ]. Cot,
tier, J. F, Carroll; William II. Nelson.
1: s; Wardfield, John 6; Hyer, K.
Pouth, Col. T. F. Mills, Richard Mar
tin, Charles A. Evans, j. A. Patterson,
John Whill M. A. Coleman, William III.
Young, Charles NJ. Brammer, ]. N,
Beck. Henry " Summer, and Benja-
min Harvey.
The Washington times., 1912-07-16

per about half a point. The tone Of
the market was good at noon, with
only slight recessions from the nigh
est points.
The slump in wheat, due to estimated
yield Of spring wheat in the Dakotas
and Minnesota Of owns 200, 000, 900, against
IN, 900, 900 last year, is regarded as a
favorable factor for Improvement In
stocks Reports come from washington
that the Stanley Committees 10 hope.
lessly divided In opinion on the report
upon the Steel Corporation, and MI
nority report Is expected. The bears
also circulated a report today that the
Steel Cooperation will soon increase
wages of the men employed, and these
two news items put g. drag on the steel
stocks in the early trading.
The present rise in stocks has carried
twelve industrials upward % per cent
and twenty railroads up 4s per cent.
One Of the features OF the rise is the
recovery of st. Paul which was so hope
lessly hammered last week
Again today as yesterday the action
Of the Interstate Commerce Commission
had no effect upon the stocks Of the
express companies.
The market was steady during the
first hour of the afternoon, at a slight
reaction from the higher points OF the
morning. Business was very slow and
room traders seemed In a waiting atti-
tude content to let matters drift along
until something shall happen to give
the market greater activity In one d.
rection or the other.
The Washington times., 1912-07-16
Upzuard 7urn in Stocks Receives Temporary Check
STEEL PRICES CONTINUE TO MOVE
UPWARD IN A PROFESSIONAL
AND DULL MARKET.

NEW YORK, July 1e.-The upward
movement of stocks. which was a
feature of the market yesterday, con-
tinued in the early trading today. For
the most part the market opened
higher and sold still higher. After
the first hour there was a slight re-
action, but generally speaking the
movement was upward. which occa-
sional set-backs owing to temporary
selling which depressed prices. Good
crop reports, which give an impress
sion of an unusually large yield Of
wheat, with better conditions in the
money market are responsible for the
present advance in stocks. There 10
besides a tendency to hold on to long
stock in the belief that the market
will in the near future go to a much
higher level.
The rails were the most active and
the strongest. Reading opened at
162M, an advance over night of q =.
and sold up to 163h. LehiRh opened
quarter of a point higher and sold
UP to 1877. Union Pacific gained AZ on
the opening and added half a point,
declining somewhat in the last hour
of the morning.
Steel was less active. 1t added AZ
at the opening and sold a quarter OF
a point higher. Smelters gained half
a point in the early trading, and cop
The Washington times., 1912-07-16
Boys Are Tangled in
Story of Spencer DEATH

Statements in the nature of individual
confessions. of completely in the death
of John Spencer, colored. who was
killed on the Bladensburg road early
Sunday morning from each of six young
white men, who appeared before the
coronerS jury this afternoon, were read
by Detective Burlingame.
These statements tend to show that
the six men and boys, with a seventh
who is still at large, plotted to take
the colored mans money from him.
Each of the young men held, Joseph
O'Donnell, Joseph Needham, Robert
Maxwell, John ]. Patten, Charles Nally,
and William p. Connell, admitted being
in the crowd that assaulted and then
robbed the colored man. They differed
as to who led the attack
All OF the young men were represented
by counsel, and the reading of state
ments and taking of testimony dragged
into the late afternoon hours. The
mothers of three OF the boys, Maxwell,
Needham, and Connell, attended the in
quest.
Earl Harris colored. the only known
witness to the fgfhting in which Spen-
Ger lost hiss life. created mirth on the
stand when he said that when he heard
the cries OF murder by the colored boys
ne laid out" down the road.
Attorneys for one Of the boys asked
how far he ran, and he admitted he
stopped when he reached his home at
F1fueth street. two miles away.
The Washington times., 1912-07-16
NO WEDDING BELLS
TO RING TONIGHT IN
!. CHINESE QUARTERS
Chicago Tea Merchant and
His Bride-to-Be
-. Disappear.

Wedding bells will not chime in WASH
angton's Chinatown tonight; orange bios
SONS Will not wave and mingle their
fragrance with the fumes Of sandal
wood; and the only rice to be In evil
dence will be that of the carefully
cooked variety
For, 1t became known late this after
noon, either one or the other, or maybe
both, of the Chinese-American we'd
dings scheduled to take place, suffered
fro man attack of cold feet, and 1t is
beginning to look as II q perfectly good
one-dollar set of marriage licenses will
go to waste.
Yee Soon Jung, wealthy representa-
tive of the Flowery Kingdom, and a
native of Chicago, brought on his arm
into the office of the marriage license
clerk at the City Hall today, pretty May
Sirks, twenty years old, also of the
Windy City, and asked for license
to marry. 1t was given to them. The
couple then left the City Hall, bound
for Judge Charles s. Bundy, of the
Municipal Court, who was scheduled to
perform the ceremony.
The Oriental, leaving Miss Sirks out
side the door, went into the office Of
the Justice of the peace and announced
that he wanted Judge Bundy to perform
the ceremony.
"Will l have to have the bride in
here with me?" he asked.
He was given an affirmative answer,
and also told that as the justice was at
that moment engaged in some i'm
portant legal business, the couple would
have to walt a brief time The Chinese
said that would be all right, and ex-
planned that he would join the BRIDE
to-be outside the door.
He stepped through the portals of
Judge Mundy' s office, and a minute or
two afterward, both disappeared.
The Washington times., 1912-07-16
Realty Transfers

X street southeast between X and l. streets
James T. Kenyon ct ux. to Joseph and Vim
cenza Merucci, lot 22, square S. Of s5l. SO.
Langdon-Arthur c. Romhill to Bessie Lee
Romhilt, lot 15. block a. so.
Trinidad-Robert F. Delany ct ux. to John
T. Simons, lot rs, block 2, $40
1861 Thirty-fift street northwest-James +.
Shea, trustee, ct al. 10 Benjamin F. and
81, 100
Petworth-Albert ]. Pyne ct ux. to Eugene
and Nellie Van Buskirk. lot q, square 81,
$40.
Ingleside-MaTy c. Tucker to John S. Tucker,
lot H. block !, $40. John 8. Tucker ct ux.
convey same property to Carl II. Smith, $40.
AnacostiA-Alfred l.. Fuss ct w, to Henry
Adlung, part lots 472. 47S, and i74, so.
Eleventh and o streets southeast-Frederick
s. Young ct al to Robert r. MahoTney, all
interest In square S. OF 1901. $40
Columbia Heights-HaTry p, Huddleson et
ux. 70 Herbert w. T. Jenner lot SO, sQuars
aS6s, $40
The Washington times., 1912-07-16
Fisherman's Institute
Opened at St. Johns

ST. JOHNS. Newfoundland. July To-
Interesting ceremonies marked the for
NAL opening of the King George In
stitute for Fishermen and Seamen,
erected under the direction Of DR.. Will
fred Grenfell, the medical missionary
Of Labrador. DR.. Grenfell attended the
ceremonies.
Messages were read from King George,
at whose touch by telegraph the foun-
dation stone was laid on coronation day,
1911: the Queen mother, Alexandra
President Taft, Colonel Roosevelt, and
the Duke of Connaught, governor gen
eral of Canada, King George In his
message said:
the means Of helping to accentuate the
very happy fraternal relations already
existing between the branches of the
lo-Saxon race on both sides OF the
Atlanaic."
The Washington times., 1912-07-16
FRANCIS EDWARD ROWE.

The funeral OF Francis Edward Rowe,
brother Of George M. Rowe, of this city,
who died at his home. In New York,
Saturday, was held this afternoon at 2
o'clock from Lees undertaking chapel.
332 Pennsylvania avenue northwest.
George Rowe was with his brother at
his death, having been called to New
York by his serious illness.
The dead man was a Mason and a
member of the Grand Army OF the Re-
public. and the funeral services were
conducted under the auspices OF these
organizations.
The body was accompanied from New
York by a wife and daughter, by the
brother, and by representatives OF the
Masons and g, A. r. The interment
took place at Arlington.
The Washington times., 1912-07-16
Trouble With Engine
May Have Caused Wreck

CORNING, N. Y, July 16-William
Schroeder, engineer of the Lackawanna
express which crashed into the rear of
the passenger train here on July 4. cost
Ing the lives of forty people. admitted
at the coroner's inquest here yesterday
that he had probably passed a block
signal set at caution and the warning
fuse placed beside the track by the flag
man.
Schroeder testified in defense Of this
that trouble with the inJectors, which
send the water into the boilers. forced
him to turn his attention momentarily
from watching for signals to the inJec-
tors, and that in this moment his train
shot past the stretch of 1000 feet In
which were said to be located both the
caution signal and the fiagman.
Schroeder admitted he had drunk gir
the night before, but denied that he was
Intoxicated.
The Washington times., 1912-07-16
ABSENT BROKERS
CAUSE DULLNESS
IN LOCAL MARKET
Transactions Are Small at
Firm Prices, With Bids
and Offerings Few.

Heat, humidity and absence of brokers
caused a dull market on the local stock
exchange. The volume of business was
reduced almost to the vanishing point.
One bond and Is shares Of stock was the
record for the day.
The bond sold was a Capital Traction
s per cent, which was bid in at 111h.
Ten shares of Railway preferred stock
sold at 95 An equal number of Norfolk
and Washington Steamboat brought 2OS.
Fifteen shares of Mergenthaler went to
the record at 221, and ten shares Of Com
mercial National Bank sold at 206.
The market was firm as to prices and
without feature.
The Washington times., 1912-07-16
Chickens Come Higher,
Rooster Costs Hundred

PHILADELPHIA, July 16.-Chickens
come high these days. as every one
will admit. but one rooster cost Philip
Downer 500 yesterday.
Mrs. Downer's alleged proclivity to
seek small change in trousers pockets
Is at the bottom of the trouble. Mr..
DoWner sought many hiding places, and
hnally decided he would tie a 800 bill
But the rooster went calling that
night, and Charles Willis, a neighbor,
captured the strange fowl. Beneath the
wing he found the 500 bill.
This he refused to yield when Mr..
DoWner discovered his loss later. Now
the high cost of hiding ones money
VIII be thrashed out In court.
The Washington times., 1912-07-16
FRANCIS McGRAW.

Francis McGraw, aged sixty-nine, for
many years a messenger in the Pension
Department, died today at Garfield Hos
pital. McGraw sustained an accident
that did not cause him very great in
convenience until about five weeks ago,
when he was forced to go into the
hospital. He was a member of the
@. A. r. Arrangements for his funeral
have not been completed.
The Washington times., 1912-07-16
ELIZA JANE EISENBISE.

Funeral services for Eliza Jane Eisen-
bise, widow OF the late Lieut.. Thaddeus
b. Eisenbise, of the Confederate army,
will take place this afternoon at the
chapel of William Lees undertaking
establishment, 1892 Pennsylvania avenue.
Mrs. Eisenbise was in her eighty-fourth
year and had been feeble for many
years. The services will be conducted
by the Rev. Z. Hez. Sven.
The Washington times., 1912-07-16
Odd Fellows to Elect
New Officers Tonight

The semi-annual session of the grand
encampment of the District lodges OF
the Independent Order OF Odd Fellows
will be held tonight at Odd Fellows
Hall, in Seventh street, for the purpose
of electing officers. w. w. MILAN,
grand patriarch for the District will
preside.
Contrary to reports that the Grand
Lodge of Odd Fellows meets today,
the local members of the order wish
the impression corrected. The Grand
Lodge does not meet here until next
January
The Washington times., 1912-07-16
Army Transport Dodges
Ice and Reaches Port

TACOMA, Wash. July 1&--After hav-
ing narrowly escaped being sent to the
bottom by the ice foes encountered In
Bering sea, the United States army
transport Sheridan has arrived here
with the Sixteenth United States Infan-
try Regiment. and the men told of their
thrilling experiences.
For seventeen days OF st. Lawrence
Island en- route to Nome. the Sheridan
lay ice bound, making only ninety miles
in this time.
The enlisted men suffered from cold, and
two died of pneumonia en- route. The
officers of the Sixteenth Regiment gave
Captain Healey loving cup.
The Washington times., 1912-07-16
CLYDE HODGE.

From the home OF his grief stricken
parents at 1924 e street southeast, the
funeral services for Clyde Hodge, the
f1fteen-year-old youth who was drowned
In the Potomac Sunday, were held :his
morning at 10 o'clock. Next door lives
Henry A. Melcher, his companion Of
last Sunday. who fought so valiantly to
gave him from death. After the simple
funeral services, the burial took place
in Congressional Cemetery.
The Washington times., 1912-07-16
CAPT. THOMAS GRIFFITH.

Funeral services for Capt. Thomas
Griffith, a former Confederate soldier,
who had been a resident Of Montgomery
county all his life, will be held this af-
ternoon at o'clock from st. Joseph's
Episcopal Church, Olney, Md. The serv-
ate veterans and other friends of the
dead man.
The Washington times., 1912-07-16
MARY !. BIRCH.

age sixty years. wife of Charles d.
Birch, who died Sunday at Georgetown
University Hospital, will be held from
the chapel of Frank Geier's Sons, lll3
Seventh street northwest, tomorrow
morning at IL o'clock. The interment
will be at Glenwood Cemetery.
The Washington times., 1912-07-16
CARRINGTON CALDER.

Darlington Calder, who died at
Emergency Hospital yesterday after
noon with lockjaw as a result Of a fail
from a telephone pole July 6, will be
be said at st. Dominic's Church at 8
o'clock, and the interment will follow
at Mt. Olivet. He is survived by his
wife WIN lives at 4SS 1 street south
west.
The Washington times., 1912-07-16
Sales Today on
Local Exchange

Capital Traction SIS, $1,O0OQll1h.
WASHINGTON Railway and Electric
pfd., l0@95.
N. & w. Steamboat, 10a20S.
Mergenthaler. l0@22l, 5@2l.
Commercial National Bank, 10a206.
The Washington times., 1912-07-16
Outing by J. o. U. A. M.

More than 400 persons are expected 70
attend the annual outing of Francis
Scott Key Council. No. o., Junior Order
United American Mechanics. at Mar
shall Hall this afternoon and evening.
on an early morning boat 100 made the
boats.
The Washington times., 1912-07-16
Royal Society Meets.

LONDON, July 16.-The celebration OF
the 25Oth anniversary of the founding
OF the Royal Society, for which prep
aratipns have been going forward fol-
more than year, WAS formally OPEN
ciuded representatives of leading uni.
versities. scientific bodies and learned
societies in many parts OF the world,
The exercises OF the celebration Will
continue three days.
The Washington times., 1912-07-16
New York Curb Market.

Furnished TO The Washington Times BY
Hartman & Co., New York; G. 3. Chapman
manager local branch, Colorado Building.
The Washington times., 1912-07-16
New York Cotton Market.

Furnished to The Washington Times By A.
@. Plant & Co.. 14lb @ street northwest.
The Washington times., 1912-07-16
TABLE BOARD

sTH ST. l0lb-cosher home cooking; meals
u and o'clock: business mems lunch. l..
The Washington times., 1912-07-16
CIVIL SERVICE

SPECIAL CIVIL SERVICE courses for those
desirovs Of entering Government Service
Shorthand, Typewriting. Bookkeeping. Enr-
lish anc Penmanship taught by experts. spe-
cial coaching for backward students. Day
and night school all summer. Free catalogue
elias privately. Prospectus.
STRAYERS BUSINESS COLLEGR
Ninth and r 0ts.
The Washington times., 1912-07-16

TWO AT ONCE
To prepare them for good positions Apply
at once,
NATIONAL AUTO COLLEGE.
9th and o sts. N. W. Open till .. m
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1912-01-25
PRES. PIERCE At
!. THE HIGH SCHOOL
Head Of Kenton College
Makes Interesting
Address.

William i. Pierce, president of
Kenyon college, which Is situated at
Gambler, Ohio, talked to the high
school pupils for about a half hour
Thursday morning.
Mr.. Pierce addressed the young peo-
pie on the value of education. Tht
advantage which ony "A high schoo
education offers 10 young men and
women was spoken Of by Mr.. Pierce
both from a financial and cultured
standpoint, and he dwelt particularly
on the fact, that II a high school edu.
cation is so great penefit to young
people, how great accordingly. must
be the benefit Of college education
His talk was principally to boys. and
about boys colleges, Of which Kenyon
Is one. SO many boys leave school
before they enter the high school, or
soon after their entrance, before theS
have the chance TO realize the oppor-
tunity presented for a better prepare.
ton for life. Mr.. Pierce spoke OF the
college at Kenyon, describing its
course Of study, and the advantages
which II offers.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1912-01-25
0. S. League Salary
Agreement Stiff One

The man who can violate 1912
salary agreement in the Ohio state
league and get away with it, should
lc unanimously elected past grand
master and Chief Noise" The new
documents carries on its back an affi-
davit form that makes a wedding vow
look like a circus agents promise, so
binding is It, And the best part OF
it all is that the affidavit must be
filled out to the letter and sworn to
with an oath that could not be broken
with an axe.
The new contract certainly does not
lease a loophole for a magnate or
player to deviate, from the straight
and narrow path, as far as 'compen-
SETON is concerned. Here's a portion
Of It:
"John Doe. a ball player, being duly
sworn, deposes and says that the full
and entire amount of compensation or
remuneration, including salary, gift
or anything by whatever name, that he
receives directly from said baseball
club, does not exceed So. month
the amount shown on the face of this
Jack Smith, the undersigned club
president, makes oath that he will
not, nor will his association corpora
tion, agent or servant. compensate or
pay said ball player for any other SER
vices rendered to said baseball club,
or to any person, or persons, firm or
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1912-01-25
Froc TnrhlnIle Notlce.

Notice Is hereby given that a pctf-
ton VIII be presented TO the board W
commissioners Jrof Marion county,
Ohio,o at their special session TO be
held Monday, February 12th, 1912, lat
one O'clock p.,m. asking 'rthat said
board appoint road commissioners to
lay out and establish a free turnpike
road lying and being fully within said
county, beginning at the Martel pike
on the section line between sections
16 and 21, Tully township, Marion
county, Ohio; thence west on the sec
tion line between 16 and 81 and be-
tween sections II and 20 and between
sections IS and 10 of said FULLY town
ship, following the road as now trav.
eled, crossing west on the section line
between sections 13 and "a, Scott
township, following the road as now
Travelled and terminating at the Gale
donia pike, distance of about Ia
miles
Said petitioners also pray that said
board OF commissioners of Marion
county, Ohio, levy an extra tax, the
amount of which shall not exceed ten
(10) mills on the dollar valuation In
any one year on all lands and taxable
property within the bounds OF said
proposed free turnpike, and said levy
continuing for a period of ten years
,if the costs and expense be not soon
or paid.
II. o. Winch and other. Petition
ers l-4-11-1S-25