The Washington herald., 1913-12-23
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Church at Laurel tomorrow afternoon ar
3 o'clock. Bishop Harding, of Washing
/ ton, assisted by Rev. William Tayloe
Snyder, will officiate. Burial viii be in
Laurel
A thrilling story of capture by the
rebel bands of Mexico. and of many
hardships suffered during enforced
marches with them, vas told by John L
McCreary, of Ohio, who arrived in this
city yesterday, While in charge Of a
gang of poems he was captured by rebels
and taken a 175-mile tramp across the
lot desert. He was finally released and
secured passage on an oil steamer to
Baltimore.
Many candidates were confirmed by
Bishop Harding in st. Marks Church on
Sunday. Rev. c. R Stetson, who had
prepared the candidates, assisted in the
| services.
Hugh Langley, arrested Saturday on a
charge of obtaining alcohol by making
| false statement regarding the use to
which it was to be put, was sentenced
yesterday to thirty days in Jail by Judge
Mullowny.
The following officers have been elected
by the Association OF Glass Presidents
of George Washington University:
Jerome Z. Quirk, medical, '16, president;
John D. Mccormick, engineering, "A,
vice president; Walter E. Paul, Column
bian College, '16, secretary. and George
A. Degenhardt, engineering, 10, treas
urer.
The Womans Interdenominational
Union has arranged for a series Of union
prayer meetings to be held at the
Church of the Epiphany. beginning Janu-
ary 5. DR.. r. H. McKim will conduct
the services the first day.
Holiday festivities at the Neighborhood
House will begin tonight, when the
children will present their parents with
Christmas gifts, which they have been
making for several weeks. An enter
tainment viii be given Friday for the
boys and girls, and open house will be
observed all next week.
X. Shidshara, for many years councillor
of the Japanese Embassy here, left Wash
ington yesterday for New York. whence
he will sail tomorrow for London, to be-
come councillor Of the embassy there.
Associate Justice Lurton, of the Su-
preme Court of the United States, who
has so far recovered from his recent
attack Of bronchial asthma as to be able
to take a daily drive, announces that he
expects to be present at the January
sessions Of the court.
Funeral services for Mrs. Elizabeth
GoebeI, who has been a resident of this
city since 1861. will be held today at 3
o'clock at the home of her son-in-law,
Charles Dietz, 243 Florida avenue north
west. Burial will be in Prospect Hill
Cemetery.
Detective Patrick O'Brien returned to
Washington yesterday from Reistertown,
Nd, where he went to look at a negro
held on suspicion Of being Nelson Long.
alleged murderer of Mrs. Nellie Williams,
a colored servant, who was shot while
in the kitchen OF the home OF Capt. John
H. Knapp, U. S. N, 1916 Twenty-second
street northwest, on the night of October
8. The suspect was not Long and was
released.
L. P Kelliver, of 1016 Tenth street
northwest, reported to the police yester-
day the theft of SIS in bills from a
bureau drawer in his home.
Seven chickens. valued at $ST5, were
stolen from the hen house of Michael
Raedy, of 1O1S Florida avenue northeast,
sometime early yesterday morning.
Charged with breaking into a freight
car in the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
yards and stealing a quantity Of corn,
hay. and oats, James Peoples and Milton
Butler, both colored, were held for the
action of the grand jury yesterday by
Judge Pugh in Police Court. Peoples and
Butler were arrested Saturday night by
Policeman J. G. Walsh.
George L. Grimes forfeited $40 collateral
in the Police Court yesterday when he
failed to show up for trial on a charge
of speeding a motorcycle Sunday night
on the Avenue of the Presidents.
H. owen Thompson, jr., seventeen
years old, who left home Saturday aft
ernoon after a quarrel with his father
it is said, returned yesterday. He said
he went to Richmond and spent Satur-
day night with a friend. neglecting to
notify his parents he had left the city.
The police department conducted a
search for him. Thompson is a West
ern High School pupil and lives at 3OOs
Dent place northwest.
Detectives of Roanoke. Va, have pick
ed up a negro answering the descrip-
ton of John Winston, wanted here for
the murder of John Davis, also colored,
on the night of May "a. Detective
Frank Cornwell left for Roanoke last
night to see il the negro held there is
the one wanted here.
The alumni association OF Eastern
High School will hold its reunion this
afternoon after the presentation of the
annual Christmas play. IAN Xmas
Box" The renewal of old acquaintances
and dancing will take up a good part
of the afternon.
Isaac Benham, sixty-nine years old
for more than forty years superinten-
dent at the Washington Navy Yard, and
one of the few survivors of the battle
between the Merrimac and the Monitor
died Sunday at his residence, 4SS Tenth
street northwest, Of heart trouble.
Yesterday and Sunday were the two
shortest days of the year. The sun arose
yesterday at 7:1S a. m. and set at 4:31 D.
m. Sunday was the shorter day by a
few seconds.
The fund which is being raised by a |
committee of citizens to pay of the in
debtedness on the home of Mrs. Grace
l. Crawford, whose hunsband, Howard,
navy paymaster's clerk, disappeared
mysteriously a year ago, reached the