The Washington herald., 1913-12-28
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Margaret Winkelman. six years old. Is
in a precarious condition at her home,
S7 Fifth street, suffering from injuries
sustained when a delivery wagon knocked
her down at Fifth street and Virginia
avenue southeast. late yesterday after
noon. one wheel passing over her body.
The child was roller skating. 1t is ex-
pected she will recover.
81 wuz jes walking along the street
and my thoughts were engaged in deep
study, judge, said Haywood Smith. col
ored. answering to the charge Of at
tempting to snatch a pocketbook from
Miss Ethel u. Dykes. of $500 Ninth street
northeast, Friday morning. Smith said
he collided with Miss Dykes, who made
an outery. resulting in Smiths arrest.
The police ara searching for witnesses.
and the case was continued until Tues
day.
The Washington police have been
asked by the authorities of Baltimore TO
locate relatives of George Williams, OF
that city. whose body was found floating
in the Baltimore Harbor Friday. The
drowning are being investigated.
The case of William McNeal, colored.
charged with having shot Mildred Gas
kins, colored, through the hand, early
yesterday morning, and with attempting
to shoot another woman, was referred
to the grand jury by Judge Pugh in the
Police Court yesterday. Bond was fixed
at $500.
Nearly recovered from the injuries he
sustained while fighting the flames In
the American 5 and 10-cent store IN
Seventh street early wednesday morning
Fireman Frank Hellmuth probably Will be
able to leavs the hospital tomorrow.
Accidentally touching a live wire while
working N an alley near Fifteenth and
I streets northwest yesterday morning.
John H, Webb, an electrician, of Mount
Rainier, Nd, sustained bad burns on his
hands. He was taken to Emergency
Hospital.
More praise Of the members of the fire
and police departments for their work
at the fire at the American and 10-cent
Store, was voiced yesterday by the S.
Kann Sons & Co.. department store, in
The Sabbath school children of Alliance
House will give a chanukah entertain
ment this afternoon at $50 O'Clock, at
Jonadab Hall. Four-and-a-half and G
street southwest
The District Public Library will be
closed today.
The first lecture of the Spanish-Ameri-
can Atheneum for the season 1914 will
be given Tuesday night at the Public
Library. Francisco ]. Yanes, assistant
director of the Pan-American Union and
president cf the Atheneum. will speak
on "A Glance at Latin-American Civili-
Zation."
Miss Marie Tettoni, attractive daughter
of a wealthy Italian fruit importer of
Philadelphia, has come to Washington to
qualify for the army nurse corps. She
has applied for naturalization papers and
will have to wait two years for her
finals.
Charles Moudley, sixteen years old, |
walked into the Emergency Hospital
from Eighteenth street and Kalorama |
road yesterday afternoon and told the |
He suffered a bruised knee. |
The police are looking for the driver of |
the machine.
Plans have been prepared by Appleton
". Clark. jr.. architect, for a four-story |
building designed for store purposes 10
be built at 121O F street northwest. on
property owned by Mrs. Mary Johnston.
A two-story structure which now occupies
the lot is to be ra=ed.
Knocked down from his motorcycle by
a taxicab in Massachusetts, avenue near
the West End Union Station. William
Pecker. nineteen years old, OF 625 Q street
northwest, sustained a compound fracture
of the left leg and minor cuts and bruises
on the face and body. He was taken to
Hospital and will recover.
Stating that he had been assaulted by
his son. Frank. Thomas Donahue, sixty
four years Of age, of 6l6 D street north
west, walked into the Emergency Hos
pital yesterday afternoon with a lacerated
wound in his left temple. He was treated
by DR.. Lewis and later taken home.
Frank J. Sobotka, for many years secre-
tary of the Austrian Embassy here, left
for Florida. having been grant,
1
months.
Alleging that she sustained serious in
iuries by a fall from a train, Martha E.
Adkins yesterday brought suit for SIS, 900
damages against the Chesapeake Beach
Railway. She is represented by Attorneys
Leckie, Cox & Kratz.
Col. Burton r. Ross, who died Friday,
will be buried tomorrow afternoon in
National Cemetery. Services
will be held at 2 o'clock at the house,
003 H street northwest, under the direc-
ion Of Lafayette Lodge, No. 10, F. A.
/. NJ. The Grand Chapter Of Royal Arch
dasons will attend the funeral.
Suit to recover 500 damages from the
Theater Company and Wal
er S. Stutz was filed yesterday by ].
frank Vail, who says that he was un-
awfully elected from a theater October
9 last. Attorney NJ. ]. Colbert appears
or the plaintiff.