The Washington herald., 1914-01-01
TOWN TOPICS.
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i i ERSELY TOLD
Arthur F. Goode. of AS p street, an6
idiss Mary Z. Kleh. both Of this city
VINO eioped Tuesday. and were married
IN -Eikton, Nd. have returned to Wash
inston, and Will occupy an apartment IN
Dupont circle. The marriage was a
s'ea. surprise to the families of botn,
and TO their friends.
At recent meeting in Philadeiphia,
OF the Jewish Chautauqua Assembly.
simon Wolf urged that q federation OF
an Hebrew cultural organizations be
FORMED to check the spread Of race
prejudice in this country.
Funeral services for George w. Clark,
who died Monday night. were held at
his residence. 1f5 E street southeast,
yesterday afternoon. Rev. Walter Daily,
Of the Holy Comforter Church. oficiat-
ing. lnterment was in Congressional
Cemetery.
The Public Utilities Commission has
decided to withhold its decision as to
whether or not that body has jurisdic-
ton over the local taxicab companies
until some time during the next year.
An illustrated lecture on the Yellow
stone National Park will be delivered
tomorrow night at the All Souls Episco-
pal Church at o'clock.
William Cherry. accused OF assaultius
George Alexander with a knife, was
bound over to the grand jury yesterday
by Judge Pugh. His bond was fxed it
500.
Emma Martin was sentenced to sixty
days In jail yesterday for larceny Of
an overcoat. She was serving q term
OF thirty days at occoquan when ar
rested for the theft.
Secretary Bryan will leave Washing
ton tonight to fill a series OF speaking
engagements in the Middle West. He
will speak in Kansas City, Topeka, Ln-
coin. Chicago. and Toledo. He expects
to return to Washington on January L.
Mrs. Elizabeth Carson Kendig, ninety
eight years old. who had often expressed
the wish TO round out a full century of
life. died Tuesday night in Phelps. n. Y.
She lived here during Grants administra-
tion. at which time her husband was
disbursing officer of the Interior De-
partment.
Mrs Bessie NJ. Fonts, Of l32o \ street
southeast, who ives seen yesterday
walking along the railroad trestle in
New Jersey a"enue southwest, carrying
her three-year-old child In her arms, has
been sent to the Washington Asylum
Hospital for observation.
The secret Investigations conducted by
District Commissioner Siddons into the
conditions that resulted in five firemen
being for some time in the debris OF the
American Five and Ten Cent store. De-
cember a. will be resumed in the Com
missioner's ONCE behind locked doors.
Henry Bates will be arraigned i'm Police
ferred by Walter W. Lemat and c. Ed
gar Davis TO the effect that he borrowed
- from the former and 8 from the latter
on false pretenses. having told them. IL
Is said, stories of having been offered a
position up North" and going to South
America, respectively.
Having recently pleaded guilty to the
charge OF embezzlement in the District
Supreme Court. NJ. T. Clinkscales was
refused permission by Judge Pugh to
practice law in the United States branch
Of the Police Court, when he appeared
yesterday for Robert Bradley. charged
with destroying property. The case was
turned over 10 Attorney John E. Collins
and Bradley was found guilty and fined 3.
An honest thief was recorded in the
local police annals yesterday. though his
name is not. and probably never will be.
known to the authorities. With yester-
days morning mail. Chief of Detectives
Boardman received a large pasteboard
box containing two valuable bracelets.
Upon a little slip of paper were written
he words. please give these bracelets
10 Mrs NJ. J. Colbert, 1900 r street" Mrs.
Colbert reported the theft to the police
on November "a. last.
The police o. the Fourth precinct are
10 locate and arrest the man
who late Tuesday night stabbed William
Thompson, twenty-three years old. of e23
Third street southwest, while Thompson
was investigating what he thought to be |
scene in a house at Third and B streets |
southwest. Thompson was stabbed in the |
hest. He is recovering at the Causalty |
Hospital.
Christopher Boucher. seventy-three |
ears old. q retired boatbuiIder. who In |
ft OF despondency late Tuesday night, |
attempted suicide by inha,ing gas in his |
DOM at sos h street southeast. Is in a |
erious condition at the Casualty Hos
,ital. Grief over the recent death of his |
on is believed to have caused his de-
pondency.
Alleging misconduct. Thomas Sesso yes
erday filed suit for absolute divorce from
ethel Sesso. They were married at Alex /
,ndris March 10. 1911. and have no chill
iren.
Creditors of Max Janof. who conducts i
jewelry establishment at s04 E street
northwest, yesterday filed a petition to
rave him declared an involuntary bank
upt They allege insolvency and declare
Tanof has admitted in writing his in
Ibility to pay his debts. Justice Stafford
ited Janof to show cause January . why
le should not be adjudged bankrupt.
Theodore Johnson and Isaiah Mills yes
erday filed suit against John Gill & Sons,
now erecting the new city
,ostofice building near Union Station.
ach claiming $4,000 damages, alleging
hat they were injured by the falling of
scaffold at the new building November
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