The Washington herald., 1914-04-08

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4. The nenser.hIp eenmittee Of the
Board Of Trade VIII meet this afternoon
lat 1 o'clock.
Frank Dixon win lecture on aThe
Man and the Mass. or the Menace of
Socialism" at the University Club on
Saturday evening.
The eommfttee on printing, q sub
committee Of the shad bake COMMITTEES
of the Board OF Trade. win meet Fri
day afternoon at 4:iS o'clock.
Thomas Robinson, of z2oe GeorEfa
lavenue northwest. told the police yester-
day six chickens were stolen from his
back yard Monday night
The Home Rule Committee will hsld
a meeting In the red parior Of the Eb-
bitt this evening at s o'clock. Action
will pc taken on several Important ques-
tong
Mrs. Emma Thompson, seventy
seven years old. was reported to the
Ipolice of the Fifth precinct yesterday
as missing from her home, se2 q
Istreet southeast.
Morris Reynold, thirty-three years
old, a salesman. OF 500 Sixth street
Hospital last night. suffering from gas
poisoning.
Claude N. Bennett VIII give an Illus
ltrated lecture on the Panama Canal be-
fore the Connecticut Avenue Citizens
Association at its monthly meeting to-
night in the ASSEMBLY hall Of the Army
and Navy Preparatory School.
John Green, eolored, sixty years old,
of 11s ID street southeast. while painting
| the roof OF a porch at 1000 Georgia
avenue northwest yesterday morning
slipped and fell to the ground. receiving
a fracture to the left leg. He was re-
moved to Freedmen's Hospital
| Henry Dubb, 400 C street southeast,
reported to the police yesterday an at
tempt was made Monday night to enter
his home. the would-be intruder cutting
i several stats from the blind Of O rear
window. The burglar was frightened
away.
| Funeral services Will be held this
morning for William J. Leahy, who died
1 Monday at the home of his uncle, John
Leahy. l319 F street northeast Mr..
Leahy was twenty-one years old and a
| graduate of Business High School In
termenr is to be in Glenwood Cemetery.
Mrs. Leta Lombard. of ConEres.
Heights, was notified yesterday that she
has been left $1,000 by the will OF a
4 uafA
of New York. whom she had not seen
for thirty years. The entire estate was
valued at $1,000.
| Crossing Polieemsn w. R. AIIsban,
| fifty-seven years old. 2I24 Fairmont
| street northeast. was stricken with acute
indigestion yesterday morning while on
| duty at Seventh and @ streets north
| west, and was removed In an ambulance
to Emergency Hospital His condition Is
not serious.
| Mrs. Mary Ellen Fowler, aged sew
enty, for fifty years a resident OF
Washington. who died at her home,
210 p street northwest, on Monday.
Cemetery. The funeral services will
be held at her late home, in p street.
The board of directors of the Board
Of Trade at a recent meeting elected the
| following new members: w. N. Roach.
| jr., william F. March. Charles A. Cot
teriIl. Joseph F. Klein, George A. Myers.
1 o. B. Zantzinger. William B. Todd. NAL
colin A. Macdonald. Robert A. Cissel.
Peter n. Dorsch. and George L. Bun
nell.
| III. Martin williams Will answer the
question, rs Poverty q Devine Institu-
toni" at a meeting Of the Woman's
Single Tax Club in the Public Library
next Monday evening. w. l. Swanton
will show his collection OF charts on the
tax question. Louis F. Post. Assistant
Secretary of Labor, will preside.
Mrs. Antoinerte Funk, Of the Con-
| gressional committee, of the National
| woman's Suffrage Association, will speak
on suffrage tomorrow evening In the ball
room at tho Cairo, under the auspices Of
| the District of Columbia Woman's Suf-
frage Association. The District organi-
zation is the oldest Of the kind in the
country.
| Moasignor shahan, rector of Cath
| olic University, announces that COM
petitive examinations for the fifty
scholarships donated to the university
by the Knights of Columbus will be
1 nel0 IN nearly every state IN tnG
Union in the spring of each year.
Only students who have graduate de-
grees are eligible to take the examina-
| tions- 49,
| Funeral services will be held this
afternoon for Joseph o. Harrison, who
died Sunday at his home, 12o5 Girard
| street northwest. Rev. Lucius Clarke.
/ of Hamline NJ. E. Church, will conduct
| the services. which viii be followed by
| interment in Glenwood Cemetery. A
wife. mother. son. and four daughters
survive Mr.. Harrison, whose death was
caused by heart disease.
DIR. Ernest Elster, professor Of mod
ern German and literature at the Uni
versity of Marburg and exchange pro-
fessor at Cornell University, lectured
last night on the problem of "Parsi-
fall Wagner's famous opera, at the
| National Museum. The lecture was
under the auspices OF the Germsnistic
Society.
Il Rheta Childe Dorr and Representa-.
tive Bryan, of Washington. will speak on
the immigration bill at the Public L.
brary tonight Mrs Dorr will consider
the provisions Of the bill that have been
4 the militants from the United States
Il interpreted to mean the exclusion from
the United States of the militant suf-
Il fragists of England. Representative
Il Bryan will discuss the political aspects