The Washington herald., 1914-02-10

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ne csnventisns connaiftee Of the
Chamber Of Commerce will meet Thurs
day 1t noon
4 ne, ChenicaI ssciety Of wsshingten
win meet in he assembly hall of the
Cosmos Club. Thursday night at 9
O'Clock.
Il TIE Grasl Arny % the Republic and
Womans Relief Corps of this Department
elected oficers In g. A. r. Hall this even
ing.
Senator jones, 81 wsshingto., will
be the principal speaker at the mass
/ meeting in the interest Of local prohibi-
ton At the Calvary Baptist Church. Feb
ruary ..
wlIlan II. Bell, ore of the two sur
vivors Of the Greely polar expedition
Of 1882, died yesterday. Mr.. Bell was
sixty-nve years old. and native Of
Washington.
The Meas League Of the shrine Of
the Sacred Heart i'ans to erect me-
mortal to the late Rev. Joseph F. MCGEE.
4 former pastor Of that church and founder
OF the society.
CoeneIius Ford, the Public Printer,
| who is at Georgetown University Hos
pital suffering from a. slight attack Of
/ typhoid fever. was reported last night
as greatly improved.
/ Frederick 8. Tyler has asked that
his name be withdrawn from recommen-
dation as municipal Judge OF the District
and Attorney General McReynolds has
compiled with the request
Mrs. Sarah A. v. Main, who died at
her residence. 1917 Seventeenth street,
Sunday, vii be buried I'm Middietown,
Md. tomorrow. following services at the
residence tonight at 7:;o o'clock.
Eugene r. Minor, jr., eolored, known
as the blind musician has sifinified
| his intention of embarking for the third
| time on the matrimonial sea by applying
to Clerk Kroil for license to marry
Florence n. Payne.
CharIes NJ. Merrill. who died at his
home, $50 Rhode Island avenue north
west, Sunday. will be buried in Glen
wood Cemetery. following services at his
late residence this afternoon at o'clock.
Hannis Taylor will snesk ON the
Court of Spain" at the Entertainment
to be given under auspices OF the Holy
Name Society in the hall Of st. Mat
thew's Church. Rhode Island avenue,
Thursday night at sNo'clock.
Carl Sharps. colored, sixteen years
old, was arrested by Policeman Nedds.
Of the Ninth precinct, yesterday on
charge-of looting five vacant houses In
Northeast Washington. Nedds found
the youth trying to dispose Of some
lead piping and brass fixtures.
EMIL seidel. former mayor of Mil
waukee. will speak on Peoples Rule
versus Trust Rule Thursday evening at
Arion Hall. i0os E street northwest. He
will speak in both English and German.
The meeting is under auspices of the
German Branch OF the Socialist Party Of
the District.
Mrs. John SummerneId Bull. mother
in-law of DIR. Walter Van Sweringen, Is
dangerously i'll in the doctors home at
1722 s street northwest. An operation was
performed several days ago by DR.. Nit
chelL Mrs. Van Sweringen said last night
that her mothers condition was serious
in the extreme
Representative John }. Esch, of Wis
consin, tonight, at Ingram Memorial
Church, will deliver lecture on The
Trial of Jesus from a Lawyers Stand
point" The lecture will be the sixth
number in the lyceumN course given by
the church.
faIr -fu
ture at the New Ebbitt today at 1o:45
a. m. and 4:45 p. m. on The Coming
Order" Mrs. Lucy Re-Bartlett, whose |
book will be considered, is a member |
of the Sociological Society Of Italy and |
one of the most distinguished Euro |
pean writers on the woman movement. |
william Belts, twenty years old. of |
$50 street northeast, was sent to |
Washington Asylum Hospital yester-
day on a charge of insanity. This ac-
lion was taken by the police after |
Betts is said to have stopped a num- |
ber of street cars at Eighth street and |
Pennsylvania avenue southeast and eX- |
amined their wheels.
Minor Merriweather was arrested |
yesterday on a charge of grand larceny. |
A roommate complained, it is said, that |
ne disposed OI ScNtTdi OI CiOtneS
belonging to him. Representative |
whaley, Of South Carolina, became in |
terested in Merriweather's case, and |
the young man was released on $1,000
bond. Attorney Robert Miller has been
engaged to represent Merriweather.
Howard and Norman Oliver, the two /
little boys whose father attempted to /
asphyxiate them several days ago at |
a rooming- house in First street north |
west, leave for Portsmouth. Ohio, to-
day with their grandfather. Hugo L.
weichmann. Their mother is anxious
ly awaiting their arrival Yesterday
the two boys appeared before the grand /
jury and told how their father. David /
N Oliver, attempted to kill them.
Richard AHutt, eolered, nineteen
years old, OF 201s Ninth street north
west; LIE Roy Fennell sixteen years
old, colored. Of 2512 Georgia avenue
northwest, and Benjamin A. Murray,
nineteen years old. also colored, of 1853 |
Morton street northwest. were arrested
by Sergt T. r. Bean and Privates Fred
Antonelli, d. ]. Cullinane. and william
Gilfoyle Of the Eighth, precinct, yes
terday. charged with having turned In