The Washington herald., 1914-01-03
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The Washington Railway and Electric
Company was yesterday named defend
ant I'm q suit filed by Cecilia A. Nc
LQuigg for $4,000 damages. Plaintiff al
leges that q car was suddenly put in mo-
ton at First and East Capitol streets,
August IS last, while she was on the
rear platform and before she could get
seat. She was thrown suddenly and
| violently backward. sustaining serious
and permanent injuries. she says.
Norris Silverman, administrator. >yester-
day aled suit for $4,000 damages against
the Washington Brewery Company, al
iesing that on September Is last brew
Isadore Silverman. plaintiffs son. in Van
street southwest. resulting in his death
The furniture section of the Retail
Merchants Association will meet this
morning at IL o'clock In the offices of
the association. j. Phillip Hermann.
chairman. will preside.
Joseph p. Tumulty. secretary to the
President. left yesterday for New Jer-
sey to attend a private business meeting
and will not return until Monday. As
sistant secretary Forster will attend to
his duties at the White House.
Many gifts Of money, clothing. food
and other needful presents have been
donated to the Bruen Home during the
holiday season.
number of cases, growing out of the
withdrawal of the free store-door deliv-
cry Of freight in Washington, probably
| will be heard before the Interstate Com
| merce Commission early In February. All
Of these cases have been consolidated
| and will be considered as one case for
the purpose of hearing and a decision.
| Commissioner Newman will welcome
| the delegates of the International Cue
tom Cutters Association, which Is to
hold a convention At the New Willard
Hotel. February to inclusive. The
convention viii open with a reception and
ball the evening Of February ,.
THE Story of the Life Of Christ" will
be the subject of a series of lectures to
be given every evening OF this week by
Nine. Mountford at Grace Methodist
Episcopal Church. and Ninth streets
northwest, beginning tonight at 7:45
| O'Clock.
At the next meeting of the Society for
! Philosophical Inquiry, TO be held In the
west study room of the Public Library
this afternoon at As o'clock, Edward
S. Steele will read a paper on Berg
soE's Introduction to Metaphysics" All
persons interested in philosophy are in
vited.
Rev. E. s. II. Cans will preach at the
United Christian Church. - Third street
northwest. tomorrow morning at 1875
o'clock. his subject to be, Am i My
Brothers Keeper
Tonight the Maine Association will hold
| its regular monthly meeting at So Sixth
street northwest. Rev. Wilbur F. Crafts
| will talk on the international Opium
Conference at The Hague, and Miss
Constance d. Leupp will tell of the ef-
| forts OF the Consumers League to get
an eight-hour Law for women in the Dis
! trict.
A two-weells-old infant boy was found
| abandoned yesterday afternoon in the
vestibule OF $40 First street north
| west. w. II. Horseman. who lives at
this address, turned the baby over TO
the Sixth police precinct. The mother Of
the child is being sought. The baby is
being cared for at the Founding Hos
pital.
While attempting to enter a street car
at Fifteenth and G. streets northwest
yesterday afternoon, Thomas r. Senior
seventy years old. was jostled of the
steps by a crowd and in falling had his
head cut. He was taken to Emergency
Hospital.
Fire caused by an overheated stove
last evening did 1900 damage at 315 and
81 Linworth place southwest. occupied,
respectively, by Joseph Nightengale and
Karl Cussler.
L William Stevens. colored, was unable
to explain to Judge James L. Pugh, in
the Police Court yesterday, how a quart
bottle of milk got from a doorstep into
his pocket, so he was sent to jail for
sixty days.
A lap robe made of baby leopard |
skins and valued at 800 was reported to |
stolen from the automobile of Mrs. Julia |
s. Custer, OF 2e1l I street northwest, |
while her machine was at Thirty-first |
and streets northwest.
George ID. Lafas. $50 Pennsylvania ave-
nue. northwest, and Bert II. Brockway, |
of 7ol Third street northwest pleaded |
guilty in the Police Court yesterday to
serving oleomargarine for butter in their
restaurants. Each was fined SO by Judge |
James L. Pugh.
The coroner's jury that yesterday In
vestigated the death Of Martha Arm
strong, colored, held Harrison Armstrong, /
her husband. for the action of the grand /
jury Armstrong shot her twice We'd
nesday evening, one bullet entering the
head. Tne shooting occurred at Az Neal
place northwest.
George K. Weaver, a fireman OF Engine /
Company, No. =. yesterday was put under
$500 peace bond by Judge James L.
Pugh in the Police Court. Mrs. Mary
E. Wilson, his mother-in-iaw, OF sOsI
Keifer street northwest, complained he
had threatened to take her life.
The Washington police have been asked
to locate relatives in this city of Patrick
Coffey, horseshoer, who died suddenly
in FL Paso. Tex. yesterday. Jack Larkin,
of FL Paso. wired the police last night
that Coffey is said to have a brother
here on the police force, but a search
of the roll found no such relative.