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The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1915-04-17
Changes in Personnel.

The following changes In tho person.
mel Of the Interior Department have
been approved by Secretary Lane:
probationary appointments - General
Land Office. Miss Elizabeth Bickelman,
copyist. $40.
Geological Survey-Miss Nav c. Noel.
stenosrapher and typewriter, g, p. d. W.
a e.
Transfers within the department-Pat-
ent Office; John w. F. Bell. messenger
boy. $40. from Pension OGce.
Reclamation Service-Rogei! M. Adams
junior engineer, 1890. from Geological
Survey.
Transfers to other observation-disclosures.
al Land Office. Joseph Dams, topograph.
ical craftsman, 81. 400. to the Phiiippin.
Service, War Department
Pension Office-Frank E. Potts. clerk
81, 800 to Treasury Department.
Resigna Land O6ice II.
NJ. Flocker. special agent. N,SO0; Leo j
Foley, timber cruiser. 8. 800.
Pension Ohice-Elias Shafer, copvist
$500; Irwin B. Altman. messenger bow
$500.
Patent onice-Frank A. Bower, exam.
iner $500; Henry Weber. messenger
boy. $40.
Geological survey-william E. WASH
ington, laborer, SIS. p. m.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1915-04-17
OLD man DENIES
KISSING WIDOW
John S. Kinney Says Mrs. Me-
Nabb Took Initiative
in Wooing.
TESTIMONY IS ALL IN
TESTIMONY IS ALL Il
Breach of Promise Case for $500. 900
Will Go to the Jury
Monday.

Taking of testimony in Mrs. Ida NJ.
McNabb's breach of promise suit for
$500, 900 damages against John S. Kim
ney. IS years old, reputed millionaire
mine owner Of Michigan, was COM
pleted yesterday in the District Su-
preme Court and the case will go to
jury Monday after each side has de-
voted two hours to argument.
The last witness examined was j..
c. McMillen. whose name attorneys for
Mr.. Kinney have attempted to link
with the name of Mrs. McNabb in a
way to reflect on her character. Nc
Millen fatty denied previous testi-
mony that he had been sitting in a
room in which Mrs. McNabb was seen
in union suit and silk hose.
Before McMillen took the stand, the
aged defendant, Kinney, gave testi-
mony in his own defense and starred
as the most interesting witness of
the whole trial. Kinney was inclined
to levity from the time he started
until he completed his testimony. and
even the court smiled at the sallies
OF the mine owner.
The testimony of Kinney was that
he was courted by Mrs. McNabb, that
he never caressed or kissed her. that
he contracted to marry Mrs. McNabb,
but changed his mind after talk
with his preacher. and that Mrs. Nc
Nabb patiently was trying to marry
him wholly for his wealth.
When Attorney Charles Poe. for
Mrs. McNabb. asked Kinney: Were
you dodderinS and doting old man
when you first met Mrs McNabbo"
the reputed millionaire shouted:
What" Then Attorney Poe ex-
Dldine6 that Misc arria
counsel for Kinney. had so described
Kinney in her opening address to the
jury.
Kinney turned eyes of wrath and
hurt surprise upon Miss Freebey, who
tried to hide behind a veil of bushes.
When the taking of testimony was
finished. Mrs. McNabb. who has been
In court during every hour of the
trial, broke down under the strain
and wept bitterly. Friends gathered
ana tried to console her. There has
been a marked change in Mrs. Nc
Nabbs appearance since the opening
day of the trial
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|. c. c. DROPS inquiry;
SAYS POWERS Limited
Abandonment of Telephone and Tele-
graph Probe May Indicate Con-
sentative Policy.

The announcement by the 1ntersta te
Commerce Commission yesterday that it
had discontinued its investigation into
the affairs of the telephone and tele-
graph companies is taken in many quar-
tiers as another Indication of what APP
pears to be the new policy Of cOnserva-
tism shown in several ways since the
commission permitted the eastern car
riers to make per cent increase in
freight rates in January last
The commission now admits that its
jurisdiction over telegraph and telephone
companies is limited. This seems to rep
resent a changed view from that of two
years ago, when it entered upon its drag
net investigation Into the history, finan-
cial operations. rates, rules, regulations
and practices of telephone and telegraph
companies subject to the act to regulate
commerce"
The statement issued by the commits
sion says in part:
THE preliminary work progressed in
the usual way until January. 1914, when
it was discontinued That action was
taken because the Department of JUS
tice had reopened its antitrust proceed
ing and had therein on December 19,
1913, effected a certain agreement, then
given to the press, with the American
Telephone and Telegraph Company. This
agreement accomplished much of what
was sought to be accomplished by the
commissions order of investigation. Since
then the Interstate Commerce Commits
sion has informally disposed of the in
dividual coplaints which had been re-
ceived and consolidated with the gen.
eral investigation.
Under such circumstances and be-
cause the jurisdiction of the commission
over telegraph and telephone carriers is
limited. and because it appeared certain
that to pursue the investigation would
involve the expenditure of a very large
sum Of money. with no apparent results
that would Justify the expenditures, it
has seemed advisable that the general
should not be continued.
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CHURCH WILL BE MONUMENT.
HyattsvilIe to Perpetuate Bishop
Pinkney's Memory.
The Washington Herald.

Special {" The Washington Herald.
Hyattsville. Md. April 1.-THE memory
of the late Bishop Pinkney. OF Maryla nd.
will lie perpctuated by the Episcopalans
OF this section of Maryland. among whom
the distinguished theologian lived for
ever twenty years. by the erection of d
handsome church and parish hall on the
property recently purchased by the YES
try of st. Matthew'S Church. Spencer
street and Wine avenue. This parish in
Cludcs old 81. Luke's Church. in Bladens-
burg, where Bishop Pinkney was rector
for many years; Pinkney Memorial
Church. in Spencer street, which has
just been sold to J. Frank Rushe. and
st Johns Church. at Mount Rainier.
The building of the church and parish
hall was decided upon at n meeting on
Wednesday evening at the residence of
DR. Charles A. Wells. Spencer street
former state senator from Prince George
County. 1t is hoped to hold the initial
service in the now buildings not later
than Thanksgiving Day of this year. The
buildings will cost not less than Sl2.c 900
and already about 5000 of this sum is
on hand
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1915-04-17
Suicide BY Wire Is Verdict.

Charles Fisher, 81 years old. of 1911
Potomac street northwest, committed sui
eide by putting his hands on a wire
carrying 1900 volts of electricity, ac-
cording to the verdict of a coroner 5
jury after an inquest at the District
Morgue yesterday. Fisher met his death
Thursday in a substation of the Po-
tomac Electric Power Company. Thirty
third and X streets northwest. 1t was
shown that Fisher entered a wire en-
closure. stood on a box and reached
above his head to touch the wire.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1915-04-17
WAR NURSES FLEE HORRORS.
"We've just Left H." Their De
scription of Conditions.

New York. April 15.-The horrors of
war proved too much for three attractive
young American nurses, who arrived
home from Europe today on the Cunard
liner Orduna. They were Miss Beatrice
Bowman. of Montclair. n. j.. formerly
head nurse in the United States Naval
Hospital at Norfolk, Va: Miss Henrietta
Koechlein, of West Fields, N. J., and
Miss Mabel Walsh. of Cambridge. Mass.
I'VE have just left Ill.," said one of
the young women.
All three are suffering from shattered
nerves. While abroad the young women
We're attached to the American Women's
Hospital at Paignton Devonshire.
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purely personal

| Among the delegates to the Congress
OF the d. A. r. who arrived at the
! EDDltt yesterday are: Mrs. c. B. BRYAN
! memphis. Tenn: Mrs. j. r. Peruvian.
Memphis Tenn: Mrs. s. B. Morgan, Ala
bama; Mrs. J. B. Richards, Fall River.
Mass; Mrs. ]. E. Crowen, Taunton,
Mass Mrst'F. FL. II. Calhoun and Miss
Latte Hutchinson. Of Clemens College.
). e.; Mrs. +. c. Parker, Macon, Ga. :
Mrs. F. G. Russell, Jacksonville, Fla.
and the Misses Wells, from Hallowell,
| Me.
Miss Anna G. Seesholtz, who has been
educational secretary of the Washington
Young Womeno Christian Association
Tor two years. has resigned Miss See
| sholtz will become student secretary with
headquarters at Philadelphia
Miss Frances Chaplin was the luncheon
guest recently of Sigma Kappa Sorority,
or George Washington University.
Washington is represented in, the Bos-
ton Tech show Getting Across" pro-
duced by the students of the Massachu-
sets Institute of Technology, by Claud-
JUS IL. NJ. Roberts. II, who is assistant
business manager
F. W. c'Pat'D Albert Of the class of
i'uv VI tIlt w dSnlnRtOn University,
recently was appointed to the position of
assistant engineer in the District Water
Department. succeeding j. S. Garland,
now superintendent of the department
Mr.. Albert is member of Theta Delta
Chi Fraternity of the university.
Miss Ietta Brez entertained the Sigma
kappas, of George Washington Cniver-
sity, at a card party recently.
DIR. f. E. Pratt. chief of the bureau
OF foreign and domestic commerce,
who Is less than so years Of age, yes
terday acted as Secretary of Com
merce under an order from President
Wilson designating him to take charge
in the absence of the Secretary, the
Assistant Secretary. and the solicitor.
Capt. William ]. Garner, of No. 90
engine company, has been called to his
home, Townshend. Md. to attend the
funeral of his brother. 2. J. Garner.
Maj. II. c. Magoon. superintendent
of Arlington National Cemetery, is
recovering from an operation in
Georgetown University Hospital a few
weeks ago.
Mrs. Ethel Davis Whitaker has
given up her home in Delafield street
since the recent death of her husband
wallace A. Whitaker, and has taken
up her residence with her mother In
New Hampshire avenue
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1915-04-17

I'll May Is. 1913 Eligibility for member
ship In this society Is founded upon de-
scent from patriotic ancestry in un-
broken line through the Colonial and
Revolutionary times. Mrs. William Van
Zandt Cox u iatiooal presideut Mrs.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1915-04-17
ne.cendant, Meet This Eyenine

Tho annual conference preliminary to
the general court Of the National So
ciety Of Daughters Of Founders and Pa
triots of America will be held this even
ing At O'Clock In the oak room at the
Raleigh. Three councillors viii be
chosen at the general court to ssrvs un-
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1915-04-17

Monaghan ability has asserted itself al
Honolulu, where in the schools the Jap
anese stand fret. Koreans second. Chi
nese third and Americans sixth IL
scholarship.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1915-04-17

ITO make the regular army a train
ing school to prepare men for possible
service in national defense would re-
move some of the dangers inherent
in the maintenance of a comparative
~ small number of highly trained pro-
fessional soldiers. Whenever any one
group becomes exclusive and isolated
from the general interests and life
of the nation. there is created a con-
dition out of which may come an in
siduous danger to democracy. How
ever, any policy for general military
training must be carefully safe
guarded to prevent its becoming a
mere agency for intoxicating military
ideas and establishing more general
sympathy for military ways and pur-
poses In any such plan, publicity and
democracy of control are necessary tC
safeguard the national welfare"
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1915-04-17

Stonecutters in Shanghai. China, are
paid IS cents q day.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1915-04-17

Piles Cured in to IA Days.
Iir'rSs's rCfIIn1 mIUry if Pazo Ointment fails 10
c7:rr Itching RilrI. Bleeding. or ProtrIding Piles
First all IcGt!oI gives relief 5c.-AdT.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1915-04-17

Henry v. Boynton. vice president and
founder. and Mrs. Arthur r. Burkholder.
historian.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1915-04-17

Mrs. Ethel Davis Whitaker has
given up her home in Delafield street
since the recent death of her husband
wallace A. Whitaker. and has taken
up her residence with her mother in
New Hampshire avenue.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1915-04-17

Maj. II. c. Magoon. superintendent
or Arlington National Cemetery, is
recovering from an operation in
Georgetown University Hospital few
weeks ago.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1915-04-17

Capt William ]. Garner of No. 90
engine company has been called to his
home, Townshend, Md, to attend the
funeral of his brother. ?. J. Garner.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1915-04-17

Miss Anna G. Seesholtz, who has been
educational secretary of the Washington
Young Women'o Christian Association
for two years. has resigned Miss See
sholtz will become student secretary with
headquarters at Philadelphia.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1915-04-17

Miss Yetta Brez entertained the Sigma
| Kappas. of George Washington Cniver-
sity, at card party recently
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1915-04-17

The funeral Of Marshall Carr will tax,
place at $50 o'clock tomorrow morninr
from st. Mary's Catholic Church
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1915-04-17

Miss Frances Chaplin was the luncheon
guest recently of Sigma Kappa Sorority,
or George Washington University.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1915-04-17

Washington is represented in the Bos-
ton Tech show Getting Across" pro-
duced by the students of the Massachu-
sets Institute of Technology, by Claud-
JUS IL. NJ. Roberts, II, who is assistant
business manager
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1915-04-17

| double funeral will be, held At II
O'Clock tomorrow morning at st. Mary's
Catholic Church for Vincenzo di Sal
vestre and Donate Till, killed yesterday
In the Potomac Railroad yards. They viii
be buried aide BY side In st. Mary's Gem
etery.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1915-04-17

Graham Ogden, real estate dealers,
have sold for the estate of the late
James Patterson the farm known as
vaiusia. containing a dwelling and about
100 acres to Chester Gwinn.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1915-09-03

er began to bleed. and he died from
commissions. An analysis showed he
was poisoned from drinking varnish.'
AT Nijny Lomboy ten soldiers died
from drinking wood alcohol. The dis
trict court sentenced the pharmacist
Yanyeyev. to six months at hard labor
for selling wood alcohol to the sol.
diers."
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1915-09-03
Many Persons Are Poisoned.

In Rostov alone. according TO the
Ryetch of Petrograd. there have been
registered during the last five months
twenty-eight cases OF deaths from the
consumption Of denatured alcohol.
DR.. +. f. Tcharnetzky. one OF the
best known physicians OF Moscow.
gave a detailed account OF the effects
Of denatured alcohol and varnish on
the human system in the paper enti-
tied "Poisonings from LenatLred AL
cohol and Varnish in Moscow" which
he read at the congress OF neuropath.
ologists and psychiatrists held in Mos
COW last February. He said:
Since the prohibition Of the sale OF
liquor at the end Of August there has
appeared a new type OF cases at the
Central Moscow hospital and other
ospitals-poisoning from denatured
alcohol and varnish Among the pa
tents were women. Many of those
who were brought to the hospitals
with bad cases of poisonings died aft
er several days. while others we're
cured, though their cure was very
slow.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1915-09-03
Many cases Of Blindness.

In Petrograd the Ophthalmological
society appointed a special commits
sion to devise ways and means for
combating the increased consumption
Of denatured alcohol. eau de cologne
and other liquids. the use of which
causes blindpess. The commission
was composed OF Drs. NJ. z. Reich, /.
S. Pelzer and V. y. Yeleonskaya
In its report at a meeting OF the
Ophthalmological society held at Pc
trograd on May the commission said
that in the Petropavlovsk and Obuk-
hovsk hospitals there were treated up
to April, 1875. 2,ss2 persons with cases
OF partial blindness due to the use OF
denatured alcohol. wood alcohol, var
nish. etc OF this number twenty
seven died. In the eye wards OF two
prominent Petrograd hospitals there
were treated during the same period
1873 persons with the complete loss OF
sight or in various stages OF blind
ness"
Efforts TO Protect the People
All the medical societies have dur
ing the past few months been hard at
work trying to get people TO abstain
from drinking these deadly beverages.
They are making use of public lee
lures and special literature, which has
been distributed in large quantities.
There is hardly medical congress or
a session of a medical society in Rus
STA at which the question OF alcohol
poisoning is not on the order OF bust.
ness.
AS result OF the activity OF the
medical societies the sale OF wood al
cohol has already been prohibited In
some places. In other places the sale
has been regulated. In Kiev, for in.
stance, the governor issued an order
providing for the sale OF varnish and
lacquer only in specified places. which
will be under strict police supervision
The storekeepers also are compelled
by the order to make an entry OF each
sale.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-10-15

ons and grape fruit in California are
members Of the exchange. About 30
per cent Of the product is sold at aac-
ton in the big markets OF the East.
Where does yonF mcfey 90 when
you buy 81 worth Of orangesge air.
Powell asked his hearers. Answer
ing the question himself he said,
about one-third Of the dollar goes to
cover the cost Of getting the fruit to
the consumer. The wholesalers
cost is S.2 per cent, the exchange
cost n-5 per cent and 20 per cent
goes for transportation charges
National advertising in newspap-
ers and magazines has kept consum-
ers' demand in step With the great
increase in the fruit crop, the speak
or asserted.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-10-15
CALIFORNIA; INCREASED
FRUIT SHIPMENTS

Now York. Oct. 15--iEIow California
rad Increased its fruit shipments
from 1900 carloads in 1885 to 10000
carloads now was described by G
Harold Powell General Manager Of
the California Fruit Growers Ex-
change in an address before the
Quoin club at Delmonico's few days
ago.
"The value Of the orange and lem.
on crop shipped through the califor-
MIA Fruit Growers EXCHANGE every
year exceeds the value of all the
mineral products OF the state, de-
clared air Powell, "in fact, the total
valuation Of this fruit is s21OOO,0OO.
There is $2O0,OOOO0O invested in
Californias citrus industry. Thir-
teen to fifteen thoueand families are
living on land worth 1909 an acre
and 10000 persons are directly and
indirectly supported by the industry"
According to the speaker, 65 per
cent Of the growers Of oranges, lem
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-10-15
MRS. GALT'S FIRST
LOVE COMES To FRONT

Lexington, KY Oct. 15.-Here he
is. He had to be found, A dispatch
from Ashland, Ky, says that at Bar
bouryille, W. Va. just across the
state line from there, is living F. ].
Updike, leading merchant, who
modestB confessed that he was the
first sweetheart of Mrs. Norman Calf,
fianeee Of President Wilson.
Updike claims to have carried her
books to and from school: that he
even toted her lunch basket and that
full many a time and often he had
placed red apples on her desk when
she was not looking.
All this happened when they lived
at Wytheyille, Va The childish ro.
nance vanished many years ago. Up
like admits, but SAYS, he has never
orgotten the rosycheeked little girl.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-10-15
CHICAGO WOMAN
E|ELD.
HOSPITAL IN lNAR
MRS. MARY BORDEN TURNER
Is WELL BELOVED By
STRICKEN SOLDIERS .s'
lBy AasoeIated Pressl

Bushrugge, Belgium, oct l5.--
WAlle rushing through Belgium three
cars full Of officers and correspond
ents stopped at the unique field hos
rital conducted BY Mrs. Mary Borden
Turner Of Chicago.
It is constructed Of portable sec.
lions, electrically lighted from a
plant in a motor-lorry, nine long
wooden buildings in all. with operat-
ing room and X-ray plant, its own
laundry, and most Of the features Of
a permanent hospital
When the party arrived American
ambulance drivers were removing
ten men who has recovered suffic-
iently to be taken to hospitals furth-
CT back from the firing line. After a
tour Of the wards, Mrs. Turner enter
tanned the party at tea in her own
little wooden office building and talk
ed Of the work.
When Dunkirk was bombarded
my friends at home were worried be-
cause we are so much nearer the
Germans, but it is so satisfying to
be where we can see such results.
And these uncomplaining soldiers are
splendid. We have 1S5 here now.
The only complaining one IS a Brit
ish soldier. He hurt his ankle badly
playing football. He said he was
ashamed to go back with that kind of
injury so we are letting him stay.
As rule We move Farther to the
rear all who can go, to make room
for those brought from the trenches.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-10-15
our MEAT WHEN
KIDNEYS BOTHER
Take a glass of Salts before breakfast
1t your Back hurts or Bladder
is troubling you

NO man or woman who eats meat rep1i-
larly can make mistake by flushing the
kidneys occasionally, says a well.known
authority. Meat forms uric acid which
excites tho kidneys, they become over.
worked from the strain, get sluggish and
fail TO filter the waste and poisons from
the blood, then we get sick. Nearly all
rheumatism, headaches, liver trouble,
nervousness, dizziness, sleepIessness ami
urinary disorders como from sluggish
kidneys
lhe moment you feel dull ache in the
Kidneys or your back hurts or if the
urine Is cloudy, offensive, full Of sedi.
ment irregular Of passage or attended by
q sensation Of scalding stop eating meat
and get about four ounces Of Jad
salts from any pharmacy; take
tablespoonful il q glass Of ter before
ereakiast and in few days y,nr kidneys
VIII act hne. This famous salts Is made
IRON the acid of grapos and lemon Juice.
combined with lithia, and has been used I
for generations 10 flush and stimulate /
lhe kidneys, also to neutralize the acids /
N urine 50 Il no longer causes irritation. 4
thus ending bladder weakness.
Jad salts Is Inexpensive and cannot
nlurei makes a delightful efTervescent
lthla-water drink which everyone
heuid take now and then to keep the
Idueys clean and active and the blood
aire, thereby avoiding serious kidney
complications.