The Washington herald., 1916-11-26
Nutshell Nevs

Lieut.. Zinovi Pechkoff. OF the French
Foreign Legion, will be the guest OF
the National Press Club this afternoon
at 4:3o o'clock. when he will be asked
to tell the personal story of the part
taken by his regiment in four thrilling
bayonet charges against fortified enemy
positions
Vincenzo Merlo has applied to the
District Supreme Court for a writ or
habeas corpus to secure possession OIL
his son. Agustus Merlo, years old, from
the boys mother. Justice Siddons dI-
rected the mother to have the boy in
court December 9. Attorneys Edmund
Darlington and Samuel D. Truitt ap-
pear for the father.
The lighthouse authorities in charge of
the local lighthouse district have given
notice that the Barnes Point shoal light
in Lower Machodoc Creek. a tributary
of the Potomac, and Smiths Point
channel gas buoy A, at the mouth of the
river, are extinguished.
The Washington Terminal Company,
the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, and
the Philadelphia, Baltimore and Wash
ington Railroad Company are named de-
PENDANTS in a suit to recover $35. .0Oo1
damages, filed in the District Supreme
Court by Marcellus Bellefeild, cook on
the Congressional Limited. Bellefeild
says he received serious injuries May Il
last by falling through a trap door iE
the kitchen car
The District of Columbia Belgian Re-
lief Committee, of which Mrs John A.
Logan is president, assembled at the
first meeting of the season, preparatory
to taking up work for the winter, at the
apartments of Mrs. Sam Houston Carr
the BalfOur. Friday afternoon. Ar
rangements were completed for the caro-
party to be given December II, to raise
funds for the purchase of materials to
make up into garments for Belgian chill
dren.
The automobile of W. E. Shannon, 226O
Cathedral avenue northwest. was slightly
damaged yesterday in n collision with
Washington Railway and Electric Com
pany car No. 100 at Fourteenth and q
streets northwest. The automobile was
run by Benjamin Myers.
Thomas Hansborough, SS, 1918 First
street northwest, was removed to Cas-
ualty Hospital yesterday suffering in
juries about his legs, the result of being
kicked by a horse he was clipping in a
stable in the rear of 40 C street north
west.
Frank Hudson, q. of Mount Rainier,
Md. was bitten in the thigh by dog
belonging to Frank Adams. 145 Adams
street northwest, while near Seventeenth
and Irving streets northeast.
The police were asked yesterday to find
Charts Herbert, negro boy who escaped
from the Industrial Home School att
Blue Plains, D. c.
A Ford automobile, the property of DR..
L. D. Walter, 1884 G street northeast,
was stolen from Twelfth and H streets
northeast yesterday afternoon.
Rudolph Quisdorf, S25 Thirteenth street
northeast, was arrested yesterday by DO
lice of the Ninth precinct, charged with
colliding with the vehicle driven by W.
o. Anderson at Fifth and K streets north
east a week ago last night, According to
the police, an automobile driven by Quis-
dorf struck Anderson's buggy. injuring
his horse so badly the animal had to
be shot. Quisdorf is said to have admit
ted the collision.
An automobile driven by Mrs. Sallie N.
Halfway 1921 Delafield street northwest,
and a wagon owned by Somerset r. Wa
ters, Seventh and o streets northwest
collided at Sherman avenue and Girard
street northwest yesterday afternoon.
Both vehicles were slightly damaged.
A quantity of plumbing fixtures was re-
ported yesterday as stolen from l205
Rhode Island avenue northwest.
Julius r. Fauth. 81, 333 PENNSYLVANIA
avenue northwest, was removed to Emer-
gency Hospital yesterday afternoon suf-
fering from apoplexy. He was stricken
within few feet Of his home, while TAX
ing a walk.
Sleeping car berths have been invented
with end sections that can be lifted to
give occupants room enough to stand