The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-09-05
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uNo IN congress from kentucky ana
prominent in Christian Endeavor activi-
ties, died Sunday at the Presbyterian
Hospital at Vienna, Va.
Funeral services viii be held at Vienna
today, and tomorrow morning the body
will be brought to Washington for cere-i
monies at the New York Avenue Presby-
terrain Church, of which Mr. Irwin was
secretary of the session and a member of
the board of elders.
Funeral services for william F. Rein
hart will be held today from the resi-
dence of his sister, 1901 e street south
east. Church services will be held at the
Church of the Holy Comforter, with in
terp,ent at st. Mary's Cemetery.
Mai. Gen. Tasker II. Bliss has returned
from the Mexican border, and with Mrs.
Bliss and Miss Bliss will entertain at
their home on I street northwest.
Hiram N. Wheeler, the oldest newspa-
per publisher in Illinois, died yesterday
at Jacksonville. Ill. He was the editor
and publisher OF the Quincy Journal since
1888.
Senator Pomerene, of Ohio. will leave
4 for his home State with Mrs. Pomerene
Immediately upon the adjournment of
Congress. While the Senator Is cam
paigning Mrs Pomerene will spend the
late autumn at her summer home at Can
ton, Ohio.
At the age of 100 years, P. ]. McAloon,
father of Thomas A. McAloon, Of the
Government Printing office. is dead. He
was born In Ireland and lived for a num-
Der Of years In the East, before his re-
! moyal to Topeka. Kans. He is survived
by another son in New York and two
daughters In Topeka, Kans.
Members of the Christian Endeavor So
ciety OF the Fourth Presbyterian Church
enjoyed an outing at Lorton, Va, yester-
day. The members were the guests of
Allen Cooper and enjoyed a program of
athletic events and collation..
Mathis E. Kayhoe. local contractor. and
resident of Columbia Heights, died yes
terday at his residence, 1904 Holmead
place. Funeral services will be held this
evening at 7:3o o'clock at his residence
by Rev. William Wade. OF St Marks
Evangelical Lutheran Church, and burial
will be at Lighsburg. near Hagerstown.
Nd, tomorrow morning. He leaves a
widow and two sons Ellsworth Kayhoe,
of Richmond, and Garman Kayhoe, OF the
Real Estate Trust Company. of this city
He was a member OF the F. A. A.. M.
Junior Order of American Mechanics, and
Knights of Maccabees.
The Federal Employees Union ofices
have been moved from the old location
in the oursy Building, to the new build
ing of the American Federation Of La
| Dor. With this removal the American
| Federation ceases to be a rent payer and
the organizations which are located in
the new building feel that they are in
quarters of their own.
! The largest convention of Chiropractors
ever held. 400 in number. met at the
Palmer School of Chfropractic, Daven-
! port, Iowa, during the last week.
strong effort is being made to hold the
next meeting IN Washington. Drs. D.
! NJ. Wingate and II. d. Norton, OF this
| city, were in attendance.
The Wanderlusters hiked to warrenton
| Va, yesterday. party OF them head
ed by Miss Monnah ,Hord, left Union
Station in the morning for Werrenton,
and the hike was through the city and
its suburbs. Capt Jack Colvin con-
Quoted the party about the city.
Drilling on the site of the foundation
ing plant at the foot of Fourteenth street
southwest. has progressed. but, though
several holes have been sunk los feet
little rock has been struck After 90
ing through layers OF clay, sand and
gravel. a stratum OF boulders was reach
ed. and they caused trouble. necessitating
the use of dynamite cartridges
Buoys on the lower Potomac are re-
ported as being OCT of place or broken
of near the waters surface. Dade shoaI
lower buoy No. II. near Upper Cedar
Point. and Mattawomar shoal buoy No.
IS are out of place, and Blue Banks
| buoy No. 81 near Liverpool Point Is
nearly invisible. according to Capt
Henry Davis. of the tug James @.
| Carter. Repairs will be made rs soon as
a buoy tender is available.
| A fire of unknown origin in a shed in
the rear of 26 H street northeast yester-
day afternoon did small damage Will
lam Wallace occupied the premises.
| When a bee stung a horse attached to
a buggy owned by Nathan Eiseman 1907
w street northwest, which had been left
unattended by Mr.. Eiseman in Beach
road, near Military road, Rock Creek
Park, yesterday noon, the equine made a
dash for liberty, breaking his halter and
running wildly down Military : road
through the park and was not stopped
before II had run half mile. The buggy
was only slightly damaged
An automobile owned by j. l. Price,
141S North Capitol street, left dead" for
the want of gasoline Sunday night at
Georgia avenue and Shepherd street
northwest, was stolen between the time
the car was left and early yesterday
morning, when Mr. Price went for the
car. The thief had evidently put gaso-
line in the car and gotten away with It.
At a meeting OF the Central Federated
Union of Greater New York and vicinity
last Friday, resolutions were passed at
lacking the director of the Bureau of En-
craving and Printing, Joseph E. Ralph,
for his unfair and hostile attitude to
the workmen's compensation act and the
claimants under it.
| Pyrites mines near Occoquan will re-
sumo operations soon If reports brought
to Washington by captains of Potomac
River vessels are to be credited Recent
~ the mines were put into working order