The Washington herald., 1916-09-04

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Trenton. N. j., Sept. 3.-The State
public utility commission has fixed
Monday, September 25, for a hearing
on a petition presented by Jersey City
and other large cities asking that a
lower scale of electric power charges
be fixed for them.
| Sea Girt, N. j., Sept 3.-New Jersey
women. members of the New Jersey
! Soldiers Relief League, have raised
$9,S6l since June 81 to be used in re-
. lieVing the wants of Guardsmen from
this State now at Douglas. Ariz. and
. their families who were left at home.
Flanders, n. j., Sept. 3.-When NAH
lon Malnes was cutting hay near here
his horses ran into nest of yellow
! jackets. Three horses ran away and
Malnes was thrown under their feet,
and then the mower ran over him.
His only injuries were a few scratches.
Minneapolis, Mimi, Sept. 3.-Au Of
! hcers' with one exception, were re-
elected at the closing session of the
American National Retail jewelers.
+ annual convention Saturday. c. r.
! Damuth, of Redfield, S. D.. was elected
treasurer, succeeding A. L. Thoma, of
Piqua, Ohio.
Snake Hill, n. J., Sept 3.-Search is
being made for the relatives of Sam
uel Sinclair Sweeting, 81 years old,
who died on Thursday in the aims
! house here. He wandered into the in
stitution a few days before and died
without leaving any clew to his fam
lily.
| Trenton. n. j., Sept. 3-Receipts from
motor vehicles for the month of August
aetted the State SIS, ,569 which was a gain
| OF s23,s4 over last year. The total re-
| ceipts for the eight months of the year
were a,2OO,OO0. as against 81, ,OS2 900 for the
same period last year.
Boston. Mass, Sept. a-Mrs. Phebe Nye
| Ryder. 81 years old, a descendant of DR..
I Samuel Fuller, the first physician in the
| Plymouth colony, died at Medford FRI
! day. She was the widow of Col. Godfrey
! Ryder. who fought in the civil war and
had lived in Medford fifty years.
San Salvador, Sept. S.-Complaint hav-
! ing been made by American merchants
! that ten pounds of coffee were missing
| from many bags shipped from here, an
investigation showed that employees of
commercial agency here had stolen coffee
worth 10000 pesos. The men accused of
the theft escaped.
Annapolis, Md. Sept 3.-Succeeding
Lieut.. Commander Thomas r. Kurtz
who has been detached from the local
! station and made executive officer OF
/ the battleship Illinois, Lieut. Comman-
der John Downes has been assigned as
! personal aide to Capt. Edward w. Eberle,
superintendent of the Naval Academy.
Manila. Sept. Gov Gen Francis Bur-
. ton Harrison has sustained the authori-
ties of the General Hospital in their con-
flct with the employees, which culminat-
ed in a strike of the nurses and in a
small riot. At the suggestion of the hos
pital officials the governor has ordered
! Director Colson, of the civil service, to
/ investigate the dispute.
; Mount KIsco, N. Y, Sept, a-Sixty head
of valuable Jersey cattle from the Isle
of Jersey have arrived here imported de-
spite the handcaps raised by war con-
ditions, for Robert c. Van Cortlandt, a
summer resident. Edmund Butler was in
charge of the task of bringing the aristo-
cratic cattle over. Four calves were born
on the voyage.
Poughkeepsie. n. Y, Sept. 3-John
| Dooley and Lloyd Keleher, of the Bronx,
on a canoe trip to Croton Point, came
upon an empty canoe half filled with
water opposite the dock of the property
of Mrs. kinley ]. Shepard Saturday. The
craft contained part of a campers out
fit and it is feared the occupants were
drowned by the swell from a night boat
| on the Hudson.
Cleveland. Ohio, Sept. 3.-Curtis Cos
nell. of Muncie. Ind, famous as race
driver on the Grand Circuit died here
Saturday from injuries suffered at North
Do, ITR11 l.
was thrown while working out a hop
Piled PAGER and never recovered con-
| sciousness.
Philadelphia, Sept. 3.-Members of the
| American Pharmaceutical Faculties rep
Presenting fifty colleges of pharmacy in
the United States, met today and planned
for the enactment of legislation to stan
dardize the requirements for entrance
into the pharmaceutical profession
throughout this country.
Hagerstown, Md, Sept. 3.-Whle fish
ing for black bass in the Potomac River.
below Williamsport, James Thatcher.
one of outing party from Martins
burg, hooked a large carp that pulled
him headlong from the boat into deep
water. He was saved from drowning by
his sister-in-law
| FL fdSbr lea, sept O.-Cne lnllllOn
| five hundred thousand pounds of flour and
a supply of hams and bacon sufficient to
last the troops now in this district foul
months have been purchased from loca
dealers by Maj. William Elliott, district
depot quartermaster.
| Philadelphia, Sept. 3.-Within the last
few months 100000 mattresses have been
condemned in this city as unsantary and
disease breeding. and scores of dealers
y and manufacturers have been prosecuted
for violating State law in stuffing their
mattresses with materials that are un-
clean.
New York. Sept. 2.-Forty-eight per-
sons were killed in New York City last
month by vehicles, according to the re-
port of the National Highways Protective
Society. OF these, thirty-eight were vic
Tins of automobiles and nineteen were
, children. Trolley cars killed six and wa
gons four, and of those six were chill
dren.
Bethlehem. N. H. Sept. S.-The ridges