The Washington herald., 1916-09-13

just been probated. The late Edwin B.
Hay is named as executor.
Michael F. Boyle entered suit against
John Piummer for $4,000 alleged dam
ages. In the District Supreme Court.
Boyle declares he was hit by an auto
mobile owned and driven by the defend
ant, and suffered permanent injuries. The
iplaintir is represented by Attorney An
drew L Hickey.
Frank Triplett, Of a7 Fourteen-and-a-
half street northeast. bartender, will
answer charge OF obtaining goods un-
der false pretenses In Police Court this
morning. He was arrested yesterday, ac-
cused of having obtained quantities of
cigars and cigarettes from wholesalers
as the pretended agent OF a retailer.
Madeline Sneider, lS years old, and
Francis Henshaw, II, were awarded hon
ors yesterday at the Virginia avenue
Fairgrounds. for successfully passing the
athletic test g..
| DIR. Marvin A. Curtis, Kate Van Ma
tire and Albert NJ. Smelling. are named as
executors and are the chief beneficiaries
under the will of Jane z. Minor, dated
January IS. 1913. Other bequests of per-
sonal belongings are made to friends of
the deceased.
Students at Mckinley High School
who want lockers next year, will have
| to furnish their own locks and keys.
This is to avoid the disadvantages of the
old system, which involved deposits on
keys held by students and frequent bor-
| rowings Of the pass" key,
The shipments of anthracite for the
I AsNer.
thracitel Bureau of Information at
WHkesbarre. amounted. to .5.Ssl.7s7 tons.
as compared with 5,4s2,1Z7 tons for the
i corresponding month in 1915 and with g.
+32s7s tons in July, 1916.
l Comfort kits are needed more than
anything else by the American soldiers
on the Mexican border. according to
telegraphic advices from the Red Cross
Supply Depot in El Paso.
Secretary of the Interior Lane yester-
day announced that in August nearly
$1,000 acres of land. heretofore included
in coal land Withdrawals in New Mexico,
North Dakota, Utah and Wyoming, were
restored to entry. About $500 acres
formerly withdrawn for power in
Arizona, Idaho, Montana, Oregon and
Wyoming were restored to entry.
Funeral services for John Boyle will be
held at his late residence, in Silver
| Spring, Nd, tomorrow afternoon at 2:3o
O'Clock. Interment will be made at Rock
Creek Cemetery.
Funeral services for Katherine Miller
| will be held at the late home, $50 H street
northwest, today at 8 O'Clock, after which
requiem mass will be celebrated at St.
Mary's Church. Interment will be at
Mount Olivet Cemetery.
| Funeral services for Mrs Melville G:
Curry, daughter of the late Bishop John
] NJ. Brown, will be held at the late resi-
dence, l7H Ninth street northwest, today
at o'clock. Interment will be at Wood
lawn Cemetery.
Funeral services for Joseph H McCann
will be held at zurhorst's undertaking
| establishment Thursday afternoon. The
place of interment has not been decided.
Funeral services for Mrs. Henry Spar
will be held today at l:3o o'clock at st.
Mathews Lutheran Church. at 2 o'clock
| Interment will be at Arlington Cemetery.
A $4,000 hotel is one, OF the i'm
provements suggested for Shiloh Ma
tional Military Park. by the Park
Commission. in it's latest annual re-
port to the War Department The
commission also urged the purchase
of privately owned tracts of land
within the boundaries of the park.
Sew Harry Bartemore Angus has
resigned charge of Peck Memorial
Chapel and as assistant pastor OF the
Church of the Covenant After a va
cation he will assume the pastorate
of Mcdowell Presbyterian Church in
Philadelphia.
B. F. Myers, financial secretary of
Potomac Council, Knights Of Column
bus. has been promoted to a position
in the office of supreme secretary of
the order at New Haven.
Although there has not been any great
change in the general types OF hats worn
by the men of the United States, accord
ing to figures of the Census Bureau. style
changes during the five years ended 1914
have caused a decline Of % per cent in
production and q per cent in income for
the manufacturers of fur-felt hats.
BY order of Postmaster General Burle-
son, flags on the city postoffice and the
Postoffice Department buildings were at
half mast yesterday as a mark Of respect
to Thomas L James, formerly Postmas
ter General under Presidents Garfield
City, who died in New York, Monday.
Extending its safety first campaign,
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad manage
ment has issued a vest-pocket book of
| instructions to its employees in the main
tenance of way department to protect
| train operation and the lives Of the track
workers.
Capt. Fred r. Brown, Ninth United
States Infantry, has been detailed to re-
lieve Capt. Irwin L. Hunt as assistant to
Brig. Gen. Frank Mcintyre, chief of the
Bureau Of Insular Affairs. While on this
detail Capt. Brown has the rank and pay
| Of major.
Tungsten mines near Bishop, Inyo
County, Cal, which were discovered In
1913, are to be opened soon and worked to
meet the world-demand for tungsten
which the war has occasioned. These de-
posits, while previously recognized as a
source of copper. have only recently been
found to be productive of tungsten as