The Washington herald., 1916-09-25

New York. Sept. 4-JuIian Van De
Mark, 16 years old. of 2os4 Seventh ave-
nue., was accidentally overcome by illu-
minating gas and died in his room early
today The boys mother and sister
found the boy had fellen asleep while
studying and the wind had blown out
the light.
New York, Sept. A-The New York
Geological Society is making a strong ef-
fort to raise by subscription $50 900 with
which to erect a building in the park
! suitable for the exhibition of the heads
and horns collection. At present this
notable collection Is stored in the Ad-
ministration Building.
New York, Sept. A-Harry z. Booth
10 years old. OF 214 Riverside place, Cliff
side Park, N. J., and his brother, Her
bert, Q years old, were drowned Saturday
in a hole filled with water at an old stone
quarry in Fort Lee. The younger Of the
two fell into the quarry hole and when
the other tried to save him both lost
their lives.
New York. Sept. 2+-Harry Daniels, 6s
years old. a music teacher, of 35l ,Lenox
avenue, was found dead in his room with
a bullet In his head and a revolver in his
hand early today. He had been an in
valid for several years.
New York, Sept. A-Marcella Sweeney,
years old. OF Ill Mechanic street New
ark. was run down and killed by troll
ley car IN Market street. The motorrnan
did not know he had struck any one
until persons on the sidewalk shouted to
him.
New York, Sept. 24-Albert Fein. o
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, shipping clerk in the day time. hanged
himself at 1892 Washington avenue, the
Bronx, where he lived. at his sisters
home. No. motive was known for the
act.
Greenwich. Conn, Sept. 2-Esther Car
rott, years old, second daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Orville B. CARROT, OF Ottere
Rock Drive, is i'll from infantiIe paralysis
at the home of her grandfather, Adolphus
w. Green, president of the National Bis
cult Company, in Belle Haven. The
Green house has been quarantined.
San Salvador, Republic of Salvador,
Sept. A.-The newspapers Of Salvador
comment upon DR.. Carlos Cuadra Pasos'
renunciation of his candidacy for the
Presidency OF Nicaragua. DR.. Pasco. who
was named by the government party in
June, has given up the nomination to ac
lcept the post OF minister to the United
States.
Annapolis, Nd, Sept. 24-''Not another
midshipman can be accommodated" said
an oficer at the Naval Academy today
When the academy opens on October l
there will be 1881 midshipmen enrolled
T29 OF the ripper class men and 662 of
the new class. II the vacancies are all
filled quarters will have to be provided
for 159 mIdshipmen.
San Francisco, Cal, Sept 2L-warren
X. Billings. on trial here for the murder
Of Mrs. Myrtle Van Loo, one of the ten
persons killed by the explosion OF bomb
during the San Francisco preparedness
parade, July p. has been found guilty in
the first degree. The jury recommended
life Imprisonment. Billings will be SEN
fenced Tuesday.
Springfield, Ill. Sept. 2L-Elston Scott,
a negro sentenced to be hanged more than
a year ago in Murphysboro, Ill. for the
murder of his sister-in-law, has been re-
prieved for the eighth time by Governor
Dunno. Scott owes his life to the in
sistence of Sheriff James "A. White, of
jackson County, on a public hanging. and
the refusal of Governor Dunno to permit
it.
Greenwich. Conn, Sept 24-Percy D.
. Parliamentary House OF Barbardos, Brit
ish West Indies, is missing from Harri-
| son, n. Y. A general alarm has been
sent out to the police and the case has
/ been put in the hands of a New York
detective agency He disappeared from
a private sanitarium in Harrison on
Wednesday. The young man has been
recovering from a recent illness.
London. Sept 24-The Dutch govern
ment has prohibited the export of cattle,
says a Reuter- dispatch from The Hague. /
All preserves containing meat will come
under the prohibition.
Knoxville, Tenn, Sept. 24.-The State
Supreme Court has just held to be uncon-
stitutional the soEcalled locker law, which
prohibits the maintenance of lockers for
bars or buffets in clubs in Tennessee
Nnddletown, N Y, Sept. 24-Thomas
Meany, who In the Spanish-American
war served with the First New York reg
iment, is dead at his home in Chester.
near here, at the age of 43. =
Ottawa. Kan. Sept 24-Dr. Josephine
z. Davis is vindicated. A jury awarded
her 81 damages against Mrs. ]. T. Shreve,
wife of the pastor of the Christian
Church here. in her suit for $4,000 on a
charge of malicious slander.
Utica, N. Y, Sept. 24-William Bellinger
is dead here at the age OF 80 His grand
father on his mothers side was in the
battle of Oriskany. and his grandparents
on his fathers side were killed by the
Indians in a raid in the Mohawk Valley.
Denison, Iowa, Sept. A.-The congrega-
ton of the Baptist church here has ac-
cepted a proposition made by Mrs. E: P.
Williams to fill the pulpit made vacant
by the death of her husband, Mrs. Will
liams will I'LL the pulpit until the congre-
cation can choose a successor to her late
husband.
| Albany, Sept. "A call for state
ment of the condition of State and pri-
vate banks and trust companies at the
close of business on September 20, 1916
has been issued by Eugene Lamb Rich
ards, superintendent of the State bank
ing denartment