The Washington herald., 1917-02-07
Nutshell NeUs

J. Ford Thompson's will. dated Mr. -ch
is. 1916. and filed for probate yester day
in the District Ipreme Court by Annie
N. Waddel an Marion v. McArdle,
sxecutrices, dau hters of the deceased.
directs that his estate be divided equally
between his two daughters and sor J.
Ford Thompson, jr.
A verdict Of 500 in each of two cases
of alleged defectf e coupling OF cars near
Rosslyn, Va, ws5 brought in by Jury
in the District s 1preme Court late yes
terday afternoon against the Philadelphia,
Baltimore and Washington Railroad Com
pany.
The will of Fred deb. Weston, dated
January II. 1917, and filed for probate
yesterday in the District Supreme Court
by E. H. Wall. leaves his entire estate
to his wife, Maude E. Weston, who Is
appointed executrix-
Edward B. McGetrick's will. dated De-
cember 49, 1900. and filed for probate yes
terday in the District Supreme Court,
directs that his entire estate be. trans
ferred to his wife, Anna NJ. McGetrick,
who is named as executrix.
The Purity Ice Cream Company has
with the Recorder OF Deeds. The capital
stock is 5000. The incorporators are
HaiIton F. Greene, Alexander T. Doug
las and Cuyler o. Meeks.
Tn will of William C. ShimonecK. L S.
A.. retired, filed for probate in the Dis
trict Supreme Court yesterday by Will
lam c. Taylor leaves 500 to his wife,
Cornelia Shimoneck; 800 to his niece,
Fannie Marble. who resides in Chicago,
and the remainder of his estate to his
brother. Stephen Shimoneck, a resident OF
Green Bay, Wis.
Samuel Kahn. aged 30. an employe at
the Treasury Department, cut his throat
at his home at 1233 Irving street north
west, yesterday morning and died soon
afterward at the Garfield Hospital. Kahn
was sick and respondent and his father
and brother had come from Rochester,
y. Y, to take him home. While they were
in his bedroom he went into the bathroom
and cut his throat with a razor.
waverly Pierson, aged 1e, colored,
made a business of snatching pocket
books from women, and Judge Gould, In
C,rin,inaI Division, No. /, of the district
Supreme Court, yesterday sentenced him
to six years in the penitentiary. Pferson
admitted that he had gotten more than
a dozen pocketbooks.
President Wilson yesterday extended
executive clemency to First Lieut.. Nc
Leod Stinnett, of the Fourt Texas In
fantry. who was found guilty by court
martial at FL Psso, Texas. on November
T. of drunkenness and conduct unbecoming
an officer. His dismissal was recon-
mended. but President Wilson commuted
the sentence to a reprimand from the
War Department.
The many plants and immense re-
sources of the American Sugar Refining
Company yesterday were pledged to the
government in the event of war. In a
letter to President Wilson, it was stated
that the government may use the plants
as II sees fit II IT so desires.
colored man, about % years old.
snatched a cash box from a news stand
at Union Station last night and ran out,
but dropped the box in front of the
station. The negro escaped in the dark
ness.
Edward Murphy was driving a horss
and wagon Of the Washington Railway
and Electric Company yesterday, and the
horse ran away and colIided with pillar
at the Florida avenue viaduct. Murphy
was hurt on the head and taken to the
Casualty Hospital. The horse and wagon
we're only slightly damaged.
DR.. John G. Hemmeter, of the Univer-
sity of Maryland, addressed the National
Capital Dental Society in the rooms of the
washington Chamber of Commerce last
night on the subject, Relation of Inter-
nal Secretions to Calcium Metabolism and
Dentition.''