The Washington herald., 1917-05-12
Nutshell News

The will of Mary c. Stewart. dated April
p, 1912, and filed for probate in the
District Supreme Court yesterday, di-
rects that her entire estate be left to
her son. Alonzo Hopkins Stewart. and
her daughter, Daisy Gordon Stewart.
Horace L. B. Atkinson filed the will.
Dolores Amanda Bussius yesterday in
stituted in the District Supreme Court a
suit for limited divorce through Attorney
Robert Z. MattingIy from her husband.
Albert Richard Bussius. The couple were
married in this city on October .. 1915.
Mrs. Bussius also asks that she be
awarded the custody of her infant.
Charles Mueller, by his will dated
March 10, 1909, and filed for probate in the
lOistrict Supreme Court yesterday. re-
| Vests that his entire estate be given to
/ NJ wife, Lizzie Mueller, who is also
nahed the executrix.
| Thhush Attorneys Emerson and
Cooml4. Israel G. LitchfeldS yesterday
nled snt IN the District Supreme Court
LOT aoSGute divorce from Edna May
LltchneIo. LH The couple were married in
January, 1874.
Mrs. Deoohh Merchant has been grant
ed an aDsolne divorce from Samuel A.
MerChanI IN decree. signed yesterday
by Justice Hltz, awards the wife aIimony
Of so a month and the husband is Or
dered TO pay SIC in back alimony. At
torneys Cromelin, Rhodes and Coombe
appeared for the VIE
Drills and dances w the cbildrep of
Fillmore School feature a successful on
tertainment given yestedav afternoon at
the Western High School under the ans
pices of the Parent Teauhers' Associa-
tien of Fillmore School Ge,rge Mann. of
the Paramount Pictures, furqisfed Inoy-
ing-picture reels. Ice cream ard cake
were served.
a gold watch and a bracelet were
stolen from the home Of Miss Daisybeu
Hertford, 1883 Hobart place northwest.
The jewelry was valued at $25.
Lead pipe, fifty pounds Of old rubbe.
shoes, ten pounds of copper and fifteen
inner tubes. valued at S35, were stolen
from the home of Nathan Dwignicker.
lO11 First street southeast. The rear door
was forced.
buggy belonging to the General Livery
Company are missing from Ninth and T
streets. Either the horse walked awav
with the buggy or was accompanied by
a thief.
George Washington. a colored man, was
bitten by a dog yesterday.
A street sprinkler and a street car COL
lided on H street, between Sixth and
Seventh streets northeast, taking off a
rear wheel from the sprinkler and throw
ing the driver to the ground He was
taken to Casualty Hospital
Private NJ. w. Warren while taking
his morning reports to headquarters yes-
terday was knocked from his motorcycIe
by an automobile owned by George II
Brett and operated by William 4. King
lie was injured about the face He was
taken in the automobile to Emergency
Hospital and later went home. The
motorcycle was damaged to the extent
of $50
Charles Wright, a white boy 1S years
old, and Archie Ray, a colored boy. 10
years old, fought to a finish on Third
street northeast. The finish came when
the Wright boy hit Ray with a brick
The colored boy was taken to a hospital
An auto owned by Edward R. Brooks,
SIS Fourteenth street northwest, collided
with a street car of the Washington
Railway and Electric Company at First
street and Massachusetts avenue north
east.
Edwin B. Domphan, 109 Maryland ave-
nue. northeast, reported to the police that
a suit of clothes valued at $50 belonging
to Representative William ]. Fields, of
Kentucky was stolen from the back
yard.
a black enamel breastpin set with dia-
monds valued at $780, was stolen from
the home of Mrs. w. H. Dean, POST Park
road northwest.