Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-06-25
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.

York avenue tonight at 1880 o'clock.
and interment will be at Williamsport'
Nd. tomorrow. .-..s,
The sudden death yesterday Of Elsie
Russell. colored. four months old. 1881
Q street, was investigated by coroner
hewitt. He gave certihcate OF oeaoh
from natural causes.
Elisabeth Lomax. colored. hfty-four
years old. died suddenly at her home. .
o'clock. She was taken ill and died be-
fore a physician reached the mouse.
certificate of death from natural causes
was given by Coroner hewitt.
A physician from Casualty Hospital
Yesterday afternoon hurried to S1s
street northeast in response 10 SICK
call. When he reached the house ne
found that Henry Sackerman. the sick
man, had died. Mr.. Sackerman was
seventy-one years old. His death re-
suited from natural causes
Persons residing in the New Berne.
Massachusetts, avenue and 18th street,
last night. shortly before o'clock.
were alarmed by fire in the kltchen
of an unoccupied apartment. No. en-,
quickly extinguished the fire. Damage
to the apartment amounted to 500.
While engaged In n night at 1855 9th
o'clock, Lavinia Price, colored, was cut
across the throat with knife by col
ored man. Her wound was dressed at
Freedmen's Hospital.
A motor cycle. owned and ridden by
Howard W. Black. 116 North Carolina
avenue and an automobile owned by
William Stohlman. 124S Wisconsin ave
nue.. collided at 10Th and NJ streets yes
terday morning. Both vehicles were
damaged.
The annual picnic for coIored children
of the public and Sunday schools of the
District is to be given Tuesday. July 3.
from IL am. to 1880 pm. at Green
Willow Park, under the auspices or the
Cosmopolitan Baptist Church. Arrange
International Colored Women's Union
and Missionary Society. Tickets will be
distributed free to the children every
day from 10 am. to pm.
James w. Nye. forty years old. who
roomed at 1915 P street. yesterday
afternoon took two kinds of a poison
and died soon afterward. 1t was about
2:3o o'clock when he swallowed the
poisons, and at o'clock he was dead.
Coroner hewitt gave certificate of
suicide. 1t is stated that Nye had been
sick and unable to work.
Henry W. Farnan. Fort Myer, has re-
ported to the police that he was robbed
of his pocketbook, containing $50 in
cash, his registration card and automo-
bile license. He thinks the robbery
was committed while he was in a the
alter. An old pocketbook. he stated, was
substituted for the one that was stolen.
Austin b. Cunningham. Philadelphia,
reported to the police the loss of his
pocketbook. containing $S5 He said
1t was taken from the counter of
store on Pennsylvania avenue while
he was making purchase.
visited police headquarters and report
ed the disappearance Of his mother. Mrs.
Annie Butler. sixty-five years old. who
left her home at 1217-A Carrollburg
place southwest June and failed to
return. He learned that she had be-
come i'll on a street car and died. Her
body rests in a grave marked :un-
known"
Fire early yesterday morning de-
stroyed the home of Mrs. Mary E. Com
modore. Bowen road. near West street.
Anacostia. The damage amounted to
$4,000. Police were unable to determine
the origin of the fire.
DR.. U. G. b. Pierce Of All Souls Uni
tartan Church held special Red Cross
services at the church yesterday for
the purpose Of sending an ambulance to
About $3.50. the amount needed to equip
one ambulance. was raised. Money for
the upkeep of the ambulance Is also to
be rafsed-
a sunaown performance II to be
given at the National Sylvan Theater
Thursday evening from to 8 o'clock.
No invitations have been sent out and
no seats are to be reserved.
Leroy Jordan. colored. a resident of
Sheriff road. Prince Georges county.
Nd. was shot in the left chest near the
heart and dangerously wounded early
Yesterday morning. He was taken to
Casualty Hospital. Sergt. Browne of
the ninth precinct investigated the az
FAIR and reported that Jordan was ac-
cidentally shot by young colored wo-
man.
washington Citizens Association is to
be held tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock
At Donehoe's Hall. 314 Pennsylvania
avenue southeast.
bill introduced in the Senate which
provides for suffrage for the women of
Hawaii probably will be reported
favorably by the committee on Pacific
Islands. OF which Senator Shafroth,
sponsor Of the measure. Is chairman,
according to an announcement made by
the National American Woman Suffrage
Association.
In q collision between q motor truck
owned by the Dupont Garage Company
and two-horse team driven by Har-
rtson Carter. 2420 Virginia avenue, near
goth and K streets this morning about
3 o'clock. William Hill, colored. 1905
25th street was thrown from the truck
and one wheel passed over his left foot.
He was taken to Emergency Hospital.
Edna Allen. colored. nine years old.
434 18th street this morning about 1880
o'clock. was knocked down by an automo-
bile near 9Th and II street northeast and
injured about the head. Her skull may
be fractured, according to physicians
at Casualty Hospital. where she was
taken.
The 9Th Engineer Regiment, L. $. A.,
encamped at University Park, will be
entertained with concert tonight by
the National Quartet in the parish hall
at st. Adams. Afer the concert the Of
ficers and men will be the guests of
st. Adams parish The National Quar-
tet is composed Of Elizabeth s. Max
well, soprano; Lillian Chenoweth, con-
tralto: W. Z. Braithewaite. tenor; Harry
NJ. Forker. basso. and Ethel Garrett
Johnston. pianist.
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