The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1917-03-22
WHAT IS HAPPENING In THE
SUBURBS OF THE CAPITAL
Alexandria Police Board Dismisses Charge
Against Policeman Kerns in Shooting of
John S. Kane, G. u. Law Student.

ALEXANDRIA. March 2 After
hearing the testimony OF fourteen wit
nesses in the case of the shooting Of
John Stephen Kane. the young George
town University law student. by Police
man John w. Kerns in this city on the
morning OF November Is last. the board
of police commissioners last night dis
missed the charge brought against
Rerns. Policeman Kerns testified he ar
rested hane after having ordered him
and his companions to stop making a
noise on the street; that Kane struck
him, and attempted to get away, and
that he did not intend to hit him when
he fired the shots, but only meant to
cause him to halt. Kane admitted that
he struck the officer and broke away
from him. He was represented by At
torney Leo p. Harlow. and Policeman
Rerns by Attorney H. Noel Garner.
The Rev. L. NJ. Ferguson. pastor of
Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church.
will attend the sessions of the Balti-
more conference which will open in the
Walbrook Methodist Church. in Balti-
more. next Tuesday. Bishop Frank
Bristol Will preside. This conference
has within its bounds all the Methodist
Episcopal churches of Baltimore. the
District OF Columbia, the western shore
Of Maryland. except Carrot county. and
the northern section Of Virginia On
Friday, March 30. the Laymen's Associa-
ton Of the conference will meet in the
Walbrook Presbyterian Church in Bal
timore- r E. Knight will be the dele
from Trinity Church The Rev
Mr.. Ferguson has been stationed In
Alexandria for two years.
The Rev. w. w. Van Arsdale, pastor
of Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church
here in 1907 and 1909, was buried In
Baltimore this afternoon. He Joined
the Baltimore Conference in 1876.
Randolph Chapter, Scottish Rite
Masons, is arranging a banquet to be
given on the evening of Thursday,
April 5, at the conclusion of the series
of degree meetings which are now in
progress.
Clarence w. Rose and Miss Daisy
I. Butcher, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Arthur ]. Butcher, were married last
night at tbI parsonage of the First
jackson. They will reside here.
DEGREES of divorce have been
granted in the corporation court to
George Clarence Merrill from Agnes
Ann Merrill; to Edith E. Richards
Allen frtm Thomas E. Allen, and to
Marguerite McMorrow welker from
George w. Welker. All were on the
grounds OF desertion.
The Right Rev. William Cabell
Brown, D. D., bishop coadjutor of Vir-
ginla, will preach and administer the
rite OF confirmation in Christ Epis-
copal Church on Palm Sunday at IL
o'clock a. m, and In Emmanuel Chapel,
Braddock Heights, the same evening
The "Blues" are 200 miles ahead
of the Reds" in the contest being
waged for new pupils in the Meth
odist Protestant Sunday school.
The officers elected at the annual
meeting OF Mary Custis Lee Chapter.
U. ID. c., held in the Confederate Vet
Grams building yesterday, are as fol
lows: Mrs. William jackson Morton.
pr esident; Mrs. Frank T. King, first
vice president: Mrs. David ]. Howell,
second vice president: Mrs. Z. H.
O'Brien, recording secretary: Mrs. ].
II. Zimmerman, corresponding secre-
tary; Miss Constance Boush, treas
urer and Mrs James E Alexandria