Reopen Stutler case names fourteenth charge
Commissioners granted a request to reopen part of the Stutler investigation into maladministration in the street cleaning department. New potential testimony concerns charges including threat of bodily harm, with witness Twohey returning August 9 and Dubant recalled to address alleged threats. Outcomes hinge on further hearings and witness examination.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stutler
Warner Stutler
Royal Robinson
George Twohey
Fwahey
Vermont
Twohey
Sintler
Stuller
William E. Dubant
Dubant
Stutier
Duban
Stutlgr
Macfarland
Stytler
West
Robinson
Tywehey
Scranton
Harding
Army Opposed to Crawless Bridge Plan
Engineers under Gen Mackenzie report adversely on the Districts request to build the Anacostia Bridge without a draw. Harbor lines were set above the bridge and debate centers on navigable clearance and safety for vessels.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mackenzie
War Department
Anacostia Bridge
New Firework Storage Rules Drafted by Fire Marshal
Fire Marshal Bieber drafts storage regulations for fireworks in the District. Regulations transfer storage oversight to the fire marshal while police still rule sellability. Permits required for wholesale and retail storage. certain building types barred. smoking prohibited for Chinese retailers. lighting must be gas or electric. Restrictions target high risk items like chlorate blends, picrate fireworks, and colored fuses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bieber
Macfarland
Land for street extension condemned in district
Justice Barnard ordered a seven person jury to assess damages and benefits for condemning land owned by Charles H. Davidson Elizabeth P. Mitchel and Morton Mitchell for the Twenty third Street Northwest extension from a street to California avenue at fifty feet wide. The jury is to appear at 1 o clock tomorrow to be impaneled and sworn.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Twenty-third Street
Justice Barnard
A. Leftwich Sinclair
United States Marshal
California Avenue
Charles H. Davidson
Elizabeth P. Mitchel
Morton Mitchell
Congress
Two Boys Arrested in City Burglary Spree
Police tied two youths to multiple robberies after rapid interviews. Earl Thoma a twelve year old white boy confessed to being with Eugene Raymond Brooks eleven year old black boy in breaking into several stores and a saloon on Sixth Street Louisiana Avenue and Pennsylvania Avenue. They are held at the House of Detention awaiting Juvenile Court arraignment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hoy
Sixth
Louisiana Avenue Northwest
Earl Thoma
Pennsylvania Avenue
Eugene Raymond Brooks
Richard & Co
Thoma
Pratt and Howlett
Brooks
Mullen
B Street
J. R. Wynne
Henry B. Terrett
Louisiana Avenue
Dirt Pile Pulpit Lands Government Clerk in Asylum
James S. Cowden a $90 Internal Revenue Service clerk preached an open air sermon from a dirt pile on Tenth Street between F and G NW. Police arrested him after he resisted, and doctors ordered his confinement at St Elizabeth's Asylum.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James S. Cowden
Internal Revenue Service
Lynn
First
Tenth Street
Cowden
St. Elizabeth's Asylum
Interment of John Paris at Prospect Hill Cemetery
The body of John Paris, involved in a fatal Cruit farm tragedy near Rosslyn Virginia, was brought to Washington and buried at Prospect Hill Cemetery after services at Gelera on Seventh Street Northwest. Surgeons report Mrs Paris suffers little from a bullet wound and may leave Georgetown University Hospital soon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Paris
Cruit Farm
Rosslyn
Washington
Prospect Hik
Gelera
Seventh Street
Georgetown University Hospital
Paris
Accused of Robbing Veteran in Maryland District
United States marshal from New Jersey yesterday brought John alias Louis Markell to Washington from Atlantic City. In default of bond he was committed to jail to await trial on robbery charges. Markell allegedly stole pension checks from Peter Woelfring, an old soldier, at Curtain's Fishing Club near the District line in Maryland and passed one at Rich's shoe store on F street. He was traced to Atlantic City by Directives Tyser and Weedon and arrested.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
New Jersey
John
Louis
Markell
Washington
Atlantic City
Peter Woelfring
Curtain’s
District Line
Maryland
Rich
F_street
Tyser
Weedon
Suit to compel signing release of deed of trust
Mary FE Hooper and her attorneys sue Walter Daniel Frank T Rawlings and Richard G Rawlings to force Frank T and Richard G Rawlings to sign a deed of release for a trust securing a $1000 loan on part of original lot 9 square M5. The note evidencing the loan is claimed lost.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yesterary Oy
Mary FE. Hooper
Hufty & Hufty
Walter Daniel
Frank T. Rawlings
Richard G. Rawlings
Frank T
Daniel
District Fire Losses Rise as Big Elevator Fire Impacts Year
Chief Belt reports district fires total 250,924 with 1,065 alarms and 16 false alarms. One major loss, the Daish grain elevator at 85,000, boosts insured value to 2,071,370. Seventy-four percent of fires occurred in brick and frame buildings, urging stricter gasoline storage inspections and regular playhouse fire checks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chief Belt
Hig
Daish
Mayghal
No. 8 Engine Company
Seventh Street
Louisiana Avenue
Belt
Joseph Parris
H. W. Lusby
John D. Kurtz
Francis K. Donnelly
Bieber
Philip W. Nicholson
Fire Tarshal
Nicholson
Brookland pole permit eyed by city commission
City bulletin notes Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company seeks permission to erect poles on Twelfth and Philadelphia streets in Brookland. Electrical Engineer Allen backs the plan but Commissioner Maffan defers action for a few days. Community notices on Holmes bread, local auctions, a housebreaking charge, watermelon arrivals, the St Anthony Lawn Fete in Brookland, a watch theft arraignment, and other local items fill the page.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company
Twelfth Street
Philadelphia Street
Brookland
Allen
Macfanned
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Dubant, Gaddis
Weis
Judge Cole
Brennan Construction Company
House of Representative
Union Station Plaza
North
Capitol Street
Jie
Sporting Goods Shop
Saka & Company
Seventh St
House & Herrmann’s
Heurich
Ion
Heurich Brewing Co
CORBY
Hubbard Heating CO
F Street
N. W
G. & P. Telephone CO
Schneider
Chas, Schneider Baking Co
ST. NW
John Lucas & Co
D. J. Kaufman
Pa. Ave
Secretary of War
Edmonston
Edmonston’s
Smith Premier Typewriter Co
Eleventh St
Washington, D. C
Rewee
City Bulletin
Holmes
Chicago
12Th St. Muddiman & Co
Charles Carey
B. J. Dakin
Kimball
Carey
Grand Jury
Eleventh Street Wharf
Frank Tavans
St. Anthony Lawn
D. C
Robert W. Guy
Walter Goebzinger
Gaulty
J.T. D. Pyles
Reisinger’s
Jane Jones
John Day
Clarence Draezer
James Sargent
James Munrbe
Gerald McCrystal
Clarence Fil
F. Nolte
St . A
Muddizpan & Co
Rufus H. Darby Printing Co
Rufus H. Darby
Piermont Printing Co
Atlanta, Ga
Rufus C. Darby
William I. Garrison
Mary E. Garrison
Garrison
Campbell Carrington
J. T. D. Pyles
Nat's Cash Register
General House
Wilson & Mayers
Baby Hiro
Beauty
Forest City
St. Louis Exposition
Post
Post Business Office
The
Washington Post
Wame
Victor E. Adler
Clothing House
7Th St
Mt Ee Gas Light CO
Bowen, Lenox
New Progress
Mayer & CO
Yale Laundry
10Th St
New York Ave
Regal
Regal St
Pennsylvania Ave
Uneeda Biscuit
Warner’s
Reading
Warner
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