Inquiry into District Schools Delays Chancellor Suit
Senator Burkett schedules a 10 am Senate District Affairs meeting to outline a thorough school investigation. The House will await Senate findings before acting while former Superintendent Chancellor's suit is postponed for health reasons. Chancellor seeks a congressional hearing to bolster his claims of needed reforms and vindicate his position. Captain Oyster, board president, welcomes Senate scrutiny as a test of operation.
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Scott
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Board of Education
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Congress
Statue Site Undecided by District Commissioners
Commissioners consider location for the Shepherd Memorial statue in front of the new municipal building. Captain Jay 2 Morrow says no decision yet and will weigh architectural fit and public arguments. Commissioner Macfarland favors the front site as the logical tribute to Gov Shepherd. Commissioner West is at home with illness and has not yet discussed the matter.
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Morrow
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Macfarland
Gov. Shepherd
District of Columbia
West
Street Sweepers Seek Higher Wages to Meet Cost of Living
Street cleaners filed a petition with District Commissioners urging the annual estimates to raise wages from 159 to 2 per day. They detail yearly subsistence costs including rent fuel and food totaling 8844 and note their $1176 salary must cover clothing doctor bills insurance and many expenses.
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Congress
Hamilton Off the Force Resigns After Barroom Incident
Commissioners West and Morrow approve Maj Sylvester's recommendation to accept the resignation of Private Le Roy Hamilton of the Metropolitan Police Seventh precinct. Hamilton, intoxicated, fought a bartender in Georgetown Saturday morning, who struck him with a seltzer bottle. Capt Schneider suspended him and confiscated his gear.
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Morrow
Maj
Sylvester
le Roy Hamilton
Metropolitan Police Force
Seventh Precinct
Hamilton
Schneider
Georgetown
Charities and relief groups receive joint committee gifts
A Washington social leader closes a year with donations totaling to the Associated Charities Citizens Relief Association and the Committee on Prevention of Consumption. Contributions listed include amounts from Hugh Wallin Henry Ward Louisa Simonds Philip Reily and others transferred by the Joint Finance Committee to fund charity work and the anti consumption campaign.
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L. B. Lawrence
C. W. Shoemaker
M. Orton Chapman
Lucy M. Hewitt
John J. Rothermel
Arthur G. Cole
Ellen N. Warder
F. J. Lewis
Mabel L. Taylor
Daniel McFarran
William H. Taft
Thomas B. Woodward
James C. Merrill
Daingerfield Parker
Misses Coyle
Citizens’ Relief Association
Milton E. Ailes
Augustus G. Heaton
Wallace Radcliffe
C. K. Goulding
Apartment House to Rise on Twelfth Street Northwest
Ground will be broken this week by Harry Wardman for a four story brick apartment house on Twelfth street between M and W streets north west. The 24 unit building, with stone trim and steel frame, will range from one to four rooms with baths and is 50 by 60 feet. completion is expected by July. Plans by A H Beers. A three story Roman brick dwelling at 281 Eighteenth Street northwest sold to Charlotte M Daily for 6750 by Stone Fairfax Realty. investment purchase. ten rooms, hardwood, steam heat.
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Twelfth Street
Bath
A. H. Beers
Mighteenth Street
Charlotte M. Daily
Btone && Fairfax
Red Cross Lectures Begin at St John’s Parish Hall
Miss Nevins superintendent of Garfield Hospital opened a six lesson course on home nursing under the Red Cross Society at St John’s Parish Hall yesterday. More than 100 women attended and benefited from the instruction and demonstrations by trained nurses. Lectures continue each Monday at 4:00 PM until completion.
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Alpheus Middleton Dies After Brief Illness
Alpheus Middleton of Browning and Middleton, located at m8 Pennsylvania avenue, died at 2 o clock yesterday morning at his home 10 Third Street Northeast after an illness of two days. He was seventy four and a lifelong resident, in business with Browning since 1868. Funeral services will be at Trinity Episcopal Church Third and C Streets Northwest at 1 o clock tomorrow morning, with interment at Oak Hill Cemetery.
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Oak Tall Cemetery
Boy's Eye to Be Taken Out After Accident
Eleven year old James A. Bureh was brought from Anacostia to Emergency Hospital after a cousin accidentally discharged a gun in his right eye. Dr. Charles S White will operate to remove the eye. The eye began swelling and the severity of the left eye's injury remains undetermined.
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Anacostia
Charles S White
Piano dealer sues for slander in district court
UA Geer George Lawrence a piano dealer at 924 Ninth Street yesterday sued George L Goodacre in the District Supreme Court for 10000 damages for alleged slander He alleges that on December 24 with intent to injure his good name neighbors suspected he had been guilty of stealing lying and dishonest transactions
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George Lawrence
Ninth Street
George L. Goodacre
District Supreme Court
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Goodacre
Stray Bullet May Kill A Witness In Quarrel
Charles E Washington a colored man is in critical condition at the Emergency Hospital after being shot in the back near 1 Sixth and G streets southwest He says he was watching a quarrel when a revolver was drawn and fired Potomac Army Veteran Daniel Sweeney dies at 2441 Street Southwest a Civil War veteran who served with the Army of the Potomac He belonged to Lincoln Post Grand Army of the Republic Funeral at St Peters Church tomorrow at 9 am and interment at Mount Olivet Cemetery
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Mount Olivet Cemetery
Southern Railway Cuts Salaries On Feb 1 1908
President Finley of the Southern Railway Company announced a 10 percent salary reduction for the president vice presidents and other general officers and their office forces due to falling business and reduced revenues.
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Wills Filed for Probate Naming Four Estates and Beneficiaries
Four probate filings name heirs and executors from distinct estates. Miss Mildlowgate is sole heir of Cordelia Howgate, who died October 12, 1907. John Fogarty’s will leaves all property to his wife Johanna Fogarty. William M. Lewis bequeaths most to his father-in-law Kate Mavars. Julia Marks’s husband William A. Marks is executor and sole beneficiary of her estate comprising real and personal property.
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Corcoran Street
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Iis
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Gambling Sentences for Sarnes Thomas and Green
Three men named John Sarnes Joseph Thomas and James Green were jailed for three months each after gambling convictions by Judge Kimball They faced fines and the jail terms The items also note assorted local ads and notices including pantry goods and curbing contracts and personnel promotions in the police department
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Joseph Thomas
James Green
Kimball
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