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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Jan 23, 1907
Page
6
Gant Street Superintendent urges the District to allow roller skating on sidewalks in parks and less busy residential streets and to regulate the activity. He cites limited play spaces and safety concerns on busy streets, proposing selective areas for skating and banning risky coasting down steep hills.
The commissioners inspected the wreck and windlass wagon built for Rock Creek Auto and Wagon Works to aid fire duties such as pulling down unstable walls and handling railroad wrecks. They also reviewed a fourth size Metropolitan steam engine and a chemical and hose wagon slated to replace the Tennallytown unit as Engine Company No. 20, to be installed at 10 o'clock.
Cosmos Club member L B Wright protests a Seventh Street northwest five cent theater’s talking machine that plays only one tune and operates on Sundays. Police Captain Sullivan says no action can be taken, as the operator is strictly following the law, despite neighbor complaints from residents.
District notes report 35 350 in damages to property along Massachusetts avenue between North Capitol and New Jersey avenues NW due to street grade changes for Union Station connections protests claim underpayment. Items cover license office workload, police witness rules, Union Stock Company abattoir modernization, Garfield Hospital wards funding, and a brief ice cream ad at the end.
First precinct police protested renewal of E V Roche saloon license at 3M Fourteenth Street NW as disorderly. Anti Saloon League, education board, property owners and others opposed Hobart Guggenheimer wholesale liquor license at Ninth and A NW opposite Business High School. Board to decide later.
William W Conner secretary of the board of education urged Commissioners to instruct medical inspectors to examine traded school children and report defects. Health Officer Woodward said inspectors are ready to examine pupils if board desires immediate action. He notes staffing limits could delay full examinations.
Jennie E. Benson sued in District Supreme Court against Metropolitan Life Insurance Company to recover $1000 plus interest from December 2, 1906, on a life policy taken out by the late Johnson F. Benson in April 1905. She says the policy was paid for one year, and demands for payment were refused.
Trial of Congressman Binger Hermann for destroying General Land Office records was postponed from February 4 to February 11 due to District Attorney Baker’s illness. Co defendants Hyde Benson Diamond and Schneider in related land fraud cases are carried to March 4.
The District grand jury began examining witnesses in the shooting of former Utah senator Arthur Brown at the Raleigh Hotel. Witnesses include Dr. Larkin Glazebrook deputy coroner Charles White Theodore Taity Josephine Kidwell BC Owens and officers Frank Emmett BA Lamb Clifford Grant Guy Burlingame and others.
W H G Scott a railway mail clerk filed suit in the District Supreme Court seeking 310,000 damages for alleged negligence that left streets unsafe He says on November 27 near New York avenue and Thirteenth street he fell through an open coal hole suffering injuries and a nervous shock plus medical costs and loss of duties Charles Fletcher colored on trial for his wife Della murder the panel exhausted before a jury and fresh talesmen summoned Mrs Mary Hutton granted 40 alimony per month in a limited divorce case against William P Hutton James M Goldsby sues Washington Railway and Electric Company for 10,000 damages after a November 24 1908 incident where a car started suddenly throwing him to the street Mardi Gras rates to New Orleans mobile and Pensacola February 7 12 1907 via Southern Railway with stops allowed.
The final day for an appeal in the William Burge murder case expired yesterday with no appeal filed. Burge, a colored man, has been twice convicted and three times sentenced to be hanged for his wife’s murder, each stay granted on appeal or technicality. He faces execution early in April as the district attorney’s office plans to have the appeal notice wiped from records to avoid further delays.
Jesse Bowyer alias Bowie of 1008 Seventh street southeast pleaded guilty to bigamy in Police Court yesterday. Held for grand jury under $1 bail. It is alleged he married Bila Chase of Baltimore in November 1905 and, in June last year, married Viola Simms of 1008 Seventh street. Both wives ready to testify at trial.
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