If He Does Not He Is Blamed Dr Gwynn Fined for No Car Light
Dr William C Gwynn was fined five dollars for driving with no rear light. Police Officer Connor testified that he stopped Gwynn after leaving Harvey's restaurant at Eleventh Street and Pennsylvania Avenue NW. Judge Mulloway criticized meddling police before noting warnings can be seen as officious.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dr. Gwynn
Mulloway
William C. Gwynn
Connor
Harvey
Eleventh Street
Pennsylvania Avenue
Gwynn
Inmate Nicholas Sewell Dies After 51 Years at Asylum
Nicholas Sewell, an eighty year old patient at the Government Hospital for the Insane, died Sunday after fifty one years as an inmate. He believed himself a king and treated other patients as subjects. He had been admitted on March 12, 1855 and was buried in the asylum cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nicholas Sewell
Sewell
Nestor
Negrot
I MIGHT A' BEEN JAGGED Judge Plea in Disorderly Conduct Case
James Reed pleaded not guilty to using profanity and being disorderly but was fined after Policeman Hartman testified Reed blasphemed while urged home. In a probate matter, Jonathan Flamilton's will directs sale of part of square 515 lot 22, with proceeds to Harriet Robinson Mary Hamilton and Fannie Hamilton, as heirs. Samuel M. Tyler named executor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Reed
Mullgway
Hartman
First Precinct
Reed
Jonathan Flamilton
Square
Harriet Robinson
Mary Hamilton
Fannie Hamilton
Samuel M. Tyler
Complainant Loses $10 000 Suit In Circuit Court
A jury in Circuit Court No 1 awarded Capital Traction Company $10 000 damages against Edward A Savoy in a suit arising from an accident December 12 1902 near Eleventh and U streets where Savoy was allegedly thrown from a streetcar. Attorneys B Ross Perry Son and G Dunlop defended for the company.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Capital Traction Company
Edward A. Savoy
Eleventh
U- Streets
Ross Perry
District boundary revisions reorganize six subdistricts
District Supreme Court in general term promulgated new boundary lines for six subdistricts. defines street center as boundary rule. Subdistricts include Nos. 1 through 4 and 6 with specified starting points and routes, offices listed at 1205 G Street, 627 F Street, 456 D Street, 911 G Street, and in the Columbian Building and Fennall Building. Harmony Council installs officers and hosts supper after installation. A separate suit seeks 25,000 damages from Capital Traction Company for a December 14 incident at Eleventh Street and Pennsylvania Avenue Northwest. Will of Richard Rothwell filed. daughter Lillie is bequeathed household effects. others named executors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
District Supreme Court
Charles S., Bundy
Fourth
D Streets
Fourth Street
F Street
I Street
Fifteenth Street
Pennsylvania Avenue
Twenty-third Street
Twenty Third Street
Rock Creek
Potomac River
Sixth Street
D Street
Columbian Building
Traction Company
Mary ‘C. Horton
A. §. Worthington
Capital Traction Company
Eleventh Street
Richard Rothwell
Lillie
Virginia Henjamin
William Wagner
Lillie Rothwell
Disbarment Hearing For District Bar Members
May disbarment actions loom as a district Supreme Court session convenes this afternoon to decide whether certain district bar members should be disbarred. A Bar Association committee submitted a report urging three attorneys be barred, with other charges reportedly answered, and potential summary action discussed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bar Association
Clabaugh
Airship Models Return From New York Exposition
William J. Barker secretary to the chief clerk of the Patent Office yesterday brought back eleven airship and flying machine models exhibited at the Astro Chile exposition in New York City. By law models filed in the Patent Office cannot be removed from custody, and this marked the first time any left the Patent Office museum on G street between Sixth and Seventh streets northwest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William J. Barker
Patent Office
New York City
Hitchcock
Asro
Chile
Patent Office Museum
G Street
Sixth
Seventh Streets
Naval battalion disbands after three officers refuse to resign
Gen Harries ordered the naval battalion disbanded following informal findings of disharmony. Adjt Gen Brett and aides plan for reorganization as Lieuts Brummett Cox and Hance refuse to surrender commissions. The entire unit except Lt Ghase were aboard the Puritan when the decision was announced. All officers to be honorably discharged.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harries
District National Guard
Brett
R. B. Brummett
Clifford Cox
William Hance
Brummett
Cox
Enaign Brett
United States
Police Learn Real Names in Forgery Case
Police learn from a New York telegram that the woman calling herself Mrs. Catherine Berger is actually Mrs. Catherine Bolsh, and the girl is Elizabeth Bolsh, not Elizabeth Ray. The mother and daughter face forgery and complicity charges tomorrow in Police Court as detectives Parham and O'Brien prepare to present evidence to the grand jury.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Catherine Berger
Senator Depew
Catherine Bolsh
Elizabeth Ray
Eizabeth Bolsh
Parham
O'Brien
Canary Birds Scarce In City Weathered Songsters Shortage
Washington faces a canary bird shortage as local dealers fail to fill orders from New York. The principal dealer only secured a few dozen canaries, delayed since December. Most canaries arrive from Germany or Switzerland, with immigration affecting supply as ship space favors passenger traffic.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
New York
Germany
Switzerland
Suit Over Damaged Bushes Near Boyds Maryland
Mary Howe Totten and her three children sue the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad for 5159 damages claiming dry leaves on the right of way were set on fire by railroad employees, spreading flames to their shrubbery. Attorneys Thompson and Laskey represent the plaintiffs. Johannes Mirsch seeks divorce from Anna Mirsch alleging infidelity. they wed in New York July 11, 1901. Attorney H L es filed petition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Howe Totten
Boyds
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
Thompson and Laskey
Johannes Mirsch
District Supreme Court
Anna
Mirsch
Berlin
Germany
New York
H. L. Es
Watson Defalcation Shortfall and Book Balancing
Auditor Garrison details Watson defalcation losses totaling 76 060 10 with net shortage 52 052 61 after attachments. He cites 7 months of analysis, 9 203 accounts rechecked, and 18 3 errors corrected in funds. He notes possible Congress deficiency appropriation or suit on ex Auditor Petty's bond, and that books balance pending further recovery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John. R. Garrison
Watson
Garrison
United States
Congress
Petty
Garrison Sala
District Supreme Court
Demurrer
Justice Barnard
Dong
Damages Determined in Street Grade Change Case
A District Supreme Court appointed commission to appraise damages from street grade changes finished hearing evidence on Florida avenue northeast between Third and Fifth streets. They will submit appraisements soon and next consider damages filed by owners on N street northeast between First and North Capitol streets, with examination planned for next Monday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charley A. Baker
George W. Moss
George B Spransey
District Supreme Court
Union Station
Florida Avenue Northeast
Third
Fifth Streets
A. Leftwica Sinclair
N Street
First
North Capitol Streets
Awards for M Street Condemnation Report by Jury
In District Supreme Court proceedings for extending M street east of Bladensburg road to a uniform width of ninety feet the jury returned verdicts. Damages awarded total 5,533.38 dollars while benefits assessed against abutting property total 5,995.31 dollars. The difference stems from Congress requiring the jury to include costs and expenses of the condemnation in the benefits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
District Supreme Court
M Street
Bladensburg Road
Congress
Court Seeks Removal of Trustee in Mary McKenney Estate
District Supreme Court was asked yesterday to remove Thomas E. Waggaman as trustee of Mary McKenney's estate and appoint a substitute. The petition was filed by Mary J. Cooper. Also noted are various local classified items and advertisements, including grocery prices and household goods, plus a limited divorce petition by Annie L. Corron against James A. Corron filed in the same court.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Waggaman
District Supreme Court
Thomas E. Waggaman
Mary McKenney
Mary J. Cooper
Annie L. Corron
James A. Corron
George
Drew
Gran
Johnston's
N.w. Fern Halls
Kramer's
Keene's Shoe
G St
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Saks & Company
Seventh Street
Horn’s
Baltimore
Miller Safes
Hanover Arrest
Dutac
Adway
Radway
Elm St
W.grove
Bow Groves Seashore
Marcel
Ar. M. Siccaidi
Dhono
THE
Sunday Post
Judge
Asylum
Nicholas
Gude
Samuel C. Mills
Tenth
F Streets
Pennsylvania, Avenue
Brightwood Avenue
Rock Creekford Road
Piney Branch
Fourteenth Street
Florida Avenue
Tenth Street
Thomas H. Callan
New York Avenue
Capitol Street
Lincoln Road
Harewood Road
Third Street
Bunker Hill Road
Bunker HI Road
Bennings Road
Maryland Avenue
Luke C. Strider
First Street
Virginia Avenue
Ninth Street
Anacostia River
Anacostia
B Street
Robert H.terrell
Begional
Streets
Haréwood Road
Rock Creek Ford Road
Piney Branch Road
Florida““avenue
Harmony Council
D. of A
Goodall
J. H. Fristoe
Frazer
Bransford
Cullom
Boyd
Brown
Keil
Outside Sentinel
Blance Morris
Inside Sentinel
Mr. Scott
George Cox
Naval Battalion
Depew
Elizabeth Bolsh
Canary
B. & O. R. KR. Company
D. J. Kaufman
Pa. Ave
Tian
Commission
City Bulletins
J. T. D. Pyles
Velati’s
Std
W. Smith
Ind
Paul Jones
Murphy's
Wth
Cap. St
Wiiskey
Murghy's
Rosenfeld
Imann
G&g
Adler
7Th St. and
Mass. Ave. N. W
Cravenette Coats
Antalor Antalo
Victor E. Adler
Jorimculasta
Manufacturing Department
Massachusetts Avenue
A.herman’s Sons Co
St. M. W
Maryland
Connecticut
Jersey
North Carolina
Phone North
Walker-Hughes Market Co
Conn. Ave
Selinger
S. F
R. P. Andrews Paper Co
la. Ave
D St
Home Savings Bank
7Th and
Mass. Ave
Vf McDougall Kitchen Cabinets
Mayerg CO
Seventh St
Burchell
N. W. Burchell
Speerseet
A. Eberly’s Sons
7Th St
Administerea
Keele Institute
North
Capitol -Strest
Washington, D
Columbia
John B. Espey
National Art Association
N. W
J. Maury Dove
FN. W
Ist
N.S
Hous
Washington Gas Light GO
6Th St. N. W
Inington
Ceres
Liquoses Company
Wabash Ave
Chicago
Me & Dc
Wellville
J. T. Walker Sons
Strent
M. W
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