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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Jan 27, 1915
Page
9
Mada Churchill, stage actress known as Frances Leonard, testifies in St Louis that husband Benjamin Churchill quit work after their marriage to lounge on beaches and take pictures of women in bathing costumes. Judge grants divorce. Churchill custody awarded to Mada for their 1 year old son Robert.
Andrew Tyler Huntington 72 of 1317 Monroe NW died yesterday after a long illness. He served as chief of the division of currency and loans in the Treasury Department and worked to straighten bank affairs after Jay Cooke’s failure. Survived by two daughters Mary and Louisa and son Guy. Funeral tomorrow at his house with Rev. Lewis Purdum officiating. Interment in Arington Cemetery. Born in Savannah, Ga, he moved to Springfield, Mass, as a boy and served in the Tenth Massachusetts during the Civil War.
Mrs Nellie Hackney disrupted a Fort Logan court martial at Denver by refusing to testify. The trial, over Maj Stephen M Hackney retirement alimony, was adjourned after an amicable settlement was reached. Hackney faced potential loss of 50 dollars monthly pay.
Alexander Graham Bell, back from New York, said telephone progress makes transatlantic speech feasible within a few years. He noted Pupin’s coil helped continent crossing and foresaw wireless telephony as a future path, predicting world conversations via connected cables or underwater links.
A Washington Post report from New York details more letters by attorney Lorlys Elton Rogers to his wife Mrs Ida Walters. Rogers, free on $7,500 bail awaiting trial on charges of immoral living with Walters, writes of devotion and plans, while Walters faces homicide charges over their two children. The letters express longing, references to family, and musings on future arrangements as legal proceedings continue.
In St Louis a Circuit Court divorce granted to Marie Deschapellas Bauduy Clay, wife of artist and illustrator John Cecil Clay, hinges on letters to his wife from a New York physician. No alimony awarded. she returns to her maiden name and asserts a prior separation since 1912 amid alleged strikes and insults.
The Washington Post reports Atlanta on January 26 notes Mrs. Arthur Joyce seeks a permanent injunction to restrain Hazel Sherman from pursuing her husband. The suit asks the court to protect a wife’s claim against a love triangle as she alleges Sherman followed the husband from Philadelphia to Atlanta. The case raises questions of love and law in a precedent setting court drama.
Glen Leach of Manchester Iowa connected with the Bureau of Fisheries sought help at detective headquarters for his wife Blanche Leach 35 missing from the St James Hotel since 3 PM yesterday Lieut Hartley issued a city wide lookout with no trace found Blanche is 5 feet 2 inches dark hair and eyes and had friends in Washington where she had visited before Leach said they planned to depart for the West after dinner but he returned to the hotel to search for her in vain tonight
Announcement from Mr and Mrs James Poor of New York confirms the engagement of their daughter Miss Mildred Poor to Dr A Yelverton Peyton Garnett of Washington D C. The couple will wed after a stay at the Biltmore Hotel and plan residence in Bermuda for the spring.
In Chicago January, Miss Cope is indicted for attempting to bribe government officials to obtain fifty thousand dollars from Charney Alexander of Providence, Rhode Island. She has been in custody for weeks and the trial date was set for January in the United States District Court.
Kate Brown, a strong young woman in Superior Wisconsin, disguised as a man to win a male job cleaning land. She entered a saloon, drank with the crowd, and was exposed, leading to a police call and a 15 day county jail sentence.
Special to The Washington Pont Uniontown Pa Jan 24. J W Thompson the Uniontown coal baron with $100 million fortune rose from farmer’s boy to financier, wed Honey Hawes in a private car, and later left with $1 million alimony amid a bank crash that shook Fayette and Greene counties.
Boston society women wintering in Washington have joined a new cult led by Mrs Ten Buck Wendell of Beaton Street. They attend weekly communions with philosophers, study psychology and higher consciousness, and seek to reform social life with independent thinking, aided by Miss Elizabeth Timlow and other prominent society figures.
The Washington chapter of Beta Theta Pi held its annual meeting at the University Club. Officers elected include president W. V. Cox and vice presidents C. F. Nesbit, Theodore K. Sloat, and C. W. Warburton, with EB. C. Lathrop serving as secretary-treasurer and Honorary president Willis Van Devanter of the Supreme Court.
Miss Yvette de Von seeks 50000 heart balm and 3000 plus $4000 for 1000 love letters from Andrew A. Cuneo in two New York Supreme Court actions. She alleges he promised marriage, furnished luxuries, funded her study in Florence, and misplaced letters while he denies the charges. Cuneo is an Italian banker, macaroni manufacturer, and ex racecar collaborator with ties to Mrs Joan Newton Cuneo.
Secretary Harry O Hine of the board of education received resolutions from the College Equal Suffrage League of the District of Columbia urging rescission of rule 145 in the public school code or removal of the word female. The group argues the rule punishes marriage discriminates in favor of male teachers and is absurd since married teachers may take an examination and be reinstated under rule 45 after being dropped from the payroll.
An Exchange Telegraph report says German forces seized copper valued at about $10,000 from the Belgian government's wireless station in Brussels. Bruges telegrams claim the famous castle of the Dukes of Burgundy was partly destroyed by fire with the cause not yet known.
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