Elder's Report Sparks Debate At Baltimore Methodist Session
Baltimore ministers clashed over Presiding Elder Richardson's note that only 40 percent of Girls' Latin School students were Methodist. Dr. M. F. B. Rice condemned publicizing the figure. The conference heard reports on Epworth League growth, Sunday schools, and finances, with memorial services for deceased ministers and a White House visit.
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Baltimore
The
Methodist Episcopal Church
Foundry Church
M. F. B. Rice
South Baltimore
C. Herbert Richardson
Latin School
West Virginia
W. T. McDowell
Frederick
White House
Warren
Denver
Coto
Haworth League
H. 8
France
East Baltimore
Epworth
Epworth League
East Bartimore
Rice
Death of Elbert Clagett longtime District official
Elbert Clagett born February 20 1835 in the District of Columbia died at 9 10 pm at the residence of his niece Mrs Otho R Beall 201 KE Street NW after more than a year of illness He served as assistant superintendent in the District street department for many years resigning due to heart and kidney illness His family includes brothers William H Clagett and Dorsey Clagett and surviving sister Mrs Smith Thompson He will be buried at Rock Creek Cemetery with his birth date inscribed on the family monument He never married.
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Elbert Clagett
Darius and
Providence Clagett
Otho R. Beall
KE Street
Clagett
Mr. Clagett
District of Columbia
Eleventh Street
Woodward & Lothrop Dry Geoods
Darius Clagett
Maurice Clagett
Mr. Clagatt
Wiliam H. Clagett
Rock Creek Cemetery
Monorail Work Halted by Takoma Council Permit Denied
Takoma Park officials withholds permit from Baltimore and Washington Transit Company after a special conference with Mayor Kinnear and council members. E I Mellen of the transit firm proposes 60 day completion and tests on the old branch trolley line to Wildwood. Council suspends all work pending further investigations and a decision next Tuesday night.
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Takoma
Benjamin Davis
Merven
Counil
Mel Jen
Col Higsby Injured By Falling Scaffold On F Street
Col G H Higsby was struck by a falling scaffold piece on F Street in front of the Sun Building. He refused hospital care, went to Albany apartments, where a physician treated severe head and body contusions. Though serious, the injuries are not believed fatal. A gale caused the timber’s collapse as onlookers aided him.
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F Street
Sun Building
G. WH. Higsby
Albany
Col. Higsby
First Precinct
Lafayette fete postponed statue not ready for unveiling
The Lafayette equestrian statue by Paul Bartlett will not be ready for the July 4 fete planned by the Lafayette Memorial Commission, and the event is postponed. The statue will be cast in Washington later this year, and 15,000 unsold souvenir dollars were returned to the U S Treasury to protect buyers at a prior premium. Mrs Julia A Anderson sues Capital Traction for 16000 damages over a 193 car incident at Pennsylvania Avenue and Madison Place Northwest. A street car collision damaged Judge Charles F Scott's carriage. he was shaken but unharmed. Richard Ford, 23, of 1219 Hope Avenue Southeast, had his foot crushed by a coal wagon near South Capitol and I Streets Southeast, with amputation expected at Providence Hospital.
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M. F. B. Rice
South
Hichardson
Woman's College of Baltimore
John @. Goucher
Goucher
Richardson
Woman's of
Woodrow Wilson
Princeton University
Cranston, Burke
Hobinson
Moore
Bt Sldy
Montlion
J. A. Price
C. D. Smith
W. S. McKenney
Robert J. Nicholson
William Carden
Guy A. Luttrell
Arthur H. McKinley
West Virginia
D. McDowell
Frederick
W. 8. Edwards
W. A. Koontz
Joel Brown
D. G. Miller
Eller McDowell
C. T. Coombes
Hyndman
Charles D. Smith
Durbin G. Miller
George W. Feelernger
John L. Walsh
Shakespeare
W. L. Davidson
American University
Lafayette
Paul Bartlett
Lafayette Memorial Commission
State Hay
Loubet
France
Roosevelt
Washington
United States Treasury
Paris
Anderson
Justice Clabaugh
Julia A. Anderson
Capital Traction Company
Pennsylvania Avenue
Madison Place
John &. Whitt
Charles Poe
R. Ross Perry
Scott
Charles F. Scott
Rinney Street
Fourteenth Street
Euclid Place
Richard Ford
Hope Aoyenne
South Capitol
I Streets
Providence Hospital
Fifth Precinct
Decline to Assist Lodging House Daughters in Distress
A telegarm recounts Mas Byiven and Maj Sylvester regarding Mrs Angen and her two daughters at 612 Louisiana Ave NW. The dying mother, claimed dropsy, refuses medical aid and charity as police board of charities and benevolent women visit. They refuse aid and refuse to leave their rooms under lock and key. One charity plans to relocate them to a country place near the city next Sunday.
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Mas
Byiventer
Angenane
Louisiana Avenue Northwest
Maj
Sylvester
Warrenton
Washington
New York
W. Shirley
Board of Charities
Apartment House Robbers Sentenced Five Years Each
Justice Wright sent Eugene Cole and Amos Scott to the penitentiary for five years after pleading guilty to housebreaking at the Chapin apartment house. Philadelphians involved also included Russell Bowers who got six months in the workhouse after a guilty plea to robbery. Maire and Nowlin received various sentences for receiving stolen goods and robbery respectively.
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Cole
Scott
Justice Wright
Eugene Cole
Amos Scott
Chapin
Russell Bowers
Bowers
Jackson
Lindsey
Maire
W. Baldwin Johnson
Wendon Nowlin
Wright
Nowlin
Leonard Payne
Changes on Southern Railway Promote Ackert to Fourth VP
Southern Railway announces a series of promotions in its officer ranks led by H. Ackert moving from general manager to fourth vice president in charge of the operating department. T. C. Powell becomes fifth vice president handling traffic in the West and the St. Louis Louisville route. H. B. Spencer succeeds Ackert as general manager. Other promotions include L. Green, G. R. Browder, Randall Clifton, W. H. Paxton, I. Graves, and C. P. Cooper, all advancing within freight and line management duties.
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Ackert
Southern Railway
H. Ackert
T. C. Powell
Freight Trae
St. Louis
Trafic
St. Louis-Louisville
Prominent New York Man Taken to Washington Hospital
Hon Elliott Danforth III of New York City, ill at the New Willard Hotel for about a week, was moved to Providence Hospital yesterday morning. His wife and son, Dr Edward Danforth, are with him. Dr G Lloyd Magruder said he was progressing nicely but with a continued fever a mild form of typhoid. The transfer was for better care, not due to a worsened condition.
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Washington Hospital
Elliott Danforth
New York City
New Willard Hotel
Providence
Edward Danforth
G. Lloyd Magruder
Danforth
Weather conditions and forecast across the United States
The Weather Bureau reports a Plateau storm moving slowly east from Colorado with rain and snow in the north. Cooler, fair conditions in the Missouri and Upper Mississippi valleys plus the East. Special forecasts warn Western Colorado cold wave and frost for Nevada. Local readings show temperatures from mid 60s to mid 80s with mixed sunshine and wind shifts along coasts and Great Lakes.
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Upper Lake Region
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Minn
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Rights clash over public records in district dispute
Attorney George Sullivan protests district handling of copies of records in a special assessment case involving Margaret Handley. Commissioner West recommends informing Sullivan that records are open only after compliance with existing orders and an affidavit detailing the necessity and specifics of requested copies. Also reports Italian worker Pacquarie de Palazies injured by a blasting accident at Smith stone quarry near Chain Bridge.
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George
Margaret Handley
Square 700
Sullivan
West
Pacquarie de Palazies
Smith Stone
Chain Bridge
Virginia
Child Hit by Cartridges After Hatchet Blowup
Katherine Jenkins ten year old, living at 123 Reeves Street Northwest, was playing in the back yard when she struck loaded cartridges with a hatchet. The explosion lodged a bullet in her side and cut her foot. At Freedmen's Hospital an operation was reported as performed but the bullet could not be found. The doctor says the wound is lacerated and bleeding but not likely to be serious unless inflammation develops. She was alone when the accident occurred.
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Katherine Jenkins
Reeves Street Northwest
Freedman’s Hospital
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Bradbury Memorial M. B
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Pilgrim Light Lunch
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United States
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Mary
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Herbert 2. Smith
Alexandria
Mt. Vernon
Shoomaker CO
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14Th St
Coberth
Steve
Idth
Osteopathy
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Rssmes
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Pope
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