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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Sep 12, 1907
Page
34
Rumors reach Washington that Secretary of the Navy Joseph Metcalf may resign or be replaced as his mysterious absence stretches into days. Officials debate implications for the administration and Navy leadership while critics question his future role and possible trip plans for a fleet voyage.
A dated transfer notes a purchaser acquiring a residence at Vig Fourth Street, with details referencing improvements, a brick store, and a value described as BRID. The filing mentions a local broker and a party identified as Aniann fr Dares Wehr, with uncertain or garbled surrounding data about the transaction and location.
Ten applicants will seek naturalization in a hearing before Justice Gould tomorrow. The group includes settlers from various countries who have established themselves in business and become part of the community. Colonel Clay remains in serious condition and hospitalized after an illness. doctors report a slow recovery ahead.
Funeral services were held at her home in a South Carolina town for Miry Massandra Lewis widow of Cendoneph I Lewis who died at Providence Hospital. Rev Father O Brien of St Pot ek Church officiated. The interment followed a late night service after a train to Frankfort Ry. Lewis, noted for her Civil War activity, accompanied her husband on campaigns. Her husband, Gen Lewis, commanded the Orphans Brigade in Kentucky.
The piece describes a typical fall day in Washington with morning warmth giving way to a rapid afternoon cool down. Temperatures fell about 17 degrees by the official thermometer and 12 by another station, altering the day from summerlike to fall. District Forecaster Henry forecast cool, fair weather for today and tomorrow, a forecast that boosts his local popularity.
Paul G Monk of Washington DC and Cleveland Ohio died today of typhoid fever while serving as an immigrant inspector. A Raleigh bar admittee aged 38, he moved from Washington on March 1 and had worked in Irrigation and Immigration services. He resided at 1010 N Street Northwest and was married.
Margarete Reilly, ten months old, nearly died after a nurse mistook a bottle of bichloride tablets for calomel and gave several tablets at the summer home near Cabin John Bridge. Drs Logan Owens and Gwent treated her through the day, but the child failed to survive the poisoning despite five physicians’ efforts.
A person named Alex Padgett was found unconscious on the railroad tracks at the east end of Ridge Way near 9 o clock last night. He was taken to a Southwest Washington drug store for rapid treatment after being found with head injuries. The man said he had been pushed off a Washington Alexandria and Mount Vernon Railway train but would not discuss the possible motive or whether it was an accident.
City police were notified yesterday that a cast iron horse trough weighing about sixty pounds and valued at 3280 was stolen from a stable in the rear of a property on Connecticut Avenue Northwest. The owner, Bir Phillips, says several other items have gone missing over the past two or three years and efforts to catch the thief or thieves have so far failed.
Mrs Sarah Holmes petitions for divorce from James Holmes of 338 Virginia Avenue Southwest after alleging cruelty and forcible removal from the home. Justice Gould denied alimony in the Sut for Divorce. lawyers vow to continue the fight in her favor.
Berlin reports Viscount Aoki may be reassigned to the German embassy in succession to Count Inouye as Japan’s envoy to the United States prepares for departure. A photo card of President Roosevelt, sent via a German courier to Lena Morgenweck, has a long journey through German cities before ending up in Berlin.
A distressed fragment reports a card delivered in Bremen about Abe Morgenweck heading to America to receive a White House gold repair, with jewelers in New York and Philadelphia involved, and the claim that the President sent news via mail to an American lady.
Funeral plans set for Col Robert Fleming a Washington leader born in Goochland Va January 15 184 while serving in the Richmond Fayette Artillery he rose to lieutenant during the Civil War later became an architect and city engineer in Richmond and a Washington legislator He died at a suburban home after a three year illness Brights disease he leaves a wife a daughter Mrs James Curea and a son Robert Fleming in civic service he supported Confederate veterans and many civic initiatives funeral at Oak View tomorrow at 1 PM with St Albans rites and Masonic pallbearers existing links to local institutions noted
The fourth war encampment of the United Spanish War Veterans of America ended at Cedar Point with Boston chosen to host next year. Officers were elected, including Walter Scott Hale as commander in chief and John H Grant as surgeon general. The Women’s Auxiliary also elected officers led by Mrs Elisabeth McNamars as president general.
An estate valued around 1000 dollars and real estate worth about 7000 is left in trust by Mia Rocca for six children, with John B Rocca named executor. The will directs the trust until the youngest grandchild reaches twenty one, with two sons permitted lifetime use of a home on an F Street. The income is to be shared among the six children, and Giovanni and David Rocca receive a prior 1000 advance offset from their mother’s share. The article also notes the death of Warren Longstreet in Boston and his survivors.
In Cusnaugue yesterday Justice Gould ordered Joseph to pay alimony to his wife Rona M Cunningham while awaiting final decision on the absolute divorce, recently brought by the wife in Intar District Suprema Court.
The United States Marine Band presents a recital at the barracks today at 5 o clock with Walter F. Smith as second reader. The program includes martial marches and selections titled Buccacela Dupes Cuphontom fein Therees Wella Muntele Ole Y May Salts Wins Women wad Boog Steaua Fan ana Fuss Qabtler De Korea Hengtian Daare.
Fifty Washington correspondents have accepted invitations to a Jamestown event. The roster lists numerous names across media outlets including Norfolk, New York, Philadelphia, and Chicago. attendees include representatives from Associated Press, United Press, and major papers.
May Sylvester reports the arrest of Dr Stewart Harrison as a suspect in the Good Hope assault. Maj Sylvester and officers Culline and Springman defend their actions, while Harrison complains of unlawful arrest and urges removal of the officers. Commissioner West proposes informing Harrison of the report and offering a formal charge option if unsatisfied.
A national convention of Opera Baptists in Washington city heard speakers opposing social intermingling and urging racial separation. Rev Dr W Moses, Rev Joseph B Foraker, and others addressed attendees from churches across the United States and abroad. Booker T. Washington's anticipated Claveton Hall address drew wide interest as sessions continued with sermons and discussions on civil rights and church mission.
Eighteen year old Merriweather of 179 Twentieth Street Northwest was charged with forging Dr. Lamb’s name on a check. Detectives Barbee and Vermillion say he intercepted two letters to Dr Lamb containing a cashable check and cashed it at the Cecil Apartments. He was employed as an errand boy there and confessed to the crime. He’ll be arraigned in Police Court this morning at the First Precinct station.
Autograph copies of James E McGirt's latest book For Your Sweet Sake available at Kann's for $100. Declared to be the greatest book by any colored author.
Secretary Taft is named in a mandamus case started yesterday in the Dietriet Supreme Court by the Philadelphia Company of Willsburgh seeking to halt his move to prohibit a criminal suit and to challenge a February 2 high water line revision on Brunda Island along the Ohio River near Allegheny Port. The case centers on the proposed coal wharf to support Dowenssen’s electricity plant and questions the authority to alter navigable water boundaries and the impact on riverfront landowners under federal law.
Weather details report showers in the Lake region and Pennsylvania while five inches of rain fell at Harelepurg. Cooler in upper Midwest and interior Mid Atlantic, warmer in the Lower Mississippi Valley and central West. A high pressure system tracked from the British Northwest toward the Central Rockies with limited precipitation expected next days. Local winds variable, northwesterly, with fresh southeasterly on the Atlantic coast. Temperature readings and sunshine hours listed for several stations, noting Harpers Ferry muddy roads and prep for European ships heading northwest.
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