Evening Star Newspaper, December 19, 1923, Page 14

-14 BARNARD ANDEOX PAI HGH TRBUTES Late Members of Columbia Historical Society Rated Benefactors of D. C. Reading biographical sketches of the lives of two members of the Co- Iumbia Historical Soclety who died this year featured a meeting of that organization in the Cosmos Club last night A sketeh of the life of Judge Job Barnard was read by Walter C. Cle- phane, while the life of Willlam Van Zant Cox was commemorated through the reading of a sketch by Allen C. Clark, president of the soclety. The paper read by Mr. Clark was prepared by Victor B. Deyber. Judge Barnard was praised as a& soldier, as a justice of the Supreme Court of the District and as a private citizen. Mr. Clephane told how Mr. Parnard had enlisted at the outbreak of the clvil war. Mr. Barnard was a Quaker, Mr. Clephane explained, and enlisted in the Army only affer a mental battle with certain religious promoted to led his company duri It was wh ' ' i ¥ Wild‘Santa,’With Big Wrench,Halts Train 20 Minutes By the Associated Press. STEUBENVILLE, Ohio, December 19.—While Engincer Red Shipley and his fireman were inspecting the locomotive of the fast New York to St. Louis mail train on the Pennsylvania railroad, when a stop was made here for water, late yesterday, Clement Foutz, thirty, of this city, climbed into the cab. “I'm Santa Claus, so giddap!” he shouted as he yanked at the levers of the engine. ~Luckily, his manip- ulation was imperfect and the locomotive, hauling twenty cars of mail, failed to budge. Shipley and his fireman tried in vain to remove Foutz who, waving a huge wrench, defied any one who mounted the engirn After a twenty-minute delay, during wh traffic over the Panhandle system was held up for the mail train, police, by a ruse, got into the cab and arrested Foutz. much more beautiful if it could be witnessed in company with a “pair of black eyes.” He later married the Founy lady who had been his Inspira- tion. Telling of Judge B justice of the Supren > District, ho said he been loved v d the af- en Judge Barnard THE EVENING- BTAR, WASHINGTOR, THREE HOMES ROBBED OF CASH AND JEWELRY Saul's Addition Residents Made Uneasy by Series of ¥ Thefts. Burglars have been causing resi- dents of Saul's Addition much un- easiness the past few days. A num- ber of houses have been entered, usually through an unlocked window, the intruders specializing in cash and Jewelry. Three homes were entered night while occupants slept. At the home of F. M. 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