Silent City of South Carolina Soldiers in Charles Town Cemetery
A South Carolina feature lists soldiers buried at the Charles Town National Cemetery in West Virginia. Curator Robert M. Baylor offers to provide details on deaths and units for readers seeking information about specific names such as J. Kettell, N. W. Culler, J. Moleskin, A. Buck, G. W. Gill, and others from various SC regiments.
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Robert M. Baylor
West Virginia
South Carolina
National Cemetery
Charlestown
Virginia
Destroy Fleet Invention Attracts German Officials
Berlin dispatch reports a novel invention to protect the German coast. Engineer Hollmann seeks a provisional patent for magnetic stations along shores and river mouths to lure and grounding hostile ironclads, aided by existing five ton magnetic cranes in harbors.
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Berlin
Germany
Hollmann
Patent Office
Captain Hains Quietly Begins Prison Life at Sing Sing
Captain Peter C. Hains Jr. arrived at Sing Sing to begin an eight year minimum term for murder. He was assigned prisoner number 59 293 and transferred to cell 308 after shaving and clothing. He expressed interest in electrical engineering and will have access to the prison library and a two month initial visiting ban.
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Peter C. Hains, Jr
Sing Sing
John F. McIntyre
William E. Annis
Hains
Ossining
Guilfoil
Grand Central Station
Ossinin
Major Hains
Henry C. Westlake
Frost
Howells Fortune Left to Charities and Kin
Made fortune of 100000 from penny toy shop in Trenton. By Henry B. Howell's will he leaves 85000 to charitable institutions and temperance causes. The 93 year old bachelor's remaining estate goes to his nephew Thomas J. Sawyer of Worcester Massachusetts and niece Mrs Anna M. Smith of Maldon Massachusetts.
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Trenton
Henry B. Howell
Howell
Thomas J. Sawyer
Worcester
Mass
Anna M. Smith
Malden
New Railroad to Georgetown via Bennettsville
The News and Courier reports a proposed rail line from the North to Georgetown via Winston Salem Rockingham and Bennettsville. John Ickes leads a syndicate planning routes with a Rockingham start and a Bennettsville southern branch possibly yielding trains within a year.
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Georgetown
Bennettsville
News and Courier
John Ickes
Worth
Winston
N. C
Rockingham
S. C
Atlantic Coast
Ickes
Montgomery
Richmond
North Carolina
Richmond County
Marlb Oe
Ridge Cemetery
J. L Jordan
Marlboro
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Capt. Hains
Dents
OUR
Carolina
Georgetown Grocery Co
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