Jury Complete as Testimony Began in Wife Slayer Case
A Chesterfield Virginia court began taking testimony in the murder trial of a man accused in a wife killing. Nine of the assembled sixteen jurors are lean farmers. the defense used four peremptory challenges. Names and ages of jurors announced, all listed as farmers or associated roles, with the panel narrowed to twelve by challenge.
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Chesterfield
Tiemiy Clay
Richmond
Chester
commonwealth
Farley
qimeryman
ELL. Wilson
farmer
A. L. Fetteroff
camlraetor
J. Hass
Fugna
Hierg
ifty-sevour
Mas A. Hancock
ewis
P. Kooks
Beattie
MM. Smith, Jr
Wits
Waller A. Watson
Virginia
Thomas Owen
Col John McElroy May Be Elected G A R Chief
Col John McElroy may be elected commander in chief of the G A R and becomes a candidate after discussions with lawyers. The article notes jurors and court proceedings in a Virginia case, a youth dying after being locked in a car for days, and unrelated news from Japan, New London birthday celebration, and an auto accident in Norristown.
Taft reviews Grand Army parade at Rochester encampment
President Taft reviews the Grand Army of the Republic parade in Rochester addressing veterans at the convention hall. The election of a new commander in chief dominates the gathering with Col John McElroy opposing Judge Harvey M. Trimble over pension bill debates.
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Rochester
Grand Army
Repubic
Taft
enor
drun
Une
Yne stand
Washington square
New York Central
Edgerton
Grand Army reception committee
Twenty-ninth infantry
United States
John McElroy
Washington
the
National Tribune
Harvey M. Trimble
Illinois
Froth
Salone Mekhiroy
Sultoway
Judge Trimble
Sherwood
Funeral for John W. Gates Held in Plaza Assembly Room
New York august 24 funeral rites for financier John W. Gates were held in the Hotel Plaza assembly room. Ministers officiated, Mozart Ave Verum Corpus played, and a Moses cross backdrop stood above the coffin. Interment followed at Woodlawn, with honorary pallbearers and a Port Arthur tribute from the preacher. Gates left an estate valued at 30 to 40 million dollars, largely to his widow and son Charles, with ten year restrictions on selling, plus numerous legacies to relatives, friends, and former employees. A second item notes a counterfeit ten dollar bill spotted by the treasury department in Washington.
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New York
John W. Gates
Parla
Hotel Plaza
lfe
Mozart
Schumann
Franko
hak
Woodlawn
Fifth avenue
J. W. La Grane
Port Arthur
Tex
Neely
manao
Mr. Gates
Gates
Texas
John &. Harris
J. S. Culimane
Alfred Clifford
Arnold Schliner
John A. Drake
Charles M. Sewab
James Hopkins
John J. Mitchell
Edwin Hawley
E. W. Ogleby
Alvin W. Krech
Tt. H. Woodworth
Sir Donald Mann
Harry S. Black
Grant B. Schley
C. ff
Charles G. Nates
Gildersleeve
Nates
Fluvsa
Eleven take black veil in Reading Catholic order
In Reading Pennsylvania on August 24 eight young women professed and eleven took the black veil with the St Bernardine Sisters at their mother house chapel. Mass was celebrated by Rev Peter Maszolo and sermon by Rev Alfred Wrobleski a former German count who renounced his estates to join the church. The veiled candidates were young Polish born women from the coal regions.
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Reading
St. Bernardine Sisters
Peter Maszolo
Altentown
Alfred Wrobleski
Bethlehem
Baltimore and Ohio appoints traffic manager
O P McCarty, general passenger agent of the Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern and Cincinnati Hamilton and Dayton railroads, is named traffic manager of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad campus in Baltimore. British strike losses hit railroads with London and North Western reporting a weekly receipts drop of 395,000.
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Cincinnati
P McCarty
Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern
Hamilton and Payton
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Shh
Baltimore
London
traff ‘ic
London and North western railways
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ROSENSTOCK BROS
One-Price Outfitters
Zoo
ALLEN G. QUYNN
G. L
G.L. BAKING CO
Frederick, Md
valve
North Market Street
Jas. Carros
Prop
Frederick County
Frederick City
MOTTER BROS. & CO
Newspaper
HRDHIVE
Markell & Ford
Moving Pictures
Segin
Adessa
WHITE CROSS
Lehr Piano
IBIRELY
Palace of Music
Car
J. iP. KEMP
Lombard St
FELTON & KELLY
S. MARINO
BALTIMORE & OHIO
Frederick
HARNER’S DRUG STORE
COL
George Heed
Pittsburg
Philadelphia and Reading railway
Tamaqua
Philadelphia
Tamaqua yards
Japan
Russia
Tokio
Angara
navy of
Anegawa
New London
Conn
Mary Anne Petereon
menely
Norristown
Peters
Harvey Charles
DeKalb and
Brown streets
Teading Transit company
G. A
W. GATES
Florel Plaza
Fort Dearborn National Bank of Chicago
treasury department
treasury
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