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Washington Post

Location

Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America

Date

Apr 09, 1908

Page

21

False claims in Osborne marriage annulment probe

Local report from New York on April 4 references a letter to Justice Boyd by Herbert Osborne denying involvement in deceiving identity ahead of Helen Maloney and Osborne’s marriage. Osborne asserts the letter’s statements are utterly false and written to hide his identity, complicating Moss Maloney’s annulment pursuit and disputing the letter’s authorship and timing.

New York Boyd Mamaroneck Helen Mooney Herbert Osborne Moss Maloneys Ostorne Mss Welopéy Treedon Samuel Clarkson Europe Crue Miss Maloney de Lette Osborne Broad Street Helen Mason Inttsburg Walon Ins

Long-ago Obituary Fragment Recording Many Names and Deaths

A garbled obituary fragment lists multiple individuals with scattered details and residences. It mentions dates in April 1905, several ages, and last places of residence but readability is limited. The piece references families, streets, and institutions in a historic city, with numerous misread names and broken lines.

Baron Goes To Poorhouse In Omaha Claiming Nobility

Baron Loui de Ginsberg, claiming kinship to Count de Castellane and Prince de Sagan, was placed in a charity ward at the county hospital in Omaha. He said he lost 3000 dollars in the Boer War and had a history of disturbances, including an arrest in Kansas City and a discharge after promising not to repeat the act. He had lived in Kansas City, then Omaha, after leaving New York.

Omaha Nebr Baron’ Loui de Ginsberg Bont de Castellane Prince Helle de Sagan Baron de Ginsberg Kansas City Henry Louis de Ginsberg Webster Davis Davis de Ginsberg New York

Mrs McKee Divorce Hearing in Paris Continues

In Paris the McKee divorce suit hearing proceeded as Mrs McKee, formerly Mrs Hugh Tevis, sues A Flint McKee. The proceedings feature countercharges by McKee and testimonies by Marthe Barboux defending Miss Lawlor and disputing alleged improprieties with Marquis Guglielmi. The counsel notes American virtue yet condemns striking at an adversary’s character and warns McKee of public backlash.

Paris Mckee Mekhee Hugh Tevis Flart Mckee Mattre Martie Barboux Marquis Guglielmi Miss Lawlor McKees Barbeux Minkee Bridge Nisplay Jabort Barbour VeRee Guglelmi Guguielm Melhee Pir Orlock France

Licensed to Marry Names and Ages Across the States

A jumble of marriage licenses lists individuals such as James J Hanna and Grace Cees in Maryland and Pennsylvania, with ages spanning early twenties to mid thirties. Other pairs include Rey H Schroeder and Idge Fentress, Lillian Berman and Hey Got Garon Willis Harlan, among many dated connections and locations from New York City to Martinsburg West Virginia.

James J Hanna Grace Cees Manchester Rey H Schroeder Idge Fentress France Lillian Berman Garon Willis Harlan Mary A Simpson George M Cummings Fletcher H Tones Bertha E Sullivan Rey Theron Outwater Willem Moss Ruth E Claygo Rehmend Rey J B Mclaughlin Joeph Falmer Crystal Mul Tila Mourne Richmond Rey Zhur & Armstrong New York City Ani Mabel S Rinker Martinsburg Stealey Ohn Taemas Mary M McJohnson Dennis John Chapmin Beatrice Howell

Health Office Record Entry From April Seventh

Listed names and ages include Jeams Mikeown, 28, Nellie A Joyce at OCmergen y Hospital 74, Sisec Mary 8, Tambert D Steiner at Washington Barracks 66, Mimael B Buckle 6, Susan G Monleth 60, with associated addresses on S Street and 24th Street Northeast. Records show patients and ages, reflecting a health office log of multiple individuals.

Jeams Mikeown Nellie A Joyce Ocmergen Hosptal Sisec Mary Consshi Tambert Steiner Washington Barracks Mimael Buckle Susan G Monleth

Ask Sagan's Record Seeks Full Past Details From Paris

Paris police may supply a complete life history of Prince Helie de Sagan to George Gould as he demands financial and gambling records. Mme Gould denies engagement while the Gould family faces debts and mortgages on Sagan and Petit Ger d land. The prince dismisses the threat, saying no past actions will trouble him and hints Mme Gould may travel to Paris with her children.

Washington Post New York George J Gowd Pole Paris Helie de Sagan Gould Mme Gould George Goulds Helles Sagan Petigerd Hellles Dareth Charity of Friends Prince Helie St Hegs Joan George Gould Marjorie George Could Cne Pans France

Prof Langston Dead In St Tous Annu Yrof Arthur Langston

Prof Langston principal of the Dumas Hfagu School and over thirty years a noted Negro educator died at his home in St Tous Annu Yrof Arthur Langston mother Mrs Jehn Langston aged seventy in Washington DC is ill His survivors include his widow and two sons One brother Ralph Langston is assistant inspector of weights in Newark and another brother Frank Langston is deputy assessor in Washington DC

St Tous Annu Yrof Arthur D Langston Princinal Dumas Hfagu Jehn MM Langston Washington, DC Langston John Mercer Tanasten Almiteck Hadti Ralph GE Langston Newarkity Vrank Mangston

Local option results show broad anti-saloon gains nationwide

Across 886 townships plus 84 counties the anti-saloon majority rose to about 29,700 votes with 1,623 dry townships and 22,000 wet. Colorado towns split with nineteen dry and sixteen wet, while Missouri counties also swung dry in Monroe County. Overall, the temperance vote trimmed saloon operation and reshaped local jurisdictions.

Chingo Montinue Busness Denver Colo Apill Colorado Aption Lincoln Etkcs Peal Agn Wlite Burlington Talk Aad Grand Island Crawford Paris Mo Monroe County Vets Ov Andinz Misouri

Girl Stops Jail Delivery in Murphysboro

In Murphysboro on April 8, Miss Zora Hanson, seventeen, daughter of Sheriff Sylvester Hanson, woke during a storm and saw prisoners climbing past her window. She grabbed a prisoner's feet and screamed for help as her parents and the sheriff intervened, preventing seven inmates from escaping while six escaped through a barred window.

Murphysboro Zora Hanson Sylvester Hanson Sherriff Hanson

Actress Wins Suit Over Refusal to Wear Tights

Henrietta Lee Morrison known as Henrietta Lee won $4,700 in the Supreme Court after being discharged by Hurtig & Seamon for refusing to appear in tights required by a Harlem burlesque theater contract. Her husband Charles Morrison joined the suit for breach of contract. jury found damages equal to the sued amount minus earnings after dismissal.

New York Apr Supreme Court Henrietta Lee Morrison Henrietta Lee Hur, Be & Beamon Harlem Miss Lee Charles P Morrison Hurtig & Seamon Comdy

Mothers Break Up School In Panic Over Black Hand Threat

A rumor that a New York public school in the Italian section would be blown up by Black Hand men triggered a panic. Two children were injured as excited mothers forced gates, rushed inside, and urged teachers to release pupils, scattering students and prompting the principal to call police.

New York Lttle

Militia Draw Color Line Over Gov Hughes Reception

Watertown chamber managers face embarrassment as a unit in the Thirty ninth separate company refuses to march in the governor Hughes reception near a negro band from the Twenty fourth Infantry recently back from the Philippines. Two battalions are housed at Madison Barracks beside Watertown. efforts to move the band failed. The organizing committee may hire white musicians for the event.

Washington Board of Managers Watertown

Reformatory prisoner kills mother in Brooklyn

Bernard Carlin, recently released from a reform school, shot and killed his mother Susan Carlin on Quincey Street in Brooklyn claiming years of coercion. He also attempted to kill his sister Young Carin, who had just left a reform school after a carge and wagon theft sentence. Flo was detained after the store incident. Carlin said his mother made him do everything his life. He alleged she sent him to an orphan asylum at sixteen months old and kept him in institutions most of his life.

New York Susan Carlin Varique Bernard Carlin Quincey Street Brooklyn Young Carin Napanocn Flo

Julia Marlowe Prostrated by Divorce Suit News

Special to The Washing i Fo Ithaca in April. Shocked by a divorce suit against Johan Stephenson Hermann, Julia Marlowe fell ill and cancelled her Lyceum appearance in Gloria. The sold out house will seek refunds near 150 dollars. Manager Wiltsie said no statement and she will answer later.

Ithaca Ia van Wermann Ihari Stephenson Hermann Julia Marlowe Gloria Lyceum Theater Cutscadt Acc Wiltsle Miss Marlowe le Faoper

Hanna mine a death trap in Cheyenne report

Cheyenne Wyoming April report cites a mine inspector blaming Hanna coal mine explosions that killed nearly 100 men on defiance of safety rules. He alleges long burning seams and warns Union Pacific Coal Company officers knew of the danger and should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.

Washington Post Cheyenne Wyo Hanna Wyoming Union Pacific Coal Company

Catholic girls high school funded by Philadelphia gift

Archbishop Ryan announced a $100,000 gift from a woman likely Mrs Frederic Courtland Penfield for a proposed Catholic girls high school in Philadelphia commemorating the diocese centennial. He said the donation ensures the project, with half a million dollars needed to build and equip the school.

Philadelphia Ryan Frederic Courtland Penfield Anne Weightman-Walker

Yankee Car Bound for Paris Race Faces Alaska Blockade

Jules Clerfayt, caring for French drivers in the New York to Paris automobile race, reports a telegram from Fort Liscum, Alaska, stating Keystone Canyon is not open. The American car, ferried by boat to that point, cannot pass, making through travel impossible at present.

San Francisco Jules Clerfayt New York Paris Fort Liscum Alaska Keystone Canyon

Convict Lasala’s daring escape from Sing Sing ends in recapture

Joseph Lasala, an escapee from Sing Sing’s fourteen year sentence for highway robbery, fled via a shop plank to the yard riverboat to Tarrytown and New York. A long pursuit by detectives and mounted police ended with his dramatic recapture after hiding in a private house.

New York Joseph Lasala Lasala poHce Brooklyn

Wreck Ends Piracy in South Seas With Confession

A remarkable piracy and murder tale emerges from the steamship Marama incident. Belgian Joseph Mortimer, J Taylor of Manchester, and G Jackson of London attacked the captain and mate with a tomahawk, forcing them to jump overboard. The trio seized the schooner Neusureigre of Callao, headed toward Australia, but wrecked near the Gilbert Islands. Jackson later confessed detailing the assault, forced jumps, and subsequent jettisoning of cargo before the ship went ashore in the Gilbert group.

Victoria South Seas Marama Waite Joseph Mortimer J Taylor Manchester G Jackson London Callo Jand Australia Gilbert Islande Marshall Laurel Suva Jackson Callao Te Gilbert

Closed season for autos on Nantucket proposed

The legislative committee on roads and bridges reported in favor of excluding automobiles from Nantucket between June 15 and September 15 each year after a Nantucket selectmen order. The town’s attempt to sustain exclusion failed before the Supreme Court, prompting an appeal to the legislature.

Boston Wass Legislactive Committee On Nantucket Selectmen Supreme Court

Vanderbilt Divorce Suit Hearings Put Off As Sealed Records Loom

The Washington Post reports no hearing today in Ellen French Vanderbilt's divorce suit against Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt. Attorney David McClure acts as referee named by the Supreme Court. A rumored connection to a well known actress is mentioned but denied. whether the actress is named in the complaint remains confidential, with papers sealed.

Washington, Post New_York David McClure Supreme Court Ellen French Vanderbilt Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt

Asquith Named Premier and Possible Peerage

Biarritz April 8 Herbert H Asquith receives congratulations on appointment as premier and first lord of the treasury. He meets the King and discusses cabinet details, plans to return to London Friday evening. Possible cabinet changes include Lord Haldane moving to the peerage as lord high chancellor and Winston Churchill favored to assume the war portfolio if Haldane leaves.

Biarritz Herbert H Asquith Edward the Treasury London Anquith Paris Liarritz Privy Council Lord Asquith Haldane Winston Churchill Colonial Office War Office Board of Trade

Crown Prince at Work in Wood Turning

Berlin reports Crown Prince Frederick William follows Hohenzollern rule to master a trade. He arranged a lathe in his dormitory and spent the morning turning bar legs in shirt sleeves, aided by an adjutant when the power failed. The emperor is a cabinetmaker, his father a bookbinder, and his grandfather a turner.

Berlin Frederick Wiliam House of Hohenzollern Emperor William

Roy Will Stay In France Extradition Blocked

Pars April 8 The ministry of justice refused US requests to extradite Paul Roy a British national who married an American woman Glacia Calla. Roy remains in France as no French law allows delivering a citizen charged abroad though he can be prosecuted domestically.

Ministry of Justice Foreign Office United States Paul I Roy Glacia Calla Kitlng Newington Frances France

American boys in lead in technical education debate

Sir William Henry Preece, former president of the Institution of Engineers, told the Royal Society of Arts that comparing English and American technical education is difficult due to different conditions. He praised American boys for energy and smartness, saying the European boy lags by about two years.

Walliam Henry Preece Institution of Engineers Royal Society of Arts America England

Cincinnati Banquet Opens General Society Session

Charleston April 8 The General Society of the Cincinnati held its triennial session at the United States court building with Winslow Warren of Massachusetts presiding Before about ninety delegates and alternates from the original thirteen states the society banquet was hosted by the South Carolina Clinch at Hibernian Hall Addresses were delivered by President Warren Col Asa Bird Gardiner New York French Ambassador M Jusserand Dr Frank Landon Humphreys New Jersey H A M Smith South Carolina and others

Charleston General Society of the Cincinnati United States Court Building Winslow Warren Massachusetts South Carolina Clinc General Society Hibernian Hall Warren Asa Bird Gardiner New York M Jusserand Frank Landon Humphreys New Jersey H A M Smith

Springfield Man Seeks Pardon for Powers in Goebel Case

Greenfield Mayor C J Daye travels to Frankfort to present a pardon petition for Caleb Powers former Kentucky secretary of state implicated in the Goebel murder. The Illinois residence petition gathers 102,286 signatures.

Ilinois Illinois Springfeld Caleb Powers Kentucky William Goebel C J Daye Greenfield Frankfort Gey Wilson

Schooley Admits Forging Will in Scranton Court

George B. Schooley of Philadelphia confessed in Scranton court to forging the will of James Crawford Crinford a Florida coal operator who died three years ago The forged document attempted to claim the whole Crawford fortune estimated at one thousand dollars or more in value.

Scranton George B . Schooley Philadelphia James Ll. Crinford Hig

Germans in America Report On Bridges and Subways Visit

New York April visitors from Berlin including Maj Steinbrinck and Count Har man arrive in New York after tours of Washington Boston Niagara Falls and West Point They express interest in New Yorks bridges and subways praising them as remarkable and ahead of discussion on city construction projects

New York Steinbrinck Ineut Hanstein Count (Arman Berlin America Newarl Washington Boston Niagara Falls Wet Point

Marie Burroughs Weds In New York Home Ceremony

Special to The Washington Post notices Marie Burroughs known actress Miss Lille Arrington and Francis M Livingston married in a daytime ceremony at the bride’s home 261 West Ninth Street Rev Merle Crom Wright of Lenox Avenue Unitarian Church officiated. Livingston’s former name was Lille Arrington maiden days and her first husband was Tous Mason with a second Robert Barclay MacPierson.

New York Tillie Ar Iington Marie Burroughs Francis M Livingston Boon West Nines Strird Street Merle St Crom Wright Lenox Avenue Unitarian Church Livingston Misg Lille Arrington Tous Mason Robert Barclay MacPierson

Straus Visits Old Home in Talbotton

Secretary Oscar S Straus of the Department of Commerce and Labor and Mrs Straus visited Talbotton on April 8, arriving from Columbus. Talbotton is the secretary’s boyhood home where a warm welcome was given by citizens. A public reception followed with numerous speeches honoring the secretary.

G A R To Honor Grant Birthday Observed by Potomac GAR

The Potomac GAR marks Gen Ulysses S Grant's birth anniversary at New York Avenue Presbyterian Church on April 27 with Gen Nelson A Miles presiding. Washington Gardiner delivers the oration, joined by Justice John Marlan and J A Hull, under Dept Commander John Walker's direction.

Gen A . Grant Department of the Potomac Gar New York Avenue Presbyterian Church Thirteenth H_ streets Nelson A Miles Washington Gardiner Department of Michigan John Marlan J A. T Hull House of Representatives John 5 Walker

Wanted Houses to Rent Spring demand outpaces supply

The ad seeks home owners to rent houses, promising quick tenant placement. It notes many applications and invites owners to send particulars, highlighting a central office near all car lines to facilitate housing matches.

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