Police Kill Robber After Store Hold-Up Near Norfolk
A colored man, John Davis, shot a toll keeper on the Newport News bridge toll line during a robbery, then fled toward Norfolk. He was surrounded in woods by police and detec tives, shot as he tried to shoot again, and died at the Second Precinct station. Toll keeper William H White was seriously wounded and taken to St Vincent's Hospital. condition listed as serious. A separate note reports Blanche Estelle Gordon wedding Arthur Cooper Machir in Wards Church. A Kanawha miners and operators union agreed on a wage scale of 14.8 for two years ending April 2, 19X8, with no checkoff.
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Explosion Near Alberton Destroys Dynamite Dryer
Special to The Washington Post from Baltymore April 19. An explosion at the Shoemaker contractors camp near Alberton destroyed a dynamite dryer and killed Robert Avell, about thirty five, who headed the dryer. The blast scattered debris, shook houses for miles, and was heard as far as Mount Washington and Catonsville. The cause remains unknown.
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Catonsville
WIFE-ASSAULT CHARGE AT LYNCHBURG DRUG STORE
Benjamin Binkley proprietor of a Lynchburg drug store is jailed on a wife assault charge after his wife fell unconscious from a second story window. Authorities note prior blows. whether she was pushed or jumped remains unestablished. Also reports from Annapolis and Petersburg describe court proceedings and a fatal horse incident.
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Obituaries from Virginia towns report multiple deaths
April notices from Harriton Bluemont Trede River city regions announce the deaths of Mrs A J Siu Miebarge aged sixty eight in New Hope Virginia Mrs 3 T Murphy aged about eighty in Blue Mont Prof John J Filliard Urbana head of Urbana Academy died after several weeks illness He was Middlesex County public schools superintendent David Henry Plastea Loudoun County resident died of heart failure near Bluemont aged about eighty four after Confederate war service His widow and two brothers survive. additional lines mention Mrs Judith Carter and other survivors.
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Wo Va
J Siu Miebarge
New Hope
Harriton
T Murphy
Bluemont
Tredericksburg
John J. Filliard
Urbana
Urbana Academy
Middlesex County
Judith Carter
Irvington
Hamilton
David Henry Plastea
Loudoun County
Founders Day Observed at University of Virginia
Founders Day observed at the University of Virginia with prominent remarks by President Alderman who highlighted endowment progress of about 1 million dollars and gifts from Dr William C Rives and Grace Dodge for fellowships and chapel refurnishing. Governor Claude A Swinson delivered the main address urging Southern political participation and national influence after extensive fundraising and a pivotal moral revival noted across the nation.
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University of Virginia
Jefferson
Alderman
William C Rives
Washington
Grace Dodge
New York
Claude A Swinson
Innes
Missing M C A man Monroe believed to have taken funds
Cumberland Md April 19 police alerted that Charles H Monroe night manager of the Southern Cumberland Railroad Young Men's Christian Association is missing with 42 dollars from the baseball team funds. Monroe, an athletic young man who recently arrived, applied for a position after giving references including one from a Baltimore minister. Officials say Monroe took the 42 dollars from the association entertainment proceeds and bought a ticket in Washington before disappearing.
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Washington
Boy Accidentally Killed In Virginia Shotgun Accident
A thirteen year old boy Clarence Rudasille died in Front Royal after his shotgun discharged when it rolled from a mill carriage and exploded. The accident occurred as he carried the gun on an errand for his father in Limeton Virginia. Also reported are multiple local marriages in Fredericksburg and Richmond with ministers named, and a Wilmington NC plant fire at the American Chemical and Textile Coloring Company causing extensive damage.
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Front Royal
Clarence Rudasille
Limeton
Hawkins Acquitted in Ballantine Blackmail Case
In Charlotte April 19 the Corporation Court rendered a not guilty verdict for John Hawkins on charges of extorting money from the late Robert Ballantine. Other cases against Hawkins linger, with possible nol pros. If the same evidence is used, the matter may collapse and end.
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Robert Ballantine
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Charge of graft made in Fredericksburg grand jury case
In Fredericksburg Virginia on April 19 Judge Ambrey in the Corporation Court delivered a vigorous charge to the grand jury asserting graft and corruption within city government. He urged thorough investigation and summoned several witnesses. The grand jury adjourned until tomorrow with partial work completed.
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Ambrey
Corporation Court
Second Degree Murder Verdict in Glady Bar Murder
A jury in Glady West Virginia returned a second degree murder verdict for Coleman Alkaier in the January killing of Lestie Fhares, a bartender. After an all night deliberation six jurors favored first degree murder, three favored manslaughter, producing a likely compromise verdict this morning.
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Wikins Va
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Lestie Fhares
Every Little Counts A Good Beginning Makes A Good End
A bank ad urges careful saving with emphasis on the first step to wealth and the security of resources and facilities. It promotes the bank as the safest place for savings and invites readers to invest wisely by starting now.
Alexandria Responds With Sympathy To San Francisco Calamity
Alexandria officials announce a city council meeting next Tuesday to consider sympathy resolutions and a relief fund due to the San Francisco disaster. Mayor Pat expressed grief and readiness to aid, while Western Union offers free domestic messages for relief communications pending official requests.
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Western Union Telegraph Company
J. J. Maxwell
Richmond
Western Union Telegraph
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San Francisco
Funeral of Capt Herbert Herbert Upton H Herbert interment at Ivy Hill Cemetery
The funeral of Capt Upton H Herbert from St Pauls Episcopal Church Alexandria was led by Rev P P Philips with Rev Dr S A Wallis assisting. Honorary pallbearers included Mesar BE Mason, Herbert Bryant, H BR Du any, Thomas Pairfax, R F Knox and I T Burke. active pallbearers were J H McCauley, Wiliam Bryant, Arthur Herbert, and L Washington. Interment followed in the family lot at Ivy Hill Cemetery. Special to The Washington Post from Rockville Md. April 19 The report also notes a wedding of Harry Chester Houser of Washington to Miss Elizabeth Collier in Potomac Md, performed by Rev Frank Griffith. The couple will reside in Washington. Additional items mention evidence in the Richards case in Floyd Va and a note about forthcoming art pictures in The Sunday Post’s Art Supplement.
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Premature Blast Fatal at Bossevain West Virginia
One man killed and four fatally injured in a premature dynamite blast on the Virginia and Pocahontas Railroad under construction near Bossevain. Four others rushed to Welot hospital in dying condition. The fuse failed and the cap exploded before workers could reach safety.
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Bossevain
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Fishbone Kills John Banks in Chesapeake City
Special to The Ashington Lee reports John Banks died at home in Chesapeake City this morning after a weeklong illness caused by a fishbone lodging in his throat. He was fifty. Banks rose from clerk to assistant treasurer and then county treasurer, becoming a powerful figure in Cecil County Democratic politics. After leaving office, he entered construction work and held success in the field for years.
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Missing Miss Wood Body Still Not Found
Body of Miss Elizabeth Wood remains missing after a drowning in the river at Dixie Landing last week. Police, relatives, and fishermen have searched the stream but found no trace. The incident occurred before 1100 Italian laborers, with Mills as escort, near a substantial canoe belonging to a Frank N Moore customer used under a written owner order.
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Ambush by Whitecaps near Stephens City
Morgan Tegault an engineer for Stephens City Milling Co was shot in the thigh and calf while returning home near Stephens City Va Threats against a woman were made during an attack on Philip Chapman’s home by a band of Whitecaps Chapman armed with a shotgun fired toward the attackers and no arrests were made by late afternoon Special to the press from Norfolk and Annapolis reports also note President Roosevelt’s Portsmouth visit plan and the drowning of Hiram Cummings age seventeen at Rhode River Md while duck hunting
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