Regan on Trial for Murder After Riot at Dicey Club
In New York a courtroom heard Kid Regan face murder charges for the 1909 stabbing of Roy Walter Joyce during a brawl at a dimly lit West Thirty-First Street saloon. Witnesses described a chaotic scene with a knife, chairs, and shouted threats as Joyce died from a stab wound, while Regan’s fate rests on a possible plea to a lesser offense.
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Minnie Munzy
Florence Sterling
Johnny Regan
Mt Kegan
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Regan
Wwe
T. Roy Walter Joyce
Agver
Col
Walter Joyce
Seventy-fist Regiment
Doyle
Florence Ug
Wit
Wes
Joyeu
Paten Sim
Tao
Weston
Eddie Wesplano
Walter
Kid Regan
Angeles
Tr Han
Thompson Episcopal Orphanage Plans $130000 Upgrade
The Thompson Episcopal Orphanage in Charlotte announces a plan to spend 130000 on a new plant and a 90000 administration building. Directors and associated guilds say the current facilities are inadequate and a replacement is needed.
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Washington Pontatrlotta
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Tm Associated Guilds
Thompson Episcopal Orphanage
Charfeck
New
Danville Votes Wet After Years of Dry Rule
Danville Virginia voters end two years of prohibition by approving a wet charter by a 10 vote margin among 1,154 ballots. North Danville, annexed section, stayed dry due to a prior condition. The result signals wider liquor access for nearby states and prompts liquor firms to secure city property options for a mail order business. Women were not present at the polls and there was no parade or disorder.
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Washington Post
Danville
North Danville
Drya
North Carolina
South Carolina
Georgia
Colonial Dames Feted On Second Convention Day
The national society of Colonial Dames concluded its second convention day with routine business and social events. President Mrs. William Ruffin Cox chaired sessions as reports on memorials printing and codifying eds relics sent to the National Museum were read. District Dames hosted visiting delegates at Rauscher's last evening and a reception was held. Mrs. F B Moran entertained delegates at her Sheridan home. The Congressional Club will host delegates at 5 this afternoon in the clubhouse and the Colonial Dames Club on Connecticut Avenue will host a reception at 8 this evening.
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National Society of Colonial Dames
William Ruffin Cox
National Museum
Rauscher
F. B. Moran
Sheridan Aircle
Congressional Club
Colonial Demos Club
Connecticut Avenue
American town in Hungary speaker learns 80 percent are returned immigrants
Special Cable to The Washington Post from Vienna reports Baron Levay addressing a political meeting in Za Kopeze Hungary where villagers asked him to speak in English as they did not know Magyar. He discovers about 80 percent of the population of 2 000 are returned immigrants from America.
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Washington Post
Vienna
Baron Levay
Za Kopeze
Hungary
America
Enjoy Your Meals A Tablet Digests a Meal Trial Pack
An advertisement promotes Stuart’s Dyspepsia Tablets claiming digestion improves when indigestion or dyspepsia is present. It describes natural digestive juices, tablet ingredients, and a claim that one tablet digests 3,000 grains of food. Free trial package offered by mail from F A Stuart Co Marshall, Mien?
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Stuart
Jamaica
F. A. Stuart Co
Stuart Bldg
Marshall
Hawaiians Sing for Taft at White House
Hawaiian Quintet entertained President Taft at the Executive Mansion recalling past Pacific tours by a former Secretary of War. The group shook hands with Taft after a brief performance and departs soon for Atlantic City to play all summer under manager Frank J. Vierra. H P Wood oversees the Atlantic City art exhibit.
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Pacific Islands
Taft
White House
Executive
Washington
Atlantic City
Frank J. Vierra
P. Wood
Lian
Commiesstoh
Veterans March at Mobile and Confederates at Convention
Veterans parade winds through Mobile with 16 000 Confederate veterans marching under flags as Dixie plays. Maj. Gen George Harrison leads Alabama division. sponsors and maids of honor ride in carriages. New Orleans chosen for 1915 reunion. Gen George W Gordon elected commander in chief. Bennett Young cites prison death rates and praises Southern soldiers in North’s death list. Copy of historical report to Senator Heyburn to be land-copied.
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Mobile
Ala
George Harrison
Alabama
Little Rock
Ark
Reunion
New Orleas Indorsed
United Confederate Veterans’ Association
New Orleans
Crescent City
George W. Gordon
Memphis
Department of Tennessee
Clement A. Evans
Atlanta
Gordon
Irving
Bennett Young
Louisville
Heyburn
Lewis to Run for Congress in Sixth District
Former Maryland state senator Davis J. Lewis announced his candidacy for the Democratic nomination in Maryland's Sixth district. Friends urge another chance after his narrow near election. Hagerstown manufacturer Joseph C. Roulette is also favored as a potential nominee in the same district. A separate note from New York reports the American Newspaper Publishers Association warning of a looming paper famine due to mill strikes and Canadian pulpwood restrictions, urging Congress to act on free entry of pulp and printing paper from Canada.
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Cumberland
Davis J. Lewis
Lewis
Hagerstown
Joseph C. Roulette
Perststent
Avery County
Roulette
George A. Pearce
New York
John Norris
Committee On Paper
American Newspaper Publishers’ Association Today
International Paper
Commissioner of Corporations
Quebec
Canada
United States
House of Representatives
James Kr, Mann
Dominion of Canada
Unshod Passionists Nuns Arrive From Caveto Italy
New York Evening Post reports the arrival of Passionist nuns and priests from Caveto Italy to establish the first foundation in the Pittsburg diocese. They travel to West Hoboken, will attend St Michael's services, and begin austere daily rites including early matins and self‑denial. The nuns join a long tradition ofRigorous observance, with burial customs shifting from vaults to ground plots near monasteries.
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Italy
Brooklyn
Joseph Anheim
Pasaianists
Rt. Michael's
West Hoboken
J. F. Regis Canevin
Dishop
Pittsburg
Great Mill
Thia
St. Paul of the Cross
St .Paul of the Cross
Ban on Low Neck Dresses at Eucharistic Congress
A Washington Post report from April 28 notes a decree for the Montréal Eucharistic Congress this September requiring women attendees to wear mantillas or veils and cover low necklines. Clergy and laymen must follow dress norms for evening events. Cardinal Vincent Vanutelli will represent Pope Pius IX, with Cardinal Gibbons also due.
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Washington Post
New York
Montréal
Cardinal Vincent Vanutelli
Pope Pius
Cardinal Gibbons
May Remodel City Jail Examination Sparks Public Meeting
A Washington Post report from Alexandria notes a state board of charities examination prompts city officials to consider a new jail with capacity for 10, segregated by sex race and health. Local officials and architect J F Smith discussed remodeling a cost effective plan at a city hall meeting led by public-property chair Co B Marshall. Nearby, a 40 year old black man Andrew Jackson died of natural causes at a boarding house, with coroner ruling no inquest. A break-in at J C Mipurn’s North Royal Street grocery led to theft of bacon candy coat and pen, using an iron bar to force entry. Hundreds gathered for a reception at Christ Church hall with Episcopal Bishop Arthur Selden Lloyd in attendance. In court, Charles Blair, a black man, was found guilty of larceny for stealing a brass torch and gloves from Harry Hockmann and sentenced to six months.
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Gil King Street
Alexandria
J. T. Mastin
State Board of Charities ‘and Corrections
Ita
Alse
Andrew Jackson
Fairfax Street
Moore
J. C. “Mipurn
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North Hoyal Street
Arthur Selden Lloyd
Virginia
Christ Protestant Episcopal Church
William Jackson Morton
Rishon Lieyd
Christ.Church
Charles Blair
Harry Hockmann
Outhen
Dead by Snake and Bullet in Swamps Near Granite It
Newton Hancock eleven year old ran away from home weeks ago. A playmate accidentally shot him in the ankle. He removed the bullet with a pin. The next day a shiped snake bit him and he died from combined effects of snake bite blood poisoning and four days exposure at Eilen M. Os born Hospital
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Granite
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Hancock
Charlie Taft Ducked by Winsted Students in Brook Bath
Special to The Washington Post reports Charlie Taft, the President’s actor nephew, at his uncle’s Watertown school. Taft’s classmates dunk a group in a large brook after attempts at smaller fads. Taft submitted and emerged muddy, while Fred Andrews fled on a hidden horse. Senator Dan J. in Lynchburg shows improving paralysis and speech after returning home.
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San Francisco
Taft
Fred Andrews
New York
Must Hang for Assault in Georgia Lynching Case
Harvey Harris colored was convicted in two minutes for assault on Mrs. Mary Dutton after a mob of about 2060 men demanded lynching. Militia protected the court as three companies clashed with rioters. Curtis Fallands and Alexander Parrymore were bayoneted. Harris was sentenced to Kop nanged May and imprisoned in Macon under guard. Mrs. Dutton testified and Sheriff Houston swore Harris confessed.
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Harvey ‘Harris
Mary Dutton
Georgia
Macon
Curtis
Fallands
Alexander Parrymore
Dutton
Houston
Twin
Harris
Retiring official honored at Washington Fest banquet
In Rockville Ma on April 28 a banquet celebrated Robert G. Hi estenetign on county treasurer as he retires to become secretary of Partners Banking and Trust Company May 1. County officials and state figures attended with Prof Har B Wood officiating and gifts of a diamond scarfpin presented.
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Rockville
Robert G. Hi
Partners Banking and Trust Company
Boks
Har B. Wood
Bish Lee
Edward C. Pater
John Ta. Garrett
John L. Brunett
Robert B Peter
George H. Lamar
Berry E. Clark
Eugene Cissell
Bowie F. Waters
W. C. Spates
Murder jury disagrees in Williamson case
The jury in Junius A Williamson's trial for poisoning his wife with arsenic failed to reach a verdict after two hours of deliberation. Six jurors stood for first degree murder and six for acquittal. The case will be set for another term in Hustings Court. Williamson had been convicted of bigamy previously, with sentence suspended pending this murder trial. He was located in Fort Russell Wyoming and brought back to Hestersburg.
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Washington Post
Hetersburo
Junius A. Williaenson
Fort Russell
Wyo
Fall Kills Miss Manakee in Kensington Home
Miss Kate Manakee aged 77 dies after a fall in her Kensington home while brushing cobwebs from a ceiling. She toppled to a washboard in the hall below the second-story landing, fracturing the skull and dying within twenty minutes. Survived by her brother Dr Frank H Manakee and two sisters Mrs Rebecca Murphy and Mrs Mary Nicholls.
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Washington Post
Rockville
Kate Manakee
St Kensington
Wille
Mise Manakee
Montgomery County
Frank H. Manakes
Rebecca “Murphy
Mary Nicholls
Leaped from train in Luray suburb breaks leg survives
Oliver Shaffer of Shenandoah City leaped from a Norfolk and Western fast freight train in Luray suburb last night. He lay among the tracks for about twelve hours until daylight, sustaining a broken leg and numerous wounds but remained conscious, smearing his injuries as trains passed. He had been beating his way to Luray to reach his father's home four miles away.
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Oliver' Shaffer
Norfolk and Western
Shaffer
Sheriandoah City
Middies to See the Sights on European Cruise
Annapolis April 28 midshipmen bound for English and Mediterranean waters will be allowed ten suitcases instead of the dirty beg. They will have two days in London while the fleet stays at Plymouth. Dawson May opposes Warner in Rockville Maryland with Braina rd announcing GOP nomination. Englar, jailed for attempting to kill his wife, may face Rockville opponent Dawson.
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Washington Post
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Mediterranean
Plymouth
England
London
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Warner
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Brainard H
Wilewomner, Jr
Miner Shoots 3 in Frenzied Outburst Near Sharon
John Morris, driven by drink, killed two miners in Sharon and wounded several others, then shot a Black man, a woman, and a white man before being killed on a freight train. He also robbed a miner of $7 and died under wheels near the Virginia line.
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iVeich
W. Va
John Morris
Sharon
Cape
Virginia
Morris
Samuel Walker
Shannon
Virginia Hine
William Lewis
Prsck
Charges Against Warden At Maryland Penitentiary
Dr Theodore Cooke Jr accuses Warden Weyler of running the Maryland penitentiary for surplus at the expense of prisoners. He says food is poor and conditions like the dark cell persist. He cites a tuberculous inmate whipped off milk diet and died. Weyler denies the charges claiming spite over staffing.
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Washington Post
Baltimore
John F. Woyler
Maryland Penitentiary
Theodore Cooke, Jr
Weyler
Weagler
J Dunlop Harris Married in Baltimore Ceremony
Joseph Dunlop Harris general superintendent of motive power for the Baltimore and Ohio wed Miss Martha Herbert Gordon of Cumberland at the First Presbyterian Church Baltimore. Rev Dr James N Moffatt officiated with Mrs Thompson matron of honor and Charles Harris best man. A reception followed and the couple left for the Pacific coast amid guest attendance of Guy Harris of Washington DC.
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Cumberland
Washington Post
Joseph Dunjlop Harris
Motive Power
Baltimore
Ohilo
Martha Herbert Gordon
Robert H. Gordon
James N. Moffatt
First Presbyterian Church
Skeleton in old well found near Hagerstown police station
Special to The Washington Poet Hagerstown Md April 9 skeleton of a man found in a fold well on a site for a new office building adjoining police headquarters near the courthouse A dagger lay beside the skeleton Local recollections recall a Civil War rendezvous history for the site and question whether the victim was murdered
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Washington
D. A. Thomas& Co
D Nuckols Dies in Baltimore Hotel Room
Special to The Washington Port reports D Nuckols aged 60 a Clifton Forge Va dry goods merchant of Nuchols Foster found dead in his Eutaw House room in Baltimore. A hotel porter observed the body and Dr B Phillips ruled death by apoplexy. Nuckols had arrived in Baltimore Saturday completing large purchases. he was reputed Clifton Forge s wealthiest resident.
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R. D. Nuchols
Nuchols & Foster
Clifton Forge
Allegany County
Eutaw
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