Webster Davis Big Fund for Boers Sparks Suit in New York
Former Secretary Webster Davis faces defamation and false imprisonment suit by W van der Hoogt in New York. Hoogt alleges Davis received 250000 from the Transvaal government for Boer propaganda in America and never accounted, with Davis denying the claim amid a collision over a revised wartime funding scheme.
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W van der Hoogt
New York
Webster Lavis
van der Hoogt
Gen
Samuel Pearson
Davis
Pearson
Reitz
Transvaal Republic
Toavis
South Africa
dIape Town
Charles Milner
Transvaal
Kruger
Pretoria
United States
Splon Kop
New York Harbor
Custom House
Washington
Ttation
Auanlaion
Cha~es
Symard
Thiltimore
van der Hoogel
Philadelphia
Kansas City
Bryan
Thekansas
Ven
Gyr Hinegt
Congress
Gen. Pearson
Orange Free State
New Orleans
Ftee
Paris
Heitz
Webster Davis
America
Saengerbund Nomination by Officers for Re election
At a Saengerbund meeting officers for the coming year were nominated and all current officers named for re election without opposition. Seven directors were proposed for six vacancies, including Frank Claudy as president John Waldmann vice president Fred Carl financial secretary William Meyers recording secretary Louis Faber treasurer and several directors. A new constitution creates a board of trustees to handle business and the next officer elections are set for the first Sunday in September.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Saengerbund Society
Frank Claudy
John Waldmann
Fred Carl
William F. Meyers
Louis Faber
William Hannemann
Ibrarlin
Henry Xander
A. Jorss
August Lohse
William Berens
Hugo Schulz
Rudolph Schneider
Carl Kander
Adolph Levy
Boy May Die From Base Skull Fracture After Bicycle Crash
Herbert Smith a fourteen year old messengerboy remained in precarious condition after a bicycle collision at First and C streets northwest Saturday night. His skull base fracture made surgery impossible as he lay unconscious then rallied briefly before worsening. Stephen T Wells age twenty four of 320 C street northeast surrendered to police and is held at the Sixth precinct as the case develops.
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Casualty Hospital
Herbert Smith
First
C Street
Texas
New Jersey Avenue
Stephen T.wells
Young Smith
Sixth Precinct
Pickaninny Locked in Watermelon Car Describes Ordeal
A boy about eleven from Columbia, S. C., Jimmy Harrington, was found in a sealed watermelon car at Benning freight yards after three days and nights. He amused himself with melons at first but grew tired and cried as distance from home increased. He was fed at the House of Detention after authorities notified Columbia officials.
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Benning
Jimmy Harrington
Columbia
8. C
Jimmy
Cross
Woman Suffers Minor Injuries After Street Car Fall
Mrs. Mary C. Carroll, 45, of 1740 Corcoran street, fell from a street car at Fourteenth and Corcoran yesterday. She was briefly unconscious but later returned home. doctors say injuries are not serious. Also, Frank Rodreguiez, 23, Portuguese, escaped from the Government Hospital for the Insane yesterday afternoon. A trusted inmate from Canton, Ohio, he is reported harmless.
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Mary C. Carroll
Corcoran Street
Fourteenth
Corcoran Streets
St. Elizabeth's Asylum
Frank Rodreguiez
Canton
Ohio
Errors in Statistics Aimed to Help Republicans
Rep Cowherd of the Democratic Congressional Committee accuses Col Wright of manipulating wage and cost of living figures from the Labor Bureau to aid the Republican campaign. He cites selective retail price data, limited scopes on railroads and mining, and calls for scrutiny of the methods used to claim wage gains and living costs in 1903 to 1908.
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Cowherd
Democratic Congressional Committee
Wright
Labor Bureau
Col. Wright
Republican Party
Railronds
Shaw
Dun
É&O
Bureau of Labor
Interstate Commerce Commission
Coal Strike Commission
Widow seeks autopsy as mystery death case in Missouri Ave
The white widow of Sydney Leftwich, colored, asks Acting Coroner Glazebrook to perform an autopsy on her husband who died Saturday noon at 461 Missouri Avenue Northwest. She suspects a white man living nearby poisoned him. doctors cite Bright’s disease and alcoholism as causes. Funeral postponed.
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Glazebrook
Sydney Leftwich
Missouri
Leftwich
Cross
Missouri Avenue
Whitson
Bright
Ford Thompson
Weather Conditions and Forecast Across Regions
A weather bulletin reports a broad barometric low over the interior Middle Atlantic region with high pressure shifting from the Rockies. Temperatures fall in the South Atlantic interior and upper Midwest as showers are forecast for the Middle Atlantic, New England, and Rocky Mountain districts with cooler overall conditions. Winds shift from southerly to northerly along the coasts and lake regions, with fresh west to northwest winds for ships sailing Monday toward European ports. Local readings list hourly temperatures, humidity, sunshine, and sunset data for downtown and Affleck’s thermometer, plus a summary of temperatures in other cities and rainfall.
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Dept. of Agriculture, Weather Bureau
Washington
Middle Atlantic States
All States
Rocky Mountains
Missouri
Mississipt
Ned River
North Valley
Rocky Mountain
South Atlantic
Upper Lake Region
Middle Atlantic
New England
Atlantic
Gulf
Grand Banka
Affleck
P. mi
Ordway Guardsmen Welcome 3000 Washington Visitors
Camp Ordway Harpers Ferry hosts 3000 Washington visitors for a Sunday with dress parade and officers drill. Gov. Hite unable to attend. crowd enjoys mess offerings, civilian spectators, and lively on site reverie amid efforts to improve marksmanship and field maneuvers led by Gen. Harries.
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Washington Post
Ordway
Harpers Ferry
W. Va
Washington
Hite
West Virginia
Charleston
Harries
Gardiers
Mess
Gen
Twarries
Sunda
Shenandoah
Dudley
Lieut
Holliday
Army
Adjt
Brett
Foote
H. A. Anderson
Ger Harries
Anderson
Field Hospital
Henderson
Hearn
Waodman
James H. Lehmer
Penrose Smith
Camp Ordway Militia Life Mixed With Regulars at Harpers Ferry
District troops at Camp Ordway are praised for organization and hard work, with strict discipline and two discharges for disobedience. Regular army members view militiamen as amateurs though capable, while the two groups keep to separate social spheres in Harpers Ferry.
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Quartermaster's
Harries
National Guard
Army
Harpers Ferry
HE. Edwards
United States Cavalry
Fifteenth
N. G.D C
Fort Myer
Distriet Brigade
H.C. Edwards
Wayne Smith
Lftth Battalion
N. Oo. Dy
Wynne
Gen. Wynne
Henry Wynne
Reveille
Ordway
Washington
William (. Herbert
Millayton M. Thomas
J. HW. Bean
Iesson
District Guard
Shenandoah
Nattonal Guard
Mfcera
Camp Ordway
Malle
Bill Nye
North Carolina
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Boston
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N.Y
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Pittsburg
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Minn
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Hurt
Wallace
Fifteenth Cavalry
Urell
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James E. Bell
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War Department
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D.C
Harres
E. H. Neumeyer
H. Neumeyer
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Lansburgh & Bro
Allsilk
Grenadines
HUB Furniture CO
D Sts
N. W
John H. Wood
Bury D
Peter Grogan
Seventh
Tolman
Dendry, Fs
Tharp
F St. N.W
Washington, DC
District of Columbia
Clark, Daven
Port and Company
Edwin Clark
Washington, D .C
Gillart Coblens
Bolton Avenue
Harry Weller
Eutow Place
Capsital
Marr C Wenler
Fdwings Clark
Gilbert Coplens
Harry O. Weiller
Watress
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Sud Wa
Capital Phonograph Co
Seventh Street
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Ballantine
Shoomaker Company
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Pneumatic Water Works Co
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