Eight Killed In Mine Flood From Broken Dam In North Carolina
Special to The Washington Post Lansbury North Carolina August 11 Barringer gold mine near Gold El Rowan County NC flooded after a dam burst due to heavy rains. Eight miners died and nine were inside when water rushed in filling shaft to about one hundred feet. Thomas Moyle manager escaped. Bodies not recovered. Damaged area and property losses reported. Whitney Reduction Company of Salisbury and Pittsburgh owns the flooded mine.
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Barringer
Washington
Thomas Moyle
Whitney Reduction Company
Salisbury
Pittsburg
Hag Beens
Divorce Decree Won't Be Final for Three Years
Mrs Olivia Thurman wins a divorce mensaet from Gen Charles Thurman in Clark County Court after a year of litigation. The decree will become absolute in three years and cites cruel and brutal treatment including driving her to Staunton and confinement in an asylum while she was mentally sound.
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Clark County
Speral
Washington Post
Winchester
Olivia Thurman
Charles Thurman
Clarke County
Thurman
Virginia Obituary Roundup From Richmond and Nearby
Obituaries from Virginia towns note Miss Helen Blanfo's death after illness, George Mullen of Washington dies at his sister’s home in Fredericksburg, Miss May Irby Thurman dies at Keswick from meningitis and typhoid fever, Mrs. Sallie Murray dies in Charlottesville, John Wesley Shamons dies in Suffolk, Mrs. Roy B. Wills dies in Charlottesville after a brief illness. several survivors and family references listed.
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Richmond
Helen Blanfo
Colorado
Fredericksburg
George Mullen
Washington
Tacy Mullen
Charvottesville
May Irby Thurman
Frank Holladay Thur
Memphis
Tenn
Keswick
Charlottesville
Salliey
Thomas H. Murray
Sterday
Estee Street
Suffolk
John Wesley Shamons
New York
J. A. Delves
Brooklyn Navy Yard
Aug. U
Roy B. Wills
Mechums River
This County
Charles Hall
Franklin Junction
Tye River
Nelson
Missionary entries from Virginia clergy sail to Asia
Special to The Washington Post notes Rev. Rog er Atkinson Walke of Staunton will sail to Tokyo to teach English at St Pauls College and lead evangelistic work among students. The group includes UVA alumnus Rev. W M M Thomas, slated for Brazil, Rev. P W Reed to Boise, Rev. Floyd Rogers to Phoebus, and Dr Harry B Taylor bound for China after further hospital training.
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Charlottesville
Roger Atkinson Walke
Staunton
Episcopal Theological Seminary
Alexandria
San Francisco
Tokyo
St. Paul's College
Saint George Tucker
Beverly Tucker
St Paul's Church
Norfolk
Walke
University of Virginia
Randolph
Wal
W. M M. Thomas
Brazil
P. W. Reed
Funsten
Boise
Floyd Rogers
Petersburg
Phoebus
Harry B. Taylor
China
Arrested on Old Charge in Newport News
U W Ehoff, 26, arrested on a six year old housebreaking warrant after returning to Newport News with two children. He fled to Philadelphia after learning of the warrant, married there, and was later detained under new support laws as his father sought to compel him to support his wife and children.
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Newport News
W. E. Ehoff
Elhoff
Philadelphia
Alexandria News In Brief Mayor Urges Sunday Closing Enforcement
Alexandria reports delay in electric lighting raises darkness concerns for citizens and lines of trade. Mayor Simpson ordered police to enforce Sunday closing for grocery and meat stores, as Retail Merchants' Association pressed the demand. An accident in Freestone injured a stonemason later amputated. Emancipation Day to be celebrated Jan 1. a colored man dies after being struck by a cyclist in Norfolk.
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Washington Post Bureau
King Street
Alexandria
Simpson
Retail Merchants' Association
Webster
James F. Webster
City of
Alexandria Retail Merchants' Association
George L. Simpson
Michael
Freestone
Washington Southern
Benjamin Frown
Noah D. Rittenour
Hing Street
I. M. Mercer
Richmond
First Baptist Church
Nicholson
Prince Street
Roanoke Mayor Says Conditions Make Mayor’s Job Unbearable
Roanoke August 11 Mayor Joel H. Cutchin says he is disgusted by city council tactics and may resign. He notes the council’s ongoing conflicts, low pay, and harm to his health and law practice, and warns that no gentleman can remain mayor under continued harassment.
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Washington Post
Roanoke
Joel H. Cutchin
Decrease in Typhoid Reported for Richmond
Richmond health board reports a sharp drop in typhoid fever in the first seven months of 193, with thirty seven cases and nine deaths, compared to eighty three cases the previous year. Diphtheria shows twenty six cases and five deaths. Water from the James River will be purified by a new settling basin, aiming to nearly eliminate typhoid.
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Washington
Richmond
Board of Health
James River
Boy Dies After Camp Accident on Monocacy River
Frederick Maryland August. Sheridan Holbruner thirteen dies at Emergency Hospital after being accidentally shot by eighteen year old companion Guy Nusse during a military camp along the Monocacy River. Nusse, on guard duty, claimed the trigger set off the rifle as he moved. Nusse was acquitted after a justice hearing, ruling the shooting purely accidental.
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Monocacy River
Washington Post
Frederick
Sheridan Holbruner
Guy Nusse
Frederick Junction
Nusse
Holbruner
Large Tobacco Receipts in Baltimore Spark Historic Shipments
Special to The Washington Fus reports Baltimore this week saw record Maryland tobacco arrivals, driven by Calvert Charles and St. Mary counties. Shipments totaled 3,766 hogsheads for the week with 17,905 already received this season, surpassing prior totals though the overall crop is slightly lighter than last year. Receipts compare with 25,831 hogsheads last year.
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Washington
Calvert Station
Hibernians in Session at Frostburg Maryland State Convention
The Maryland Ancient Order of Hibernians and Ladies Auxiliary met at Frostburg with over 200 delegates. State President Thomas Burke opened the session. addresses were given by Rev P T Manning and John G Chambers. A ball and reception followed as officers to be elected tomorrow.
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Maryland
Frostburg
Washington Post
Cumberland
Ancient Order of Hibernniana
Ladies’ Auxiliary
Thomas Burke
Baltimore
P. T. Manning
St. Andrew's Church
Thomas J. Stanton
St. Mary’s ‘Church
Lonaconing
D. J. Scully
Cardinal Gibbons
Moat's Hall
West Virginia moves tax bills in final session days
The West Virginia Legislature nears adjournment as the special session wraps up. Measures include creation of a tax commissioner and reassessment of real and personal property starting Jan 1, with a graduated brewery tax retained. The Senate and House approved key appropriation bills. A contractor bid dispute over Supreme Court quarters prompted Gov White to urge a Senate investigation. A committee was named and will report on the matter before adjournment.
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Washington Post
Charleston
W. Va
Senate
House
Kidd
Gilmer
Supreme Court
Capitol Annex
Youngstown
Ohio
Gov. White
Harmers
Harrison
Northcott
Cabell
Farmers Oppose Lease and Seek North Carolina Road Extension
North Carolina State Farmers Alliance at Hillsboro calls for extending the Atlantic and North Carolina Railroad to Henderson or Norlina using convict labor to connect with the north and northwest. The resolution warns against selling or leasing the line to foreign monopolies and urges stricter supervision of railroad management by state officials.
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Alliance
North Carolina
Henderson
Washington Post
Raleigh
WY. C
Atlantic and North Carolina
Norlina
North
Northwest
Beaufort
Death by cigarettes shocks miners leader in Maryland
James Zelinski, the Hungarian organizer for the United Mine Workers in the Myersdale field, collapsed and died, attributed to his heavy smoking habit. In Annapolis John R. Tydings, 56, shot himself. business troubles blamed. William Rahis, an elderly man in Annapolis, attempted suicide at home but improved. Dr. B Curtis Miller resigns as house physician at Western Maryland Hospital, effective Sept. 1.
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Washington
Cumberland
James Zelinski
United Mine Workers of America
Myersdale
Annapolis
John R. Tydiings
Clement Claude
Tydings
Washington Post
William Rahis
South River
Severn
Mahls
Maryland Hospital
Western Maryland Hospital
B. Curtis Miller
Miller
Body in Glass Coffin Preserves Dead Son for Viewers
Kenneth Mooring of Algeria has placed his seven year old son Isaac’s body in a glass coffin filled with alcohol in a mausoleum so the family can always behold his face, following the boy’s death in Parkersburg from poisoned ice cream. In North Carolina the Masonic picnic at Mocksville drew three thousand attendees with speeches by T B Bailey and Gen J S Carr, raising funds for Oxford Orphanage. In Maryland James Woodfield, fifty, killed himself near Boyds after illness and despondency. In Raleigh a marriage supper dispute led Eugene Wilson to shoot Joe Edwards. Wilson awaits trial as Edwards dies from the injury.
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Washington
Parkersburg
W. Va
Kenneth Mooring
Algeria
Isaac
Washington Post
Winston-Salem
N. C
Mocksville
Davie County
T. B. Bailey
N. B. Broughton
Raleigh
J. 8. Carr
Durham
Oxford Orphanage
Masons of
North Carolina
Boyds
James Woodfield
Brinks Post-Office
Old Sparta
Eugene Wilson
Joe Edwards
Wilson
Edwards
Approve Beer Strike None Voted In Opposition
At yesterday's International Brotherhood of Stationary Firemen sessions the Heurich brewery firemen strike was endorsed by unanimous vote. President Healy's order to strike drew no criticism. New York packing houses also quit in response to Washington orders by telephone, with the union's gold defense fund aiding.
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Healy
New York
Washington
International Brotherhood of Stationary Firemen
Heurich’s
International
Washington Fremen
Harley
Washington Firemen's Union
Heurich
Central Labor Union
August Schumann
Neenah
Wis
Union No. 21
Troy
N. Y
Shaw
Treasury Department
Department
Fritz Reuters
New
Digest of decisions to 1897 and postal receipts rise
The department drafts an alphabetically arranged digest of decisions from 1872 to 1897. July postal receipts at the fifty largest offices rose 4 percent to 3,175,000 with Dayton up 26 percent and Brooklyn down 9 percent. New York increased 4 percent to 975,289 while Chicago gained 7 percent to 732,042. W W Kitchin and C A Reynolds plan a joint canvass for the Fifth district from October 1 to November 5.
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Dayton
Ohio
Brooklyn
Pittsburg
Cleveland
Buffalo
Detroit
Milwaukee
New Orleans
St. Paul
Lowell
Albany
N. Y
Worcester
Springfield
Mass
New York
Chicago
Washington Post
Winston-Salem
MN. C
W. W. Kitchin
C. A. Reynolds
Congress
Buchanan
Granville County
Reidsville
Extradition Demand Ties Miners Treasurer to Theft
The State Department requests extradition of William Bakka former treasurer of the Red Lodge Miners in Montana charged with stealing 1050 from the union. He is jailed in Beavermouth British Columbia. Bailey M McGowan former assistant postmaster of Choopes Tattnall County Georgia held for trial after a preliminary hearing for misappropriating post office funds.
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State Department
Wiliam Bakka
Red Lodge of Miners
Montana
Beavermouth
British Columbia
Augusta
Bailey M. McGowan
Qhoopes
Tattnall County
United States
McGowan
Bowman
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N.C
St. Elizabeth's
A C. Haseen
Government Hospital For the
Philip Nford
Sanford
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BR. J
Jie
Caroline County
Confederate Veterans
BB. Chandler
C. T. Smith
George T. Boulware
Wesley Wright
I. Soshil
RO. Peatre
Prison Congress
National Prison Association of the United States
Quincy
George B. Davis
P. Hulee
Charles Hutzlern
EB. B. Addison
George L Emmons
Sabo Robert Gilliam
William F. Drewry
J. W. Carcick
Norfolk Va
Ellines
S. W.S. Switzer
Switzer
Plasterers’ Union Working Board
Emporia
Richmomt
Tlee Jones
Nansemond County
Virginia
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Mission Fields
R. A. Walke
Alexandria News
William Williams
St. Vincent de Paul
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Beare
Richmond Board of Health
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Hibernians
West Virginia
United Mine Workers
General Furniture Department
Fleers
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Great Discount Sale
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Gammes
International Union Indorses
the Post
Congo Free State
J. G. Whiteley
America
King Leopold
Congo
Leopold
James Gustavus Whiteley
Mr. Whiteley
Institute of International Law
Royal Historical Society of Great Britain
Society of Diplomatic History
France
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Gt. Louis
Seattle
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Ore
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Siberia
Manila
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Wilkie
United States Secret Service
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Register
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Board of
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Russia
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