Eight Killed When Mine Floods After Dam Break
Special to The Washington Post Lansbury North Carolina Aug. 11 The Barringer gold mine near Gold El Rowan County was flooded late today after a dam breach caused by heavy rains. Eight workers died, nine were in the shaft, manager Thomas Moyle escaped. The mine remains flooded, bodies unrecovered. The Whitney Reduction Company of Salisbury and Pittsburgh owns the mine.
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Washington
Thomas Moyle
Whitney Reduction Company
Salisbury
Pittsburg
Hag Beens
Divorce Decree Agreed In Clark County Court
Mrs Olivia Thurman wins a divorce mensaet from Gen Charles Thurman the Clarke County arch lard owner. Decree to be absolute in three years with mensaet entered for cruelty and alleged confinement in an asylum. Case settled without trial as the Washington Post reports from Winchester Virginia August 11.
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Clark County
Speral
Washington Post
Winchester
Olivia Thurman
Charles Thurman
Clarke County
Thurman
Virginia obituary notices from diverse towns across state
Richmond reports death of Miss Helen Blanfo following a long illness after a health trip to Colorado. Fredericksburg notes George Mull en of Washington, previously Fredericksburg, dies at his sister Miss Tacy Mull en’s home after lingering illness at age 68, leaving a widow and five children. Charlottesville records Miss May Irby Thurman age 18 dying at Keswick from meningitis and typhoidal fever, and Mrs Sallie Murray widow of Thomas H. Murray dies at 80 after brief illness. Suffolk reports John Wesley Shamons, 26, who moved from New York and started a Suffolk business, died today. survived by a widow and a two year old daughter. Charlottesville also notes Mrs Roy B. Wills of Mechums River, sister of Engineer Charles Hall killed in wreck at Franklin Junction, dies after short illness. remains sent to Tye River.
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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
Missionaries to Tokyo and China From Virginia Seminary Roots
Special to The Washington Post from Charlottesville Virginia August 11 Rev Roger Atkinson Walke of Staunton will sail from San Francisco this month for Tokyo to teach English at St Pauls College and lead evangelistic work among students. Three other UVA graduates ordained by Bishop Randolph join missionary fields in Brazil Boise and Phoebus. Dr Harry B Taylor UVA 1912 graduate also heads to China early in 196.
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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 from Philadelphia where he had married and started a family. His father urged police to detain him under a new law requiring support for wives and children as officers pursued the outstanding charge.
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Newport News
W. E. Ehoff
Elhoff
Philadelphia
Alexandria News in Brief and Power Outage Woes
In Alexandria, Mayor Simpson demands law enforcement on Sunday closing for grocery and meat stores after a Retail Merchants Association request. Electrical lights fail across the city, prompting fear of a return to gas lighting as storms pass. Also reported are a freight train incident injuring a stonemason, a funeral for Mary Rittenour, emancipation day date change for local colored residents, a dying infant of Policeman Nicholson, and a fatal cyclist collision of an elderly black man in Norfolk with a warrant issued for a boy.
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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 Office Unbearable
Roanoke mayor Joel H. Cutchin, re-elected in June, declares he is disgusted by council tactics and harassing debates. He notes riots, lowest salary among city officers, and that the job has ruined his law practice and harmed his health. He may resign if conditions persist.
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Washington Post
Roanoke
Joel H. Cutchin
Decrease in Typhoid in Richmond Report
Special to The Washington Pest from Richmond Virginia reports a seven month comparison showing typhoid cases fall from eighty three in 193 to thirty seven this year with nine deaths. Diphtheria cases drop from eighty eight to twenty six with five deaths as water purification work on the James River proceeds to build a settling basin.
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Washington
Richmond
Board of Health
James River
Boy Killed in Camp Accident Near Frederick Junction
In Frederick Maryland on the Monocacy River, thirteen year old Sheridan Holbruner was accidentally shot and mortally wounded by eighteen year old companion Guy Nusse during a military camp game. The weapon a .22 rifle discharged as Nusse paused during guard duty. Holbruner died at 4 o'clock at the Emergency Hospital after being struck beneath the right eye and into the brain. Local Justice Eckstein held a hearing and acquitted Nusse, the shooting ruled purely accidental.
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Monocacy River
Washington Post
Frederick
Sheridan Holbruner
Guy Nusse
Frederick Junction
Nusse
Holbruner
Large Tobacco Receipts Hit Baltimore records
Baltimore tobacco trade sets a record week with 3,766 hogsheads received and 17,905 prior, boosting season totals to 20,788 hogsheads. Calvert Charles and St. Mary counties lead, shipments arriving by rail steamship and sailing vessel as the Maryland tobacco industry marks historic receipts.
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Washington
Calvert Station
Maryland Hibernians Convene in Frostburg for State Session
The Maryland State Convention of the Ancient Order of Hibernians and Ladies Auxiliary met in Frostburg with over 200 delegates. State President Thomas Burke presided as Rev. P. T. Manning delivered the opening address. Kate Mooney led the ladies as state president. The body adjourned to choose officers after a ball and reception at Moats Hall.
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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 closes special session on tax bills
Charleston August 11 the West Virginia special legislative session nears its end with major measures approved including a tax commissioner office and state wide reassessment starting January 1. Breweries tax details retained while budgets passed, and a probe into a capitol annex contract was ordered by Gov White as senators prepare to adjourn tomorrow.
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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 Extend NC Rail To Henderson
North Carolina State Farmers Alliance meeting at Hillsboro passed a resolution opposing selling or leasing the Atlantic and North Carolina Railroad. It urges government action to extend the line to Henderson or Norlina by convict labor, linking to the north and northwest and boosting Beaufort as a seaport. It also calls for crackdown on management abuses and stricter oversight by the people and state officials.
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Alliance
North Carolina
Henderson
Washington Post
Raleigh
WY. C
Atlantic and North Carolina
Norlina
North
Northwest
Beaufort
Killed by Cigarettes in Maryland Miner Strike Aid
In Cumberland James Zelinski Hungarian national organizer for United Mine Workers collapsed and died, attributed to cigarette habit. In Annapolis John R Tydings, age 56, shot himself at 4:15 pm, dying 15 minutes later, amid business troubles. Also in Annapolis William Rahis, an aged white man, attempted self harm by shooting. expected to recover. Maryland Hospital in Cumberland reports resignation of Dr B Curtis Miller as house physician and surgeon, 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
United States
Congo
Leopold
James Gustavus Whiteley
Congo Free State
Mr. Whiteley
Institute of International Law
Royal Historical Society of Great Britain
Society of Diplomatic History
France
Body in glass coffin preserved by alcohol
Kenneth Mooring of Algeria arranged for his seven year old son Isaac to rest in a glass coffin filled with alcohol for perpetual viewing in a mausoleum after the child died in Parkersburg from poisoned ice cream. The glass case keeps the features visible to the grieving parents. Nearby, details from North Carolina and Maryland notices cover a large civic gathering and a suicide, plus a Raleigh marriage supper dispute ending in a shooting.
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Washington
Parkersburg
W. Va
Kenneth Mooring
Algeria
Isaac
Approve Beer Strike None Voted In Opposition
Delegates at the International Brotherhood of Stationary Firemen sessions endorsed the Heurich brewery strike and commended President Healy's order to strike. The vote was unanimous with no criticism. New York packing houses firemen joined the strike by long-distance orders from Washington.
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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 and Postal Receipts Report
The department crafts a digest of decisions from 1872 to 1897 and notes a 4 percent rise in July postal receipts across the fifty largest offices, totaling 1,875,084 dollars with Dayton, Ohio posting the biggest gain and Brooklyn the largest drop. In North Carolina Winston-Salem, Rep W W Kitchin and Postmaster C A Reynolds plan a joint Fifth District canvass from October 1 in Buchanan to November 5 in Reidsville.
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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 Demanded in Miner Leaders Theft Case
The State Department seeks extradition of William Bakka once treasurer of the Red Lodge of Miners in Montana. He is charged with stealing 1,050 dollars of union funds and is detained at Beavermouth in British Columbia. Post-office Clerk Held for Trial. Augusta Ga Aug 11 Bailey M McGowan former assistant postmaster of Chopes Tattnall County was given a preliminary hearing for fraudulently misappropriating post-office funds and bound over for trial. McGowan remained in charge during the postmaster’s absence and refused to surrender keys after funds went missing.
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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
Barringer
St. Elizabeth's
A C. Haseen
Government Hospital For the
Philip Nford
Sanford
Providence
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
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St. Vincent de Paul
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Beare
Richmond Board of Health
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Hibernians
West Virginia
United Mine Workers
Mocksville
N. C
Davie County
T. B. Bailey
N. B. Broughton
J. 8. Carr
Durham
Oxford Orphanage
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James Woodfield
Brinks Post-Office
Old Sparta
Eugene Wilson
Joe Edwards
Wilson
Edwards
General Furniture Department
Fleers
Manufacturing Department
Massachusetts Avenue N. W
Great Discount Sale
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Sma
Gammes
International Union Indorses
the Post
J. G. Whiteley
America
King Leopold
St. Louis
Gt. Louis
Seattle
Wash
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Ore
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Siberia
Manila
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Wilkie
United States Secret Service
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Lyons
Register
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