Extra Session Ends Penitentiary Bill Passes
West Virginia extra session ends after passage of a penitentiary transfer bill that uses guards to move prisoners, saving taxpayers thousands annually. Other acts include tax reform related to deeds and a state reform school and asylum measure. The panel found no dishonesty in the Supreme Court rooms contract.
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Mosby’s Men in Reunion at Berryville Virginia
The forty third Battalion Virginia Cavalry known as Mosby s men met for their eleventh annual reunion in Berryville with about 2,500 attendees. Addresses from the courthouse, welcome by Marshall McCormick, and response by Joseph Bryan marked the program. A memoir of Rev S D Ferguson was read, officers were elected for the next year, and a benediction closed the exercises as local women hosted a dinner for visitors.
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Virginis Cavalry
Mosby
Court Green
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Frank Strother
J. S Mason
Ueutenant
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F H Ream
HS Ashby
Julian Brocaddus
Laules
Wits
Dean Pulliam
Train Robbers Confess in Preliminary Trial
Five men including Harvey and Watson faced a preliminary trial before Justice Sturt on charges of horsebreaking car breaking and robbing a railroad train. Harvey testified for the State after turning State's evidence. others confessed. The group is part of a larger band of over twenty thieves.
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Post Chatham
Jesse Ferrell
Jacheon Fletcher Harris
Claiborne Harvey
Junius Watson
Justice
Barns
8Ma
Virginia Obituary Local Deaths Across Virginia Notices
Virginia obituary roundup lists THaytusville Auge Booth ex Confederate soldier killed near Fere Richmond Aug 12 W B Pleasants prominent Manchester resident dies after short illness Wytheville Aug 12 Henry Simmerman Wytheville oldest resident dies aged ninety three Aug 12 Fredricksburg Aug 12 Susie Mullen daughter of John Mullen dies after typhoid fever Fredericksburg Aug 12 J E Morris druggist dies after lingering illness Richmond relatives plan funeral Fredericksburg Aug 12 Mrs J W Con dies at home typhoid aged forty years Survived by husband seven children Fredericksburg Aug 12 Mrs Jesse Nish mother of G W Nash dies at home near Germantown Orange County aged eighty eight Survived by husband four children Rockbridge County Aug 12 George W Wilson dies at Faire Hill Augusta County aged three years Widow and five daughters survived Upper Northampton Aug 12 William Weaver prominent citizen dies at home aged sixty five Oldest cragen of Aug 12 News reports death of Joseph Blair in Donaldson Arkansas at seventy nine Rockbridge County Aug 12 death of typhoid ser leaves family Rev George W Lawson mourned Washington NC pastor aged thirty years survived by wife child former pastor in sordonsville and state churches
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John Mullen
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Sordonsville
Iis City
Front Royal Horse Show draws record crowd and spills
Special to The Washington Post Front Royal Va August 12 the second day of the Front Royal Horse Show and Steeplechase Association drew the largest crowd in the event’s history. Several spills occurred with no serious injuries. Awards list many winners across jumping, harness, flat races and hunts including Red Light Gibson Lady Belle and Gray Eagle with multiple placings noted.
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Blue laws loom over Alexandria as Sunday closes tight
The Washington Post reports Alexandria leaders plan to enforce strict Sunday closing rules under state and city law. Police are prepared to act, with enforcement potentially affecting merchants in grocery, meat, drug, and news trade, plus newsboys and others. A local baseball match and other events are noted amid the looming blue laws.
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Girl Drowned at Eastport Crabbing Accident
Emma Giesen twelve years old drowned yesterday afternoon in Back Creek Eastport Anne Arangel County while crabbing with a party of colored women. She lost her balance fell into the creek and the body was recovered.
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Opening of the Campaign in Virginia Democrats Plan Speaker Blitz
The Democrats open headquarters in Richmond on September 1 with Joseph Button in charge as they dispatch a slate of speakers statewide. In the Ninth district a contest between Republican Campbell Slemp and Joseph C. Wysor drives urgent requests from nation to local allies. Leaders like Governor Montague and Congressman Hhea pledge heavy campaigning for a strong Democratic delegation, while limits on spending guide a brisk, ginger-filled push with focus on travel expenses.
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Rufus A. Ayers
Wise County
Alge
Allen Caperton Braxton
Staunton
S. J. Kelley
Houses of Delegates
Barksdale
Burned Alive in Jail at Toms Creek Va
Caesar Young, a Black restaurant proprietor in the mining town of Toms Creek, died after trying to burn his way out of the town jail. Arrested on moonshine charges, he was roasted alive and $108 on his person was burned.
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Fire in Vessel's Hold Off Norfolk Harbor
The three mast schooner Joe Rivis from Promised Land to Savannah put into Berkley at FPocomoke Guano Co wharf to extinguish a fire in the cargo of fish scrap likely caused by spontaneous combustion. After smoldering a week the crew could not control it and salvage was saved by docking crew. Laborers began unloading cargo to assess damage. The vessel had been at sea twenty three days and was likely becalmed with a large fleet off Hatteras.
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Promised Land
Savannah
Fpocomoke Guano Company
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Laborera
Heirs To Millions Claim Litler Estate In Baltimore
Richmond man William Melvin Marriott, cashier at the Richmond post office, is among 200 heirs pursuing the Beron von Litler estate said to total 350 million dollars. An attorney represents the heirs as they convened in Baltimore amid ongoing probate proceedings.
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Washington Post
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Beron von Litler
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Love Letter Astray Brought by Cartier Pigeon
A crested carrier pigeon from Cleveland landed at Mrs. A Colin’s Chestnut Hill home in Richmond Virginia. A linen-cloth note on its leg read Your sweetheart Cleveland To Girl in love. Also reports a Loudoun camp meeting opening at Bentons Woods with speeches by Dr. William Jones and on Old Soldiers Day August 16. Also notes a bankruptcy case of Edward L. Harper in Federal court at Big Stone Gap adjourned to Cincinnati.
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Washington Farm
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Edward L. Harper
Big Stone Gap
David F. Bailey
Cincinnati
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State Senator Wilson III Health Casts Shadow on Nomination
Aug 12 Hyattsville Independent reports State Senator Joseph Wilson of this county suffers from liver enlargement and general system breakdown. He has stayed with his sister in Baltimore and may not endure a strenuous congressional campaign. Doctors warn rest is essential, making a Wilson nomination unlikely. Potential replacements include A P Gorman Jr or Dr Charles A Wells, with Wells unlikely to accept. Robert W Wells, his son, said he would not interfere unless health prevents Wilson opposing Mudd, then Wells might be named at the Baltimore convention next September.
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Hyattaville
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Oakland Chosen for AOH Convention and Gaelic Language Support
Cumberland Maryland August 12 The State convention of the Ancient Order of Hibernians at Frostburg elected officers for both the AOH and the State Ladies Auxiliary. Oakland was chosen as the 1908 biennial convention site. A resolutions committee urged Gaelic language preservation and praised Ireland for Gaelic instruction and Catholic education while denouncing France's expulsion of religious orders.
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Thomas H. Burk
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P J. Creegan
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Peter Manning
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Katharine E. Mooney
Misa Mary L. Broening
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Lonaconing
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Memorial Resolutions From Rockville Confederate Camp
Rockville Confederates Camp Mourms death of two members Henry Waring and Elias Price. A committee appointed at the Ridgely Brown Camp annual meeting prepared resolutions praising their wartime devotion and faithful citizenship and noting an irreparable loss to the camp and community.
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George R Rice
David Griffith
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Elias Price
Soldiers beat corporal at Huntington camp
Corporal Lesilie Howard of Company D, First Regiment, National Guards, invited three colored women into an ice cream parlor on the camp grounds. Discovered, he was seized by fellow guardsmen and dragged toward the river, beaten along the way. A squad freed him from the mob and he is kept in the guardhouse until camp breaks.
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Waterspout blamed for Barringer mine disaster in North Carolina
A waterspout of immense proportions flooded the Barringer mine near Gold Hill in Rowan County NC, killing eight men. Bodies still buried under 200 feet of mud and water, with pumping needing about a month. No blame assigned to Whitney Reduction Co. Also notes Stotler funeral in Cumberland and a man struck by a train in Raleigh. A Cambria Southern Railroad charter filed in Knoxville, linking Wetmore to Cartersville.
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Maryland obituary notes Miller and Wertz deaths
Martin W. Miller died yesterday in Parsons West Virginia after lingering illness. He served in the Civil War for the Union and held multiple offices including sheriff of Tucker County postmaster of St George mayor of St George justice of the peace and deputy US marshal. He was born near Bloomington Maryland and leaves a widow and nine children. Rufus J. Wertz proprietor of the Grand Central Hotel Godford Springs died last night of brigats disease aged forty five. He once managed Fisher House Hancock worked at several hotels and bought the Washington House at Bedford renaming it Grand Central. He left a widow and one daughter.
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Rufus J. Wertz
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Seaboard Stock Control and Line Completion Progress
John Willame, Seaboard Air Line chairman, reports Ladenbure and partners lost an option on a major block of Seaboard stock. He notes rivals hold over one fourth of shares and that the Atlanta to Pell City leg of the Birmingham line is nearly finished, with Atlanta to Birmingham’s full completion expected within ninety days.
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Receiver Sought for Diamond State Steel in Delaware
Creditors in the United States District Court moved for a receiver for the Diamond State Steel Company, Wilmington, with the firm contesting recent bankruptcy claims as solvent. Judge Bradford is expected to rule soon, while debts run about 270000 though the company vows it can meet obligations. Revival of industry follows a Pittsburgh plant resuming double turn, and notices of railroad stock prices, a touring car incident in Illinois, a South Bend to Chicago electric line mortgage, and sea island cotton arriving in Adel Georgia. The report ends with brief ads for hair care products.
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Wilmington
Del
United States District Court
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Interstate Commerce Commission Re Detailing Fruit Car Refrigeration Rates
The Interstate Commerce Commission ruled refrigeration charges on Pere Marquette and Michigan Central fruit shipments exorbitant and in violation of federal law. It urged readjustment by rail and car lines, noting past free or low-cost icing and current exclusive contracts that raise costs 60 to 150 percent. The decision requires reasonable, published refrigeration charges and cites common carrier duties. Also reports rumors of unrest in Gonaives, with American consulate refugee concerns and quiet conditions in Port au Prince.
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