Harries Victory Over Imagined Force In Duffield Maneuver
District guardsmen and Fort Myer regulars staged a two week encampment at Duffield Harpers Ferry with Harries commanding and Capt Hickok leading the imaginary enemy The victory featured under cover of darkness tactics encirclement and surrender at 8 40 am The event highlighted strong cooperation between militiamen and regulars and drew praise from local residents and Army officers alike.
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Washington Post
Ordway
Harpers Ferry
W Va
Fort Myer
George H Harries
Dufield
Hickok
West Virginia
Ordwas
Washington
George L Gillespie
Staf
Boodeck
National Capital
Bo Mingarral
Touvia
Duffield
Shevasin
Tumeien Cipro
Fas
Farres
Ccm
Hirmes
Ord
Fonte
Harnes
Fifteenth Cavalry
Dushield
Forth
Harties
Waihington Cross Roads
Cant Hinkek
Shenandoah Junction
Ger Harries
Harries
Tuffield
Pont
Keller
Whittington Crosa
Harthy
Ling
Hristiin Briand
Dufflelil
Umpres
Elchok
Ninth Blue Infantry
Charles H Ovrand
Twentieth Blue Infantry
Martvyn & Buchey
Fifth Blue Cavalry
Foote
Koester
Ureil
Buckey
Twentieth
Blue” Infantry
Warrant Issued for McCauley in Davis Assault Case
Thomas A McCauley could not be served on an assault warrant following a fight with William A Davis on F street at midnight Thursday. Davis, injured by fist and cane, swore out the warrant. Police misaddress delayed service, with Davis traveling out of town for recovery and the case at a standstill.
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Thomas A. McCauley
Thomas A McCauley
William A. Davis
F Street
Davis
Assaliant
Gessford
Fifth Precinct
McCauley
Edward
B Street
Detective Howlett Hears Hopkins Held For Embezzlement
Detective Howlett reported from Boston that William Hopkins, wanted on embezzlement charges, was given a hearing before a United States commissioner and held for Washington jurisdiction. Lewis Poland, former manager at the Glriage factory in Georgetown, filed the complaint alleging Hopkins was $1,000 short in his accounts.
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Washington
Howlett
Boston
William Hopkins
Boardman
Hopkins
United States
Lewis Poland
Mw Glriage Manufactory
Georgetown
Accused of Stealing Bicycle Arrests Mentioned
Edward Frazier a seventeen year old African American male was arrested yesterday by Detective Trumbo on charges of stealing a bicycle from Frank Shore of 121 New York Avenue earlier last winter The bicycle was recovered Frazier said he bought the wheel from another boy for 50 cents.
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Edward Frazier
Trumbo
Frank Shore
New York Avenue
Frazier
Hood's Sarsaparilla Promises More Doses For One Dollar
A vintage ad touts Hood's Sarsaparilla as economical and effective. It claims a single bottle lasts longer and does more good than competitors, asserting 100 doses for one dollar.
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Hood
Silver Jubilee Observed at Georgetown Hospital Chapel
A solemn mass marked the silver jubilee of Sister Mary Pauline O. F., director of Georgetown University Hospital. Archbishop Falconto sent blessings, praised her twenty five years of selfless service with Sisters and nurses, and a reception followed with gifts on display in the hall. Present were Miss Kiefer, Mrs Creamer, Mrs Zipp, Sisters from nearby convents, Dr Gwynne, and other attendees.
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Georgetown University Hospital
Mary Pauline
Jerome Daugherty
James Becker
Hennessy
Messrs
Pauline
Father Daugherty
University of Georgetown
St. Francis
Father Becker
Falconto
Rome
Pius X
D Falcomo
Kiefer
Creamer
Zipp
Appomattox project offer seeks support for new home
Major GHO A Arms proposes donating 1000 acres of the Appomattox battlefield to fund a new institution for descendants of Civil War soldiers. A $300,000 cash trust would finance a chartered company called The United Industrial Appomattox Home with $200,000 for buildings and $100,000 for equipment. Plans include separate facilities for men and women to learn trades, nursing, stenography, and farming, with state and local leaders as ex officio trustees. A public discussion would outline full charter details. In other news, Joseph Barnes, 15, faces reform school if convicted of stealing a bicycle from Augustus Anderson. the boy claims he only borrowed it to get home. The bike was found at Barnes' home after the July 28 theft.
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Appomattox
Lee
Grant
United States
Incorporating & Company
United Industrial Appomattox Home
É&C
Virginia
Appomattox County
Gho A. Arms
M. Fairfield
Rachington, Dy
Joseph Barnes
Board of Children’s Guardians
Augustis Anderson
Sherman Avenue
Reform School
Barnes
Third Street
Marine stabbed by a woman at resort
Early yesterday morning Marine Corps private Frank Curtis, 23, was stabbed twice in the back by Olga Blythe, an inmate at a resort on Thirteenth Street Northwest. Wounds were treated at Emergency Hospital before Curtis was aided to the Marine Barracks. Olga Blythe was arrested. in Police Court she faced an assault charge not pressed, but she received a $20 fine on vagrancy charges due to extenuating circumstances.
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Frank Curtis
Marine Corps
Olga Blythe
Thirteenth Street
Curtis
Marine Barracks
Downs and
Cavanaugh
Zion City's Smallpox Mild Report From Zion City
Zion City's smallpox cases are reported as very mild. Dr J H Blanks, acting health inspector, says none are confined to bed and all are in an isolation hospital two miles from populated areas. He sees no danger of an epidemic. In Altoona Andrew Videslio, a miner, was robbed and murdered by highwaymen at Baker Mines. About $250 disappeared and a fellow countryman who threatened him has been arrested and jailed.
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Springfield
Zion City
State Board of Health
J. H. Blanks
Blanks
Altoona
Andrew Viederlio
Baker Mines
Here
Viedeslio
Ebensburge
Rioting rises as strike clashes widen in Chicago stockyards
Violence intensified during the Chicago stockyards strike with shooting at a Lake Shore line train carrying strike breakers and widespread assaults. Union president Golden aided by Falk was attacked. Mayor Harrison urged to intervene while packers plan resumed wagon service and 5,000 fewer workers may be employed.
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Golden
Teamaters’ Union
Chicago
Carter H. Harrison
Harrison
Cornelus Shea
International Brotherhood of Teamsters
Teamsters
Strke
Shea
Teamsters’ Joint Council
Lake Shore
Michigan Southern
Fifth Avenue
Teamsters’ Union
Max Falk
Falk
Gowen
Mob Attack on Non-Union Packers in New York
Striking beef butchers and sympathizers renewed demonstrations in New York against non union drivers for Schwarzschild Sulzberger and United Dressed Beef. A meat truck guarded by two police was attacked at Fifty second Street and Second Avenue. A striker hurled a stone striking a police helmet and wounding the officer. Police dispersed the crowd with drawn revolvers. No shots were fired. Several non union drivers were assaulted as the clash spread.
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New York
Schwarzschild & Sulzberger
United Dressed Beef Company
Fifty-second Street
Second Avenue
Cable Men May Strike At Midway Island
Theut C Owen commands Marines at Midway Island reporting cable company employees threaten to quit and depart on the next steamer if Navy firearm bans are enforced. The Navy Department insists the order be strictly followed to stop the slaughter of island birds for plumage.
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Midway Island
Theut. C
Owen
Pacific Cable
Cable Company
Navy Department
Heir to the Russian Throne and Imperial Birth Traditions
The article notes speculation about a newborn heir to the Russian throne amid long tradition surrounding names like Alexis Petrovitch. It describes the imperial family at Alexandra Villa Peterhof near St Petersburg, with crowds and clergy praying for a son, and cites Father John Cronstadt’s prophecy of seven daughters before a son and an eighth child predicted to be a son.
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Alexis
Alexis Petrovitch
Peter the Great
Russia
Alex of Hesse
Olga
Tatiana
Marie
Anastasia
Alexandra Villa
Peterhof
St Petersburg
St. Petersburg
Baltic
Higa
Greece
John
Cronstadt
Building Trades Alliance Adopts Arbitration Plan
The Structural Building Trades Alliance convention in Indianapolis adopts an arbitration scheme to guide later disputes. The plan mirrors coal mine agreements with labor unions and will first test in New York with possible board of governors meeting in New York City soon. President Buchanan may convene the governors there to aid in settling the current controversy.
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Building Trades Alliance
Indianapolis
Ind
The
Structural Building Trades Alliance
International Officers of Labor Unions
United Mine Workers
New York
Arbitration Plan Test in Sherman Act Suit
New York August 12 Charles L. Erdlitz president of the Building Trades Employers' Association was served with a summons in a Supreme Court action by James J. Daly for the Building Trades Alliance The suit seeks to determine the validity of the general arbitration plan adopted July 13 1908 and whether the employers' association is a restraint of trade under the Sherman anti trust law It also asks whether bonding of members would be upheld by the courts A motion will be made in New York County Supreme Court for an order directing production of all association books and general arbitration board minutes for inspection by the complainant alliance
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New York
Charles L. Erdlitz
Building Trades Employers’ Association
Supreme Court
James J. Daly
Tile Sayers’ Union
Building Trades Alliance
Building ‘Trades Employers’ Associaion
Employers’ Association
Frank Accer
People's Security Company
Supreme Court of
New York County
General Arbitration Board
Complainant Alliance
Death by own action while deranged in Baltimore
William Dwyer aged twenty eight, of 336 I Street Southwest, Washington, DC, committed death by his own hand at 611 Gough Street in Baltimore, using a policeman's pistol. He had been drinking heavily, showed mental derangement, and was staying with his uncle George Deal. He died from two bullet wounds to the head. a coroner's certificate attributed the death to self inflicted injuries. He was a brickmason employed by C Fulton Company in the burned district and left a brother and sister in Washington unnotified.
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Washington Post
Baltimore
William Dwyer
I Street
Washington, D.C
Gough Street
Dwyer
C . Fulton Company
Washington
George Deal
Deal
Hase
Washington | Ae
Grievances of Miners Board of Conciliation Fails
In Wilkesbarre Pa August 12 the anthracite board of conciliation met with full participation except R C Luther. The main issue was whether Judge Gray should interpret the check weighman clause. Negotiations stalled with disputes over sections of the award and no action taken on several grievances. The next session will be in New York at Lehigh Valley Company offices on August 19 with umpire Carroll Wright slated to participate.
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Board of Conciliation
Wilkesbarre
Anthracite Board of Conciliation
R C Luther
Gray
Nicholls
Carroll
Wright
Centralia
Lehigh Valley Coal Company
Dunmore
Pennsylvania Coal Company
Erievance
Lytle
Lehigh Valley Company
New York
Strike unsettled in Crooksville Coshocton district coal fields
Reports from Zanesville Ohio and Pittsburgh Pennsylvania detail miners and operators’ meetings with no settlement reached for the Crooksville and Coshocton district strike affecting about 2000 miners. Night reports cite discouraging outlook for a settlement from mine officials.
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Zanesville
Ohio
Crooksville and
Coshocton
Prince Henry Story Denied Travel Plans to U S
A report from St Louis on August 12 claimed Prince Henry of Prussia his wife and eldest son would tour the United States, arriving in New York then St Louis, with lavish entertainment by Dr Theodore Lewald, though Berlin’s foreign office and Prince Henry’s court marshal denied any knowledge of such plans.
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St Louis
St. Louis
Prince Henry of Prussia
Germany
United States
New York
Theodore Lewald
Lewald
Berlin
Foreign Office
Prince Henry
America
Kiel
Associated Press
Color Line In G A R Delegations Split For Boston Encampment
In New Orleans on August 12, GAR delegations begin departing for the Boston encampment. Two factions in the local commander’s jurisdiction opt to travel on separate trains. Keating leads a party of forty five. Lewis takes a large group of colored soldiers, their families, and friends aboard a second train.
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New Orleans
GAR
Boston
Keating
Tve
Port Lewis
Army
Preacher Barred at Gates Over Alleged England Conviction
Alfred Burleigh Hart once a Brooklyn pastor is held on Ellis Island for possible deportation for alleged English conviction of moral turpitude. Immigration officials await Washington guidance and will conduct an inquiry to determine admissibility.
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New York
Alfred Burleigh Hart
Brooklyn
Ellis Island
England
Washington
Alfred Burleigh
Hart
Immigration Service
Weather Conditions and Coastal Winds Map Aug 12
A Washington weather bulletin reports a high barometer northward moving system over the Lake region with fair weather and moderate temperatures. An area of low pressure from Missouri and Wisconsin to Lake Superior brings thunderstorms in upper Michigan and rains in the South Atlantic Gulf and Middle Rocky Mountain districts. Saturday expects fair skies with rising temperatures in the Middle Atlantic and Northeast. local rains persist in the Southern States and some western districts. Coastal winds trend east to fresh along the Gulf, and southerly across the Great Lakes, with steamer routes from Europe seeing winds shift southeast to south. Local readings include temperatures around 68 to 78 Fahrenheit throughout the day, with highs near 78 and lows near 61, plus tides and sunshine figures. Dolphin arrives in New York as Secretary Morton and party reach harbor aboard the U S dispatch boat Dolphin from Washington.
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Agriculture Weather Bureau
Washington
Lake Region
North Atlantic
Missouri
Wissterpot
Lake Superior
Michigan
South Atlantic
Gulf States
Middle Rocky Mountain
Middle Plateau
Middle Eastern
Lake
Middle
Rocky Mountain
Plateau
Atlantic Coast
Gulf Coast
Great Lakes
European Porta
Grand Banke
Dolphin
New York
Morton
Navy
United States
Army of the Philippines elects officers in St Louis
Officers of the National Society of the Army of the Philippines were elected. President Gen. Wilder Metcalf. vice presidents Col. James W Pope, Capt. Charles B B Lock, Capt. H A Crow, Gen. J Franklin Bell, Gen. A T Frost, Col. Clarence R Edwards. Secretary T B Duncan. treasurer FB Krembs. chaplain Rev James Marley. Chicago was named as the next meeting site.
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St. Louis
Natonal Society of the Army of the Philippines
Wilder Metcalf
James W Pope
Charles BB. Lock
H. A. Crow
J. Franklin Bell
A. T Frost
Clarence R. Edwards
T. BE. Duncan
FB Krembs
James Marley
Chicago
Murder Climax Ends Feud Near Huber Station
Francis G. Hagan died from pistol wounds after being shot in the back by John R. T. Barbour at Huber Station a Louisville suburb. In an ante mortem statement Hagan said he did not know Barbour was near. The tragedy marks the feud’s violent culmination after years of conflict.
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Louisville
Francis G. Hagan
John R. T. Barbour
Huber Station
Hagan
Barbour
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