Fought the Officer in Fracas on Rock Creek Bridge
Washington Aqueduct watchman John Hall was arrested on a charge of assault after a fracas on the swinging bridge at Lovers Lane near Rock Creek. Brothers James and Francis Robinson were involved, both taken to the Seventh precinct and later released. Hall surrendered, with Col. Miller backing his claim of guarding government property.
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Watchman Hall
Uncle Sam
Rock Creek
Lovers' Lane
John Hah
Washington Aqueduct
Hall
Georgetown
James B. Robinson
Fancis Robinson
Biall
Robinson Brothers
Government Bridge
Hock Creek
Massachusetts Avenue
Lovers’ Lane
Washington
Alexander M Miller
US. A
Nong
Seventh Precinct
Lose Lane
Robinsons
Warnt
Wall
Col. Miller
Efall
United States
Eighe
Lovers’ Lane Ridge
Firings Shock Thirteenth Street Scar in Disorder
George T L Dann a white man and Lewis C Jones a black man argued near a land room run by Jones. A pistol discharged during the fight wounding no one but a shirt. Dunn Calloway and Jones were arrested on charges of disorderly conduct and discharging firearms in the street.
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Thirteenth
D Silver Northwest
George TL. Dann
Lewis C. Jones
Jones
Dunn
Thomas Calloway
Rabies Confirmed in Bulkley’s Dog
The dull terrier that bit Robert W. Bulkley of 174 Fo street NW last Thursday tested rabid by microscopic exam at the Bureau of Animal Industry. Bulkley seeks Pasteur Institute care in Baltimore for three weeks after hand wound.
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Robert W. Bulkley
Fo Street
Bureau of Animal Industry
Department of Agriculture
Sam Wekstein
Bulkiny
Pasteur Institute
Baltimore
Woman Killed Crossing Rail Tracks at South Capitol
Mrs Cecelia Mudd an aged Negro woman died after being struck by New York express No 43 at the South Capitol street crossing near Eight Half Street Southwest as crossing gates were reported out of order Two watchmen warned but she entered the track center and the engine passed She suffered multiple injuries and died at Emergency Hospital Autopsy planned to determine fault ahead of the inquest to be held by Acting Coroner Glazebrook tomorrow
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Half Street
Cecelia Mudd
Pennsylvania Railroad
South Capitol Street
New York Express
Bouthn Capitol Street
Express
Mrs. Mudda
Glazebrook
Banquet to Negro Orator Praises President Roosevelt
Baltimore leader Hamy Lythe Cummings, honored at a banquet, declares Roosevelt is the colored race’s charm for every woe. He recalls his role in Chicago’s GOP convention, urges Black voters to back Roosevelt to safeguard rights amid rising threats to suffrage and equality.
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Theodore Roosevelt
United States
Hamy Lythe Cummings
Baltimore
M Street
Roosevelt
Cummings
Maryland Law School
Elty
Washington
Robert Reyburn
Richard M. Toomey
Kelly Miller
Howard University
Anda
Chicago
Maryland
West Virginia
Delaware
New Jers
Theodore Rooseveltt
Mr. Roosevelt
Treasury Cats and Sunlight Sand Pile Idea
Secretaries Shaw pitys Treasury building cats living in gloom. He considers a sunlit sand pile for the tabbies as employees doubt the plan. Also, a two year old, David Berlin, was run over by a wagon on 7119 Pennsylvania Ave NW. his right leg broken and he was taken to Emergency Hospital.
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Shaw
Treasury
David Berlin
Pennsylvania Avenue
Charles Vranco
Capitol Street
Masons Bury Victims At Regatta Disaster Funerals
Dignitaries from Columbia Commandery Knights Templars led services for Dr Charles H Blumer William H Smith and Harrie L Atchison following the Potomac disaster. Funeral rites were held at Christ s Church Navy Yard Rock Creek Cemetery and Congressional Cemetery with elaborate floral tributes and large delegations from Masonic bodies.
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Columbia Commandery
Charles H. Blumer
William H. Smith
Harrie L. Atchison
Bright
Potomac
Knights Templars
Jena
Masonic Temple
Harris L. Atchison
J. Harry Cunningham
Atchison
D. H. Fenton
Dr. Sumer
Christ's Church, Navy Yard
Arthur S. Johns
Columbia
Harmony Lodge
No. 17
J. J. Harrower
H. C. Easterday
Alexander
C. BE. Baldwin
W. B. Pettus
J. KE. Burns
R. C. Williams
Highth Street
Blue Lodge
Almas Temple
Mr. Smith
O. W. Hammond
Hammond
New York
Ida M. Beaton
Katherine
Rose Smith
Rock Creek Cemetery
G. Redman
J. F. Blair
Thornton Silcott
Charles Long
C. B. Matthews
W. H. Waters
J. L. Fox
Navy Yard
Masons
Almas Temple Patrol
Ladies of National Hive
Knight T. Herbert Coates
George Ohm
Callow Avenue
Baltimore
Templar
Monumental Commandery
No. 3
Cunningham
Baltimore and Ohio
Washington Centennial Lodge
Mount Vernon
Commonery
J. George Smith
Grant Street
Grace Lutheran Church
Dr. Doermann
Washington
Smith
Samuel Stinemetz
J. D. Sullivan
Ferris
George Harlebaus
J. C. Addison
J. E. Mattern
Hazel Hizer
Holy Trinity Catholic Church
Georgetown
J. F. XM. Mulvaney
Robert Hudson
William Clark
Otto Niemeyer
Percy Smith
Charles Staub
Robert Summerville
Mount Olivet
Will of Joan C. Bullitt filed in Philadelphia Probate
Exemplified copy of the will names executors William C. Bullitt Richard Dale and H Gordon McCouch. It provides specific bequests to clerks relatives and servants and substantial stock gifts to Thomas Bullitt and Tiny Bpeed Rodners. The estate's real and personal property go to executors with broad management powers and a twenty one year trust for descendants. The document dates August 19 1899.
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Joan C. Bullitt
William C. Bullitt
Richard C. Dale
H. Gordon McCouch
William Drost
Walter C. Harris
William M. Katzmiller
James McMullan
Andrew J. Peabody, Jr
William McMullan
Testator
Samuel Dickson
Washington Gas Light Company
Thomas W. Builltt
Tiny Bpeed Rodners
Washington, D. C
Bullitt
Philadelphia
Desperate Bowies Knife Thwarted by Plainclothes Cop
A Rich mond tobacconist, John L. Perkins, armed with a bowie knife, challenged two men on a street near 6 pm and demanded if they had seen police. A passerby woman tackled him, Perkins surrendered, and the knife was dropped. He was jailed at the First precinct and faces a Police Court hearing for carrying a deadly weapon.
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John L. Perkins
Richmond
Samson
First Precinct
Perkins
Kept Money He Saw Full.
Richard Young, driving an ice wagon, picked up a purse found on Thirteenth Street and New York Avenue NW. He took $33 from the pocketbook before returning the bag to its owner, Mrs. Carrie Harrington, and was arrested on petit larceny charges after detectives traced the theft to him.
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Richard Young
Parham and
O’brien
Carrie Harrington
Corcoran Street
Thirteenth Street
New York Avenue
Young
Casper Morgenweck Killed by Train in Hancock
Casper Morgenweck, 31, saloonist, was run over by a train and killed near Hancock Maryland Monday night. His body was brought to Baltimore for burial, leaving a widow and two children. He had been in charge of a Fourth Street saloon for about three years and once worked as a bartender at the Home Club. His companions Prat Kirschner and R Blelfus were with him during a vacation in Cumberland.
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Washington
Hancock
Casper Morgenweck
Fourth Street
Surive
Morgenwerk
Cumberland
Prat
Kirschner
R. Blelfus
Morgenweck
Arrest at White House By Crank Doctor Baird from Greenville
Dr John P Baird of Greenville Texas sought an interview with President Roosevelt to press reform for local society leaders. Secret Service detained him and police will arrange repatriation. His wife Mrs Lula Baird of 26 North Wright St Greenville will be advised. Also, Roy Summers 20 was arrested for placing a torpedo on a Montgomery County railroad track causing a train to stop.
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Dr. Baird
Roosevelt
John P. Baird
Greenville
Tex
White House
Secret Service
Taylor
Baird
Lula Baird
North Wright Street
Hartigan and Baur
Roy A. Summers
Williams
Montgomery County
Summers
Rockville
Maryland
Chase by horse and buggy ends with arrests
Two men Burns Orrison and Otto Plumber chased by police drove a horse through city streets at high speed Sunday night. Officers were struck with a whip as they tried to intervene. The horse, owned by the District Engineer's office, was captured and the pair were jailed on assault and battery and cruelty charges awaiting Police Court hearings.
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Palicegen Dunn
Duval
Fourteenth
Q Streets
Fourteenth Street
Massachusetts Avenue
Dupont Circle
Circle
P Street
Twenty-sixth Street
Lyon's Mill Road
Dunn
Sergt. Wilson
Lyon’s Mill Raad
Aterday
Third Precinct
Burns Orrison
Otto Plumber
Young Burglar Captured After Alarm Triggers Stables
A nineteen year old Lexington man, J C Pearce, was captured after an alarm at 1717 I street and 117 I street northwest led to his arrest. He admitted burglary here and four in Baltimore and wore shoes tied to Dr Hawxhurst thefts at 1412 Massachusetts avenue northwest. About 10 cents worth of jewelry and clothing were taken. Police and detectives pursued the case, with further inquiries planned.
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I Street
Baltimore
Mutual Telegraph and Messenger Company
Connecticut Avenue Northwest
Elwood Phelps
The
Telegraph Company
Mr. Phelps
Policeman Dunn
J. C. Pearce
Lexington
Dr. Hawxhurst
Pearce
Slate Trust in Vermont and New York Form Agreement
Leading slate producers in Vermont and northern New York form a 10 firm alliance to stabilize a dull market by limiting output to 300000 squares of roofing slate annually for five years. The $1,250,000 aggregate business includes Morton Brothers Edwards Slate Company Owen Sons Granville and others forming the American Pea Green Slate Company, chartered in New York.
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Manchester
Vermont
New York
Morton Brothers
Edwards Slate Company
Owen Sons
Granville
N. Y
Vermont Slate Company
Poulton Consolidated Slate Company
Auld & Conger
Griffith National Slate Company
Poultney
Rising & Nelson
Pichet
American Pea Green Slate Company
New Railroad President Elected for Vera Cruz Line
Thomas Milan of Mexico was named president of the Vera Cruz and Pacific Railway Company, succeeding R. B. Pegram who resigned due to ill health. Milan joins directors Manuel de Azpiroz, BE C. Henderson, and Capt. W. G. Raoul. The board includes McLane, Jenkins, Walters, Marbury, Crawford, Randolph, Brown. The sale to the Mexican government follows prior Maryland Trust losses, with bonds dated July 1, 1929 and maturing July 1, 1934, and plans to use $2 million for road completion and future needs.
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Baltimore
Thomas Milan
Mexico
Vera Cruz and Pacific Railway Company
R. B. Pegram
Allan McLane
Milan
Manual de Azpiroz
United States
Be, C. Henderson
New York
W. G
Maryland Trust Company
McLane
Mifilan
National Railroad of Mexico
Trolley wreck in Camden kills conductor at curve
One person died and seven were slightly injured when a Camden and Trenton trolley car overturned at Hatehs Corner near Delair New Jersey. The brake chain broke as the car neared a sharp curve, and conductor Robert Holloway was crushed beneath the vehicle.
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Camden
N. J
Trenton
Hatehs Corner
Delair
Robert Holloway
Congressman Hitt Improves. Bar Harbor Bulletin
The condition of Congressman Robert R. Hitt of Illinois was satisfactory today with no reason for alarm, as doctors Hyatt and Morgan held their final consultation and planned to return immediately to Washington.
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Congressman Hitt
Bar Harbor
Robert R. Hitt
Illinois
Dre. Hyatt and
Morgan
Germans Defeat Hereros Near Hamakari in Southwest Africa
Berlin reports Gen von Trotha’s forces attacked the Hereros on August 11 and 12 near Hamakari. Heavy German losses included five officers and nineteen men killed, six officers and fifty-two men wounded. Native forces, about 5,000, suffered severe defeats. thousands of cattle were captured and Chief Samuel Maherero’s camp faced German pressure in the Waterberg area. Deserters mention Swakopmund reenforcements causing native retreat. Lieutenant von Bodenhausen and eight men were killed in a preceding skirmish.
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Berlin
Hamakari
Africa
Count von Arnim
Baron von Watter
von Trotha
Swakopmund
Samuel
Waterberg
Nasses
Baron von Bodenhausen
Leutenant
Reform in Russia to abolish corporal punishment
Aug 10 St. Petersburg report says a royal ukase will abolish corporal punishment across Russia as a sign of the heir’s birth. Emperor William may act as godfather. Christening set for Aug 23 with liberal measures to follow amid peasant courts and ongoing punishments for certain offenses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Petersburg
Russia
William
Petition to Italy seeks Crete annexation from Greek prince rule
In Crete residents petition the Italian government to remove Prince George of Greece as high commissioner of the protective powers. They demand annexation to Greece and threaten revolution if denied. The action is addressed to Italy, with Russian French and British ambassadors involved as Crete’s affairs fall under their supervision. Prince George is reported to plan a visit to the protective powers’ capitals.
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Rome
Crete
Prince George
Greece
Protective Powers
Italy
Banner Week in Coal Receipts at Newport News
Newport News Virginia August 16 weekly coal piers record shattered last week with 78435 tons dumped in six days surpassing earlier 76000 ton mark. Harbor crowded with schooners and coal barges awaiting pier access and a new record may be broken again this month.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington East
Newport News
Monarchs Exchange Visits at Marienbad
Emperor Francis Joseph arrives from Vienna to visit King Edward. The two monarchs meet at the station then drive to the Hotel Weimar amid crowds and guards. A later dinner at the hotel includes 19 officials and diplomats. electric lights fail briefly before candles are used.
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King Edward
Emperor Francis Joseph
Marienbad
Marienbag
Sonemia
Francis Joseph
Vienna
Edward
Ixing Edward
Weimar
Luginsland
F. R. Plunkett
Austria
Count Mensdorf
Great Britain
Duke of Teck
J Might
Gov Odell Sprains Ankle At Newburgh Station
Newburgh New York August 16 Gov Odell sprained his left ankle this afternoon at the railroad station. As he was leaving his carriage his foot slipped and he fell. Dr Townsend said he would likely be able to leave for New York City tomorrow morning.
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Newburgh
N. Y
Odell
Townsend
New York City
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