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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1904
Page
2
General Chaffee names staff for the inaugural parade with Brig. Gen John A. Young, Maj. William P. Duvall, and Captains Frank deW Ramsey, Robert F. L. Mich and J Pershing. Debate grows over inviting Gov. Vardaman amid mixed views from civic organizations and officials.
Several hundred Mississippians attended the Mississippi Society of St Touré banquet in St Tams Mo. Addresses praised President Roosevelt and Franklin D. Roosevelt’s courtesy. One speaker from Columbus spoke of shared heritage and southern friendship with the nation.
A mass meeting at the First Congregational Church protested Reed Smoot from Utah entering the U.S. Senate. Bishop Cranston presided as speakers including Tennis Hamlin Charles Moslyn Owen Dr R H McKim and Mrs Maria Weed attacked the Mormon Church accusing polygamy church state fusion and loyalty to Baal. They warned of ongoing fights by women groups to block Smoot’s seat. Fred M Smith a Josephite grandson attended the gathering.
Alexander Vance of Cleveland says he left $19 with a lodging house clerk on Pennsylvania Avenue near the Capitol and did not receive a receipt. The clerk vanished, a deposition record failed, and Vance later identified a man at the depot as James J. Yates, who denied the claim and provided collateral.
G W Orem, a resident of 298 Fillmore Street, limped to Anacostia Station at midnight Saturday with injuries to his face and head and his pockets turned inside out. He said he was struck from behind at Jefferson and Monroe streets as he walked, left in the snow, and lost his pocket book with $20 a watch and his hat. He suspects the robber was a white man.
Miss Gale Maddox aged sixteen of 61 Quincy Street Northwest was robbed by a short wiry Black man near Third Street and Florida Avenue Northwest Saturday night. She pursued the thief after a struggle and loss of $11.50 in her handbag. Police describe the suspect as very black and small. A separate note reports a $75 fire from an overheated stove at Edward Daley's residence 1308 Thirty Sixth Street Northwest.
Special to The Washington Post from Hagerstown Md reports Richard H Alvey chief justice of the United States Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia will retire December 31. He said he would notify President Roosevelt this week and dispose of cases by year end. At sixty seven appointed by Cleveland in 1893 he may retire on 7500 salary. wealth pegged around 100000. Interest mounts over his successor with several names cited including Louis E McComas and Charles C Cole.
The advertisement argues that Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery improves stomach digestion, aids blood oxygenation, and purges poisons to invigorate the whole system. It cites tissue building, better nutrition, and relief from indigestion, catarrh, debility, and skin conditions, with a testimonial from L J Smithwick praising its blood-purifying effects after four bottles.
Observers say the judge, appointed recently to the bench, has issued many notable opinions and could author the Court of Appeals opinion in the Machen Loreng Groff post office conspiracy case, though only he knows.
Miss Beatrice E. Patterson of Baltimore fled an arranged marriage to wed Charles E. Scarlett in Washington. The bride, her friend Miss Isabel Ramsay, and best man George Chipman traveled to the capital. the elopers then left for New York. Patterson Ramsay & Co. leads shipowners and exporters in Baltimore.
Frank H. Cunningham president of the National Rural Letter Carriers Association resigned as rural carrier for Rural Route No 1 South Omaha Nebraska amid a Post Office Department probe. He denies any attempt to defeat a candidate and says he will devote time to organizing rural carriers nationwide while awaiting department action.
Coroner investigates the abrupt death of Mary Cross aged forty at 319 Van Street Southeast. Benjamin Cross, thirty five, locked in Fourth precinct station, denies quarrel and claims wife woke with head pain before midnight. Autopsy planned to determine if violence occurred.
The Weather Bureau reports a strong Eastern Rockies to Mississippi Valley storm moving east, with rain on the Pacific coast and snow in the Missouri and Lake regions. A second inland Pacific low pressures the Midwest, bringing snow to Ohio Valley and rain to Gulf states, while temperatures ease then drop Tuesday night or Wednesday. Winds shift along the Atlantic, with brisk northwest winds on the Great Lakes and western Atlantic conditions improving for steamers to European ports. Local report notes midnight to 8 p.m. temperatures ranging from 12 to 26, humidity around 65 percent, rainfall 0.00 inches in many cities, and high tides at 11 a.m. and 6:25 p.m. An unrelated crime brief reports William Robinson, 32, a sign painter with past arrests, in custody following a butter theft linked to Minch Holzbelerin at 1847 Seventh Street NW.
A Chicago clinic publisher testifies to Grape-Nuts restoring a boy's weight and vigor after scarlet fever and kidney troubles. He details how a spoonful stabilized digestion, enabled nourishment, and led to a full recovery with the child growing to twelve stone at fifteen.
Senator Malory of Florida Justice Wright of the District Supreme Court and Representative Bourke Cochran of New York were chosen as judges for the Georgetown Law School debate to be held at Gaston Hall on January 6. The debate will feature third year class candidates and address the topic whether the cause of the war between Japan and Russia is still, or was, justified.
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