Insanity Defense Delay Granted for Schenk Case
Laura Farnworth Schenk, charged with attempted murder by poison, gains a January 9 trial postponement to obtain out of state depositions showing ancestral unsoundness of mind. Witnesses include Joseph Farnworth and Samantha Newton. detectives allegedly plotted the charges. Schenk remains in county jail. War Department selects officers for next year’s general staff.
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Wheeling Packen
Wheeling
W Va
Laura Farnworth Schenk
John ©. Schenk
Jordan
Criminal Court
Joseph Farnworth
Samantha J Newton
Howard J Pryor
Washington County
Ohio
Farnworth
Mra Schenk
John E McMahon Slath
Frank Ro McC‘oy
Ant Frank A Wilcox
Thurleth
War Department
Tominsson Barker Wedding Note at Baltimore
Married couple Prask Tomlinsson and Bovlah Barker reunite in Baltimore Maryland on Thursday December 2018. The pair, residents at 524 Third Street Northwest, are listed in a brief marriage notice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tominsson
Barker
Baltimore
Prask Tomlinsson
Bovlah
Barker Low
Third Street
Death notices and funeral rites from Washington area crowds
A compilation of obituaries and funeral notices dated December 1910 listing names, ages, residences, and service details. Entries include Ager, Barnite, Reneman, CranDalis, Downing, Cochoblhoer, Gill, Mayo, Mulhall, Pittent, Rocca, Sargent, Stilman and others with church, cemetery, and interment details in Arlington, St Marys, Rock Creek, and national sites.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ageit
Oamat
Attevine
Bonk Bradford
David G Barnite
Milenda
Wilmington del
York Ant
Northumberland
Renerman
New York
Spencer N Reneman Vuneral
Arlington Crandalis
Tae
Jose Crandall
Downing
Mary Shepheard
John A Downing
St Marya Episcopal Church
Hpm
Philadelphia
Pittsburg
Papeas
OU Heorhier
KK Cochbobhler
St Marys Church
Baltimore
Tanel
James Wo VieGill
Poom
Friends
Cordllla Lucy
Lucy Caroline Mayo
Jos Gawlers Sons
Pennsylvania Avenue
Pinate Mulhall
Stephen J . Mulhall
Mulhall
Ballston Va
Tis
Callendar
Falls Church
Arlington Cemetery
Loyal Legion OF the United States
District of Columbia
Caiderie
Rucca
Stilman
Thirtieth Street
Elizabeth
James H_ Stilman
W W
J H_ Stilman
Holy Trinity Church
Offensive Porter Jailed At New York Station
A New York Grand Central porter insulted a traveler who offered ten cents for carrying a small handbag to the parcel room. The porter demanded at least a quarter, threatened arrest, and was jailed by Magistrate Herrman after a patrolman pursuit. The case cited prior fines and a Columbia student claim, reflecting recent complaints of aggressive porters.
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Grand Central Station
Herrman
SorkyiMe
Carl I. Scottford
Utica
Byron PF Charles
Spottford
Charles
Preen
House
Columbia
Brazil to Disarm Naval Vessels after Mutinies
Rio de Janeiro reports radical changes in the Brazilian navy after two mutinies. Disarming the Sao Paulo Minas Geraes Deodora and Bahia, crews imprisoned on Villegaignon island, with mutineers to be tried by military courts. Salvos from November 22 to be excluded from the navy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rio Janeiro
Brazil
Sao Paulo
Minas Gelaes
Deodora
Bahia
Villegaignon
Senor Silva
Branco
Marine Corps
Baron Branco
Salso’s
Niagara Wrecks Lifeboat In Falls Trip
Special to The Washington Post Niagara Falls December 13 The Mitchell Ufeboat intended for a Niagara Falls run by Bobby Leach of Whirlpool fame wrecked over Horseshoe Falls. Anne Lidson Taylor remains famed queen of the waterfall. Leach’s crest was recovered in Chippewa Ontario and drifted into the Canadian channel. The craft surfaced nose broken, top deck gone, then sank after a brief pause. The wreckage was finally recovered below Bass Eddy on the Canadian side near where Mrs Taylor’s historic landing occurred.
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Washington Post
Niagara Falls
Mitchell
Horseshoe Falls
Wfe Mitchell
Bass Eddy
Campbell kills wife then himself in Malden quarrel
Malden Mass December 13 a domestic dispute ends in tragedy as Alonzo Campbell shoots his wife through the brain at her father's home and then kills himself with a revolver. Authorities report the couple argued with witnesses present before the fatal shots.
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Malden
Alonzo Campbell
Toth
Campbell
Siamese twin-like babies born at Homeopathic Hospital
Puzzling case at the Homeopathic Hospital reports the birth of twins joined from neck to waist with two heads two arms two legs and three lungs. Autopsy shows normal internal organs and a single fibrous bond. If they had lived they might have rivaled famous twins in history.
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Homeopathic Hospital
William R. Buchanan
Buchanan
Seven Massachusetts mayors win reelection
Boston May 7 183 Massachusetts cities held elections in fourteen cities with no turnover in license votes. Eight mayors sought reelection and seven won including Fletcher Chicopee Meehan Lowell Fall Maiden Burke Newburyport Murray Woburn and Logan Worcester. Rich Tyne lost to Connery. other new mayors elected Dodge Beverly Walgott Everett Taylor Medford Adams Salem Burna Somerville.
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Boston
Massachusetts
Lynn
Commission
Samuel F Fletcher
Chicopee
John M Meehan
Lowell
George H Fall
Maiden
Eugene H Moore
Melrose
Robert E Burke
Newburyport
Hugh D Murray
Woburn
James Logan
Worcester
James E Rich
Tyne
William H Connery
Frederick A. Dodge
Beverly
Herbert P. Walgatt
Everett
Charles S Taylor
Medford
R D Adams
Roosevelt Praises Interstate Commerce Role at Yale Visit
Col Roosevelt praised the agendst of interstate commerce as a constitutional extension toward social and economic betterment. He arrived in New Haven to a large crowd, greeted by a chautauqua salute, then attended a reception at Woolsey Hall with Yale officials including Hadley and Stokes. Governor Weeks and other dignitaries were absent due to other engagements.
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Col Roosevelt
New York
Chamber
Col Rosevelt
Col. Roosevelt
Gov Weeks
Meriden
Grand Army of the Republic
John E. Gilman
Yale University
Ullman
Charlies E. Julin
Hadley
Anson Phelps Stokes
Yate
Frank B. Hall
State Supreme Court of Errors
Rice
New Haven
Rollin S&s. Woodruff
Phinas C
Unusual Filings At County Clerk Office
Ida Von Claussen arrives with a $1,000,000 judgment against Theodore Roosevelt and other officials while a man seeks to attach Vatican property in Rome for $14,000,000. Clerk refuses both filings. documents placed in safe awaiting retrieval. Mrs Von Claussen vows to persist, declaring she has him now.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ida von Claussen
Washington Post
New York
Vatican
Rome
Pius X
Theodore Roosevel
Robert Bacon
France
Charles Graves
United States
Sweden
von Claussen
Mrs. von Claussen
Mr Roosevelt
Italian Floods Widen as King Plans Visit to Soaken North
Italian floods grow worse across the north with villages isolated and supplies ferried by boats. King Victor hastens to visit inundated districts to bolster residents. Leghorn reports part of the city under water and damage to the railway station. In Pisa the Arno is swollen flooding parts of the city.
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Victor
Rome
Italy
Leghorn
Pisa
Arno
Virginia physicians under postal law probes over germ filled mails
Richmond Virginia December reports that post office inspector Charles H Saffel and federal authorities in Washington are pursuing charges against several Virginia physicians for unlawful mailing practices. Tubes containing germs broke on arrival at the Richmond post office raising fear that Christmas parcels could spread disease.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington Post
Richmond
Charles H Saffel
Washington
Virginia
Edgar Allen, Jr
rAgent
Saffer
Burglar Cuts Hair in Auburn Tress Robbery
Seattle December 13 a burglar entered Miss Bertha M Parks home at 126 East Rider Street while she slept with her sister and cut nearly three feet from her auburn hair, leaving jewels and watches untouched. Heavy muddy tracks marked the carpet as the thief escaped.
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Washington Post
Seattle
Wash
Bertha M. Parks
East Rider Street
Chantable Work Shown By Associated Charities Report
The annual report highlights wider scope and more aid, noting 63,693 visitors and 35,842 calls on families. Volunteers made 700 extra trips, and agents conducted 11,000 family visits, marking it as one of the most satisfactory publications to date.
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Associated Charities
Dr White argues lay juries free insane patients
Dr William White, head of the Government Hospital for the Insane in Washington, told the New York Society of Medical Jurisprudence that layman juries freeing patients in habeas corpus cases disgrace society. He cited cases where evidently insane individuals were discharged while sane others were recommitted.
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New York
New York Society of Medical Jurisprudence
William White
Government Hospital For
Washington,dc
Birth and Death Notice Batch From Washington Area
Health office record lists numerous births including girls and boys with various parent names and addresses. Deaths include Mary E B White 76, Franeiy Lochbuehler 81, Emme Heneiman 75, Jeremiah Masterson 66, Frank Hazelton 63, Elizabeth Spilman 1028 36th St NW, and others with hospital affiliations and ages ranging from 2 to 93.
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Mary EB White
L Stow
Franeiy Lochbuehler
Emme “ Heneiman
Ave
Jeremiah Masterson
Government Hospital For the Insane
Frank B Hazelton
Government’ Hospital For the Insane
Elizabeth A Spilman
36Th St Nw
Samuel Anderson
Georgetown University Hospital
John Dickton
Washington Asylum Hospital
James Carter
P Ste
James Neldon
Mar Green
Mary Spearer
Clifton St Nw
Henry ‘Tavior Emergency Hospital
Gabriel Adams Casustry Hospital
Joseph Clark Washington Asylum Hospital
Matilda Curtis
Love's Wireless Fools Youth In Groveville
James Coleman is arrested in White House New Jersey on charges of assaulting Henry Green after a father uncovers a wireless courtship between Green’s daughter Miss Minerva Green and Coleman. A homemade wireless setup using continental Morse led to a staged romance and the exposure ends in quarrel and arrest.
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Groveville
N. J
White House
James Coleman
Grovesville
Henry Green
Coleman
Minerva Green
Green
Miss Green
Green Farm
Bite
Oourts
Mine Workers to Appeal Right to Organize West Virginia Fight
The United Mine Workers of America will seek a hearing in the circuit court of appeals over the 1907 injunction restraining miners in Clarksburg and Fairmont from organizing. Led by Tom L Lewis the case against Hitchman Coal Co could reach the U S Supreme Court if the appeal fails.
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West Virginia
Washington Post
Clarksburg
W Va
Fairmont
Dayton
United Mine Workers of America
United Stute Workers of America
Circuit Court of Appeals
Nathan Goff
Tom L. Lewis
Hitchman Coal Company
Supreme Court of the United States
McDermit Challenges Martine Petition In Trenton
Newark candidate McDermit contests Martine petition for the Democratic senatorial primary arguing the Martine filing was late and Martine’s name should not appear on the ticket. He says any action will be in a United States court and declined to discuss two plans.
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Trenton
Frank McDermit
Newark
United States
James E Martine
Martine
McDermit
Miss Knollys Awarded Damages in Libel Suit
A London jury in the Kings Bench Division awarded Miss Alexandra Louvina Knollys, daughter of Lord Knollys, damages of $2,500 in her libel suit against the John Bull periodical for reporting that she eloped with an English army officer. Horatio Bottomley, publisher and MP, apologized in court for publishing the statement.
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London
Kings Bench
Alexandra Louvima Knollys
Lord Knollys
King George
John Bull
Licensed to Marry in Baltimore and Nearby Counties
Fragmentary OCR shows marriages officiated by Judge Bundy and Rev Power involving Tom Wolsvitach and Rosa Petrenie of Baltimore and others from Hamilton Virginia Alberton and surrounding areas. Readable bits indicate ages 40 and 23 with multiple names and locations but details are incomplete.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tom Wolsvitach
Rosa Petrenie
Baltimore
C S Bundy
Fights Posse and Militia in Dakota Farmhouse Shooting
Genge Rossteuscher, a discharged farmhand, shot his former employer Daniel Courtney mortally after being spurned by 15 year old Bernice Culligan. He barricaded the Courtney home near Yankton until shot by sheriff and National Guard as residents fled. Rossteuscher, said to love Bernice, was wounded and captured after the siege.
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Yankton S Dak
Genge Rossteuscher
Daniel Courtney
Sheriff
Dakota National Guard
Rossteuscher
Yielim
Bernice, Culligan, and & Son
Courtney
Bernice
Utica
Hickey
Bernice Culligan
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A. Thomas
Pittsburge
Samuel Boyes
Pittsburg Dispatch Providenee Journal
Rochester Flerald
St Louis Republic St Paul Pioneer Press
Syracuse Post Standard Public Ledger
Vrrpa Perbrohive
Harris Ewing
John N. Huston
The
Harvey M. Lewis
Everett Dufour
Baggage Corner
Robert
Thniadelphia
Robert Buist
Robert Bust Company
A Costello
Frank A Speare
Geo P. Zarhorst
East Cypitatst Jr
William Lee
Pennsylvania
John R. Wright CO
Embalmers
Tenth Law Telephone North
R. F. Harvey's Sons
Tlnerat
Dmralmers
Commodions Chapel
Bonklet
M. J. Falvey F
Kieventh
N. W
Niagara Wrecks
Wife
T. R
White
Ases
Mumm
Orac
To-Kalon Wine CO
St.n. W
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R. Harris& CO
the Jewelers
D Sts
DR. White
Health Office Record
John and
Clarice
Britton
H Stanley
Daisy Gamble
Cal A
Katheryn
Wiliam L
Laura F. Bennett
Samuel M
Carrie A
Mourdy
Han J
Annie G
Walter L
Agnes Ingalle
Wiliam B
Ncie M Honey
Donald c
Lucile Bollard
Benjamin
Hester Tisher
Henry
Maggie Davis
Susie Payne
Elijah
Birdie Hill
Coy Lee
Roea Pendleton Bor Louis
Rachel Phillips
Elweiss Wills
Love's Wireless
Senate
Lane
Peter Grogan and Sons Co
Miss Knollys
Corrie
N. B
Percy S. Foster
Foster Bldg
Morocco
Becker’s Leather Goods Co
F St. N. W
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