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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1908
Page
2
The government is awarded costs and the decree remains in effect only during the appeal process. Both sides, government and defendants, will file notices of appeal with the Supreme Court, seeking to overturn or modify the ruling. The injunctions stay in place pending further action.
A Hagerstown farmer and widower, Jacob Bovey, is sued by his wife Kate Fox Harbaugh for ten thousand dollars alleging coercion and abandonment. The case centers on alleged malice at Bovey’s farm and home, with Harbaugh claiming her husband directed actions that damaged the family.
The Washington reflects marriage licenses issued in Rockville Montgomery County on December 1. Couples include Phante Christues and spouse, Alice Grace Tin, Walter Williams and Emma Talbott, Beall and Beth Beall, Browndugaviile resident, Charles Wolford and Cherry Run partner, Pugh with Catharine Living, Yohar S Tomphes and Achsah Wuite, all listed among others in the county.
James Clark of Leicester township, Asheville, North Carolina, dies of hydrophobia twenty nine days after a bite from his pet kitten. He showed no symptoms until Friday evening, grew worse Saturday and was unconscious by Monday night, despite a month passing since the incident.
Reports from Warrenton Martinsburg Winchester and Danville detail several weddings. Miss Mary Lou Smith and Mr Alexander Gray wed at Ripe with friends and family in attendance. Other ceremonies include Elizabeth Duncan and OtHar Adkins, Miss Ella Veldlam and James Dillard, with ministers Keen Street Baptist and Church of the Epiphany. Illness slightly improves for Senator Hansbrough en route to Washington.
Virginia brief items report home burglary at Finchburg with jewelry theft and damage during absence of Mig Joseph Cast. Other notes include a $1400 loss from a Staunton wallpaper store and Glamorgan Pipe and Foundry officers elected Walker Pettijohn president and AL Campbell vice president and GM, with Campbell secretary-treasurer. Oklahoma First National Bank at Eufaula robbed of 2700 dollars. safes blown nightly with escape. California travel ads promote first class railroad tours to Old Mexico via Southern routes starting January and February. request correspondence for Hutchison at Union Pacific Northwestern Line in New York.
In Stanley County North Carolina a Black assailant, Henry Young, broke into Mrs James H Moss home at Moss Sliding near Whitney injuring her and fighting with her husband and George Leffler. Young was overpowered, tied in the yard, then jailed in Albemarle. Leffler lost a finger and Mrs Moss faced a precarious condition with her husband and a crowd incited.
Virginia Episcopalians gather in Alexandria today at St Pauls to choose a bishop coadjutor for the Virginia diocese. The council includes clergy and delegates as nominations unfold with Rev Berryman Green among the leading candidates.
Secretary Straus urged a special Department of Commerce and Labor committee to convene in January with labor leaders, pubic Wcists, and industry directors. Topics include expanding steamboat inspection to boilers, curbing misleading European labor reports, improving immigrant information, addressing unemployment, and promoting the Roosevelt foundation for industrial peace. He said the gathering would aid national commercial and industrial interests.
Alexandria officials to attend the Washington funeral of Chief W T Belt of the Washington Fire Department. Delegates from the George Washington Birthday Celebration Association and city officials will represent the group. Bells will toll at 2 pm. floral tribute will be placed on the chief’s grave.
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