Flames at Shipyard Fire Fatally Wounds Young Fireman
Fire at Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company destroys carpenters and rigging lofts. A young fireman, Eddie Eddins, is fatally injured by a falling telegraph pole and a crushed throat from a red hot wire. Jefferson steamship damaged but saved with help from tugs. Insurance covers about 200000 dollars.
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Woman Smoker Burned In Home On South Washington Street
Mrs Mary Smith aged sixty six was burned to death at her Richmond Virginia home while smoking a pipe. A spark from her well seasoned pipe fell into her lap and she was engulfed in flames. Neighbors recalled she preferred not to be left alone with her pipe. Firemen extinguished the blaze after forcing locked doors. the body was severely burned and identified as Mrs Smyth.
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Minnesota to file injunction suit against Great Northern
The Minnesota attorney general will file an injunction to stop the Great Northern Railway from issuing $80,000 in new stock without the required consent of the State railway and warehouse commission. The state law mandates approval before issuing new securities, though stockholders have been notified they may buy the stock at par.
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Appeal in Offutt case reaches Court of Appeals
Katherine Seager Offutt sues Catherine V. Offutt and others claiming a ante nuptial contract implied by a letter from Luther M. Offutt promising his property. Circuit Court ruled the letter a mere love note, not a binding agreement, and the case proceeds on appeal.
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Rescues Captured Groom In Forced Abduction Wedding
A groom-to-be was abducted at pistol point to wed Miss Bessie Chandler in Baydton. Neighbors assembled a 20-man rescue party, forcing the groom back to his home. The bride’s father, Chandler, and allies were charged with abduction. the other father, Watson Elam, led a counter demand for release.
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Weds Despite Parents in Virginia Political Family Tale
Miss Nora B Hillenberg daughter of W G Hillenberg Wythe County Virginia representative and Republican figure wed Joseph E McLae of Montgomery Alabama, a telephone company employee, in Knoxville yesterday. Her brother opposed the match but could not stop the ceremony conducted by a magistrate. home was Crockett's Depot Virginia.
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Stray bullet injures Maryland man at Christmas party
Special to The Washington Poet Rockville Maryland December 2% W Scott Col Ung a young resident of Potomac district was shot in the head during a Christmas celebration A group of young men fired from a porch near the Collins home a bullet from a 38 caliber revolver pierced the window struck Mr Collins above the left eye and lodged at the back of the head The skull was not penetrated and the physician said no serious consequences are expected.
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Christmas Day in Alexandria Police Guard Killer Suspect
Nathan Phillips, a 28 year old man described as well dressed and intelligent, remains in custody in Alexandria after a Waynesboro Ga murder warrant. He claims the fatal shooting stemmed from a 3 year old dispute over a woman near Munnerlyn. Local Christmas observances proceed quietly despite the arrest. A toy pistol crackdown and a small freight yard fire added to a tense holiday in the city.
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Explosion injures salesman in Roanoke pocket
Roanoke on December 25 reports B C Lanham of Lanham and Major Pittsburg manufacturers lost his hand in a pocket explosion. He stood in a saloon near the counter when the blast tore the plate glass door from its hinges. The hand was amputated at the wrist and the cause remains unexplained.
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Flagman killed as Seaboard passenger train derails
In Raleigh North Carolina early today a Seaboard Air Line northbound passenger train collided with a detached coal car and caboose in the yard, derailing the engine and demolishing an express car. One flagman, Weatherspoon, asleep in the caboose, was killed instantly.
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Woman caused fight leads to fatal neck wound
James Coffman former Antietam Cafe proprietor was stabbed in a local saloon by Notary Public Andrew W Reeder a widower and school teacher. The two inch long wound near the jugular vein leaves Coffman in critical condition. The quarrel involved a woman both men were infatuated with and Treeder is under arrest.
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Novel mass at Baltimore by four Smyth brothers
Four Smyth brothers celebrated early high masses at St Anne's Baltimore with William R Smyth as father. Rev Carroll C Smyth led, Rev Thos G Smyth preached, Rev James A Smyth served as deacon, and John A Smith acted as deacon. A large congregation attended and a reception followed at the Smyth home.
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Virginia Weddings Reach Fairfelde Couples in Virginia
Misa Jame Coy ington and Lee Morrison both of Fairfelda were married yesterday evening in Fairfields M P Church Rey W F Wooden officiating. After a trip to New York the couple will reside at Rudville, Va.
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Greene Buys Mines For Three Million Pesos In Mexico
W C Greene purchased the Concheno mines at Concheno Chihuahua Mexico for 3 000 000 pesos The mines include an auto production plant and rich ore. Also reports from Hagerstown Maryland note the marriage of Miss Julia H Hamilton to James T Briscoe Jr and other local notices of licenses and public officers.
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Found Frozen to Death in Danville Tobacco District
Special to the Washington Post Danville Virginia December 2 The frozen body of Joseph Moore a middle aged white man of Baltimore Maryland was found on the steps of a factory in the tobacco district This man had been in the city for several weeks and carried cards showing he represented the Moore Chemical Company of 346 Courtland Street Baltimore He had been canvassing the city selling ink erasers When last seen late yesterday afternoon he had been drinking to excess He had been dead for some hours when found No coroner’s inquest was held.
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Woman Alleged Forger In Rockville Forgery Case
Eumma Hiwell, a young colored woman and former teacher at Martingharg, was arrested after two years of police pursuit for forging her father Wesley Ewell’s name on a check from Washington commission merchants. The check was cashed in the upper county before she fled, and she is now jailed in Rockville under Deputy Sheriff George Mullican.
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Norfolk and Western engineer Cil Shanks dies in Petersburg hotel
Cil Shanks of Crewe Virginia one of the railroad's oldest Norfolk and Western locomotive engineers was found dead in a Petersburg hotel room. He was forty five, a Petersburg native, and survived by wife Bettie Jones and three children. In Danville Miss Saitle Arm Miller dies at her brother Moseley's home after a long illness at sixty two. She had lived in the city for thirty years with one brother and a sister surviving.
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Girl Dies After Ingesting Bichloride of Mercury in Quarrel
Special to The Washington Post from Hagerstown Maryland reports Gertrude Hughes a nineteen year old Roanoke native who swallowed fourteen antiseptic tablets containing twenty grains of bichloride of mercury ten days earlier and died in great agony at her mother's home. The death follows a lovers quarrel with a young man in Hagerstown and a troubled history including elopement at age fifteen.
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Scotch Bible Class Fights Miracles Talk at Rockefeller Led Session
New York correspondent notes the Scotsman known as the Scotchman challenged leader John D Rockefeller’s Bible class on miracles. The debate warmed with Yuletide sentiment as Rockefeller urged focus on commandments. the Scot argued Elijah’s miracle and today’s springs resemble natural wonders.
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