Virginia considers patent medicine regulation and Maury monument bill
Richmond Va Feb 2 A bill to regulate proprietary and patent medicines was introduced in the Virginia House. The measure would require clear labeling showing alvatol and opium quantities. A senate bill would crack down on adulterated liquors with heavy penalties and brand requirements. A separate House measure seeks a Maury Monument funded at 16400 dollars with a governor led commission. Senator Kearns of Halifax is sworn in as civil senator.
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EB. W. Gaines
Norfolk
Tavenner
Shenandoah
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Virginia
Matthew Fontaine Maury
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Harry Glenn
House of Delegates
Tiny
Werder Ton
Swansqies
Iread
Telegraphers' Union
Kearns
Halifax County
State Board of Canvassers
Commonwealth
Thomas
Schdal Board of
Christiansburg
Mowes cleared as hospital board appointee troubled by delay
Eugene H. Clowes of Richmond learns from a Senate committee that no charges exist against his Eastern State Hospital board appointment. The inquiry will assess fitness. Clowes says opposition may stem from Dr. Lee and policy clashes with subordinate officials. Separately, a Fire in Fredericksburg destroys store and dwelling owned by R. H. Brumley with $2000 loss, $300 insured.
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Eugene H. Mowes
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Father of 23 Children Seeks Peaceful Talk From Magistrate
Joseph Cornish a Colorful Baltimore Civil War veteran aged eighty three, claims constant abuse from wife and children at 40 1 2 Pearl Street. He recounts seventeen children with first wife and six with second, oldest John now fifty three, youngest six months, pensioner on $40 monthly. He asks magistrate Loden to gently rebuke his wife to stop mistreatment.
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Weed May Be Alive Mystery Hits Fayetteville
Report from Fayetteville North Carolina states evidence suggests J B Weed who was said to have died in New York around Christmas may be alive in Europe pursuing patent rights. Both wives remain in Fayetteville with estate settlements pending. Mrs Shoemaker asks for return of a saddle hearse loan and $600 note Weed owed after a loan last fall. Weed’s second wife claims he died at a New York sanitarium on the Sunday before Christmas 1905.
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Norman V. Randolph
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Iensy
Washington Post
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N. C
J. B. Weed
New York
Europe
Weed
First Street
Pittsburg Girl Missing Sparks Reward Offer
Chief of Police in Cumberland reports a Pittsburgh man seeks the address of Columbus Paugh to locate his daughter who has been missing since December. Paugh says he found the girl and tried to notify her parents but contact failed. Haynes offers $200 reward for the girl's return. Paugh suspects unlawful detention or wrong address.
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Pitzer
T. F. Haynes
Pittsburg
Columbus Paugh
Haynes
Upper Potomac
W. Va
Paugh
Schooner Hart Stranded Off Cape Hatteras
The three masted schooner Maggie Hart, Capt. G L Foster, lumber from Wilmington and New York, stranded four south of Cape Hatteras. Foster and seven crew were rescued by Capt. Barnett of the Hatteras Inlet life saving station. The vessel lies off the beach, taking water but appears salvageable with quick aid. The incident follows a brutal robbery case in Wheeling involving Daniel Mock, who received a two year prison sentence for holding up and wounding a butcher, leaving his mother and two insane sisters without support.
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G. L. Foster
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Elizabeth Brown Gets Six Years for Killing Boy
Mrs Elizabeth Brown was sentenced in New Martinsville to six years in the penitentiary for killing Erving Windland who trespassed on her farm. Her husband, who faced a life sentence, was also involved in the case. Special to The Washington Post.
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Wheeling
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Elizabeth Brown
New Martinsville
Erving Winidlan
Man Jumped From Cincinnati Bridge. Note Told of Suicide
Cincinnati reports B E Loomis of New York is believed dead after leaping from the suspension bridge into the Ohio River. A note found pinned to a hat advised notifying Mary B Loomis and A H Cosden about cancer driving the act. Mrs Mary Loomis, wife of the New York physician, doubts his death and says she has heard from him and believes he may still be alive.
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Salvation Army Woman Arrested For Public Nuisance
In Hagerstown Maryland on February 2 Adjt Lydia Lovell of the Salvation Army was arrested after complaints from citizens about her street preaching and singing. Hotel guests and pedestrians reportedly disturbed by her loud voice. saloonkeepers said she blocked customers. Mayor Strite warned her. Lovell retorted about wheels in her head running toward heaven. She attempted to convert Justice Hofman during the hearing and was discharged.
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Paying Shepherds Debt For State Embezzlement Repaid
Tom Eggleston Jr formerly of Richmond now in Lawrenceville sent $1,169.45 to the Virginia State treasury. He held funds for Joseph H. Shepherd the defaulting auditor clerk, and the payment reimburses the state for Shepherds embezzlement. Any future interest or property from Shepherd will be treated similarly to cancel the obligation.
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Fluvanna Wants Line In Canal Inquiry
The State Corporation Commission traveled from Richmond to Columbia to investigate the Rivanna Canal conditions and to hear Flu vanna citizens demand for a branch line to replace the canal. Paul Pettit of Fluvanna, ex-legislator, accompanied them to press the case for his constituents.
B. & C. Improvements and Local Obituaries in Virginia
Reports from Trederick and Heathsville on railroad plans to extend the Baltimore and Ohio terminal yards near Brunswick, with potential land purchases along the Chesapeake and Ohio canal. Obituaries include: Mrs. Mary Belfield near Warsaw, Christopher Erb near Berryville, David Smith of Cartock Illinois, Joan R. Crank of Louisa County, the Rev James Fortitee of Dilworth, Joseph F. Tennnehill of Augusta, John W. Wheat of Fairfield, and Capt Warren Seymore Lorch of Harrisonburg, detailing ages, survivors, and brief biographical notes.
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Norfolk Odd Fellows fund to capture killer of Dotser
Special to The Washington Post Norfolk Va Feb 2 The Odd Fellows of Norfolk plan a mass meeting to subscribe to a fund for the arrest of C W Taylor Atlas Leo n Thurman whom police accuse of murdering W P Dotser whose mangled remains were found in a trunk at a Main Street boarding house yesterday Police say they have no suspect in custody but are receiving tips from other cities and expect further arrests connected to the case with a possible accomplice suspected.
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Three Die in Delorme Mine Blast Near Roanoke
Roanoke Va edition reports three miners died in a Delorme West Virginia mine explosion yesterday afternoon. The deceased are John Thornburg Will Gillespie and George Costine. The blast was caused by Leonard Hall who survived with broken leg and injuries. Also three mules perished in the incident.
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Warwick Justice of the Peace Must Serve His Sentence
The Virginia Supreme Court sustains the Warwick County justice of the peace Charles H. Robinson in the embezzlement case, affirming his one year penitentiary sentence while ruling that Southern Railway Company wins the Powell case from Alexandria. Other court notes include several reversals and affirmations across multiple circuits and counties.
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President Stevens Robbed and Rail Men Killed in Virginia
Richmond report saysGeorge W Stevens Chesapeake and Ohio Railway president home robbed for second time in weeks. August Gates and William Walker arrested with pawn tickets for a gold watch two scarf pins and a revolver identified as stolen from Stevens home in Charleston West Virginia. Also notes Conductor Sherman Fields killed at Russell Kentucky station and J W Page killed at Bird street crossing in Fredericksburg Virginia. Mercer Monument completed in Fredericksburg costing 25000 with unveiling set for spring.
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MISS PAFF TO SPONSOR CALLAHAN FERRY LAUNCH
The Norfolk and Washington Steamboat Company invites Miss Paff daughter of Alexandria mayor Frederick J. Pat to christen the ferryboat Callahan built for the Potomac route between Alexandria and Washington. The vessel will be launched mid March and ready by May, improving freight and passenger service between the two cities.
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Richmond appoints R. E. Cabell postmaster
R. E. Cabell, named postmaster at Richmond by President Roosevelt to succeed Wray T. Knight, is 27, a Roanoke College AB and Princeton MA, born in Nelson County. A Republican voter since eligibility, he taught school briefly and has practiced law in Richmond since 1902 after Richmond College studies.
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Staunton Deserter Fined For Keeping Government Property
Staunton Va Feb 2 James Curry formerly a private in the Staunton Rifles was discharged and declared a deserter. He was found guilty of retaining property belonging to the state military service and refusing to return it. He was fined $3 in Police Court after failing to appear as summoned. Captain swore out a warrant for his arrest.
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Samuel Leaves Stand In Federal Fraud Trial
Greensboro date Feb 2 Special to The Washington Post former revenue officer D W Samuel concluded testimony in the federal fraud trial. Deputies Perkins Hare Sheppard and others testified to his character and corroborated details while cross examination revealed long running stills and eleven destroyed in 1305 including three steam distilleries operated by James Combs and his brothers.
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James Combs
Another Town Wiped Out by Pennsylvania Track Plan
West Wheeling Ohio town abandoned as Pennsylvania Company acquires property for a double track line down the Ohio River from Wellsville to Bellaire. Deals completed today for nearly all vital property. the town to be razed this spring. Burlington, Ohio side, shares the fate with riverfront hills enclosing it.
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Treasure in Mud Yields Spanish Coins Worth 890
A colored girl walking along a Westmoreland County creek bank uncovered a mud‑stuck jar on HE Goodridge farm containing Spanish silver coins valued at about 890 dollars. The coins were old, none newer than sixty five years. The jar was handed to Mr. Goodridge. In Hagerstown, a fire at the old Avondale mansion caused about 5000 dollars in losses. the mansion was part of Dr. F. D. Mitchell estate and a notable local structure.
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Conspiracy in Murder Charged in Virginia Case
Special to The Washington rast Bristol Virginia February 2 Morrell Scott a mulatto woman and Thomas Scott a negro boy were held to the grand jury for the killing of Henry Green. It is alleged Green did the shooting but evidence suggests a conspiracy between the two indicted to murder Green. Fredericksburg Virginia February 2 The boiler of a saw mill in Spotsylvania County owned by Alpheus Wigglesworth burst today killing a man named Maraboal. Two other men were seriously injured.
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