Virginia Legislature Debates Patent Medicine Rule and Maury Monument
A Richmond bill seeks to regulate proprietary medicines by requiring clear formula labeling and forbidding poisons. another proposes a $16,400 appropriation for a public Maury monument memorializing the pathfinder of the seas. Senate assigns Kearns to committees after he is sworn in. various house measures pass including debt funding and school support.
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Halifax
Sperial
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Norfolk
Tavenner
Shenandoah
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Virginia
Matthew Fontaine Maury
House
Harry Glenn
House of Delegates
Tiny
Werder Ton
Swansqies
Iread
Telegraphers' Union
Halifax County
State Board of Canvassers
Commonwealth
Thomas
Schdal Board of
Christiansburg
Loyalties and delays cloud Richmond hospital board pick
Richmond Virginia February report notes Eugene H Clowes has cleared of charges but faces wider fitness review for Eastern State Hospital board seat. Clowes cites opposition by Dr Lee and asserts political meddling behind the scrutiny amid discharge of subordinate officials. In Fredericksburg, a store and dwelling owned by R H Brumley burned, with $2000 loss and $300 insured.
Father of 23 Children Seeks Help From Magistrate
Baltimore Feb. 2 Joseph Cornish an 83 year old colored Civil War veteran from 40 Pearl street told Justice Loden at the Western Police Station that his wife and children abuse him. He earns a $40 monthly pension and says his oldest child is 53 years old. He has 17 children by his first wife and 6 by his second, all of whom he says curse and nag him at his home, prompting his appeal to the magistrate for relief.
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Baltimore
Joseph Cornish
Pearl Street
Loden
Western
Cornish
Maryland Infantry
McBride
O. P. Stern
Sam
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Wfe
Weed May Be Alive In Europe After Christmas Death Claim
Fayetteville N C February 2 It was reported here today that evidence suggests J B Weed who is said to have died in New York around Christmas is alive in Europe negotiating patent rights before his death His two wives remain here and no estate settlement has occurred Mrs Shoemaker of Pinch seeks the return of a saddle hearse loaned to him and payment of Weed s $600 note He supposedly died at a New York sanitarium on the Sunday before Christmas 1905
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N. C
J. B. Weed
New York
Europe
Weed
First Street
Pittsburg Girl Missing Sparks Cumberland Probe
Chief Pitzer of Cumberland reports a letter from T F Haynes of Pittsburg seeking the address of Columbus Paugh. Haynes says his daughter has been missing since December and offers 200 reward for her return. Paugh at Upper Potomac WV says he located the girl and tried to notify her parents but cannot reach them. He suspects wrongful address or unlawful detention.
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Pitzer
T. F. Haynes
Pittsburg
Columbus Paugh
Haynes
Upper Potomac
W. Va
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Stranded Schooner Maggie Hart Near Cape Hatteras
The three masted schooner Maggie Hart capt. G L Foster lumber laden from Wilmington and New York stranded four south of Cape Hatteras. Foster and seven crew members were rescued by Capt. Barnett of the Hatteras Inlet life saving station. The vessel lies off the beach in good condition though taking on water and may be salvageable with quick assistance.
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Barnett
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Hatteras
Elizabeth Brown gets six years for killing boy
Mrs Elizabeth Brown was sentenced to six years in the penitentiary in Martinsville for killing Erving Windland who trespassed on her farm. Her husband received a life sentence. Special to The Washington Post.
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Washington Post
Wheeling
W. Va
Elizabeth Brown
New Martinsville
Erving Winidlan
Man on Cincinnati Bridge Dies by Leaping, Note Found
Report from Cincinnati and Parkersburg say B F Loomis of New York likely killed himself by jumping from the suspension bridge into the Ohio River. A note found in a hat lists contacts and says cancer was too much, while his wife Mary Loomis doubts his death and believes he may still be alive after receiving a letter stating intent to kill himself.
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Cincinnati
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Acre
Gotbge
Salvation Army Woman Arrested for Public Nuisance in Hagerstown
Adjutant Lydia Lovell of the Salvation Army was arrested after complaints by hotel guests and saloonkeepers that her street preaching and singing disturbed the public. She challenged critics with a quip about having wheels in her head, quoted Scripture in court, and was discharged after the hearing before Justice Hofman.
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Hagerstown
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Paying Shepherds Debt and Embezzlement Repaid
Tom Eggleston Jr. of Richmond and Lawrenceville repaid 1169.45 to Virginia’s treasury cover for the defaulting clerk Joseph H. Shepherd. The repayment aims to reimburse the state for Shepherd’s peculations and to cancel the related obligation as recoveries continue.
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Fluvanna Wants Line Rivanna Canal Probe by Commission
The State Corporation Commission, leaving Richmond for Columbia, will investigate the Rivanna Canal and the demand from Fluvanna citizens for a branch line to replace the canal. Paul Pettit of Fluvanna, former delegate, accompanied the commissioners to press the case.
Improvements planned for B and O yards at Brunswick
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad plans heavy expenditure to extend its division terminal freight yards near Brunswick, with expectant land purchases along the Chesapeake and Ohio canal from the yard to Knoxville. Several regional obituaries note ages and survivors, including Mrs. Belfield, Christopher Erb, David Smith, Joan Crank, the Rev James Fortree, and Joseph F. Tennehill, plus Capt Warren Lorch, a long-time Republican leader.
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Trederick
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Fitzgerald
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Chesapeake and Ohio Canal
Fund to Track Murderer Sparks Norfolk Meeting
Special to The Washington Post from Norfolk Virginia reports the Odd Fellows called a mass meeting for tomorrow night to subscribe to a fund for the arrest of C W Taylor, suspected in the murder of W P Dotser whose mangled body was found in a trunk at a Main Street boarding house. Police lack a suspect, but tips flood in from various cities. Authorities believe an accomplice may have aided the killer.
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Three Dead in West Virginia Mine Blast Near Delorme
Roanoke edition reports three miners died in a Delorme West Virginia mine explosion yesterday afternoon. Names listed are John Thornburg Will Gillespie and George Costine. Three mules perished as well. Leonard Hall caused the blast and was removed with a broken leg and other injuries but is expected to live.
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John Thornburg
Will Gillespie
George Costine
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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 a Warwick Circuit Court embezzlement case, upholding his one year penitentiary sentence. Meanwhile a separate decision in the Southern Railway Company suit from Alexandria affirms the railroad’s damages claim after a freight-truck incident.
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President Stevens Robbed and Local Rail Casualties
The Richmond home of George W. Stevens president of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway was robbed last night. August Gates and William Walker were arrested with pawn tickets for a gold watch two scarf pins and a revolver identified as Stevens possessions from Charleston West Virginia. Sherman W. Fields conductor of through freight No 75 was killed at a Kentucky railroad station when his engine struck him as he crossed tracks. In Fredericksburg Virginia J W Page of Richmond Locomotive Works was killed at Bird street crossing while riding a cabbage wagon for the state penitentiary. A monument to Gen Hugh Mercer at Fredericksburg has been completed at a cost of $25000 but unveiling will occur in spring.
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Washingtons Post
Fredericksburg
Gen
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United States
MISS PAFF TO BE SPONSOR OF Callahan FERRY
Miss Paff, daughter of Alexandria mayor Frederick J. Pat, invited by Norfolk and Washington Steamboat Co to christen the ferryboat Callahan built for the route between Alexandria and Washington. Launch planned mid March, service by May 1. Vessel named for John F. Callahan, company general manager.
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Del
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Woodbury
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Potomac
Norfolk and Washington Company
Cabell Named Richmond Postmaster by Roosevelt
R E Cabell was appointed postmaster at Richmond Virginia by President Roosevelt to succeed Wray T Knight. He is twenty seven, a Republican voter since eligibility, son of P W H Cabell, born in Nelson County. An AB from Roanoke College, MA from Princeton, he taught school a year and later studied at Richmond College graduating in 1902. He has practiced his profession in the city since.
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Princeton
Richmond College
Staunton Deserter Fined For Withholding State Property
Staunton Va Feb 2 James Curry formerly a private in the Staunton Rifles was found guilty of retaining property belonging to the military service of the state and refusing to return it. He was discharged as a deserter by adjutant general orders for nonattendance at drill. He failed to appear and a warrant was issued.
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James Curry
Staunton Rifles
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Samuel Leaves Stand In Fraud Trial In Greensboro
In Greensboro North Carolina on February 2 special to The Washington Post the former revenue officer D W Samuel testified in a federal fraud trial. Deputies Perkins Hare Sheppard and others testified to his character and corroborated details. On cross examination the district attorney showed stills ran during Samuel’s tenure and eleven were destroyed in two days including three steam distilleries run by James Combs and his brothers.
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Wilkes
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Hilton
James Combs
Another Town Wiped Out for Pennsylvania Line
Pennsylvania Company buys property in West Wheeling Ohio for a double track line along the Ohio River from Wellsville to Bellaire. Deals completed today raze nearly all in West Wheeling this spring, with Burlington across the river also doomed as riverfront hills hemmed in.
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Wheeling
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Treasure Unearthed In Mud Sparks Spanish Coins Find
A colored girl along a Potomac tributary bank near Fredericksburg found a mud jar containing a large cache of Spanish silver coins worth about 890 dollars. The jar was turned over to HE Goodridge. Separately, a fire in Hagerstown damaged the old Avondale mansion on the Dr. F. D. Mitchell estate, with about 5000 dollars in losses.
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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 today for the killing of Henry Green the latter it is alleged did the shooting but the evidence tended to show a conspiracy between the two indicted to murder Green Fredericksburg Virginia February 2 The boiler of a saw mill in Spotsylvania County belonging to Alpheus Wigglesworth burst today killing a man named Maraboal Two other men were seriously injured
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