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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Feb 06, 1908
Page
29
Reported proposals in the Virginia legislature discuss a law defining colored persons as those with one sixty fourth black blood and aim to alter judges and penalties. The hearing was postponed due to witness absence while debates cover potential amendments in the code and related public works contracts.
Reports from Slarturd County detail a perplexing case as a young child vanishes near Dow Hehton. Police say a marshal’s informant mentioned a suspect linked to a claimed custody dispute, with a woman seen fleeing after a threat then vanishing along Gutaw Street.
The Washington Baltimore and Annapolis Electric Company expects to open the line between Annapolis Road and Washington on Friday morning with a ten hour interval between trains. Substations will be set along the route with current secured from the Washington Electric Company. A nearby section near Baltimore and Annapolis Junction aims to be ready in about a month. The Tent Congressional District Republican meeting at Stanton will nominate delegates for Chicago. A 22 year old, W. B. West, was killed last night in Norfolk.
Special to Tae Washington and Baltimore Md Feb 5 The grand jury decharged Thomas Sessums who was held on a charge of extortion against John Wurst of John E Hurst & Co The action followed a Black Hand letter demanding 10000 and a messenger call on January 9 Sessums confessed then retracted his confession and is thought by observers to suffer mental trouble while in custody at Fort Howard
John H Wise, a sixty year old local farmer of Wardnsville Hardy County, stabbed George Walker to death after a conversation with Walker. Wise is jailed at Mooresth awaiting action while the girl Walker is reportedly involved in the tragedy. Walker was thirty years old.
Report that the Prohibition measure passed with strong public approval shown in a parade or demonstration near the Senate. The article notes tense Sessions and an oath, with accusations of corruption and a promise of swift action to complete proceedings.
Dr Washing ton Green Tuck postmaster of Annapolis dies in Mt health after arm attack. Born in Annapolis seventy-sivears ago, he was a longtime Republican leader in Anne Arundel. He leaves two children and many relatives in Annapolis and vicinity. In another case Mrs Reynolds, wife of John Reynolds, is found dead after alleged beating. her husband and others were implicated as federal officeholders moved to arrest.
Roanoke Va Feb 1 Frank Cawthorne confessed murderer of Mrs Ada Jones of Cambria. He says he wants to be hanged for his crime and was taken to Christiansburg this morning for trial.
The Washington Monument Association of Alexandria met to consider purchasing Shooters Hill and Spimer Park lands totaling about 6 acres for a park and home sites. The group seeks tangible backing from Congress after medals had been issued and aims to erect a monument to Gen. Washington in the old home town.
James Fields and his brother John Fields were acquitted by the jury after four hours of deliberation on charges of stealing 34% from a mail bag in transit from Richmond to a Durham bank. Witnesses testified Fields the postal clerk initially claimed no involvement, then admitted after other testimony to being together from Durham to Annapolis. The report covers later appellate proceedings in Washington, Annapolis, and Baltimore courts, listing several unrelated cases and appeal items.
Mary land wedding notices report Rouville and Carfie Edwards uniting at a Roch ville area home with Rev Thomas H Campbell officiating. Edwards of Colesville and Johnson also wed. ceremony held at a parish home with Rev S R White presiding. Miss Lottie Powell Smith and Edward George Camber wed at Rockville in a home ceremony conducted by Rev Thomas J Parker.
The Washington Post reports the death of "Big Tom" Wilson an eighty five year old famed trapper and bear hunter who found Yale professor Elisha Mitchell's body on Mount Mitchell. A pioneer mountain settler he never rode a train yet walked from Asheville to towns fifty to sixty miles distant.
In New York and Newport social circles, Mrs. Charles W. Armour hosts a St. Regis luncheon. Count Bernstoff dines at the St. Regis. the Lusitania voyage brings Mrs. Marshall Field Jr to New York aboard and she heads to Chicago. The Junior Teague debuts a Ben Jonson masque in Plaza ballroom with a large cast including Reginald Fellows, Miss Helen Morgan as Venusia, and Elizabeth Ureton with a full music program by Nahan Franko.
Roy Hale testified in circuit court at Jonesboro that he shot Irby Davis in self defense after a quarrel over Lillie Davis. A Fort McPherson witness said Hale admitted the killing, claiming Davis struck him with a pistol on the shoulder. Davis lay dying on the porch from a shot to the back after Hale disappeared. The prosecution rested and Hale's defense began as the trial continued.
Suffolk Virginia February 3 Deputy Sheriff W T Johnson brought August Linnert and Elias Wermener from South Carolina. Linnert a German wristwatch maker is wanted on forgery charges in several states. Blank checks from Maryland Virginia Indiana Texas and the Carolinas were found. He was arrested in McCousy South Carolina while h ertering a forged check attributed to magistrate Billy Joyner of Holand.
In Rockville Maryland on February 5 Justice John B Brewer refused the four months in the House of Correction requested by William Clark a vagrant arrest. Clark claiming he was beaten angrily challenged the judge saying his home was Pittsburg. The judge sentenced him to three months in the House of Correction.
Carlils Wolfe fifteen year old son of Frank Wolfe of Williamsburg drowned skating on Jones Pond this morning. A large crowd watched as he disappeared beneath the ice before aid could reach him. Herbert Etheridge a Norfolk student made a heroic effort to save him and nearly drowned himself.
John D. Kinckle secretary treasurer of Kinckle Shoe Co went to the third story of the store and shot himself three times in the head with a pistol. Physicians believe wounds will prove fatal. He is thirty one, single, and an EDR Mason and Odd Fellow.
Miss Carol Harriman daughter of Edward Harriman of New York underwent ear surgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital Baltimore today. Her condition was reported satisfactory with expectation of a rapid recovery. She had been a pupil at a Catonsville private school for some time.
The historic stone toll house at Conococheague on the old National Turnpike in Hagerstown Maryland was destroyed by fire last night. It was owned by John H. Wilson and stood near The Washington Pit.
Winchester reports Dr Hampton Porter aged seventy two died at his Wardenaville boarding house. Several other local notables including Daniel Edward Steele aged eighty eight of Rabene Warren County and Dr William Dest of Brucetown died in Frederick County. A Pendleton Bibb Charlottesville resident and U V A former senator died of pneumonia leaving a wife and three children.
Misa Sesto Campbell Kurney daughter of Mr and Mrs Joseph Henry Nurney wed Claude Flynn Honett of Halcy Springs Virginia in a Suffolk Presbyterian Church ceremony conducted by Reverend Richard Lea Waltau.
A New York tug Lockenbach and the Heritangel Independent, thought to have foundered, arrived in Norfolk three days overdue from New York. The Mary B Luckenbach recovered one barge. search and rescue efforts continue as many vessels are overdue and derelicts reported at sea amid thick gale conditions. The revenue cutter Onondaga prepares to render aid and destroy any derelicts encountered.
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Mrs Ida M Hartwig of Baltimore filed an attachment suit in Hagerstown against her former husband William Alvey of Texas, former Baltimore and Chicago office staffer, seeking support arrears and division of property. News note mentions a prior $1.15 judgment for child support and a death notice for Mrs Mary Sherrer near Montrose, aged eighty four.
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