Ship's Crew Lost As Life-Savers Fail To Reach Schooner
A doomed unknown three-masted schooner stranded at Diamond Shoals cannot be saved after repeated lifesaving attempts from Cape Hatteras and Creed Hill. About ten crew members clung to rigging as great waves and a snowstorm scattered ships. efforts to reach the vessel ended with the hull sinking into sand and no chance of rescue.
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Diamond Shoals
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Lfe-Savers
Girl Witnesses Stolen in North Carolina Case
In Greensboro on February 6 Judge Thayer issued a contempt order against Laurie Hardin and Albert Taylor, two local youths accused of abducting English girls held for court testimony in a contract labor case. About twenty girls had been brought from Charlotte to testify against cotton manufacturers. Two girls vanished last week. deputies traced them to Elm Street hideouts and a farmhouse eight miles away.
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Migal
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Hirdin
Father's Engine Kills Son In Hagerstown Collision
Daniel Joseph Battle aged twenty six was run over and killed by a Baltimore and Ohio locomotive in Hagerstown Maryland while assisting his father Michael Battle to coal the engine The engine was moved to a water tank and then returned later running the body a second time The body was not found for hours and was badly mutilated and stiff in freezing weather.
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Washigton Puse Hagerstown
Damiel Joseph Battle
Baltimore
Omo
Hagerstown
Michael Battle
Tronc
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Young Battle
Washington
Roanoke
Floyd County
John A Bockne
Follows Son in Death in Winchester
William T. Nott, a Winchester merchant, died after exposure in a snow drift just after his son A Bland Nott, age 25, succumbed to consumption. Both will be buried in a double funeral as a coroner’s inquest is planned. Nott had recent illness and lived with his wife Miss Allie Bland who died a year earlier. Brothers include Henry Nott. five relatives have died in two years.
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William T. Nott
Winchester
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Baltimore
Allie Bland
Washington, D. C
Henry Nott
State Educators To Meet In Alexandria Exposition Debate Looms
State board of education will meet in Alexandria beginning March 11 for a week to discuss public school representation at the Jamestown Exposition. Jenkins will guide exhibits and urged a $50 retail exhibit appropriation. Local business leaders and Lula Watkins discussed Alexandria’s potential participation with the Chamber of Commerce.
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King Street
Alexandria
State Board of Education
Charles G. Maphis
Wills A Jenkins
Kemper
Schol
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School of Retail
Chamber of Commerce
Pine oil and glycerin cough remedy advertised for lung cures
An old advertisement touts a home remedy mixing half ounces of Concentrated oil of pine with two ounces of glycerin and half a pint of whiskey to be taken in tablespoon doses every four hours. It claims to heal lungs, cure any curable cough, and end a cold in twenty four hours. The piece warns against bulk oils and patent oils, noting dangers to kidneys. It also mentions the product in half ounce vials and offers raw intake for rheumatic uric acid issues.
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Pine Woods
Maine
Missing rector safe after seclusion in Norfolk
The Rev. W. T. Twamley assistant rector of St Anne's Annapolis disappeared Sunday, later surfaced in Norfolk claiming overwork and grip prompted a few days of rest. Detec tives Connors and Purnell identified him on Church and Main streets, noting he planned to return to Annapolis. He registered as W Baldwin, staying near Brewer Street but occupying no baggage or room.
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W. T. Twamley
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Littie
W Baldwin
Washington
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Union Hotel
W H Hardin Still Missing Then Found Then Fled Again
W H Hardin of the W H Hardin Company Inc faced embezzlement charges totaling over 3000 dollars filed in Chancery Court by partners W F Teal and L A Deal. Philip Meisel Jr named receiver of the general merchandise brokerage as the firm’s affairs proceed, while Hardin’s whereabouts remain unsettled after prior disappearances in Virginia and South Carolina. Special in Washington Maryland notes marryings in Mechanicsville as Rowena Holmes weds R A Ianson with local attendants.
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Hardin
W. H. Hardin Company (Inc
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F Teal
Co, Deal
L. A. Deal
Chancery Court
Grinnan
Philip Meisel, Jr
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Health Officer for Rockville Appointed by Town Council
Rockville Maryland February 6 Dr Claiburne A Mannar appointed health officer for Rockville by the town council for one year. The appointment follows a petition signed by about seventy leading citizens marking the town s need after a long vacancy. Also a local marriage license incident in Washington where two would be couples were sent back for lack of proper identification.
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Washington Bay
Rockville
Claiburne A. Mannar
Johns Hopkins to study railroad relations under McPherson
Logan G. McPherson, lecturing at Johns Hopkins, announced an extended investigation into how transportation agencies affect communities. Financed by railroads and conducted under university auspices, the study aims to reveal truth about railroad administration and its social impacts, reporting progress periodically.
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Johns. Hopkins
Washington Post
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Logan G. McPherson
Johns Hopkins University
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Humber
McPhrrson
Baltimore and Qo Railroad
Loree
Samuel Spencer
Southern Railway
Hearing in Hoster Case In Virginia Court
Richmond February hearing in the Court of Appeals addressed a writ of prohibition against Judge Gardner Tyler and Dr. L S Foster over the Eastern State Hospital at Williamsburg. The attorney general filed the writ on behalf of the state hospital board to stop Tyler from estopping Dr. Brunk from taking charge and to restrain Foster from interfering with Brunk in hospital management.
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O. ¢. Brunk
Eastern State Hospital
Foster
Dr Brunk
Brunk
Raleigh Battle Over Care Of Insane Bill
In Raleigh in February the Bickett bill for care of mental defectives was favorably reported by the committee on insane. It provides for a State hospital commission and suitable facilities for curable and dangerous insane, idiots and other defectives. A bond issue of 500000 is authorized but not issued if treasury funds exist. Strong pressure for quick action, but the bill goes to appropriations.
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Raleigh, NC
Bickett
Committee On
Despondent former merchant in fatal hospital attempt
George Harris, about fifty five, of Staunton Virginia, once a prominent merchant, despondent over losing his job at Western State Hospital two months ago drank carbolic acid last night. He is in critical condition with three doctors attending. recovery is doubtful. The Washington Post notes his prior prominence.
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Washington Post
Staunton Va
George Harris
Western State Hospital
Elopers Married at Bristol
William Whited a contractor and Miss Dora Lane seventeen eloped from Gate City Virginia to Bristol Tennessee and were married by Rev. A W Burroughs on February 6 1900 report notes the couple wed in Bristol under church auspices with the bride a minor and the ceremony performed by a local minister
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William Whited
Dora Lane
Gate City
Glash Over Primary Bill Moves to Third Reading in WV House
Special to The Washington Post Charleston W Va February The West Virginia House of Delegates debated the primary selection bill for hours with sharp exchanges between Wells and Strother. The bill was sent to a third reading after lengthy amendments and dilatory tactics. The Senate pushed a mine explosion investigation, creating a joint committee with Gartlan Kidd from the Senate and Sicksising Daly Mitchell from the House. The judiciary reported the Jim Crow bill, while the Harpers pure food and drug bill and osteopathy regulation moved to third reading.
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Strother
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Stuart and
Thomas
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Miller
Johnson
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Messrs
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Siickising
Daly
Mitchell
Senate Committee On Judiciary
Campbell
Foul Play Marking Clarke Death in Bristol Hotel
Bristol Va Feb 6 Indications of foul play surround the death of John G Clarke of Wanefield in a local hotel. Clarke collapsed in the hotel office convulsions as two strangers fled after offering no help. No relatives were informed and he was buried today as a pauper.
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Bristol
John G Clarke
Wanefield
Clarke
Jim
Thirteen Bodies Found At Davis Mine In West Virginia
Thirteen bodies have been removed from the Davis Coal and Coke Company's mine at Thomas, W V, after an explosion Monday morning that killed about twenty five miners. Debris hampers search while mine inspectors Parsons and Brattar arrive to take charge and conduct inquiry. An inquest will be held tomorrow in Tucker County.
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W. Va
Davis Coal and Coke Company
Thomas
Debria
Parsons and Bratt
Altusion
Tucker County
Steele and Small Tie The Knot In Rockville Ceremony
Miss Effie Small of Friendship Heights and Claude W. Steele of North Chevy Chase were married today in Rockville by Rev. S E Winter. The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Small.
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Mechanicsville
Rowena C Holmes
R. A Ianson
Heasie Ballenger
Louis Gough
Chaptico
Margarite Abell
Teonardtown
Braddock
Tanson
Ianson
The
Southern Railway
Washington Post
Rockville
Effie Small
Friendship Heights
This County
Claude W. Steele
North Chevy Chase
S_ E Winte
Robert Small
Fire Panic on Wilkestarre Ferry Near New York Slip
Fire found on the ferryboat Wilkestarre as it neared the Central Railroad of New Jersey slip at West Twenty second Street. The blaze started in the rear pilot house and was confined there. No injuries occurred among 20 passengers as they rushed to the shore end. Railroad tugs surrounded the burning vessel and extinguished the flames.
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Wilkestarre
Central Railroad of
New Jersey
West Twenty-second Street
North River
Pensioner Leaves $30 000 Fortune In Wabash
Henry Wensler a pensioner who saved fifty dollars a month and invested guardianship earnings left a $30,000 estate. Civil war injuries harmed his mind but he lived independently. Guards filed notices, with claimants from Ohio and other states asserting kinship to a son who disappeared.
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Ind
Henry Wensler
United States
Ohio
Dramatic gale drives two steamers ashore near Halifax
In a terrific nor'easter off Cape Sable and Chebucto Head the New York coal steamer Mystic and the Nanna were driven together amid heavy seas. The Nanna, broken shaft disabled off Cape Sable, was towed by the Mystic into Halifax where the Aberdeen later brought her in. The Mystic struck a shoal and sprang a hole in her bottom but freed herself and reached port.
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N. S
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Mystic
Ketch Harbor
Cape Sable
Abbott
Seal Island
Chebuctu Head
Aberdeen
Northern Neck railroad data gathered in early survey
Special to The Washington from Warsaw Virginia reports E Wallace of E Clarence Jones NY collecting freight data in the Northern Neck to evaluate a potential railroad. Wallace is pleased with findings and will submit figures to decide on construction. Also announced in Richmond Gov Swanson named J M Bauserman hospital commissioner for four years starting March first succeeding C Winder Lane Jr of Williamsburg.
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Warsaw
F. E Wallace
E. Clarence Jones
New York City
Northern Neck
Neck
Wallace
Duffy's Pure Malt Whiskey Praised by Patient Testimony
Mrs. G W Rorer of Rockville Centre New York 64 suffered headaches and nervous trouble before using Duffy's Pure Malt Whiskey. She reports complete cure, restful sleep, and no doctor visits since starting the remedy, praising its benefits as the best medicine.
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Rockville Center
L. L
Dufify
G. W. Rorer
Rockville Centre
S. J
Rorer
Duffy
G. W.rober
Cascarets Claim World Leading Bowel Health Merit
An ad touts Cascarets with a near record sale count and declares greater purity quality and medicinal merit than rivals. It urges prompt regular use for constipation whether occasional chronic or habitual and promotes a 10 cent box with a satisfaction guarantee from druggists.
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