Virginia Senate Passes Four Merger Bills in Quick Tally
Special to The Washington Post Richmond Feb 22 The senate moved fast waiving the reading requirement to pass four railroad merger bills with no dissent. One bill was withdrawn and replaced by a Richmond Fredericksburg and Potomac Railway charter. The measures now go to the House for consideration as the appropriation bill advances from committee.
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Strange Adventure Trion Auta and the Patatas Accident
A bizarre report notes a Trion Auta incident involving patatas and a Bucklen Arnicamaticity claim. The text asserts healing of wounds and a guarantee, with references to druggiats and unclear medical remedies.
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Junior Order U M Officers Elected in Salisbury
Special to The Washington Post Salisbury N C Feb 22 State Council of the Junior Order United American Mechanics adjourned to meet in Fayetteville Feb 19 next year State officers were elected and installed including Past State councilor Z P Smith Raleigh councilor R T Poole Troy vice councilor Charles Lee Asheville secretary Samuel F Vance Winston Salem and others The council voted to raise per capita tax 25 in NC A measure to adopt the Daughters of Liberty as an auxiliary passed The council plans an orphanage with Wilmington chairman W J Bellamy reporting in 90 days Durh am and Salisbury bid with Durham offering 8000 plus ten acre site and Salisbury 200 plus similar land funding
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Explosion at Floyd County Courthouse After Trial Grant
Unknown attackers attempted to blow up Floyd courthouse with dynamite after adjournment. The blast damaged a wall behind the judge's seat near the jail as Judge W W Moffett presided for the first time. Fred Hoback had just won a new trial for killing John L Jett. his supporters blame the explosion on the case.
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Wife Leaves for California After Note Claims Husband Alive
Mrs Loomis of Parkersburg West Virginia departs for California believing her husband BE Loomis of New York is alive. A note found on a susp ension bridge in Cincinnati Indiana three weeks earlier claimed Loomis killed himself by jumping. Money for the trip arrived from an unknown source and a California sister urged her to go while a mysterious telephone warning arrived after she started west.
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Gambling crackdown hits Wheeling venues after clash
Wheeling West Virginia February 22 Prosecution attorney Schenk ordered a lid down on local gambling establishments for the first time in years. A dispute between county and city officials followed last Sunday's theater ban and shaped today’s actions.
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Baltimore and Ohio committee fails to organize in Annapolis
In Annapolis on February 22, a Baltimore and Ohio Railroad committee met but adjourned without full organization with eleven members present. Republicans Dorton and Fenton cause a split over chairman candidates Blair Lee and Benson, four ballots fail, and Dorton supports Fenton. Separately, Maryland's cigarette ban bill dies in the House by two votes, and a Chesapeake Bay dredging ban is proposed for two years with Tonging allowed. Washington birth anniversary observed by the House with a reading of the Farewell Address.
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Confessed to Murder by Dying Man
Winston-Salem February 2 Smith Martin an aged African American who died at Stokes County poorhouse confessed before death to killing a white man years ago. He said he cut out the victim heart and burned it. He died unrepentant declaring he would go straight to hell for his sins.
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Baptist Minister Fined In Parsons West Virginia Case
A man who gave Rev William Holt as his name and Pittsburg as his home was fined and jailed at Parsons on a misdemeanor charge. His wife, the wife of a physician in the penitentiary, was involved. Holt claimed Baptist ministry and affiliation with the American Bible Society. He had lectured across multiple counties in West Virginia and in various towns.
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Mine Explosion Inquiry In Kanawha County Delayed Grand Jury
Special grand jury to hear the Detroit Mine disaster case set for March 7. Eighteen miners died January 18 after an explosion. Coroner's inquest charged Deputy Mine Inspector Hill, Mine Superintendent Miner, and Mine Boss Townsend with involuntary manslaughter, each bond $2,500. Damages totaling $140,000 filed against Paint Creek Colliery operators by victims’ executors.
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Virginia Obituary and Local Marriages from Feb 22
Fredericksburg reports the death of Amanda Collina widow of Dennia Colling at age fifty eleven. Heathsville notes weddings of Kenes Rock with Beatrice Woolard in Richmond County and Judith Livingstone Carter with Prof. John L. Hilliard. Fredericksburg also reports Charles Howie and Ada Louise Boulware wedding at Liberty Church and Wade Foster and Annie W. Sterlings wed at Gloucester Court House. Seaboard Air Line survey team, led by engineer Nichols McBee, completed extension survey from East Arcadia to Southport, North Carolina, about thirty miles.
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Charles Howie
Ada Louise Boulware
George T. Boulware
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Henry P. Atkins
Richmond
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Gloucester County
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Elopement in a Carriage Race Through Bristol Streets
In Bristol Tennessee on February 22 an elopement ended in a midnight marriage staged in a galloping carriage pursued by the bride’s furious mother. Elizabeth Clark of Max Meadows Virginia wed F M Tate of the South and Western Railway with Rev W H T Squires officiating in the moving carriage. The chase lasted about an hour before escape, and the bride played the wedding march on a hotel piano.
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Battle Flag Restored to Norfolk Blues at Banquet
Congressman John Lamb returned the torn banner of the Norfolk Light Artillery Blues at their anniversary banquet. Capt. M. C. Keeling accepted the flag. Toasts honored Pro Patria, the Navy, the Army and Marine Corps, the City of Norfolk, the Battery, the Judiciary, and the Ladies.
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Head severed crossing track in Newport News tragedy
Newport News Va Feb 22 Aged Melvina Pugh was struck by a Hampton Roads Traction Company car while crossing a track. Her head was severed from her body and the body mangled. A coroner's jury ruled accidental kicking and exonerated the motorman. Other items report a man burned to death in a Stokes County still, a Suffolk officer suspended, a Rockville marriage, and regional notes from Harpers Ferry and Dinwiddie County.
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Washington Produce Market Prices Report
Quotations indicate wholesale prices for various goods. Live poultry meat and vegetables show steady to firm markets with moderate arrivals, while cotton and livestock futures present mixed movements. apples, oranges, and berries list varied prices across regions and grades.
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Brakeman Confesses To Forgery In Norfolk Court
Norfolk Virginia brakeman W P Hanshaw of Tazewell admitted forging his brother in law's name on a $2. He surrendered to police after confessing his acts and was remanded to jail while investigations continue.
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