Judge Hackstone Removal Rumors Stir Virginia Assembly
A Virginia House committee is expected to report on Judge Hackstone of the Eleventh District amid charges of impropriety and drunkenness. The session heard witnesses defending his intellect and fitness, while a bill to increase militia funding and other measures passed the Senate and House.
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Denial from Swanson on Roanoke Conference Report
Richmond February 24 Special Swanson denied a Roanoke report that a Richmond meeting occurred Saturday night with the Governor, legislators, and railroad officials. He said no such conference was held to his knowledge nor was he aware of any agreement to halt railroad investigations due to financial stringency.
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Lost vessel crew including Captain Forrest Lowes
A damaged record notes a vessel named with crew aboard under Captain Forrest Lowes. The text references a cadet from the Sumes and a voyage toward Viera with efforts to salvage remains. The fragmentary report hints at winter canal conditions and a sea voyage ending in distress.
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Ben Peat
Forrest Lowes
Revenue Posse Destroys Fourteen Distilleries in Buchanan
Deputy Col lector J P Catren of Sears County leads a revenue raid in Buchanan County. Two deputy marshals join the operation and seize an estimated fourteen illegal stills while destroying thirty quart containers. The action yields twenty one prisoners and captures key figures, signaling intensified enforcement in the region.
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Five Football Games Planned by Northwestern Conference
Cilraga reports that only five football games will be played by Western Conference members next fall. The decision follows action taken today by the conference's football committee.
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Tete Ned
Engine accident leaves multiple injured in Hatton area
A wild engine incident near Hatton caused severe injuries to several people including Lew Teees and an attendant. One victim died within an hour. another was fatally damaged and may die. Investigators report a chaotic scene with rapid escalation and probable fatal outcomes.
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Georgetown Indoor Games March 7 to Feature Relays
Manager Moran of Georgetown aims for an unobstructed view for spectators at the March 7 indoor meet. Athletes must stay outside the north enclosure until called, with prize custodian and press section arranged to ease finish crowding. Reservations are flowing from alumni groups of Correll, Columbia, Princeton, Penn, Yale, and Virginia. Corners report Cornell and Columbia sending relay squads, and Penn’s two relay teams plus distance runners. Wesleyan will test strength against Princeton and Yale in open events. The Georgetown Virginia relay for the South championship caps the program as the finale.
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BUREAUS FORFEIT THE SET Drop Three Games by Default to Post-office Quint
BUREAUS FORFEIT THE SET by default as Post-office squad wins three games. Miscellaneous shop teams pass on a series in B.M. shop Royals surprise Senators in last night’s scores.
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Honor Roll Highlights Mixed Bowling Results and News
The Lae bowling group returned to Pan Stampa ground for a big Corunna pin event with the Post-office team defaulting three wins. Misvel-5 Kongous Shop also forfeited three games against BOM Shop in Navy Yard League amid district league updates, with conferences voting on new contests and several universities weighing in on the plan.
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Father Kills His Son on Elderly Virginians Birthday
A Northampton County jury finds Arthur Dennis acted in self defense when his intoxicated son attacked him after a quarrel on the elder Dennis's eightieth birthday. The tragedy occurred after drinking at the family home near Eyes of Parent's Eightieth Birthday celebration plans. Arthur Dennis, about 45, died. his widow and a grown son survive.
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Brother Stabs Suitors In Danville Home
Danville Virginia report states Al T Waddill and Hood Coleman were seriously cut Saturday night while visiting Emma and Lonna Brooks at their home. Ben Brooks allegedly kicked down the door and used a pocketknife, injuring the men. He was held for grand jury at a preliminary hearing.
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Child Crushed to Death Crossing Street in Redmond
Eight year old Alice Stratton of Springfield School was struck and killed while running to meet her teacher. A wagon allegedly driven by a Black man ran her down and fled. James Roane was later arrested and charged with causing the death.
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James Roane
Virginia Obituary Roundup from Leesburg to Petersburg
Obituaries from Virginia towns list Thomas Piggott of Southern Curry near Silvetts Spring, aged 65, died of pneumonia complications. A daughter and two sons survive Crissy 70. Other notices: A. Leesburg man dies from paralysis. Ophelia Wood of Fredericksburg dies aged 93. Totchkins, widow of Jed Hotchkiss, dies at 75. Agnes Barksdale dies at 70 at University of Virginia. Capt. David A. Tyree, 64, Civil War veteran, dies in Danville. Lucy Lewis Salzman dies in this city after brief illness. Henry Datan, 50, locomotor ataxia, police retiree. William Mann dies, Confederate veteran.
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Henry Datan
William Mann
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Secretly Married Elopes Near Beltsville
Hyattsville Feb 24 special to The Washington Post reports the secret marriage in Baltimore Thursday evening of Misa Hific Yoder daughter of Judge S. S. Yoder and Edward T. Shea. The pair, once unaware of each other’s plans, received parental blessing after Judge Kleiner helped arrange a local meeting at Yoder’s home. The couple will reside at Shea’s home near Beltsville Maryland.
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Misa Hific Yoder
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Con- Kresaman
Ohio
Edward T. Shra
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Shooting Gase Up Today On Shooters Hill
Police expect Fairfax County farmer Thomas J. Snyder to appear in Police Court this morning as Edward Crowns Wilbert Cook and Harry Hicks are arraigned on an assault charge. Crowns confessed to stealing wire cable from Tinton Station and implicated Hicks during detention.
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Tailed on Wedding Eve in Maryland
Special to The Washington Hagerstown reports Mary Prica aged 22 was arrested last night at Cumberland Valley Railroad Station for disorderly conduct. She was sent home to Stan t Va aboard a Norfolk and Western train, with the country commissioners paying her fare. She wore a white silk gown and gloves and claimed she was to wed last night. She said her fiancé was worth $10 and another suitor had offered her $66 to fit him.
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Tobacco growers plan steam prizery to counter tobacco trust
Special to The Washington Sen Danville Virginia reports the Tobacco Growers Protection Association of Pittsylvania County will establish a steam prizery to store tobacco and hold it for higher prices. Farmers vote March 17 on location in Virginia and North Carolina as part of the association's plan.
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Maryland Weddings Tie to Cloppers and Titinola Pledges
At St Rose Church Cloppers Miss Ling A Boland daughter of Mr and Mrs William Boland Germantown wed Leo F Fitzsimmong farmer of Ruckeystown Frederick Co Md The ceremony was by Rev Father Harrington Another brief notes Mary Drnenburg Paint Rock Daughter of Mr and Mrs John Dronenburg married Leon H Wright of Titinola at the bride's home by Rev Father H McCabe
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Inquest Rules Wreck Death of Mrs Mary Smith
A coroner's jury in Rockville Maryland found criminal negligence by Randolph Little and Harvey Trotter motorman and conductor of the northbound Washington and Rockville line in the Offutts Station collision that killed Mrs Mary Smith of Rockville at Georgetown University Hospital. The verdict faulted their failure to properly operate the signal south of the crash. other crew on the southbound car were exonerated. A manslaughter warrant was to be issued.
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Alexander Nilgore
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Talbott & Talbot
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Whitehead
Republican county convention holds back six votes
In Harrisonburg Va February 24 the Republican county convention remained under Federal officeholder control as the opposing side fell short by six votes. Delegates include President Hall and several postmasters with Taft support likely among today's delegates to be chosen March 1 at Luray. The Washington Post special to The Washington Post.
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Virginia Weddings Reported in Norfolk and Fredericksburg
Virginia wedding notices announce Edmund A. Tiley and Miss Dillon Williams in South Norfolk and Asa M. McQuood and Miss Maggie Richards in Grange County. The prose also includes literary verses about crickets and seasonal change.
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Tacksonville
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Edmund A. Tiley
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Misa Dillon Lo. Williams
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Asa M. McQood
Mise Maggie Richards
Grange County
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Vitality of Animals Discussed in New York American
A discussion on life persistence under extreme conditions cites frogs entombed in rock and wheel animalcules revived after desiccation. It notes Buckland’s tests with toads in a garden and early observations on revival, highlighting enduring vitality across species and ancient debates about life resistance.
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Returned From the Grave and Other Revival Tales
The Philadelphia Press recounts alarming cases of premature burials and resurrections. Ebenezer Erskine’s mother’s death leads to a grave escape, while Mrs. Hopers awakens before burial. John Adams of Del Rio also revives. Physicians warn signs of death are unreliable, urging better safeguards against such fates.
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Lawsuit Seeks Four Million Dollars for Damages
In Houston Port a suit seeks damages totaling four million dollars alleging actions that alienated the affections of the respondents’ cook. The case mentions conduct that allegedly caused the grievance and raises questions about responsibilities and remedies.
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The White Plague Tuberculosis in New York and Paris
The State health report warns that tuberculosis kills one in ten to one seventh of deaths in New York with around 60 000 cages and 15 000 deaths annually and immense economic losses. Paris shows 9 605? deaths yearly in a 2.6 million population, with disease linked to flats and tenements and many contaminated houses condemned under public health laws.
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Southern superstition in Negro cemeteries described
From Home Magazine, a piece recalls Afro American grave markers in Northern Alabama cemeteries. It details home made inscriptions, planks, glass, bottles, broken pitchers, and moralized trinkets as poignant yet pitiable evidence of beliefs, with reflections on superstition and dignity in death.
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