Virginia General Assembly opens with Swanson message
Richmond Va Jan 8 biennial session convened as galleries crowded Speaker Byrd elected for house and Echols chosen Senate president Swanson urges economy and debt reduction with plans for road improvement banking department and increased pensions and Confederate veteran aid. He favors oyster industry protections and state militia support and calls for robust tax and revenue measures to fund public works.
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General Assembly of Virginia
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Swanson
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Richard Evelyn Byrd
Winchester
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John M. Willams
Rockbridge County
Liiewise
Senate
Taylor Ellyson
Keezelt
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Protein
Auditor of Public Accounts
Planters and Mechanics’ Bank of Petersburg
Gettysburg
Virginia
Railroads Agree to Passenger Rate Increase and Mileage Books
Gov Glenn announces a special North Carolina general assembly session to raise the intrastate passenger rate from 21.25 to 21.5 cents, repeal the current law, and authorize 2000 mile books at 2 cents, 1000 mile books at 2 cents, and 500 mile books at 2.25 cents, all valid for one year. Railroads will contribute 17,500 toward legislative and court costs and most terms apply interstate travel.
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Glenn
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Virginia
Tennensee
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State Corporation Committee
Trial of John F Via for Wife Murder in Craigsville
Special to The Washington Post Staunton Va Jan 8 testimony showed Via had repeatedly threatened his wife including a stove hook threat. A intoxicated incident led Mrs Via and sister to seek protection from Cooper Irvine. Defense witness heard the shot as Via ran nearby. Other witnesses described Via as a caring father and husband.
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Washington Post
Staunton
John F. Via
Craigsville
Via
Elizabeth Painter
Cooper Irvine
Burgess Conner
Howard
Ryan
Didnt Know He Married Shows Eloping Kin Drama
Frederick Seifert filed for absolute divorce from Mary Seifert alleging marriage under the influence of his wife's sister and that Mary later eloped with his brother Howard Seifert. He asserts he was drunk or drugged at an entertainment hall and married by a minister without his knowledge, learning the truth the next day.
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Baltimore
Sulf
Frederick Seifert
Mary Seifert
Howard Seifert
Stifart
TWO WOMEN DROWNED IN ROCK RUN FORD
Special to The Washington Roanoke Virginia reports two unnamed women drowned today when a hack from Bassett overturned in the swollen Rock Run Creek. Five passengers escaped. Horses also drowned amid a snowbound Roanoke area with twelve inches in Monts Somery and up to twenty in Floyd County. Streams flood and communications are cut as drifts close roads.
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Rock Run Creek
Bassett
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Somery County
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Woman Fights Assailant After pistol is Knocked Away
In Salisbury North Carolina Mrs. John Fite resisted an attack by A C Messmer a 30 year old white man. He allegedly fired a pistol but she knocked it aside and the bullet struck the wall. Messmer was jailed in Rowan County on assault charges. In other items Marlon J Cundim 65 died in a Confederate veterans home and J L Conway a former justice of the peace died in Danville after paralysis. Mrs Deseio Robertson a Salem sister of Mayor W T Younger died in Mexico of tuberculosis.
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Maryland Court of Appeals rulings summarized
The Maryland Court of Appeals today reviewed multiple cases. Reversals, affirmations, and new trials were issued in several matters including Slay et al versus, Anne Arundel County Commissioners versus Matilda Stansbury, Gantt et al versus Trott, and the United Railways case. Costs were allocated to appellants or appellees as directed by the judgments.
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Norfolk
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Lynchburg
Early
Greene
Ard King
Washington Post
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Supreme Court of Appeals
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Gantt
Trott
Coats
Schmucker
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Baltimore
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Boyd
Wiliam B. Hammond
Hammond, Snyder & Co
American Exposition Company
Stewart
James McCadden
Court of Appeals
Burke
Brinsfield Vs. Monorth
Appellee
The
Palatine Insurance Company, Limited
Manchester
England
Katherine O'firien
Crothers Inaugurated Governor of Maryland
Judge Austin Crothers was sworn in as Maryland governor in Annapolis amid a large ceremony. He urged strong anti bribery and corrupt practices laws, called for a statewide primary election law, and backed a broad good roads program. Officials confirmed include N Winslow Williams as secretary of state, A Hunter Boye as chief judge of the Court of Appeals, and J Clarence Bowerman as private secretary.
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Baltimore
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Senate
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Moonshining Crackdown Tactics In Smithtown
Federal orders District Attorney A. E. Holton to pursue Hiel proceedings against every Smithtown resident convicted of illicit distilling. The sweeping law targets violators of internal revenue laws and threatens forfeiture of lands. Revenue officers have failed to stop moonshine operations despite destroying several stills. Horton vows immediate action against Smithtown landowners.
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Washington Post
Winston-Salem
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Smithtown
Stokes County
A. E. Holton
Horton
Heroism in vain as Richmond youth drowns in James River
Edward Barnes, a youth, drowned in the James River while three companions watched. Robert Bauer nearly rescued him, riding a boat over the falls to reach Barnes. The boat was wrecked by a sunken rock. Bauer swam 100 yards to an island before rescue by Edward Bowers and Lawrence Crown.
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Edward Barnes
James River
Robert Bauer
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Bauer
Harnesa
Edward Bowers
Lawrence Crown
Girl Survives 70 Foot Well Fall Near Montpelier Va
An eleven year old daughter of Hanover farmer Lute Harris fell into a seventy foot well with eight feet of water at the bottom. She was rescued alive after a rope was fetched a half mile away and tied around her body. She was almost frozen but suffered only minor bruises. In Rockville Md a marriage license was issued to William Edgar Roberson and Rosa May Wirtz.
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Montpelier
Lute Harris
Tawwiwnenguverns
Rockville
William Edgar Roberson
Mias Rosa May Wirtz
Frederick County
Congressman Sulzer Weds in Atlantic City Church
Special to The Washington Post. In Atlantic City New Jersey January a congressman William Sulzer of New York marries Miss Clara Rodelheim of Philadelphia at First Presbyterian Church parsonage. The couple will honeymoon there. Details were not released and Sulzer declined to comment.
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New York
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Philadelphia
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Capitol Hill
Sulzer
Will Marry 'Count at Home' at Vanderbilt Residence
In New York on January 27, Rector Michael J. Lavelle of St. Patrick's Cathedral will perform the marriage of Bilgs Gladys Vanderbilt and Count Szechenyi at the Vanderbilt residence. There will be no civil or Protestant ceremony, only the Lavelle service with the archbishop's dispensation. Archbishop Farley denied reports he would perform or sanction such Catholic non Catholic unions.
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Michael J. Lavelle
St. Patrick's Cathedral
Bilgs
Gladys Vanderbilt
Count Szechenyi
Vanderbilt
Mer. Lavelle
Farley
Court Will Announce Decision Saturday in Travers vs Rust
Alexandria briefs report a contested election suit between Travers and Rust, with a court expected to announce its decision on Saturday. The case centers on election process challenges and potential disqualification implications for the candidates.
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Rust
Social and Personal Notes and Local Court Actions
Continuation of social items from the seventh page describes a wedding with blue broadcloth attire and American Beauty ropes, the groom a son of Robert Taylor of Trenton, best man Paul Harlan of Nashville, and guests from Indianapolis and Nashville. It notes court proceedings in Alexandria, including a guilty verdict for Jeremiah Willis on liquor charges with suspended sentence, acquittal of Catlett Turner for theft at a post office, and indictments of others for fraud and liquor offenses, plus Lodge officers installed and a Travelers' Protective Association meeting to push a good roads law. Luna Park Company buys nineteen acres in Alexandria County for ten thousand dollars.
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Trenton
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Indianapolis
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United States District Court
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Austin Brown
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Thomas Wise
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J. B. T. Thornton
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Rust
Society Gossip on Vanderbilt Szechenyi Wedding Plans
Society notes from Alexandria and Vienna cover Miss Gladys Vanderbilt and Count Laszlo Szechenyi as a high society match, with Count Sigray praising her. The piece also traces Vienna and London social rumors, the Hope diamond sale, and recent cotillion events in New York.
Richmond stone cutter killed by grindstone burst
George Johnson of Richmond aged forty was fatally injured at the Frank F. Graham stone yard when a large grindstone he was sharpening tools on exploded. He died shortly after.
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George Johnson
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Frank F. Graham Stone Yard
Harvard Club Has Election for Banquet on February 8
Harvard University Club of this city held its annual meeting electing officers: President Percival Hall of Gallaudet College. Vice presidents George Von L. Meyer Postmaster General. Robert Bacon Assistant Secretary of State. Daniel W. Shea Tru man Abbe. Walter R. Tuckerman. Secretary J. W. Davidge. Treasurer Pickering Dodge. W W Gale named banquet committee chair for the Raleigh dinner on February 8. ten new members admitted.
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