Virginia Lawmakers Move Ahead With Good Roads Measures
Richmond Va Jan 12 The assembly met in joint session ratifying Col Joseph E Willard s nomination as corporation commissioner amid broad bill introductions The day featured extensive debates on appropriations and a push for a comprehensive good roads program using convict labor for highway construction The Virginia Federation of Labor voiced support urging state wide road improvements and utilization of penal labor to speed projects
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Portsmouth
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Committee On Courts of
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Tony Wickham
Cal Wilkyat
Moomaw
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Uesk
Cal Willard
Democrats Nominate Virginia Public Printer and Court Judges
A Democratic caucus in Richmond convened to nominate a public printer and five Supreme Court justices. Davis Hottom defeated Horace A. Hawking 60 to 44 to hold the public printer post. Circuit judges in the Thirteenth and Twentieth districts chose Claggett B. Jones and W. W. Moffett respectively, with Moffett’s win over C. B. Moomaw by 16 to 6. All Supreme Court judges were re elected for fixed terms. The session ran until about 1 a.m.
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John A. Buchhanan
James Keaith
George W. Harrison
Niews Parprr
Killed by His Brother in Madison County Virginia
Special to The Washington Post reports Isaac Nichols was stabbed to death by his brother Elsey Nichols near Pinnacle on the Page Madison county line. The murder occurred after a prior quarrel and Elsey surrendered to Madison officials, held in Madison Court Fronge. The scene lies about eight miles east of Luray in the Blue Ridge wilds, a region long known for moonshine distilleries.
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Dayton Calls Railroads Criminally Liable Over Car Deliveries
Judge Alston G. Dayton in Parkersburg WV denounces railroads with coal interests as criminally liable. Testimony showed M and K Railroad failed to deliver cars apportioned by Baltimore and Ohio to Fulmer Coal. Dayton compared dual roles of railroads and coal owners to corporate leaders and urged prosecution.
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Legislator to be tried for interfering with federal officer
West Virginian French Hays a Gilmer County legislator is indicted by a federal court for alleged interference with an officer at a government call during an Arnoldsburg Fair liquor seizure. Deputy Musgrave found three barrels of whisky marked Alberts. Hays blocked escape claiming the liquor a gift from Senator Snyder. Alberta pleaded guilty to liquor sales. Hays faces trial this week.
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Plans for Electric Railroad from Baltimore to Hagerstown
Frederick Md Jan 12 announcement that the Frederick and Middletown Electric Railroad syndicate plans bids to build an electric line via Liberty Walkersville Frederick Middletown Boonsboro and Funkstown. Tunnels under Catoctin and South mountains costly. total project estimated 6 million to 38 million dollars. Immense powerhouse to be built on the Monocacy river with the first contract for this work likely.
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Norfolk City Hall Quarantined After Jail Fumigation Fire Loss
Norfolk reports City Hall fumigated and jail quarantined for sixteen days after a fire threat and wall collapse. Prisoners moved under military guard, smallpox patients mingled with inmates undetected, federal buildings offered for use, and an aerial truck wrecked by falling walls. Damage from peanut warehouse and foundry totals 380,000. jail damage less severe due to steel and stone construction.
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Coal Mines Merged In West Virginia Purchase Reported
Consolidation Coal Company reportedly bought thirty two small companies in Southern West Virginia on the Cabin Creek system. The Baltimore dispatch notes the acquisition would create large aggregate interests though the announcement lacked full confirmation. The firm, formed in Maryland in 1860, already owns Cumberland region coal properties and controls the fifty five mile Cumberland and Pennsylvania Railroad.
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Hunter Denies Bigamy In Virginia Court
Roanoke man P Hunter faced Police Court in Virginia claiming he never legally wed any woman except Nellie Green. He admitted living with another woman but denies she was his wife. No solid evidence beyond a Newport News man’s testimony. Other marriage notices follow from towns including Chesapeake, Fredericksburg, Urbanna, Luray, Lexington, Buena Vista, Woodstock, and Warrenton.
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Mother and Child Emulsion Endorsement Card
A vintage endorsement for Scott's Emulsion urges mothers to use the product for both mother and child. It claims nourishing two requires internal strength and cites overwork and exhaustion as weaknesses, offering the emulsion as a dependable food. Scott & Bowne, 409 Pearl Street, New York.
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Patterson Found Guilty Five Years In Henrico Case
In Henrico County Virginia William W Patterson was convicted of attempted criminal assault on Miss Cora Crittenden. The jury sentenced him to five years in the penitentiary after a dramatic trial in which witnesses testified about alleged past relations and the defendant offered to take an eighteen year sentence if the witness could prove her life had been blameless. Patterson did not testify regarding his relationship with the girl.
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Hunters Find Skeleton in Blues Ridge Mountains
Several hunters while touring the Blues Ridge Mountains found the skeleton of a man concealed under logs across the line in West Virginia. A bullet hole in the left temple suggests death by murder or self-inflicted wound. The disappearance of a local resident or stranger is not known, and the remains appear to be from several years past.
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Sir Knights Banquet Media: Gaithersburg Jt. Knights Templars
Rockville Md Jan 12 Columbia Commandery No 2 Knights Templars were entertained by Montgomery Commandery No 13 at Gaithersburg about thirty attended the banquet and meeting. Eminent Commander David H Fenton presented a beauseant to Montgomery Commandery accepted by Eminent Commander Arthur B Gleason. Addresses followed by Sir Knights from both commanderies.
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Death of H. H. Smith Former Elks Leader
H H Smith former exalted ruler of Washington Lodge of Elks Newport News Va died at Soldiers Home hospital Hampton today He a Civil War veteran served in Company 4 Seventeenth Pennsylvania Cavalry Came to Hampton for special treatment three weeks ago He was sixty seven years old Body will be sent to Washington for interment.
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William Farrall Dies at 71 in Howard County
Laurel Maryland January 12 funeral held today at Southern Methodist Church for William H Farrall who died at his home of Brights disease aged 71 He leaves a widow seven sons and one daughter. Chestertown January 12 Justice of the Fence T Waters Russell dies at his home of blood poison caused by Brights disease aged 73 He served eighteen years as clerk of the county commissioners and is survived by a widow and five children.
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Virginia Obituary Roundup in Early January
Virginia obituaries from Woodstock Salem Heathsville Roanoke Fredericksburg and nearby areas report deaths of Albert Habron Alex White Capt John Simpson Mrs Willy Swain Joseph J Cawoni Ernest A Brulle and Capt Samuel Mathison. A separate item notes the Jamestown Exposition commission arrival in Norfolk and a Barcroft train accident killing an unidentified colored man. Miss Alice H Hardy wed Archer A Hall in Chatham.
Miss Smoot on the Stand in Alexandria Will Case
In Alexandria a Virginia court heard testimony on undue influence in the Sutvot will case as Miss Elia Rose Smoot contests the will. Witnesses including Mrs Bureh and Mrs Jones corrected earlier accounts while Rev Burch and Rev Jones defended the will's drafting and execution.
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Receiver Sought for Capital City Telephone Co
David M Newbold Jr of Baltimore through Norton Boothe and Robinson Moncure filed for a receiver in the Corporation Court to wind up Capital City Telephone Co of Alexandria. A January 15 summons sets the return, with February likely for action. The suit aims to recover bond payments, notably those due Maryland Trust Company, and concerns the company’s financial affairs.
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Schooner Russell Missing After Chesapeake Search
The schooner Samuel L. Russell with six men is feared lost after a search by the tug Re Hance from Norfolk failed to locate the vessel. A capsized hull reported in the lower Chesapeake is believed to be the Russell. Shipping men suspect the schooner was run down by a steamer while in tow of the tug Volunteer toward Baltimore. The Russell carried a crew of five men.
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Blackmail claim stirs in fairmont oil case
Calvin C. Biddle of Fairmont Ohio sues for breach of promise by Miss Virginia Byrne of Parkersburg claiming blackmail. He says the woman alleged betrayal after champagne and a June 1904 Columbus episode. he was elsewhere in Texas. He also notes Byrne is wife of a Kenova railroad worker.
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Panther W Va Fire Destroys Ritter Lumber Plant
Roanoke reports late tonight a fire rages in Panther McDowell County West Virginia. Telegraph lines burned. details scarce. Ritter Lumber Company's large plant near the railroad depot is believed destroyed.
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Washington Man Robbed on Potomac Steamer
William Weaver formerly of Westmoreland County now in Washington, was robbed of 300 dollars on a Potomac steamer between Washington and Deer Point wharf. Two men spotted him with the money, raised his state room window during the night, grabbed his clothes and the cash, and left at Colonial Beach before daylight. The loss was discovered the next morning before reaching the intended wharf.
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Reappointment for Rockville postmaster amid contest
Special to Tas Washington root from Rockville Maryland reports James P. B. Weirs will be reappointed as postmaster despite a lively contest with Willis Burdette, who led county and district Republican groups. Separate items note Roanoke Chamber officers, Annapolis court actions, Gaithersburg depot break in, and other regional incidents.
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Pupil Draws Knife in White Hall School Disorder
Fourteen year old Charles Suddith drew a knife on teacher Nora Ward and threatened her with harm after a punishment. The unruly pupil has been expelled and the county school board will investigate the incident in Winchester Virginia.
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Jamestown Exposition Plans Six More Arts and Crafts Buildings
Morfolk Va Jan 12 The Jamestown Exposition Company finished plans for six additional exposition buildings for 1907 with contracts for erection to follow shortly The proposed structures include the Model School Pottery Building Ironworking Shop Copper Silver Woodworking Textile Building and Pocahontas Hospital forming the Arts and Crafts Group
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Jail Case in Shenandoah County Board Answer
Special to The Washington Post Woodstock Va Jan 1 The Shenandoah County Board of Supervisors responds to a rule issued at the November term of the Circuit Court by Judge Thomas W Harn ton regarding the county jail yard building The board says had they known the conditions they would have taken prompt steps to remedy them The jailer should have alerted them to conditions instead of naming the court
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Flimsy Clothing Saves Laundryman From Death
C A C Ohler at Hagerstown Steam Laundry narrowly escaped a fatal accident when his clothing and boots tore away as a shaft set screw caught his clothing. He was whirled around the shafting striking the ceiling, but the machine stopped and he survived with injuries and will recover.
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