Barely Escape Death as Rock Crashes Through Roof
A blast at the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad yard on Canal Road sent a 20 pound rock fragment crashing through Mrs. Lynch’s roof, injuring her and terrifying her while her baby lay nearby. The accident, tied to a new branch line project by A. Simos Company, left her dazed but later reported improved at a late hour.
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Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
Canal Road
Mrs. Lynch
Messina
Italy
Lynch
Maine
Chain Ige
A. Sinios Company
Beloved Georgie Om and Ada Po Qeaiten services held
A garbled obituary notice lists Georgie Om aged years and Ada Po Qeaiten among deceased relatives with interment details. It references Creek Cemetery and Brookland, noting funeral arrangements and dates in January. The text also mentions a Joseph and Waston family undertaker and Providence Hospital.
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Bessie
Cheshire
Lincoln” Post
Momlin
Tran Cane
Torres St
Ocinels Boo
Bart
Perr Savin
Toney
Itera
Northwes
Tone Tealite
Georgie OM
Brookland
Ada Po
Stuicer
Churseis
Providence
Mital
Ate Vuirk
Higgins Family Fire Claims Several as they Jump Windows
Xen Haven Connecticut January 1 a blaze tore through the Higgins residence of Sarin Higgins general manager of the New York New Haven and Hartford Railroad His wife Isabel and his mother in law Mrs M E Corbin were seriously hurt and his young son escaped by leaping from a second story window Mrs Higgins and Miss Sluging suffered broken loss He also jumped from a third story window Harold the son escaped injury The cause a overheated stove Higgins tried to rouse his mother but deafness prevented it The tragedy leaves the family scattered and the father a former Southern Railway superintendent and Yale graduate of 1883.
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Xen Haven
Conn
Sarin’ Higgins
New York
New Haven
Hartford
Moore
M. E Corbn
Isabel
Esgins
Ad Miss Sfluging
Higgins
Wormng
Harold
Alsolmed Ugh
Mr. Higins
Nolane
Jiggins
Nuiral
Southen Railway
Orty
Southern Machine
Manger
New
Yor News Haven
Sever
Yale
University Club
WIFE Sues for 10000 in Virginia Court
Mrs Sadie Skeggs of North Twelfth Street Richmond files a $10,000 damages suit against J Franklin Skeggs, owner of moving picture theaters, alleging he caused the separation of her and her husband Pye Skeggs by wooing him away. The case names the motion picture queen as Ba object of the suit.
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Wrehington
Richmond
Jan
Anezingtha
Stevens Named President of Colorado and Southern Railroad
Denver January 13 John M Stevens ex chairman of the Panama Canal Commission and current vice president of the New York New Haven and Hartford Railroad has been offered the presidency of the Colorado and Southern Railroad to succeed Frank Trumbull who retires next Wednesday The Colorado and Southern was recently adopted by the Hill interests
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Denver
Colo
John M. Stevens
Panama Canal Commission
New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad
Colorado and Southern Railroad
Frank ‘Trumbull
Colorado and Southern
Hil
Million Dollar Coke Company Formed in West Virginia
A new 1,000,000 dollar Coke Concern is organized to develop 3,000 acres of coal land along the Monongahela River near Beagalls Hamilton Ontario and Monterey Maine. The incorporators are principal stockholders of Union Drawn Steel Company, operators of steel plants in those locations. The venture aims to produce coke for its steel plants and currently the company supplies coke from H. & Coal and Coke Company, a unit of United States Steel Corporation.
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D. ER. Davidson Coil and Coke Company
Monongahela River
Union Drawn Steel Comper
Beagalls
Hamilton
Ont
Monterey
H. & Coal and Coke Company
United States
Steel &Corporation
Uniform Auto Freight Rates Upheld by ICC
The inter state commerce commission upheld a 92 cent per hundred pounds rate for transporting an uncrated automobile from Beatrice Nebraska to Kenosha Wisconsin on the Chicago Rock Island Pacific and Chicago and Northwestern lines. Movements of naval vessels listed include Scorpion to Constantinople Solace to Tabanyano Salem to Yorktown Kentucky to Tripoli and Birmingham to Newport. Scorpion sailed from Meesina to Constantinople Yorktown from Talcahuano to Callao.
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Inter- State Commerce Commission
Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific
Chicago and Northwestern
Beatrice
Neb
Kenosha
Wis
Scorpion
Constantinople
Solace
Tabanyano
Salem
Yorktown
Kentucky
Tripoli
Birmingham
Newport
Salled
Meesina
Talcahuano
Callao
Senate Favors Ball for Inauguration Concert Plans
The Senate backed using the pension office building for the inaugural ball for eight days. Five concerts are planned March 6 and 7 with a 500-voice chorus directed by Percy Foster, featuring Army Navy governors and a closing program honoring the President and Cabinet. The inaugural committee announced members and bidding for two reviewing stands on Pennsylvania Avenue.
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Congress
United States Army
Navy
Senate
House of Representatives
United States
Percy S Woster
Anuer i. ii. Hansen
United Spanish War Veterans
Hough
Washington
Columbia Department
Cal Benjamin FP. Chase
Aw Enumeil
Administration
Army and Navy Union
Bell
U.S. A
District of Columbia
Morgan
Subcommittee On Civic Organizations
Citizens’ Taft Club
Cinernmath Wl
White House
Lafayette Square
Larner
Pennsylvania Avenue
Treasury Building
Ninth Street
Seventh Street
Botumearden
Adj
Arthur Fridge
Mississippi
Weller
Wel- Her
Pussners. Co. D
Infantry
South Carolina
Kenan
J. C.D. Schroeder
A. R. Ladies Night Meeting Auspicious One
More than 800 guests attended a District of Columbia Society affair honoring the Daughters of the American Revolution and Sons of the American Revolution. Judge Henry Stockbridge and Mrs Donald McLean spoke as Mrs Bishoff sang solos. a Marine Band orchestra provided music and a buffet luncheon closed the program.
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Stockbridge
Donald McKean
Bishoff
District of Columbia Society
Daughters For the
Anderson
Donald McLean
Daughters of the American Revolution
Henry Stockbridge
Sons of the American Revolution
Prudent
Miss Moore
DeCaindry
Hagsher
John Pant Harness
Binhoff
Damild McLean
Lars
Me Biseion
Marine Band Orchestra
Wade of
Athitreon
James A Bailey
Claude N. Bennett
J. Cheetes Bowen
Paul Brocket
Monture’ Gueke
Henry C Caldwell
William ZL Chamberlain
Chester M Clark
WS. Chelsey
Morrin L. Crowall
DC. Crowell
Willam A. Domer
Harry H. Donnelly
Frederick A. Fenning
Johr
Mark C. Fintey
Seldon M Ely
Ezra Gud
FL W. M. Graham
F. F Greenaeault
Samuel Herrick
Felix R. Holt
Rober
Hume
Tabert Ho
Tavett
John II
McGrudder
Caleb
McGruler
Jt. Wal
Col Runkle Transferred to Ohio Guard Duty
Lieut. Col. Benjamin P. Runkle U.S. Army retired was yesterday relieved from duty at the Miami Military Institute German town Ohio and detailed by the War Department at the request of Gov. Haritis to duty with the organized militia for Ohio reporting to the governor at Columbus immediately.
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Col. Runkle
Benj, P. Runkle
U. 5
Miami Military Institute
Germantown
Ohio
War Department
Gox. Haritis
Oho
Columbus
Poor's Books Bring $82 330 at New York Sale
Special to The Washington Post reports the second day of Part II of Henry W Roots library sale brought 8400. The two day total reaches 1420 with a large sum of 20 paid by a dealer for a first edition William Morris Grettir Bage from 1869. A Decree of Star Chamber concerning fitting by the Grolier Club, 637, the Club's first book printed, with only 150 copies, sold for 180.
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Washington Post
New York
Henry W. Roots
Desler
William Morris
Grettir Bage
London
Star Chamber
Grolier Club
W A Watson Dead Special Employee of the House
William A. Watson a longtime House special employee and unofficial minority sergeant at arms died at Providence Hospital yesterday afternoon from chronic liver disease. A New York native and friend of Tammany he was widely known at the Capitol with many friends who mourn his passing.
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Providence Hospital
Williem A. Watson
Hammerstein Secures 400000 for Philadelphia Opera House
Oscar Hammerstein arrived in Philadelphia and arranged a $400,000 loan with EB T Stotesbury to fund the Opera House project. He then met Mrs Rayburn and pledged continued opera productions in the city, reinforcing local cultural plans.
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Philadelphia
Oscar Hammerstein
EB. T. Stotesbury
Stotesbury
Philadelphia Opera House
Broker Sees No Official Word on Gop Chairman Change
Ansonia Connecticut January 13 Charles H Broiker a Republican national committeeman for Connecticut says he has heard nothing official about any change in the Republican national committee chairmanship. He calls such reports rumors and notes no formal statement has been issued.
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Ansonia, Conn
Charles 3. Broiker
Thin City
Connecticut
H. i
Republican National Committee
Forty-Nine Names Tied to New National Auditorium Trust
A city auditori um company to rise near the Corcoran Gallery of Art has secured an option on a full block bounded by Seventeenth Street between the Bureau of American Republics and the Corcoran. Forty nine incorporators include Rob ert Bacon Charles J Bell James F Oyster Dana H Rudolph Emil Berliner George Truesdell, Levi P Morton, Henry Dewey and many others. The plan aims to begin papers of incorporation next week with a public meeting to explain the project and a site with Seventeenth Street frontage about 300 feet.
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Corcoran Gallery of Art
Suuch
Robert Bacon
Charles J. Bell
Scott
C. Bone
John T. Devine
Charles C. Glover
eGorge E. Hamilton
Christian Herrich
Aram Tsner
John R. McLean
Clarence F. Norment
Théodore W. Noyes
James F. Oyster
Dana H. Rudolph
Emil Berliner
J. H. Small
SW. Woodward
Edward
Hich
Hoat
Auditorium Company
National Convention Hall
Seventeenth Street
Bureau of American Republics
Corcoran Art Gallery
Capri
Traction Company
F Street
H Street
Pennsylvania Avenue
Capital Traction Company
Eighteenth Street
Virgina Avenue
Itig
Judge Dayton Considered for Taft Cabinet Navy Post
Judge Alston G. Dayton of the Northern District of West Virginia is reportedly offered the Navy secretary post in Taft's cabinet. Friends say Dayton left Parkersburg to travel to Washington with plans to meet Knox and others. he may confer with the President-elect about the portfolio. Dayton, a former congressman, serves on the federal bench and is said to prefer his judicial work.
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Wheeling
W. Va
Alston G. Dayton
United States Court
Northern District
West Virginia
Taft
Dayton
Federal Court
Parkersburg
Washington
Knox
Augusta
Secretary of the Navy
Congress
Jackson
Suffragette confronts Churchill at Birmingham banquet
A suffragette at a Birmingham dinner with Winston Churchill argued in favor of women’s hotels. Churchill and his wife remained seated as officials escorted the protester from the dining hall amid shouted battle cries.
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Birmingham
England
Auffragista
Towers
Winston Spencer Churchill
Board of Trade
Churchill
Fearless dogs and fleas study by Audubon group
Philadelphia on January 13 Charles D Keiloge a nature lover told the Pennsylvania Audubon Society meeting that a dog with no fear cannot be bitten by fleas He cited his old dog Don who he said had a soul and was never bitten The theory is that fear odor emitted by the body attracts insects and reptiles Mosquitoes allegedly avoid him because he is not afraid and lacks a noxious odor
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Philadephia
Charles D., Keiloge
Nature
Pennsylvania Audubon Society
Don
Rinehart to name Greene county political backers
In Waynesburg the ex bank official J B F Rinehart faced testimony on political payments. He claimed 20 to 30 others drew checks for politics against a trustee account, with Greene County's 7,500 voters and about four dollars spent per voter in the 1905 campaign. The jury was to hear more tomorrow.
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Pittsburg
J. B. F. Rinehart
Farmers and Dravery National Bank
Waynesburg
Taday
Greene County
James T. Jams
Rinehart
Taft Dines, Consults Pritchett in Augusta Visit
President-elect Taft, amid a packed Augusta schedule, dined with Maj. J W Jones and spoke with Dr Henry Pritchett of the Carnegie Foundation about politics and government management. Delegations from Anderson, South Carolina, and guests from nearby towns are expected. Taft will address Emory College students en route to Albany and speak to Agnes Scott College girls later, with more appearances planned before Panama.
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Washington Post
Augusta
Taft
J W. Jones
Arsenal
Henry §. Pritchett
New York
United States Coast Survey
Carnézie Foundation For the Advancement of
Olf
Anderson
S.C
Mr. Taft
Frank HW. Stedtock
John Hays Iammond
Panama
Oxford
al Isata
Emory College
Covington
Agnes Scott College
Denatur
Englishman arrested with torpedo blueprints for England
Special to The Washington Post reports the arrest of Robert H Lobbett an Englishman and former Bliss & Co draftsman found in possession of torpedo blueprints and printer proofs from several companies Meyers a Long Island City saws maker had traced the blueprints to Lobbett after noting his past employment and observed Lobbett planned to sail to England soon to seek work Lobbett said he took copies to demonstrate his drafting skill and be held for trial
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Washington Post
New York
Robert H. Lobbett
H E. W. Bliss & Co
Brooklyn
United States
Labbett
Bliss & Co
Willard I’. Meyers
Vernon Avenue
Long Island City
Lobbett
Longett
Meyers
Torpedo
National ‘Lin Plate Company
Pittsburg Meed and Water Company
Schesler Bridge Company
Erle Saw Works Company
Schenectady Railroad Car Company
England
Preacher Denies Murder Charge In Suffolk Trial
In Nansemond circuit court, a preacher charged with murdering Rev. James J. Smith, a former pastor at Reids Ferry, argued the victim is alive in a New York jail as Caesar Hines. Prosecutors tied Smith to Lyons and a possible liaison with Lyons’ in law, with last sighting July 21 and alibis placing him in multiple locales.
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Washington Post
Suffolk
James J. Smith
Reids Ferry
Eimeat Lyons
Nansemond
New York
Caesar Hines
Smith
Lyons’ House
Lyons
Portsmouth
Newport News
Princess Anne County
North Carolina
Escapes With His Life In Electric Substation Accident
Fulton Washington Electric Company executive nearly died when he touched 680 volts while joining two cables near the Shoreham Hotel area. He was unconscious, two fingers amputated at Providence Hospital, with a possible third finger at risk. He later spoke to doctors and relatives, and recovery was expected.
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Fulton
Washington| Electric Company
Providence Hospital
S. I. Fulton
Washington Railway and Electric Company
Nis
Abby
Shoreham Hotel
Ninth ,Street
Senator Scott Declares No Resolution for Probe
Senator Scott, chair of the public buildings and grounds committee, stated yesterday that no resolution to investigate the President’s order to dismantle the old Pennsylvanian Railroad passenger station would be brought before the committee. Despite his stance, several senators urge careful scrutiny by a congressional committee.
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Scott
Maue
Pennsylvana
Andi
Senate
Praise Hero Firemen Stopped Runaway Team on F Street
Private T. C. Young of Washington fire department No 5 Truck Company and Percy Given slowed a runaway carriage on F street after hearing screams. Officials Commissioner Macfarland Chief Hagimeer Belt and Capt Harper commend Young for bravery and record note.
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Young
Percy Given
T. C. Young
No. 5 Truck Company
Washington Fire Department
Macfarland
Hagimeer Belt
Harper
F Street
Tie
Georgetown
JAPANESE IMMIGRATION FIGURES REPORTED BY GOVERNMENT
Department of Commerce and Labor releases twelve month figures ending November 1 showing 9,000 Japanese admitted to the United States and 5,834 leaving. Net nonlaborer gain listed as 693 while laborer loss totals 466. Totals for Hawaii and U S reach 12.09 percent and 7,084 barred. Government notes Japan's emigration accord with the United States.
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Department of Commerce and Labor
United States
Hawai
Hawaii
Japan
Uns
Roots election next week in Albans NY caucus plans
In Albans NY on January 1 the five houses decide to caucus Monday night to name a candidate for United States senator replacing Thomas Plat. Tuesday each house will vote again and Wednesday at noon a joint session will declare the winner. Secretary of State Elihu Root is the Republican choice. Democrats have not yet decided. Possible candidates discussed include former Judge Alton B. Walker and former Lieutenant Governor Lewis Stuyvesant Chanler.
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Alton B. Walker
Lewis Stuyvesant Chanler
Postal Receipts Rise at Washington Post Office in December
The Washington city post office posted gross receipts of 142,816.85 in December 1908, up from 139,328.32 the prior year, a rise of 3,588.53 and about 20 percent. Nationally, the five largest post offices totaled 9,554,594.12, reflecting broad gains over the previous December.
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