Commission faults Southern Railway amid Sawyers wreck blame
Virginia State Corporation Commission pins blame on Southern Railway management and operator Mattox for the Sawyers wreck. The report criticizes oversized divisions and weak inspection of signalmen, warning of broader systemic failings and urging enforcement to punish both company and individuals responsible for criminal negligence.
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Virginia Corporation Commission
Southern System
Rangoon
Washington Post
Richmond
State Corporation Commission
Fta
Sawyers
Samuel Spencer
Jacobs
Ranxoon
Mattox
Lawyers
CAPT W H ROGERS DIES IN LEESBURG AT 83
Captain William H H Rogers son of the late Colonel Hamilton Rogers dies at his Leesburg home Sunday evening aged eighty three. A Confederate army figure, he once represented the U S government during the Mountain Meadow massacre inquiry in 1854 and helped rescue survivors with General Albert Sidney Johnston. After the Civil War he led in South America. He is survived by two brothers and one sister. Funeral set for 11 tomorrow with burial at Middleburg Loudoun County.
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Washington Post
Leesburg
Wiliam HH. Rogers
Hamailton Rogers
Rogers
United States
Mountain Meadow
Alvert Sidney Johnston
South America
Asa Rogers
Virginia
Col Asa Rogers
Petersburg
Mortimer Rogers
Roanoke
Philips
Tredericksburg
Middleburg
Loudoun County
Jamestown Exposition Opens With Paid Admissions In Virginia
Paid admissions begin at the Jamestown Exposition Grounds in Norfolk with 3000 visitors on inaugural day. The 10 cent entry funds maintenance of the Powhatan era until April 28. Other items cover elopement in Spencer, Maryland rifle range improvements, wage talks in Roanoke, and a portrait gift in Annapolis.
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Exposition Grounds
Norfolk
Jamestown Exposition Grounds
Receiver appointed for Odell Manufacturing Company in Concord
Judge Boyd in Greensboro appoints Caesar Cone of Greensboro as receiver for Odell Manufacturing Company, the Concord cotton mill, amid a $500,000 liability and $1,000,000 asset estimate. The Continental Color and Chemical Company seeks the receiver, stockholders linked to Bessemer City mill failures, aims to reorganize and resume operations. Cone to begin arranging meeting obligations with North Carolina banks and private creditors.
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Greensboro
N. C
Jan. H
Boyd
United States
Caesar Cone
Megnate
Odell Manufacturing Company
Able Cotton Mill
Concord
King & Kimball
Continental Color and Chemical Company
New York
Bessemer City
North Caroline
Cone
Maniitles
Rockville Mayor Notified in Conduit Road Jurisdiction Fight
United States marshals served summons on Glen Echo Mayor John A. Garrett and Sheriff Gott, Deputy Collins to appear before January 2, 1997, to justify Maryland authority over the Conduit road within Glen Echo. Col. Mahlon Winter and Allyn Hayworth initiated the action. Garrett vows strict enforcement and possibly Maryland AG involvement.
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Rockvile
United States
Rockville
John A. Garrett
Glen Echo
United States Circuit Court
Glen Deho
James P. Gott
Charles B. Collins
Col. Mahlon A. Winter
Allyn D. Hayworth
Washington
Garrett
Maryland
Glen Dcho
Fort Fisher Veterans Meet in Wilmington Reunion
Three hundred Blue and Gray veterans from a dozen states attend the forty second Fort Fisher anniversary reunion in Wilmington North Carolina on the battle grounds. Gen N M Curtis and Col William Lamb are among distinguished survivors. Seventy seven New York volunteers arrive from Utica as special guests.
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Wilmington
N. C
Fort Fisher
Cape Fear River
N. M Curtis
William Lamb
Norfolk
Confederate Survivors’ Association
New York Volunteers
Ith
Utica
Richmond Education Center Proposed with Carnegie Aid
Special to The Washington Post Joseph Bryan and leaders from Richmond colleges and seminaries met to discuss creating a university center in Richmond modeled after Oxford and Cambridge The plan includes a land donation by Bryan and likely broad participation from local institutions Dr Mitchell recently pitched the idea to Andrew Carnegie who showed interest in providing financial support if feasible Carnegie may contribute funds to the project
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Carnegie
Richmond
Virginia
Oxford
Washington Post
Joseph Bryan
The
Times-Dispatch
8. C. Mitchell
Richmond College
Emory Blackwell
Randolph-Macon College
Moora
Union Theological Seminary
Lgher
Cambridge
Mitchell
Andrew Carnegie
Carnegie Wl
Andrews Trial Continued Amid Shifting Public Sentiment
George C. Andrews, a streetcar conductor charged with attempted assault on Ira Voine, a twelve year old girl, had his case continued before Judge R Carter Scott in Henrico Circuit Court. Bail set at $3,000 for March appearance. Andrews, a young man. during incarceration he fathered a child and has since been reinstated by the Passenger and Power Company. A defense fund was begun as sentiment shifted in his favor.
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Washington Post
Richmond
George C. Andrews
Ira
Voine
R Carter Scott
Circuit Court of
Henrico
Andrewa
Havite
Passenger and Power Company
Virginia Obituarys Highlight Local Magistrate and Clerical Deaths
Luray reports F Offenbacher a long time Marksville district magistrate dies at 72 after forty years of service. Survived by several children. Marksville overseer Georre N Aleshire dies at Branley after decades in office. Petersburg notes John A Carlin, former Petersburg resident, dies in Crewe after Civil War service. Annie Cr. Goss of Orange County dies at 82. Col J Warren Hutt, Westmoreland County clerk for 50 years, dies at Monta nine, survived by wife six sons and one daughter.
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Petersburg
John A. Carlin
Crewe
Nottoway County
Company C. Forty-first Virginia Regiment
Fredericksburg
Annie Cr. Goss
Mbenezer Goss
Orange County
West Virginia Bills Set For Jamestown Exposition Aid
Special to The Washington Post from Charleston West Virginia January 14 A bill to create jim crow cars on railroads was introduced in both chambers along with measures to appropriate 50000 for the Jamestown Exposition exhibit commission a 2 cent railroad fare and regulate cocaine and similar drugs Also to prohibit manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquor A proposed lieutenant governor office constitutional amendments nine month legislative sessions and three county commissioners per county were debated in various committees and chambers.
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Railroad Commission
Washington Pont
Charleston
W. Va
West Virginia
Senate
House
State Historical Society
Jamestown
Virginia
Staunton
Four Hurt as ACL Florida Special Collides Near Benson
Four injured when Atlantic Coast Line Florida Special crashed into a large locomotive at a water tank near Benson North Carolina early today. Victims include Richard J. Valentine mail clerk from Richmond and Engineer J J Jennings of Florence. E G Smoot trainman was in charge. D Lancaster of Rocky Mount also aboard. None of the trainmen fatally hurt and two railway mail clerks continued on their run. no passengers suffered severe injuries.
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Richmond
Benson
N. C
Atlantic Coast Line Railway
Richard J. Valentine
J J Jennings
Florence
E. G. Smoot
D Lancaster
Rocky Mount
River High at Cumberland Floods City Streets
Special to The Washington Fas Cumberland Md Jan 14 The Potomac ran high from continual rain flooding Paca Street near the West Virginia bridge threatening Mechanic Street and Baltimore Street business area People prepared to move out The bottoms below the canal dam flooded and several shanties inundated Impromptu mountain streams caused more landslides including a large slide near Piedmont tying up the road 209 men were needed to clear it
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Washington
Cumberland
Potomac
Paca Street
West Virginia Bridge
Mechanic Street
Baltimore Street
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal
Piedmont
Hagerstown Schools Closed for Diphtheria Precaution
Nearly 700 pupils in Hagerstown public schools were sent home as Broadway street and chapel school buildings report diphtheria. City health officer Gr C R Scheller and the board of school commissioners order a weeklong closure as a precaution. Officials say the disease is scattered, not epidemic.
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Washington Port
Hagerstown
Six Months for Perjury in Maryland Court
Charles J. Pointer pleaded guilty to perjury after denying knowledge of his wife in a prior wife desertion case. He was sentenced to six months in jail. Also reports Virginia practice qualification for F. W. Gwathmey and several court actions, plus a timber accident in Virginia and bankruptcy petition filed by Ida W. Berry of Bedford City.
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Washington
Baltimore
Charles J.ponter
Criminal Court
Wright
Washington East
Lynchburg
Ida W. Berry
Bedford City
United States District Court
Hyein
Richmond
Staunton
North Carolina Senate Advances Various Bills
Special to The Washington Post Raleigh Jan 14 favorable reports on bills to curb objectionable pictures and shows and a resolution to ban whisky shipments into prohibition territory. Other introduced measures include standard time on the 75th meridian, bank share taxation, and factory employment audits. Major bills seek a Seventeenth judicial district from New Hanover and tougher vagrancy laws. A soft drinks bill faces committee approval. Governor Glenn invites legislature to a January 13 reception and closes state offices January 19 for Hubert B Lee birthday holiday observance.
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Washington Post
Raleigh
N. C
Senate
Congress
Prohibition
75Th Meridian
North Carolina
Harge
Seventeenth Judicial District
New Hanover County
Douglas
Glenn
Executive
Hubert B. Lee
Father and son killed in sawmill accident
Special to The Washington roat. A. J. Phillips and his son Norman were instantly killed this morning at Hacks Neck near Salisbury when a stave jointer burst at Phillips sawmill. Both bodies were mangled. the elder Phillips left a wife and seven children. The bodies will be taken to the family home near Salisbury for burial.
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Washington
Stops Wabash Extension Postponed Over Loan Failure
The Wabash will not build the Cumberland to Uniontown Wheeling and Pittsburgh extension this year perhaps for years. George Gould failed to secure the loan. chief engineer John Barlow now based in Baltimore reports about sixty laid off. Plans and surveys are done. right of way secured, but no construction authorization has been issued.
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Washington Oat
Cumberland
Uniontown
Wheellng
Pittsburg
Western Maryland Railroad
John ©. Barlow
Ohio River
Baltimore
George Gould
Gould
Barlow
Wheeling
Twice Divorced Woman Remarries Same Husband in Court
Danville January 14. In Corporation Court Hettie L. Boswell was granted an absolute divorce from John I. Boswell on cruel treatment and unfaithfulness. This was her second divorce from him after remarrying years after the first decree, following his promises to do better. The pattern repeats as she alleges the old story.
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Washington Post
Danville
Corporation Court
Hettie L. Boswell
Bosewell
Boswell
Warfield Names Rogers to Fifth District Bench
Gov Warfield announced he will appoint John G Rogers of Ellicott City as chief judge of the Fifth Indicies circuit to succeed the late Judge I Thomas Jones who died Friday. Rogers is about fifty eight, has served in the house of delegates and the State senate. Also included Lloyd of Gordonsville, a Western Union lineman fatally injured when his hand car was struck by an engine near Fredericksburg and died at Mary Washington Hospital two hours later. He was unmarried. The Jamestown Exposition will display the original rock linked to Capt John Smith, recently recovered from the Powhatan estate, claimed as the genuine article. Seaboard Air Line will establish the block system on its line between Hamlet and Monroe, a sixty mile section per the commission.
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Warfield
J. G. Rogers
Washington
Baltimore
John G. Rogers
Eilicott City
Fifth Indicies Circuit
I. Thomas Jones
Flogers
House of
Portal Co
A. L
Raleigh
N. C
Seaboard Air Line
Ccorporation Commission
Hamiet
Monroe
Times
Montgomery
Teaghsra
Dr. Montgomery
John W. Cromwell
Addi Howard Santa Fisher
Sarah Spenger
Parthenia Woodrow
Arminiine Brooks
Montgomery Anlands
Ttim
Board of Education
Dr. Atwood
Lynchburg Sheriff Brings Suspect After Desperate Struggle
Herbert Steptoe, a colored man, arrested near Eton Amherst County after a fierce clash with six deputies. Transported to Roanoke to join Hudson in jail, Steptoe suspected of assaulting Miss Gladys Shelton. The sheriff withheld comment while suspicions rise.
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Apedal
Washington Post
Lynchburg
Postmaster to Jail Pleads Guilty in Fraud Charge
B W Bee postmaster at Permahore West Virginia pleaded guilty in federal court to fraudulently increasing life compensation and filing a false rent voucher return. Judge Alston G Dayton fined him 250 dollars and ordered thirty days in jail.
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Washington Post
Parkersburg
W. Va
B. W. Bee
Permahore
Ritchie County
Alston G. Dayton
Juror halts trial in Alexandria case against rail line
Washington Post Bureau reports a juror failed to appear delaying the Williams versus Washington Arlington and Falls Church Railway suit for damages. A new panel was drawn and the verdict favored the railway after a brief deliberation. Other city matters include a severance in the Commonwealth v Robinson cases and the Independent Mutual Fire Insurance stockholders electing officers.
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Arthur G. Williams
Washington, Arlington and Falls Church
Tashington Post Bureau
S21
Ting Street
Alexandrie
United States Circuit Court
Alexandria National Bank
Willis C. Bates Company
Washington, Arlington and Falla Church Railway Company
Corporation Court
B. C. Dunn
Commonwealth
Independent Mutual Fire Insurance Company
Fairfax County
Alexandria
Alr
J. W. Roberts
M. D. Hall
Burkes
J. N. Gybbs
Mount ‘Vernon
A L. Lukens
Accotinks
H. P. Godge
Manassas
L. Garrett
Cardozo Charged With Conduct Unbecoming in School Scandal
Francis L Cardozo supervising principal in the thirteenth district faces Board of Education charges for conduct unbecoming a supervisor and for publishing an anonymous libel about W Montgomery colored assistant superintendent. Trial set for January 19 1907 at Franklin School with Chancellor and Montgomery as key witnesses. Carroll Institute banquet planned for February 1 with committee heads named.
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Francis L. Cardozo
Board of Education
Admiral Baird
Winfield S' Montgomery
Cardozo
Franklin School
Thies
Chancellor
Dr. Montgomery
Board of Education of
District of Columbia
Francis L Cardozo
W. Montgomery
Francis L. Cardoso
Towit
John W. Cromwell
Addie Howard
Laura Fisher
Sarah Spencer
Parthenia Woodson
Ursuline Brooks
Francis J. Cardozo
Francis
Winfield S. Montgomery
William E. Chancellor
Francis A4eounsy
Act of Congress
Dastrict of Columbia
Washington
George W. Baird
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Southern Railway
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Aliston
Ely
Lima
W. HK. Rogers
Spencer, NC
Phoebe Stewart
Grover C. Linevack
Spencer
South Carolina
Rock el
Guilford College
Sprelak
Annapolis
Sheelal
Norfolk and Western
Chatham
Richardson
Henry Luth
Pick@way
Luth
Aga
Sherf
Chamber of Commerce
Retail Merchants’ Association
Npae
Odell Company
Want Educational Center
Tim Crown Law
Sutpath
Craig
Cooper
Naylor
McCrum
Roach
Nugent
Preston
N.C
Virginia Court of Appeals
Vicglnia Court of Appeals
F. W. Gwathmey
Southern Railway Company Ve. Hill
F .W. Gwathmey
E P Thom
Alterney General
Reld
Chilton
Hannah
Mancheater Home Banevoleft and Loan Association
Porter
Norfolk and Western Railway Company
Ve. Carr
Newport News
Old Point
Winchester
Wiliam McFarland
Chambersville
McFarland
Asa Shanholtz
Jett Jeg
North Carolina Senate
Wabash
Cumberland-Pittsburg
Judge Jones
Lineman
John Smith Rock
Miss Sheltos
SIGE
Alexander Bank
Ight
Frank Latham
Harry M. Hantzman
Latham
Walter Bryant
Thomas Johnson
Hag
National Manganese Corporation
Jackson H. Ralston
Hyattaville
J. B. Sloman, Jr
D. C
Resaiiees
C. H. Standiford
Oie Company
Rew
Richmond Penitentiary
Howard Banks
Samuel Cooper
Alexandria County
Alexandria Trades Council
Council
Alexandra National Bank
3. J .Donnell
Virginia, State Federation of Labor
Alexandria Electric Company
Women
Cemetery Association
Wiles Tad Seals
Irecal
Warmington Fost
St. Mary's
Lee Offutt
John ‘S
West
Annie Maddox
St. Mary's Church
Hockville
West Mulberry Street
Dimmma Umbrare
Arnold Umbraga
Mayor Timanus I
George R. Galther
Timanus
Minear
Panama
San
Colon
A. B. Minear
Mgr
Gardozo
Carroll Institute
P. C. Jo. Treanor
James N. Fitzpatrick
W. L. Soleau
Sloan’s Art Galleries
G Street
Washington, D. C
Messrs. Boyajian
Fifth Avenue
Sloan Galleries
C. G. Sloan & CO
Washington Daily Post
Dr. Kilmer & Co
Binghamton, N
Hess Shoes
Ionable
N. Hess Sons
Pa. Ave
Virginia C. Cross
Genect
Montgomery County
Rosatld B. Cross
Miss Cross
George Washington University Hospital
Cross
Isabella Young
George Washington Hotel
Dr. Bouvier
Bouvier
Perth
Pasile Coast
C. Rowran
Srecialtt Co
Lonltritte
Pele
Cal
Toi
Balk
Hears N.B
SHEA
BL Ave
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