Southern System Division Blamed After Sawyers Wreck
Virginia State Corporation Commission finds defects in Southern Railway organization and management. Blames Operator Mattox for the Lawyers wreck that killed President Samuel Spencer and others. Report censures Ranxoon operator Jacobs and calls for broader liability and reform.
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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 DEAD LEESBURG
Captain William H H Rogers died at his Leesburg home Sunday night at age eighty three. He served in the Confederate army and aided in rescuing Mountain Meadow massacre survivors with General Albert Sidney Johnston. He represented the U S government before the war and led in South America after. He was nephew of General Asa Rogers and unmarried but survived by two brothers and a sister. Funeral set for 11 tomorrow, 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
Paid admissions begin at Jamestown Exposition grounds
Three thousand people visited the Jamestown Exposition grounds on Sunday the inaugural day of paid admissions. Grounds will charge 10 cents daily through April 28 to support maintenance of the Powhatan Gera as preparations continue. Also notes elopement of Phoebe Stewart and Grover C Linevack from Spencer NC to South Carolina, a portrait gift to Gov Ligon, a fatal shooting at a dance in Chatham, and Roanoke’s decision to exhibit at Jamestown.
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Exposition Grounds
Norfolk
Jamestown Exposition Grounds
Washington Post
Spencer, NC
Phoebe Stewart
Grover C. Linevack
Spencer
South Carolina
Rock el
Guilford College
Receiver named for Odell Manufacturing in Concord
In Greensboro today Judge Boyd appointed Caesar Cone of Greensboro as receiver for Odell Manufacturing Company of Concord. King & Kimball filed the complaint for Continental Color and Chemical Company and creditors. Liabilities are $500,000 with assets about $1,000,000. The action follows recent mill failures at Bessemer City. Receiver to operate mill while reorganizing. liabilities mainly to North Carolina banks and a few private individuals. Cone to begin arranging meeting company’s liabilities.
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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 Faces Federal Suit Over Conduit Road Jurisdiction
Special to The Washington Fest Rockville Md Jan 4 United States marshal served summons on Glen Echo Mayor John A Garrett to show cause before January 2 1997 why an injunction should not restrict his authority over Conduit road within Glen Echo. Sheriff Gott and Deputy Collins also were served. Col Mahlon A Winter and Allyn D Hayworth filed the suit. Garrett vows harsher enforcement and anticipates Maryland attorney general participation, asserting Maryland jurisdiction in all criminal cases.
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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
Three hundred Civil War veterans of blue and gray from a dozen states gather in Wilmington on the fortieth second anniversary of the Fort Fisher engagement. Gen N M Curtis and Col William Lamb attend as distinguished survivors, with the Confederate Survivors' Association hosting. Seventy new York volunteers arrive from Utica as special guests for the reunion.
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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
A Richmond conference among Joseph Bryan Dr C E Mitchell and college leaders discussed founding a university center modeled after Oxford and Cambridge to unite state institutions for higher learning. Bryan would donate land to launch the project and seek broad participation including Richmond schools. Andrew Carnegie reportedly showed strong interest in supporting the plan.
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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 In Henrico Court Ahead Of March
George C. Andrews, a streetcar conductor accused of attempted assault on Ira Voine, a twelve year old white girl, had his case continued by Judge R Carter Scott in Henrico Circuit Court. He remains free on $3,000 bail awaiting the March appearance as public sentiment shifts in his favor and a defense purse is raised.
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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 Obituary Items From Luray to Warsaw
Obituary notices from Virginia report F Offenbacher a magistrate for Marksville district dying at age 72 near Leakesville. George N Aleshire longtime Marksville district poor overseer also dies near Branley. John A Carlin ex-Petersburg resident dies in Crewe, a Civil War veteran, survived by wife and several children. Annie Cr Goss widow of Ebenezer Goss dies in Orange County at age 82. Col J Warren Hutt longtime Westmoreland County clerk dies at Monta in his 79th year, a Confederate veteran. 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
Flood of New Bills in West Virginia Legislature
Special to The Washington Post Charleston W V Jan 14 A bill proposing jim crow cars on West Virginia railways was introduced in both senate and house. Other measures seek 50 000 for Jamestown Exposition exhibits 2 cent rail fare creation of a railroad commission 5000 to send exhibits from the State Historical Society to Jamestown regulate cocaine and ban intoxicating Mynera in the state and a lieutenant governor constitutional amendment. The house passed a joint resolution to elect U S senators by popular vote.
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Railroad Commission
Washington Pont
Charleston
W. Va
West Virginia
Senate
House
State Historical Society
Jamestown
Virginia
Staunton
Sutpath
Craig
Cooper
Naylor
McCrum
Roach
Nugent
Jacobs
Preston
United States
Washington
Richmond
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
Four Injured in Atlantic Coast Line Wreck Near Benson
Four people injured when the Florida Special rammed a large locomotive at a water tank near Benson North Carolina early today. Injured include Richard J. Valentine of Richmond and Engineer J J Jennings of Florence with E G Smoot and D Lancaster among crew. 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 Reach Major Streets
Special to The Washington Post Cumberland Md Jan 14 incessant rain sent the Potomac River to flood sections of Paca street near the West Virginia bridge threatening Mechanic street and Baltimore Street. Some residents prepared to move out as bottoms below the canal dam were inundated and shanties flooded. Mountain runoff caused landslides and a large slide west of Piedmont tied up the railroad, needing 209 men to clear.
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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 Maryland were sent home as Broadway street and chapel school buildings were closed for a week. City health officer Gr C R Scheller and the board of school commissioners said the disease is scattered not epidemic.
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Washington Port
Hagerstown
Perjury Sentence in Maryland Court
Six months in jail for Charles J. Ponter after he pleaded guilty to perjury in the Criminal Court, admitting he knew his wife who had appeared on a wife desertion charge. Other items include Virginia Court of Appeals qualification for F. W. Gwathmey, multiple railroad and court cases, a timber accident in Winchester where William McFarland narrowly escaped death, and bankruptcy petition filed by Ida W. Berry of Bedford City with $13,737.97 assets.
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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 Reports Favorable Bills and Introductions
The North Carolina senate favored bills to curb exposure and sale of objectionable pictures and to prohibit certain shows, plus a resolution to bar whisky shipments into prohibition territory. New measures include standard time by the 75th meridian, tax assessment of bank shares, and a factory child employment count. The proposal to create the Seventeenth judicial district and vagrancy law amendments passed committee. Gov. Glenn invited legislators to a January 13 reception and proclaimed January 19 a legal holiday marking Hubert B Lee's birth centennial.
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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 at Hacks Neck Sawmill
Special to The Washington roat, Wataaw Va January 14 A J Phillips and his grown son Norman were instantly killed this morning by the bursting of the stave jointer at Philips sawmill at Hacks Neck Northumberland County Maryland authorities reported both men died instantly their bodies were mangled and crushed the elder Phillips leaves a wife and seven children the bodies will be taken to the family home near Salisbury Maryland for burial
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Washington
Stops Wabash Extension Postponed Due to Gould Loan
The Wabash will not build the Cumberland to Uniontown Wheeling and Pittsburgh extension this year and perhaps years longer. John Barlow, chief engineer, reports headquarters moved to Baltimore and about sixty men dismissed. The halt stems from George Gould failing to secure a large loan. surveys are done and right of way acquired, but no construction has been authorized.
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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 Husband Then Divorces Again
In Danville the Corporation Court granted Hettie L. Boswell an absolute divorce from John I. Boswell on cruel treatment and unfaithfulness. This was her second divorce from him after remarrying years earlier on his promises to reform, only to split again after a few months.
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Washington Post
Danville
Corporation Court
Hettie L. Boswell
Bosewell
Boswell
Warfield to appoint Rogers to Fifth District bench
Gov Warfield announced John G Rogers of Ellicott City will be chief judge of the Fifth District Circuit to replace the late I Thomas Jones who died Friday. Rogers is about 58, has served in the House of Delegates and State Senate. Meanwhile Lloyd of Gordonsville, a Western Union lineman, died after his hand car was struck by an engine near Fredericksburg. The Jamestown Exposition will display the original rock Capt John Smith was led to execution on, a stone long believed genuine. Seaboard Air Line plans a block system on its line between Hamilton and Monroe, a 60 mile stretch, 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
Fought Six Deputies In Amherst County Arrest
Herbert Steptoe, a colored man, was arrested Sunday night near Eton Amherst County after a desperate struggle with six deputies. Sheriff Beard took him to Roanoke to be jailed with Hudson, charged with assaulting Miss Gladys Shelton. Steptoe is suspected of attacking Miss Shelton.
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Apedal
Washington Post
Lynchburg
Postmaster to Jail in West Virginia Fraud Case
Parkersburg W Va January 14 B W Bee postmaster at Permahore West Virginia a prominent business and political figure in Ritchie County today pleaded guilty in federal court to an indictment charging fraudulently increasing life compensation and a false rent voucher return He pleaded this morning and was sentenced this afternoon by Judge Alston G Dayton to pay a 250 dollar fine and to serve thirty days in jail.
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Washington Post
Parkersburg
W. Va
B. W. Bee
Permahore
Ritchie County
Alston G. Dayton
Williams Loses Suit for 10000 Damages in Washington Union
The United States Circuit Court resumed in Alexandria with Arthur G. Williams seeking 10000 from the Washington Arlington and Falls Church Railway for an alleged improper ejection on a government reservation. The jury found for the railway after a three minute deliberation. Other items note the January term of the Corporation Court and local insurance company officer elections.
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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 Unbecoming Conduct By Board of Education
Francis L Cardozo supervising principal thirteenth division faces multiple charges of conduct unbecoming and violating board rules. Accused of publishing anonymous libel against W Montgomery colored assistant superintendent and of inciting disaffection among teachers. Trial set for January 19 1907 at Franklin School with Chancellor as chief witness and Montgomery as key board witness.
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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
Sprelak
Annapolis
Sheelal
Norfolk and Western
Chatham
Richardson
Henry Luth
Pick@way
Luth
Aga
Sherf
Chamber of Commerce
Retail Merchants’ Association
Spa
Odell Company
Want Educational Center
Tim Crown Law
N.C
Virginia Court of Appeals
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
Montgomery
Times
Teaghsra
Addi Howard Santa Fisher
Sarah Spenger
Parthenia Woodrow
Arminiine Brooks
Montgomery Anlands
Ttim
Dr. Atwood
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
Actoe
Perth
Pasile Coast
C. Rowman's Specialtt Co
Lonltritte
Cal
Toi
Balk
Hears N.B
SHEA
Distributor
BL Ave
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