Sued by goal company car allotment attacked
Pitcairn Coal Company of Clarksburg West Virginia filed a mandamus suit in the U S Circuit Court to force the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad to supply its allotment of empty cars for coal shipments. The suit alleges bias toward railroad controlled firms and improper use of individual cars, naming many coal firms as defendants.
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Pitcairn Company
West Virginia
United States Court
Spectal
Washington Pont
Baltimore, Md
Pitcairn Coal Company
Clarksburg
W. Va
United States Circuit Court
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
Baltimore and Ohio
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Comaniea Clumiing
Fairmontval Company
Fairmont Company
Mings
Ptt‘area Company
Fairmont Coal Commen
Maryland murder case prompts Ontario arrest
Charles Carter colored is held in Ontario on a Maryland murder circular. He matches the description of the man sought for the April murder of railroad contractor Thomas N. Reinhart at Dorchester Run Missouri. A $1,000 reward was offered for capture. Local officials note one name variance and say the suspect claims Charlies rather than Al in the circular.
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Charles Carter
Ontario
T. M. Reinhart
Washington
Sault Ste Marie
Maryland
Fie
Mika
Carter
Charlies
Thomas NM. Reiohart
Dorgers Run
Maryland Weddings Across The Region
Rockville and nearby towns report multiple marriages today with notable couples from Washington Shenandoah Way Darnestown Dawsonville and Suffolk. The ceremonies were led by local pastors and featured family members as attendants.
Three Girls Poisoned In Baltimore Candy Case
Special to The Washington Fest from Baltimore Maryland dated January 16 reports three girls Bertha twelve Alice ten Maud four ill from arsenic contaminated candy sold in a small store. Alice recovered consciousness after three days Bertha was unconscious two days the youngest may recover.
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Baltimore
John P. Mowatt
Bertha
Alice
Maud
Girl's Death An Accident At Grove Neck Farm
Elkton Md Jan 16 A coroner jury ruled Miss Halle Shatt a seventeen year old shot victim died from gunshot wounds at the hands of George Harris and believed the death accidental exonerating Harris from criminal blame Harris, mourning, had been due to their planned marriage. wedding garments burned in the nearby Wilson Merritt fire about ten days earlier.
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Washington Post
Elkton
Halle Shatt
Grove Neck Farm
George Harris
Harris
Miss Shatt
Customs Men Are Accused Testimony In Seward Case
In Baltimore on Jan 16 testimony before Commissioner Rogera focused on the slush waste fruit pile used for customs refunds. Witnesses C H Oldfield and Franklin Owens said water and sprinked sawdust were detected in piles at Seward & Co warehouses to boost weights. The government seeks to prove attendants mixed slush with water and sawdust to inflate refunds.
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Oldfield
Seward & Co
Baltimore
Washington Post
United States
J. H. Seward
J. H. Seward & Co
Rogera
C.H. Oldfeld
Franklin Owens
Mezsrs. Seward & Co
Atendants
Seward
Meace Seward & Co
Dog Pronounced Rabid In Norfolk After Bite Spree
Special to The Washington Foss Norfolk Virginia January 16 A telegram from Dr A D Melvin chief of the Bureau of Animal Industry Department of Agriculture states a dog that bit seven children and two policemen in the city Saturday last was infected with hydrophobia The board of control ordered policemen to start treatment at once at the Pasteur Institute in Richmond Two of the children were sent there this afternoon and the rest will go tomorrow The police have begun extermination of dogs bitten by the rabid animal.
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Washington Foss
Norfolk
A. D. Melvin
Bureau of Animal Industry
Department of Agriculture
Board of Control
Pasteur Institute
Richmond
Motter Resigns Bank Presidency After Proxy Vote
Special to The Washington. Frederick Maryland January 16. Rev Isaac M Motter who by proxies ousted President Frank Norwood of First National Bank Frederick from the board and was elected president resigned this afternoon. Norwood was re elected president after being made a board member to replace a director who resigned. The change followed stockholder dissatisfaction with last week's election and a threatened contest. A separate item notes Judge Pritchard of the Circuit Court enjoined the Allen Brothers Tobacco Company from using its Traveler tag for a chewing tobacco brand, finding it infringed the Schnapps tag of R J Reynolds Company of North Carolina. In Statesville North Carolina the Statesville flour mill was burned, destroying the plant and causing a loss of about 75,000, with some insurance. the fire started in an elevator.
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Luo Frederick
Isaac M. Motter
Frank ©. Norwood
Natonal Bank
Frederick
Norwood
Asheville
N. C
Pritchard
Circuit Court
Allen Brothers Tobacco Company
Allen Brothers
Schnapps
R. J. Reynolds Company
North Carolina
Statesville
Washington Prat
Charlotte
N. G
South
Maryland Obituary Roundup From Westminster and Baltimore
Westminster reports the death of William Heeshin an elderly Uniontown resident aged about 84. Annapolis notes the death of George A Barber a prominent Anne Arundel County armor near Millersville aged 61, survived by a wife and nine others. Baltimore records the death of John Savage Williams senior partner of Williams and Thompson Fire Insurance died of pleurisy at age, with ties to Baltimore’s long prominent Hawking Willems family.
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Westminster
Wiliam Heeshin
Uniontown
Annapolis
George A. Barber
Anne Arundel
Millereviilh
Mes Collinson
Calvert County
Baltimore
John Savage Willams
Willams & Thompson
Virginia Obituary: John Hi Larrick Dies at 83 in Frederick County
Winchester reports the death of farmer John Hi Larrick of Frederick County at his Cham tereviile home after brief pneumonia, aged 83. Survived by wife, two sons, four daughters. active in local politics. Jennie Himelright, wife of John A Himelright, dies at Whitacre home after long illness, aged 31. husband and three young children survive.
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Winchester
John Hi Larrick
Frederick County
Chamtereviile
O Gay
Penamonia
Warrick
Jennie Himelright
John Af Himelright
Gay
Whitacre
Veterans in reunion organize survivors association at Fort Fisher
More than 300 federal and Confederate veterans attend the first annual reunion at Fort Fisher North Carolina marking the 1863 bombardment and surrender. Col Lamb of Norfolk is president and Maj Reeves of Washington vice president. A resolution asks Congress to convert Fort Fisher grounds into a national park with monuments to both sides. Northern veterans return home tonight.
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Col. Lamb
Norfolk
J.B. Reeves
Washington
Congress
National Park
Wilmington
N. C
Fort Fisher
Cape Fear River
Oneida County
1Igh
12Th
New York Volunteers
Opera House
Survivors’ Association
Col .Lamb
Gen. Curtis
New York
J. A. Smith
M. B. B Stone
Utica
N. Y
Joan B. Fairhead
Rufus Daggett
James H. Reeves
R. W
SAYS HE KILLED HER HUSBAND IN HABEAS CASE
Special to The Washington Pits, Cumberland Md Jan 18. In habeas corpus proceedings John Buckinger charged with the murder of Wesley Emerick a miner of Boynton near Meyersdale Flickinger was described as a former boarder who had confided to Mrs Emerick that he intended to kill her husband and asked to be and was a pallbearer at the funeral She says Flickinger admitted shooting Emerick in the mountains after the两 hunted together and that she feared him The case involved strained relations between Emerick and his wife and Flickinger who was 25 years old was remanded to jail for trial without bail The initial belief Emerick died by self inflicted gunshot was overturned by later developments
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Washington
Cumberland
John Buckinger
Wesley Emerick
Boynton
Meyersdale
Emerick
Flieckinger
Flickinger
Boy's skull fractured in schoolhouse fight
Winchester Virginia January 16 special to The Washington Post Harry Woods a schoolboy is critically injured at his home in Vaucluse after a fight at Pine Top schoolhouse with Newton Clark. Clark allegedly struck Woods with a heavy object fracturing his skull. Both boys are sons of prominent farmers. Woods age thirteen.
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Washington
Winchester
Harry Woods
Vaucluse
Newton Clark
Pine Top
Clark
Woods
Ehacao
Lobbyist Bill Amended In North Carolina Legislature
In Raleigh Jan 16 the North Carolina House passed a lobbyist bill on its third reading requiring paid promoters of legislation to register and file their employing clients names in a public state book. An amendment exempts bona fide corporate officers and firm members who incur only actual expenses. The measure passed 48 to 12.
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Washington
Rateigh
N. C
House
Abi
Song
Florida Limited Wreck Kills A Passenger In Robbery Plot
Seven cars and a coffin with a body burned after Seaboard Air Line Florida Limited hits a switch near Raleigh at 4 43 AM. Conductor Haddagh injured slightly. Early reports say wreckers attempted robbery. Deceased is Jom C Durbin of Harrisburg Pa. body partially cremated. Engineer saw four men nearby as the crash occurred.
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Raleigh
N. GC
Seaboard Air Line
Florida ‘Limited
Haleigh
Haddagh
Richmond
Raletto
Pamlico
Temple Austin Hamilton Blodgett Bride In Baltimore
Miss Temple Austin Hamilton daughter of Mrs Matthew Allan Hamilton wed Rev Chauncey Hayden Blodgett son of Judge William Lathrop Blodgett at Ascension Church Baltimore. Best man Kingsley Blodgett of California ushers include list of several named clergymen and laymen. They plan honeymoon in Lakewood and Rochester before Blodgett’s new London assignment. Special to The Washington Post Richmond and Annapolis dispatches report court proceedings and cases in Maryland and Virginia courts.
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Washington Post
Baltimore
Temple Austin Hamilton
Matthew Allan Hamilton
Chauncey Hayden Blodgett
William Lathrop Blodgett
Pawtucket
Ascension Church
Robert Copeland
Howard Benedict
Massachusetts
Kingsley Blodgett
California
Francis Lee, Whittemore
Deadham
Mass
M. J. Thayer Lincoln
Fall River
John Blodgett
Sewickley
Gilman Collamore
New York
Wiliam E. Hammond
Richard A. Brauhart
Blodgett
Ray
Dr. Crapsey
St. Andrew's Church
Satisfied beneficiary praises Union Central Life Insurance
A beneficiary from Washington writes to Union Central Life Insurance Company praising the company's handling of post mortem dividends on policy No. 2039 for the late Howard Lowe. He notes a first post mortem dividend of 25.62 and explains dividends were used to offset annual premiums, reducing the burden of insurance. He commends the company as safe and conservative, calling it Old Reliable. Also mentions Anne Arundel County plans to call in 1903 certificates on February 1 to reduce county indebtedness.
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New York
Washington, D. C
Mesars
Raymond&Ricketts
General Agents
Union Central Life Insurance Company
Nen
Howard Lowe
Union Central
Wome
Smphington
Cies
Mary
E. Raley
Daniel Burroughs
Raley
Medley
Brantley
Reltabie
M. Lowe
Speuial
Annapolis
Anne Arunds
$8,500 For Man's Life Death Compromise Hitline
The Southern Railway Company compromised a $10,000 death claim for telegraph operator D Walter Davis who died after an accident at Lawyers Virginia. The widow Hana C Davis received $3,500 as administratrix. Separate cases included fraud charges against John and J Harvey Robinson and a suit against the Washington and Potomac Steamboat Company by Mary V McKenney. Also noted were hospital fund distributions, stockholders meetings, and local civic appointments.
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Washington Post Bureau
S21
King Street
Alexandria
Southern Railway Company
D.walter Davis
Lawyers
Spencer
Southern
Hana C. Davig
Davis
Young Davis
Washington
the Commonwealth
John Robinson
J. Harvey Robinson
Zon
Corporation Court
Robinson
Robinsons
Mary V. McKenney
Washington and Potomac Steamboat Company
Miss McKenney
Annie Cronk
Two Years for Murder in Suffolk Court
In Suffolk Virginia on January 16 John Herrison was sentenced to two years in the penitentiary for murder of Gam Haskins. Extenuating circumstances cited. Haskins, ordered to guard Harrison’s premises due to alleged infidelity, was found at night near Harrison’s property and killed in a churchyard with a butcher knife following an altercation.
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Washington Post
Suffolk
Gam
Haskins
John Herrison
Mansemond
Harrison
Critten- Gen
Phillips Under Arrest For Maryland SPCA Theft
Harrison L. Phillips, 35, alleged former secretary of the Maryland Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, was arrested in New York on a Baltimore warrant charging larceny of more than $1,000 from the society. The alleged thefts span 1904 to 1906. He was held at a police station pending extradition.
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Maryland
New York
Harrison L. Philipa
Polles
Maryland Society For the Prevention of Cruelty To Animals
Eugene G. Grannan
Baltimore
Martin elected to board as nine million needed before opening
Norfolk January 16 stockholders of Jamestown Exposition Company vote to add a seventh board member Alvah H Martin republican Virginia leader nominated by executive committee and to be ratified next Tuesday Treasurer reports total expenditure to opening day about 2.414 million with 1.294 million remaining deficit loan of 1 million requested from government Exposition total cost estimated between 8 and 9 million Vermont arrives to select site for building under state appropriation of 10 thousand dollars
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Norfolk
Alvah H. Martin
Virginia
H. H. Carr
Hampton
H.R. Booker
Carr
Barton Myers
Ways and Means
Prouty
Vermont
Vermont Commission
Proctor
Stat
Fireman Under Arrest For Sending Improper Mail
Albert Sales Creasy a Shenandoah Valley Railroad fireman was arrested in Roanoke Va by a post office inspector on charges of sending improper matter through the mails. The letters accused persons including a Bedford County schoolteacher whose name is withheld. A preliminary hearing before U S Commissioner G M White held Creasy for trial after witnesses testified.
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Wreshington Post
Roanoke
Albert Sales Greasy
Shenandoah Valley Railroad
Mosely
Bedford County
United States
M. White
Creasy
Ammonia Carboy Explosion Traps 12 In Factory
In New York on January 16 a 100 pound carboy of ammonia shattered on a third floor, releasing deadly fumes that overpowered twelve workers in a clothing plant employing sixty. Sixteen men escaped to windows and stairs, three were hospitalized in serious condition, and one may die. The incident left the floor filled with gas as workers sought exits amid panicked evacuations. Meanwhile arbitration sessions in Georgetown addressed master and journeyman plumbers with arguments over open shop terms, with the next hearing slated for Friday.
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New York
Mfn
Board of Aroitration
Wilcy
Georgetown Law Building
James 3. Easby-Smith
Charles A. Langley
Joseph Richardson
Noted in World of Crooks Tarbo Arrested in Capital Conspiracy
From the New York Herald Dispatches from Washington yesterday reported the arrest of Frank Tarbo and David P. Tanner on a conspiracy to defraud Dr. Thomas J Kemp of Washington, using a gambling scheme to be executed in this city. Tarbo, alias Frank Homans, is a veteran card sharp with a long criminal history, tied to international swindles, wiretapping, and past mining frauds. The duo allegedly plotted a high stakes fare game, obtaining a $5,000 stake before a bank robbery interrupted the scheme.
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New York Herald
Washington
Frank “Tarbean
Tanner
Thomas J Kemp
Tarbeau
Frank Homans
Paris
France
David P. Tanner
White Plains
Tarbo
Rogues
Tarkbo
London
William A. Woodward
Big Hawley
Aiindler
Woodward
Arthur Cockburn
Arthur Saville
England
Larry Summerfield
Sing Sing
James Maines
Mance
Charles Augustus Seton
Life Sentence For Murder In Riverhead Case
New York January 16 Neles Raplac four Russians were found guilty of manslaughter at Riverhead Long Island and sentenced to life imprisonment Raplac killed George Stillwell of Wading River months ago after being arrested as a vagrant Sympathy ran high for the prisoner as witnesses recounted the tragedy Stillwell had not been sworn as deputy sheriff though promised the post the arrest occurred without a properly signed warrant
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New York
Neles Raplac
Riverhead
L. I
Raplac
George Stillwell
Wading River
Stillwell
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