Virginia House Debates School Tax Splits and Judges Pay
Virginia lawmakers consider a division of school tax levies by race to fund white and colored schools while a bill to raise salaries for twenty four circuit judges advances. Debate grows over abolishing the poll tax as a prerequisite to voting and prohibition of blackjacks.
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Byrd
Virginia
Washington
Harry Glenn
Committee On
General Laws
Sims
Royall
Charles M Bland
Portsmouth
KH & Byrd
Winchester
House Committee On Courts of Justice
Ciucult
Niance Committee
Thas Morning
Mr Bird
Virginia appropriation drive for VPI agricultural program
The State Farmers Institute executive committee met at Blacksburg to push a 100 000 to 100 900 appropriation from the legislature to enlarge the Virginia Polytechnic Institute agricultural department and boost the experiment station. A delegation including Ex-Gov Tyler and Prof Saule will present the resolutions before the board of visitors, with future meetings planned in Staunton or Roanoke and invites extended to prominent national figures.
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Farmers’ Institute
Virginia Legislature
Washington
Radford Wagan
State Farmers Institute
Blacksburg
Mi Soule
Agricultural Department of PI
Board of Visitors
Virginia Polytechnic Institute
Agricultural Department of
Tyler
Ffy Jackson
Southern Planter
Joseph Wilmer
Rapidan
Andrew M Saule
Staunton
Roanoke
J Fackson
Saule
Institute
Hale
Harris
Hoard
Wisconsin
Hays
Thomas Shaw
Minnesota
Mysterious death of local farmer in Newport News hospital
Police investigate the death of James Lewellyn a prominent farmer who traveled from Yorktown road to the city two weeks ago and died at St James Hospital. He reportedly had about 1300 in cash and was last seen with his brother Thomas Lewellyn. An assault left a severe shoulder injury and other marks on his body.
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Newport News Hospital
Newport News
James Lewelly
St. James Hospital
Lewellyn
Yorktown Road
Thomas
Cooper
Thomas Lewellyn
James Lewellyn
St James Hospital
Boyds
Caleb Lewis
Montgomery County
Damascus
Baltimore
William Clemm Poe
Poe
John P. Poe
West Lanvais Street
Chestertown
George C. Atkinson
Capt Atkinson
Prairies
Mr. Atkinson
Roosevelt to Be Arbiter in Woodstock Post Office Fight
Special to The Washington Post reports the Woodstock Virginia post office dispute between Postmaster F N Davis and former deputy postmaster D B Logan. President Roosevelt is expected to settle the matter after referees endorsed Davis, while opponents seek scrutiny of Davis sobriety and other charges.
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Washington Post
Winchestera
Woodstock
Ghenando County
Washington
Osevelt
F N Davis
D B Logan
Depuy
Daniel Lichliter
M W H Hottel
Walker
Republican State Committees
Davis
Itill
Slemp
le Wil
Logan
Annapolis Man Held for Federal Court Over Stolen Buoy Supplies
An Annapolis man was held by U S Commissioner Julian Brewer for federal court action on charges of receiving stolen buoy supplies from a government lighthouse station opposite the Naval Academy. Three men are suspected in the theft and sale of the goods, with all believed to be in Baltimore.
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Annapolis
Washington Post
United States
Julian Brewer
Naval Academy
Stites
Baltimore
Florida Special Derailed Near Rocky Mount
A derailed Fianca special passenger train on the AC IL near South Rocky Mount New York delayed trains for hours. Two passengers and a porter were slightly injured while the locomotive tender and mail car remained on track. The incident disrupted service and highlighted a graveyard of small-town rail operations.
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Rocky Mount
Washington Post
Petersburg
South Rocky Mount
Ex-Deputy Samuel On Trial For Fraud And Illicit Stills
Damaging testimony in Greensboro reveals claims Samuel directed destruction of stills while denying action on others. Witnesses say he kept a hidden still for possible future moonshine, insisting he reformed yet admitting plans to use it again. Daughter testifies Samuel did not seize the still as raids approached.
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Washington Post
Greensboro
Samuel
Combs
McGwins
Wilkesboro
William Parker
William Williams
Williams
Burton Rested His Case Shackled by Pastor Testimony
In Richmond Virginia on January 20 the Burton fraud trial closed for the day as Rev H L Weston pastor of Epworth Church acknowledged advising Burton to do anything to ensure the entertainment's success under the Dorcas Society. Mrs Hathey C. Burton did not attend the proceedings.
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Vresusuncu
Richmond
Supreme Court of Appeals
Hobson
Bouthern Halfway Company
Va. Hill
Norfelk and Weeten Railway
Bell
Kirkpatrick
Staunton
Howard OC Thurmond
Misa Bland Herp
Alma May Brent
Boennrene
Crare
Misa She Burton
JW Burton
Horace D Allen
Berkeley Springs
W. Va
Alfred R. Courtney
W Courtney
John G. Wade
Byrd Streat
W. R Smith
Washington Post
Fitchmond
Chad Wick Burton
Washington
Derenl Society
H L Weston
Epworth M DE
Dorcas Society
Burton
Hathey C. Burton
Philadelphia
Norfolk Banks Attached in Bond Case at Norfolk
Attorney J Ed ward Cola sues Burr Brown Toya in a failed private sale of Bay Shore Railroad bonds and attaches nearly all Norfolk banks to lay hold of Burr's assets. Minority bondholders weigh options as Burr Pender deal leaves them cold. Flood of notices also include a Keyser robbery insanity ruling and a Petersburg school mandamus ruling. Local losses include a large Wallman lumber mill fire and a Falls Church parochial school gift. Also a sheep-dip plant fire in Richmond and an aggressive pneumonia cure ad.
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Norfolk
J Edward Cola
Charles H. Burr
Philadelphia
Burr, Brown & Toya
Bay Shore Railroad
Burr
Bay Shore
Poet and forger McIntyre released then rearrested in Nebraska case
Philip McIntyre a lawyer and former Confederate veteran known as a poet and forger was released from the Virginia Penitentiary and immediately jailed by Dawes County Sheriff J K Mote to be taken to the West for forgery charges. He claimed a varied career, boasted of travels, and said he would be returned from New York to Nebraska, Ohio and other places as needed.
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McIntyre
Virginia
Nebraska
Washington Post
Richmond
Philip McIntyre
J. K .Mote
Dawes County
Nebr
el Pao County
Tex
Cumberland Coal and Iron Company
la Follette
Tenn
Ben McClelland
Texas Rangers
Wilson's Creek
Athens
Norfolk
South
New York
Ohio
American Bankers’ Association
Deed of Highwaymen Attacks Bristol Fireman in Wild Road Assault
William Geisler a 22 year old fireman on the Virginia and Southwestern Railway was attacked by highwaymen on Walker's Mountain three miles west of Bristol while returning from a dance. He was struck with an ax and sustained a deep skull wound. Found unconscious in the road he walked three miles to Bristol with the help of the man who found him. He regained consciousness but cannot recall the assailants or motive. His family hails from Hilizabethton Tennessee.
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Bristol
Washington Post
William Gabler
Virginia and Southwestern
Walker's Mountain
Gelsle
Thomas Green
Geisler
Hilizabethton
Attempt to Wreck Baltimore and Ohio Express Near Keyser
A special Washington Post report from Cumberland Maryland dated January 20 describes an attempt to wreck Baltimore and Ohio eastbound express train No 4 two miles west of Keyser. Angle plates placed on Yellow Cut curved track caused the obstruction but a slower freight on its time avoided a catastrophe. Investigators pursue possible robbery motive as officers examine the incident.
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Washington Pas
Cumberland
Baltimore and Ohio
Keyser
Potomac River
Thia
Washington Suey Cumberland
Frank Weir
South Cumberland
Franklin
Norfolk
Joseph Weir
Alacabia
Baltimore and Qghio
Keyser and
Graftoma
Against the Railroad Jury Awards For Dolan and Bivins Cases
Richmond jury returns verdicts in two wrongful death suits against the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad Company. Administrators John F Dolan and Lak Marrotle win $3,000 in each case for deaths of two file girls struck by a special train on a trestle near Richmond on November 6. Jury deliberations lasted about thirty minutes.
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Washington Post
Richmond
John F Dolan
Idzme
Bridegroom Despondent In Suffolk Suicide Attempt
In Suffolk Virginia at about eight this evening Edward Griggs twenty seven bridegroom of two weeks swallowed three bottles of laudanum. Empty phials were found and doctors were summoned an hour later they reported little effect. Police Chief Brinkley said Griggs yesterday tried to shoot himself but the pistol was taken away before he could act.
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Washington Post
Suffolk
Edward Griggs
Brinkley
Griggs
Mystery Body Found Then Disappears In Alexandria House
Police probe a carpenters find of an infant corpse hidden under a floor in an unoccupied Commerce Street frame house. The body vanished on arrival of undertakers, leaving detectives puzzled as to its fate. Also reports of church services, a man assaulted by three, and obituary of Mrs Phoebe Heisley with funeral details.
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Washington Post Bureau
King Street
Alexandria
Alexandria Police Department
Hall
Commerce Street
Alexandria National Bank
U. & Treasury
King and Royal Sts
Mother seeks mayor aid to find missing daughter in Baltimore
Mrs Katherine Longcope Bald of Philadelphia writes to Mayor to help locate Harriet Longcope Pauline Bald, nineteen, who disappeared in March 1905. She describes Harriet as five six, fluffy hair, hazel blue eyes, fond of music and dressmaking, last seen after head pain in back of head.
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Baltimore
Washington Post
Jane
Mirs
Katherine Longcope Bald
Berkstreet
Philadelphia
Vimanus
Harriet Longcope
Pauline Bald
Miss Bald
Harriet
Bald
Pearre Explains Postmaster Appointment Change
Representative George A Pearre explains to Montgomery County constituents that President Roosevelt ordered the Postmaster General Cortelyou to remove the Rockville postmaster naming from his hands as the incumbent James P B Weirs faces a turnover. Pearre regrets the move but says he is powerless to resist and notes possible deviations from the rule in other cases.
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Washington Fos
Rockville
George A Pearre
Montgomery
Postoffice Department
James P B. Weirs
Roosevelt
Cortelyou
Gol Pearre
Loving Cup for Dr Clark in Eighty Ninth Birthday
Lynchburg physicians honor Dr I A Clark on his eighty ninth birthday with a silver loving cup from the Academy of Medicine where he served as president. He has served in the legislature, chaired the Democratic executive committees, and led local health and civic bodies in Campbell County and Lynchburg.
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Lynchburg
I A Clark
Academy of Medicine
Eynchburg
Board of Health
Democratic Executive Committee
Guests at Chicago Banquet with Imperial Chinese Commissioners
In Chicago Jan 90 the imperial Chinese commissioners Tuan Fang and Tai Hun attended a banquet at the Auditorium in their honor. Mayor Dunne and 160 prominent residents were present. Speeches were brief, with Tuan Fang proposing the president’s health and US Judge Peter S Grosscup replying. The visitors toured stockyards and McCormick Harvesting plants before departing for Washington Monday noon.
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Chicago
Tuan Fang
Tai Hun
Dunne
United States
Peter S Grosscup
Washington
Presios
Incheon
McCormick Harvesting Company
Insurance reforms urged for immediate state action
New York January 20 insurance commissioners from several states met with the New York legislative committee. They urged immediate reform enactments by each state legislatures, awaiting the New York committee report due in about two weeks. Present were Folk Tennessee Carroll Iowa Boreys Ohio O'Brien Minnesota Brinkarhof Illinois Ze no Hoat Wisconsin Hadledey Michigan.
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New York
Folk
Tennessee
Amstrong
Insurance
R E Folk
F Carroll
Iowa
I. Boreys
Ohio
Thomas G O'Brien
Minnesota
Brinkarhof
Illinois
Zéno Hoat
Wisconsin
Hadledey
Michigan
Petersburg Highwayman Seized After Streetcar Hold‑up
James Love a desperate negro arrested in Petersburg after holding up a Sycamore street line passenger car He fled after firing a shotgun and placing a torpedo on the track Police recovered the weapon and made the arrest Special to The Washington Post Front Royal chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy awarded crosses of honor to Confederate veterans in Warren County J I Petty of Washington DC presented the crosses with speeches by Judge Giles Cook and Rev J A McClure A banquet preceded the ceremony
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Washington Post
Petersburg
Hastings Court
J . Maller
John L. Karkland
James Love
Sycamore Street
Love
Sycamore
Tiegno
West Var Front Royal
United Daughters of the Confederacy
Warren County
J. I Petty
Washington,d. C
Giles Cook
J. A. McClure
Death of Mrs Helsley Widow of Frederick Helsley
Mrs Phebe Helsley widow of Frederick Helsley died at 422 Queen Street yesterday morning at sixty one. The funeral will be held tomorrow at 3 p m from her late residence. The piece notes local events including a Lee birthday banquet and a new street sprinkler in King Street.
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Phoebe Heisley
Phoebe Ludwig Heisley
Ferdinand F. Heisey
Alexandria
Bavaria
WiHamsport
Heisley
Emma
Katherine Nosley
Frank E Heisley
Charles SchroMmer
Herbert Goodrich
Harry Hagar
Charleston
W Va
Queen Street
Phebe Melsley
Frederick
Helsley
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Jin
Richmond College
Andrew Jackson Montague
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Didwick
Piedmont Brick and Coal Company
Piedmont
Washington Po
Fredericksburg
United States Court of Claims Haa
Wilderness Baptist Church
Spottsylvania County
Richard H Alvey
Hagerstown, Md
Richard H. Alvey
Washington County
Fachard H Alvey
Erinly Il
Hagerston
George C. Lytle
George Cap- Unger Lytle
Randolph
Elkins
Stewera
Florida
Washington Row
Robert Davis
Willison Hvery
M. A. C. Societies
Hyattsville
Morrill and
New Mercer
Maryland Agricultural College
Morrill Society
L. D. Zerkell
GM Mayer
I J T Graham
A M McNutt
New Mercer Society
Agsett
R H Dison
A. N Rowland
J J Hecker
Charles Richard
East Radford
Frank Howard
Fairmont
W Ve
Westfork
Shinnaton
Mary Seara
Wild
Virginia Weddings
Norfolk Banks
Bay Shore Line
Wallman Lumber
Wallman
Garrett County
William Whitmer & Sons
West Virginia Central Railway
Falls ‘Church
Washington Fast Falls Church
Thomas Ryan
St. James’ Parish
Laidlaw-McKell Company
Scotland
Gowan
C.ars Senet Co Nas
Price Gowan’ Medica
Durham
Ohen P
Scott
Gresnaboro, N
Potomac
James Eddins
Eddins
Carpenters’ Union
Senator Opie
The
John N Opie
Maryland
Carpenter
Babe
W. R. Purvis
Demaine & Ons
Christ Episcopal Church
S A Waths
Episcopal Theological Seminary of Virginia
J M Nourse
Second Presbyterian Church
F J Brooke
Clergeymen
Robert Murphy
Oronoco
Patrick
Ferguson
Smith
Lieut Smith
Murphy
Pearre
DR. Clark
Washington Oat
Moile Andrews
Ettrick
Chesterfield County
Iher Gometto
J. Ethro Rumple
Salisbury
J Ethro Rumple
First Presbyterian Church of
N. C
B. A. Vans
Statesville
Frese
Pettit &Co
Frice
Crosses of Honor
Anetan Bnet
J. R. N. Curtin
Calvin Butts
A. S. Mankin
See’s and
Treas
Alexandria Iron Works
McGill Bidg
Washington, D.C
M. R. Rodgers
E. Goldsmith
Taylor's
Leo Camp
Robert FE Lee
Prince Street
Lee Camip
Joa~ Blackburn
Kentucky
Champ Clark
Muissouri
A. Bmoot & Ree
Wilkes and
Royal Streets
Shuman
L. Shuman & Son
King St
Alexandria, Va
Smoot & CO
Mlecute Hutels
Union St
Mil
Lee At
City
Postofice
M. B. Harlow & Con
S. Fairfax St
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