North Carolina Moves to Value State Rail Stocks and Urge Bids
A House resolution calls for a committee to determine the market value of the state's stock in the Atlantic and North Carolina Railway and the North Carolina Railway, with a report due February 15 and bids invited. Another measure creates a commission to investigate all insurance companies in the state, with a $10,000 appropriation. The House also passes a law to curb bulk stock sales by merchants and names Simmons for U.S. Senate consideration alongside party nominees Adams and Britt in respective chambers.
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Raleigh
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North Carolina Railway
North Carolina
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Drewry
Douglas Spencer B. Adams
Bimmons
Adams
Britt
Congress
Pugh
Gov Elrod
South Dakota
New York
The
Corporation Commission
Train Collision Near Cumberland Leaves One Dead
A head on crash on the Belington Elkins branch of the Western Maryland Railroad killed E P Potts a 30 year old fireman from Kakina and left two others injured Philip Daugherty of Elkins engineer and G W Holliday of Elkins a clerk suffered leg and head injuries respectively The accident occurred on a curve west of Harding under heavy snow with trains No 8 and No 94 colliding at about thirty five miles per hour. the passenger train wrecked its mail and baggage car while a lumber car on the freight train was damaged and no passengers were seriously hurt. The dispatcher could not use the wire and the telephones were used to relay orders.
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Yerial
Tse Vrasmingive
Roaring Creek Junction
Roarng Creek Junction
Hikina
William Boyce Dead Great-Grandson of President Taylor
Winchester Virginia January 22 William Payee Boyce great grandson of Zachary Taylor died today after a long illness at Winchester Memorial Hospital He was forty seven born in Georgetown DC son of Edward Boyce a US Army paymaster His mother later married Karl von Grabow of German descent She was Taylor's granddaughter He married Caro Bolles of Georgetown He left a large fortune and traveled widely He belonged to the New York Yacht Club.
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Zachary Taylor
Washington Post
Winchester
William Payee
Zachary Taster
United States
Winchester Memorial
My Lovee
Georgetown
DP C
Edward Boyce
Karon Guido von Grabow
Taylor
Boyce
M Caro Bolles
New York Yacht Club
Maryland Weddings Rockville Jan 22
James J. Lillard and Miss Won Poole both of Rockville were married in Rockville by Rev Thomas H Campbell at his home. The license had been issued November 10. The ceremony followed earlier nuptials for Thea Tartar of Washington at the minister's home. Licenses for Snowden J Ather of Laurel and Sarah Eva Rich of Baltimore were issued by the Circuit Court clerk.
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James J. Lillard
Miso
Poole
Thomas H Campbell
The
Baptist Church
Willain
Washington
Snowden J Ather
Laurel
Mira Sarah Eva Rich
BortonsvIn
Rate Hearing at Richmond on 2 Cent Passenger Fare
Representatives of Virginia steam railways told the State Corporation Commission why a general 2 cent passenger rate should not be adopted. W Bronson of Chesapeake and Ohio testified that rates vary by division and that suburban commuters can pay as low as half a cent per mile. Virginia's sparser population affects rate comparisons with New York.
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The
Corporation Commission
Washington
Richmond
Virginia
State Corporation Commission
Southern Railway Company
Travelers’ Protective Association
W. Bronson
Generel
Chesapeake and Ono Railway
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company
Warm Springs
Craig Valley
Secion
New York
Pier And Ship In Flames At Canton Pennsylvania Loss 30000
Baltimore dispatch reports a large Pennsylvania Railroad coal pier at Canton and the four masted schooner Cohassett of Boston burned today. Crew escaped safely. pier loss estimated at 90002, schooner valued at 65000. Fire also damaged the Maud Palmer tied nearby but was towed away.
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Boston
Baltimore
Pennsylvania Railroad
Canton
Cohassett
John 5. Imery
Suit for Gambling Debt Involving Vanderhorst Estate
In Baltimore on January 22, a claim for 12000 was brought against the estate of late baseball magnate Harry S. Vanderhorst in U S Circuit Court. Plaintiff Stephen Van Wyck of New York alleges he lent 8729 25 after a game at Hoffman Club on January 4, 1904 and promissory notes to pay with 4 percent interest. Manager Edward Hanlon testified as a witness. The notes and debt were disputed since last July when the claim was presented to the estate.
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Baltimore
Morris
United States Circuit Court
Harry S. Vanderhorst
Edward Hanlon
Wittess
Stephen van Wyek
West Seventy-second Atrect
New York
Rlubman
van Wyck
New Yorker
Vonderhorst
Hoffman Club
Suit by contractor asks balance from Montgomery County
Washington man John F Kilteen files in Circuit Court for about 2000 claiming he completed a contract to build a mule of Shoemaker pike near Bethesda and that Montgomery County owes him the balance. County says work not finished and Highway Commissioner Cosby backs that view.
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Pike
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Killeen
Cosby
Visitors in Session at Lexington Virginia Military Institute
The Virginia Military Institute board met in semi annual session in Lexington Virginia today and will continue day and night until all business is completed. The dismissal case of seventy four third class men for violating regulations will be considered during the session.
Insomnia Cure Ad ADA-LURIEM Patent Medicine
An ad touts ADA-LURIEM as a safe remedy for insomnia and nervous disorders. It claims to restore nerve power, aid locomotor ataxia, regulate bowels and senses, and improve health. Price listed as $1 per box, mailing options available from ADA-LUR-IEM MEDICINE Co. in New York.
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Macrejalla Renella
Ada-Lur-Iem Medicine Co
Broadway
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Ciy
Franchise Held Up Streets to Be Improved
The city council delayed action on two public matters while approving budget items. An appropriation of 1100 for guttering and broken stone paving on Commerce Street was approved, and a 1000 fund to improve Alfred Street was referred. The council also deferred a franchise proposal for Cameron Street to the Washington Alexandria and Mount Vernon Electric Railway Company, awaiting a written agreement.
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Leadbeater
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Duke Street, Was Reported Favorably By the Committee On Finance and Streets
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Virginia Bride Weds Groom After License Delay
Miss Mary Virginia Sydnor daughter of Mr and Mrs Robert T Sydnor of Richmond Virginia married George Warren Graham of Brooklyn New York at the Church of the Holy Comforter Richmond. The ceremony was postponed when no license was found delaying the couple two hours while the best man fetched the required paper. The Rev Dr John H Dickerson officiated and the couple left for a Northern tour to settle in Brooklyn.
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Richmond
Church of ‘the Holy Comforter
Mary Virginia Sydnor
Robert T Sydnor
George ‘Warren Graham
Brooklyn
Virginia
John H Dickerson
Peonage in West Virginia Reported by Governor
Gov Dawson informs the West Virginia legislature of peonage cases in Raleigh Fayette and Wyoming counties. Detectives Cumberland and Smith investigated after a complaint from Italy's ambassador. Men were forced to pay transportation debts, arrested without due process, and two killings are described as apparently no jus tifiable.
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Charleston
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Dawson
Root
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Cunningham
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Raleigh
Faorette
Wyoming
Jamestown Exposition Board Elects Officers in Norfolk
At a Jamestown exposition board meeting in Norfolk today officers were elected. Harry St. George Tucker became president. Alvah H. Martin is first vice president and Gordon Cumreing second vice president. Other officers include W. B. Barfett third vice president and Joseph Bryan fourth vice president.
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Harry St. George ‘Tucker
Alvah H. Martin
Berkley
Gordon Cumreing
Hampton
W. B. Bar Fett
Thed
Newport News
Joseph Bryan
Richmond
C. S. Sherwood
Portsmouth
T. Garnett
Gwynn T. Shepperd
Nathaniel Beaman
Theodore J. Wook
0. D. Batchelor
Barton Myers
BR. L. Payne
Roosevelt Criticised Over Twenty-fifth Infantry Dismissals
North Carolina Negroes protest President Roosevelt overstepping authority in discharging all men of Companies B C and D of the Twenty fifth United States Infantry. They demand restoration for those not yet sentenced. Senator Foraker is commended for seeking Brownsville incident investigation. James W Poet of Washington named president of the new association.
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Twenty-fifth Infantry
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N. C
State Central Colored Citizens’ Association
Roosevelt
Twenty Fifth United States Infantry
Senator Foraker
Brownsville
James W. Poet
Washington
The
New Association
New Trial Granted in Paylimie Case Remanded
The Washington Post reports Joseph Paylimie of Warwick County who killed his wife to prevent her return to a hospital in Williamsburg Georgia. The attorney general confessed error in the Elizabeth City Circuit Court and the case is remanded. Paylimie is described as Austrian.
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Washington Post
Richmond
Joseph Paylimie
Warwick County
Hastorn State Hospital
Wilamsburg
Elizabeth City
Cure for Catarrh of the Stomach Promoted
A health ad claims stomach catarrh is nearly incurable but can be helped by Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets. It urges digestion improvement after meals, notes relief from indigestion, biliousness, sour stomach, and heartburn, and advertises a free trial package from Stuart Co. address Marshall, Michigan.
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Stuart
Workman
Chicago
Stuart Co
Five Men Missing in Bay Near Maryland Shore
Special to The Washington Post reports five men in a small boat vanished after setting out from Millers Island lighthouse area toward Bay Shore Park on a cold Sunday afternoon. A northwest gale and rough waters may have driven them across the bay or drowned them. among the crew were Lorber and Sauer, all with limited boating experience. Local inquiry continues into their fate.
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Bay-Shire Park
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John Lorber
Kent County
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Wolfe Streat
George Sauer
Hast Fryatta Street
John Yorber
Bank Dynamited and Robbed Near Greencove Springs
Special to The Washington Post reports a bank in Greencove Springs Florida was dynamited and robbed of 1500 to 1800 dollars. The blast shattered the glass front. Four white men were found by a posse eight miles south asleep, woke, opened fire injuring a deputy. three were overpowered and jailed as the wounded man likely dies. Between 1000 and 4000 dollars were found on the suspects.
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Moore Stirred Kansans Says Kansas Not Dry
Prof Wills L Moore head of the U S Weather Bureau stirred Kansas by claiming western Kansas was not good farmland and warned settlers away He contrasted thirty four years of university weather records showing wind and rainfall patterns varying in two seventeen year periods in favor of Kansas climate and suggesting cyclones have become rare
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W. A. Peffer
Mary Ellen Lease
Waskington
State University
Marks
Cyclone Dellare
Hamlet Swept by Fire in North Carolina Town Blaze Destroys Plant and Cars
Fire origin in nearby woods swept into Hamlet fanning high winds late today and burned a large part of the town including the Carolina Distilling Company plant, seventeen Seaboard box cars, eight residences, and Seaboard freight depot. Loss estimated at 75 000 dollars with limited insurance. Hamlet lies sixty miles east of Charlotte and serves as a key Seaboard junction.
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Carolina Distilling Company
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Iosa
Starvation appeal urged by Bible Society for China
A cable from Rev John R Hykes D D agent for China to the American Bible Society asks all boards and the Shanghai Missionary Association to urge famine relief through churches. Four million destitute in the district with many deaths, five months of suffering, and a call to place work relief under missionary leadership.
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American Bible Society
John R. Hykes
D. D
Society For China
Shanghai Missionary Association
Atien
Say Son Hid Millionaire
Chicago January 2 in a bill filed today in Superior Court William S Joe son of Edward A Jack eighty four years old is alleged to have abducted his father to California and secreted him to secure a one million dollar estate five other children join in the injunction Judge McEwen set a hearing for a receiver appointment tomorrow amid claims the son threatened death to obtain money officials say the father is mentally deficient from advanced age
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Superior Court
William
Joe
Edward A. Jack
California
McEwen
Jack
Paterson Man Rescued From Hanging Dies at 84
Johnn McGrogan of Paterson died aged eighty four recounting a Civil War rescue near Sherman’s troops. He and seven others were captured by guerrillas and hanged, then cut down by Union cavalry just as his companions fell. McGrogan survived while seven others did not.
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James quits active preaching at Harvard University
Professor William James, Harvard University philosopher and psychologist since 1872, announced today his withdrawal from active preachings at the university. He will remain a faculty member but devote his time to writing.
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Mass
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Harvard University
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