Four Miners Killed In Maryland Mine Car Collision
A deadly crash at Washington mine No. of the Piedmont and Taqe Creek Coal Company near FrankTown left four men dead and eleven others injured. An eightwagon sequence and a tampered switch caused head on impact as loaded cars collided with empty ones on the incline. The victims named include Chay er Knight, William Hamilton, Jable Cord a, and Jose Lil Brinte. Injured workers were rushed to Hospital with varying injuries.
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Law Student at Sixty in Wake's Election Tale
A Washington Post fragment notes HG Whitaker of Pitot Wake State a law student in a class with his son. It mentions Whitaker, aged 18, and claims he has ten children with twenty seven students, and that one grandchild voted in a likely election. The passage is unclear and resembles a satirical or garbled report.
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Pitot
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Suspicious State Prisons Probe Mentioned in Senate Message
A garbled report notes a senate message requesting investigation into state prison matters and a later Roanoke City inquiry. It references a five member Citizens committee to probe misuse of city funds and a separate Kaiser honors Sargent artist recognition with Emperor William.
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Drainage Plan Aims to Empty North Carolina Swamps
Hearings before the state board of education and legislative committees, with speeches by Rep mail and Geologist Pratt, discuss creating drainage districts and bonds to drain Lake Mattamuskeet, North Carolina's largest lake. Expert Wright estimates 30 pumping engines could drain the lake into Pamlico Sound at a cost of 400000 dollars and 15000 dollars yearly for maintenance. legislature shows favorable disposition to the vast project.
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Shot After Fight In Staunton Area Court Charge
Special to The Washington Post Staunton Virginia Christmans on the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad saw a shooting after a quarrel in Haines store. Haines a merchant is jailed charged with shooting Argenbright who was drinking and fought with Haines and Davis father in law of Haines. Argenbright wounded in back has slight chance of recovery.
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Widow Sues Society Leader In Civil Push To Recover Cow
In Asheville North Carolina widow Mrs Lullie Weaver filed a complaint against Jane-Mra C Hamilton a Chicago social leader and musician with ties to the Abbottson Park area The magistrate issued a warrant charging Hamilton and her tenants with forcibly removing a cow impounded by Weaver The owner may not reclaim impounded cattle without paying a fee and the trial is scheduled for Wednesday
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Jane
Hamilton
Chicago
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Wales Into Open Draw Tragedy Underlines Bridge Dangers
Newbern North Carolina Jane W Cahoon a blind man about fifty and father of many stepped into the Nevge River draw opening and fell to his death. A 35 year old boy in charge failed to lower the guard as the draw opened. Coroners jury found Cahoon died through negligence in not lowering the guards and the danger he walked into.
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Newbern
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Japanese Seeks Citizenship After Navy Service
Roifolk Virginia reports a Japanese individual, who has served as a naval steward since July 9 1898, filed in federal court to renounce allegiance to the Mikado and pursue American naturalization under the 1868 act. The petition cites four years in the navy and requests ten days notice for government hearing, with no further statement at this time. The notice context appears amid various local school and church updates across the Washington Post regional brief.
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Namyo Ressho
Japan
Mourning on Three Chap Road Body of Man Found Dead
A male body, about 1 years old, with a brick-crushed skull, identified by a tattooed right arm name believed A B Barnes, found two miles from Three Chap road by a West Hampton car motorman. In Richmond Miss Ruby Jones, a bride to be, reported the discovery and a January 3 wedding in Richmond noted as Ruby M Jones wedding Arthur M Proffitt at AU Saints Church by Rev John Downman.
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Virginia Obituary Notes From Leesburg and Nearby
James W Nichols of Loudoun County dies at 70 from pneumonia at his Round Hill home. A Confederate veteran wounded at Antietam, he held local offices and is survived by son Dr F M Nichols of Purcellville. Keller, Jane Frank W. Battaile, 38, dies of typhoid at Glenheim. former treasurer of Eastern Shore Produce Exchange, stevedore on the Eastern Shore steamer, member of Onancock Royal Arch Chapter. survived by wife and one daughter in Petersburg. Mrs Jennie Wilmer Long, wife of Dr J H Long of Chesterfield, dies at home aged 6. Survived by husband, four sons, three daughters. Dr Long came to Virginia two and a half years ago.
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Richmond Howitzers honored for hospitality in Alexandria
The Richmond Howitzers received a commemorative silver cup in Alexandria after a June hospitality event ending a march through Virginia. The ceremony featured speeches by Myers and Captain Smith, with responses from John Johnson and others, and a roster of Howitzers on the reverse. A buffet supper followed as committee members and guests departed.
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H F Leverning
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W D Hyman
O D Peters
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P Cox
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James T Gray
K T Warrick
Potomac River Flood Fears Mount After Snow Melt
Special to The Washington Post from Hagerstown reports the Potomac rising rapidly with fears of a freshet. Water stands several feet above normal at Williamsport and Hancock, increasing by about ten inches per hour in places. Construction work at Dam No 4 in Williamsport halted due to west bank flooding. Washington area remains less affected.
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Fiancée Attends Funeral for Amherst Bridge Victim
Isaac Higginbotham was buried at Presbyterian Cemetery in Lynchburg Virginia after being murdered on Amherst Bridge Friday night. His fiancée Miss Mary Wade attended the service and requested the coffin lid be removed for a last view. Wade’s brother is jailed on murder charges as police pursue circumstantial evidence linking him to the shooting.
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Sheriff Outsmarts Mob Buries Man For Safe Keeping
Special to The Wasnington Tose Raleigh North Carolina January 25 Sheriff McPhail secretly moved Ward a young negro accused of attempting to assault Mrs Mille McLean a widow near Clinton to Fayetteville then by train to Raleigh to prevent a lynching after rumors of mob violence. Two mobs formed last week but troops guarded the jail. Ward’s move followed word of an intended attack amid ongoing unrest.
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Virginia briefs note minister moves and trials
The Rev Dr J Foster, seven years at Table Street Presbyterian Petersburg, called to First Presbyterian Sherman Texas and will preach there next Sunday. Former Hanover minister T Hargrove jailed eight months and $100 fine for mail fraud released in Richmond. Ivy G Hechler acquitted in Richmond after testifying his wife aided her husband in a supposed murder attempt. Thomas Dixon and wife visited Broadwater Cape Charles yacht Comrades to shoot wild geese. Delaware Society of Norfolk plans to attend Newport News launching of battleship Delaware on February 6 with 150 officials and visitors. Western Union suit by Milligan Cape Charles waterman over signature error settled. case dropped.
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Seek to avert a lockout in Baltimore garment trade
United Hebrew Charities directors met in Baltimore on January 23 to avert a clothing workers lockout. A committee will press Strouse Bros to reinstate strikers and fill vacancies, hoping to save about 18 000 jobs. If no settlement by morning, lockout likely to spread to all local clothing board shops.
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West Carolina training school funding and grandfather clause proposal
Raleigh January 2 bills introduced in the North Carolina House seek maintenance funds for the West Carolina training school at Greenville and require superior court clerks to report crime statistics to the attorney general. A constitutional amendment to extend voter educational qualification to 1916 is proposed, retroactive to 1908. Other measures regulate cocaine morphine opium sales, Sunday law enforcement, freight train moves, and establish a Western North Carolina teacher training school. A resolution seeks to vacate Wake county judge E T Scarboro’s seat as a fourth class post master. another supports 2000 for Italian earthquake sufferers with the appropriation struck out.
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One Year For $10000 Theft In Richmond Va
Sam Tucker the porter on a Pullman car received a lenient sentence after pleading guilty to stealing a case with jewels worth over ten thousand dollars from Mrs Sue Williame Buck. The jewels were later found under Tucker’s porch as Mrs Buck intervened for mercy. The case reflects a high profile theft tied to Richmond and New York society circles.
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