Fort Myer guards around jail to thwart lynching attempt
Troops at Fort Myer placed cavalry guards and reinforced pickets around Alexandria county jail after a mob of about 60 men sought to hang Robert Jackson, a negro inmate who had slashed a soldier in a fight after the Jeffries Johnson bout. Jailer Crack defended his post as the crowd dispersed at dawn, and officials opened an investigation while warning against further action.
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Col Garrard
Fort Myer
Alexandria County
Fort Myer Heights
Robert Jackson
Jeffries-Johnson
Scott
Horn
Jackson
Poat
Jatter Clares
Jaller Crack
Falrfat
Elvan Hiin
Testator and Heir In Unique Will Spark Race Riot Fears
Commonwealth's attorney reported Col Gerrard called the threat to attack Jackson's negro friends at the jail a provocation linked to the Brownsville affair. Capt Horn would lead an investigation as soldiers were questioned at the fort. The incident began on a suburb trolley car after a July fight over the Jeffries Johnson bout left Private Scott fatally wounded. Scott's condition improved at a Washington fort hospital, while Jackson and five companions were jailed for assault and disorderly conduct. Arraignment was postponed to next Tuesday as investigations continue.
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Jackson
Commonwealth
Col
Gerrard
Brownsville
P. N. Horn
Third Field
ar‘Mery
Horn
Nexro
Jeffries-Johnson
Scott
Fort Myer
Palmer
Alexandria County
Robert Jackson
Washington
Spalls May Come High In Armor Plate Disputes
Midvale Steel argues possible damages from defects in armor on North Dakota and Utah could set wide policy. Briefs filed with the Navy. decision pending after Assistant Secretary Winthrop returns. Company questions cost of removing and replacing plates and warns of distant port shipments if spalls found on U S warships.
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Midvale Steel Company
North Dakota
Utah
Navy Department
Winthrop
Civil Engineer Samuel Brosius Dies by Gas in Bed
Samuel G. Brosius, 44, a civil engineer in the Army quartermaster’s office, was found dead in his bed at 12 B Street Northeast after inhaling gas through a rubber tube. His wife Kay departed for shopping moments earlier, and he kissed her goodbye before locking himself in. The coroner and police saw no foul play. Brosius, once treated at the Government Hospital for the Insane, may have feared insanity and chosen death as an escape from years of rheumatism and ill health. Funeral plans not yet set.
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Wife Goodby
Samuel G. Brostus
Quartermaster’s Department of the Army
B Street
Kay
Vox
Nevitt
Quartermaster’s Office
Hot Springs
Washington
Farragut
H Street
Bromus
Government Hospital
West Point Miliary Academy
Europe
France
Spain
Italy
Greece
Germany
Denmark
Russia
City Beautiful Law Trial Looms Over Front-Yard Truck Garden
George Winney of 437 New Jersey Avenue faces police court for violating a front yard truck garden ban. He says he wants simplicity and to save money, clashing with Larry O'Dea of the police force who upholds Washingtons city beautiful rules. The case highlights tensions between curb appeal laws and personal gardens in the capital.
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George Winney
New Jersey
Larry O'Dea
Washington
Winney
Hotels Guest Listings From Across the Nation
The rows list travelers in multiple cities including Boston Chicago New York Philadelphia Pittsburgh California Georgia Illinois Kentucky Maryland Missouri Michigan New York state Ohio Ohio and Tennessee Virginia and more with many individuals and wives noted at properties such as Willard Shoreham and St James hotels. The fragmentary roster names guests by surname initial and city, showing a broad cross section of late 19th or early 20th century hotel guests.
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Boston
J_ W Moore
Edw
VY Les
Raleigh
Patterson
CB Jackson
Willd
Chicago
A. E Gould
Ruth Brown
HG Baxter
P P Forman
Kimball
Frank F Reid Willard James C Jettery
A J Campbell
Shoreham
New York City
H Elleworth
C. T. Moll
St James
Meigs
E Weingreen
James F Louder
William Cornell
Estella Staeng
JB Cook
EW Clack
Meifes
C LL Montague
Dant
W H Darranco
Willard
Philadelphia
F. H. Tincote
Samuel
Alcore
T J
Bioran
Iunerford
James G Dorn
Willard W. H. Martin
Shoreham Pittshi RG
George V Craighead
Allison
Steele
Arlington
California
Canal-Marquis
P Biles
San Francisco
James
Dworzek
Georgia
F Roberts
S Mannan
Atlanta
C Wheatley
Wilard
Pla
Islanois
Samuel Kerr
Oak Park
Ebbit
Cincinnati
HH. Groumeyer
EY Moore
Cleveland
Rhode Island
A. C. Fratman
Povidence
Wilard - Tennessee
Mra
J. F. Jarman
Nashville
Virginia
J. S. Thurnton
Norfolk
St Jamon
Odinal
Lynchburg
Gorden Cuning
Hampton
Shoemaker
Richmond
Unique Will Says Grandson Must Be Guarded From Women
A Washington dc widow claims Robert G Dyrenforth left a novel will for probate prescribing a strict upbringing for his grandson Robert St George Dyrenforth. The clause traps the boy in a rigid education toward a Harvard degree, West Point, and a law career while shielding him from women. The will also sets a Catholic upbringing and specifies burial away from Arlington Cemetery amid family disputes.
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West Point
Dyrenforth
St. Stephen's Church
Father Smith
Arlington Cemetery
Grand Army
Uge
Harvard University
Blackstone
Oxford University
England
Weather conditions report from Washington July 8
Weather conditions from the U S Department of Agriculture Weather Bureau describe a trough from the upper lake region to the southern plateau with minimal rainfall except scattered showers in plains states parts of Wyoming Montana Michigan and Ohio valley heat waves persist with above normal temps. West of the Mississippi generally fair as a high pressure area dominates while the south Atlantic and gulf coasts expect showers later weekend. Winds on various coasts are light to moderate southerly or variable. Temperature readings show midnight 74 to 91 at evening with humidity around 73 percent and trace rainfall noted. river bulletin reports the Potomac river clear and Shenandoah muddy at Harpers Ferry July 8.
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Ac Dept of Agriculture
Weather Bureau
Washington
Upper Lake
Plains States
Wyoming
Montana
Aichigan
Ohio Valley
Middle Atlantic
Atlartic
Gle
South Atlantic
Gulf States
Plateau
Middle Atlantic States
New England
Mississippi River
Middle West
Gulf
Gulf Coast
Grand Banke
Legacy and guardians named for boy in complexwill
The document names executors William H Dyrenforth Julius W Dyrenforth and Harold Dyrenforth who must ensure the boy avoids certain influences. If he dies before eight or marries without consent, the estate passes to the Dyrenforth family. Funds are allocated from estate proceeds to care for and educate the boy, with specific bequests to Mary E Dyrenforth Anna I Berry and Lewis F Dyrenforth.
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Jones
Supreme Council
William HL
Harold
Robert Collis
Wiliam H Dyrenforth
Chicago
Harold Dyrenforth
Mary E. Dyrenforth
Anna I. Berry
Brooklyn
N. Y
Lewis F. Dyrenforth
Riggs Funeral Today at St Pauls Church
The body of Elisha Francis Higgs, real estate operator and banker, lies in St. Pauls Catholic Church sanctuary after arrival from New London. Friends and choir members kept vigil overnight as Mrs Riggs recuperates from her husbands death, with services led by Mar Mackin. The body will go to Rock Creek Cemetery when the family plot is prepared.
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Bier
Elisha Francis Higgs
St. Paul's Catholic Church
Fifteenth and
V Streets
Mr. Riggs
Bief
Parcham
New London
Conn
Washington
Mar. Mackin
St. Paul's Church
George W White
Arthur x. Brice
Allister P. Gordon Cumming
Harrison H. Dodge
Albion K. Parris
William Fox
Oscar Luckett
Riggs
W. D Hoover
Pact displeases Austria
Austrian diplomats express displeasure over the Russo Japanese convention concluded in July. They fear it frees Russia of Far East fears and allows renewed European influence, threatening Austria's Balkan ambitions. The dominant view among officials is that the pact aims chiefly against the United States.
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United States
Vienna
Russia
Far East
Pure Food Auctioned Off Friday Noon at Agriculture Dept
The Department of Agriculture sells all food it tests as pure to the highest bidders each Friday at noon. Cheese and oleomargarine meeting excellence standards were sold yesterday, with prices often under store rates and sometimes higher due to keen bidding. Clerks buy for family use or resell in smaller lots to coworkers, while adulterated goods are destroyed. Golf Honors to Harry Neville in Central New York League final at Onondaga course, defeating Dr Towne 4 up 3 to play.
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Department of Agriculture
Bureau of Chemistry
Harry Neville
Syracuse
N. Y
Owasco Golf Club
Auburn
Central New York Golf League
H. L. Towne
Mohawk Golf Club
Schenectady
Onondaga Golf and Country Club
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Twenty-first Street
Daniel W. Baker
Justice Bradley
Bessie
Robert McGrath
Panama
Patent Office
Georgetown Convent
Iitle Roberts
Robert
Dupont Circle
Mount Pleasant
Knowlton
Washington Loan and Trust
Wiliam H Dennis
Rudolph H. Yeatman
Bam
Washington Post
Harpers Ferry
Potmae River
Shenandoah
AshevHla
Atlantic City
N's
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Buffalo
N.Y
Cheyenne
Wyo
Davenport
Towa
Danver
Colo
Des Moines Town
Galveston Tex
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Yaait
New York
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ST John's Church
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D. D
Mount ST Alban
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Street
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Rex
HS France
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Will
Epworth League
Church
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Fatesline
Harry Warmer
Presbyterian
Church OF the Covenant
Connecticut
Atreete Charles Wood
Stewart Charrinson
Harry Bangus
Peck Chapel
Tia Om
Stewart
Auburn ‘Theological Seminary
Eorner
Mount Pleasant Street
Park Road
Aloloist
Anne Grant Fugitt
Christian Science
First Church OF Christ, Scientist
Fifteenth and & Streets Northwest
Pandey School
Leonard
Leonard Refrigerator Ie
Mayer & CO
Seventh St. N. W
Steinway
DROOP
Christian Xander
7Th St
Peter Grogan
Burchell
N. W. Burchell
John F. Ellis & CO
Penn. Ave
Treasury Department
Home Seekers’ Building Association
Washington, D
Ralph W Hills
F Street Northwest
Murray
Capital Traction
Relief Association
Capital Traction Company
M Streets
Vaughn
Reid S. Baker
Byron & Adams
Colburn Broaco
Cement Contractors
Phome
Ballantine
Doren Shoemaker Co
AJ Grafton & Son
Vin
Wilburn, Reister
Ashington, D. S