Indictments Rise as Railroads Judge to Court In North Carolina
Former Gov Aycock and Speaker Justice are retained to aid in challenging railroad rate violations. Indictments against multiple parties emerge as grand jury returns counts, with attempts to influence judges and court action noted amidst the fledgling state case.
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Justice Retained
Glenn
Glenneed
North Carolina
U+ Southern Railway
Pritchard AK Tnt
Ming Ucheta
Morris
Raniah
THREAT TO KILL OPERATOR IN WRECK CAUSATION
Special to The Wasiglom Post from Bristol Va July 18 reports the wreck of the Sir Washington Chattanooga United on the Southern Railway near John City. A collision between the express and the freight resulted from a misread time block orders by operator Woo Craig, causing the switch engine to enter the block early while the passenger train was not late as assumed. Eight killed and nine injured, with two more dying later at the Naval Soldiers Home. chief engineers Bush and Bryson among the injured.
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Chattanooga
Southern Railway
Craig
Black House
Naval Soldiers Home
Hostral
Bryson
Arrest in Geiger Case Shrouded in Fragmented Report
A disjointed OCR fragment details an arrest connected to a Geiger case. Named individuals mention S and various last names, with unclear roles. The note references a book of workers and a court-related action but lacks coherent dates or locations.
Woman Shot In the Head Near Tender on District
A woman was shot in the head during an incident described as a tense scene near a tender on district Pon. Nearby, Jem Walker and a young man were involved. one person fled the area while police traced the assailant. The woman was found injured and taken to a medical facility as investigations continue.
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Tolly
Seo
Ike
Death notices from a Bush meeting programme remain unclear
Fragmented OCR shows obituaries and misread names with ages and widow relations. It mentions Mr Charles Stanley and others, a George ticker, and a hospital death near Chimbarene Hospital. Details are obscured. reads like a local notice page with funeral references and familial ties.
Reverdy Johnson Dead Last Surviving Son of Renowned Maryland Lawyer
Reverdy Johnson, 81, last surviving son of Reverdy Johnson, a famed Maryland lawyer and statesman, died early today at the Chattelanes Hotel in Green Spring Valley. He was born in Baltimore March 4, 1845, educated at Mary Hall College and Heidelberg, read law with his father, and never married after his wife’s death over forty years ago. The Johnson family line includes Mme Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte and several Patterson relatives.
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Baltimore
Reverdy Johnon
Reverdy Johnson
Zachary Taylors
United States
Court of St. James
of At Mary 3
University of Heidelberg
Caroline Patterson
Joseph W Patterson
Mme
Elizabeth ‘Pattereno Bonaparte
William and Wilson Patterson
W Hail Harris
Johnsons
Romance Ends In Wedding At Oaknol Lye
Miss Margaret Porter daughter of Mr and Mrs A Porter married DB D Huyler son of John Huyler of New York in a ceremony this afternoon at Oaknol Lye. The couple met at the religious assembly on the Black Mountain colony founded by John S Huyler and others. After the ceremony the newlyweds left for New York and Europe by automobile, with plans for autumn study and travel.
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Margaret Porter
A Porter
D Huyler
John Huyler
Oak ‘Nol
Miss Porter
Young Unler
Vantreat
Black Mounias
John S Huyler
Hotaoung Huyler
Porter Wie
Tey
Jauys Wan Beol
Miss Portas
New York
Huyler
Remarried man reunites with vanished wife after decades
Spectal to The Washington Pas Wheeling Wan July 15 Twenty five years ago the steamers Scioto and John Lomas carrying Fourth of July excursions sank near here with over a hundred drowned. Among the missing was Thomas Keefer of Broubeny Ne who left a wife and two year old son. After ten years as a widower Keefer married Samuel Dixon of Clarington Ohio. they lived in that town until a son learned Keefer was alive and now Keefer arrived at his former home. Dixon fled out the back with a suitcase of clothes and vowed to leave Clarington forever. A reunion of the Keefer family occurred tonight.
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Wheeling
Scioto
John Lomas
Thomas Keefer
Broubeny
Mes Keefer
Samuel Dixon
Clarington
Ohio
Alke
Woodfield
Keefer
Dixon
Trial Identifies Lynchers in Anson County Jail Lynching
In Anson County Superior Court Judge Peebles oversees the John Jones lynching case from a year ago. Seventeen indicted, with Monroe Woomy named as the lyncher. Sheriff Bogan testified, identifying nine suspects who raided the jail and hanged the prisoner. The state rests on witness testimony.
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John Jones
Johnson
Angon
Legun
Peebles
Jones
Sherif Bogan
Anson County
Wan Us
Elso aMier
Amen County
Stabler for Chairman in Rockville Md July Primary
In Rockville Maryland on July 15 it is believed Mortimer O Stabler of Spencerville will be unanimously elected chairman of the county committee by the Republican county committee to be chosen at the July 7 primary election. He is considered acceptable to leaders Thomas Cloyes and Thomas Dawson and to the party factions as they unite after recent differences.
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Ote
Rockville
Mortimer O Stabler
Spencervile
Republican County Committee
Elacton
Thomas Cloyes
Thoms Dawson
Roanoke Greek Riot Prompted Citywide Security Plan
After a Saturday riot damaged Greek restaurants and shops, Roanoke officials mobilized 1100 volunteers and kept police on duty to preserve order. Four men were jailed, a special grand jury will investigate, and state aid was pledged if rioting resumes. The Greek community stayed housed but not harassed, with repairs underway and assurances from the consul general.
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Washington Post
John W Woods
Corporation Court
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Jefferson Street
Charlotte NC
Roanoke
Cutchin
T Tcholar George
Maximos
Naw York
Authoieto
Culchin
Ricichmond Vo
Swanson
Joel L Cutchin
State Department
Maalmos
New York
Richmond
Tata
Greeks Send Sympathy After Smash of Greek Businesses
A Washington Greek community meeting at 508 Fifth Street Northwest organized aid plans after last Saturday night riots destroyed numerous Greek restaurants and parlors. A telegram from priest Constantius Dmeos conveyed brotherly sympathy to Greeks in Roanoke and urged patience and adherence to laws.
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Washington
Joachim Alexopoulos
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Roanoke
Constantius Dmeos
Quit White Bread Could Not Get Strength From 1¢
A York state minister touts Grape Nura food and Posturm Coffee free living, claiming his family and about twenty five followers improved health after abandoning white bread. He cites digestion, brain power, and nerve strength as benefits, noting grape sugar transformed by manufacturing provides ready absorption.
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Wellville
Mayors court arraigns Hall Kennedy on perjury charge
In Petersburg Virginia on July 16, John Thames Hall and Julian Kennedy were arraigned in the mayor’s court for allegedly swearing that Eve Branch Cabaniss was twenty one when she was nineteen to obtain a marriage license. The marriage to Hall occurred the license day. Cases continued for examination until next Wednesday.
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Julian Kennedy
James
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Murder charge in Branchville youth stabbing case
Special to The Washington Post. In Southampton County Circuit Court Jodas Mosly Coxgin, 22, was indicted by a grand jury for the murder of 15 year old Andrew Pittman, son of a Branchville merchant. Coxgin posted $1000 bond for July 1 appearance. The alleged victim was fatally stabbed after a dispute at Pittman’s store where Pittman denied Coxgin credit.
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Washington Post
Suftak Vn
Southampton County
Courtland
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Andrew Pittman
Branchville Va
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Young Pittman
Eleven Injured As Rail Buckling Derails Train At Jamestown
A northbound Southern Railway derailment near Jamestown North Carolina injured eleven railroad workers. The dining car buckled tracks causing three cars to leave the track as the train, traveling about 35 mph, halted after a one hour delay. Injured crew members from Washington Alexandria Jacksonville and Charlotte were treated at Greensboro by Southern Railway physicians.
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Washington
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Minours Avenue
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Missouri Ave
Washington DC
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Jeckmarine Flames
FX Berry
Charlotte NC
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Southern Ie Way
Strasburg Va
Avila
Pullman
F . Taylor
Jacksonville
F Berry
Greenaboro
Southern Railway Company
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Ohio
Rogers Road Not Sold Says Virginian Railway Official
Raymond Dupuy vice president and general manager of the Virginian Railway Company returns to Norfolk from New York stating no sale of the Rogers Road. He notes rumors of a Philadelphia syndicate acquiring the road are unfounded while acknowledging the Tidewater and Western narrow gauge line near Farmville has been sold or may be sold. Contracts for pier amenities at Sawells Point on Norfolk Harbor proceed, including ten sixty ton steel conveyor cars with electric motive power, as the railroad plans coal movement over the pier by Bay 1908.
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Phiadelphia
Kreat
Virginian Ig
Sawells Point
Norfolk Harbor
Virginian Fined Ten Dollars for Unwanted Embrace
In Hearico County Magistrates Court, Misa Laura Watkins accused Nuckols of forcing an embrace in Seven Pines Electric Hallway, Glen Rhee Heights. He was fined ten dollars after arrest followed the incident on July 16.
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Washington Post
Richmond
Hearico County
Consolidation Coal Company Declares Large Six Month Surplus
At a directors meeting in Baltimore the Consolidation Coal Company announced a quarterly dividend of 12 percent and a public statement reported a six month surplus enough to cover regular dividends for the rest of the year after depreciation.
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Baltimore
Consolidation Coal Company
Publc
Quid Defeated by Five Votes in Campbell County Nomination
The Campbell County Democratic executive committee met in Lynchburg and declared HC Featheraton the nominee for the House of Delegates, defeating incumbent Eugene Quid by a margin of five votes at the Thursday primary reports.
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Lynchburg
Democratic Executive Committee
Campbell County
Rusburg
HC Featheraton
House of
Eugene Quid
Alexandria Man Dead After Freight-Train Fall
In Lynchburg Virginia on July 16 J Carter and a young man from Alexandria, employed on the railroad, were in a freight train accident near Clarion. The man was badly injured and died en route to the hospital in Alexandria. A primary election in Southampton was canceled due to lack of nominees for any of the party candidates.
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J Carter
Alexandria
Clarion
Southampton
Washington
Butotk Va
Alexandria News Remains of Civil War Engineer Mason Returned
The funeral of EB Mason will be brought to Alexandria from Marshall Fauquier County Ya. and interred in Ivy Hill Cemetery. Mason, seventy, unmarried, was a civil engineer and a Confederate Engineer Corps member. A descendant of George Mason, he lived in Alexandria many years and died yesterday at his sister’s home.
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Alecande
Mason
Neville Whiting
Marshall Fauquier County
Ivy Hill
Alexandria
George Mason
Virginia
Fairfax
Vaucluse
Fairax County
Engineer Corps
Mexico
Alexandria House
Crushed by Freight Train Fatality in Danville Division
William Carter, brother of Thomas Carter foreman of the city street cleaning crew, fell from a moving freight train on the Danville division of the Southern Railway and was crushed to death. A Fairfax County native aged twenty seven, he had been employed by the railway for some time.
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Thomas Carter
Danville
Southern Railway
Carter
Fairfax County
James Evans
Jefferson Street
Timk
Reform urged for Washington Arlington and Falls Church Rail Road
Commissioner Henry H Stuart of the Virginia State corporation commission heard a committee of residents urge radical reforms in the Washington Arlington and Falls Church Rail Road. They called for double tracking between Falls Church and Rosslyn, improved equipment and safety, and stricter adherence to commission orders. A drafting committee was appointed to propose changes and report back after inspections and a planned meeting.
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Henry H Stuart
Virginia State Corporation Commission
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Arlington Junction
Yuasa
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Fight at a Hamilton picnic leaves two injured
Leesburg papers report a July picnic for Black residents at Hamilton ended in a separate fight. Sanford Payne shot Lewis Sanford in the left eye, nearly destroying sight, and John Rhodes stabbed Charles Ashby near the liver. Both assailants were arrested and await grand jury action.
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Washington Post
Leesburg
Sanford Payne
Lewis Sanford
Hamilton
John Rhodes
Charles Ashby
Hoth
Grand
Hargis murder trial to proceed in Lexington by July 15
Judge James Hargis faces murder charges in the Cox case as a change of venue is refused. Special judge Monty at Sandy Hook orders the trial to proceed with witnesses arriving from distant points, including a march of twenty five miles from Weat Liberty.
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Sandy Hook
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Nora Helmer Shines In Ibsen Drama At Belasco Theatre
The Belasco presents Miss Charlotte Walker as Nora in A Doll’s House, delivering a tense and intelligent performance. Her nuanced portrayal of a wife awakening to responsibility and truth earns curtain calls, with strong support from Edward, Guy Connis, Alice Butler, Sydney Mather, and Manny Harta as the ensemble.
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Belasco Theater
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Guy Conmis
Dr Hank “Waill
Alice Butler
Sydney Mather
Manny Harta Turnisnea
Tasch
Aga Nat
Nora Helmer
David Copnerfield
Krogstz
National-Aborn Opera Opens Week With The Beggar Student
The National Aborn Opera Company opened the week with The Beggar Student a lively light opera featuring Beatrice Goldie Miss Cadiz and Moss Tate Ballinger in leading sopranos and strong ensemble numbers. Bradford and Leet provided comic support while a dramatic drum finale and Bransom as Enterferin added humor amid a mostly cohesive cast.
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