Threats by Jaet Woman Still Missing in Murder Trial
Prosecution rests in the murder case of Fred Hoback for killing John L Jett. Witnesses say Jett threatened to kill Hobacks to wed Kate Hoback, 16, who planned to testify before disappearing from Virginia. Defense says Jett spoke of shooting them months earlier. Case to go to late July, Kate believed out of state.
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Fred Hoback
Washington Post
Floyd. Va
John L. Jett
Jett
Kate
Christianshoro
Joseph E Kennerty
Roanoke
Hoack
Hoback
Kate Hoback
Lynchers Disappoint in Train Mob Action
In Salisbury Maryland on July 19 a mob of about twenty five men boarded a passenger train to seize a man rumored to be John Bloch, accused murderer of Conductor Wiggins. They declared he was not the wanted man, released him, and planned to return him to Tennessee.
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Washington Post
Salisbury
Barbers
Tennessee
John Bloch
Wiggins
Bloch
Ten- Resse
Accuses Her Father in Jonesville Assault Case
Lena Rutherford, thirteen, has accused her father, George Rutherford, sixty five, a prominent Jonesville citizen and former ministerial student, of criminal assault. At today’s hearing he was remanded to jail to await trial in September.
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Washington
Pasc
Jonesville
George Rutherford
Lena
Rutherford
Galt
Tral
Leper on Train Sparks Cumberland Alarm
Special to The Washington Post reports Cumberland officials were alerted by a telegraph of a leper aboard a Western Maryland Railroad dawn train. The man, described as a Syrian widow, was examined by Dr Kalbaugh in Piedmont and given money to leave Elkins, then left toward Keyser with a companion.
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West Virginia
Maryland
Synan
Washington Post
Cumberland
Western
Elkins
Kalbaugh
Piedmont
Eyser
Instructors Elected Two Additions Made to the Faculty
A Washington and Lee University board committee met in Lynchburg Virginia on July 19 to fill the mathematics chair after Prof Alexander L Nelson retired after 52 years as professor. Livingston Wannell Smith from MIT, a former Nelson assistant, was chosen. Ashton Waugh McMaster from George Washington University was appointed instructor in mathematics.
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Washington and Lee University
Spechs
Washington
Ashton Waugh McMaster
George Washington University
Oyster survey begun on the Chesapeake Bay harbor bed
The shellfish commission sailed from Annapolis on July 19 for the first actual survey work by Engineers Earle and Emory. On board the steamer Governor McLane, Mesara Mitchell and Grave held a regular meeting while the team planned the initial bed layout just inside Telley Point in the harbor.
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Washington Posy
Annapolis
Shell-Fish Commission
Earle
Emory
Mesara
Mitchell
Grave
Governor McLane
Télley Point
Virginia Obituary Highlights Incomplete Virginia Death Notices
A compilation of brief obituaries from Virginia towns July 14 to July 19 mentions Melvina Burger of Fincastle dying of apoplexy at sixty, Mrs. John R. Harmon of Essex County, Susan Preston Parks of Lexington at seventy five, Deputy Sheriff B. P. Marsh of Wythe County, Carrie Tarkington of New York City, Gen William B Shands of Courtland, and Irving Jordan of Danville. Surviving relatives noted. court honors recorded in some items.
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Rosnoxe
Melvina Burger
Willem Burger
Fincastle
Fredericksburg
John R. Harmon
Essex County
Lexington
Susan Preston Parks
Joshua Parks
B. P. Marsh
Wythe County
Wytheville
Leesburg
Carrie V. Tarkington
New York Ciy
Benjamin D Suwick
Leesworp
B ON Tarkimgton
New York
Walliam B Shanas
Courtland
Southampton County
Prentiss
I Bar
Gen Shands
William Shands
Danville
Roawell
New Mexico
Irving Jordan
Mra Alleen
Eccentric Baltimore man found dead by chloroform inhalation
Alonzo S Pennell, 56, of 1506 McHenry Street Baltimore, was found dead in bed about 9 am. A towel padded with raw cotton tied over his face and a pint bottle of chloroform nearby indicate suicide. Pennell, paralyzed from hips to knees, lived alone, ran a small shop from his home and left no apparent contact with relatives.
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Washington Post
Baltimore
Alonzo S. Pennell
McHenry Street
Steamer Pokanoket Sunk At Petersburg Wharf
The Pokanoket of James River Navigation Co. sank at its Petersburg wharf between 3 and 4 am, lying in twelve feet of water. All crew escaped uninjured, with Juan Galloway detained on suspicion of tampering with sea cocks after prior trouble with the captain. A Norfolk wrecking crew will raise the vessel carrying freight for Norfolk and James River landings.
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Washington Post
Petersburg
James River Navigation Company
Norfolk
Newport News
Juan Galloway
James Rlver
Abduction Charge Stuns Richmond Suburb
Mrs Feather of 611 Barton Heights Roanoke girl Mary Gibbs under fourteen abducted from home near Roanoke. She swore out a warrant for Clarence Loman, of Roanoke, charged with abduction. Authorities believe the couple are hidden in Richmond or vicinity tonight.
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Washington Post
Richmond
Mra
Feather
Barton Heights
Clarence Loman
Roanoke
Mary Gibbs
Bid ignored for Washington Baltimore Turnpike contract
W W Crosby, engineer for Maryland Highways, says Gov Warfield authorized ignoring a single bid by J F Killeen Washington for a Baltimore Washington turnpike section estimated at 35000 to 40000 dollars. Legislature had authorized 390000 for three years. Crosby plans to find a cheaper build method and may face legal obstacles including house of corrections commitments.
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Washington- Baltimore Boulevard
Washington Post
Baltimore
W. W. Crosby
Highways Commission
Gov. Warfield
J F Killeen
Washington
Crosby
Moore
House of Correction
Sweet Briar Faculty Selected for Institute
Lynchburg Virginia July 19 the board of trustees completed faculty selections for Sweet Briar Institute naming Dr J Mitchell Humphreys Bedford City as professor of modern languages Miss Susan Maser Raleigh NC associate professor of Latin and Greek Miss Leanor Tucker Norfolk instructor in diology Miss Helen F Young Gambier Ohio director of music Prof Paul de Lamlay instructor in art Miss I Gay Patterson associate professor of mathematics Ming Jessamine Chapman instructor in domestic science Dr Mary Harley physician and professor of physiology and hygiene
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Washington Post
Lynchburg
Sweet Briar Institute
J. Mitchell Humphreys
Bedford City
Susan Maser
Raleigh
Leanor & Ucker
Norfolk
Helen F Young
Gambier
Ohio
Paul de Lamlay
Miss I. Gay Patterson
Ming Jessamine Chapman
Mary Harley
Governor's son injured in Bristol park fall
Matthew Cox eighteen son of Governor Cox of Tennessee fell from a tree in a Bristol suburb park. He sustained serious injuries a broken leg in two places a dislocated shoulder and possible internal injury.
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Matthew Cox
Bristol
Washington Post
Brietul
Gov Cox
M ‘Tennessce
Young man jailed on criminal relations charge
Hamp Lang, 23, jailed in Front Royal Virginia awaiting grand jury action on criminal relations with 13 year old Gussie Merchant daughter of a Fork district farmer. Special to ag Wasaga. Charleston West Virginia reports Ida Holmes 64 wife of Julus C Holmes died after surgery and is survived by her husband.
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Front Royal
Hamp Lang
Gussie Merchant
Fork
Ag Wasaga
Charleston
W Va
Ida Holmes
Julus C Holmes
Five Miners Killed In Gasoline Lamp Ignition Explosion
In Bluefield West Virginia a Dixon mine explosion near 1 Huger killed five miners as they descended in a bucket half way down the shaft. The lamp ignition caused a gas flare that blew others from the bucket and crushed bodies. Several men were burned or shocked and will likely die.
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Bluefield
Wo Va
Dixon
Huger
Tug River
Field
Wallace
Nitchell
Dur Otners
Ernest Jones
Palmer Harris
Robert Harris
John Gilmore
Aead
Bill Crouse
Langdon Whiteside
Faint at Graveside of Bride-to-Be in Charlotte
Miss Isabelle Taylor of Washington fainted at the graveside as the body of her fiancé, R Baxter Pharr, a leading Charlotte lawyer, was lowered. Pharr, once private secretary to Congressman Y Webb, died of typhoid fever after serving Georgetown Law. Taylor planned to return to Washington tomorrow if she recovers.
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Washington Fos
Charlotte
WN. C
Mies Isabelle Tivlur
Vermont Avenue
Washington, D. C
Walshington
Miss Taylor
Mr. Pharr
Coneralsman Jr. Y. Webb
Worth Carolina
Pharr
Georgetown University
Mass Taylor
Washington
Reform ed Church Reunion Invites Roosevelt Address
Ten thousand people attended the seventeenth annual reunion of Reformed churches of Maryland Southern Pennsylvania Virginia West Virginia and the District of Columbia at Pen Mar Park Hagerstown Md The meeting elected officers and decided to invite President Roosevelt to deliver the address at the next reunion to be held at Pen Mar on July 18 1907
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Pen Mar
Washington Post
Hagerstown
Reformed Churches of
Maryland
Pennsylvania
Viginia
West Virginia
District of Columbia
Pen Mar Park
J. A. Hoffheins
Martinsburg
John M. Schick
Washington
George Kunkel
Harrisburg
T. J. Hacker
Roanoke
Reformed Reunion Association
J. EB. Shantz
Chambersburg
S.S. Brenner
Mechanicsburg
EZ. Cathman
Pen Mor
Want Fishburne Freed
Friends of convicted Roanoke murderer seek a pardon for Charles R. Fishburne, banker, convicted of murdering Dr. Frederick Lefew in Roanoke in October 194. Jury verdict sent him to five years in the penitentiary after appeals failed, with efforts through a new trial and the Supreme Court of Appeals exhausted.
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Roanoke
Washington Post
Richmond
Charles R. Fishburne
Frederick Lefew
Fishourne
Aiken
Nally
Supreme Court of Appeals
Fishburne
Helas
Gaines Renominated for Fourth Term in Third District
Charleston West Virginia July 19 The Republican congressional convention for the Third district met in Charleston and unanimously renominated Joseph Holt Gaines for a fourth term as United States Congressman representing Clay Fayette Greenbrier Kanawha Monroe Nicholas Pocahontas Summers Upshur and Webster counties.
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West Virginia
Congress
Washington Post
Charleston
W. Va
Joseph Holt Gaines
Clay, Fayette
Greenbrier
Kanawha
Monroe
Nicholas
Pocahontas
Summers, Upshur
Webster
Dead Infant Found Aboard Steamer Hamp ton Roads
Suffolk, July 19 A large Sunday school excursion to Norfolk returned on the Hamp ton Roads. While clearing the steamer the crew found the body of a dead infant concealed aboard. No identity of the mother is known.
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Eyedal
Washington Post
Suffolk
Hampton Roads
Norfolk
Bids Due For 30 Million Panama Canal Bonds This Afternoon
At 4 30 this afternoon the seat of the bids for the 30 million Panama Canal bonds must be in. Small bids have come in in enormous quantities but the big ones are expected today. A few bids may finance the entire issue as the bond market is very active. Bids will be opened after day’s other business to reveal recipients of the securities.
Senator Clark's Daughter to Wed in Wyoming
Announcement from Cheyenne Wyoming states Miss Laura Clark eldest daughter of United States Senator GD Clark will marry Charles P Blythe a wholesale grocer of Salt Lake City at Exanston Wyoming on August 6.
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Senator Clark
Cheyenne
Wyo
Laura Clark
United States
GD Clark
Charles P. Blythe
Exanston
Blythe Tv
Salt Lake Ity
Fire at Perry Street Studio Causes Flue Damage
A fire of unknown origin at a studio on Perry Street Northwest last night caused flue damage before the fire department extinguished it. The loss is fully covered by insurance.
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Perry
Seventh Street
Fir
Philippine postal savings bank system to accept stamps
The Philippines plans a three class postal savings system. First class will accept money and postal savings stamps. second and third will receive only stamps. Stamps come in 5, 16, and 2 centavos denominations to promote small savings. Deposit cards have ten or twenty spaces and deposits can be withdrawn at any postal bank. Interest is 2.5 percent on deposits up to 1 peso. amounts above are unproductive except for charitable institutions, with a maximum of 2,000 pesos.
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Philippine Islands
Charitable
Benevolent Institut Aris
Greater Washington boom draws Alexandria business interest
The Washington Post reports Alexandria business leaders watch the Greater Washington movement with keen interest as potential site advantages for manufacturers. Harbor and rail access, lower land costs north of the city, and no smoke law are cited as benefits. A colored letter carrier may join civil service. Columbia Fire Engine Company elects officers and plans a Virginia State Firemen’s Convention excursion to Luna Park.
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Alexandria
Greater Washington
Iver
Washington
Alxandria
Edward Power
Columbia Fire Engine Company
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JF. Pettey
N L Smith
Bmerchant
N. C Treakle
Walter J. Hushes
Virginia
Richmond
Frank Travers
H. F Mansfeld
H . Phillips
Jx. Fyeretl Rogers
Anthony F. Baeigalupo
Luna Park
Funeral services for Rev Dexter A Snow
Rev Dexter A Snow aged eighty eight died yesterday morning at his home 711 Highth street. Funeral services will be held at his residence tomorrow at four o clock with Dr F D Power pastor of Vermont Avenue Christian Church officiating. Burial will be in Rock Creek Cemetery. He was one of the citys oldest clergymen and had been almost totally blind for twenty years. He formerly led a Wythe Virginia church after retiring thirty years ago. A Staunton Virginia native of New England descent he leaves a wife one daughter Dr Alice Crush and a son Chester F Snow.
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In Home
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F. D. Power
Vermont Avenue
Wythe
Snow
Staunton
New England
Massachusetts
Alice Crush
Chester
F, Snow
Judge Yeomans Sel Ill at Auburn Farm Virginia
James D. Yeomans former Interstate Commerce Commission member is critically ill at his Auburn farm home in Virginia. Physicians from Washington were summoned and workmen report his condition as serious. Judge Weemane appointed to the ICC by President Cleveland served until 1905 when Cockrell succeeded him. Yeomans bought the Ashburn farm and dairy from Senator Stewart after leaving office. His health has declined for months.
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James D. Yeomans
Interstate Commerce Commission
Country Home Burns in Kennington Maryland
A fire last night destroyed the country residence of Thomas FR Martin of Martin Brothers in Kensington Maryland. The blaze began about seven o clock and quickly gutted the house and outbuildings. Martin, former mayor of Kensington, now lives at 1755 Lowell Street NW, Washington, and said much of his loss is insured.
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Thomas FR. Martin
Martin Brothers
Martin
Kensington
Lowell Street
Suspect Arrested in Anacostia Attack Case
Inspector Boardman received a telegram from Leonardstown Maryland stating a man described as the assailant in the May 3 beating and robbery of Mrs Amelia Fields has been arrested. Detectives Flather and Warren brought the prisoner to the city. Fields was beaten and robbed of five dollars at her home early that morning. Circles describing the suspect were distributed statewide.
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Leonardstown
Amelia Fields
Anacostia
Flather
Warren
Commend President Views On Consular Reform
Chicago July 12 The National Business League commends President Roosevelt for the executive order on the merit system and other provisions cut from the consular bill. A bill to implement the order will be prepared for the next Congress session to reorganize the consular service and boost foreign trade. J H Junghaus deputy grand commander of Knights of the Modern Maccabees for Ohio and Western States will speak at a Fraternal Tent function at Pythian Temple on July 25.
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National Business League
Thoosevelt
Donaresa
Maccabees
J H. Junghaus
Knights of the Modern Maccabees
Ohio
Knights of the Modern ‘Maccabees of
Pythian Temple
Medals Awarded for Maritime Heroism in Boston
The Leland Line steamer Bostonian crew received medals and gold at the chamber of commerce for saving eighteen crew members from the Phoenix Line steamer British King in mid ocean on March 1. In Fort Valley Georgia, Miss Annie Wimbish aged sixteen and Robert Wimbish six died in a house fire last night at their grandfather W. G. Jordan's home. England's Ever-young Man notes Joseph Chamberlain at seventy still appears young in photographs.
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Leland Line Fraight
Bostonian
Chamber of Ecommerce
Ocean
Phoenix Line
Fort Valley
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Robert Wimbish
BR. W. Wintish
Savannah Ga
W. G. Jordan
England
Chicago
Joseph Chamberlain
Goshen Heiress Bride Rumors Tie Wealthy Heiress to Riley
Goshen Indiana social circles discussed Miss Bernice P Heefner heiress and wealth owner who recently married George Arthur Riley son of a hardware merchant. The union followed school days and a long courtship with many rumored engagements to notable figures in politics arts and journalism.
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Ind
Pillsbury Dispatch
United States
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Joan T. McCutcheon
Europe
George Ade
Congress T ™Man Cousins
Iowa
Pike
Berenice P. Heetner
Indiana
Washington, D. C
Chicago
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James Whitcomb Riley
Indiana Post
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Laporte Heefner
William A. Thomas
Washington, DC
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Ade
Washington
Cousins
Riley
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Thomas
William Aghepas
Heefner
America
Iowa Lands
Elks Reunion Parade Delights Denver With Snow Ball Shower
Denver hosts the twentieth reunion parade of the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks drawing 12,400 Elks from 248 lodges. Floats, bands, and child riders led by Grand Squire P P Christensen, with carriages, marked the pageant. Snow from the continental divide flew in celebration as temperatures reached 86 degrees on the street.
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Benevolent Protective Order of Elks
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Pennsylvania
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Caliifornia
Chicago No
Sixteenth Street
Colorado
Millionaire and Wife Reconcile on Second Honeymoon
Daniel M Brady a brass manufacturer and railroad man reconciles with his wife Sadie V Singer Brady after three divorce attempts between 1903 and 1904. They sailed for Europe aboard the White Star Miner Tea tonic three weeks ago and returned with news of the reconciliation. Brady recovered from illness during trials and his wife nursed him. her mother died last year leaving her an estimated 3 million dollars.
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New York
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Sadie V. Singer Brady
Brady
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Marco
Leventritt
Gertrude McKenzie
Mr Brady
Lopez Murder Recall Leads To Estate Petition
A petition for letters of administration on Manuel Felipe Lopez’s estate was filed in Justice Gould’s court. The elder Lopez seeks damages from Spain’s claims commission for the 1896 Cuba death of his son Narcisso, allegedly killed by Spanish soldiers in Sagua la Grande after claiming American citizenship, with a $8,000 bond set.
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Narcisso Lopez
Mm Cuba
Justice Gould
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Elder Lopez
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Spanish Treaty Claims Commission
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Fred Beall
Counterfeiter Commits Suicide in Prison Cell
Philadelphia July 19 Domencio Parzialeo, acounterfeiter serving a four year term, hanged himself today at the Eastern Penitentiary. He had been imprisoned less than ten days after sentencing.
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Domencio Parzialeo
Eastern
Parzialeo
Second Blow up This Week Hurls Timbers 2000 Feet
Telegraph operator resigns as 90 percent of employees quit after a second blast at the Atlantic Dynamite Company's Ashland plant. A bonfire spread to powder piles causing an explosion flinging timbers and machinery 7000 feet into the air. Windows broken at Barksdale Wis. No fatalities reported. officials silent.
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Wis
Atlantic Dynamite ‘Company
Barksdale
Jumps to Her Death at Hotel Touraine
Mrs J Samuel Pisa wife of a New York business man died from injuries after leaping from a sixth floor window at the Hotel Touraine in Boston. Police say the couple arrived from Melrose yesterday where she had been treated. he cited nervous disorders and a physician’s care for more than three weeks.
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Monate
London Times
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Boston
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New York
Hotel Touraine
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Building dynamited near Scranton amid miner discontent
Dynamite struck Hollister Bowman's Avoca store front badly damaging the building. The blast buried Argus Howell and family in beds above the store while George Tinchcliffe nearby and others escaped injury. Suspected motive tied to pay scale dispute at Avoca colliery.
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Hollister & Bowman’s
Avoca
Argus Howell
George Tinchcliffe
Doore
Hollister & Bowman
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