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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Jul 28, 1907
Page
12
Fragmented OCR reports a high turnout with endorsements and contests in several districts. Loyd, Towntes, and Seaver are named among candidates in Montgomery and Prince Georges areas, with party delegates to county and state levels and a county convention to nominate officials including states attorney and county commissioners.
In Annapolia Maryland on July 27 Dr Gsorse Wells won decisive control of the county party by defeating faction leader Robert Moss and Frank A Bond. Wells carried large districts, cut Nutwell’s majority, and will send Gov Warfield as a delegate from Sabe Arundel County to the state convention.
Mrs Frances B Stevens of New York, reportedly engaged to Beverly W Robinson, sues for $787 in a dressmaking bill against Osborn company. The case notes gowns and charges, while Stevens denies any engagement and says she plans to marry elsewhere.
Lee in Maryland reports a Philadelphia businessman traveling with family as a wildcat charged their auto near North Mountain. The driver Brister sped to escape, the creature stayed with the car until the summit, then vanished. A hunter later trapped a wildcat near Lanettstown with a leg injury.
Fifth man found guilty of rioting in Roanoke court as police reported a mob attacked Grocks two weeks ago. He was fined and sentenced to days in jail after a remaining charge was noted.
An alligator about seven feet long was found in the James near Richmond Harbor. Men tried to capture it, but failed. It is believed the reptile escaped from a vessel recently arriving from Florida.
A Charlotte grocer Harry Powers reportedly shot his wife Leonard Powery dead and then, intoxicated, wounded himself with a pistol. Officers say a whisky glass was on the table, the room unkempt, and Powers died later in his room on Last Mooruhead Street. The couple, recent arrivals from Asheville, faced a quarrel that led to the fatal scene.
Fragmentary obituary from Virginia noting the death of Tarenary July SoMa sarperst Hibbs widow of Stleman Hiobe at Pleasant Valley. Five children, numerous relatives, and mentions of a Jemes W Triplett and a Confederate soldier with surviving spouse and children. Incomplete details.
Eugene Rogers objected to Western Union replacing a pole in front of his home at King and Fayette streets. Justice Caton dismissed penalties for the workers but Rogers later had the pole felled after the court session. The case could proceed via injunction in a higher court.
Aaron Anderson and Birdie Anderson, a 21 year old groom and a nearly sixteen year old bride from Thomas City Town, escaped pursuing parents by boarding a train to Wheeling West Virginia where they found a minister, Rev Ir J H Littell, to perform their marriage. They plan a honeymoon at the Jamestown Exposition after leaving Wheeling to the nation’s capital.
Judge Keedy in Hagerstown Maryland on July 27 pronounced an opinion in favor of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad in a dispute over a city ordinance requiring stockyards for live stock shipments. The ordinance was ruled invalid as discriminatory and beyond the city's power, and the railroad had sought an injunction against further prosecution.
Director General James M Barr outlined law and order demands at a conference with Norfolk officials to police Pine Beach and join the Jamestown Exposition. Capt Henry Carpenter to select guard forces from the Twenty third United States Infantry at Camp John Smith as exposition grows ordered to keep away from Pine Beach.
A mass meeting in Washington county Virginia on July 27 nominated James A Dinwiddie for teacher and elected delegates Thomas J Dion sherif Bomue F Brown I to attend a convention at Piggs River to nominate a State Senate ticket with Abs Telewatex of Franklin backing G O McAlexander and LW Morgan as a Republican state senator candidate already on the ballot. Democrats have not nominated a candidate for State senate.
A powerful storm swept through the region last night causing extensive damage in several counties. A farmhouse near Norwood was struck by lightning injuring a woman and a barn at Albemarle, with cattle and stored hay lost in the blaze. Climate-related destruction reduced nearby crops and structures.
Special to The Washington Post reports a fatal fire at the Criss home in Monongalia County when a lamp exploded late last night. Albert J Criss and an eleven year old child perished as the blaze consumed the structure.
The Trades Unionist, the central labor union’s organ, claims organized labor in Washington spends millions yearly. A conservative estimate puts daily union wages at 50 dollars for skilled workers, totaling about 1.6 million per week and 83 million per year, with many caveats about averaging and padding.
A long march of cavalry led by Maj Thomas Lews covers forty five days with Sundays off and stops at Fort Leavenworth and Hook Island before reaching Leaves Estate and Chidken Capt Fitzhugh Lee and Lieut Philp figure in the journey. The plan includes a report to President Roosevelt on return. meanwhile a freight train collision near Henry and Wolfe streets derails a locomotive and damages cars but causes no injuries.
Deputy Sheriff Brummet of Herlan County Kentucky and Elisha Lee met on Cumberland Mountain between Kentucky and Virginia. Brummet was killed instantly while Lee died later from wounds after claiming Brummet attempted to arrest him on a seduction warrant. No eyewitnesses to the fatal duel were reported.
Virginia weddings from Weeburg report a July ceremony at Sunbury Pa for a couple tied in a Christianborg path. The event lists Beinad in Leesburg and references individuals from Janeburg Winadelaide Paul and New York Ave. Gasch Bly attendances noted. details are fragmented and dated.
After twenty seven years in the Post Office Department Chil ler Ward Burlingame of the division of dead letters resigns to take effect August 1 at the end of his annual leave. He plans to return to his home in Kansas and resume life there. Burlingame has been active in Kansas politics and journalism, and came to Washington as a clerical appointee where he rose to chief clerk. The Homgward Bound Mission in Washington will hold secu leen at Glen Echo Park this afternoon and evening with amphitheater use donated by manager LD Shaw. Me JH Haslam, widow of the founder, will lead the afternoon meeting and Cpt Theodore Valiant will speak in the evening. Snow fell at Sherman, Wye, and the crest of the mountains is covered with several inches.
Charles English, of 45 Fourth Street Northwest, reports being defrauded by a man calling himself George Tarburton. English says Tarburton moved in as a roommate about a week ago, then vanished with about $100 in cash and jewelry. Tarburton, described as about 20 years old, 5 foot 6, slender, with red or brown hair and a freckled face, is being sought by police.
In New York a passenger named Mrs Fuehry ran along a pier as a steamship began to depart. Crews paused the process, transferred her luggage, and she reboarded with the tug guiding the craft to Antwerp. Officers coordinated a late reentry amid windy, choppy seas while cheering passengers watched.
Mrs James Malone of Kenilworth now at 18 Ducan Street Northeast received a telegram purporting to confirm her husband James Malone’s death in Columbus Ohio on Friday. Police queried Columbus and were told no death record exists for the man. A separate report says Arthur Staten alias Arthur Staxton, a known housebreaker, was arrested in Altoona Pa and charged with breaking into 1011 New York Avenue Northwest on July 2 and stealing merchandise from William Green and Joth pants.
Jul 2 at Isle Station nine miles north of Butler, a excursion train on the Allegheny and Western road collided after a rail broke. Fireman BE Bates, passenger Charles Neal of Dubois Pa, and trainmaster Ralph Dawson of Dubois were killed. About a score injured including engineer Mert Slater and several passengers. The barge car and coach were piled after the engine plowed and toppled. The wreck site reported as a marshy meadow with 100 on board. cause attributed to a broken rail.
A citizens' committee formed after a mass meeting to protest the closure of fifty wells in the city met to organize ongoing agitation. They scheduled a public mass meeting at Pythlen Temple next Thursday at 7 30 PM and urged press clergy and local groups to help. They plan a permanent protest group and may refer the matter to Congress if needed. The organizing committee is led by Et Mimdeli with A B Webb M T Davia and Sem De Wearey.
George Montgomery, the colored man who shot Dr Hoos, was fined $100 or nine months in the workhouse by Police Court. Witnesses testified he snapped a revolver while walking an alley on B street. Dr Hoos was wounded in the calf. Montgomery said he bought the gun for self protection and admitted drinking.
A colored servant employed by William A Gannon of 209 Washington Circle was sentenced in Police Court to pay a fine or four months imprisonment for stealing her employer's bed linen. A pile of clothing found near the judges bench was identified as Mr Gannon's property. Detectives Parham and O'Brien found it in Rose's bed room at the corner of Twenty Seventh Street and Virginia Avenue Northwest. The girl had been in Mr Gannon's employ for several weeks.
Navy yard apprentices will gather at Marghall Hall tomorrow for a machinists outing. The event, announced as the season’s jolliest crowd, features a verse writing member and a pledge to abstain from drinking. A program of amusements is provided for attendees.
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