Troops Protect Suspect in Maryland Mob Incident
Cape Charles Virginia June 12 A negro named William Lee arrested at Cape Charles on suspicion of assaulting two women near Kingston Maryland was moved to Norfolk under guard of the Seventy first Virginia Regiment. Mob from Somerset County planned lynching. authorities sought arrest and extradition while troops safeguarded Lee.
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Norfolk
Somerset County
Virginia
Cape Charles
William Lee
Negré
Kingston
Irwin Eastville
Seventy- First Virginia Regiment
Mary- Jar
Crute
Lee
Robert Barnes
Princes Powell
Ashey
Lower Peninsula
Leys
Ape Charles
Kate Testomaght
Rastville
Harty
Maryland
Commonwill
Auorney F
Fucker Wilkins
Gov. Swanson
Pe Cimiles
Winey
Eastville
Jyh
Waters
Somerset Coun
Oh Mob
Ottia
Pion
Rirhmiund
Swanson
Commonwealth
Attommay Wrkks
Northampton
William Jee
Ober? Barnes
Miss Powell
Brooch Recovered After Newark Fireman Arrest
Fireman Walter L. Win of the Newark aboard the ship Newark was arrested and charged with stealing Mrs. Aaron Goodman’s diamond brooch, found in his possession after a suspected overboard incident. The incident occurred Saturday night as the vessel neared Washington.
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Newark
Annapolis
Siedal
Washington Post
Walter L. Win
Aaron Goodman
Mais
Multiple Marriages and Tragic Incidents Highlight June Reports
A fragmentary Washington Post wire describes a West Virginia woman who attempted suicide by leaping from a bridge after alleged disturbance by her husband. A freight train accident near Berryville, Virginia, fatally injured brakeman George W. Wolfe. In Cumberland, civil war veteran Thomas W. Tulse died from crushing injuries in the B&O yards. Governor War held commencement exercises in Cumberland, presenting diplomas. Numerous weddings unfold in Fredericksburg, Swangonville, Richmond, Winchester, Petersburg, and other Virginia locales, with details of couples and officiants. The report weaves public notices with personal milestones across the state.
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West Virginia
Washington Post
Fran
Grifton
W. Va
Ohio
Witswington
Cumberland
Thomas W. Tulse
Baltimore and Ohio
Flo
Hackett Nominee Predicted to Defeat Blackburn in NC
Richard Hackett was unanimously nominated by the Eighth district Democrats for Congress. The anticipated opponent is Republican Spencer Blackburn, the district’s sole GOP representative. Thomas Rollins, former state committee chair, predicts Blackburn’s defeat and a shift in state organization under Rollins and Marion Butler.
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Rollins
Blackburn
Ecal
Washington Post
Statesville
N. C
Richard Hackett
Spencer Blackburn
North Carolina
Thomas 5
State Committee
J. C. Pritchard
Foster in His Own Defense at Williamsburg Asylum
Dr. Foster testified before the investigating committee that a larger state appropriation is needed to provide better diet and amusements for patients at the Williamsburg asylum. He noted a little over seven percent recoveries, calling it a high rate, and criticized veteran admissions as improper.
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Wasungton Justs
Williamsburg
Foster
Elections in Virginia three tickets in campaign
Winchester voters settled a wet versus dry dispute in a six-seat city election with three competing tickets. In Ward results, four of six council seats favored dry or regulation stances, while the rest split. Weekend races across Virginia included mayoral contests and council battles amid fraud allegations in Richmond and a murder charge in Staunton.
Diet Limitations Highlight Food Group Gaps
A local editorial notes that meat lacks starch, potatoes lack sufficient meat, eggs lack acid, and fruits lack nourishment value. The piece argues no single food group can sustain life and implies a balanced diet is necessary.
Apitezo cereal claims health benefits and easy digestion
The ad promotes Apitezo as a crisp breakfast cereal containing vegetable elements and a tonic effect for energy and rich blood. It says it can be eaten with milk or cream with minimal digestive effort and invites shoppers to try it for thirty days, noting Opitens biscuits and grocers selling the product.
City Council Adopts Franchise Ordinance After Debate
Washington Post Baticau Alexandria Va night session approves a thirty year electric light and power franchise lease. Debate reveals opposition from Spinks Ballengar Sweaney while council favors requiring Washington Southern Railway to remove abandoned Meary Street tracks amid concerns of eight to nine month nonuse and possible litigation. Property owners pressure rush fears. Snowden Pollard Boothe defend fairness and city risk. King Street paving method to Fayetee Street postponed to next meeting.
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Washington Post
Baticau
King’ Street
Alexandria
Spinks
Megars
Baader
Williams
Messrs. Ballengar
J. T. Sweaney
Snowden
Henry Street
Pollard
Pottard
Boothe
Messrs. Boothe, Harrison, Unser
King ‘Street
Fayetee Street
Wear
Alexandria Elks Outing at Luna Park Limited by Death
Alexandria Elks day at Luna Park drew large crowds with 10000 carnival tickets used. The event honored Col Edwin B Hay, past grand exalted ruler, delaying outdoor sports and featuring a loving cup to Judge L C Barley. organizers and attendees from Washington Baltimore and beyond attended, wind hindered the planned balloon ascent.
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Alexandria
L. C. Barley
C. C. Carl Jn
Bartey
R.E. Knight
John Wills
J. Quinn
Ww. West
Louis Shuman
H. Fleischmann
James B. Fitugérald
Peter van Westerladen
Elks
Washington
Col Hay
Little
Luna Park
Elks’ Entertainment Committee
Ballon
Ascension
Republican Wins in Alexandria Council Race
The Alexandria council election drew scant attention. In the Fourth ward Independent Republican Frank Evans defeated Capt. Albert Bryan, the finance committee chair, while L. B. Uhler and Bryan were not running hard. Evans previously served in the Fourth ward.
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Frank Evans
Capt. Bryan
Alexandria Council
Neas
Albert Bryan
Committee On Finance
L. B. Uhler
Mr. Uhler
Evans
May appoint negro as clerk at Alexandria post office
Alexandria weighs a planned negro substitute clerk appointment after civil service results. Lawrence Arnold, colored, is the sole eligible on the list for the vacancy, pending department action amid opposition. Grand jury returns true bill on John Dogan for larceny and James Mudd pleads guilty, gets sixty days.
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Lawrence Arnold
Alexandria
James Mudd
John Dogan
Jerceny
Ferce
Curtin
Death of Harry G. Mathis shot in Maryland
Harry Guy Mathis aged thirty five died at his sister Mrs. William S Hill home in Washington Grove after months of illness He worked in the Navy Department in Washington and had not reported to duty for weeks He was the son of Mr and Mrs William Mathis of Washington and survived by several sisters and brothers Also notes a June 12 report from Patersboro Virginia on the twelfth session of the Southside Virginia Medical Association with papers presented and a banquet hosted by the local faculty
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Fredericksburg
William
Fr. Richards, Jr
Edna Ashton Fitzsooth
Baptist Church
He Willian
Chatham
Carrie Patton
Daw
Lucy J. Law
Bwangonwie
Roy Cabell Hastley
Fitiestvania
Swangonville
Evag. Holman
Whitmell
Richmond
Miles Maitte Py. Smith
Shelly Smith
Brookland Park
Henrico
Harry B. Parker
Canton
Doe P. Scott
The
Baptist Mharch
Helen Elizabeth Camp
William Carter. Camp
Carl Stanley Mathews
Winnsboro
D. C
Thrie
P. T. McFaden
Winchester
Emilie Harper Baker
Samuel Faker
Opequon
Ernest Feller
Washington
Woodstock
Tien ‘M. White
Opequon Memorial Presbyterian
Fetersburg
JH. Knight
Miles ‘Addis
Fern Morrison
G Morrison
Cape
George A. Bowman
Tats Chy
J. T. O'Farrell
Frances Fatella Rudd
W.T. Rudd
Belona
Powhatan County
Robert Gregory Porter
Matthew D. Porter
Powhatan
Old Grove Academy
J. R. Bagby
D. D
Ballsville
J. B .Harrison
Danville
Boyds
Harry Guy Mathis
William S. Hill
Washington Grove
Navy Department
William of Mathis
Esters
Southside
Washington Post
Patersboro
Southside Virginia Medical Association
Runaway car wrecks passenger train near Charlottesville
Wreck occurred at 4 PM when a lumber laden runaway car collided with eastbound train No. 16 from Clifton Forge to Richmond near Messeys three miles east of Charlottesville. Engineer Thomas B. Chalkley of Richmond injured with a broken arm. Mail clerk Smiths of Richmond and Mr Worais of Staunton among those lightly hurt. Chalkley taken to University Hospital.
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Speele
Washington Post
Charlottesville
Chesa Peake
Cliftor Forge
Richmond
Messeys
Thomas B. Chalkley
Smiths
Worais
Staunton
Lngy
Chalktey
University Hospital
New Twenty fifth Virginia Circuit Judge Turner Assumes Office
Sperlal to The Washington Post from Leesburg Virginia reports Judge Edward Spillman Turner of Warrenton begins as judge for the Twenty fifth circuit covering Loudoun Fauquier and Rappahannock counties. He succeeds Judge Charles E Nicol who transfers to the Sixteenth Judicial circuit. Loudoun bar members entertained at a banquet.
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Twenty-fifth Virginia Circuit
Sperlal
Washington Post
Leesburg
Edward Spillman Turner
Warrenton
Lousoun
Fauquier
Rappahannock
Twenty-fifth Circuit
Charles E. Nicol
Manassas
Loudoun Courts
James Keith
Supreme Court of Appeals
Nicol
Sixteenth Judicial
Fairfax
Prince William
Alexandria
Loudoun
Stoaight
Turher
Nearlyn killed by a mob in Pocomoke City confrontation
Ned Watson a colored man assaulted his employer Samuel S Barnes near Kings Creek Somerset County over wages. He fled but was captured and subjected to a mob’s attempt to lynch him. He was beaten and shot nearly to death before being hidden in the jail for safety.
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Pocomoke City
Ned Watson
Samuel S. Barnes
Kings Creek
Somerset County
Sittla Son
Elected Officers Named for Virginia Grand Encampment
Virginia Grand Encampment selects officers and adjourns in Harrisonburg. Next meeting scheduled for Norfolk in August, moved from June due to Jamestown Exposition. Officers include J Leon Codd Portsmouth grand patriarch and Dr F S Sprouls Big Stone Gap grand high priest among others.
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Virginia
Norfolk
Washington Post
Harrisonburg
Order of Odd
J. Leon Codd
Portsmouth
F. 8. Sprouls
Big Stone Gap
William Wylde
Phoebus
Thomas W. Turner
Phorbus
George W. Hin
J. G. "Kemp
Wardin
P. A. Bradshaw
Alegandria
Sovereign Land Lodge
A. &. Woollhoure
Staunton
Grand Marabal
W. R
Grand Inger ‘Sentinel
Hinekel
Feleraburg
Grand Outer Guard
M A C Alumni Meet Elected Officers At Maryland College Park
Special to The Washington Post College Park Md June 12 The Maryland Agricultural College Alumni Association held its annual meeting today Officers elected for the coming year are W B Keach Towson Md president KF Weltch College Park vice president and E F Garner College Park secretary treasurer A Harding and Hon J Emon Ray were named at large executive committee members The association will award three medals for best debater among Merrill and New Mercer literary societies best mechanical exam and best essay on an agricultural topic
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Washington Post
College Park
Maryland Agricultural College
Keach
J. Emon Ray
Merrill and New Mercer Lterary
Phoebe Cousins Urges Beer as Temperance Tool
Miss Phoebe Cousins a leading Western suffrage figure argues for replacing strong drinks with mild beer to curb intemperance. She cites statistics and notes canteens at army posts showed beer reduced drunkenness, urging support for the W C T U to back temperance through beer rather than prohibition.
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Phoebe Cousins
U.S
Ian
West
Women's Christian Temperance Union
W. OT. U
Miss Cousina
Mabett
Pabst Brewing Co Ad Urges Home Beer Case Order
An old advertisement for Pabst Brewing Co promotes ordering a case of Pabst Blue Ribbon Beer for home use. It includes a contact line East 1431 and a street address 703-5 North Capitol St. The copy highlights easy home delivery and product branding.
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Pabst Brewing CO
North Capitol St
Pabst
Virginia Alumni Elect Samuel Spencer President
Virginia session closes as Samuel Spencer is elected president of the Alumni Association following the University of Virginia exercises in Charlottesville. Dr. Waller H. Page of New York addresses political leadership, urging southern leadership restoration and detailing alumni events and gifts to the university.
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Samuel Spencer
Alumni Association
Virginia Obituary Notices From Farmville Area
Farmville reports the deaths of Mrs. Fannie Allen widow of Benjamin Allen aged longwise elder of Cumberland County died this morning leaving five grown children. In Prince Edward Gordonsville Charles Boatwright aged years died this afternoon after long illness. John A. Davis aged seventy five died suddenly this afternoon from heart failure. Mrs Davis, a Fairfax County native, had resided in Gordonsville for about three years.
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Farmville
Fannie Allen
Benjamin Allen
Cumberland County
Lynching Suspect Sought After Attack on 12-Year-Old Girl
Petersburg June 19 reports describe an assault on Dilly Branch's daughter near Dory along the Surry and Sussex Railroad. A large posse tracks the suspect into Wakefield and Suffolk areas as lynching rumors spread. a new passenger station project in Salisbury is noted with cost around 385000.
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Washington Post
Petersburg
Dilly’ Branch
Southampton County
Wesalau
Dafault
Chile
Dory
Surry
Wakefield
Hurrigane
Brinch
Suffolk
Explosion kills workers at Bear Wallace Construction camp near Salem
Special to Two Washington Fest reports an early morning explosion at the Bear Wallace Construction camp near Salem as workers removed tamping from a dynamite hole. Two men died at hospital, two outright, with several injured and mangled. The incident, thought caused by a spark from an anti rock, occurred as a corporate council meeting in Falls Church, Virginia elected three-year terms for local officials Hawxhurst, Walters, and Cryer.
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Washington
Radford
Toree
Falls Church
George. W
Hawxhurst
Ie Presen
C. C
Walters
Cryer
Srbees
Plans for 243 room Warwick Hotel on Fourteenth Street
A Chicago style syndicate plans the Hotel Warwick at the northeast corner of Fourteenth Street and Pennsylvania Avenue. Architect Oscar Vogt shows a French Renaissance design with light cream brick or white glaze terra cotta, white granite steps, domed roof, and a marble lobby. The nine story structure will house 27 rooms per floor for a total of 243, with dual entrances and Gothic bronze lighting, seating about 900. Promoters include R T Warwick and other local financiers.
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Fourteenth Street
Pennsylvania’ Avenue
Oscar Vogt
Hotel Warwick
Pennsylvania Avenue
Vogt
New York
TL Warwick
Christian Heurich
Harry Moses
John F. Wilkins
C. BO Wand
Wood, Harmon & Co
Davia Moore
F. P. Burke
F. P. Killian
Ace Burkline
Charles Kraemer
F. Berens
Thomas H. Hall
Dog obeys phone orders in Burlington va June six
A Boston terrier in Burlington Virginia obeys calls via telephone. Owned by C B Kent, the terrier bolted home within five minutes after Kent commanded Come home by phone. The tale ends with Senator Simmons backing Bryan for president and Aycock for vice president in 1898.
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Burlington
C. B.kent
Bree Press
Free Press
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Pera
Hagerstown
Inné
Norfolk and Weatven
Lerryville
George W, Wolfe
Ovala
Wolfe
Yorlal
Warheld
Allegany County, High School
Academy of Mussic
Selph
Old Council
Ghl
St.igday
Willam H. Baker
John H. Snydey
John W W. Rosenberger
William H. Smith
Lewis F. Cooper
William T. Barr
Culpeper
Alden Bell
George W. Keerl
T. C. Adams
W. A. Rader
J. Bunting
H. D. Gibson
T. Maré
T. J. Campbell
J. P. Rowe
W.E. Bradley
H. B.lane
Embrey
J. W. Masters
Henry Warden
Conservative Party
Good Government League
Good Government
Sprouse
Washington Pont
Frank Sprause
Conrad Boyd
Fordwick
Augusta County
D. B. Kunkle
EB. Hay
Harry G. Mathis
Turner
Pocomoke, Md
C. F
Agsnciatign
Warwick Hotel
the Avenue
the South's
University of Virginia
Waller H. Page
World's’ Work
Madison
Hall
General Alumni Association
Sherand- Nelson Page
Read
Fishburne
Samuel Spencers
York
De.care W. ‘Thom
Baltimore
Secon
Judge Allan
R. Hanckel
der. James Morris
Leon J. Nelson
Thomas Neilson
Walter H. Pagée
New
University
McCully James
Hot Springs
Doub
Warrington
American Hardware Manufacturers’ Association
Southern Hardware Jabbers” Association
den Perak
Bichmond
James Ward
Carre Meekins
Hastings ‘Court
Critchfield
Fannie ‘Stephenson
Hanes
Falls’ Church
Syndicate
Warwick
Senator Simmons
Bryan
William J. Bryan
Simmons
Charles B. Aycock
Avcock
Cheverly Gardens
Pennsylvania Railroad
Union Depot
Ireland
Landover
Sixth Street
F.P. Mendenhall
Colorado Building
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