Republicans Endorse Pearre at Rockville County Convention
Rockville Maryland June 18 Special to The Washington Post Republicans at the Montgomery County convention endorsed Pearre and instructed the delegation to vote for his renomination if Pearre carried his own county. The event followed a close contest between Pearre and Dawson with a proposed compromise to unite the party and support party harmony. The plan would align Montgomery delegation with Patrson if Pearre lost Allegany County.
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Thomas
Noyes
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Potomac
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Montgomery
Patrson
Minister Exonerated In Fraud Case Dismissal
Jonah L Reese a Friends minister and Winchester resident was exonerated as the circuit court dismissed the fraud suit filed by his sister in law Mary Jane Jackson. The case claimed Reese diverted $250 for investments in Johnson City, Tennessee real estate, but the demurrer was sustained and the suit dismissed.
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Washington Post
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Jonah L . Reese
Society of Friends
Misa Mary Jane Jackson
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Thomas W. Harrison
Circuit Court Today
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Bulding
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Tenn
Night doctors feared as Richmond stabbing suspect flees hospital
James Withers, a colored man stabbed five times by Tom Paine, escaped from City Hospital in Richmond, Va., on Sunday after surgery. Paine shot at Withers multiple times and then used a knife. Withers’ condition remained serious as authorities sought the assailant.
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Richmond
James Withera
City Hospital
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Paine
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Train Kills An Indian Near Portsmouth
An Indian named Ming at Bowers Hill near Roanoke was struck and killed by a Seaboard train while seated on the end of a plank, allegedly asleep. He was a Sunday school superintendent. a wife and six children survive. Other brief items mention weddings in Lynchburg Fredericksburg and Winchester, a promotion in Petersburg, marriage licenses in Rockville, and a Fredericksburg election result.
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Washington Post
Norfolk, Va
EM Bass
Bowers Hill
Portsmouth
Tadian Methodist Sunday
Ata x
Woman dies leaping from runaway car near Davis
Mrs Jesse Petrequin of Detroit was killed while trying to escape a runaway passenger car after a trip to Blackwater Falls. The coach rolled toward the depot on a hill. brakes failed, panic ensued, and she jumped from the car injuring her left side as others fled. The car halted before reaching the main line.
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Elkins
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Jesse Petrequin
WA. Petrequin
Detroit
Mich
Thomas
Blackwater Falls
Davis
Leap From Train When Escaped Prisoner Held
Barto Rimel a Pendleton County West Virginia horse thief escapes from Sheriff Mansey on a Chesapeake and Ohio train twenty eight miles from Huntington. He leaped from a car window while in motion and fled. Rimel had previously escaped from a Franklin West Virginia jail during a fire and was recaptured near White Sulphur Springs last week. He is wanted in Missouri and Montana on horse and cattle theft charges and once overpowered a sheriff in Montana to steal a horse.
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Pendleton County
W Va
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Privan
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Chesapeake and Ohio
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Tne
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Franklin
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Harry Lee Crew Wins Regatta at Washington and Lee
Lexington Va June 18 The Harry Lee crew won the annual regatta on the North River during commencement exercises at Washington and Lee University by three lengths over the Albert Sidney crew which finished second. Winning time was 4 45 with lineup including Withers Miley Hoge Riser Mites and McGhesely as coxswain. Also noted are swimming fees and a joint celebration of the Washington and Graham Lee Literary societies with four orators and topics on patriotism education in politics and chivalry.
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Lexington
Harry Les
North River
Washington and Lee University
Albert-Sidney
Albert Sidney
Lee
Minutres
T J Miller
Om Bourn
Newton
Coxawatt
Ghesely
Washington and
Graham-Lee
University Chapel
Grabero Lee Society
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Virging
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Florida
Washington Society
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Virginia
RB Stevenson
Wife seeks divorce after alleged abuse by prizefighter husband
Mrs Bessie Pearl Scraggs files a cross bill in Circuit Court No 2 Baltimore seeking an absolute divorce from Harry Scroggs after he sued her for alienation of her affections. She alleges he punched her and expelled her and their three year old son from their home. She notes his earnings of 75 to 100 dollars weekly as a prizefighter and boiler maker and requests alimony. The couple married in Ellicott City on August 16.
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Bessie Pearl Scraggs
Marty
Thei
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Bligott City
Virginia obituary notices from several towns
Obituaries report Mrs Hilla Bradford of Luray age about 48 widow of Daniel Bradford died at home. Bertha Ship of Springfield district died aged about 24 after protracted illness. Captain Willan Thomas Wainwright, age 71, of York County, formerly with the Confederacy, died at home. Harris Kerns, age 40, Capon Bridge area, Cumberland county lineage, died after illness. Joseph W. Colbert, Fredericksburg merchant and former Confederate soldier, died after streetcar accident in Portsmouth. survived by wife and eight children.
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Hilla
Bradford
Daniel Bradford
Sha Iy
Misa Bertha & Ship
AH Shink
Springfield
Newport News
Willan Thomas Wainwright
Virginia
United States
Hampton Roads
York County
Winchester
Harris Kerns
Cumberland
Capon Bridge
Hampshire County
Wo Va
John M Miller
Fredericksburg
Joseph W. Colbert
Portsmouth
Colbert
Isle of Wight names commonwealths attorney Parke Poindexter Deang
In Isle of Wight County Virginia Parke Poindexter Deang was appointed commonwealths attorney, succeeding Col R E Boykin who became circuit judge. The change was made by Judge R E Boykin. In Winchester Thomas Moses pleaded guilty to highway robbery and received a five year penitentiary sentence from Judge Harrison. In Luray a banquet was held for judge T N Hoas newly elected to the circuit.
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Suffolk
Parke Poindexter Deang
Isle of Wight County
Col R E Boykin
Uae
Winchester
Thomas Moses
Harrison
Moses
Lloyd E Moore
T. N. Hoas
Luray
T N. Hoas
Hoas
TW Harrison
Circuit Court
Alexandria County
C. E. Nicol
Brave Girl with Public Safety Item Forces Suspect Flight
Miss Kate Preston of Alexandria aged eighteen used a public safety item to deter a Black assailant who grabbed her, then fired warning shots when Miss Rosen suggested it. The assailant fled into a vacant lot and was not captured after a police search.
Suspect Under Arrest After Fatal Baltimore Shooting
In Pocomoke City Maryland Jealousy is cited as motive in a Canton Maryland case where John Lang Frederica Del was shot and wounded by Auslinger then overpowered after chasing him Lang pursued and beat the assailant with his own pistol until unconscious Lang later returned home and secured his horses before seeking medical aid Lang suffers two bullet wounds one in the right hip and another in the left chest Aullinger is held at Canton Police Station awaiting further identification and charges of shooting with intent to murder The other arrested man possessed two large knives and four loaded plates but was overpowered before using them
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Mtal
John Lang
Frederica
Del
Powell
Second
O'Donnell
Seema Seme
BCU
Bouldin Street
Auslinger
Canton
Lang
Aullinger
Aulinger
Haalf
Jamestown Steamer Breaks Speed Record Trial
June 13 Newport News VA a trial run of the new Norfolk and Washington steamer Jamestown achieved speeds over twenty miles an hour between Thimble Shoal and Cape Henry. Built at the local yard the Jamestown is claimed to be near prototype for its type. It will depart Newport News for Washington Wednesday morning with John Callahan and company officials invited to join the trip.
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Washington
John Callahan
Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Compaky
Old Point Comfort
Topignt
Olidont
Billposters Elect Officers at Mid Atlantic Meeting
The Middle Atlantic States Billposters' Association met in Lynchburg Virginia and elected officers. J E Shoemaker of Washington became president with K M Sehjoi of Wilmington North Carolina as vice president. K W Workmans of Richmond was chosen secretary and treasurer, and W L Ho Ramsey of Lexington Kentucky and J J Hugnes of Lynchburg were named delegates to the national convention.
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E. Shoemaker
Washington
Lynchburg
Middle Atlantic
Eipesters’ Association
Norfolk
J E. Shoemaker
H Sehjoi
Wilmington
N. C
W W. Workmans
Richmond
Vv. L Ho
Norfolk Navy Y.M.C.A. to Receive $250,000 Gift
An amount of $250,000 has been pledged for the construction of a handsome Norfolk Naval Y.M.C.A. home. The donation is from a New York merchant, with the donor’s name withheld for now. Miss Helen Gould helped start and support the project, and a final donor identity will be announced after International Secretary Muller arrives in Norfolk.
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Norfolk
Miliensira Merchant
New York
Nofolk Naval Young Men’s Christian Association
Helen Gould
Morfolk
Muller
Naval
Chief of Police Renfro Murdered in Dorchester Va
William Renfro, chief of police in Dorchester, Virginia, was shot and killed in Roanoke last night by unknown assailants. He died after being shot twice while investigating disturbances in the suburbs. Renfro stated he did not recognize his attackers and local authorities have not identified suspects.
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William Renfro
Dorchester
Roanoke
Roel
Renfro
Soldiers and civilians clash as Mrs Moore aids soldiers’ outfits
Baltimore report states Mrs Rosie Moore, aged 45, was arrested on a warrant by Capt J H Davis for buying clothing equipment bayonets from U S soldiers and selling civilian clothes. Deputy Marshal Zimmerman led the raid on her house boat moored on the Potomac below Alexandria. The vessel, fifty by twenty feet, contained eight rooms and a bar. Soldiers named items sold to Moore and used in the deserter charge.
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Washington Post
Baltimore
J H. Davis
Fort Hunt
Rosie Moore
United States
Marshal Zimmerman
Hailstorm in Page County Causes Major Crop Loss
Special to The Washington Post from Luray Virginia reports a severe hailstorm on June 18 striking the northern Page County. It adds to damage from five prior storms with farm products worth thousands of dollars ruined. Corn and wheat are devastated, and a lightning strike yesterday killed a horse owned by Henry Good near the town’s edge.
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Washington Fost Luray
Page County
Henry Good
Thirteen Year Old Marries Man in Hagerstown
Loretta Redoux, thirteen, and H Grant Miller of Chambersburg Pa wed at United Brethren Church in Hagerstown after obtaining a license. The sheriff was informed to arrest them for lacking a proper license, but the message arrived too late.
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Ratown
Washington Post
Hagerstown
Loretta Redoux
H. Grant Miller
Chambersburg
United Brethren Church
B. Statton
Deibert
Chamibersburg
Indicted tobacco firms face Sherman action over paste trade
The Federal grand jury indicted MacAndrews & Forbes Company of New Jersey and J Young Company of Maine for conspiring to restrain trade in licorice paste. Presidents Earl Dungbluth and Howard B Young named. Bail set at 5000 dollars each. Grand jury continues probe into tobacco trust and related firms.
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New Jersey
J. S. Young Company
Maine
Washington Post
New York
Federal Grand Jary
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Trust
MacAndrews & Forbes Company
J . Young Company
Baltimore
Earl Dungbluth
Frst
Howard B. Young
Federal Grand Jury
American Tobacco Company
William H. Taft
Felix H. Levy
Stamford Manufacturing Company
United States
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Lewy
Grand Jury
Piomaine Kills Three In Fort Smith Sausage Poisoning
J B Baremore a farmer near Fort Smith and his two children Emma five and James eighteen months died today in a Fort Smith hospital from primeame poisoning after eating logba sausage. A seven year old daughter is dying. Mother avoided the sausage. Sausage bought from a street lunch stand.
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J. B. Baremoré
Forth Smith
Emma
James
Fort Smith
Charlton Depot Robbed in Western Maryland Heist
Special to The Washington rus reports the Charlton station three miles above Williamsport on the Western Maryland Railroad was robbed last night. Thieves broke a window to take money from a drawer and opened a dynamite box, stealing some of the explosive. No arrests or crews are known.
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Western Maryland
Charlton
Willamsport
White man charged with murder in Norfolk mining death
John Wood, a white worker in the Garrett mine, was arrested in Berkeley ward after a dispute with Willie Williams, a colored youth. Wood struck Williams on the head with a stick at noon, and Williams died later from a brain concussion.
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Washington Post
John Wood
Berkeley Ward
Willie Williams
Garrett
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Willems
Father Charged in Beating Death of Son in Suffolk
Henry Evans was indicted in Isle of Wight Circuit Court for the murder of his seven year old son Christy. The case, labeled a murder charge, followed accusations that the boy was beaten to death with a club. The court proceeding was continued.
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Washington Post
Suffolk
Isle of Wight
Henry Evans
Christy
Union Sailor Shot Dead in San Francisco Launch Clash
In San Francisco last night a launch carrying about fifteen union sailors was fired on from the schooner National City near Union Iron Works. One sailor, Andrew Kellner, was killed and three others, John Peterson, Andrew Ansen, and Halmar Borgesen, were wounded. The union men intended to persuade nonunion crew to desert the vessel which was to sail today. Witnesses say several volleys were fired at close range.
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John Peterson
Andrew Ansen
Halmar Borgesen
National City
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Sailors’ Union
Fear City s Destruction by Lake Aggressor
Madison Wis June 18 Fear drove about 1500 persons from the city yesterday as a preacher predicted Lakes Mendota and Monona would rise and engulf Madison because of iniquities. People gathered by the lakeshore and fled the shorelines amid panic and superstitious warning.
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Mendota
Monona
Wonderful Cure by Cuticura Remedies Report
A resident describes an extended skin eruption on chest neck face arms and legs that relapsed after initial treatment. After using Cuticura Remedies the condition cleared and did not return for five years. The tester notes prior infant eczema also cured by Cuticura with lasting results and recommends keeping the Soap Ointment and Resolvent on hand. The account dates to October 1 1908 in Liscomb Iowa.
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Wilson
Liscomb
Dows
Money to Loan and Financial Offers From Firms
MONEY TO LOAN Money always in hand to loan on improved District realty at low rates including 3 1/2 to 5 percent nominal cost to borrower A F FOX CO Established 1876 Ne cor y ith and N Y ave A E HOON successor to Reed Room 46 Corcoran Bldg 53th st nw loans money to salaried people It will pay you to call LOANS ON STOCKS BONDS Life policies trusts building association shares syndicate certificates and other approved collateral CG A BAKER 60 62 Metzerett Bldg Phone olt
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