Settlement Reached on South Dakota Bond Case
A compromise proposes paying Schafer Brothers bonds at 892 per bond totaling 215864, with governor and council to adjust. The report urges legislature to approve, noting savings of 447226 from principal and interest. House passed first reading to pay the amount.
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Washington
Raleigh
N. c
South Dakota
Schafer Brothers
House of Representatives
Schafer Bros
Tennessee
F. L. Chubert
D. E. Garrett
Frank Mebin
North
Spray
Rockingham County
Committee On Education
House
Senate
Obituary notices from Virginia towns mark diverse passings
A Virginia obituary roundup lists Miss Barbara Bowen of Thorntons Gap and many others. Notables include Thomp Shelby, longtime Norfolk Western employee. Freeman & Farr, lumber firm president. J Frank Boyd, Front Royal merchant and Confederate veteran. Thomas Ellis Gravatt, Bright's disease victim and former merchant. Maj Canon Laurence, Montgomery County leader. William Beaty Abbott, Shenandoah County's oldest son. Mrs Virginia Silvester, Norfolk Circuit Court clerk’s widow en route to Washington, with five sons and two daughters surviving.
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Luray
Barbara Bowen
Thorntons Gap
Bristol
Front Royal
Bright
James Gravatt
Howling Green
Caroline County
Mast Radford
Caanon Laurence
Montgomery County
Auburn
Laurence
Strasburg
Wiliam Beaty Abbott
Shenandoah County
Samuel Keister
Apple Ple Ridge
Winchester
Frederick County
Spen
Andrew Jackson
Virginia Keister
Norfolk
Virginia Silvester
Lindsay M. Silvester
Norfolk County
Washington
St. Vincent's Hospital
Mra. Silvester
Lucy Silvester
Silvester
Loxen Huret
Tires
Pullmans Jumped Track Near Rockfish Virginia
A collision on the Washington and Southwestern Limited near Rockfish Rockfish River bridge sent two rear Pullman cars off track at daybreak. Passengers were jolted from berths. injuries include Mrs. R. C. Robinson with two broken ribs and wrist sprain and Conductor Manly T. Rust with scalp and hip wounds. Several others were bruised. The train continued to Alexandria after brief hospital checks. causes attributed to track misalignment under the club car. Notables aboard included George K. Vanderbilt and Brooks Morgan.
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Charlottesville
Washington and Southwestern Limited
Rockfish
Rockfish River
R. C. Robinson
Munroe Etregt
Brookie N
Manly T. Rust
Alexandria
J. W. Ricks
Greensboro
N. C
Virginia Hospital
New York
Brooklyn
Ricks
Rust
George K. Vanderbilt
Biltmore
Brooks Morgan
Southern Railway
Atlanta, Ga
Morgan
Baltimore
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Bay Shore Railroad debts eyed in receivership probe
Sidney L. Wright of Wright and Snyder testified in Norfolk on March 1 that he did not authorize debts beyond the $200,000 held by him and Mr Snyder for the Bay Shore Railroad. Receivers reportedly contracted larger debts before notification. Engineer Alex H. Egstrom also seeks several thousand dollars for services to the road.
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Wasninaion Fus
Norfolk
Sidney L. Wright
Philadelphia
Wright & Snyder
Bay Shore Railroad
R. T. Thorp
Wright
Charged With Negro's Death In Virginia Mob Lynching
Special to The Washington Post from Luray Virginia March 1 David Comer one of the men charged in the death of George Henderson a colored man drowned while pursued by a mob was arrested and jailed in Luray He posted 300 bail for March appearance Warrants exist for Harry Keyser Junius Comer Marcus Dofiemeyer Pearl Kite and David Cave all said to have fled Authorities seek the Negro's body amid long standing racial tensions traced to a 25 year old incident in which a black man cut out a white child's tongue and was lynched
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Washington Pos
Luray
David Comer
George Henderson
North Carolina
Sedgwick
March & Tife
Harry Keyser
Junius Comer
Marcus Dofiemeyer
Pearl Kite
David Cave
Richmond Political Club Formed With 560 Members
A new political and social club organized in Richmond Virginia tonight has 560 members all employed by the American Locomotive Works. No governor or senator candidate is named yet and a social feature may be added making the group potentially permanent. Nearby Newport News reports in a separate item that Peter Schnatz was acquitted in the Corporation Court of criminal assault on eleven year old Katie Noll.
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Washington Post
Richmond
American Locomotive Works Company
Bros
Newport News
Peter Schnatz
Katie Noll
Corporation Court
Schnatz
Inlaw
Loss of Wife's Love Suit Begins at Frederick
Harvey T. Kohlhoss of Deerwood Maine sues Walter M. Mobley for 15000 damages alleging Mobley carried on an affair with Kohlhoss wife. Trial opened at Frederick with detectives tracking meetings and a Washington rendezvous dated September 24, 1903. Mobley's lawyer claims the case is an extortion scheme. The trial may last three or four days.
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Washington Post
Frederick
Harvey T. Kohlhoss
Deerwood
Walter M. Mobley
Kohlhoss
Montgomery County
Mobley
Kohlhess
C. A. James
Washingtone
Smallpox at Club Strikes Richmond Insurance Man
Robert L. Campbell, a well known Richmond insurance man and Westmoreland Club member, was removed to the pesthouse after contracting smallpox. He had recently returned from the Southwest and possibly picked up the disease in Tazewell County. Clubrooms were fumigated and attendants vaccinated. physicians say there is no danger to others.
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Richmond
Washington Post
Robert L. Campbell
Westmoreland Club
Campbell
Tazewell County
West Virginia Legislature Adopts Bills and Adjourns Sine Die
Charleston West Virginia March 1 The legislature finished the appropriation bills and adjourned sine die at 11 o clock The general appropriation bill differs little from the house version except for second year appropriations The conference committee left in 5000 for a Point Pleasant battle monument and 1756 for a James Rumsey monument at Shepherdstown honoring the steam engine inventor
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Washington Post
Charleston
W. Va
House
Senate
Conference Committee
Point Pleasant
Shepherdstown
James Rumsey
Officers Arraigned In Portsmouth Trespass Case
G W Ainsworth and W K Dixon county officers were arraigned in Portsmouth court on trespassing charges. They entered Mary Iwards's house on the city line hunting stolen railroad goods. The arrest followed a woman’s report to city police amid county-police tensions.
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Portsmouth
Norfolk
Washington Post
G. W. Ainsworth
W. K. Dixon
Mary Iwards
Shriners Meet in Charlotte Special to The Washington Pest
The spring meeting of Shriners of North and South Carolina was held at Masente Temple Charlotte. Imperial Potentate George L. Brown of Buffalo and Imperial Recorder B. W. Rowell of Boston attended as guests of honor. Twenty five candidates received the Shrine degree from all sections of the two states, followed by an elaborate banquet at the Masonic Temple banquet hall.
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Washington
Charlotte
N. C
Shriners of
North and
South Carolina
Imperial
George L. Brown
Buffalo
B. W. Rowell
Boston
North
Masonic Temple
Whitewash leads to arrest in Portsmouth home robbery case
Norfolk engineer H. J. Reynolds was arraigned in the mayor's court after whitewash marks on his hat and coat linked him to an attempted burglary at Mrs. W. E. Shane’s Portsmouth residence. Reynolds testified he returned from a lodge meeting and heard screams, then fled toward the sounds. Mrs. Shane identified him as the man seen fleeing, and a ladder streaked with whitewash on a second story window helped connect him to the crime.
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Washington Post
Norfolk
H. J. Reynolds
Norfolk, Portsmouth and Newport News Company
Portsmouth
W. E Shane
Reynolds
Conductor shoots tel proprietor at Naugatuck Station
Special to The Washington Fast reports George Water, a tel operator, killed at Naugatuck Station by Capt. Frank Eisewick of Portsmouth, Ohio, conductor of train No. 16. A prior dispute involved a woman. both drew pistols as the train halted, Eisewick wounded, Water slain, witnesses fainted, and Eisewick surrendered.
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Huntington
W. Va
Naugatuck Station
George Water
Tel
Frank B. Eisewick
Portsmouth
Ohio
Norfolk and Western Railroad
Hisewick
Waller
Elsewick
Examined for Ministry by Evangelical Conference at Hagerstown
Officers elected to the conference ministry examination board led by Rev J D Shortless and Rev BF Young. Twenty five clergymen presided as students across five years were examined. The missionary society met, electing A S Swengle president J F Dunlap secretary and A L Reeser treasurer. The conference raised 18000 dollars for home missions.
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Evangelical
Hagerstown
Washington Post
Evangelical Conference
J. D. Shortless
Milton, Pa
BF. Young
Nescopeck
J. Bingman
W. H. Wharburton
F. L. Leter
W. BE. Smith
Z. R. Picketts
G. 8. Albright
W. K. Shuitz
H. W. Thomas
H. Q. Weekes
H. A. Snook
E. I. Confer
Conference For Home Missions
Jumped from ferryboat near Norfolk causes rescue
Norfolk Va March 1 Thomas Cherry son of County Officer Thomas Cherry of Portsmouth jumped from the rear deck of the ferry steamer Superior on the Portsmouth to Norfolk run shortly after 3 pm. He swam until a boat from W E Thomas marine railway Berkley rescued him. He had saluted friends before boarding and felt something might happen. In Richmond Edward Echols Staunton former lieutenant governor and long time Virginia senator is in J W Hidges Grace Street sanitarium undergoing treatment for eye inflammation and neuralgia. His condition is serious but not dangerous.
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Washington Post
Norfolk
Thomas Cherry
Portsmouth
Superior
Cherry
W. E. Thomas’ Marine Railway
Berkley
Say
Richmond
Edward Echols
Staunton
Senate of Virginia
J. Allison Hidges
Grace Street
Echols
Fire destroys Cumberland boiler-house and shops
A fire in Cumberland Maryland tonight destroyed the boiler-house housing four boilers the tool shop and the blacksmith shop of the Maryland Rail Company at South Cumberland. The main building was saved after a stubborn fight as two fire plugs were frozen hindering firefighting efforts.
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Washington Post
Cumberland
Maryland Rail Company
South Cumberland
Virginia and Nearby Brides in Early March Weddings
Special from the Washington Post reports March 1 notices of extensive ice damage to oyster watch-houses on the Rappahannock and multiple Virginia weddings across Warsaw Fredericksburg Urbanna Etrasburg Farmville Barboursville and Lynchburg. Notables include B Conrad Gretchen Karbach Joseph Hammond Lena Robins Mary Alice Funk Walter Stickley Laila Cralle Dickinson and Robert Edward Wyson with ceremonies at Bethel M E Church Harmony Grove Harmony Baptist Barboursville and other local sites. The piece notes travel for a bridal tour and a family tragedy in Fairmount West Virginia accompanying the wedding news.
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Fredericksburg
Rappahannock
Warsaw
Bethel M. EB
B. Conrad
Mias
Gretchen Karbach
Porter Hary
Frederickeburg
Joseph Hammond
Urbanna
Lena Robins
Gloucester County
Harmony Grove Baptist Church
Etrasburg
Margaret Funk
Mary Alice Funk
Walter W. Stickley
A. G Link, Paetor
The
Presbyterian Church
Farmville
James Ashby Armistead
Fannie Mary Hunt
R. A. McFarland
Farmville Baptist Church
Sallie Frances Hunt
H. H. Hunt
Drury L. Armistead, Jr
Roadoke
March
W. B. Snidow
Commonwealth
Giles County
Sallie Patton Slaughter
Hugenta Slaughter
Orange County
Barbour Memorial Chapel
Barboursvile
Hansbrough
Orange Court House
Snidow Teft
Gites County
Lynchburg
Dmiss Laila Cralle Dickinson
Robert M. Dickinson
Prince
Wysor Bride and Norfolk Suit Mark Early March News
The text notes the Rev Dr James Murray officiating at a Mampden Sidney wedding with W W Wysor of Dublin as best man and A B Dickinson of Richmond giving the bride away. Afterward Mr and Mrs Wysor left on a Southern tour. Separately Mrs L D Blount sues C W Tebault Co for 3388.12 as part of a compromise fund tied to Norfolk shipyard affairs. A Chicago Limited passenger train wreck near Fairmont leaves six injured all from the city except one Baltimore man.
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Ister
James Murray
Mampden- Sidney
W. W. Wysor
Dublin
A. B. Dickinson
Richmond
Compromise Fund
Washington Post
Norfolk
L. D. Blount
C. P. Blount
C. W. Tebault & Co
Court of Law and Chancery
C. W. Tebault
Washington
Fairmont
W. Va
Chicago Limited
Thiee
Charles E Siegh
Baltimore
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Governor
Council For
Southern Carolina Railway
Tyrell and Hyde
Raleigh and
Southport
Southport and Western Railway
Bethel
Chickamauga
Twe
George E. Fisher
Ontario
Canada
Andrew Cline
Fisher
Kentucky
Montague
Nathan Meeks
Wise County
Pike County
A. J Foster
Virginia
Pullmans
Page County
New Political Club
Deerwood, Md
W.m.micbley
West Virginia
Shriners
Munyon
Paw-Paw
Ruggist
Naugatuck, W. Va
Hampton Roads
Oyster House
Fairmount
Cleveland Rose
Edward Goodman
Virginia Weddings
Alexander T. Brown
Edison
Bell
Marconi’s
Smith Premaer
Secured Ass
Mrs. Vincents
Tebault
Norfolk and Hampton Roads Shipbuilding Company
Ncey Fairmont
Mrs. Vincent
Cardus
Winer Cardus
Mission St
San Francisco
Can
Piya
Sunnyvide Mother's Club
Kade
Philo Hay Special
Ties CO. N
Ge. ‘Ranver
Mason
Nuttersburgh
Hay
Philo Hay Ce
God
Philo Hay Co
Newark
N. J
Modern Drug CO
C. Kraus
H & Lst
Stevens
Williams
Keeley Gore
Keeley Institute
North Capitol Street
Washington, D. C
District of Columbia
Maryland
GovTr
E. Fougera
William Stree
Fenners
Drugo Alfleck
Pennsylvania Avenue
Medical
Kinotine Remedy Company
Washington, D.C
W.t. Baldus
Dotter
G. Ler Ranco
Boomertree
Lapranco
Shade
Sears Prartier
Reedintas
Twelfth Street
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Pa Ave
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