Strothers Day Quiet as Key Witnesses Prepare to Testify
After a week of tense proceedings the Strother brothers James and Philip await retrial in Culpeper Virginia with two pivotal witnesses readied for the prosecution Dr De Jarnette of Staunton and Edward L Gaines brother in law to the defendants. The court plans to hear their testimony as the case resumes with instructions to the jury and further argument from both sides.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dr. de Jarnette
Staunton
Edward L. Gaines
Bywaters
Culpeper
Strother
James
Philip
William F. Bywaters
Virginia
Rotherwood
Staunton, Va
de Jarnette
Western State Hospital
Clark
Strother Brothers
Commonwealth
Keith
Micajah Woods
Drewry
Eastern State Hospital For
Drewdy
R. Walton Moore
Gaines
Fairfax
John L. Lea
John Jeffries
McCue
Charlottesville
Doomed Man Charles Good Baptized in Jail
In Luray Virginia Charles Good awaiting execution for murder of his sweetheart Misa Fasthy Stroop was baptized in the jail by Elder Waller Strickler and J B Huffman. The ceremony occurred in a large tub with Good submerged three times as witnesses including his mother and two sisters watched.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington Post
Luray
Charles Good
Misa Fasthy Stroop
Waller Strickier
German Baptist Church
Good
Strickler
J. B. Huffman
Mob Threatened Slaver Eyedal to The Washington Pot
Fayetteville North Carolina March 3 Tom Walker colored shot and killed Policeman L Lockamy wounded Chief Chason and Policeman Buckingham arrested after boarding Coast Line fast mail Walker admitted the shooting and said he would kill Chason if his house was searched An angry mob threatened lynching so Walker was carried to Raleigh for protection Chason Buckingham hospital both gravely injured troops not used but deputies sworn in
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fayetteville
N. C
Tom Walker
lLockamy
Chason
Buckingham
Duon
Fayetteville Independent Light Infantry
Walker
Dunn
Washington
Coast Line
Raleigh
WM. H. SOWDEN DEAD FORMER CONGRESSMAN DIES AT 63
William H Bowden retired congressman from the Tenth Pennsylvania district died at his home of dropsy and heart disease aged sixty three He served in the Civil War and was wounded at Antietam He attended Harvard Law School and backed tariff policies He leaves a widow and a daughter Mrs Jamen Ts Pugh of Washington D C Also notes local coal ad and price offers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. L. Pugh, Jr
Washington
Allentows
William H. Bowden
Pennsylvania
Harvard Law Schoo
Antietam
Louden
Jamen Ts Pugh
Washington, D. C
Demented Man Causes Uproar at Winchester Church
A disoriented young man, Daniel Bowers of Chester County Pennsylvania, disrupted Grace Lutheran Church in Winchester on March 3. He entered the service, removed his coat and overshoes, and faced the congregation before police took him into custody. doctors say he has lost his reason.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington Post
Winchester
Grace Lutheran Church
Daniel Bowers
Chester County
Miller Jend Bell
Bowers
Dr. Bell
Nicol Ready to Resign from Circuit Court Post
Judge C. B. Nicol informed friends he will today forward his resignation as Judge of the Circuit Court for Alexandria City and Alexandria Fairfax and Prince William counties to Governor Swanson and enter the Democratic race for Representative from the Eighth Virginia district. Potential successors are discussed as Gov. Swanson weighs choices amid a crowded field including C. C. Carlin, John M. Johnson, John Ryan, and R Lindsay Gordon. The governor’s decision and a formal candidacy list are awaited.
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Washington Post Bureau
King Street
Alexandria
C. BE. Nicol
Swanson
Alexandria City
Alexandaria
Fairfax
Prince William
Virginia
Nicol
Swangon
John M. Johnson
C. C. Carlin
John ¥. Ryan
Londoun
R Lindsay Gordon
Louisa
Canal Employes Object to Three Month Leave Rule
The canal authorities issued a circular abolishing cumulative leaves and requiring all eligible to take three months leave in April or lose the right. The order prompts widespread discontent as workers plan to take leave simultaneously, risking disruption to canal operations and department work. Sick leave reductions add to dissatisfaction amid post resignations and rumored militarization of canal labor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Panama
Mer
Stevens
Midnight Ride Imitating Coventry Godiva Stuns City
In Liverpool a performer named La Milo and her manager recount the midnight ride through Coventry streets begun at 2 o'clock in the morning. The nude act aimed to echo Leofric and Godiva, despite officials denying sanction. A flashlight photo followed the ride before her intoxication.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Coventry
Godiva
Milo
la Milo
Leofric
Mr. Cruickshaw
Meda
St. Mary's i
Mumps Outbreak Hits North Exchange Girls
Seven desk clerks at the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone north exchange report swollen cheeks and muffled speech from mumps. Miss Letitia Mayo and two neighbors first fell ill, followed by four more in the division, with eleven off duty and more possible. A physician confirmed the outbreak, prompting shift changes and possible callouts from other exchanges to relieve the strain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Letitia Mayo
North Exchange
Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company
Fourteenth
R Streats
Willcox half million gifts honor brother’s memory
David Willcox’s estate leaves $232,770.80 each to the National Audubon Societies and the Tuskegee Institute as residuary beneficiaries. The distribution follows a special arrangement with Willcox, former president of the Delaware and Hudson Railroad, and includes a $100,000 specific bequest to the Audubon societies and a $10,000 grant to the S. K. Smith Infirmary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
David Willcox
Philadelphia
Delaware and Hudson Railroad
National Association of Audubon Societies
Tuskegee Institute
Aobert Willcox
Sea i Bright
Willcox
David Wilcox
Audubon Society
Tuskeyes Institute
Tidewater Railroad to Build Two Mammoth Coal Piers
Norfolk officials announce Henry H. Rogers' Tidewater Railroad Co. will win the contract tomorrow to erect the substructure and bulkhead for the first of two Hampton Roads coal piers near the Jamestown Exposition grounds. The project costs about 2 million dollars and includes dredging the approaches.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington Post
Norfolk
Henry H. Rogers
Tidewater Railroad Company
Hampton Roads
Stomach stress from overindulgence blamed for illness
An old warned health advertisement urges diet discipline and offers Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets as a non medicine aid. It explains the stomach handles only three pints yearly and can digest over two thousand five hundred pounds of food if overworked. A free trial package is advertised from F A Stuart Co. Marshall Michigan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Theas
Stuart
F. A. Stuart Co
Stuart Building
Marshall, Mich
Baby Born On Pullman Car Aboard Big Four Train
A boy was born this morning on a Pullman car attached to a Big Four train near Cincinnati. The mother, Mrs. A. Swisher, was traveling from Toronto to Newport KY. Dr. C. N. Dibbins of New York and nurse Marie Bell of Buffalo assisted. Passengers donated $1 for a gift, and sheets were improvised for the infant.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cincinnati
Ohio
Cleveland
A. §. Swisher
Toronto
Canada
Newport
C. N. Dibbins
New York
Marie Bell
Buffalo
N. Y
Columbus
Ohio Penitentiary
Philadelphia man commits suicide in Detroit hotel
J R E Binz of Philadelphia, an agent for Ginotonnel engraving, registered at Hotel Menaud as Edward Tawton. He drank carbolic acid and laudanum last night, was found dead in his Detroit room, and left a note asking his wife Ellen Bing of 444 Fleming Street, Philadelphia, be notified and to claim his body and collect $5,000 life insurance.
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Philadelphia
Detroit
Mich
Mar
J.R. E Binz
Menaud
Edward Tawton
Ellen Bing
Fleming Street
Saengerbund Concert Delayed by Absences and Illness
The sixth Washington Saengerbund concert faced two late cancellations William de Luce and Ernest E Leigh due to family illness and tonsillitis respectively. With no substitutes found the program was trimmed to seven numbers featuring choruses solos and instrumental pieces while critics noted the evening suffered from excessive sentimentality and missed works by MacDowell and Debussy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Mair
Lulu May Weaber
le Cygne
Saint-Saens
Gounod
Edward MacDowell
Claude Debussy
Saengerbunds
Citizenship lecture at Juvenile Court probation exercises
Judge De Lacy addresses probationers at Juvenile Court on good citizenship and moral character. Chief Proba tion Officer Cox and Mrs Gertrude B Darwin lead the program. Nearly 65 working youths attended the probation Sunday event, closing with a recital of America and distribution of moral value leaflets. Officers report the program a success with most youths securing good positions and useful lives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Judge de Lacy
Juvenile Court
Boya
Wiliam H. de Lecy
Zach H. Cox
Gertrude B. Darwin
America
Juvene
Agreement on Service Bill Extends Hours for Railway Operators
Conferees reach a compromise on labor hours affecting railway operators. Dispatchers using telegraph or telephone may not exceed nine hours in a 24 hour period at night, thirteen hours in day towers, with emergency allowances of four extra hours for up to three consecutive days. An ICC hearing may extend compliance in certain cases for good cause.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lanor
Interstate Commerce Commission
Funeral of George F. Iozel Held Yesterday
The funeral for George F. Iozel was conducted yesterday afternoon at 2 o'clock from his residence at 13 Thirteenth Street Northwest. Rev James D. Bubrer of Trinity Reformed Church led the service. Interment followed at Rock Creek Cemetery with honorary pallbearers Otto Wehner, George Finckel, Samuel Slater, and Jacob Xander and active pallbearers Sol Richards, M. G. McCormick, Louis Hartig, Fred Geyer, Henry Portzmann, and Mr. Gridley. Washington Lodge of Elks, of which Iozel was a member, attended in a body and conducted the service at the grave. numerous and handsome floral tributes were placed in tribute.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George F. Iozel
Mr. Gridley
Washington Lodge of Elks
Mr. Kozel
Webber Receives Water Pitcher at Prohibition Dinner
Representative Amos R. Webber was presented with a silver ice water pitcher engraved for the occasion by a district prohibition forces committee at the Driscoll on Saturday evening. Miss Mamie Bishop presented it. Rev. Richard B. Reidel delivered the speech. Mrs Webber received a bouquet from Mrs. Reidel and the committee. Mr Webber thanked the group for himself and his wife.
Family reports man missing from home on February 4
The Heflin family of 421 E Street Northeast reported to police that Archie Heflin has been missing since February 4. He is about six feet three inches tall, 170 pounds, with light hair and a mustache, wearing a black overcoat, black hat, and black suit at last sighting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Archie BR. Hefin
E Street
Heflin
Salvadoros new cabinet announcement in San Salvador
San Salvador reports the new cabinet under President Figueroa with Tomas Paño as secretary of government and public works and instruction Ramon Garcia Gonjalero as minister of foreign relations and justice Federico Megla as minister of finance and public secretariat Figueroa directs as secretary of state.
Pushing Masonic Fair Committees At Work In 19th Century
The article describes the Masonic fair committees led by Robert N. Harper as chairmen and Edwin Graham as vice chairman. It notes the importance of the general contributions committee for temple building funds and lists prominent Washington business leaders involved. It also details the printing committee led by Arthur D. Marks with The Washington Post as a member and a long roster of colleagues responsible for stationery needs and tickets, highlighting the fair’s heavy reliance on printed material.
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Sonsmalttane
Robert N. Harper
Edwin ©. Graham
Harper
Washington
Henry Evans
Isador Saka
Isaac Goldenberg
James Lansburgh
J. V. Kimball
Conrad Becker
Golden Carter
Sidney West
S. Shedd
Percy
Wester
Cherlee E. Berry
William P. War Wickle
T. C. Ogram
Alfred Walford
James
Arthur D. Marks
The
Washington Post
Mark W. Moorewee
Arthur G. Newmyer
Oscar J. Ricketts
Edward E. Repley
Samuel “Hart
William Wallace
Sudworth
J Marion Castell
C. C. ‘Archi ‘Bald
Eef. Geyer
Charles N. Terry
George ¥. Buck
Arthur Cowsill
Roe Fulkerson
S. B. Hege
Granville M. ‘Hunt
Marlow
Clergy Urge Support for George Washington University Fund
Prominent Washington pastors appealed to congregations to back the George Washington University fund. Ministers cited letters from university authorities and praised the university’s impact on the community. A joint citizens and alumni committee plans a meeting at the Arlington Hotel this evening.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Q Washingtoniang
George Washington University Fund
Tennis Hamlin
Church of the Covenant
Hamlin
George Washington University
Samuel H. Greene
Calvary Baptist Church
George Washington
Arlington Hotel
Memorial to Schurz Funds Planned in New York
New York March 2 a popular subscription drives to honor Carl Schurz seek 250 040 dollars for a monument and for promoting civil service reform prints Germanic culture and a memorial building for the Hampton Institute. Subscriptions may be sent to treasurer Isaac H Sedgman 11 Broadway New York City.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Carl Schurz
Schurz
United States
Mgr Sehura
Hampton Institute
Isaac H. Sedgman
Broadway
New York City
Model Wife Sues for Divorce in Cincinnati Case
Mrs Harry Clawson seeks divorce and alimony from husband Harry Clawson manager of a mercantile agency. She claims desertion after marrying a year after his mother Mrs Anne Ziegler’s will named a model wife for her son to marry before he inherits $25,000. The administrators approved the match and inheritance, but the wife disputes his conduct.
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Washington Post
Cincinnati
Ohto
Mar
Harry Clawson
Inlaw
Anne Ziegler
Clawson
Rescue six little girls exposed to Marietta mob violence
Walter W. Savage of Syracuse New Jersey and Andy Carothers faced drugging and assault charges after six girls aged twelve to fourteen were found unconscious in Savage’s room. Police and physicians treated the girls as mobs surrounded the Dime Saving Society Building. Both suspects and the girls were jailed as guards held back threats of lynching.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marietta
Oho
Walter W. Savage
Syracuse
N. J
Andy Gorothers
Savage
Dime Saving Society
Carothers
Ceiling Recovered in Seizure of Italian Art Ceiling
Special to The Washington Ice v New York reports twelve cases of paintings valued at $100,000 seized in Providence R I by order of the U S District Court. The packing cases contained a wooden ceiling four by two feet with cupids fruits and garlands, likely from a Florentine villa of the fifteenth century. The work, tied to plans for a multimillionaire's home, may have been destined for New York via McKim Mead and White.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington Ice
New York
Providence
R. L
United States District Court
Italy
Dominico Mange
McKim, Mead & White
Cardinal Gibbons Denounces Salacious Journals in Sermon
In Baltimore on March 3 Cardinal Gibbons preached on Spiritual Reading during his monthly Cathedral sermon. He urged Lent season devotion and biblical study, contrasting healthful religious works with temptations of alluring but morally harmful material in popular novels.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baltimore
A. Mar
Cardinal Gibbons
Henry Van Dyke to resign from Princeton post
Henry van Dyke, D D Li D eminent poet and author, resigns as Murray professor of English at Princeton University effective March 1 after eight years. He will devote time to literary pursuits, lecturing at Harvard this year, then sail March 16 for the Holy Land for two months before returning to Waitepton to live.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Princeton
Henry van Dyke
Murray
Princeton University
van Dyke
Harvard University
Holy Lana
Waipeeton
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WM. H. Sowden
Baldwin Johnston
Tidewater Railroad
Saengerbund
F. Kozel
Elks
Grave
Rock Creek
Model Wite
Children’s Company
Daily and Sunday Post
Clever Post
P.O. Box
W. A As
Richmond
Tae
Albuquerque
Dereane
N. W
Cc. R
Benning
Yas. P. M. W. Staunton
Frederick McK
Upperville
Lexington
D. A. FP
T. Blucmont
I. G. Meree Mra. M. H. B
Brookland
D. C
Ealant
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