Norfolk river murder reveals crime behind vanished trio
Special to The Washington Post Norfolk Va March 4. Bodies of Percy Arnold 20 Daley Arnold 14 and Clarance Williams 30 recovered from the Southern Branch Elizabeth River after a January crossing gone wrong. Skiff overturned their coats missing and evidence points to murder and robbery with bodies dumped in the creek. Williams earlier recovered. police seek suspects and motive.
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Elizabeth River
Washington Post
Norfolk
Percy Arnold
Daley Arnold
Clarance Williams
Branca
Wnorfolk
Gilmerton
Six Reasons Robbed Serial in Italian Boarding House
Joe Barando and Paul Carminac were charged in Norfolk Virginia on March 4 with holding up six occupants at dagger point in an Italian boarding house on Church street at 10 a.m. They robbed victims of money and valuables after a chase across back fences and sheds. Carminac claimed Barando forced his participation as the robbers moved from room to room.
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Washington Post
Norfolk
Church Street
Joe Barando
Paul Carminac
Carminae
Barando
Roads ignored order harms Virginia wood trade
A Washington Post report from Richmond States that the Tidewater and Western Railway Company failed to furnish cars and transfer with Atlantic Coast Line and Southern roads, cutting Virginia wood business by as much as 50 percent. The state corporation commission had ordered weekly wood trains but the railroad treated it as advisory.
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Virginia
Washington Post
Richmond
State Corporaton Commission
Tidewater and Western Railway Company
Atlantic Coast Line
Southern Roads
Corporation Commission
Ohave
Road
French War Ships to Attend James town Exposition
Admiral Thierry will command a French squadron visiting Jamestown for a naval review at the James town Exposition. The fleet will include the armored cruisers Kleber and Victor Hugo and an as yet unnamed cruiser, arriving to coincide with President Roosevelt's visit.
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Thierry
Jamestown
Perle
Jamestown Exposition
Kleber
Victor Hugo
Hampton Rords
Roosevelt
Roasted alive in wreck on N and W line near Rocky Mount
Fireman Ck. Cooper of a Norfolk and Western freight train was killed instantly when the engine overturned at Big River Bridge on the Roanoke and Southern near Rocky Mount. He was unmarried, lived in Monroe County West Virginia. Special to The Washington Post.
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Washington Post
Roanoke
Ck. Cooper
Norfolk and Western
Big River Bridge
Rocky Mount
Roanoke and Southern
Monroe County
W. Va
Receiver Sought for Danville Va Firm in Insolvency
Danville Virginia based Holland Wooding Company Incorporated asked the court through its lawyer to appoint a receiver to wind up the insolvent carriage and wagon business, citing years of operation and current financial distress. Meanwhile, Louis Rogers is indicted in Richmond for baggage theft connected to a gang. In Suffolk a young wife died from her husband’s gunshot wound and he remains at large as search parties pursue him. In Woodstock, prominent attorney Philip W Magruder collapsed from paralysis and remains in precarious condition at his home.
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Danvill
H Holland Wooding Company, Incorporated
Washington Rose
Washington Post
Richmond
Louis Rogers
Boxers
New York
Washington
Suffolk
Laura Bellman
Robert Pellmon
Bellmon
Yeelal
Wasangie Cvs
Woodstock
Philip W. Magruder
Personal clash averted at Raleigh Times and lawmaker
The threatened duel between Raleigh Times editor Simpson and Representative Winborne was prevented after a conference arranged by a mutual friend Wilborne in the house. The editor praised for honor, and the legislator retracted his denunciation on personal privilege. The session also advanced the Lee County bill and immigration and labor measures.
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Raleigh
N. C
Simpson
Raleigh Times
Winborne
Wilborne
Lee County
Senate
Lured to His Death by Girl on Trial in N Carolina
In Lenoir North Carolina on March 4 two men John Vickers and Hamp Kendall face trial for the murder of Lawrence Nelson last November in the mountains nine miles from Lenoir. A fifteen year old girl Omey Greer testified she and a friend with the accused were paid to lure Nelson to a campfire where he was killed. She said she fled and heard a shot and warned the two men would kill her if she spoke. The defendants denied being at the scene and claimed no knowledge of the crime. Nelson’s body was not found for ten weeks.
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Washington Post
Lenoir
N. C
Lawrence
Omey Greer
John Vickers
Hamp Kendall
Lawrence Nelson
Miss Greer
Vickers
Kendall
Hendall
Kendal
Nelson
Man sets clothing on fire in Winchester church incident
Danie Bowers, a demented man, disrupted services in a Winchester Lutheran Church. He later attempted self harm by burning his clothing in a police cell, and officers rescued him as he inhaled fumes. He claimed the clothes were his property. His family ties to Daniel Mellinger and Jacob Bowers are noted.
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Washington
Winchester
Danie Bowers
Hulding
Bowers
Daniel Mellinger
Jacob Bowers
Chester County
Dying Mother's Urgent Wedding Sparks Wheeling Scene
In Wheeling on Sunday, Nellia Gilchrist wed Robert Meek at the request of the dying mother Mrs. W. W. Gilchrist who died at 2 AM. The wedding was moved from June to honor the mother. Mrs. Gilchrist, widow of W. W. Gilchrist, had been a bank bookkeeper and recently died.
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Wheeling
W. Va
W. W. Gilchrist
Nellia Gilchrist
Robert ‘Meek
W. W Gilchrist
Bank of Wheeling
Women Seek Cure with Hostetter's Stomach Bitters
Advert says sickly women should start using Hostetter's Stomach Bitters to regain health. It promises purity in every bottle and guarantees curing others as proof it will cure you.
Hostetter's Stomach Bitters touted to aid women
The ad promotes Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as a tonic to strengthen and tone the female body and relieve various ailments including backache headache cramps dizziness indigestion chills and colds. It presents the product as a universal remedy likely aimed at women seeking health support.
Nicol to seek Democratic Congress seat in Virginia district
The report notes Judge C H Nicol resigns as judge to run for Congress in Virginia Eighth District. Democratic primary date unsettled. Republicans may hold a convention with delegates from counties and Alexandria. Possible rivals named include John B Henderson Jr of Alexandria County and William B King of Loudoun.
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Washington Post Bureau
King Street
Alexandria
C. EH. Nicol
Manassay
Swanson
Nicolas
Congress
Virginia
Virginia House of Delegates
wHl
Democratic State Committee
Rixey
H. P. Dodge
Manassas
John B. Henderson, Jr
Alexandria County
William B. King
Loudoun County
Repubican
Ice Company
Tidewater Pier Contract for New Railroad Structure
Tidewater Railway awards dredging and bulkheading contracts for a new 2 million dollar steel pier from Sewells Point into Hampton Roads. Pier 1,000 feet long and 60 wide, will be built in a year. Dredging goes to P Sanford Ross Co of Jersey City and substruture to McLean Contracting Co of Baltimore. Steel superstructural work likely to be awarded this week.
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Hampton Roads
Washington Post
Norfolk
P Sanford Ross Company, Incorporated
Jersey City
McLean Contracting Company
Baltimore
Obituaries from Virginia towns recall several deaths
Virginia obituaries report Mildred Demet of Orange County dying at home near Nasons aged seventy six with eleven children. M. J. Gillum of Orange County dies near Madison Mills aged eighty three leaving one son and two daughters. L Hardwick of Kinsale aged seventy seven dies suddenly near Fredericksburg. Granville Fridge, eighteen, dies of tuberculosis in Marton. Wilbur K. Bozell of Petersburg dies after pneumonia illness. served in US Army and worked for Norfolk and Western Railway. Eugene Russell, twenty nine, dies near Winchester after consumption. Mrs Hilda Frett, sixty seven, widow of Ferdinand Pratt, dies at home in King George County after convulsions. funeral details omitted.
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Mildred
A. Demet
J. Mi. Daniel
Orange County
Nasons
M. J Gillum
Madison Mills
Warsaw
L. Hardwick
Kinsale
Federe
United States Army
Norfolk and Western Ramway Company
Winchester
Eugene Russell
Broderick County
B. W. Russell
Mar
Hila Frett
Ferdinand Pratt
King George County
Weelz
Fears for Rasin Life After Stroke in Baltimore
I Freeman Rasin remains seriously ill in Baltimore nine days after a stroke struck him while seated at his home on Calvert and Chase streets. Doctors report no improvement. the right side remains partially paralyzed though he has not lost consciousness. His family notes his interest in politics endures despite the illness.
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Baltimore
Washington Post
I. Freeman Rasin
Chasa
Calvert Streets
Mr. Rasin II
Rasin
Poisoning of Five Horses Sparks County Fear
George Ashby, a Hillsboro area farmer, reports five horses dying after ingesting forage with ground glass. Autopsy found glass in one stomach wrapped in tissue. Two of his other horses are sick, and similar cases appear among neighboring farmers, suggesting an organized attack in Louden County.
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Leesburg
George Ashby
Hillsboro
Loudoun County
Harrison Osburn
Ashby
Afck
Appropriations debate and local election results delay adjournment
Special to The Washington Peat reports conference committee on the appropriation sent to both houses late tonight. cuts reduce the Senate’s $200,000 addition to $80,000, with possible final adjournment tomorrow afternoon. In Williamsport Maryland, Citizens and Progressives clash in the hottest municipal election yet, electing four town commissioners. Nearby Norfolk telegraphers gain a 10 percent pay raise and shorter hours with overtime. Rosa Harwitz dies from burns after lamp oil explosion at St. Vincent’s Hospital. In Cherry Run, W. B. Butts store burns destroying merchandise and post office contents. origin undetermined.
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Washington Peat
Chaveston
W. Va
Mar
Senate
Washington Post
Hegerstown
Wilamsport
Citizens’ Party
Progressives
George W. McCardell
M. Emmett Cullen
Charles Chariton
W. D. Byron
Roanoke
Norfolk and Western
Norfolk
Rosa Harwitz
Bermuda Street
St. Vincent's Hospital
Hagerstown
W. B. Butts
Cherry Run
Annapolis Contractor Protests Paving Bid Over Advertisement Date
George Jewell, a contractor of Annapolis, warned during a council meeting that he would protest the city paving contract after bids opened today due to an apparent error in the advertisement date. In Norfolk, Adolph Aronheim, a Baltimore- trained dentist, is named assistant postmaster of Norfolk.
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Washington
Annapolis
George Jewell
Norfolk
Mar
Sir Adolph Aronheim
Baltimore
Three Virginia students win Rhodes scholarship exam
Three of five candidates in the Rhodes scholarship exam at the University of Virginia succeeded. N. D. Smithson of Washington and Lee, George W. Cahoon of the University of Virginia, and Arthur P. Gray of the Episcopal High School are named as successful. Alfred B. Jamis of Lebanon Tenn, who passed the nomination two years ago, is also eligible. The Virginia selection committee will meet at the university Monday to make appointments.
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Washington Post
Charlottesville
Mar
N. D. Smitheon
Washington and Lee University
George W. Cahoon
Arthur P. Gray
Episcopal High School
Alfred B. Jam
Lebanon
Tenn
Virginia
Alderman
I. C. Mitchelly
Richmond College
F. W., Paynter
Roanoke College
Jury Holds Operator in Maryland Wreck Case
A Cumberland Valley Railroad wreck near Mangansville Maryland resulted in the jury finding the telegraph operator George H Van Kirk culpably negligent. The verdict censured the railroad for unsafe staffing and the operator was held on $560 bail for May Court.
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Patal
Mattgansville
Wachington
Hagerstown
Baxter
Cumberland Valley Railroad
Mangansville
George H. van , Kirk
Mason and Dixon
van Kirk
J. Clarence Lane
Frosfman
Manufacturers Testify in Alien Labor Case
Special to The Warringwares Greensboro N C Mar 4 The trial of the alien contract labor case began in Federal court today Albert Hibberd and John Golden cotton manufacturers of Massachusetts testified on New England labor conditions Both witnesses acknowledged idle mill operatives but tempered their remarks under cross examination District Attorney Holton expects to call twelve or more witnesses before resting the case One defense attorney said they would present about fifty witnesses.
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Warringwares
Greensboro
N. C
Albert Hibberd
John Golden
Massachusetts
New England
Holton
Labor hall planned for Jamestown Exposition grounds
Exposition era central labor bodies of Norfolk Portsmouth and Newport News plan to build a union hall on the Jamestown Exposition grounds. The hall costing about 10000 to 15000 will serve as labor headquarters during the exhibition and house the Union Labor Exhibit approved by the American Federation of Labor in Minneapolis last November.
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Washington Post
Norfolk
Portsmouth
Newport
American Federation of Labor
Minneapolis
Mundy and Carneal Wed at Caroline County Home
In Virginia, Hubert Mundy of Essex County and Esther Rebecca Carneal daughter of J. E. Carneal of Caroline County wed recently at the bride’s parents residence with Rev. H. Overton officiating. Ushers E. J. Carneal and Taylor. The couple will reside at Portland.
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Fredericksburg
Mar
Hubert Mundy
Essex County
Esther Rebecca Carneal
Committee Will Hear Paper by Emile Berliner at Monthly Meeting
The prevention of consumption committee will meet at Emile Berliner's home, 1488 Co, to hear a special paper by Berliner on neglected essentials in the fight against consumption. The treasurer Gen. William H. Forwood reports numerous recent contributions from Mrs Mary V. Jackson, Casran Duedy, and others, totaling several dollars and cash donations including Ephphatha Sunday school.
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Cimittee
Emile Berliner
Committee On Prevention of
Berliner
William H. Forwood
Mary V. Jackson
Casran D Uedy
Herbert Knox Smith
James woMtan
Hebert A Clark
Louren G. ‘Thompson
Elizabeth Rowe
Wiliam Gerry
Morgan
George Otla Smith
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Harlan Williams
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Susanna Grimes
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Clarence Ticer
Robert A. Wallace
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R. EB. Lee
Lee’ Camp Hall
Mary Custis Lee
United Daughters of the Confederacy
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Knights of the Maccabees
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Tidewater Pier
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Montgomery County Principals' Association
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Gatthersburg High School
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