Steptoe Goes On Trial In Lynchburg Alibi Claim
In Danville Virginia Herbert Steptoe colored faces a corporation court trial for a January 7 assault on Miss Gladys Shelton eighteen. A sister testifies he was in Lynchburg that morning while another witness places him there at about 11 a.m. The alleged crime occurred at 3 p.m. and witnesses say two men may have been involved.
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Lynchburg
Washington Peat
Danville
Corporation
Herbert Steptoe
Gladys Shelton
B R. Shelton
Amberat County
Besun
Steptoe
Miss Shelton
Court House
Mids Stonne
Depice
She
Peter Hutson
Tepics
Hutson
Abduction Charges Nab Norfolk Pair in Newport News
Special to The Washington Post Newport News March 6. Tom Mor den and Hanson Woodhouse of Norfolk were arrested by Police Chief Reynolds on warrants charging abduction of Ada Satherthite and Davy Farrar both fifteen of Norfolk. The pair came here yesterday and stayed at a hotel. Ada’s father William Satherthite arrived with her brother and Farrar’s kin and a confrontation near the depot was defused by James Curtis and local citizens. Mor den and Woodhouse were jailed. The girls were sent home.
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Washington Post
Newport News
Tom Morden
Hanson Woodhouse
Norfolk
Reynolds
Ada Satherthite
Davy Farrar
Shoo Gis
Pary
William Satherthite
Ada
Farrar,kirt
Chesapeake and Ohio
Satherthite
James Curtis
Murden
Woodhouse
Gills
Mrs Bartwig Wins Suit Against Former Husband
In Hagerstown on March 6 the case of Mrs Ida Mo Hartwig of Baltimore against her former husband William Alvey Specter of Beau mont Tex and late a resident here concluded with a verdict for the plaintiff for 1125 dollars. The suit sought 1229 dollars for the support of their two children Richard H Alvey and Mary Virginia Alvey. Mrs Hartwig and her son and Mrs Mary A Startzman testified as witnesses. the defendant could not appear. Alvey recently inherited a sizeable estate from his father the late Justice Richard H Alvey. He separated from his wife in Washington about ten years ago and she gained custody of the children and remarried Dr Charles Hartwig of Baltimore.
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William Alvey Specter
Washington Post
Hagerstown
Ida Mo Hartwig
Baltimore
William Alvey
Beaumont
Tex
Hartwig
Richard H Alvey
Mary Virginia Alvey
Mary A
Tug Philadelphia Caught in Ice Floe in Delaware River
The steel tug Philadelphia of the U S engineering department became trapped in a large ice floe near Port Mott New Jersey in the Delaware River and was disabled with its propeller lost and in danger of being crushed. Maj Flagler ordered the tug Taurus to assist. the crew escaped injury and the disabled tug was brought to Wilmington for repairs.
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Washington Post
Wilmington
Del
Philadelphia
United States Engineering Department
Delaware River
Tore Mott
Greasel
Maj Flagler
Taurus
Fortifications inspected as Sumner party views Hampton Roads
Washington Post reports Sumner Congressional party arrived at Old Point and spent time target shooting with 10 inch disappearing guns and inspected a proposed fortified stand near the capes Sumner sailed for Washington this afternoon and is due tomorrow morning at about 9:00. A fugitive captured in Petersburg is held for Prince Edward County authorities. Earle was serving sixty days for short-changing merchants. Educators to meet at Pinehurst NC in April as Richmond College official announces the conference opening. Minister to Ecuador, W C Fox, arrives in New York aboard a steamer. Finance from Calon.
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Sumner
Hampton Roads
Washington Post
Newport News
Congressional
Old Point
Capes
Washington
Petersburg
Charles Farle
Farmville
Prince Howard County
Earle
Pinehurst
Richmond
Dr . Mitchell
Richmond College
Conference For Education In the
South
Pinehurst NC
Stikeleather to Testify in Merrill-Mill Divorce Case
Testimony before U S Commissioner Britt will resume as Gilliand Stikeleather, named by Mr Mitts as co-respondent, is ordered to appear under contempt threat. Stikeleather plans to testify that affidavits were obtained while he was drinking, claiming visits and embraces with Mrs Mills in various rooms.
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Asheville
Mar
United States
Britt
Gilliand Stikeleather
Mitts
Mills
Will Assist G W A Fund At Washington Meeting
Dr Charles D Walcott secretary of the Smithsonian and Rabbi Abram Simon of the Washington Hebrew Congregation will guard dresses at the next joint meeting. The event supports funds for a new George Washington University site and will be at the Shoreham next Monday evening with a buffet supper. Special invitation boards were sent for Thomas F Alderson chair of the Citizens Committee and Edward C Brandenburg chair of the Alumni Committee.
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Charles D Walcott
Smithsonian Institution
Abram Simon
Washington Hebrew Congregation
George Washington University
Shoreham
Thomas F Alderson
Citizens Committee
Edward C Brandenburg
Hundreds Seek Baby Boy Missing Near Dover Farm
Horace W Marvin Jr disappeared while playing with his sister near a barn on his father Dr Horace W Marvin’s farm two days earlier. State detectives and Deputy sheriffs, plus Attorney General Robert H Richards, hunt for kidnappers as neighbors scour fields, woods, and icy bays from Kitts Hammock to the Delaware Bay shore.
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Washington Post
Dover del Mar
Kitts
Delaware Bay
Horace W Marvin, Jr
Horace W Marvin
Thse
Marvin Farm
Robert H Richards
Wilmington
Marvin Place
Little Horace
Horace
Harris Converts to Orthodox Judaism to wed Washington Bride
A Washington NC merchant, T A Harris, formerly a Methodist, joined B N ai Israel in Norfolk to marry Mrs J Wahrhaft of Washington NC. He won her love but she refused conversion, yet he persisted and converted without telling her. Harris, 33, bride elect 27, will reside in Portsmouth VA.
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Washington
Norfolk
Harris
Washington NC
Methodist Church
B'Nai Israel
J . Wehrhaft
Washington, N C
Wahrhaft
Portsmouth
Mra Wahrhafty
Hounds Trail A Woman In Bristol After Fire
Bloodhounds from Bristol track a suspect after a house fire at W F Beath home guiding to Dr Oscar Hawk’s residence where his young wife is under guard. Mrs Hawk, from a good family, reportedly became demented from drug use and may be placed in an asylum. The event follows earlier hare burnings in Blountville.
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Washington
Blount
Bristol
W F Beath
Oscar Hawk
Trust Measure Debated by Senate in Raleigh Conference
The Senate considered the anti trust bill from the judiciary committee and discussed an amendment to include news associations or other public service corporations selling to a single newspaper or interest. The House passed the freight rate bill on third reading with penalties restored. Subpoenas issued to probe conference committee charges over the railway rate bill. The pension bill was approved unanimously for 3400,000 annually.
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Washington Post
Raleigh
Senate
Judiciary Committee
House
Justice
Buxton
State Board of Equaltation
Asaees
Glenn
Raleigh Times
Billad
Page
Aberdeen and
Asheboro
Special House Commission
County Court House
Two Cadets Disappear From Lingley Institute in Wheeling
Cadets Walter Neuman and Loyd Hooch both under sixteen from Lingley Military Institute left Wheeling with two Martins Ferry girls claiming they would go to Norfolk until the Jamestown Exposition opens. Neuman allegedly son of a Bellaire lawyer and Enoch son of a Wheeling businessman. Authorities and police search for all four.
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Specter
Washington Post
Wheeling
W VI
Walter Neuman
Loyd Hooch
Lingley Military Institute
Norfolk
Martins Ferry
Neuman
Bellaire Ohio
Enoch
Barley for Circuit Judge in Alexandria Rumor
Rumor from Alexandria claims Gov Swanson will appoint Judge Louis Charley of the Corporation Court to serve as judge of the Sixteenth judicial circuit until the legislature elects a successor to Judge C E Nicol who has resigned to pursue a U S Congress nomination. The move is said to ease potential contention while candidates vie for the position.
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Waskington Post Bureau
King Street
Alexandria
Gov Swanson
Louis Charley
Corporation Court
Sixteenth Judicial Circuit
Fairfax
Prince William
C E Nicol
Congress
Eighth Virgina District
Rockefellers Visit Ties to Carnegie Gift to Shurtleff College
The article reports Andrew Carnegie's conditional gift of $15 000 to Shurtleff College in Upper Alton and reveals John D Rockefeller previously visited incognito while fundraising efforts were underway. Rockefeller checked in at Madison Hotel as John Davidson. revelation came via a letter addressed to John D Rockefeller.
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Washington
St Louis
Andrew Carnegie
Shurtleff College
Upper Alton
John D Rockefeller
Carnegie
Rockefeller
Shurtleff
Alton
Madison Hotel
John Davidson
Bellevue Doctors Stricken With Diphtheria Symptoms
Special to The Washington Post reports Dr Frederick T Wurtel of Bellevue Hospital is removed to Willard Packer Hospital for Contagious Diseases after being diagnosed with diphtheria. Dr Linde of the city health board ordered the move and isolated Dr Fisher and Dr Ross in their Bellevue residences as they show possible diphtheria symptoms awaiting clarification.
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Washington Post
New York
Frederick T Wurtele
Bellevue Hospital
Willard Packer Hospital
East Sixteenth Street
Linde
Board of Health
Wurtel
Wurtels
Fisher
Ross
Masons Prepare for Fair Big Festival Five Weeks Off
The Masonite fair is about five weeks away as four fair committees outline plans. Advisory, music, tables, and protection of buildings committees list members led by J Henry Small and William C Long. The music committee includes Dr G D P Bailey and others. the ladies committee is led by James L Marshall with eighteen members. the protection committee is chaired by William Bett from the fire department with P W Nicholson as vice chairman and other fire department officials.
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Board of Control
Munsonio Temple Association
J Henry Small
John H Olcott
Mattthew Trimble
James A. Sample
R Bond
Geojamin S Graves
Alexander McKenzie
Frank H Thomas
Thomas P Morgen
George W Evans
William C Long
Grafton D P Bailey
Charles & Wood
Thomas B Walker
Dd Gardiner
William Whitson
Edward E Long
Eugene Cochran
Clarence Weaver
John Hinger
J M Vora
E LY King
John Wright
Charles Dismer
Charles Loeffter
James L Marshall
William F Gude Aro
Mra C Loester
Elizebeth B McAteer
Elizabeth
P W Nicholson
Fie
L W Leib
B Smith
Virts
W Buhler
Sings While Under Ether During Finger Amputation
Special to The Workington Lost New York March. Samuel Warrock of Kearny New Jersey crushed his right hand fingers at a Harrison factory. Under ether he sang Mother Kiss Me in My Dreams with baritone tone. Surgeons Dolphin and Squier amputated one finger, then another, while four women in a waiting room wept. Warrock later regained his voice only to utter expletives.
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Workington
New York
Mar
Samuel Warrock
Warrock
Kearny
Harrison
T de Dolphin
Dr Squier
Warrock Gang
Dr Dolphin
Fox Chase Through Virginia by Washington Party
A Washington party enjoyed a fox chase through Virginia with a hunt breakfast of rare beef and ale. Participants included Frank Hallman, Robert R. Pietach, J E Eversole, Mr Richter, and several women riders. The ride began at Ram's Horn Inn at 10 am, ran to Bladensburg and Riverdale, totaling about ten miles. Frank Hallman on his horse Word finished the hunt, a short distance from Hindenskuts.
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Washington
Virginnia
Adams Case Sent To Jury For Murder Of Gov Steunenberg Outside Matter
Jurors told the Adams murder case centers on the killing of Fred Tyler in August 194, not on the Steunenberg incident. Judge Richardson objects to Wood’s instructions, notes defense proposals, and stresses that only the Tyler murder and possible related coercion matter to the jury. The state argues confessions must be weighed if freely given, while any reference to Steunenberg or Soule is outside the case.
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Wallace
Idaho
Steve W. Adams
Fred Tyler
Richardson
Wood
Western Federation of Miners
Tyler
Adams
Guv Steunenbere
Woods
Fred Tyter
Guv Steunenberg
Steunenberg
Soule
Juniper
St Jon
Gentry Acquitted in Richmond Police Court Case
Former policeman W J Gentry was acquitted of assault on Miss Josie Robinson of Buckingham County after the girl testified she went with him voluntarily. The girl, aged nineteen, had claimed fifteen. Gentry received a reprimand for disorderly conduct and bonded for good behavior. The girl was fined for disorderly conduct but then remitted as relatives would take charge. she was to be sent to a Baltimore house of correction.
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Richmond
Washington Post
Richmond Va
W J Gentry
Josie Robertson
Buckingham County
Gentry
House of Correction
Baltimore
Three Years for Promoter in False Pretenses Case
Special to The Washington Pass Baltimore Md Mark After pleading guilty before Judge Dobler the Criminal Court today sentenced promoter Bierra L. Richards to three years in the penitentiary for securing more than 20 dollars by false pretenses from Raleigh T Lilley. Richards claimed he had no intention to defraud and said he was victimized while Lilley testified their acquaintance began in 1905 when Richards sought money tied to a patent for a mortar process. Lilley said he advanced Richards 2000 dollars on false representations.
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Washington Pass
Baltimore
Mark
Dobler Fi
Criminal Court Today
Raleigh T Lilley
Bierra L. Richards
Richards
Lilley
Liley
Dodler
Berry
Washington
Powder ship adrift towed into Holyhead harbor
A ketch named Esmeralda carrying a large quantity of gunpowder was found drifting in the Irish Channel and towed to Holyhead. No person aboard. an empty boat belonging to the vessel was recovered half a mile away. The ship appeared to have been abandoned in a hurried departure.
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Holyhead
Weuws
Mar
Esmeralda
Seven Hurt In Collision On Toledo Rail Line
Seven persons were injured this afternoon, four seriously, when an east-bound passenger train collided with a freight train on the Toledo St Louis and Western railroad. Seriously injured include Edward Kennedy, engineer of the freight train, Mrs Cora Welton of Greentown Indiana, Allen Gaskell of Neoga Illinois, and Mrs E B Word of Delphos Ohio.
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Neoga Ti Mar
Toledo, St Louis and Western Railroad
Aye Edward Kennedy
Mra
Cora Welton
Greentown
Ind
Alen Gaskell
Neoga
Delphos
Ohio
Quarrel Ends With Knife Wound in City Alley
Benjamin Quill of 32 Pleasant court suffered a serious knife wound to the head and chin after an altercation near Four and a half street and Maryland avenue last night. He was taken to Emergency Hospital in serious condition. the assailant fled and has not yet been apprehended.
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Maryland Avenue
Benjamin Quill
Pleasant Court
Detroit Man Returned From Honduras After Auto Crash
Jess of Detroit arrived on the Panama Over from Honduras where he spent seven years with an American mining firm. He sought surgery to reset a badly broken right arm after an elite 24 horsepower car plunged 300 feet over a cliff in Tegucigalpa. Rescue by local workers and native hammocks followed the wreck.
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New York
Jess
Detroit
Panama
Honduras
United States
Teguelgalva
Davis Trial Halts Over Iroquois Theatre Case
Danville Illinois March 6 the trial of Win J Davis for manslaughter in the Iroquois Theater disaster nears a halt as defense challenges Cheago ordinance validity arguing if the ordinance is invalid there was no illegal act and Davis may not be guilty. Prosecution had begun questioning a witness when the objection was raised and both sides expect days of argument on the point.
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Danville
Win J Davis
Chicago
Davis
Irish Varsity Bill Held Up
London reports the government has dropped for now the bill to create a national university for Ireland. The measure, once promoted by James Bryce, is postponed as Parliament’s programme is too extended and it lacks full support among the 20 Bar members.
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London
Merc
National University For
Ireland
James Bryce
England
Bis
Washington
French Judge Fines Ursuline Nuns in Convent Eviction
In Nantes a police court fined twenty seven Ursuline nuns 820 each and fined the mother superior for refusing to leave their convent as required by dispersal laws. The order argued ownership of grounds and buildings, while the prosecution urged compliance and warned of possible further eviction. Catholic sympathizers cheered as the nuns were escorted back to the convent.
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Nantes
France
Suffragettes as Martyrs Freed from Prison
British women suffragists released after term of confinement for agitation at the House of Commons. Mrs Despard and others vow to force authorities to jail them again by breaches of the peace until suffrage legislation passes as the House of Commons nears a vote next Friday.
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London
Despard
Geveral
House of Commons
James Kier Hardie
Hmelish
Kaiser Plans Peace and Troop Withdraw in German Southwest Africa
Berlin reports Colonial Director Dernburg urged a $7.3 million supplement for German South West Africa military needs and $222,500 for the Kabut to Kelmenshoo railway. He said peace would be declared March 11 and many troops would be withdrawn before July 1, with universal conscription to compel male colonists to serve.
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German Southwest Africa
Berlin
Mar
Dernburg
Reichstag
Kabut
Kelmenshoop
Herr Dernburg
Bomb wounds general in Sebastopol farewell attack
A bomb exploded under a carriage carrying General Nepluaff, commander of the fortress, injuring him about the feet and wounding his coachman. A woman passing by was seriously injured. The assailant fled, marking the second attempted assassination on the general in a year amid a farewell banquet at the palace hosted by Admiral Skrydiof.
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Sebastopol Mar
Nepluaff
Skrydiof
Oldest Inhabitants Name New Members and Honor Eichhorn
At a regular meeting of the Oldest Inhabitants Association in the Corcoran Building new members were admitted including Gilbert Fowles Patrick Cleary Louis Schmidt and W A H Church. A resolution honoring Rudolph Eichhorn longtime treasurer was approved and will be sent to his family.
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Rudolph Hichhorn
John B McCarthy
Rudolph Eichhorn
R Smith
Botanical Gardens
Washington
Hindens
Berlin
Beriin
Office robbed of stamps by District National Guard office
Thieves entered the District National Guard headquarters Tuesday night, forcing desks and stealing 14000 stamps of one and two cent denominations. Charles W Brown of 1677 Rosdale Street was arrested for having knowledge of the crime after four sheets of one cent stamps were found with him. George W Thomas was taken into custody after Brown named him as an accomplice. Thomas says he knows nothing of the matter.
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District National Guard
Charles W Brown
Rosedale Street
Brown
George W Thomas
Thomas
Russian prize winner at Franklin night school essay contest
Dembrobsky a seventeen year old Russian immigrant, won the $5 gold prize from the District Daughters of the American Revolution for best essay on The Making of an American. Judges praised his devotion amid mixed reception as other prize recipients Marcus Goldenberg and Walter Markof also earned honorable mention. The event closed the night school due to exhausted funds, leaving many foreign pupils distressed at losing access to this privilege.
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Mirine
Franklin
William Dembrobsky
I Street
Southwest
Daughters of the American Revolution
Dembrovsky
Furrier
Russia
Marcus Goldenberg
Walter Markof
Hke Dembrobsky
Smallwood
H L Hodgkins
Simons
Emia
Noyes English
Central
areaNen Spencer Massey
Ballenger
Alrickson, Southard
Mootes Ulrickson
Twice Arrest Chauffeur Over Speeding Case
Police seek a conviction in a case arising from alleged overspeeding. John Tracy, a chauffeur for Gaston Phillips, was arrested on an attachment issued by Judge Kimball and will face trial today for an alleged speech law violation ordered by his employer. Tracy earlier had collateral forfeited after missing court. The same incident led to a disorderly conduct fine of 90 for Phillips, who spoke to Sergeant Lee. Harvard Club Meets at University Club honors Judge Edward Lander and Woodbury Lowery. Frank W Hackett elected president. addresses on chemistry and Potomac water purity by Dr Frank W Clark and Pickering Dodge.
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John Tracy
Gaston Phillips
Kimball
Tracy
Phillips
Lee
First Precinct
Harvard Club
University Club
Edward Lander
Lander
Woodbury Lowery
Frank W Hackett
Geological Survey
Frank W Clark
Pickering Dodge
Alleged Mutineer James Kelson Arrested in Virginia
James Kelson, indicted in the Eastern District of Virginia for complicity in a steamer St Johns mutiny last summer, was arrested yesterday and brought before U S Commissioner Anson Failor. Kelson was committed for removal to Virginia to stand trial.
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Mutneer
James Kelson
United States
Virginia
St Johns
Anson Failor “Kelson
Virgina
Trai
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