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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Mar 08, 1910
Page
10
Washington Post reports a large funeral for former Senator Platt with state and local officials attending. Family and high ranking guests gather at 242 West Seventy Fourth Street and Presbyterian Church for services and tributes, while ships and civic leaders extend condolences.
A garbled OCR fragment from a 19th century page hints at marriage and death notices. Names, dates, and places are partially legible, suggesting notices of union and bereavement with unclear details and multiple scattered references.
King Edward arrived incognito as the Duke of Lancaster in Paris on March 7 and planned a visit to President Fallieres before traveling to Biarritz. The engagement of Manuel of Portugal to Princess Victoria Patricia may be announced there as Amelie and Soveral await the news. He then sails with Queen Alexandra on the Victoria and Albert to Marseille before London, after attending a Chantecler performance with hearty applause from the audience.
In Scotland Neck North Carolina W Dunn dies from a bullet wound inflicted March 4 by H E Powell who also shot State Senator Travis and Assemblyman A Paul Eltchin. Powell, held for protection from mob violence, is shown to be despondent and tearful though not yet mentally changed. Kitchin and Gov. Allen relatives attended Dunns funeral.
An engagement is announced between Count Col Albert Edward Gleichen extra equerry to the King and Hon Sylvia Edwardes Boer. Sylvia Edwardes is maid of honor to Queen Alexandra and daughter of the Hon H Washington connected with the British embassy. The bridegroom is a London born elder son of the late Admiral Prince stor of Tobeplehe Langentiur. He served in the Boer War and was wounded at the Fodder River.
Community officials plan a March banquet chaired by James OBimughness to honor the President. The mandate bans hats for attendees, citing space limits as hats occupy room, leaving no space for all guests to move freely.
A fragmented health office ledger compiles numerous individuals, ages, and addresses linked to medical facilities and hospitals. The page mentions tuberculosis hospital sites, names like Mary, Catherine, Loretta, and Nathaniel, and appears to document patient or staff entries with dates and street addresses among various wards and wards.
Richmond lawmakers clash over a proposed federal income tax amendment while approving a merger plan for the Richmond Fredericksburg and Potomac system. The session ends Saturday. tax and insurance bills face altered rates and new oversight rules for state banks.
A. J. Bondurant of Buckingham dies at 74 after illness at Magela Hospital. Survived by wife and three sons including A.4 Bondurant. Burial planned near Lellington Philadelphia. Also reports: suicide in Baltimore hotel. food law violation seizure in New Bern. Dr Garland F Moore to Japan as marine hospital service surgeon.
A Washington Post report notes a Staunton freight train derailed last night with five cars leaving the track and tumbling down an embankment. One car carried automobiles. no injuries were reported.
In West Virginia the President named James A Kiddy postmaster at Nixon Upshur county. Floya Alley noted as one of three men who broke jail at Parsons had been captured at Cumberland Maryland. James N Salsbury is appointed deputy internal revenue collector for the Seventh division, headquartered at Martinsburg, succeeding John Cole who was dismissed for failure to account for funds.
At the University Club last night the Georgetown University Clinical Society met for its monthly session. Dr John Foote presented a paper on Some Foreign Tadvea of Pediatrics while Dr WOM Barton attended as guest. Dr ST Owens, the society president, presided.
Special to The Washington Fen Warrenton Va Mar 7 The first drag since Christmas was ridden today by Warrenton Hunt Club over Bear Wallow road near Wilbur farm with a clean fast run. Miss Lucy Stone and honorary whip Mrs AB Portman were the only women out, as hunters George Stone Roy Adamson Blair Johnson UD Benner CH smith Bly Wilbur J PF and LE Evans and P Wiley rode to the hounds. Messrs Smith and WF Wilbur hunted the hounds in the absence of JF Maddox master.
Requiem Mass and funeral service for Police Commissioner Zeto Hill of Alexandria First Ward were held at St Marys Church and the lodge room, with Mayor F J Paff and other officials in attendance. A large crowd filled the church and cemetery as pallbearers from Knights of Columbus, Ancient Order of Hibernians, Young Mens Sodality, and police escorts accompanied the body to St Marys Cemetery.
A five year old girl, Frances Smith, daughter of Mrs. Smith and granddaughter of Lieut. James Smith, was struck near the Alexandria police district when an eastbound electric car hit her. She escaped the wheels but suffered two torn teeth, an injured ankle, and possible nasal fracture. She was treated at WT Creightons drug store and later at her home by Dr. Wo M Smith.
A fire at Henderson destroyed the Senderson Manufacturing plant and damaged the Corbit Bickel and Carolina Bagge facilities, estimated at $70,000. Insured, workers displaced as orders were due. factory owner ties loss to broader production delay amid employment cuts. Meanwhile fifteen brakemen on the Dantille and Western Railway who struck last week appear to have lost their jobs, with relayed vacancies and a demand for back pay.
A bill for compulsory arbitration of labor disputes was introduced in the Maryland House by Mr Henderson of Montgomery. Delegate Benson defended himself against antisaloon charges, citing extracts from an antisaloon group. Republicans caucused to set steering committees and debated public utilities and patrol measures, with plans to offer substitutes as proceedings continued.
Greek candy makers James and Alexander Dascal formerly of Cumberland pleaded guilty to stealing two five thousand dollar checks drawn on the Drovers and Mechanic Bank of Baltimore. A misdelivered letter caused the crime, with one check torn and the other surrendered later. James received fifteen months to the penitentiary. Alexander was put on probation. Two unrelated items follow: Dr John S Marshall fled indoors after a scare, his wife Alma Darden and two children reported living.
Charlottesville and surrounding localities report a series of obituaries, noting the deaths of Charlottessine Mur rs Battle Loving of Louisa at 65, Marla Davis age 9 in Charlottesville, plus multiple Confederate veterans and prominent citizens across Orange, Bristol, Gordonsville, and Grange counties. Surviving family members include spouses, children, and grandchildren. deaths cited from pneumonia, heart trouble, and other ailments.
Charles Thomas F Gol bourne and Eva R Cobb wed at the bride’s home near Cheriton in a Saturday ceremony. Annie Keyser and Harry Barrack married by Rev Hobday and will live in Nuttsville. Irene Lillan and Levi Jefferson Forrester wed Saturday evening in Hiskimmon Browns Store, officiated by Rev Dunaway.
Special to The Washington Post from Norfolk Wisconsin dated March 7 reports depositors of the defunct Traders and Truckers Bank allege insolvency existed for over two years before closure. They accuse directors of knowledge, with management led by President Terry B Gordon and cashier A N Cruiser. Overdrawn accounts exceeded fifty thousand and twenty three thousand respectively.
Gasclal to The Washington Fuse reports in Huntington West Virginia on March 7 Ike Gillespie and Matthew Curtis were arrested Sunday for burning Curtis store last week. Gillespie allegedly sought payment for a confession and Curtis claimed motive to obtain insurance. Curtis reportedly acknowledged the crime. The offense is punishable by life in prison in this state.
Special to Tap Washington Post describes a Virginia bound packet boat that ran aground about 1 1/2 miles below Ravenswood in J W Williamson's cornfield. The vessel, loaded with heavy freight, was attempting to land when a log chain failed, leaving the ship high and dry and the crew working to salvage the cargo.
Detectives from Jetty on scene after a shooting at the United Freeth Church in Huntington Wo Va. An unidentified man fired three butlers through a rear wall wounding Gred, Tohnson nine years old, and others. Frank Odell was shot in the shoulder. Marrison Taylor was struck in the head. The injured are expected to recover.
Elizabeth Clarke Tompkins widow of William Tompkins died at 82 in Charlot tesville. A Revolutionary era descendent and honorary Albemarle Chapter Daughter of the Revolution she will be buried in Shipman Nelson county. Daughter of Christopher Clarke a Revolutionary Soldier and Elisabeth Hope, she lived through the cat war era and supported local civic groups.
Obituary notices from Maryland and nearby towns report deaths of Leah J Fetts 66 at her daughter Mary Riley’s home. Elizabeth Noble 79 widow of Robert Noble. Susan Werle 89 native of Washington County. Linnie Elizabeth Carbaugh 33 found dead from heart disease. Mary Minnich 74 at her niece’s home. Theodore H Adams 70 of Waynesboro. Daniel McCurdy ?. additional deaths in Fort Mary, Rouserville, and Westernport with scattered family ties and survivors noted.
A piston heated in the Sansemend machine shops at Suffolk exploded, wrecking the forge and damaging part of the roof. Joseph Brown was burned and bruised but should recover. Police later arrested a man for stealing a horse and carriage, and several sentences were handed down by courts for assaults, larcenies, and other offenses across the region.
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