Durham Hearing Reveals Daniels Influence Claims in Raleigh
Raleigh dispatch reports a two day committee hearing on Raleigh Times and Charlotte Observer statements about railway rate bill influence. Rev Plato Durham asserts Daniels used power to advance the cause, while ministers urge protection of Durham rights amid fire tax, streetcar seating, and insurance bills. Senate passes McLean anti trust bill and other measures as reputations and elections loom.
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Raleigh
N. C
Raleigh Times
Charlotte Observer
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House
Aberdeen and
Asheboro
Joseph Daniels
Henry N. Page
Society *Omer
Peele
Stevens
Conference Committee
Daniels
Pete
Assairs
Plato Durham
Durham
Charlotte News
Simpson
The
Corporation Commission
Reid
Congress
Buxton
Memorial meeting on Gen Robert E Lee at Camp Lee
Alumni from Washington and Lee and a Camp Lee Confederate Veterans committee held a Richmond afternoon session to discuss a permanent memorial to Gen Robert E Lee. The conference explored means and ways including endowing a chair in American history at W and L and featured Gov Evanson and George H Dennis as speakers. The gathering followed a Roosevelt suggestion to honor Lees life at a major educational institution.
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Hichmond
Va. Mar
University of Washington and Lee
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Robert E. Lee
Washington and Lee
Gov. Evanson
George H. Dennis
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Lees
Death of John Maddox in Rockville Md at age 54
John Maddox of the rural free delivery division of the Post Office Department died at home in Rockville Maryland aged fifty four after two weeks of illness from measles that developed into pneumonia. He was survived by his wife formerly Miss Addie Goft of St Mary County, three daughters and a son. He was a son of the late Dr Charles J Maddox and brother of County Surveyor Charles J Maddox. Funeral arrangements not announced.
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Washington Post
Rockvile
MD. Mar
John Maddox
Post-office Department
Addla Goft
St. Mary County
Maddox
Charles J. Maddox
Prohibition Cause Wins in Bristol Tennessee
Bristol Tennessee voters approve abolishing saloons by 639 to 0. Temperance supporters and schoolchildren parade with a band, about 2000 participants. Saloon keepers did not vote, planning to contest the result in the legislature. Bristol Virginia plans a similar vote April 22.
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Washington Post
Bristol Tenn
Bristol
Ristol
Washington County Bar Moves to Disbar Garis
The Washington County Bar Association filed proceedings to disbar Adam Garis, a Hagerstown attorney, with the matter now before Chief Judge Boyd and Judge Henderson. A separate note mentions a man returning from the house of correction after a brief term for shooting a neighbor with a fish salt.
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Adam & Garis
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Henderson Qaria
House of Correction
Alexandria police begin extradition for murder suspect Midgets
Washington Port Bureau reports that extradition papers for George Midgets alias William Jommaon, colored, arrested in Harrisburg on murder suspicions, have been sent to Governor Swenson. Officers Ferguson and Roberts depart for Harrisburg to petition the Pennsylvania governor. The suspect may be jailed in Fairfax or Alexandria County before trial. Also noted is an upcoming public address by John Barrett on South America’s relations with the United States at Second Presbyterian Church.
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Harrisburg
Washington Port
King Street
George Midgets
William Jommaon
Warrisbure
Charles T. Smith
Swenson
William Ferguson
John T. Roberts
Paft
Pennsylvania
Alexandria County
Fairfax County
Frederick Smith
Washington College of Music
Second Presbyterian Church
John Barrett
Denial by Stikeleather in Divorce Case Faces Harsh Cross Examination
Special to The Washington Post from Asheville Minnesota reports co respondent Gill Stikeleather faced severe questioning behind closed doors at today's Merrill Beecher Mills divorce hearing before US Commissioner Britt. Attorneys Lucking and Emmons pressed credibility while others sought character evidence from city officials and police court records to establish the witnesses' general reputation for Commodore Mills. Testimony will likely continue tomorrow.
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Washington Post
Asheville
MN. C. Mar
Merrill Beecher Mills
Commodore Mills
Hanged Man Davis Dies on Surry County Scaffold
Arthur Davis alias Jack Davis, a Black man born in Lewisburg North Carolina and age twenty, was hanged at 6:60 this morning in the Surry County Courthouse yard for the murder of J I Sateby a Syrian peddler in Dendron Virginia last December 26. He claimed innocence and blamed liquor and two alleged accomplices. He kissed the crowd and urged youths to abstain from liquor.
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Swanson
Lewisburg
N. C
Toal
Davig
Elopes With Minister In Virginia and West Virginia
Mary Norvak Johnson of Harrisonburg files for divorce from her husband who alleges she eloped with George W Waybright a former minister and Pendleton County figure. The pair fled to Horton Randolph County then toward Nebraska. Johnson hires counsel and action proceeds.
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Harrisonburg
Mary—Norvak Johnson
Pendleton County
W. Va
Whic
George W Waybright
German Baptist Church
Pendleton
Waybright
Johnson
Nebraska
Horton
West
Franklin
Dr Wood Aims To Fly Helicopter Air Ship
Special to The Washington Peace Baltimore MD March 8 Professor Robert Wood of Johns Hopkins University leads a team on an air ship project described as a helicopter type. The design is said to differ from balloons and aeroplanes by not needing a stationary surface for landing and to use a small electric motor on a model ship of limited tonnage.
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Baltimore
Robert Wood
Physical Department
Johns Hopkins University
Otto Aeatiene
Wood
Father of Twenty Two Dead at Danville Va
Rev Jeremiah Barnhart a Dunkard minister dies at his Franklin County home He was thrice married and fathered twenty two children evenly split between male and female The Warrenton Horse Show Association names officers and directors for the coming year with W Golden Davis as president and D Gaskins as secretary The board includes J Astley Cooper R B L Mieming C Daniels E H Ro W Barker and others
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Danville
Washington Post
Mar
Franklin County
Wrahington Fostevarrentoel
Warrenton Horse Show Association
W. Golden Davis
D. Gaskins
J .Astley Cooper
R. B. L. Mieming
C Daniels
Ro W. Barker
Pletcher, Sr
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R W Daniele
Maj
Hubert P. Barry
Maxwell Wyeth
Amos F. Payne
Debaters Clash Over Immigration Tests In City Think
In Philadelphia and Ithaca, Pennsylvanians defeated Columbia and Penn team split results in the intercollegiate debates on the proposal that immigration be restricted by an educational test. Judges included Francis Rowl and Isaac Pennypacker with varied regional views on immigrant labor and settlement patterns.
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Colun Te
Columbia
New York
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Draper Lewis
Pennsylvania University Law School
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Gen
Isaac Pennypacker
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Morris
Mendelssohn Hall
Columbia University
Cornell
Norman Hapgood
Collier's Weekly
Lawson Purdy
Stax Commission
New York City
Muel MT. Lindeau
Porto Rico
Ithaca
University of Pennsylvania
Schurmean
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Charles A. Sonant
Madison Wisconsin Fight Over La Follette Backing for Stephenson
In Madison Wisconsin tensions rise as Isaac Stephenson seeks La Follette backing for the U.S. Senate. La Follette ally Irvine Lenroot may be pressured back to Superior while the kitchen cabinet debates strategy and possible deadlocks. The outcome hinges on how far La Follette operatives will yield to secure Stephenson’s election.
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Stephenson
Madison
Wis
Mar
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Spooner
Irvine L. Learcotts
Robert la Follette
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Buch
Senator la Follette
Stepenson
Marlnatte
Irvine L Lenroot
Superior
United States
Kitchen Cabinet
Washington
la Fosiette
Marinette
Paris Death by Own Action In Ball Gown
Mrs. Latham, a portrait painter, shot herself in Paris's Rue Viei te. her body was taken to the American church vault as her father George Lockwood sails from New York. Friends describe melancholia, noting her luxurious hair and dress, with letters hinting at arranged accidental death or a wish to keep her wedd ing ring.
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Tata
200 Girls in Panic at Broadway Cloak Factory Shooting
Special to The Washington Fest New York March 8 two hundred girls at B Stern Son cloak factory 68 Broadway were terrorized when a Sicilian gunman demanding unpaid passage money shot tailor Puleo on the twelfth floor then fled. He was taken to a hospital as police questioned witnesses.
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Broadway
Joseph Puiled
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Puteo
Lytch
Puleo
Girl killed by fall in Mercantila Library building elevator
Miss Clara Bushmen a 24 year old stenographer was killed in an inexplicable elevator accident in Cincinnati Ohio. She attempted to board an upgoing car on the third floor when the door opened but the car shot upward and she fell five floors into the shaft dying upon the mechanism below. The elevator operator refused to answer questions as investigators sought explanations.
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Cincinnati
Ohio
Mar
Clara Bushmen
Mercantila Library
Woes of a Concert Singer Faces Divorce in Court
In Cincinnati Mary G. Roth sought a divorce in Common Pleas Court claiming she was obliged to perform between acts at a concert hall and to drink with patrons. She alleged heavy drinking led to illness and left her unable to support an idle husband who abused her. The judge granted her a decree.
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Cincinnati
Ohio
Common Pleas Court
Mary G. Roth
St Louis Murder Arrest Ties to Quernheim Case
St Louis police arrested 25 year old Harry Muermeyer at his home in connection with the murder of Mrs Kate Quernheim whose body was found at her residence last evening. He is held pending further investigation as detectives pursue statements he made after the discovery and a second hand dealer identifies items from the Quernheim home as sold by the suspect.
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Mo. Mar
Harry Muermeyer
Bay
Kate Quernhelm
Muermeyer
Smith
Quernheim
Movements of Ocean Steamers on Atlantic Passage
Arrivals and departures include New York bound ships from Trieste Ha tle Liverpool and from New York Boulogne Noordam South ampton Amerika Antwerp Massachusetts and Sable Island La Soyola. Plymouth reduced stop at 16 am Saturday and possible dock late Saturday night or early Sunday morning with ships Sheard and others reported in transit.
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Amerika
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Masachusetts
Sheard
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Plymouth
Cherbourg
Ran Away With Girl Abduction Case Reaches Washington
Deputy sheriff Samuel Taylor fled Asheville with sixteen year old Gertrude Clowiz and is sought on abduction charges. The girl says they married in Greenville South Carolina. she plans to shield him as she loves him. They disappeared weeks ago crossing several states and are believed to be in Washington.
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N. C
Mar
Samuel Taylor
Gertrude Clowiz
Vile Sage Belle
Canton
N. G
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8. C
James Vaughan
Green Street Church
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Mies Cloutz
Hentucky
Tennessee
Georgia
Virginia
South Carolina
Washington
Greens Print Shop Burns in New York Fire
A four story building housing printer William Green and his presses Smart Set and Town Paper burned, causing about 300000 in losses. Seventy five workers escaped injury. The plant on West Forty third street lay near Consolidated Gas tanks and firemen created a water curtain to shield the gas tanks as 2,000,000 cubic feet of gas was diverted to reservoirs on West Sixty fifth street.
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William Green
Smart Set
Town Papter
Forty‘third Street
Consolidated ‘Gas Company
West Bixty-fifth Street
Cave-In Traps Six in Town Sewer Dig
In Salisbury North Carolina on a March afternoon six Black workers were killed when a heavy embankment collapsed on a sewer ditch while they excavated. Eight were caught. two escaped unharmed. Six victims were buried fifteen feet underground and only two bodies have been recovered.
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Salisbury
N. C
Mar. R
Statesville
Guthrie Wins $25,000 World’s Fair Guess Prize
M Logan Guthrie of Fulton Mo wins the 25 000 prize after two years of litigation in the Circuit Court at Clayton He guessed 12804616 as the total paid admissions to the World’s Fair which was announced as exact Several other claimants dropped their suits and the court ordered payment to Guthrie
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St. Louisa
Mar
McKiainnry
Clayton
M. Logan Guthrie
Fulton
Guthrie
Boy Cleared of Murder Charge in Wooster Trial
Alliance boy Herry White was acquitted in Wooster today of murdering Thomas Dye, age eighteen from Orrville. He thanked jurors individually after the verdict, in a brief courtroom moment marking his relief and release from the charge.
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Wooster
Ohio
Herry White
Alliance
Thomas Dye
Orrville
Young. White
Social Gossip From A Busy Week In High Society
Ten years ago the romantic rumors connect Zoltan Doebma with German circle society while Nordica and Boehme deny splashed links. A Cornell student Veve marries Miss Mina Tiehnor in Sayro, Pennsylvanio with Rev. J. P. Warner uniting them. Chicago visitors Mrs. Blatchford and daughter return from Beirut amid Syria links as Mrs. Bliss plans extended Europe holiday. A Sherry’s bridge party for Mrs Neeser draws a long list of local socialites showcasing fashion and Saturday afternoon chatter.
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Ithara
Santiago Veve
J. Pierpont Morgan
Cornell University
Veve
Tichnor
Parenta
Sayro
J. P. Warner
Methodist Church
New York
Wave
Porto Rico
Cornell
New York City
B. W. Blatchford
la Balle Avenue
Chicago
Howard Bliss
Beirut
Syria
Biss
Mrs. Bliss
Lebanon
America
Mr. Bilas
Notable Ladies Named in Society Listing
Prominent women featured include Mrs J Crosby Brown Mrs Geralayn Redmond Mrs Bruce Ismay Mrs John Hobart Warren Miss Hamilton Miss Charlotte Pell Mrs E H Rieman Du Vail and Mrs Rudolph Kissel in a social register segment highlighting attendees and potential hosts.
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J. Crosby Brown
Geralayn Redmond
Bruce Ismay
John Hobart Warren
Hamilton
Charlotte Pell
EH. Rieman du Vail
Rudolph Kissel
Roach Brown in Fashion Debuts New Hat Shade
Chicago reports at a National Milliners Association meeting Madame Gruenberg unveils a new hat color called coque de roach named for the adolescent cockroach hue. Other shades named include tan, charpagne, drab, orange and old gold. Few men attended. an ultimatum barred calling a woman's hat a bonnat in polite society.
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Asa
Mme Gruenberg
Millfners’ Association
Ecasion
Ameer Habibullah Returns to Kabul After India Visit
After a two month stay in India, Habibullah Khan the Archeer of Afghanistan recrossed the frontier to Kabul. The visit, marked by a formal welcome from King Edward, is seen as reinforcing British Afghan ties and Afghanistan's buffer role against Russian influence. The Ameer enjoyed balloon rides, motor racing, and developing a fondness for bridge whist, teaching Afghan courtiers to play.
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India
Afghanistan
Habibullah Khan
Kabul
St He Wan
Edward
Ameer
Jail Juvenile Escape From Industrial Home
The Industrial Home School reported to the police that twelve year old Jess Taylor, recently committed by Judge De Lacy of the Juvenile Court for incorrigibility, escaped from the home shortly after six o clock last evening.
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Eenostadl
Jes Taylor
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New U S Marshal Named From Michigan for Court in Orvin Leonard
Hugh O Brian of Michigan appointed United States marshal for the court in Orvin Leonard also of Michigan resigns citing inadequacy of salary. The post pays 38,000 per annum.
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Michigan
United States
United States Court
Orvin Leonard
Echigan
Marshal Leonard
Sas
Towles Child Dies After Illness at Local Hospital
Belendona Towles, thirteen, daughter of Mr and Mrs C O Towles of 45 P Street NW, died yesterday at the Episcopal Eye, Throat, and Ear Hospital. Funeral services were held today at 3 from Rhode Island Avenue Methodist Church.
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Belendona Frowles
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Episcopal Eye
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Colored Girl Burned Near Brightwood Avenue
Beulah Williams, a seventeen year old colored girl, was burned when her clothing caught fire near a stove in her home at 2223 Brightwood Avenue yesterday. She was taken to Freedmen's Hospital for treatment.
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Freedmen’s Hospital
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