Death by own action of a Suffolk banker in bank office
Augustus H. Cobb wealthy banker and mill owner in Suffolk Virginia died by self-inflicted gunshot at the Suffolk Banking and Trust Company. The revolver was found on the counter and officers note heavy blood loss and instantaneous death. No inquest ordered though some doubt remains about foul play and nervous distress cited by physicians.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Augustus H. Cobb
Washington Post
Suffolk
Suffolk Banking and Trust Company
Wo W Wurray
el. Hart
Reir
Mr. Cobb
Spoky
Bruce Rawles
Rawles
Cobb
Holliday
Saintf Baker
W. F E. Cobb
Bink
Brunswithe
Virginia obituaries skim Virginia and nearby towns detail deaths
Obituary notices report multiple death cases across Virginia and nearby locales including Fairmont and Luray. Entries mention causes such as heart disease and acute intestinal obstruction, list survivors, ages, and brief biographical notes. Names include Rev. O. P Richards, Col. Thomas J Fell, John W Lillard, and Rebecca Fisher among others.
Dancy to Die in Related Incident Next Thursday
Peter Dancy, a Black man, was convicted in Henrico County Circuit Court and sentenced to die in a related incident next Thursday. The case and dates are unclear due to damaged text but record indicates formal pending execution.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dancy
Montague Ars Onaly
Eias
Peter Dancy
Henrico
Dani
Life Guards and Health Advice From Hood's Sarsaparilla
A crude 19th century notice praises Life Guards and the British household, then urges Hood's Sarsaparilla as a tonic to fortify the body against influenza catarrh grip and fevers. It argues strong systems resist disease and promises vigor warmth to the blood.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kings House
Nore
Hood
Rockville Pigeon Shoot Attracts County Marksmen
A clay pigeon shoot at Rockville Gun Club drew Montgomery County shooters and out‑of‑towners. Notables J Mowell Hawkins and Luther Squier gave exhibitions. Thomas C Keys led county marksmen with 34 of 40 targets, while Charles J Lyddane matched that percentage on 20 targets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rockville
Montgomery County
J. Mowell Hawkins
Baltimore
Luther J. Squier
Blawkins
Squier
Thomas C. Keys
Charles J. Lyddane
Germantown
Robert C. Warfield
James P
Weirs
Lee
Dorsey
Harry C Hurley
Nathan A. Allnutt
John Mins
Samuel B. Wetherald
Robert B. Peter
Stephen Lyddane
Clea Meem
Messrs
Thomas C Keys
George All~ Nuk
Colored postmaster short. Sugar Land postmaster falsified accounts
Postmaster Nathan Johnson, a long time leader among local colored residents at Sugar Land eight miles from Boyds, Md, is arrested after Inspector Sharon from Washington finds falsified records and defrauding the government. Isaac Bell takes temporary postmaster duties. Johnson is jailed in Frederick awaiting further hearing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sugar Land
Washington Post
Boyds
Post-Office
Sharon
Washington
Nathan Johnson
Johnson
Carter
Frederick
Isaac Bell
Germantown
Ice in the Upper Potomac Despite Dam 6 Intact
Reports from the Potomac below Cumberland indicate no danger. River not abnormally high. ice largely broken up except at Dam No 6. West Virginia Central Railroad reports no fresh difficulties. debris removal ongoing. Trestles washed out on the Huttonsville branch. slides on the Coal and Iron extension. a stone bridge near Grafton damaged by a torrent. culvert work delayed by flood. gorge above Cumberland moving. Cheat River falling.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cumberland
Potomac
Dam No 6
West Virginia Central Railroad
Huttonsville
Baltimore and the Railroad
Grafton
Cedar Cliff
West Virginia Central
Cheat
Marines for New Cruisers Drill in Washington
A large company of United States marines from Norfolk to Washington for drill in readiness for duty on board the armored cruisers Pennsylvania and Blitzyland plus thirty marines heading to the Dry Tortugas naval station. Separate notes from Lynchburg and Petersburg report local incidents and speeches, including a poisoning case with a young woman and a girl in boy's clothes found in Winston Salem, with various officials and observers cited.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norfolk
Washington
United States
Guantanamo
Santo Domingo
W. A .Mochel
Pennsylvania
Virginia Glee Club concert at Alexandria Opera House
The University of Virginia Glee and Mandolin clubs performed to a crowded Opera House audience in Alexandria. The program featured a mix of vocal and instrumental pieces, with strong local alumni attendance and college spirit evident in decorations and cheers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington Post Burdaq
King Street
Alexandria
Robert V. Wilkinson
Maryland
Chesapeake
Wilkingon
W. R. Purvis
Purvis
Leo Lash
Baltimore
Maggie Wellstager
Alice Ann Avenue
Capt Wilkinson
Miss Wellstager
Maryland Dredging and Constructing Company
University of Virginia
Old Dominion Boat Club
College
Alexandria Alumni Association
A. D.brockett
North
Washington Street
University
Brockett
Marshall L. King
William J. Boothe
Mushbach
Mass Lameau
Miss Herbert
Miss Dent
Douglass
Local Banquet Hosts Notables Amid Illness Recovery
Fragmentary text reports a banquet at a new Hotel with prominent speakers including Mr George Bee of the National Bottles Bowery Association. Mentions of visits by various individuals and a sudden illness in Wachtaston are indicated, with recovery noted for the subject.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scott
Robert Turner
Rodgers
Mor
Frank, Creightong
Yoseph Peakes Hayes
Ase
Bowery Association
George Bee
Wachtaston
Murder in First Degree Verdict in Huntington Case
In Huntington West Virginia March 10 the trial of Thomas Owens for the murder of Chesapeake and Ohio detective J R Crockett on a Guyandotte Valley excursion ended with a verdict of guilty of murder in the first degree. Owens shot Crockett aboard the train after a May incident in which Crockett arrested Owens for disorderly conduct. The case drew wide attention as witnesses recalled the drunken passengers and subsequent pursuit before Owens was captured. Sentence of hanging to be imposed next week by Judge Doolittle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Christian
Thomas Owens
Detective Crockett
Washington Post
Huntington
W. Va
Hamlin
J. R. Crockett
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway
Guyandotta Valley
Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad
Logan
Robinson's Circus
Hig Ugly Station
Lincoln County
Owens
Crockett
Squire Burch Brumfield
John Weakley
Scherer
Jack Bingham
A Pbase
Weakley
Doolittle
New Railroad Contracts Signal WV Line Extensions
Morgantown W Va March 16 Special to The Washington Post contracts for the Cameron Confluence cut off of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad will be set March 15 for the section between Confluence Pa and Pisgah W Va. Engineers are ordered to ready the Pisgah Morgantown segment for contracting in sixty days with six corps at work. Pennsylvania surveys Cheat River eastern county. Wabash grading western part. Lake Erie contemplates Monongahela line, making the county a center of railroad activity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Virginia
Washington Post
Morgantown
Wva
Cameron Confluence
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Confluence
Pisgah
W. Vo
Mushc
Corps of Engineers
Pennsylvania
Cheat River
Lake Erie
Monongahela River
Mystery Surrounds Woman's Death in Baltimore Cellar
Baltimore March 10 police probe a mysterious death of a young woman found in a ramshackle house cellar at East Fayette Street and Central Avenue. The coroner plans a post mortem. The body is emaciated and the mouth bloody but cause unclear. A Catholic prayer book with the name Ellen Kirk on its flyleaf is found. no local resident by that name is identified.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington Post
Baltimore
East Vayette Street
Central Avenue
Ellen Kirk
Bequest for Virginia and other early 20th century items
The will of James C. Carter leaves $200,000 to Harvard University and $2,000 to the University of Virginia along with other bequests. Virginia forms part of a broad estate plan with ambitions toward the Bar Association and the Society for the Improvement of the Condition of the Poor. Also reports a Virginia Cavaliers basketball team heading to Newport News for a state final, plus Hunt Club appointment notices and a double identity claim in Newport News.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James C. Carter
University
New York
James Carter
Harvard University
Bar Association
Carter
University of Virgnia
Society For the Iprovement
Virginia Horse Show Association Sets Show Dates and Rates Plan
The Virginia Horse Show Association held its fourth annual meeting at the New Willard Hotel. Committees on freight and passenger rates were formed to press railroads for fair Virginia show rates. President Mullikin and Secretary-Treasurer Davies were reelected. Dates for shows across Keswick Leesburg Upperville Fredericksburg Culpeper Manassas Orange Charlottesville Staunton Front Royal Harrisonburg Berryville Warrenton Lynchburg Richmond and Norfolk were announced. A new rule allows affiliated associations to bar exhibitors with a $235 appeal option for contested suspensions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Virginia Horse Show Association
New Willard Hotel
Virginia
C W. Smith
Warrenton
Charles Mullikin
Boyce
Malikin
H. B Goodridge
Norfolk Association
Mullikin
Messrs
H B Goodridge
J. Anderson
Hugh C. Braxton
J. J. Davies
W Smith
J M Cochran
Mullkin
J Jenkyn Davies
Keswick
Leesburg
Upperville
Fredericksburg
Culpeper
Manasses
Orange
Charlottesville
Staunton
Front Royal
Harrisonburg
Berryville
Lynchburg
Richmond
Norfolk
Upperville Horse and Colt Association
Davies
Norfolk Horse Show Association
Norfolk Horse Show and Fair Association
Huis
School Board Plans Superintendent Changes in May
The board will meet here March 21 to hear a committee report on state school district changes and in May to appoint superintendents. It is noted Radford may merge with Montgomery County when the board meets here in May.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lucas
Radford
Montgomery County
McIntyre Held at Norfolk for Extradition Proceedings
Philip McIntyre former Tennessee lawyer wanted in nineteen states for forgery was sentenced to one year in the Virginia peniten tiary after pleading guilty in Norfolk He will be held for the state seeking him or Mexican authorities who have filed for extradition with the Department of Justice in Washington, to be pursued after his Virginia sentence ends.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington Post
Norfolk
Philip McIntyre
Tennessee
Virginia
New York
McIntyre
Richmond
Department of Justice
Washington
Odnion
Ayid
Taken to Penitentiary for Forgery Case
Norfolk scene reports McIntyre the alleged forger from Tennessee, once sentenced to one year in Virginia penitentiary, was moved to Richmond awaiting extradition requests from nineteen states or Mexico authorities. Mexican claim filed at Washington after his conviction.
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Suffolk Capitalist
Fairmont
Tu Mets
Toledo
Ohio
O Hartiety Hotel
Luray
O. P Richards
Mitdisom County
Missoma
Qristersville
Thomas J Fell
Auburn
Mihosh
Johnn W. Lillard
Laos
Beoniowa
Warren Canaly
Joseph Fack
Magruder
Messra
Frank Jems
Dantile
Dannie C. Treg
RWB
Key
Genal Hospital
Cherottesville
Rebecca Fisher
Alexandra
Annie Sharles
Georgn Wo Prencis
Alexandria Richmond
L Percy
Morang
Lecamp Soldiery
Luenenburg
Allen's Battery
Maura Gattaton
Virginda
Tha Washinton
Joseph White
Kans
Pisses
Cana Dois
Stokey Sanitaria
Short
Upper
Winston-Salem
N.C
Sen Sitian
Twoelleemen
Huta Jackson Newman
Roanoke
Bedford County
Gov. Montague
Petersburg
A J Montague
First Baptist Church
Simeon Seward
Mary
Ests
R YH Pitt
Religious Herald
Missouri
Gov
Folk
Batchelor
Jefferson
Little Rock
Fairbanks
Vics
Col
Cimmons
Springfield
Bluefield
George Witt
Wreckers Bluff
Alexandra Ews
Jib Rie
Beslthy Sularte
Glee-Club
Attracte-Darge
Crown
Lick
McVeigh
Giles
Edgar
Qur Royal
Ie Rubens
Mandolin Club
Schumann
Rosser
Rummel
Crawford
Brigham the Glen
Smith
Johns Hopkins
The
Os Rev
Glee Club
Ealo
James Belection
the Glee Club
Seers College
Manyon
Munyon
Philadelphia
Newport News
Newport News Five
Peace
Alabama Polytechnic Institute, Grinnell and
Warrenton Hunt Club
Washington Fort
Cockrell
George Brooks
York County
Hannah Ross
Chesapeake and Ohio
Little Washington
Bagerstown
Charles Snatterly
Lewis Thompson, Jr
Union Stock Yards
Samuel Emmett
Hagerstown
Harrispurge
Lexington
Buena Vista
Sterrett
Walker
John L. Preston
Beard
Virginia Horsemen
EICK
Davis
General Association
Charlotte
N. C
A. McNinch
M Brown
J. W. Hill
Radford School
Massachusetts Avenue
Elias Raff Liquor Co
George E. Hebbard
Ninth Street
Mount Elliott Springs
Washington Fost Staunton
H G_ Weichelberger
Day
Charles B. Cooke
Augusta County
Mount Eliott
Cooke
William Brown Colored
Kimball
Colonial Wine Co
9Th St. Wharseatershes
St. Louis
Mercantile Trust Company
Stours
Philippine Public Works
Insular
Regal
London
Paris
Yla
Piccadilly
San Francisco
Washington Store
Penna. Ave
N. W
Tim
Adler
Sonee
Mae
Victor E. Adler
Clothing House
7Th St
Littlefield, Alvord & Co
Pennsylvania Avenue
Patna
Fond du Lac
F. S. Williams CO
Iamond Yes
Burlington Vt
Dr. Shoop
Dr Shoop
Rex
Racine
Wis
Naizn
Nasonic Temple
Ohlson
Brown
Arch St
Affleck
Pecasylvadle Avé
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