Declined By Ell红son Stirring Virginia Nomination Fight
Col Joseph E Willard replies to attack over taxes and loss years, denying factional strife prospects. He notes Fairfax County property taxes, net income loss, and debt to improve lands, while Ellyson’s entry shocks the race. Cabell’s primary proposal drew Willard’s response, and Louisa County endorses Sims for State Senate on roads and schools.
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Joseph E. Willard
Virginia
Cabell
Ellyson
Chishie
Richmond Democrats
Willard
Joseph F Willard
Nant
Fairfax County
Col Willard
Meashinetoun
Washington
Sears
Lew Willard
Congressmen Have Option and Golden Wedding Note
A garbled report from Washington details congressmen taking options and a couple celebrating a golden wedding in Salisbury North Carolina. The piece references military figures and a Confederate brigadier general promotion amid mentions of fire losses at a Craigsville mill and a Bristol court case involving a $1250 theft, with local election results in Charleston and a prisoner returning money in Bristol.
Virginia and nearby obituaries state deaths across counties
A series of Virginia obituaries reports deaths in Spotsylvania Culpeper Fredericksburg Winchester and Frederick County. Notables include Bettle Swann of Chaine County Mrs Virginia Bernard Michaux of Richmond at 84 Mrs Jennette Daraen and Mrs Lavinia Butler both noted as died in Fredericksburg area, and Myrtle K Gettler of Baltimore who died in Winchester. Also mentions Jane Hett widow of Bishop James William Hett and other relatives.
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Fediricksburg
Wuiss Bettle Swann
Chaine County
Iness
A B Davevert
Winchester
Hess
Myrtle K Gettler
Joanna Gettler
Baltimore
Geo Hershburger
Fredericksburg
Lavinia Butler
Lewis H Dtutler
Loulea County
Gildoa Christian Church
Winchester Waren
Jane Hett
James William Hett
United Brethren Church
Frederick County
Wifch
Jacob F Hott
Dog Returns With Head in Mouth Near Ironville Va
A Roanoke dispatch reports a dog belonging to Charles Donalds found carrying a white man’s head near Ironville, with a skull wound and murder suspected. A search for the rest of the body is underway. no missing person is known in the area, and the owner of a suitcase left at the depot remains unidentified.
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Speral
Washington Post
Roanoke Va
Ironville
Roanoke
Charles Donalds
Ironvile
Robbery in Transit Hits Southern Railway in Charlotte
Police arrest two men linked to a Car thief gang in Charlotte after numerous items and 48 quarts of corn whisky are found. Authorities estimate Southern Railway losses in the city reach about 30000 since December, with thieves targeting trains in transit.
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Washington
Charlotte
Southern Railway
John Warris
Crawford
Woman Charged With Murder After Lynchburg Knife Fight
Ellen Henry was arrested at noon on Vine Street charged with murder after a quarrel with Joe Wigems Soth ended with both cutting throats. Wigems staggered barefoot to Masonic Hospital, then died. Henry claimed self defense as nine stitches were needed for her throat. Police allege jealousy led to the attack.
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Lynchburg
Washington
Ellen Henry
Vine Street
Joe Wigems
Soth
Masonic Hospital
Thel Ma
Pytman Castle Association Formed in Frederick
The Pytman Castle Association of Frederick was incorporated on March 13 with Charles Winebrewer Renn S Tarp Fred erick W Oberderfer Joseph W Gaver and Huam KR Heck named as organizers. The first president leads plans for a three story Mountain City Lodge building in Frederick.
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Jnevlal
Thowanaimgusa
Prederick
Pytman Castle Association
Frederick
Charles Winebrewer
Frederick W Oberderfer
Joseph W
Gaver
Huam
Heck Phe
Mountain City Lodge
Knight of Pyrthias
Two Accidents at King and Henry Streets In Alexandria
Alexandria brief reports reveal two northbound trains striking wagons on King and Henry streets. One wagon from Harrison & Bros. was demolished. the horse suffered a minor injury, while the McCuen wagon was also wrecked with no injuries to those aboard.
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Treasury Department
Washington
Internal Revenue
Virginian
LM Shaw
Hon Park Agnew
Alexandria
Andrew Sullivan
North Royal Street
Kemper’s Battery
Lee Camp
Friendship Veteran Fire Association
Methodist Protestant Church
Arma
C 3
Taylor
James Hammond
G@ W. Ramsay
J_C Milburn
C Granam
P F Gman
Southern Railway
King and Henry Streets
Arrison & Bros
Henry Street
James McCuen
McCuen
Hillary
Brown
Young and
Mayhugh
Commerce Prince Fayette and
Payne Streets
F .A Coakley
Sarah Gibson
Knight
Willam
Corporation Court
Howard Forreste
Anne Gray
Jula Brenner
Alexandria Light Infantry
Charles Pierpont
Pierpont
Frank C Spinks, Jr
Spinks
Col Jo Lane Stern
Ancient Order of Hibernians
St . Patricks
Young Mens Sodality Lyceum
Willie May Hammersley
Mount Vernon
Samuel Bendhelm
New York
Fire at Minister Targets Portsmouth Pastor
Special to The Washington Post reports that Rev. George D. Jimmerson of Emmanuel Church in Portsmouth was shot at during services as a stranger fired twice toward his head near the parsonage. Police found no suspect, and an earlier attempt to burglarize the pastor’s home ended when he fired buckshot.
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Washington Post
Norfolk
Yea
George D. Jimmerson
Emmanuel Church
Portsmouth
Jimmerson
Bishop
Lost ballot box roils Huntington Republican primary
Huntington West Virginia March 13 police scour the city’s questionable district for a ballot box with votes from precinct No 10 after Election Commissioner William McAllister former assistant police chief left at midnight Saturday and was arrested at 3 am in a house of ill repute. The box is missing and could alter the election outcome as McAllister denies memory of the ballots.
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Washington Post
Huntington
W Va
Poice
William McAllister
McAllister
Postmaster Held For Jury In Maryland Fraud Case
Frederick Md March 13 Mathan Johnson colored postmaster at Sugar land Montgomery County was held in 300 bail by United States Commissioner White of Frederick after a hearing before the federal grand jury charge alleges fraudulent stamp cancellations at his office The November record showed 2513 credit for cancellations while the Selman post office record showed only 38 The testimony suggests Johnson practiced fraud regularly since his 1896 appointment as postmaster
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Washington Post
Frederick
Mathan Johnson
Sugarland
Montgomery County
United States
White
Federal Grand Jury
Johnson
Selman's
Deserter Shaw Tries Suicide at Fort Caswell
Walter Shaw formerly of Cincinnati, sentenced to eighteen months for desertion, attempted to cut his throat with a pocket knife at Fort Caswell. He severed the jugular but survived after quick medical aid. he had been captured after desertion, tried, and sentenced, and while the sentence was pronounced he made the attempt. He was resting quietly at last report.
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Washington Post
Wilmington
Walter Shaw
Cincinnati
Fort Caswell
Shaw
Ex President Cleveland declines NC bankers meeting invite
North Carolina Bankers Association president Frie s writes to Grover Cleveland inviting him to speak at the May annual meeting in Winston Salem. Cleveland replies he would enjoy attending but is unable due to fixed commitments and extended absences. Petersburg mayor Jones proposes liquor tax raise and curfew, urging fines for violators. council refers to finance committee.
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North Carolina Bankers
Washington Post
Winston-Salem
Od Ffl Fries
North Carolina Bankers Association
Grover Cleveland
Col Fries
Novel legal execution to hang Walter Partridge near Fayetteville
In North Carolina a new practice allows executions outside the jail. Walter Partridge, a Black man convicted of assaulting a white woman, faces execution April 3 near Fayetteville in a woods setting with a private scaffold, as officials follow a recent legislative act and state law.
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Fayetteville
Washington Post
Wilmington NC
Walter Partridge
Nutwood Missing After Norfolk Voyage Sailed December for Havre
The London Board of Trade seeks pilot deposition on Nutwood behavior in port and agent statement on bunker coal taken at Norfolk. The British ship loaded lumber at Mobile, stopped for coal, then vanished. Ship remains listed as missing.
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Washington Post
Norfolk
London Board of Trade
Nutwood
Havre
Mobile
Child elopers separated steal wedding in Gatesville
Roy Cobine sixteen eloped with Maggie Mitchell fifteen. Father Mr Mitchell opposed the union but could not intervene before the ceremony. The couple began a Southern honeymoon but were intercepted and the wife taken away. This Washington Post report notes the incident as of March 13 from Gatesville.
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Washington Post
Suffolk
Gatesville, N
Roy Cobine
Maggie Mitchell
J. L Rhodes
Chuckatuck
Burns
Norfolk Court Powerless Denies Paternity Case
Norfolk reports that George W Hayes, principal of the Colored Female Institute at Lynchburg, must appeal to the city council to expunge his name from health department records after a demurrer left him without equity remedy. The docket was dismissed today, Hayes denying paternity of a child linked to him in the records. The piece also notes local political contests and other miscellaneous notes from Virginia and nearby towns.
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Washington Post
Norfolk
Board of Health
George W Hayes
Colored Female Institute
Lynchburg
Martin
Court of Law and Chancery
Hayes
Health Department
Demurter
Free dollar bottle offer for kidney remedy and nerve system
A Midwest mail-order pitch offers a free first dollar bottle of a kidney remedy. It claims weakness comes from the sympathetic nerve system, not the kidneys themselves, and promises a full dollar bottle free to noncustomers with an easy order process for various health books and a spread of offered medicines.
Virginia Weddings Report from Fredericksburg Area
March weddings in Stafford County include Richard Lovlace and Susie Be Aderson married at E Mountjoy home with Rev Landstreet officiating. The Lovlaces plan to reside at Bell Fair Mills. Also John W Cox wed Clara Ballard at a Stafford County ceremony conducted by Rev Shyt, with details noting residing arrangements to follow.
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Fredericksburg
Richard Lovlace
Susie BE Aderson
Stafford County
Marriet
Elevators and Subway Struggle With Rush Hour Crowds
New York traffic on elevated roads and in the subway suffered from chaotic rush hour conditions. Old workers were reinstated to express trains but strike breakers caused irregular locals. A collision at Eighty second Street and Third Avenue injured five men and a woman, shattering windows and causing a lengthy street blockage. Passengers fainted from overcrowding and foul air, and police aided a woman carried from a Third Avenue elevated car to a hospital.
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New York
Eighty-Second Street
Third Avenue
Abolish Duty on Foreign Art to Grow American Art
Frederick B McGuire of the Corcoran Art Gallery endorses Caspar Purdon Clarke's plan for U S art growth. He argues removing duties on imported masterpieces would attract collectors, encourage study at home, and help build a major American art center, ideally New York, reducing reliance on European centers.
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New York Herald
Caspar Purdon Clarke
Frederick B McGuire
Corcoran Art Gallery
Washington
Sir Purdon
America
Oor Strait
Paris
Europe
New York
Wooney
América
Music Calms Her After Street Robber Assault
In East St Louis on Saturday night Mamle Powers aged eighteen lies in her home after a street robbery that left her in violent hysteria. She is unable to recognize those around her and calmed only by songs as physicians hope the music will restore her health.
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St Loui Gil
East St Louis
J H Busby v Bloomberg and Partners Jury Deadlocked Again
Richmond March 13 The third trial of merchant J H Busby against S L Bloomberg Luther Dawson and Warr Marks ended with a hung jury after two prior failures to agree A verdict of 20000 was set aside by Judge Ingram and a new trial is scheduled for March 13 in Richmond Also Fidelity Mutual Life Insurance sends four checks of 250 to guardians of four children of J Samuel McCue hanged in Charlottesville for his wife murder.
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Washington
Richmond
J H Busby
S L Bloomberg
Luther Dawson
Warr Marks
Busby
Bloomberg
Dawson
Marks
Ingram
Washington Post
Fidelity Mutual Life Insurance Company
J. Samue
McCue
Charlottesvile
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J Laylor Huygon
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Maynard
Cuba
Nortulk Wallard
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Isle of Pines
Craigsville
Straiton
O S Willace
Craigs- Ville Logist
County
Charleston
Wash
Neton
WooVai
John A Jarrett
Zbeur al
Bristol
Connelly Mumpower
Mumpower
ROYAL
Ironville, Va
Pythians
Okin
Scoceiay
Alexandria News
Park Agnew
Washington Post Bureau
King Street
Sixth District of
Internal Revenue Service
Secretary of the Treasury
United States Internal Revenue
Sixth District
Agnew
Andrew Chapel Methodist Episcopal Church
Brooke
J LF Stump
White Stone
Lancaster County
Capt
John Hill
Charlestown
Shenandoah Junction
Knights Templars
Potomac Commandery
Gould
Yacht Club
Frank J Gould
Hampton Roads Yacht Club
Sugarland, Md
Cleveland
Petersburg
Jones
Board of Alde Men
Mayer
Finance Committee
Design BY
May Manton
Fashion Department
Hibernians
Staunton
Catholic Hibernian Society
the Hibernians
J J Flavin
W B Colins
J J Murphy
John W Long
M J Bergin
J O Q Cornel
M T Bergin
George J Johnson
Father J Friali
J J Kilgallen
J O'Callaghan
Daniel Crimmons
George EB ‘Lise
Huntington W
Ross Rowe
Fort Gay
Big Sandy River
Rowe
Maryland
Washington Fost
Cumberland
John W Copeland
Lewis Owens
Kiondyke
Midland
Owens
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Corporation Commission
Peter Jebsen
Tampico
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Peeal
Amy White
W. B. Keys
W. W. Ring
Norfolk, Va
Keys
Norfolk and Southern Railway
William W. Kise
Cena
Norfolk Court
Baylor Survey
Buffalk
Nansemond River
State Board of Fisheries
R Williamson
Baylor
Williamson
Washington Po
Samuel Stanley
Norfolk and Western Road
Walter Austin
Wadesboro
Farrum
A. A. Erwin
Perial
Wnc
A . Erwin
Erwin
Randleburg
Gettyeburg
Beath
Miller
Boston
John B. Beaupre
Wrest
Lenn
Mass
Beaupre
Eine
Wia
Dr. Shoop
ART Development IN America
Crystal
H St. N.W
Masses Hall
Velen
Vigtor Talking Machines
John F. Ellis & Co
Pa. Ave
Fir
Karr’s, Jewelers
F St. N. W
California
Ehmann
John H. Magruder
3 and Wines Wholesale and Retail Cor
Conn. Ave
K St
McCue Life Insurance Pact
Gustav Duntze
Bettere.co
Beaver St
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