Maryland Court Orders Ballot Placement For Franchise Amendment
Annapolis March 23 Court of Appeals rules the Poe constitutional amendment to omit voting rights does not need the governor's approval and must appear on November ballot. Mandamus to compel Governor Warfield to proclaim measure. McSherry delivers opinion with dissent from some judges. Article traces political clash between Warfield and Senator Gorman, framing the amendment as a pivotal Maryland issue.
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Washington
Annapolis
Court of Appeals
Amandamus
McSherry
Gov Warfield
Betty
Boyd
Pearce
Schmucker
Mcbherry
Briscoe
Fowler
Jones
Paget
John F Poe
Gorman
Senate
Guy Woarfield
Garman
Maryland
Gay Woairfield
New York
Post
No Pain Is So Severe It Baffles Dr Miles Remedy Line
An advertisement asserts that no pain is beyond remedy with Dr Miles Anti Pain Pulse Se trate. It lists relief from headache neuralgia rheumatic backache menstrual and stomach pain toothache and other aches promising cure through the Miles remedy line.
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Miles
Dr Miles Anti Pain Pills Promote Fast Nervous Headache Relief
Dr Miles Anti Pain Pills claim quick relief from nervous headaches and neuralgia with pleasant tiny tablets that are harmless. A testimonial from Rachael J Johnson of Albuquerque says they stop attacks when taken in advance and a money back guarantee applies if the first pack fails. 25 doses cost 25 cents, with a refund offered if not beneficial.
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Miles
Rachael J Johnson
Albuquerque
Baltimore Southern Methodist Conference Reports in Winchester
Hev J T Williams presiding elder invites next year’s sessions to Cumberland Md at new church cost 20000. Reports from presiding elders praise districts. General missions outlay 378,097.18, Sunday school attendance 1,880,776. Revs Blakemore Hawk Prettyman Kern noted. Baltimore Southern Methodist chosen as official organ with W B Bond named editorial writer. Bishop Duncan presided.
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Washington
Winchester
J. T. Williams
Moorefield
Baltimore
Methodist Episcopal Church South
Cumberland
J. W. Duffy
Henry P. Hamill
David Bush
Rockingham
James E. Armstrong
Roanoke
George P. Tyler
Lewisburg
General Board of Missions
Sunday School Board
Southern Methodist Church
D. L. Blakemore
Epworth Church
J. C. Hawk
Marvin Church
Fr. Prettyman
Mount Vernon Place
D E Kern
Harrisonburg
Objection By Virginias Lynchburg Veterans At Appomattox Monument
Lynchburg Virginia March 2 veterans and their descendants delay plans to attend the North Carolina troops monument unveiling at Appomattox as inscription provokes of Virginia soldiers. Committee changes date to April 16 and outlines program with NC and VA officials, Daughters of the Confederacy, and United Confederate Veterans participating.
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Washington
Lynchburg
Appomattox
North Carolina
Virginia
Garland Rodes Camp of Veterans and Sons of Veterans
Daughters of the Confederacy
Home Guards
Bethel
Gettysburg
Chickamauga
Raleigh
Hev James A Weston
Thirty-third
Henry A. Lendon
Guy Montague
Gov. Glenn
North Caroline
Henry Jerome Stockard
William R. Cox
William P Roberts
Thomas S Garnett
United Confederate Veterans of Virginia
North Carolina Guard
Trustees in Bankruptcy for Blue Mountain Iron and Steel Company
Special to The Washington from Frederick Maryland reports the appointment of Jacob Roher, Charles Waters, and T B Keene Claggett as trustees in bankruptcy for Blue Mountain Iron and Steel Company. There are over 200 claims totaling more than 00000. Roy A. Rainey holds bonds of 3317 000 and a note for 88000 with 17 000 accumulated interest as principal creditor. The company, formed about five decades ago to develop the Catoctin furnace property, issued 500000 in bonds and faced four to five years of ongoing litigation after limited development work.
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Washington Run
Frederick
Jacob Roherback
Charles Waters
T B Keene Claggett
Baltimore
Blue Mountain Renand Steel Company
Roy A. Rainey
Catoctin Furnacs
Worker Scalded by Falling into Boiling Vat
Special to The Washington Post reports Calvin A McCraw, a young veneer plant worker in East Radford Virginia, badly scalded from the waist down after falling into a vat of boiling water this afternoon. He is expected to recover. Also from Hyattsville Maryland, Mrs. Younger of Nottingham died after a long illness at her daughter's home.
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Washington Post
Radford
Calvin A McCraw
Hyattsville, Md
Younger
Nottingham
County
Charles Hunt
Appeals by Fishburne Highlight Virginia Court Reversals
The Washington Post reports in Richmond that in a Roanoke case Charles R. Fishburne seeks a new trial after being convicted of manslaughter for fatally stabbing Dr Frederick Lefew. The piece lists numerous alleged trial errors and notes several railroad cases reversed or affirmed by Virginia Supreme Court rulings, including Southern Railway and Norfolk and Western actions, alongside various writs of error and appeals.
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Baltimore
Judec Jones
Frederick Haurenschmidt
William Daurenschmidt
Margaretha Brorenschmidt
Baltimore City
Pearce de
Orange County
Southern Railway
The
Great Falls
Dominion Railroad Company
the Corporation Commission
Washington Post
Richmond
State Supreme Court
Charles R. Fishburne
Roanoke
Fishburne
Frederick Lefew
Brown
Dr. Lefew
Prs. Jones and Frye
Drs. Brown and Downey
Er. L. Stone
Harry M. Smith
Commonwealth
Circuit Court
Southern Railway Company
Back
B. O. Back
Orange
Rapidan
Whittle
Harrison
Norfolk and Western Railroad Company
Johnsons
Circuit Court of
Norfolk County
Edward Johnson
Norfolk and Western
City of Richmond
Caruthers
Hastings Court
Thin City
Newport News Corporation
Snead
Rankin
Harrisburg
Great Falls Power Company
Great Falls and Old Dominion Railroad Company
State Corporation Commission
South and Western Railway Company
Virginia and Southeastern Railway Company
Corporation Court of Bristol
Pennington Ve Mallett
Lee County
Bond
Collier
Rockingham Court
Bae
Fauquier
Carpenter
Madreau
Augusta
Gerard Va Leistner
Prince
Evidence of Murder Near Ironville
Roanoke Virginia March 23 an examination of a head and body found at Ironville indicates murder the head found by a dog about ten days ago the body found by a search party last Sunday shows a bullet hole in the right temple and a skull crack on the opposite side suggesting a fatal blow
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Washington Post
Roanoke
Ironville
Fordham Morgan linked to a string of bad checks
Alexandria in brief reports W William F Morgan arrested in Pittsburg at a request from May Sylvester of the Washington police charged with passing worthless checks tied to the alias Fordham Morgan. Once a well known score card publisher across several cities, his downfall is blamed on aggressive margin pressure. Also noted are a fatal railway accident involving Italian worker Antonio Tereborrelli, a gas stove explosion injuring Samuel Johnson Jr, and work beginning on double tracking the Mount Vernon Electric Railway. The court handles the Pollard grand larceny case and admits William Simpson to the Roanoke bar.
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Washington Post Burmau
King Street
Alexandria
William F. Morgan
Pittsburg
May Sylvester
Washington Police
Fordham
Morgan
Philadelphia
Baltimore
Washington
Norfolk
Antonio Tereborrelli
Reiter, Curtis & Hin
Wheatley
Thin City
Ashton
Alexandria County
Samuel Johnson, Jr
Gibbon Street
Johnson
Mount Vernon Electric Railway Company
Potomac
State Corporation Commission
Corporation Court
The
Commonwealth
W O Pollard
Messrs Machen
Moncure
S G Brent
Brumbach
Pollard
William Simpson
Roanoke
Virginia Obituary Notices From Across the State
Obituaries report deaths in multiple Virginia locales including Richmond Chatham Warsaw Fredericksburg Leesburg Winchester Roanoke and Staunton with ages from twenty to eighty six and survivors noted. The notices reference W J Curry D A Herndon J N Jenkins Mrs Sarah E Stephenson Daniel Staples and Winter ers among others and record interment plans and family ties. Also a brief item states Virginia finances are in good shape as the Second Auditor reports net revenue gains and state bond activity.
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Richmond
W. J. Curry
Chatham
DA Herndon
Pittsylvania
Warsaw
W. B Harding
Northumberland County
Harding
Fredericksburg
J. A. Cropp
Stafford County
Hartford Church
Frank Jenkins
King George County
King George
Leesburg
Winterers
Pauquier County
Upper Loudoun
Durham
N. C
Winchester
Sarah E. Stephenson
James W Stephenson
Clearbrook
Joseph Fawcett
Roanoke
Daniel de Jarnette Staples
Samuel Staples
Walter R. Staples
Misa Mary Waugh
Col. Waugh
Virginia
Weaherston Post
Dew
Negro in Room Provokes Fearful Seizure in Point of Rocks
Lulea Ingram, daughter of Thomas Ingram of Point of Rocks, was frightened into convulsions after finding a negro in her room. She remains critically ill as police hunt the intruder. Charles Turner, a negro arrested for an attempted assault, was released after a Talbot justice telegram said he was not wanted.
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Washington Post
Boyds
Lulea Ingram
Thomas Ingram
Point of Rocks
Charles Turner
Washington
Charlies Turner
McCarthy
Boardman
Justice Talbot
Turner
Shot in Henhouse Narrows Escape of Elderly Man
Norfolk Virginia March 23 Joe Wright an elderly man about seventy lies wounded in a county jail cell with his face shot away and back riddled. He was captured after a failed escape from a poultry house where bandits fired on him and used a rope to threaten execution. Wright was later tied to a tree then taken to jail amid reports of extensive poultry theft nearby.
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Washington Post
Norfolk
Joe Wright
Wright
L &. Parkerson
Liberty Wright
Alderman guest of alumni at Virginia university event
President Edwin A Alderman of the University of Virginia was the guest of honor at the Commonwealth Club banquet in Richmond. He responded to the toast The University's Gov Montague theme was University ideals in Public Life. Tomorrow he will speak to the Richmond Education Association on The Education of All the People.
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Washington
Richmond
Edwin A. Alderman
University of Virginia
Commonwealth Club
Alderman
Montague
Tablet for the Virginia likely bronze tablet and bust
Richmond dispatch reports that the Colonial Dames may skip presenting the battleship Virginia with a silver service. Instead they will likely commission a bronze tablet bearing Virginia's coat of arms and a bust of Commodore Maury. On May 13 they may lay the Jamestown church cornerstone for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities association.
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Washington Post
Richmond
John D. Long
Colonial Dames
Virginia
Commodore Maury
Jamestown
Association For the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities
Bishop S Barton Shoop Disappears in Maryland
Special to The Washington Post reports Bishop S Barton Shoop of Mapleville Maryland has vanished from home. Creditors allege 25 to 30 promissory notes forged for amounts from 1 to 900 dollars, totaling about 4000. District Court action filed. notes forged by a George W Petre. Shoop allegedly left Maryland to hinder creditors and is hiding from papers. He was Mapleville school principal and avoided a county teachers institute due to religious scruples.
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Washington Post
Hagerstown
S. Barton Shoop
German Baptist Brethren
Dunkard
Mapleville
Washington County
George W Petre
Petre
Shoop
Mapléville
Maryland
Canadian coal magnate jailed for contempt in West Virginia
Huntington March 23 Col. Cal C. B. Taylor of Montreal owner of a major coal operation along the Norfolk and Western in Mingo County was jailed by Judge Wilkinson after a dispute in the Williamson circuit court. The case arose during the Martha Daniels felony trial with prosecutor Douglas Brown. Taylor called Brown a name and was fined five dollars and sentenced to ten days in jail for contempt.
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Washington Post
Huntington
W. Va
Cal. C
Circuit Court
Martha Daniels
Douglas Brown
Col. Taylor
A Mar
Wilkinson
Girl Found Murdered Near Wheeling on Chapline Hill
Miss Hulda Schubert, seventeen, was found dead on Chapline Hill east of Wheeling after noon yesterday. She left her home Saturday with fiancé Frank Smith, later found with Charles O'Donnell. Autopsy showed no assault. valuables missing suggest robbery motive. Schubert was daughter of William Schubert, a dairyman, with a strong community reputation.
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Washington Post
Wheeling
W Va
Hulda Schubert
Chapline Hil
Miss Schubert
Frank Smith
Smith
Charles O'Donnell
William Schubert
Will Succeed Rollins Changes in Prince George County
Hyattsville Md March 23 It is stated that either John T Fisher of Oxon Hill district or Wallace W Rolling of Kent district will succeed William T Rollins who recently resigned as a member of the Republican State Central Committee for Prince George County Two other members B E Perkins and James Belt are government employees but Belt is not in the classified service Perkins works in the Internal Revenue Service and will resign when the order is published in his office He was a member who opposed Mr Mudd in the 1903 McComas vs Cox primary contest.
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Prince George County
Republican Committee
Washington Post
Hyattsville
John T Fisher
Oxon Hill
Wallace W. Rolling
Kent District
William T .S. Rollins
Republican State Central Committee
B. E. Perkins
James Belt
Perkins
Internal Revenue Service
Washington
Mudd
Senator McComas
Marlboro Fair Grounds Sold to Two Local Directors
Pecal reports the Southern Maryland Fair Association grounds and buildings sold under foreclosure to two Prince George’s County directors, ex-Congressman Charles Coffin of Muirkirk and William H. Smith, for 32600 with a 1500 lien. The association may reorganize and hold an August agricultural exhibition in Upper Marlboro. In Rockville, Md. cases disposed in Circuit Court include Cronenburg v Moore 921.74. Annie Smith executrix v Nathan Shetler 995. Deering Harvester Co. v Geo Ravage debtof 038. Warder Bushnell v George wages Rise a7. meeting separate case Frank Run and Htc versus D. Waters v Elizabeth J. Martin 123.14.
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Pecal
Wallington Co
Hyattsville
Southern Maryland Fair Association
Gettysburg
Charles ©. Coffin
Muirkirk
Wiliam H. Smith
Register of Wills
Prince Georgeounty
Upper Marlboro
Roe Washington Vom
Rockville
Ira J. Cronenburg
Clinton M. Moore
John W. Moore
Annie Smith
Executrix
Nathan Sheetler
Deering Harvester Company
Geol Ravage
Warder
Lessner Com
Emma
Hughes
Eugene Hughes
Frank
D. Waters
Rabeth J. Martin
Negro Shot by Policeman in Danville Virginia
March 23 a Black man named Maj Hairston alias John Major was shot by Police Officer J P Brooks after arrest. The suspect allegedly snatched the officer’s billy club and struck him before being wounded.
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Danville
Maj. Hairston
John Major
J. P. Brooks
Sunday Post
Fortheunday Post
Washington
Paine's Celery Compound Promises Sleep and Nerve Health
An advertisement extols Paine's Celery Compound as a universal nerve tonic that restores sleep and vitality. It quotes testimonials like C F Campbell praising relief from extreme nervousness and insomnia, claiming quick, lasting nerve restoration and broad health benefits across the body.
Reformatory plans and fatal rail accident reports
A compilation notes a man killed by a freight train near Val ley Bend on the West Virginia Central line while Elisha T Wamsley, a track foreman, dies. other items include a proposed girls reform school in Virginia and multiple local calamities such as a switchman killed in Charlotte and a drowning body found in the Norfolk river with unknown identity.
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Washington
Cumberland
Elisha T Wamsley
Wildell Lumber Company
Coal and Iron
West Virginia Central Railway
Valley Bend
Hilkins
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Maryland Court Action Franchise Amendment
Warfield
United States
Harry & Polkef
Helen A. Linthicum
Page
Bently Shriver & Co
Charles Leawards
Costa
Cowen and Warrar
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
Christian A Dietrich
Superior Court of
Thomas Sheridan
Baltimore and Ohio
Rairoad Company
Court of Common Pleas
Schmacher
Frances P. Reed
Amos Read
Circuit Court For
Kent County
Baltimore Humane Impartial Society
Aged Womens and
Tudge Boyd
Kenry J Handy
State of Maryland
Wicombo County
Theary
FP Huth
Margaret Hill
Dr. Miles
Siewapa
MET
Trustees IV Bankruptcy
Blue Mountain Steel Company
Charlotte
E. P Syoon
Spoon
Gott
Washington Port
James P Gott
LDOT
Supreme Court
Tronville
Joan Tase
Tirana
Koading Grugeiste
Sumphry Ford
Massachusetts Avenue
Alexandria News
Richmond Club
Lowney
Chocolate Bondons
Walter M. Lowney
Rev. S. Barton Shoop
Mapleville, Md
Williamson
Will
Rollins
Marlboro Fair
Montgomery Court
Paine
Charles F. ‘Campell
C. F. Campbell
Washington St
Boston
America
E E Phelps
Dartmouth University
Charles JF. Campbell
State Conference For Charities and Corrections
O. L. Barringer
A. W. Cowles
Charlotte, N. C
Alice Williame Cowles
Osmond L.yer
Paul Barringer
Clinton Baxter
Baxter
Port Norfolk
Twin City
Berkley
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