VETOED BY WARFIELD Defers large deficiency bill in Maryland house
State House, Annapolis March 2 Gov Warfield vetoed the deficiency appropriation bill noting the amount, $50 000, is excessive and proposing $25 000 suffices. He would sign a defic ency bill only after establishing actual needs. House plans to act Monday, with sentiment leaning to overriding the veto. Senate dust-up over telegraphers hours follows as Lee and Brewington clash, Moore replaced by Biddison in a conference committee. New bills aim to repeal the all year racing charter for Allegany and authorize racing and betting, plus a suburban real estate venture incorporation near the District of Columbia.
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Washington Post
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Moore
Corporations Committee
Biddison
Hit
Prince George County
Allegany
Stump
Allegany County
Dr. Hil
Suburban Realty and Improvement Company
Maryland
A. Wells
Richard N. Ryan
M. Hampon Magruder
Charles C. Mayer
Edward Daniels
District of Columbia
Deep Snow Hits Virginia In Severe Winter Storm
Special to The Washington Fest reports heavy continuous snow in Petersburg and Warsaw and Lexington with several inches on the ground. Petersburg records snowfall since morning, Warsaw reports seven inches, Lexington eight inches, delaying Virginia Military Institute game with Locustdale Academy.
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Virginia Watchman slain in Texas mill relate to insult
T D Overton aged twenty five was shot and killed at Beaumont rice mill by night watchman A Mold who said Overton insulted him. Mold claimed Overton returned with a pistol and fired three times. Overton’s home was in Virginia. Final meeting of fisheries board in Richmond outlines transition to new state board. Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals proceedings reported, including rehearing petitions. Maryland National Guard company mustered out after February 1903 formation. most members discharged.
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Washington Post
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Virginia
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Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals
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W. Read
Commonwealth
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Wytheville
Waamington
Rockville
Maryland National Guard
Gaither
Will Arrest Druggists In Virginia Board Plan
Richmond March M The State board of pharmacy adjourned after electing posts for the coming year and adopting resolutions urging strict enforcement of pharmacy laws. The board will act against those disregarding the laws and work with Commonwealth's attorneys to protect the public in medicine sales. The main campaign targets druggists who employ unregistered pharmacists or assistants and lax handling of narcotics like laudanum cocaine and chloroform. Officers named: President James L Avis Harrisonburg secretary T A Miller Richmond directors B Fleet Lynchburg S Kearfoot Martinsville and George Mankin Falls Church.
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Washington Post
Richmond
State Board of Pharmacy
Yarious Commonwealth
James L Avis
Harrisonburg
Kearfoot
Martinsville
George Mankin
Falls Church
Roanoke Mayor charges civic league bid to extend power
Roanoke Mayor Joel H. Cutehin denounced a meeting at the M M A Building as an effort by a ten member committee to organize a civic improvement league and perpetuate itself by altering the constitution. About seventy business leaders and city pastors attended the session as Rev T H Hackers defended the move stating officials should scrutinize any objection.
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Washington Post
Roanoke
Joel H. Cutehin
Civic Improvement League
Improvement League
T. H. Hackers
Larceny Charge Shocks Equitable Agent in Parkersburg
G Duckworth, agent for Equitable Life in New York, is charged with larceny in Parkersburg after investigations showed he issued life policies to fictitious persons and collected payments. Thomas Cashin of the company aided the inquiry, leading to his arrest on one larceny count.
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Washington Post
Parkersburg
W. Va
G. Duckworth
Equitable Life Assurance Society of New York
Iife
Thomas Cashin
Duckworth
Rev Thomas H Pegram Dies at 81 in North Carolina
Special to The Weebington Post Winston-Salem N C March 24 Rev Thomas Howard Pegram one of North Carolina s best known ministers died today at eighty two born January 11 1825 Guilford County licensed to exhort at nineteen to preach and helped shape the North Carolina Methodist Protestant Conference He later joined the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1877 and was superannuated in 1904 after a ministry of over fifty years he built thirty seven churches and several parsonages planning his own funeral to be held Monday six ministers chosen as pallbearers
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Weebington Fost
Winston-Salem
N. C
Thomas Howard Pegram
North Carolina
Guilford County
Methodist Episcopal Church
Salisbury
High Point
Horses plunge into the river at Berkeley slip incident
A bus on Berkeley Street Railway Company transfer service collided with a team hitched to a wagon at the Berkeley ferry slip in Norfolk. The team owned by Liveryman W. J. Davis, plunged into the river. The bus driver, a colored boy, jumped clear and escaped.
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Washington Post
Norfolk, Va
Norfolk and Southern Railroad
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W. J. Davis
Berkeley Street Railway Company
Norfolk arson confession tied to multiple fires
Special to Washington Pest from Norfolk Virginia March 2 0 Bud Savage confessed this afternoon to arson saying he started several recent Norfolk County fires. He named Toy Howard a young machinist as his alleged accomplice and both were arrested and held in county jail.
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Savage
Toy Howard
Howard
Jabbed Pitchfork into Boy's Eye in Va incident
A colored youth Philip Henney attacked white boy Andrew Taggett with a pitchfork in Richmond Virginia. A prong pierced the eye and the remainder of the eye was removed amid claims Taggett threw a brick and was pulling Henney from a wagon. Elsewhere Dr Hubert Cowan of Norfolk hospital sustains blood poisoning from a dressing wound. In Fairmont a three year old boy Gail Fletcher burned to death after locking in an upstairs room as clothes ignited from a gas fire.
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Richmond
Philip Hensley
J. J. Rankw
Andrew Taggart
Henney Dclares Taggett
Sicial
Washington
Radford
Hubert Cowan
Norfolk and Wester
Tidewater Hospital
Washington Post
Fairmont
W. Va
Gail
H. G. Fletcher
Winders Hope Dwindles In Plea For Clemency
A Washington dispatch reports Gov Warfield will not reprieve or commute Isaac Winder’s death sentence. He cites no special clemency grounds from recapture and notes many letters urging mercy or urging the law run its course. The missives include anonymous notes and a teen schoolgirl urging harsher action and a colored resident demanding execution.
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Isaac Winder
Perpong
Winder
Merger Planned for Norfolk Traction and Lighting
Norfolk Baltimore March 24 Arrangements nearly complete for a new company to take over the street railway and electric light plants of Norfolk and nearby Portsmouth and Berkley. A $2,000,000 capital raise will fund expansion for the Jamestown Exposition. The Norfolk and Portsmouth Traction Company may be formed to operate about 112 miles of electric railway with a $1,000,000 power station, cars, and improvements, under Middendorf Williams Co and John L Williams Son Co sponsorship.
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Washington Post
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Norfolk and Vicinity
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Berkley
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Norfolk and Portsmouth Traction Company
Middendorft, Wiliams & Co
John L. Williama& Songz
Trienna
Gov Swan son names staff officers for Virginia duties
Richmond Va March 24 Gov Swanson announces staff appointments naming Col Eugene C Massie of Richmond as chief along with a list of colonels serving nationwide from Petersburg Norfolk Chatham Richmod and other Virginia towns including Roanoke Suffolk Hampton Newport News and Lynchburg with Culpeper and Chase City among postings
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Richmond
Washington Post
Swanson
Cal
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Ata
George E. Cameron
Petersburg
Joseph Tiawipes
Norfalk
OS. Reid
Chatham
Thomas Bi Mradams
Richmad
L. C. Pettit
Dig Stone Gap
Garland FP. Moore
Caps Charle
Scott Parrish
Richmom
James ¥. Woods
Roanoke
E. West
Suffolk
Nelson S. Groome
Hampton
W J Payne
Paonllt Rucker
Mariinsville
Robert P Holt
Newport News
A . Livford, Jr
B. H. Roberts
Century Mine Explosion Claim Blown-Out Shot Suspected
One body recovered at Century Mine and another feared buried under debris as death toll rises to twenty three from Thursday's blast. Mine Inspector J A Paul and Coroner Chenoweth conduct exhaustive inquiry with coroner's inquest to follow. Company official Wissel forecasts damage under 310 and says operations will resume after inspectors' report.
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Phillipps
W. Va
J. A Paul
Chenoweth
Henjamin Wissel
Century Coal Company
Freight Train Plows Landslide Near Cherry Run
An eastbound Western Maryland freight derailed in a cut west of Cherry Run due to a heavy landslide loosened by rain and snow. Hundreds of tons of earth blocked the track, parts of the slide sliding into the Chesapeake and Ohio canal. Special dispatches report accompanying local incidents and personnel changes in Virginia and Maryland.
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Hagerstown
Cumberland Division
Western Maryland Railroad
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Chesapeate and Ohio Canal
Guilty of Manslaughter In Maryland Case
In Hagerstown Maryland March 2 a jury after about an hour found Druggist F William Hermann and the negro doctor John H Tompkins guilty of manslaughter in the death of Miss Jean Maxwell of Cumberland last Jum a Hermann allegedly hired Tompkins for an illegal operation The case was moved from Allegany County A juror Hezekiah Snavely faces disappearance rumors and a possible bribe The verdict was delivered with composure Tompkins wife sobbed The defense will not seek a new trial Sentences await next week with maximum ten years in prison or a 1000 fine or both
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Hagerstown
F. William Hermann
John H. Tompking
Jean Maxwell
Cumber- Ind
Juma
Hermann
Tompkins
Allegany County
Hezekiah Snavely
Snavely
Deputy Postmaster Debate Leaves Choice in Air in Alexandria
The Alexandria deputy postmaster selection remains unsettled after a last night meeting among Park Agnew former Virginia Republican chairman Postmaster Crupper and Assistant Postmaster Burroughs who will succeed Crupper. Names discussed include James E H Johnston P J Laphen F T Quinn and others amid political maneuvering and a crowd that could not agreement. Snow delayed traffic between Alexandria and Washington while a case of Sorrell was withdrawn after stolen items were recovered. No services at Second Church due to building improvements. Madeline Churchman daughter of Charles E Churchman died aged fifteen and Emma Strauss died at sixty one.
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Gil King Street
Alexandria
Park Agnew
Republican State Committee of Virginia
Crupper
Burroughs
Agnew
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Cropper
Senate
A. H. Agnew
J. A. Egghorn
F. C. Beattie
Fairfax County
Beattie
Bond
James HE. Johnston
P. J. Laphen
F. T. Quinn
EATEN OUT OF HOUSE AND HOME DIAGNOSIS REPORT
A Des Moines druggist wife tells how her brother, a Chicago lawyer, recovered from chronic dyspepsia after using Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets. He reportedly gained weight, regained appetite, and says he has not been troubled by dyspepsia since. The ad extols the product as a natural aid that assists digestion and tissue repair. Tablets sold by druggists at 3 cents a box, with one box often curing.
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Chicago
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Nature
Natuart
STOP LIQUOR TRAFFIC. MONTGOMERY GRAND JURY URGES FUNDS
The Montgomery grand jury of the Merch term urges county officials to provide funds to the State's attorney for obtaining evidence against violators along the District of Columbia line and Condgult road. It also asks the sheriff to direct deputies to curb disorderly houses and places with gambling or sale of intoxicating liquor, to secure convictions.
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Washington Post
Rockville
Merch
District of Columba Line
Condgult Road
Eighth District Primary Seeks 5 Dollar Candidate Fee
In Manassas Virginia the Eighth Congressional district Democratic committee levied a five dollar assessment on each candidate. By April 18 all hopefuls must pay to qualify for the primary. Incumbent Rixey is expected to face no opposition. The group also vowed to fill Judge McCabe’s vacancy in June.
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Washington Peat
Manassas
Democratic Congressional Committee
Eighth Congressional District
James M. McCabe
Discharge for Holloway and Buckner Hearing. Buckner Held
Cleveland Holloway and W H Buckner Jr of Caroline County faced charges of using the mails for fraudulent purposes before United States Commissioner W W Butzner in Fredericksburg. Buckner granted $500 bail. Buckner Sr charged with using a false name and title, case sent to Richmond grand jury. Secretary Shaw to speak at West Virginia Bankers Association meeting June 19-26 in Elkins. A J Griffeth, brother of Mrs Cole, dies in St Louis. survived by three sisters and one brother.
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Grand Jury
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Washinston Pea Elkins
W. Vac
Shaw
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Aeee
A. J. Griffeth
Washington Post
Leesburg
St. Louis
3. W. Cole
Purcellville
Loudoun County
J. T. Griffeth
Jefferson, W. Va
Slayer Of Father Frees Frank Purcell In Defense Case
In Atlante Georgia on March 4 Judge Ormond acquits Frank Purcell, who killed his father Henry J. Purcell in defense of his mother. The courtroom erupts as Mrs Purcell and his wife Mamie Purcell react with vivid joy, rushing to comfort him. Continuous sobs and exclamations fill the hall as the decision sinks in.
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Frank Purcell
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Washington Post
Henry J. Purcell
Ormond
Judge Ormond
Purcell
Lusband
Doy
Union Men Barred by 30 High Point Factories
Thirty furniture and glass factories in High Point North Carolina notified about 2900 employees that after April 2 no union workers would be employed. Employers cite intimidation of nonunion workers and claim High Point laborers are well paid. No demonstrations occurred and most union workers are expected to return to work. High Point has 5000 workers with 1510 unions and forty other factories.
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High Point
Charlotte
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South
Modern Noise-Makers on Marine Vessels and Pleasure Craft
An overview of maritime sound devices from tin horns to mechanical foghorns and bellows and air whistle contrivances. The article notes these devices as essential for warning of presence or approach, signaling in crowded waterways, and locating boats at night, with varying ranges from a mile to several miles.
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Lin Marine
Inter
Quiet Quarrel Sparks Paper Letters Mischief
An exchange about destroying love letters turns playful as Jeanette and a friend recall tearing up notes from Jack. The Chicago News vignette then pivots to a joke about a man who enjoyed moving, revealing a houseboat resident Flatleigh in a humorous bit.
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Jeanette
Jack
van Camp
Flatleigh
Would That Every Family Knew Its Value
A testimonial endorses Father John's Medicine as a cure for colds throat and bronchial trouble. Signed by Ursuline Sisters Waterville underscores its claimed preventive effect on pneumonia and consumption and its body building health benefits.
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Father John
Ursuline Sisters
Ursuline Convent
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