Denial in Estes Case Contained in Loving Scandal Letter
Special to The Washington from Fort Lynchburg Va reports State Senator Aubrey B. E. Strode denying that Miss Elizabeth Loving's letter exonerates Theodore Estes of maltreating her. The letter, read by friends, reveals Elizabeth's distress and her plea for prayers as she endures the tragedy and her father's death. Elizabeth writes of a bleak life, asks for support, and recalls her father’s courage amid public inquiry.
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Washington Fort Lynchburg
Aubrey BE Strode
Judge Loving
Theodore Estes
Oakridge
Elizabeth Loving
Estes
Strode
Miss Loving
Indorsed for Judgeship in Suffolk and Southampton Counties
A joint conference of the bar associations from Suffolk and Southampton counties endorsed Col Go E Holland for circuit judge. The meeting, with eighteen members present, selected committees and noted Holland’s unopposed state senate candidacy. Nomination details included Gov Swanset and various local figures from Suffolk and nearby areas.
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Waching
Minsemord
Southampton
Sufabe
Warsea
Col Go E Holland
Aign
Robert Rvatis Vosterdas
Robbin 7
Corporation Commission Shorte Wa
Suffolk
Franklin and Cortland
Omnittes
Q Pr
Col Hollands
Swanset James L Burges
James le McLemore
Robert W Withers
Suffolhk
Frank Stor
Claude J Layards
Tringha
Joseph B Prince
Cartland
Swanson Names Previtt for Commission Vacancy
Richmond May 2 governor Jorday appointed Circuit Judge Robert Previtt of Nansemond County to the corporation commission in succession of Judge Crump. Former Judge W F Rhea of Bristol received the offer but preferred waiting for the Southwest Virginia seat vacancy amid forthcoming retirement of Hon S C G Stuart. Hit by Baseball Unconscious Special to The Washington Post Ashbury N C May 2 Morris Schwartz about fourteen struck in head by a baseball yesterday by Tommy Sides of Prastate and in critical condition. unconscious since the occurrence. both boys sons of well known men here. Fort Fredericksburg May 2 C C Carn of Alexandria candidate for Democratic nomination for Congress Eighth district attended King George court and spoke to fathers, well received. Warrenton May 2 Mrs Agnes Pickett Kloman died at home after brief pneumonia. survived by husband Dr E Kiloman and ten children. Roanoke May 7 Mrs Julia A Lunsford widow of Charles Lunsford died last night of heart trouble at sixty nine. leaves four sons and two daughters. Suffolk May 2 Mrs Betile Kellogg died at home near Sunbury. fifty years old. survived by two daughters and three sons. Fredericksburg May 2 Alexander Coppiga veteran of Stafford County died today near Hartwood of typhoid fever. aged seventy three. survived by several children.
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Richmond
Jorday
Robert Previtt
Nansemond County
Corporation Commission
Crump
W F Rhea
Bristol
Southwest Virginia
S CG
Stuart
Washington Post
aHsbury N c
Morris Schwartz
Tommy Sides
Sunbury
Fredericksburg
Alexander Coppiga
Stafford County
Hartwood
Peveda
Pocket picked on Baltimore streetcar steals $450 wallet
Baltimore May 2 expert pick pockets on streetcars stole a wallet containing $450 from Greenbury T. Hackett of Grange Post Office Baltimore County as he rode toward Towson. He had just drawn 600 at a bank and was jostled by four men. The thieves disappeared after the theft and no arrests have been made.
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Washington Post
Baltimore
Greenbury T. Hackett
Grange Post Office
Baltimore County
Hackett
Holliday
Towson
Big County
Fayette and
Holliday and
Pleasant Streets
Mr Hackett
Broken Heart Verdict in $10,000 Suit Against Dr Cherry
Miss Rose Solader, Newark cigar factory worker, sued Dr Henry A Cherry of East Baltimore for breach of promise of marriage. A Baltimore Circuit Court jury awarded $10,000 after hearing she loaned him years of savings and he later married another woman. The verdict follows a prior $424 judgment in a separate suit.
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Washington Post
Baltimore
Rose Solader
Newark
Henry A Cherry
East Baltimore
Towson
Duncan
van Bibber
Cherry
Miss Solader
Boarman
Lindsay
Dr Cherry
Court of Common Pleas
Mra Amnie Shapiro
Baltimore Street
Pardons Kincaid in Raleigh Case
Gov Glenn grants a pardon to Johny Kincaid, convicted in Gaston County in 1906 for killing William Brown, a bigamist who betrayed Kincaid’s sister and remarried on Brown’s wedding day. The governor cites self defense and a sense of moral outrage at Brown’s betrayals, justifying the pardon.
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Washington Post
Raleigh
Glenn
Johny Kincaid
Gaston County
William Brown
Kincaid
Brown
Durham Hotel Carolina Burns Amid Fire Damage
Durham MNC May 2 The Hotel Carolina was found ablaze around midnight and burned nearly completely as Raleigh engines aided local crews Several firefighters were lightly injured by falling walls The hotel stood on a large block near the American Tobacco Company's plant in the business district Wilmington NC May 2 A tall shaft honoring Cornelius Harnett and Revolutionary heroes of the Lower Cape Fear River was unveiled Dr C Alphonze Smith UNC English chair spoke on Harnett's life and character
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Washington Post
Durham
Carolina
Raleigh
Tne
American Tobacco Company
Wilmington
North Carolina Society of the Colonial Dames of America
Cornelius Harnett
Cape Pear River
Harnett
Alphonze Smith
University of North Carolina
Actor Robbed of 256 Dollars In Salisbury Stage Show
Special to The Washington Fest Salisbury, Robbed actor William Ritchie lost $250 placed in a trunk before performing. Janitor Tom Craven, a Negro, is under arrest at the Salisbury theater. Special to The Washington Post. Annapolis court notes outline cross appeals in Maryland case involving Central Trust.
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Salisbury
William Ritchie
Tom Craven
Washington Post
Annapolis
Court of Appeals
State of Maryland
Central Trust Company of Maryland
Cross Appeals
Court of Companion Pleas
Boy Kills His Father After Years of Abuse
Coroner's jury in Catonsville Maryland returns a verdict of justifiable homicide after Henry Middlekamp aged seventeen shoots his father Henry Middlekamp following a brutal seven teen year pattern of cruelty toward the mother Mrs Middlekamp. The father a former subtreasury watchman died of internal hemorrhage after being shot in the kitchen. Neighbors testified to the alleged abuse and the son acted to defend his mother.
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Catonsville
Baltimore
Washington Post
T. Henry Middlekamp
Henry
Middlekamp
Still Chance for Rhea in Virginia Corporation Commission
Richmond readers learn former judge William F Rhea of Bristol declines the post to succeed Beverly Crump on the State Corporation Commission. Judge Robert R Prentis of Suffolk is named to fill Crump’s unexpired term ending February 1, 1910, with Swanson resigning then. Governor Swanson may reappoint Prentis.
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Washington Post
Richmond
William F Rhea
Bristol
Beverly Tt Crump
State Corporation Commission
Robert R F Prentis
Suffolk
Judge Prentis
Crump
Gov Swanson
Gov. Swanson
Stuart
Rhea
Pilgrimage for Bryce to Jamestown Island May 13
British Ambassador James Bryce has accepted an invitation to join the Society for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities on the Jamestown Island pilgrimage May 13 marking the first English settlement. He initially declined, then reconsidered after talks with W Gordon McCabe, Joseph Bryan, and Dr Thomas Nelson Page. In Richmond he will stay as the guest of Gov and Mrs Swan and attend as the English government representative in the ceremonies.
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Washington Post
Richmond
James Bryce
United States
Society For the Preservation of
Virginia
Jamestown Island
Gov
Swan
Tragedy at Spencer as Muse is Shot by Fox
In Spencer N G on May 2 Fred Muse was killed by George Fox a Southern Railway yard worker. After Fox slept on duty Muse lit a rag under his nose provoking Fox to fetch a pistol and fire three shots at Muse, who died. Fox jailed. Dick Guilty of Embezzlement in Cumberland. Paroled from the Pittsburgh firm case verdict reached late tonight.
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Washington Post
Spencer
N .G
Fred Muse
George Fox
Southern Railway
Fox
Muse
Cumberland
Robert A L .Dich
Pitteburg
Pabst Blue Ribbon Beer Endorsed by Temperance Leaders
Temperance workers approve mild stimulant beer arguing it does not spur strong drink and supports health. Pabst Blue Ribbon claims the lowest alcohol percent and highest nourishing food content, touting a practical healthful brewing process. Call Pabst Brewing Co at Bust 1431 T085 North Capitol Street. ask for Pabst.
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Pabst
Pabst Brewing CO
North Capitol Street
Pabst Blue Ribbon
Chained Prisoners Escape From Virginia Quarry
Four African American prisoners chained together by waists and linked by a single chain broke from the city chain gang at the Danville rock quarry about a mile beyond the limits. They ran through a street as a unit while pursued by a lone officer who lacked help to avoid endangering others seeking freedom.
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Danville
Rock Quarry
Gee
Attempt on Magistrate James O Grady Near Fulton Porch
Special to The Washington Port Richmond Va May 2 A late night assault on Magistrate James O Grady on his Fulton porch left him with a painful chin injury after a cobblestone hit him and a second stone missed. No arrests reported.
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Washington
Richmond
James O'Grady
Fulton
O Grady
Fourteen Dead In Whipple Mine Disaster At Scarboro
Charleston May 2 bodies of fourteen miners recovered from the Whipple Mine at Scarboro after a gas explosion late yesterday. Five others were injured and removed today. The mine sustained only minor damage and the cause remains unknown. Names of the deceased listed. one worker identified as colored. End.
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Charleston
W Va
Whipple
Scarboro
Robert Armstrong
Charles Burgess
Nutson Burgess
Ras Wiley Raleigh Tucker
ED Smith
George Samper
William Wilson
John Thompson
Arnold Kelly
RA Kelly
John Longton
James Farmouth
Samuel Longworth
Assynick
Daughters of the Revolution Open National Convention Sessions
In Wheeling West Virginia May 2 the General Society of the Daughters of the Revolution opened its national convention business sessions. Welcome remarks by Mrs Plateit Zane and response by national president Mrs D Phoen Ingraham highlighted the Washington memorial Arch in Cambridge Mass. Treasurer Mary A Kerr reported 60 percent member turnout with receipts of 5991 and disbursements of 4638. Fore Wits nominated candidates for board of managers including Mrs Abeel New York and others from Massachusetts New Jersey New York Long Island West Virginia Pennsylvania Kentucky and Ontario. Further nominations await tomorrow morning ahead of the ten-person election.
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Wheeling
W Va
General Society of the Daughters of the Revolution
Plateit Zane
West Virginia Society
D. Phoenix Ingraham
New York
Wits
Board of Managers
J . Abeel
Mary A. Chapman
Massachusetts
Mary A. Ward
New Jersey
Mary EB
Butterick
Long Island
Susan Plummer
Olive Mayhew
Louike Heed
West Virginia
Louise Drear
Pennsylvania
W. J McCarty
Kentucky
W. Ireland
Found Dead Beside Track Near Fredericksburg
Thomas J. Gately of Fredericksburg was found beside the Richmond Fredericksburg Potomac Railroad track one mile north of the city in Stafford County. He was killed by a train, the head severed, after arriving by steamer from the Rappahannock and boarding a northbound Seaboard line about 11 o’clock. He was thirty seven and survived by several brothers and sisters.
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Washington Post
Fredericksburg
Thomas J. Gately
Richmond, Frederickspure and Potomac
Stafford County
Gately
Rappahannock
Seaboard Line
Multiple Local News Briefs From May Day Notices
Richmond woman plans a $10,000 suit for defamation after being accused of improper relations in court and acquitted. In Rockville, Richard L. Saunders seeks the Democratic nomination for county commissioner from the Fourth district, joining three others. In Wadesboro a colored man is jailed without bail for allegedly assaulting an eleven year old girl. Cumberland reports David Clark died by ingesting laudanum while despondent. In Oak Grove Miss Frances Wirt Washington wed Calvin Bayné Spilman at St. Patrick’s Church with a large local wedding party and guests. The bride is a granddaughter of Dr. William Wirt of Wirtland. the groom operates a Colonial Beach business.
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Washington Post
Richmond
Rosa Crouch
Harry M Smith, Jr
Beverly Calloway
Rockville
Richard L. Saunders
Potomac District
John Walter Carroll
Charien Weirs
Humphrey Cistell
Oak Grove
St. Pi ‘S Church
Yeadeyday
Frances Wirt Washington
Westmoreland
Calvin Bayné Spilman
Philippe Hungerford
Matton of Honor
Watt Mayo
George Mason
Locke Griffth
Augustius Latane
Minace Grace
Greenlaw
Isebst Washington
Irdn
Glenn Spillman
Ware
Fortuy
Bir
Colonial Beach
William Wirt
Wirtland
Spillman
Pioneer in glass industry Andrew Schwarzmann dies in fall
Alexandria brief reports the death of Andrew Schwarzmann at 72 after a fall from a flight of steps at his North Columbus street home. Survived by wife, six sons, five daughters. He was a Germany-born glass industry pioneer in Alexandria, and funeral is Sunday at 3 PM.
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Andrew Schwarzmann
Columbus Street
Mr. Schwarzmann
Wurtemburg
Germany
Philadelphia
Alexandria
Virginia Realty Title Company
Howard W. Smith
Lupton Fought Six Gales in Atlantic Voyage
Special to The Washington Post. The schooner F. and T. Lupton, loaded with cross ties, sailed from Brunswick for Baltimore on March 27 and endured six gales over 35 days, drifting hundreds of miles off course and losing sail and cargo before being towed into Norfolk by the Juniata.
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Washington Post
Norfolk
Brunswick
Saile
T. Lupton
Juniata
Boston
Hog Island
Cape Henry
Lupton
Baltimore
Aistreas
Poster Awards Today at Veerhoff Gallery
Sixty student posters are displayed at Veerhoff's gallery on F Street Northwest for a Playgrounds competition. Judges will award prizes of ten dollars and another prize, then the posters go on public exhibit today and tomorrow before being auctioned after the song festival for the school playground fund.
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Veerhoff
F Street Northwest
Washington Playground Association
New National Theater
School Playground Fund
Sentences Approved for Three Enlisted Men at Fort Myer
Brigadier General Frederick D. Grant approved sentences for three soldiers tried at courts martial near Washington. Lazotte, Snodgrass, and Craig faced drunkenness on duty, desertion, and related charges. Lazotte and Snodgrass received three months hard labor and $10 forfeitures for six months. Craig faced desertion and received dishonorable discharge, forfeiture of pay, and one year plus one day hard labor.
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Frederick D. Grant
Department of the Host
Washington
Bber I
Lazotte
Thirteenth Cavalry
Fort Myer
Francia R. Snodgrass
Lawrence Craig
Fifteenth Cavalry
Washington Barracks
Snodgrass
Craig
Long illness claims Montague Merryman of King George
Montague Merryman, a prominent King George County resident, died at Providence Hospital after a long illness. Funeral services are set for tomorrow with interment at Grenwood Cemetery. Born June 23, 1831 in Carroll County, he served in the Civil War and later farmed at Chestnut Grove before living with his son Russell G Merryman in Ballston. He is survived by his wife and two sons.
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Montague Merryman
King George County
Providence Hospital
Grenwood Cemetery
Mr Merryman
Carroll County
Lfe
Chestnut Grove
Ruszell G Merryman
Ballston, Va
Handsome Residence Planned by Gen Kearny Architects Chosen
Gen John Watts Kearny, owner of the corner lot at Twenty second and FR streets NW, selects Wyeth and Cresson to draft plans for a handsome residence. The block already hosts several new homes, with Rep Olcott of New York, Hennen Jennings, and Mr Keep among the builders in the area.
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Gen. Kearny
John Watts Kearny
Twenty-second
Wyeth & Cresson
Representative Olcott
New York
Hennen Jennings
Mr. Keep
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Fy Billa
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Virginia Weddings
Alexandria News
George Midgets
Washington Fort Bureau
King Street
Robby D. Brumback
William Johnson
Charles T. Smith
Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia
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Corporation Court
Adolph Luria
Ideal Hospital Bed Company of
Chicago
Canal Basin
Methodist Protestant Church
G I Humphries
Edgar Carpenter
Grace Episcopal Church
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Mr Humphries
Sarah E. Jasper
Ivy Hil
Richard Broders
Washington, Alexandria and Mount Were
Broders
Hunting Creek Bridge
William Murphy
Wheatley
Thomas B Murphy
Egbert A Thompson
Fairfax County
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North Alfred Street
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Normoyle
Hugh J. Strider
Jonathan Matthews
Cameron, Queen, Fayette, and
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Cellie F Newton
Fayette Streets
Chatham
Grant
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Brazil
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