Congress Adjourns Early for Railway Exhibit Tour
Delegates of the International Railway Congress adjourned at 2 p.m. to visit the American railway appliance exhibit on the Monument grounds. Vice President Fairbanks and party toured the display. receptions were held at German and French embassies. Sections debated lighting, heating, ventilation, and finances for tight railways with papers by Dudley and Banovits. observers noted uneven attendance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
International Railway Congress
Mra
Wairbanke
Congress
It Ia
Stuyvesant Fieh
Ihinoig Central Railroad Company
Charles B Dudley
Chemtat
Pennsylvania Railroad Company
Casetan Ban~ovite
Dudley
America
Banovits
Colson
State of France
B. A. Hiffer
Lemberg-Czernowicz- Jassy
France
Belghim Proasia
Ireland
Great Britain
Gifford Pinchot
United States Bureau of Forestry
Fairbanks
Post
J. Alexander Brown
Alexander Brown
Deems
Mirs Rosa
Noble
New Willart Hotel
Rotway Association
Appropriation Shortfall Looms for Exposition Party
A congressional party planning to attend the Lewis and Clark Exposition risks a deficit as many delegates intend to bring numerous female family members. Senate sergeant at arms Daniel M. Ransdell vows to prevent a shortfall, despite initial funding of 10000 dollars. The group planned to gather in Chicago and travel to Portland starting May 26, with 15 Representatives and 10 Senators designated to attend. A push for 45000 dollars was rejected amid Southern opposition.
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Congressional
Congressions
Lkely
Congress
Daniel M. Ransdell
Senate
Chicago
Portland
Death of veteran artist Flavius Fisher dies at Mount Pleasant
Flavius J. Fisher, famed portrait painter, died at 7:90 last night at his home M423 Brown street Mount Pleasant. He leaves a widow and son Josaph Albert. Services will be at the house with interment at Oak Hill Cemetery. Born in Wytheville Virginia, he studied in Philadelphia Germany and Paris and was the first American admitted to the German Art Institute in Berlin. For 23 years his Corcoran Building studio housed portraits of William L Wilson Hoke Smith Cardinal Gibbons and Albert Pike among others. In twelve weeks he painted Samuel Miller from memory, a feat praised by friends. the portrait will hang at the Female Orphan Asylum in ciburg Va. He could do portraits with two sittings and kept a keen memory throughout.
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Flavius J. Fisher
United States
Brown Street
Mount Pleasant
Josaph Albert
Oak Hill Cemetery
Mr. Fisher
Wytheville
Virginia
Philadelphia
Germany
Paris
German Art Institute
Berlin
Fisher
Corcoran
Flst
William L. Wilson
Hoke Smith
Cardinal Gibbons
Albert Pike
Samuel Miller
Miller
Meher
Pelea
Female Orphan Asylum
Ciburg
Tate
Mahler
British denial blocks full pardon for Maybrick
A cable from Ambassador Choate to the State Department reports Britain will not grant a complete pardon to Florence E. B. Maybrick. The aim was to clear her testimony for her mother Baroness Caroline von Roques in the Armstrong land suit involving 2,500,000 acres in Virginia and Kentucky. The baroness and Mrs Maybrick are in Washington en route to Richmond to testify. new subpoenas were requested in New York as the Maybricks plan to participate in the May 18 hearing.
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State Department
Ambassador Choate
Florence EB. Maybrick
Maybrick
Washington
Richmond
Armstrong
Clayton EB. Emig
Feduka
John H. Walter
Sime. von Requea
Walters
Emig
Colorado
Dirs
Postum Food Coffee Praised For Heart Palpitations Cure
A Brooklyn man credits giving up coffee with curing daily heart palpitations after years of habit. He switched to Postum Food Coffee, learned to boil it 16 minutes, and found it palatable and energizing with no harmful stimulation. Published by Postum Co. Battle Creek for promotion.
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Brooklyn
Postum
Postum Co
Battle Creek
Mich
Wellville
Fields on Trial for Embezzlement in District Court
Thomas M. Fields, a lawyer and receiver for the defunct Washington Beneficial Endowment Association, is on trial before Justice Wright and a jury for embezzling nearly 316,000. The day focused on motions, evidence rulings, and jury selection, with one witness, B. McComas Hawker, testifying about court records. proceedings adjourned after 8 p.m. The case features arguments over papers, receiverships, and prior enactment dates, with Fields pleading not guilty and a jury panel seated for trial.
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Thomas M. Fields
Justice Wright
Washington Sonancial Endowment Association
Andrew A. Lipscomb
B. McComas Hawker
District Supreme Court
Hawkens
Fileroogn
Beach
Fielde
Washington Beneficial Endowment Association
Fields
New York State
Mields
Banby- Smith
Hawken
Messia, Fields and Lipscomb
Endowment Association
Washington Loan and Trust Company
Prker
Walker
Growth of Postal System Discussed by Huebner at Society Meeting
Mr Huebner of the Post Office Department spoke at the Columbia Historical Society final meeting before summer adjournment. He traced American postal growth from stagecoach to pony rider, steamboat, and railroad with participation by Waller Granger Johnston Beall and others.
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Huebner
Columbia Historical Society
Horeham Hotel
American Postal System
Francia C. Huebner
Post Office Department
Michail J. .Waller
Bpofford
W. B. Gryan
Tileston Granger
B. Johnston
William Henry Dennis
Blakeslee Johnston
Beall
Italian Laborer Struck By Iron Bolt on Virginia Ave
Tuno Belga, an Italian laborer age 28, was struck on the head by an iron bolt wielded by John HH, a Black man, on Virginia Avenue between Pirat and second streets SW. Belga was knocked unconscious, later won his frame, and the assailant was jailed. Randolph Nelson, a Black man age 45 of 616 Twenty-fifth Street NW, was caught between two handcars at the Lenarlity works and taken to Emergency Hospital with a fracture. injuries reported after yesterday afternoon incident.
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Albert Proctor
Seventeenth
Esat Capitol Streets
South Carolina Avenue
Washington Asylum Hospital
Gril
Tuno Belga
John HH
Virginia Avenue
Pirat
Second Streets
Aia I
Randolph Nelson
Twenty-fifth Street
Lenarlety Works
Defends Tax Office Levy Fairness in District
Assessor H. H. Darneille defends assessor boards against accusations of bias toward large holdings. He explains tax rules, two thirds valuation standards, and urges residents to appeal excess assessments to the Board of Equalization for fair, justified taxation. He stresses board integrity and duty without imposing undue taxpayer hardship.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. H. Darneille
Board of Isalerant
Cauade
Fpetworth Citizens' Association
Assessore BS
Darneille
Mr. Dorneille
Congress
Darneilie
Board of Personal Tax Appraisers
Board of Equalization and Teylon
Board of Personal Tax Appeals
Darnostie
Board of ‘Equalization and Review
Death by Own Action in Street Car at Motrest Georgetown
Frank M. Everett aged about sixty two, a former government and district employee recently connected with Vassar Phosphate Company, shot himself yesterday on a car at Motrest Street Georgetown. He was taken to Georgetown University Hospital where he died soon after. No motive could be learned. Everett had long carried a pistol, health issues including nervous condition from yellow fever, and lived at 8306 Prescott Avenue Georgetown. Coroner Nevitt investigated, but details of family and occupation remained unclear. Police at Greely Colo were notified. Everett was a lifelong Washington resident and son of a Civil War veteran.
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Frank M. Everett
Prescott Avenue
Georgetown
Capitol
Motrest
Georgetown University Hospital
W. Sangerjohns
Everett
Vassar Phosphate Works
Baltimore
Vassar
Nevitt
Eiverett
Hia Tate
Capt Boardman
Detectioe Bureau
Tenthstraat
Gresley
Colo
Weather bulletin notes cold fronts and widespread showers
Weather conditions report from WA Dept of Agriculture and Weather Bureau notes a disturbance moving from Wisconsin toward the Lake region and Upper Ohio Valley with colder air and scattered showers. Forecast calls for more showers Tuesday across Missouri Valley and Rockies, with colder temperatures spreading to the Middle Atlantic and New England coasts. Winds vary by region, frost warnings issued for Minnesota Wisconsin Michigan and northeastern Iowa. Local report lists temperatures, humidity, rainfall and sun data for the day.
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Dept. of Agriculture
Weather Bureau
Washington
Wisconsin
Lawrence Valley
Lake Reaion
Michian
Rocky Mountains
Lake Region
Ohio Valley
South Atlantic
East Delt
Plateau
Rocky Mountain
Pacific
Upper Lake Region
Middle Rocky Mountain
Middle Atlantic
New England
New Begiant
Gulf and
Alton
Missouri Valley
Kansas
Kantad
Porttons
Misaleatopt
Gulf Copat
Tusstay
Grand Banks
White River
Clarendon
Ark
Minnesota
Wirconain
Michigan
Iowa
Lowde
Contested Louisiana Bid for Republican Committeeman
A fierce struggle between the Lily White and Black and Tan factions for the Louisiana Republican national committeeman seat nears a decision by Postmaster General Cortelyou. Rival claimants include ex-Gov. H. C. Warmouth and Walter Cohen, with Cortelyou expected to name a non factional appointee soon.
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Louisiana
Cortelyou
National Committee
Walter 9. Cohen
H. C. Warmouth
Chisago
Cortalyou
Two Fares From Suburbs In Court Order
Justice Anderson of the District Supreme Court signed the order enforcing his opinion in the minority stockholders suit against the City and Suburban Railway. The transfer system from other roads will be discontinued June 1, with an extra fare charged for transfers to City and Suburban. The decree covers Hyattsville Laurel Berwyn Brookland Eckington and the Thirteenth and D streets area with transfers at Fourteenth and G, Eleventh and G, Ninth and G, and Fifth and G streets stations.
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Justice Anderson
District Supreme Court
City and Suburban Railway Company
McDermott
Hyattsville
Laurel
Berwyn
Brookland
Eckington
Thirteenth
D Streets
Washington Railway
Fourteenth
G Strees
Eleventh
Ninth
Fifth
Fifth Street
Washington, D
Central National Bank of
Washington City
Central National Bank of Washington City
Bankire
Seventh Street
Pennsylvania Avenue
Gald City
Cerberite Saarachise Company
Washington, D. C
West Virginia
Cerberite Manufacturing Company
F Street
Northwest
Washington
District of Columbia
A. D
James L. Norres
J. Fred Kelley
Washington Railway and Electric Company
Jas B. Lackey
Sec- Teta Mayn
Ogsey
St Patrick's Church
Found quickest road to good health via bitters remedy
The text touts Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as the fastest path to health for stomach liver and kidney ailments. It claims thousands used it at the first symptom and found relief. It urges everyone with digestive or female complaints to try the remedy for improvement.
Knights Hold Annual Conclave Dinner and Officer Election
The tenth annual Grand Commandery Knights Templars DC conclave met at Mangonie Temple with illness keeping Grand Commander Andrew W. Kelley home. Deputy Bennett A. Allen presided. a banquet followed at Raleigh. Officers and guests from Maryland were present as talks honored the Grand Encampment, with a planned officer election tonight.
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Knights Templars
District of Columbia
Mangonie Temple
Andrew W. Kelley
Bennett A. Allen
Bummerfield B. Me~dalry
Grand Commandery
Maryland
Raleigh
Allen
Frank H. Thomas
Air Knights of Maryland
Air Knights of the
C C. Isaacs
Daniel J. Emig
Willem J. Cunningham
Harrison Dingman
George Gibson
Bugmerfeld
Medairy
Daniel J. Emly
William Mohr
G Staley
George B. Fresch
Frank W. Kreu
A. Remley
John W. Linthicum
Guard
Charles J. Clark
Edward C. Rogoster
Laula Uhrig
William J. Cunningham
C. Iasacs
John W. Snyder
Graham Duckehart
Grand Commander
Jats
F. R. Appleby
George ©. Ober
Robert Cook
Berth W. Darby
Eldred G. Davis
William T. Gattiher
Harrion ‘Dingman
George E. Corson
Alexander McKensie
William H. Yer
Emil G. Schafer
Robert W. Hardy
Thomas E Landon
Adolphun Gude
de Molay Mounted Commandery
Paet
Charles A. Stockett
Orient Commandary
William F. Gude
Walter H. Kranfer
A. W. Johnster
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Messia
Mies
Rasby-Smith
Wiel@s
Charles L. Howard
Hiram R. Biddle
W. T. Brooke
Ernest L. Hibbs
Eagar C. Blackman
Charles Specht
Robert D. Howell
Herman J. Waltz
William H. Singer
Chattea Singer
Harry T. Care
Richard M. Lawrenson
Petworth
Commiggionsis
ROYAL
Vassar Phosphate Company
Gus Wenman
Wignt
Ula Sues Gottschalk
New Orleans
Acs
Louieiana Republicang
Yo Oho
Teeman
Ing
Harry
Hostetter
Lansburgh & Bro
Ie & A & Fenvias
Alicea
Reseda
Myrtle
Navy
Royal, &E
Sundars & Stayman Co
Massachusetts Avenue
First
Delaware Avenue
C Street
Fifteenth
Call These
Leon Tobriner
J. J. Darington
Knights
District Templars
Peter Grogan
Peter Grogan, “Tesa
G St. N.W
American Security and Crust Company
Fifteenth Street
Round Waterworks Co
Jenifer Building
Fussell’s
Ussell’s
M. T. Fussell
New York City
New York Avenue
Castelberg’s
Opticians
Penna. Ave
Department of Commerce
Phiadelphia
May
J. Hampton Moore
Bureau of Manufactures
Department of Commerce and Labor
City Trust Company
Shaffer
Detroit
Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel, and Tin Workers
T. J. Shaffer
Fifa
B. Earnshaw & Bro
Alexandria
Vereon Depry
Tennessee
Skulful
Alicea M Patterson
D. A
W. L
14Th
New York
Gow
Iplve
Li & Wallace
Macdonnall School
Sthet
Stow
Mme
L. Macdonnell
Tharp
Berkeley Rye
St. N.W
Munyon
Mail
Newspap
Ari
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