Missing seven years former capital attorney search for man
Country wide search follows Albanus Apphanson a former capital attorney who vanished after going to California and later mining in Arizona His wife Edith Johnson of Washington filed his will dated January 1900 naming her as sole beneficiary and appointing a executor The will references a cave in Arizona or Nevada mine where Johnson was believed killed and land office rumors tie his fate to West coast ventures while relatives seek information and probate action proceeds in Seattle
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California
Arizona
Washington
Albanus
Johnson
Idith Yoder Johnson
1660
Ark
Northwest
John J Mahon
Tre Johnson
Land Office
Heke
Johnsen
Nevada
Tainable
Cath
Ming
Arigota
Vada
Kiltet
Loa
Girecti
Ciorile
San Francisco
Aviator Key Factor in Teza Capture by French Forces
A French victory narrative describes an airman as a principal factor in capturing Teza. Bombs dropped from the air aided by artillery fire, forcing Moorish defenders to retreat. The operation marked a major step in combating Moorish resistance east of Wee, with casualties and prisoner impacts noted.
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Teza
Foreign Office
Yestor
Baum
Tori Merco
Taites
Wee
Teze
Cr Lrev
Desertion rumors in Coxey army near Hagerstown parade
The Coxey army, now reduced to three privates, marched toward Washington with deserters at Lear Sprit camp and others staying to work in Clear Spring. Dexer addressed a crowd at Indian Spring Cemetery, critiquing government ownership of telephones, telegraphs, and railroads. In Tigsed, he claimed Democrats strip the people while Republicans and Progressives strip them in opposite directions. The army camped here for the night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washinton
Lear Sprit
Hagerstown
Todas
Cemril Dexer
Twelve Nurses Graduate After Versed Course at Providence Hospital
Twelve nurses completed their program at Providence Hospital in Maryland and New York areas, including Magdalen Doyle and Virginia Harrington, with several named graduates and onlookers listed. A hotel fire at the Imperial Hotel in Yuma May 12 resulted in three women killed, Naomi Strang, Genevieve Brown, and the victim’s mother, found near the destroyed staircase.
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Magdalen
Maryland
Frances Doyle New
York Gutte Cott
Mary
Yealy
Virginia
Catherine Harrington
Newark
Nora Welton
District of Columbia
Florence Kapp
Ohio
Margaret Reids
Irelard
Harry K Adams
Trolian Laula Hoffman
Ralph McCreary
Jennslvania
Charles
Williard North Carolina
Wiss
Theresa Murphy
White Rock Water Esteemed by Doctors in Modern Sale
A vintage promotion proclaims White Rock Water as standing alone in its class. Doctors of today test its high regard by its enormous sale, asserting health in White Rock as a key claim.
Nominations reshuffle U S embassy attaches and legations
The President announced a series of diplomatic nominations replacing or assigning former attaches. Key moves include Frank A. O'Connor of Iowa as United States attorney for the Northern District of Iowa, Thomas Slattery of Kentucky as United States attorney for the Eastern District, and Harry A. Bishop of Alaska as United States marshal. Several officials move to or from secretarial and legation posts in Guatemala La Paz Greece Montenegro Bangkok Santo Domingo Rio de Janeiro Paris London Constantinople Paraguay Uruguay and other postings, restructuring the embassy and legations in multiple capitals.
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Mexico
Mi Frank A. O'Connor
New Hampton
Iowa
United States
Northern District
Thomas’ S Slattery
Maysville
Eastern District
Kentucky
Harry A. Bishop
Juneau
Alaska
Warren D Robbins
Massachusetts
Legation
Guatemala
Hugh R. Wilson Frederic Ogden Ds Biller
Columbia
Greece
Montenegro
la Paa
Bolivia
Charles E Stangel
William Walker Smith
Ohio
Banto Domingo
Bangkok
Siam
Sheldon L. Crosby
John C White
Maryland
Santo Domingo
Charlea B Curtis
New York
Rio de Janeiro
Brazil
Franklin Mott Gunther
Christiana
Louis A Sussdorf, Jr
Paris
France
Warren D Robbins Uallett T Johnson
New Jersey
London
Constantinople
Turkey
H Farthur Schoenfeld
Paraguay
Uruguay
Elbridge Gerry Green
England
Hallett Johnson
Spanish statesman Montero-Rios dies at 82
Eugenio Montero-Rios famed draftsman of the treaty ending the Spanish American War died in Madrid at 82. A noted lawyer and orator, he held top posts including prime minister, speaker of the chamber, and president of the senate, and led the 1892 Spanish peace commission in Paris with the American delegation.
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Montero-Rios
U.S. Madrid
Eugenio Montero-Rios
Supreme Court
Senate
Paris
New Costa Rican Cabinet Officially Inaugurated
A cablegram to Senor Calvo reports Vice President Alfredo Gonzalez now presiding over Costa Rica's new administration was inaugurated on May 8. He appointed a cabinet with Manuel Castro Quesada as Secretary of Foreign Affairs Juan Rafael Ruias as Secretary of the Interior Mariano Guardia Caraze as Secretary of Finance and Commerce Alberto Ecaandt as Secretary of Promotion and Public Works Federico A Tinoco as Secretary of War and Luis Felipe Gonzalez as Under Secretary of Public Instruction.
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Senor Calvo
Alfredo Gonzalez
Costa Rica
Manuel Castro Quesada
Juan Rafael Ruias
Mariano Guardia Caraze
Alberto Ecaandt
Federico A Tinoco
Luis Felipe Gonzalez
Plague Quarantine Declared Across Colombia May 12
Reports indicate bubonic plague spreading in Colombia with seven cases in Barranquilla Cartagena and Calamar 70 miles inland on the Magdalena River. A seven day quarantine is ordered throughout the country as authorities in Bogota refuse outside assistance.
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Tanama
Colombia
Barranquilla
Cartagena
Calamar
Magdalena
Bogota
Crna
Capital Girl Takes Poison
Ruth Taylor, a Washington DC resident, attempted suicide in Chicago on a Saturday night, citing a love affair as the motive. She swallowed iodine at a drug store on South State street. Relatives in Washington were sought but not found. Miss Taylor is expected to recover.
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Ruth Taylor
Washington Post
Chicago
Ruth
Insurance Rep Falls Nine Stories to Death in Elevator Shaft
Charles J. White of Des Moines Iowa, a life insurance representative, plunged nine floors in Falls City Missouri after his foot caught while entering an elevator car. The operator raised the car to free him. White fell below. An undertaker’s ambulance, en route to the office, struck and fatally injured clerk John Norton.
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Kansas City
Charles J. White
Des Moines, Iown, Life Insurance Company
Mother in Ohio Kills Invalid Daughter With Axe and Razor
Mrs John Grimm aged 54 of New Philadelphia Ohio fatally injured her invalid daughter Jessie 18 by crushing her skull with an ax and slashing her throat with a razor fearing her own illness would worsen. She confessed to another daughter Mrs Lee Ahuba of Canal Dover.
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Philadelphia
Ohio
Jessie
John Grimm
Lee
Ahuba
Canal Dover
Mayer Ordered Extradition in Bow Street Court
Ar thur I Mayer also known as Frederick E Montague aged 19 faces extradition to Maryland for grand larceny after arrest on arrival from New York on the steamship Baltic. Police report he carried $15,000 when seized.
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Lonuon
Arthur I Mayer
Frederick E Montague
Bow Streat
Maryland
Mayer
Baltic
New York
Cuban Bank Proposal Seeks $29 Million Capital
Havana May 1. President Menoest sent to the Cuban senate a measure urging the creation of a bank capitalized at $29,000,000 with authority to issue bank notes and currency.
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Havana
Menoest
Senate
People who buy trunks also buy other goods
A letter from an advertiser is reproduced, noting satisfaction with trunks sold through The Post ad. The message claims buyers of trunks also purchase many other items, and that ads generate direct cash sales. The piece presents an actual size reproduction of a profitable advertisement to illustrate the point.
Altrock to umpire Chesapeake Beach shadbake event
Nick Altrock, famed baseball clown, will umpire the Board of Trade annual shadbake at Chesapeake Beach on May 28. May 22 includes performances and other events. Clark Griffith could not attend due to a championship game. Numerous ticket applications and a May 2 subscription deadline accompany a large gathering planned by business and professional men.
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Board of Trade
Chesapeake Beach
Nick” Altrock
Shadbake
B. L. Conner
Charles F Crane
Charles P Ravenburg
Everett H Alten
B Asher
Robert Root Bennett
H DB Eitinger
Gustav A Bonnet
J CG Bowery
Bruce S Branson
Paris E Brengle
Frank & Bright
Wiliam F Brooke O P M Brown
George LL
Bunnell
W H Byron
Bernaraé J Cain
John Doyle
Carmody
William L Clarke
Charles A Cotter
Charles Ray Dean
James A_ Dowrick
Edwin M Dulin
George I. Easterday
Tredenck B
Wicheberger
John R Ergood
William Hi Fisher
Charles
Foster
W_Gall Fred
Gichner
Spencer Godon
Edward I. Greene
Charles P Hancock
D Fulton Harris
George 13
Hebberd
Frank C Henry
WC Herbert
John K Heyl
James C’ Hollister
ME Horton
Robert C Howard
John A Hunter
UL Huske
Carl A _Joerlssen
George
J Iohnstonm
Maj LM Xkellay
Earl D ‘Krewson
B Lyddane
Frank P Leeteh
John H Magruder
Wiliam P Lemon
George H Markward
William Montgomery
Willam H Oringe
Fugene Paravano
B P Mer
Numerous City Notices and Local Community Reports
Mrs Mary B Reilly elected president of the Ladies Auxiliary of St Johns Holy Name with officers named. Robert Muller presented a butterfly collection to the National Museum. May 4 rally songs for Episcopal Sunday schools. Tem perance rally at McKendren Methodist. Takoma Park fire apparatus status reported to mayor and council. Bogus inspectors warned in DC. District land eyed for park conversion. Taxicab company property valuations pursued. Congressman Champ Clark to speak at Loyal Order of Moose dedication. St Patricks Academy cantata and May queen noted. National Thought Alliance guest Edgerton. Southern Relief Society officers reelected. Young Peoples Society moonlight hike scheduled with regular monthly campsfires.
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Robert Muller
Mexico
National Museum
Church of the Epiphany
Episcopal
Harding
Counci
Takoma Park
Frederick L Harris
Department
Engineer Department
Julia Holton
Eighteenth Street
Mr Siddons an Optimist Addressing Builders Exchange
Commissioner Siddons told the Builders and Manufacturers Exchange at 1220 New York Avenue NW that optimism fuels Washington's building trade. He urged belief that Congress actions and trust restrictions will yield positive outcomes, urging no defeatist cries and insisting that everything is for the best.
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Builders and Manufacturers of
Washington
Siddong
Builders and Manufacturers Exchange
New York Avenue
Northwest
Siddons
Congress
Explosion on Ship Jefferson Kills Eight Near Norfolk
An explosion on the Old Dominion liner Jefferson near Cape Henry killed eight crewmen eight white and colored firemen and coal passer. Three others were injured, including two engineers from New York. The boiler tube blowout in the after starboard section caused the blast. The ship resumed voyage to New York after coroner procedures and hospital treatment.
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Jefferson
Norfolk
Miles
Cape’ Henry
W L. Portlock
H B Smith
New York City
M Olsen
Oller
H Miller
J_ Lopez
White
Mob Hangs Accused Attacker in Shreveport Jail Riot
A mob of about 1000 in Shreveport Louisiana dragged Edward Hamilton from the parish jail after a three hour siege. They used railroad irons and steel saws to breach the jail, then hanged him from a telephone pole outside the courthouse with a knife left in the body. Sheriff Flourney had telegraphed for troops as guards attempted to assemble the National Guard units.
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Shreveport la
Edward Hamilton
Parish
J PF Flourney
Shreveport Company
The
National Guard
Hamilton
Dickens Little Nell Actress Harriet Tice Dead in London
London May 12 Mrs Harriet Tice who claimed to be the original of Dickens Little Nell in The Old Curiosity Shop has died. She was born in 1840 in a house tied to the Nell legend. Mrs Tree said her father John Pepperell was the original Little Nell’s grandfather.
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Washington Post
London
Harriet Tice
Dickens Little Nell
Tree
John Pepperell
Little Nell
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AERO
Desert Coxey
Clear Spring
Ma Mwa
Providence Hospital
White Rock
Gonzalez
Panama
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Miss Taylor
J. S
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Washington, D. C
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Tophams
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Trum
S Govt Supplies
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Altrock
Mary B. Reilly
Ladies' Auxiliary of
St John's Holy Name
Margaret Burns
Bila Richardson
Anna Rice
Hope Council
Faith Council
Sons of Jonadab
McKendren Methodist Episcopal Church
Newmar
Brooke
Archibalt Hopkins
Woman's Department
Clive Federation
Ernest P Bicknell
Julius Gebicke
Laterer
Newman
Iddons
Connecticut Avenue Citizens’ Association
District of Columbia Retail Drurgists’ Association
Frank T . Stone
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A C Conner
Bradbury
Charles J. Fuhrmann
IFP Weller
Richardson
Charles B. Campbell
Herbert C Easterfay
Samuel L. Hilton
George W /Hurte’ baus
Augustus C. Taylor
Cherlea B. Grogs
William T. Kertfoot
Jr. Wailer
W T. Boysr
Champ Clark
Loyal Order of Moose
Hom van Ness Charmain
A W_ Caulflel
T J Lanahan
Philip Kronc
Charles B Terry
W Albert Stahl
Theodore Lee
Hyman Jacobs
H C Hopper
T. @ Ryan
Thomas McNerney
Webb Hancock
Mark Stearman
D H Bule
L H. Dianey
St Patrick's Academy
Carroll
Hall Mer Russel
Beatrice Cosgrove
Leonore Sroshy
Winifred Leckey
Mary Mearron
Mamie Gorfer
Joseph Hisen Johnson
Alice Wolfe
Katherine Regan
Edgerton
National New ‘Thought Alliance
National Thought Center
Washington Loan and Trust Company
Southern Relief Society
New Willard
Nannie Randelph Heth
Francis Chisholm
James W Wren
Lawrence Quirallo
EB 8 Frey
George L Covington
Hugemaen Rollins
Young Peoplea Society
Temple Baptist Church
Old Rock Springa Hotel
MR. Siddons
Old Dominion
Dickens
Harnet Tice
Old
Curiosity Shop
W. WB. Woses & Sons
Fond
Uth Streets
Battania
FatTor Oak
Ali
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