Virginia Corporations clash prompts resignations and charters
A Virginia Corporation Commission dispute pits Secretary Upshur against assistant Lanier over charter work and ties to the new Virginia Corporation Company. Lanier may challenge the commission in court while Upshur faces scrutiny for allowing or guiding the enterprise.
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Upehur
Virginia Corporation Commission
Lanier
Specifi
Washington Port
Frohmond
John A Upshur
Sidney Lanier
Offee
Virginia Corporation Company
New Jersey
Commission
Nota
Crump
Fisrdiress
Upshur
Clek
Lanters
Mt He Nu
Lanter
Public Service
Lpsbur
Maj Lawier
May Lanter
Maj Lanier
Virginia Corporation Company Incorporated
Virginia
Honored Union Dead Memorial Across Maryland Venues
Memorial services honor Union dead in Rose Hill Hagerstown Boonsboro Williamsport and Williamsport with Grand Army ritual, orations, prayers, and grave decorations. Hubert Sheets injured at the Williamsport event, requiring twenty stitches after a fall on an iron fence. Local posts Reno Post and South Mountain Council organize. events include drum corps, bands, and clergy sermons.
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Joseph G. Criswell
Josephus C Ward
Lincoln
Gettysburg
Rey Elmer & Pearce
Rona Post
Trinity Lutheran Church
Jacob & Simon
Opera House
Boonsboro
Rinn Shap
Frederick
Butgess
George Mo Stover
George J Roudabdush
South Mountain Council
Junior Order United Armerican Mechanics
la Grange Lodge of
Odd Fellows of
Bounsboro
Mansfeld Post
Keedysville
Liver View
Willamsport
Reno
Hagerstown
Williamsport
D Wagner
Tor
United Brethren Church
Ladies Memorial Association
Hubert Sheets
Death by own action of notable Prince George figure
Capt. William T Smith a leading Prince George County resident near Petersburg died after swallowing three grains of nitrite of strychnine and slashing his throat. He was about 68, educated at Randolph Macon, and survived by his wife Miss Chieves, a son Horace, and brother Capt James Smith.
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Washington Po
Petersburg
Capt Smith
Prince George County
Mies Chieves
Peteravarg
Horace Smith
Capt James Smith
Diaputants
Randolph-Macon College
Washington and Lee University Commencement Schedule
Washington and Lee University in Lexington announces a June 11 to 24 program. Chief marshal H C Tillman of South Carolina. baccalaureate by Rev William H Marquess of Louisville. James I Vance of Newark to address the Y M C A. regatta, literary society orations, and trustee and alumni meetings with addresses by Thomas J Kernan and Lieut Commander Richmond Pearson Hobson. law class oration by R L Browning. valedictory by BM Millen. university ball at 10 p m Wednesday.
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Washington and Lee
Washington Post
Lexington
Washington and Lee University
H C Tillman
South Carolina
Erman
Wiliam H Marquess
Loulaville
James I Vance
Newark
Young Men's Christian Association
W Kelly
Virginia
W F Semple
Indian Territory
Washington Literary Society
F M Martin
Arkansas
P J Phillips
Maryland
Graham-Lee Society
Board of Trustees
Alumni Agaoelation
Thomas J Kernan
Louisiane
Richmond Pearson Hobson
U .N
R L Browning
Kentucky
BM Millen
Tennessee
Chatham Bank and Buildings Destroyed in Fire
A large fire at Chatham Virginia damaged the Chatham Savings Bank and adjacent buildings including Johnson estate storehouse and Fox jewelry store. Losses total about 8000 dollars with several insured items. The bank will resume Monday. a modern banking house is planned on the site. The fire origin is unknown and began in a bedroom above the jewelry store.
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Washington
Chatham
Chatham Govings Bank
Johnson Estate
RM. Fox
Chatham Savings Bank
Swangon
J Wooding
Fox
TWO TRAINMEN DISMISSED FOR WRECKING OGDEN SPECIAL
Officials discharge engineer Jeb Hunter and conductor Aaker after an investigation into the April wreck near Greenville. They are charged with responsibility for the accident as they entered the yard with their train out of control.
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Columbia
Robert C Ogdens
Greenville
Benthern Railway
Alast Might
Jeb Hunter
Aaker
Jail Breakers Convicted at Weston and Connected Crimes
William Smarr Charles Lawrence and William Johnson were jailed at Weston West Virginia after dynamite jail escape and post office robberies in Preston County The trio faces five more indictments for similar offenses They were recaptured by Federal authorities The Maryland Synod Allegany Conference semiannual meeting will be in Relon West Virginia June 6 to 7 Edmund Manges of Oakland is president The conference serves about twenty churches in Western Maryland and West Virginia Rev Luther D of Cumberland presides
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Speetal
Washington Post
Cumberland
William Smarr
Charles Lawrence
Wiliam Johnson
Weston
W. Va
Preaton County
Atea
Evangelical Lutheran Conference
Washington
Allegany Conference
Maryland Synod
Rucal Lutheran Church
Relon
Edmund Manges
Oakland
Maryland
West Virginia
Luther D
Specker
Cumberland Md
Frank Bane
Burlington
Mineral County
Fenny Engineer Drops Dead on Norfolk Ferry
Norfolk Va May 3 William E Dickson an engineer on the Old Dominion transfer steamer dropped dead this morning while bound for Portsmouth on the ferry Norfolk County The deceased was forty nine years old and had been married a week His widow is Ming Martha Dixon of Lambert s Point Also noted is an advertisement for a new cold remedy with a money back guarantee and price of 21 00, attributed to a Dr Thankfully, the text is fragmentary and the obituary tone remains restrained.
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Apedal
Norfolk, Ve
William E. Dickson
Old Dominion
Portsmouth
Norfolk County
Tan
Ming Martha Dixon
Lamberts Point
Fire on Ship at Sea Old Dominion Liner Peril
Aboard the Old Dominion steamship Hamilton bound for New York a cargo fire broke out five hours out, confined to cotton. The crew fought flames with tugs and a wrecking company assist, water flooded the hold, no passengers aboard, ship returned to Norfolk for anchorage and assessment. The Jamestown aided in reaching port as officials estimated damage later. The incident drew a crowd on the wharf and required additional manpower. The Hamilton departed earlier that morning and headed back to Norfolk after firefighting efforts. A later note mentions the vessel was anchored in Hampton Roads awaiting further orders.
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New York
Washington
Norfolk
May
Hamilton
Jamestown
Mania
Capes
Hampton Roads
Cape Henry
FR. B Boag
Steamship Company
Boaz
Merritt Wrecking Company
Boas
Crowell
Istila
Thieves held officers at bay in Sistersville town
Four men faced charges of stealing a ton of wire from Bell Telephone Company in Sistersville. They fled to Ohio aboard a shanty boat after drawing weapons and threatening officers. Detectives and police pursued them down main streets toward the river, planning to capture them on the Ohio shore.
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Doéetes
Washington Post
Parkersburg
W. Va
Thresistaraville
Ohio
HB D Gatley
William
John Davis
H Ritchie
Bell Telephone Company
Drowned in Death Grapple at Rivanna River
Archibald Timberlake aged nineteen son of James E Timberlake foreman in Charlottesville woolen mills drowned today in the Rivanna River one mile east of Charlottesville during a boating accident. He grappled with Claude Graves as their boat upset in twenty feet of water and Timberlake went under. Graves released him and barely reached the bank. The body was recovered at seven this evening as hundreds watched the search.
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Washington Post
Charlottesville
Archibald Timberlake
James E Timberlake
Rivanna River
Young Timberlake
Claude Graves
Hattera Graves
Timberlakes
Timberlake
Blue Laws at Winchester Shake City
Special to The Washington Font Winchester Virginia May 28 mayor Baker ordered police to enforce Sunday restrictions. Telephone workers reconstructing lines were shut down and Sunday newspaper vendors stopped selling. A hypnotist show window was closed and crowds gathered near a sleeping act. Municipal action disrupted local commerce and Sunday liquor sales declined as excursionists from Baltimore and Washington went dry.
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Winchester
HH Baker
United Telephone and Telegraph Company
Errest
Baltimore
Washington
Young Roebling at Home After Monthlong Absence
Fourteen year old Solgfried Racing, son of John A Roebling of Asheville and grandson of Washington Roebling, returned home after vanishing for a week. He explains he ran away from school because he was tired of it and says he is sorry for worrying his mother. He was found in Knoxville and pawned his watch before coming home to lunch.
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Asheville
Ayedal
Washington Port
Solgfried
John A Roebling
Washington Roebling
Trenton
Knoxville
Roebling
Washington
Roanoke
Bernard McQ
Varn
Norfolk and Western Railroad
J Page
Page
Bluefield
Young McGovern
State Penitentiary
Drowned After Hard Swim In Baltimore Harbor
Special to The Washington Post Baltimore May 24 John Schlabecker one of nine in a naptha launch drowned in sight of comrades near Fort Carroll. To avoid collision he steered left the rudder broke the boat drifted with current. Schlabecker unable to swim fast enough sank and body not recovered.
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Washington Post
Baltimore
John Schlabecker
Fort Carroll
Schlabecker
Hank Hla
Timanus to resign Laurel mayor post for postmaster job
Mayor Gustavus B. Timanus of Laurel Md announces he will resign as mayor at the June meeting to take the postmaster position paying 1600 annually. He has served four terms and will keep his mill superintendent role. A special election will be held to fill the unexpired term ending next April amid possible contest from ex mayor Edward Phelps and councilman Al W Brown.
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Washington Fost
Laurel
Gustavus B. Timanus
Timanus
John Y Timanus
Fannie A Timanus
Baltimore
H Clry Timanus
Laurel Cotton Mills
Charles Y Shaffer Jr
Post Office Department
Meyor Timanus
Edward Phelps
Laurels
al W Brown
Child's cough saves family from fire in Baltimore
A nine year old girl Marie O Conner sparked a alerting cough during a house fire at 103 Ensor Street Baltimore on May 28 saving her mother father and two sons from suffocation. Firemen arrived quickly and the blaze caused little damage.
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Little Mane O'Conner
Washington Post
Baltimore
George P Oconner
Marie O’conner
Ensor Street
Virginia Obituary Reports Legacy of Local Citizens
Peter Cain of Monroe West Virginia aged fifty five longtime leading citizen and name man dies. Widow Annie Garrett of Park May and four children survive. James Bondu rant Bristol merchant dies from blood poisoning. Miss Blanche Hite daughter of William Hite descendant of Jolst Hite dies at nineteen after brief illness leaving parents and a brother.
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Cumberland
Peter Cain
Monroe
W Va
Annie Garrett
Eer Park
Bristol
Tenn
James Bondurant
Winchester
Blanche Hite
William Hite
Jolst Hite
Valley
Virginia
Alexandria News In Brief Primaries and Crime Report
Democratic nominees for Alexandria city offices will be chosen at sunrise to sunset with ward polling sites at Elke Hall Old City Hotel Building North Columbus Street and the Friendship Engine House. A home invasion and a shooting of Randolph Jones remain under investigation with a stranger suspected in the bar attack. A memorial exercise by local mechanics and a church bell blessing in Cumberland are also noted.
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Washington Post Bureau
King Street
Alexandria
City
Goodell
First Ward
Elke’ Hall
Prince and Hoya Streets
Second Ward
Old City Hotel
Cameron and
Royal Streets
Third Ward
Old County Courthouse
Columbus Street
Princesa and Queenstresta
Fourth Ward
Friendship Engine House
William At
John B Waller Carter Smith
George F Bradley
P F Garnier
Edgar FF Thompson
John & Beach
Laurence Stabler Corporation
Gardner L. Boothe
Eld
Samuel P Fisher
Robby D Brumback
Willam
Fendall
S Ag
Ferdinand Bendheim
South Royal Street
Savera
Randolph Jones
Jones
Belle Haven
Edgarter
Graci
JA Jem
Trinity Methodist Episcopal
Commonwealth
Crandall Jackey
Alexandria County
Annex
George Bhm
Jeffersonian Democratic Club
del Ray
Montague
Wlard
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Corporation Commission
Honored Union
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Jana
Wewspaper
W. T. Smith
Woodstock
Waanington Vom
Peter's Lutheran Church
Toms Brook
Shenandoah County
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York Pa
W Mickley
Jadwyn
Jon Eberly
Strasbury
Cottman
Charlestown
Ounty Court of Jefferson
Fenny
PERIL
Episcopal Institute
Episcopal Female Institute
Christ Church
John A Douglas
Martinsburg
Pohea
Bacaps
Young Roebling
Design BY
May Manton
W. B. Moses & Sons
F Street
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Aid
Union Mines
Frostburg
Michael Harvey
Russell
Mills
Harvey
Savage
Sister
Brother
Keyser
Mill Pond
Fipsofaldo
Courthouse Hall
Ohio River
Aington
Alexandria News
St Mary's Catholic Church
South Cumberland
Constantine
St Peter and Paul's Church
Thomas J Blanton
St Marys Church
Lonarenng
Albert Thompson
Spartanburg
Charles W Bho@arker
Palais Royal
Dui Et al
Mada
Eleventh Streets
Eleventh Street
Qui Josephine
Big Jack
Phil Bidney
Penwick
Banta Barbara
Jesreel
Life the Interpreter
Ichard Croker
the Braxton
Porepasionk
South
Black Rock
Guerndale
Flowers of Paradise
Grandison Mather
the Wall
Pine
Old Man Sevarin
Mra Green
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Tiny Luttrell
Margaret Moveheme
Captain Ratan
Denison
Renth Steps
Washington Schools
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Business College
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Simi Gomae
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Tae Berlitz
St. Louis Exposition
Jack Mufrite
New Creek
Quina Laroche
Sremedhal Etwaass
Anoaila Chioresis Gonsequen
Quina-Larochs
Petragingus
Paris
France
E. Fouqera & CO
U.S
Hower
Amusem
Academy of Music
Cora B. Shreve
Wiliegs
Levetiog Wresdler
Prince Charming
Rosalie
Cortela Elses At & Pm
Réne
Efice
Kernan’s [Ee
Watson
Crass Lake
Habe
Wasetagtona
Senate
S. Marine Band
Asanto
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Fulton
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