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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Nov 09, 1904
Page
5
Virginia returns show Parker leading in Richmond with about 22 000 plurality while Roosevelt lags. reports from Petersburg Roanoke and other counties detail tight races or modest turnout with Parker and Roosevelt pairing ahead in several districts. Swanson and Flood also noted in various districts.
Early returns show Parker with a total around 190 in Nansemond and 584 to 176 in Southampton, Roosevelt limited to 42 in Nansemond and 176 in Southampton. Isle of Wight reports Parker 497 to 110, Rossevelt 110. Parker holds small margins as precincts remain unreported. Maynard leads Parker in Congress across most precincts while Trughes usually fails to poll.
Special to the Washington Fau Ballimore Md Nov William Hamilton a negro shot in a tracus last Saturday sent to the inxankiin Square Hospital with a bullet in his lung. He walked to the polls in the northwest part of the city after voting and while exhausted fell and was readmitted. His condition is serious.
Falls Church precinct in Fairfax County shifts from Republican to Democratic due to new ballot law. Roosevelt leads ticket with 56, Parker 2, Watson 1, Swallow 0. Rixey for Congress garners 7 while Howard has 63. Eight precincts show Roosevelt 1897 versus Darker 379 and Bryar 787 to 816 in 190? county results, indicating a drop in Rixey support of about a thousand votes and a county margin of roughly 300 to 400 for Roosevelt.
Fredericksburg Virginia reports the Washington Guards Company L Seventieth Virginia Regiment Virginia Volunteers elected their former commander Captain M B Rowe to fill the vacancy from Captain F H Revere retirement Rowe had resigned years ago due to business pressures and is expected to decline the role Winchester December reports Miss Minna F Ward of Winchester dies after brief pneumonia at age fifty nine survived by three brothers Fredericksburg local note Mrs Kennedy wife of former sheriff Charles S Kennedy dies near Martwood Stafford County aged fifty five survived by husband and two sons
Alexandria voters split on party lines as Democrat Rixey led the field in returns for Congress, while Roosevelt and Fairbanks polled strong but incomplete support. Ward totals show Parker leading in several districts, with Roosevelt narrowly behind in others. crowd reaction remained unsettled as late figures arrived. Nearby notes report a railway flagman charged with robbery, a house fire arson arrest, and the Virginia Field Trials Association planning its annual meet at Martinsville.
Special to The Washington Post Richmond Va Nov 8 Rev Lemuel Sears pastor of the colored Methodist Church at Charlotte is under arrest charged with twice shooting and wounding his wife Twashota in a moment of anger three shots struck her right shoulder and right elbow He surrendered to the sheriff and was jailed The deed has stirred anger among his race.
Huntington West Virginia November reports detail a political meeting on Piney Creek Raleigh County where intoxication followed free liquor. Two men died four seriously injured and two lightly wounded. Freemon Holland and others were among the dead and injured. Several arrested as others fled amid renewed unrest and threats of further trouble. A separate blaze on South Mountain near Edgmont Cavetown burned hundreds of acres of timber as hundreds of men fought to save homes and property.
Richmond and nearby towns record multiple marriages on November 8. The list includes Mise Salita Belto Vie and Charles A Tyler in Richmond, Miss Adam H Bryant with Theodore Glavier Jr, Alexander King with Martha D Traylor, John Gunter with Vevia Hester, James Hester with Janie Dickinson, Miss Willie Alice Williams with Sterling H Perkinson in Dinwiddie. A Deshazer and Marvin Wilbur Gates pair wed in Sutherlands, with a Washington-bound honeymoon. Also noted is a Hollander furniture sale at Sloana Galleries, featuring new high quality pieces and running 1030 am today and tomorrow.
At 8 pm on November 8 Charles Blake, a white man, entered the colored resort operated by Charles McDaniels in Huntington and, intoxicated, demanded Black patrons leave. When laughed at, he fired, wounding Huntington Reynolds and fatally injuring James Gordon and Thomas Christian. Blake was arrested and jailed.
A newborn girl was found in a box on Jahn Trost’s doorstep in Cumberland. A prearranged plan involved Mrs Trast and Dr Franklin to place the child with the Trast home, while the mother, a Baltimore society woman registered as Mrs Jackson, fled to Baltimore. The infant was born at a Bremont hotel, and the mother’s identity remains undisclosed to avoid scandal. Meanwhile John Wiles, a wealthy farmer and miller, died in Startown while assisting with a derrick for a new touring mill.
In a troubling incident near Washington amid labor strife, unknown assailants fired at Superintendent James E L Noel while he was away from his Woodland residence. Reports describe threats and prior attempts with incendiary devices linked to strikers. The attack occurred as authorities extended security measures around the ongoing dispute.
William Wills, son of H Wilks of New York, severely burned by a falling candle at a birthday cake. His daughter, visiting aunt Wis G of Sipp, suffered burns to her hands and face as life was briefly threatened.
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