Man Kills Two, Injures Two Then Dies in Ohio Tragedy
In Greenville Ohio Clyde Weaver 34 fatally shoots sheriff deputy and others after resisting arrest for murder of his mother and an officer. He wounds another woman and husband, shoots a neighbor, then kills himself as deputies close in. Sheriff Haber and Deputy Farra pursue him to a Minnich home. Weaver is shot at yet escapes, then dies by his own hand in a woodshed.
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Greenville
Ohio
Clyde Weaver
Weaver
Sherif Jonh F. Haber
Sheri Willam H Farra
Fara
Haber
Ferra
oMoer
Levi Minnich
Neighbor
Wate
Minnich
Minemich
Wilnnich
Obituaries and funeral notices from early Washington area
Multiple death notices dated November 1908 to 1909 list widows and widowers such as Catherine Harrington and Charles Koonees, with residences in Northwest Washington. Services held at Immaculate Conception, Church of the Ascension, and local churches, with interments at Mount Olivet, Arlington, Kingston, and private cemeteries. Names include Lewis, McCormick, McGrath, Mulligan, Wrenn, and Hordachus A. Copy requests for area papers noted.
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Sun Munuay
Catherine
William Harrington Funeria
Neorgia Avenue
Immaculate Conception
Ang Rlenda
Mount Onvet
Koowes
Eighth Street
Charles —Montgomery
Church of the Ascension
Massachusetts Avenue
Twelfth Street
Lwis
Mies
Vincent
Willard Street
Catharine Lewis
Kingston
Matrhet
Mullican
Reuben
Andrew Chapel
Colesville
Itaom
PLL
Tan
Mab
Josephine Cianges
Thomas
Mary ” Phillipa
Pauls
Walen Cemetery
Alexandria
Richmond
Baltimore
Lexngton
In Memoriam and Funeral Notices Collage
In memoriam for Mary E Cr dated two years since her passing with son J B Weser noted. A jumble of notices lists funeral directors and embalmers such as Thos A Costello Frank A Speare and others across Washington area, with scattered names and contact lines. The fragmentary text mixes obituaries and ad-like notices for funeral services and directors in multiple jurisdictions.
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Weser
Mra
Mary E CR
J B Weser
Sergeon
Tors Cath
A. Costello
Amd Embalader
Frank Geier
W. B. Speare
N. W
Frank A Sseare
Mgr
Zarhorst
J William Lee
Peonaylvania
John R Wright
Harvey's Sons
WM. H. Sardo & CO
Debuts Open Baltimore Social Season With German Cotillion
Baltimore society begins its season with the Bachelors' Cotillion Club debutante German. Twenty nine Baltimore young women are presented including Elisabeth Hofman, Eleanor Hollend House, Anne Hugeals Levering, Constance Petco, Dorothy Williams and others in a formal event marking the season’s start.
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Washington
Baltimore
Miles Heorietta
Buchansa Albert
Mise
Babeces Dulaney Beverly
Mies
Adie Valentine Bond
Max Bane
Bresee
Mim
Margaretta Pleasants Boss
Florence E. Brosh
Mre
Marion Bond
Misa
Katharine Besdy
Mary Crawford
Miva Lydts Howerd de Ford
Mist Elzateth Dickey
Wlow
Mey
Poultney
Billcott
Misa Garrat
Poultney Welek
Miae Sheabeth
Tmgs
Mies Anfin
Frances Reeshaw Hott Ax Agia
Horthy
Brame Randall
Mine Frascee W Raison
Mim Zildalisth
Oca Scot
Mary Clara Waring
Mise Bile Watts
Mia Elisabeth Woot
Mars Years
Mise Coriano Willems
Misa Dorothy Williams
Taure Hunt Emory
Harris to Face Jury Again in Attack on Aunt
Special to The Washington Post Rockville Maryland November 2 A Montgomery County jury convicted Oliver H Harris Saturday night of second degree murder for the killing of John Henson Poole. He faces a separate assault with intent to kill charge against his aunt Mrs Clara Harris wife of B Gwynn Harris of Travila The state plans to push that case to trial Harris has allegedly confessed to attacking his aunt The maximum penalty for the assault is ten years and for second degree murder eighteen years combined time could be two decades if both sentences run consecutively The article notes Montgomery County juries rarely return first degree murder verdicts and recalls a prior case of a Moon Named Leonard moved to Rockville from Frederick county for trial and later executed
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Washington Fast
Rockville
Criminal Court
Oliver H. Harris
John Henson
Poole
Clara Harris
B Gwynn Harris
Travila
Bowls F Waters
Harris
Pools
Leonard
Frederick County
Portraitist Prof David A Woodward Dead at 36
Prof David A Woodward, former Maryland Institute president and solar print portrait innovator, died at his home Beau mont Relay at 6 am aged 36 after an illness since November 19. He painted Johns Hopkins, Gen F C Latrobe, and Senator Wil liam Pinkney Whyte, led the Maryland Institute for 26 years, and leaves four sons Charles G Stafford W W Michael L and two daughters. Funeral arrangements not set.
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Washington Post
Baltimore
David A Woodward
Maryland Institute
Beaumont
Relay
Woodward
Johns Hopkins
F C Latrobe
Wiliam Pinkney Whyte
Maryland
Charles G
Birmingham
Alan Stafford
Ocran
W W
Michael L
Joseph Aourrisse
Daltimore
H C Woodward
Philadelphia
Maryland Happenings and Local Incidents Parade
Maryland Happenings reports Fabrney & Son pleads guilty in Hagerstown district court for misbranding teething syrup under the Pure Food and Drug Act, fined $100. It records a Hagerstown assault verdict, a coroner reburying a child’s body, a Cuba student dying at Coimbra College from ptomaine poisoning, and several obituaries including Mrs Spellman in Orlando and Mrs Sullivan in Pradericksburg. Also mentions Hood’s Sereoparius for catarrh and related advertising.
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D Fabrney & Son
United States ‘District Court
Hagerstown
Webster Biyons
David Taylor
Weaverton
House of Correction
Harvey Layman
Antietam Creek
Greena
Walt
Ramon Galliano
Manzanillo
Cuba
Coimbra College
Hegerstown
Club Heads Fined After Raids In Alexandria
After raids on social clubs in Alexandria, Henry Schlichting William Hoberts and C C Pelton pleaded guilty to dispensing liquor without license. They faced a minimum fine of 360 and bond forfeitures were returned. The proceedings included confiscated evidence and warnings of harsher penalties for future offenses.
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Warlington Post Bureau
Hing Direct
Alexandria
Threa “Social Clube
Polfee
Dragnet
Thoas
Waa
Commonwealth
A. Brent
John BM. Johnson
Roberts
Robinson Moncure
Schilchting B
Brent
Maryland Obituary Notice Highlights Local Deaths in November
Maryland obituaries recall multiple residents: John Cole, a Washington County farmer, dies of typhoid at 46 near Chariton. Dr. Ems Brian Marks, Baltimore, dies age 7 at Gapland after general debility. Mrs. Sumn R. Johnson, Cumberland widow of Zacharias Johnson, dies at 59 after long residence in her Cumberland home. Otto Hutchinson, 27, dies at his brother’s home in Piedmont, with family in Paw Paw W. Va., preparing for interment.
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Hagerstown
John Cole
Washington County
Chariton
Cumberland
Mra Sumn R. Johnson
Zacharias Johnson
Mra Johnson
Frederick Md
Zack Laney
Otta Hutchinson
J Lea Hutchinson
Piedmont Feed and Jee~Company
Piedmont
W Ve
Paw Paw
W. Va
Founding a Woman's College in Raleigh Conference
The sixth and final session of the North Carolina Methodist Episcopal Conference approved forming a high-grade women’s college in Raleigh. Two ministers joined from other denominations, a mission report cited $17,000 raised for foreign missions and $12,090 for domestic missions, and plans favored federation of Methodists into fewer general conferences with presiding elders elected by the conference.
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Raleigh
N. C. Hov
North Carolina Methodist Episcopal Conference
George W. Stench
Methodist Protestant Church
Louis N. Booth
Northern Methodist Church
Joseph G. Brown
J. F. Bruton
John
George W. Smith
North
Jake N. Cole
Stanheke Wynne
Wea
BH. Willis
Federation of Methodists
Federation of All Methodists
Wilson
Petition Denied in Norfolk and Southern Bondholder Case
Norfolk Va November 2 In the Norfolk and Southern Railway receivership the United States circuit court of appeals denied Fergus Reid minority bondholder a mandamus to appeal Judge Weddill orders denying stay of foreclosure and sale and denying intervention. The decision leaves the sale set for December 7 unless the Supreme Court intervenes.
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Norfolk
Norfolk and Southern Railway
United States Circuit Court of Appeals
Fergus Reid
Edmund Weddill, Jr
Reid
Norfolk and Southern
Waddill
Supreme Court of the United States
Highwaymen Rob Lumber Dealer Near Cumberland
Special to The Washington Post Cumberland Md November 29 two highwaymen robbed United States Lumber Company agent J S Myers of Oldtown of 140 after shooting his horse, leaving him unharmed but shaken The robbery occurred near Patterson Creek about miles from Cumberland Police investigate. Richmond Va November 29 in the US Circuit Court of Appeals cases argued and continued include Columbus Tron and Steel Company Kanawha and Michigan Railway Norfolk and Western Railway and others with counsel from Huntington Roanoke Lynchburg and Richmond. Roanoke Va November 2 the question of establishing another law and equity court of Roanoke will come before the Virginia legislature in January amid docket congestion. Richmond Va November 29 James C Conway’s murder trial adjourned to December 4. Roanoke Va November 2 the Roanoke Bar Association pushes creation of a second court due to population and docket load. Richmond Va November 29 Robert White Ferrell, 15, of Roanoke, passed the U S Naval Academy competitive examination and awaits official appointment. Henry M Taylor of Barton Heights named as alternate.
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Cumberland
Pattersons Creek
Minera County
JS Myers
Oldtown
United States Lumber Company
Myers
Circuit Court of Appeals
Washinton
Richmond
United States
Circuit Court of
Powhatan Coal and Cake Company
Norfolk and Western Ruilway Company
Tha Etzeult Court
Lynchberg Va Avenal
Gillegora
Tazewell
Arthur B Hayes
Wasntonton
Lucien A Cocke
Roanoke
John H Holt
Huntington W Ve
Appellee
Huston Coat and Coke Company
Norfolk and Western Rellwey Company
Lynchburs
ZT Vinson
Bunington
Luslon Cocke
Roanoke Va
John H. Holt
Huntington
Wo Va
Epectus
Sreeumnmuenee
Law and Equity Court of
Virginia
Roanoke Bar Association
Thie City
Maia
Nova
Robert White Ferrell
United States Naval Academy
Samb Henry M Taylor
Barton Heights
Ferrell
General Anderson to retire from adjutant general post
Special report from Richmond Virginia dated November 23 states Adjutant General Charles J Anderson will not seek reappointment and will retire February 1 to devote time to private affairs A telegram from Governor elect William Hodges Mann says no decision on a successor Senator W W Sale is not certain about accepting the post and denies prior discussions with Mann
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Washington Pont
Richmond
Charles J. Anderson
William Hodges Mann
Anderson
W. W Sale
Norfolk
Fatal poisoning and fire tragedies reported in Maryland
A five year old boy in Bis sell near Hagerstown drank strychnine labeled as candy from a cupboard and died before medical help arrived. In Rockville an inmate at the county almshouse was fatally burned when her clothing caught fire while sweeping trash into a fire.
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Spmele Aoe
Sramncongann
Rockville
Annie Thoman
Virginia Briefs Harborman Drowns Near Chincoteague
Virginia brief notes report the drowning of Burton Bebe a 45 year old fisherman from Chincoteague while clamming in Hog Island Bay. The report also mentions a proposed new lifesaving station site near Wachepreague Inlet and an inspection trip by J J Morrow and a US engineer team at Fredericksburg to review dredging and dyke work on the Rappahannock and Pamunkey rivers.
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Burton Bebe
Chincoteague
Hog Island Bay
Bert
Cedar Island
Wfe
Wachepreague Inlet
Saaf J J Morrow
United States Engineer's Office
Washington
Frederickeburg
Seyapaldaya
Rappehennock River
Pamunkey River
Virginia Weddings Tie Hayfield and Anderson in Philadelphia
In Philadelphia yesterday morning Miss Margaret Alice Hayfield youngest daughter of the late May and Mrs Mary EA Hayfield and Mr Harry Tydings Anderson of Baltimore were married. Walter Fisher of St Johns Church performed the ceremony.
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Washington Post
Parksley
Margaret Alice Maude Hayfield
Mary EA. Hayfield
Harry Tydings Anderson
Baltimore
Philadelphia
Walter Fisher
St John’s Church
iMiss Margaret Savage
Capt
JA D Savage
Harry Remonds
Gordon Savage
Hinton
W Va
Onancock
James R. Laughton
Onancock High School
Methodist Episcopal Church
Misa
Marion White Dutton
Saluda
Peculiar accident injures Boston man at Richmond hotel
Harry Huckins, of a Boston shoe house, broke his ankle in his Jefferson Hotel room while reaching for a cigar. He toppled awkwardly while rocking in a chair and attempted to grab the smoking item, causing a sudden bone break. He was taken to Virginia Hospital for treatment.
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Weantnsten
Hluckins
Huckins
Virginia Hospital
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Pittsburg Dispatch
Cmlake
Renard Horn
Providence Journal
Cleveland
Plain Dealer
Rochester
Heraly
New York Times
Loula Republic
Foxton Glebe St
Fauld Ploneer
Rutfato Courier
Syraruxe Part
Btanga Philadelnbte Public Ladeer
Blackistone’s
BUDS
Baltimore Society
Montgomery County
D. &. Woodward
Onanvock
Patrick W Scott
Kidnney
Winchester
Eien Spellman
Orlando
Fievre
Spellmen
Thres
Pradericksburg
Susan Sullivan
To-Kalon Wine Co
14Th Street
Schlichting, Roberts
Pellen
Willams
Kelly
Charles Williams
Willa Kelly
J Owen Lynch
Lynch
Williams
Alexandris Lodge of Elks
Opera House
C E Picket
Christ Church
National Theater
Capt. Fisher
John Fisher
Marshall Hall
Fisher
Edwin Cee Lee
Edwin Cecil Lee
Alexandria Hospital
Lee
Bedford Springs
Julius, Drelfus
West Virginia
Daniels
Kentucky
West Willlamoon
Charles Daniels
Jim
Charles
Sherif Sander
Pike County
Pikeville
Jim Daniels
Henry
Jason Daniels
Durham
Cape Fear
Alvis ‘A. Pleasants
Hubert Maynard
Navassa
Virginia Carolina Chemical Company
Marie Daily
George Lockherler
Harpers Ferry
Marie Adele Daily
Joseph L Dally
St Peters Catholic Church
George Lockbeiler
Father Collins
Norfolk Iron Company
Edmund Waddill
United States Ofreult Court
Mesars
EW. Wolcott
George W. Dusch
Wheeling
Woman's College
North Carolina Methodists
Virginia Court of Appeals
Rigmond
Supreme Court of Sppenly
Fentress Va
Fecle & Don
Plataii
Hugh Wotera
Bob Wells
Norfolk and Weetera Railway Company
Virginiae Railway Company
Robert Hughes
Wotter P Taylor
Myara
Myors
Atenis Vo
Caspeman & Co
Conway
James C Conway
Robert Torrence
Naval Academy
Janos
Gen. Anderson
Uow
Mann
Facrn
James Miller
Bissell
Virginia Briefs
Virginia Weddings
New York
Paris
Parker, Bridget & Co
Fidhor Billitpelle
Ninth and the Avenue
Cigar
Boston
Richmond Hospital
Post
THE
Cascade
Ats
GEO
A. Dickel & CO Distillers
Nashville
Tenn
Ah Mae
Thomas McMullen & CO
St. Avenue
424
Street
N.Y
Atta
Fintahery
13Th Street N. W
Ana
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