Harris Trial Ends With Testimony Barred Widow’s Statement
The Harris murder trial nears verdict as Judge Turner excludes expert testimony on powder and ball effects. Widow Thompson and relatives testify amid courtroom drama while attorneys clash over admissibility and witness scope. closing arguments follow as the case nears adjournment.
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Warrenton
Harris
Jeph
Hunt
McCormick
Byrd
Turner
Will Appeal Fee Decision In Virginia Settlement Case
Counsel for Parker and Creen allege they acted as agents of the State of Virginia in a settlement involving Prout. They challenge Judge Scott's ruling for the State and seek an adjustment of claims totaling over 1.7 million dollars with 270 thousand in disputed fees. Virginia had funded the debt settlement, and the matter traces to gains and counterclaims dating back to 1812 with later interest from Senators Daniels and Martin.
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Washington Post
Fanmoud
Parker and Creen
Vegne
Sorgimi
Batil
Shin TV
Daniels
Martin
Virginia
Movements of Ocean Steamers Arrived and Reported
Maritime notices list arrivals and departures of several steamers. The President Lincoln left New York for Cherbourg and other ports, while ships such as Friedrich Wilhelm and Bremen made transatlantic passages. Reports mention arrivals from Naples to New York and Rotterdam to New York, with various sailings scheduled for the week ahead.
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Hamburg
Noordam Tram
Rotterdam
New Fork
George Washington
Tremroon Vork
New York
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Festa
Yek
Lapland
Anthen Foe
Lenk
Geltei
Ow York
Eirzen Erarbouy
Southern Pacific Fined for Rebating Guilty Plea
The Southern Pacific Railroad was fined zero dollars after pleading guilty in U S district court to technical and unintentional guilt in a rebating case. Judge Welborn announced the penalty though the maximum could reach twenty thousand dollars. The charge involved rebating to Penn Fruit Co and Harris Newmark Co tied to half-rate shipments within California.
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Washington Fox
Los Angeles
Cal
Southern Pacific
Welborn
United States District Court
Penn Fruit Company
Harris- Newmark Company
California
Califorata
Wilson Operated On in Baltimore Hospital
Assistant Secretary of State Huntington Wilson underwent a successful operation at Johns Hopkins Hospital. He is reported in excellent condition after the procedure, with Mrs Wilson at his side. The date is recorded as October 1 with later updates confirming his stable recovery.
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Baltimore
Huntington Wilson
Ieins
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Big Road Rally On Good Roads In Alexandria
Washington Post reports a noon political meeting at the Alexandria county courthouse on Fort Myer Heights featuring Senator Daniel Representative Carlin and others. A Alexandria County Good Roads Association will form and bond issues may be discussed while speakers including Judge Mann State highway officials and local leaders address road building and governance.
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Washington Post Bureau
King Street
Alexandria
Wiliam Hodges Mann
Virginia
Alexandria County
Fort Myer Heights
John W Daniel
C c Carlin
Julian Wilson
Charles Lassiter
Virginia Good Roads Association
Alexandria County Good Roads Association
Imn
Killed on first saloon day in Bristol Virginia West
Two saloons opened today after a court decision making the July 8 local option legal. Ten carloads of whisky beer and other spirits arrived in the city this week. Charles Kenny a merchant were killed when struck by a wagon on his way home from the city. He had not drank a drop in three years.
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Brstol Va
Virginia
Tennessee
Virginia City
Charles Kenny
Notables Seek Big Game in Arizona Hunting Party
Postmaster General Dent A Lyon and Delegate Ralph Cameron lead a notable hunting party with Arizona figures Count A Lyon and Secretary BW Zachan, meeting in Flagstaff and proceeding toward Holbrook to hunt in northern Arizona wilderness. Expected joiners include Wool Smith, Arizona naturalist.
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Cameron
Washington Post
Arizona
Frank H Uitchcoth
A Lyon
Republian National Comenttes
Fran Lexas
Ralph Cameron
Congress
Jat
Zachan
Flagstaff
Flolbrook
Woa Smith
Holbrook Deer
Dent
Arrest Diamonds Merce President Charged in Buffalo
Buffalo police arrested Diamond Merce president of Amsterdam Diamond Company today on a charge of using the mails for fraudulent purposes. Miller appeared before two U.S. commissioners and bail was set at 400 dollars. Authorities accuse him of operating a lottery as part of the business which grossed about 1000 dollars annually. He denies illegality.
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Buffalo
Amsterdam Diamond Company
United States
Bullet evidence ties man to sixfold murders in Appalachia
Bluefield W V October 1 detective Felts returns from Hurley Va scene of the murder of Mrs Betty Justis George Meadows and their three children and says evidence implicates Howard Tuttle already jailed on suspicion Little claimed to borrow a revolver used in the killings and to flee with another woman He is said to have prepared for departure with money in hand and to have given two dollars for clothes while Justis kept cash in hand Exhumation of Meadows showed two bullets matching the revolver and Little’s statements later contradicted earlier sworn testimony He will be taken to Grundy Va for trial.
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Washington Post
Little
Meadows
Juels
Littlie
West
Mia Justis
Welch
Grundy
Buchanan
Maryland WCT elects new officers at annual convention
The Westrington cum Hagerstown Maryland WCT adjourned Lovight after naming President Mary R Wastup and four other officers all Baltimore residents. The closing address by Ella A Boole of New York recounted Dr Frederick A Cook the milkman explorer who once missed Sunday service due to milk delivery duties and quit milking on Sundays to keep church attendance.
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Hagerstown
Maryland
WCT
Mary R Wastup
Paulhe W Helme
Annie D Starr
M Alice Wood
Frances A Csthem
Battimore
Ella A Boole
New York
General Missionary Society of the Presbytenan Church
Boole
Frederick A Cook
Methodiat Church
Brooklyn
Wand
Cook
Poisoning incident at New York Avenue home
Mrs Marte Smith of 1115 New York Avenue Northwest was rushed to Emergency Hospital after reportedly taking a mistaken dose of poison for heartache tablets. She was semiconscious and dying. police were notified around midnight. Doctors sought the poison’s identity while her two daughters remained at the hospital, inaccessible to investigators.
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New York Avenue
Magader
Mos Smith
Folleomen Holmes
Cullmane Wer
Smuth
Southa
Smith
Miss Harriman to Wed Goelet in Quiet Wedding
Society pages indicate Miss Mary Harriman daughter of the late railroad magnate is slated to wed Robert Walton Goelet in a quiet ceremony after tentative family approvals. Report notes this would be the second Harriman sister to unite with a young American and his fortune. Cornell Harriman is already married to Robert Livingston Gerry.
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New York
Mary Harriman
Robert Walton Goelet
J ‘Cs Hartman
Goelet
Quande
Lesper
Hal Top
Arden Ard
Harriman
Mary x
Cornell
Robert Livingston
Gerry
Bryan's Silver Wedding in Tancolm Nebraska
In Tancolm Nebraska on October 1 Mr and Mrs WJ Bryan celebrated their twenty fifth wedding anniversary at Fairview. The house brimmed with flags flowers and messages from around the world. Three children and two grandchildren were present as neighbors called, sharing the joyful reception.
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Tancolm
Nebr
WJ Bryan
Fairview
Tretr
Bhe Bryan
Dan McAvoy Dies After Paralysis In New York
Francis Peter Reardon known as Dan McAvoy, famed comedian and Hebrew impersonator, died early this morning in his apartment on Broadway. The death followed years of paralysis since 1906, with a career spanning vaudeville and stage work alongside Marie Dressler and Harry Bulger. He starred in The King's Carnival and The Giddy Throng and performed with Georgia Kelley in Dan McAvoy's Fifth Avenue Girls.
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Jeasie May
New York
Marie Dressler
Harry Bulger
Julie Mc Eee
Old-Time Minstrel Dead Famed for Diamonds and Pugilist Connection
Georgs W Moore founder of the Moore Burgess Minstrels died at age 90 in London after a lifetime as an Ethiopian comedian and pantomime star. Born on Mulberry Street New York he was once called Pony Moore and spent years in traveling shows. He toured with Christy Minstrels and Crocker, co managed them in 1870, and claimed to own diamond rings worth up to 7500. He spoke of dining with lords and socializing across classes.
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Washington Est
London
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Moore-Burgess Minstrels
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Mulberry Street
York
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Little Fony
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Halfway House
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England
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St James Hall
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Moore
Prince of Wales
Edward Vie
Eighteen on Test Ride From Fort Myer to Fairfax
Eighteen army officers left Fort Myer on a six hour mule ride toward Fairfax VA with 35 mules, camping near small towns along a route passing Alexandria and Falls Church. Col Robert H Bailes led the party including officers from engineers medical and ordnance corps, and several named officers stationed in New York Philadelphia Baltimore Norfolk Dover and Tompkinsville.
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Asall
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Fort Monroe Va
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Picatsany Arsenal
Dover
Herbert Denkyre
Philadelphia
Wendell L Simpson
Nineteenth Infantry
Amos W Kimball
William Tschanmit
Picatin Uyarsonal
Dover SF
Retirement of Col Edware Pratt Notes Army Board Action
Col Edware Pratt is ordered before an army retirement board at Vancouver Barracks Washington for examination. He joined the regular establishment from Virginia in 18? and served with the Twenty-third Infantry before transfer to the Fifth Infantry as lieutenant colonel. He has commanded the Thirtieth Infantry since 18? and led the Sixth Volunteer Regiment during the Civil War era.
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Placeth Infantry
Vancouver
Pratt
Virginia
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Fifth Infantry
Fort-sixth
Flood Victims Receive Additional Red Cross Aid
The American Red Cross through state departments sent an extra 32000 to flood victims near Vontecey Mevica, bringing total relief funds to 7000 and 1,0 blankets. Clef Clerk Field, clerk of the Department of Justice, travels to Seattle on Alaska-Union-Pacific Exposition business. J R Gasking acts as chief clerk in his absence.
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Vontecey Mevica
Clef Clerk
Field
Seattle
I Field
Chasf
Department of Justice
Wash
Moors Attack Reconnaissance Force in Morocco
In Madrid a Zelu an official message reports heavy fighting during a reconnaissance near Sok i Jemis. Fifteen Spaniards were killed including Gen. Diez Vicario with ten wounded. Moors attacked in large numbers, were repulsed with heavy losses as Spanish forces withdrew in orderly fashion. Mountain tribes rush to aid the Rif region around Melilla.
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Molal Hafid
McKim Will Filed In Surrogates Office For Architect's Estate
Charlies F McKim of McKim Mead White names the American Academy in Rome as primary beneficiary to fund endowment, with remaining trust to Harvard University for New York scholarships in architecture in Italy Sicily and Greece if the academy cannot accept the legacy, and the bequest is detailed in a filed will. Margaret McKim is identified as the municipal immediate beneficiary.
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Greece
Wilson Mizner Arrested for Disorderly Conduct in New York
Special to The Washington boat New York Oct 1 Wilson Mizner, once married to Mrs Charles T Yerkes, was arrested today on a charge of disorderly conduct. He pleaded guilty before Magistrate Finn and was discharged. The incident stems from a dispute with Theodora Gerard and landlord Edward Margolies over subleasing her apartment. Mizner allegedly forced entry after being denied access, prompting Margolies to call police.
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Wilson Mizner
Charles T Yerkes
Finn
Jefferson Market Court
George F Bronson Howard
Theodora Gerard
Mizner
Edward Margulies
Gerard Ives
Cuts Cellmate's Throat in County Prison Quarrel
In Philadelphia suburb Alsburg a quarrel in a county prison cell over a loaf of bread left Anton Zachissh to fatally stab Pietro Crambrane with a razor. Zachissh claimed self defense and said Grambrane took the bread for breakfast.
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Almesburg
Anton Zachissh
Pietro Crambrane
Prisoy
President embarrassed as senator resigns amid opposition
A senator from South Dakota resigns his post amid sharp opposition from the Senate. The move embarrasses the President and shifts political dynamics in the region. Opponents claim the resignation reflects broader resistance to the administration’s agenda.
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South Dakota
Wellesley Hugger panic spurs police arrest drive
A sensational Washington Post despatch from Wellesley reports mass arming of students as the so called hugger terrorizes the town. Revolvers are carried by scores of women and two women are named victims amid a crackdown to capture the elusive figure linked to political resignations and patronage disputes in South Dakota.
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Presdent
Robert
Intener Department
Person
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Kote
Wellesley
Sutingane
Jy Igen
Washington Post
James Akingon
Isabel Gradsell
Brooklyn
Forty kisses too many in Bluefield divorce court
In Bluefield West Virginia on October 1 a police judge urged Ed ward Schneider and his wife to separate after years of alleged coercive kissing. Schneider had his wife arrested for limiting kisses to two daily claiming he needed four per day. The court dismissed the case and advised breakup. Local mint statistics note 929,259 in month with 16,0885 swed coin sales and values across several metals.
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Washington Post
Bluefield
W Va
Edward Schneider
Schneider
Census job applications rise in Far West states
Far West residents apply to the Listed States civil service commission for October examinations. About 1009 local appointments are expected from the exams across states and territories. Terms range from six months to ten years, averaging about one year.
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Civl Service Commission
Cenius
Envil Service
Exarmaa
Post Office Economies Targeted in Washington Conference
Officials plan a conference in Washington on October 7 with postal service superintendents and experts to discuss retrenchment and economy measures. The aim is to determine where reforms can improve efficiency and cut costs across the service.
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Alender Gantt Sapiint
Geralwa
Ser Ice Fg
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