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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Oct 22, 1905
Page
3
In Richmond, authorities treat the Perkins case as serious while a woman is suspected and detectives examine handwriting on threatening notes. Mrs Perkins urged arrest, but police asked patience for more investigation as the infant’s body, dead a month, is exhumed for chemical stomach analysis.
Pennsylvania and the Fifty ninth Pennsylvania Regiment of Volunteers erect a monument on the New Market battlefield to remember those who fell in the May 16 1864 charge. Gov Pennypacker and other prominent Pennsylvanians will speak with a large veterans delegation expected at the unveiling on October 25.
A Washington Post special from Irvington Virginia reports Republican speakers canvassing Westmoreland and Northumberland counties. Led by Royal E. Cabell Frank Phillips and Thomas Ball the team will be joined by George A. Hivercomb and J Brack Stovall with frequent daylong addresses at crossroads through Lancaster and into Richmond County. Democratic opposition includes Richard H Holmes running as independent Republican for the house of delegates and regular nominees HeaE Omen for the Republicans and John Curlett for the Democrats.
Special to The Waenington Post reports Harry G Smith, 4 frescoer, arrested on charges of bigamy after wives claim he married them within days of each other. The first wife produced a marriage certificate from 1889 and says she left him four months ago after ill treatment. Smith contends he married without divorce from a vanished prior husband. The second wife, 22, says she married him to secure a home for herself and her mother and denies knowing about another marriage despite rumors.
Benjamin Dida Wick of Hampshire County West Virginia reported being assaulted by a white male highwayman in northern Winchester. He sustained a deep hip wound and a leg gash while his pocketbook containing $70 in bills and loose change was taken. Police have no lead yet.
Mrs Maude Arnette of Clarke County Virginia sues Powell Arnette for divorce claiming brutal treatment and a chalk line dividing the couple's home order. She cites a December 1903 marriage in Washington DC and seeks maintenance legal fees and an injunction to prevent disposal of assets. The case is set for trial before Judge I W Harrison in Clarke County Circuit Court.
Richmond Oct 21 printers strike reaches the courts as Judge Daniel Grinnan grants a sweeping injunction against Typographical Union No 90 and eighty seven members to restrain interference with printing houses. The union can seek dissolution next week while Ferguson & Son reportedly capitulated. Also James Hopking found guilty on seven counts for false pension affidavits in Spokane Federal Court with possible penalties.
In Manila a store event drew thousands of young doll lovers and their guardians to Kann, Son Co. as every child received a free pair of Burson stockings for their toy babies. The busy fifth floor booth, with nurses and floor walkers, saw dolls dressed in matching stockings while many sought to buy dolls to take home. Manila reports cholera free for six days amid previous deaths in nearby provinces.
Special to The Washington Fest Floyd Virginia October 21 The defense began presenting its first witnesses in the murder trial of James Richards accused of killing Maurice Francia in August An attempt was made to discredit state witnesses who testified they saw Richards with a false mustache Before the defense rested the prosecution offered evidence that the oil on the weapon left oil spots on torn leaves at the scene of the fatal shot.
Cripple Creek Colorado October 21 George Pickens admitted to Sheriff Bell that he killed PF B Walsh in Leadville twelve years ago to spare an innocent man who was arrested in Iowa. Leadville authorities have been notified and Pickens remains jailed.
Burglars blew open the vault at Phillips National Bank in Maine early today and took about $749 from a side safe. the main vault containing nearly $14,000 in currency was not entered. The robbers escaped before police arrived.
An OCR fragment notes Flimphrahe Homeo Medicine Co at a corner labeled William and John Brevets in Nowe Fork. The readable text suggests an ad or listing for a homeopathic firm with a street corner reference.
Professor Alfred Nerincx, already special counsel to the Belgian Legation, may accept a professorship of law at George Washington University in comparative constitutional law. His career spans the University of Louvain, Glasgow, and multiple US and European studies, with extensive work on American judicial organization and international education methods.
Lexington October 2 reports that the home of Henry Noble, a key state witness in Breathitt County murder cases, burned to the ground at Jackson. Firefighters fought flames that were burning on the exterior of the house and investigations suggest incendiary involvement.
In Galion Ohio an additional joint indictment charges O. J. Hays ex bank president and Edward Flickinger head of Flickinger Wheel Company with 52 counts of bank fraud. The total alleged loss is 156,512 as Gaddon National Bank had suspended February 13, 1904.
The will of John Joseph Alter, late president of Berg doll Brewing, who died in Vichy, France, last August, has been admitted to probate in Philadelphia. The document devises 940,000 to Hahnemann Hospital and a like amount to Jefferson Medical College Hospital. It also leaves 10,000 to the University of Pennsylvania Hospital and 15,000 to the Children's Country Week Association.
In Kankakee district on October 21 Joseph Turpis of St Louis was killed instantly after touching an energized wire while chasing a blown hat at Chatsworth. Mil es Meister, attempting to rescue him, was killed in the same incident.
New York Oct 21 coroner announces no inquest will be held into Miss Saunders death from burns at a city hospital on Oct 12. The death certificate was delayed due to insufficient cause information, not foul play. Saunders daughter of a former Cincinnati physician, related by marriage to Prof Charles A Doremus, said the accident caused the clothes to catch fire.
Cleveland Ohio October 21 Justice of the Peace Charlies F Knuth was sentenced by Judge Fielder in Police Court to ten days in the workhouse for refusing to bring his docket and records into court as ordered. Proceedings were brought against Knuth and several other justices on charges of extortion against persons charged with minor offenses.
Tokyo announces a grand naval review for Monday October 30 with strong enthusiasm in Tokyo and Yokohama. Seventy five special trains will run between the two cities on the review day.
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