Richmond engineer takes own life amid illness and unemployment
Reuben Sheriffes a prominent civil engineer, faced with his wife’s serious illness and job loss, killed himself by inhaling gas at his Chicago home. He had built a power plant in Richmond and later worked for the Great Falls Power Company before financial troubles and withdrawal from work. The body found in a pantry after his mother-in-law discovered letters. Burial planned in Richmond.
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Chicago
Richmond
Great Falls Power Company
Reuben Sheriffes
Hillyer Place
Louisa Brice
Sheriffes
Maine
Betts
Bshenffes
Funes
Glazebrook
Nova Scota
Poer
Camtal
Virginia
Thet Ould
New York
Sheriffen
Miss Bruce
Thichmond
Washington
Hulyer Pinea
Great Falls Company
Death of Hon Kerr Craige in North Carolina
Kerr Craige prominent North Carolina figure dies at 6 00 pm at Columbian University Hospital after valvular heart disease. He was en route to Johns Hopkins for treatment when weakness struck him in the city. Survived by three sons and two daughters his body traveled to Salisbury South Carolina for burial. Craige held posts in Cleveland administrations and served in the state legislature. A Confederate War veteran and ally of Senators Vance Ransome and current NC lawmakers, he was a respected lawyer and Democratic leader.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
HieniKerr Craige
North Carolina
Columbian University
Craiges
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Baltimore
Acker
Salsbury
S. C
Craige
Cleveland
Internal Revenue
Cungress
Vance
Ransome
Burton Craige
Coness
Democratic Party
Asphalt Company Employees Deny Ill Treatment in Venezuela
New York and Bermudez Asphalt Company workers swear affidavits to Venezuelan authorities denying accusations of abuse and forced labor after property seizure tied to A. F. Carner’s receivership. Affidavits state workers were not harmed or coerced and continued operations with provisions supplied, amid court proceedings on concession fulfillment.
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Senor Fulldo
New York
Bermudez
Carner
Molivar
Guanoro
Arrest of man for pocketbook theft in police court
Silas Hulton, a Black man, reported a pocketbook containing $36 stolen several nights earlier. Dixon, another Black man, was held on $5 bond for the grand jury after a preliminary hearing before Judge Mills. Attorney Peyton urged reducing the charge to petit larceny, claiming Dixon found a packetbook with only $7.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Silas Hulton
William Dixon
Mills
Peyton
Dixon
Mail sack mutilator fined in Juneau court
United States district attorney in Juneau reports the U S commissioner fined a defendant arrested for cutting up a mail sack and using it as a newsboys satchel. The total cost including fine is 12.85 dollars. The case underscores that using U S mail pouches for non mail purposes violates the law.
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United States
Juneau
Alaska
Tragic Elevator Accident Claims Bricklayer Thompson
Matthew Thompson, 55, died after a narrow plank gave way in a Misfits Building elevator shaft on seventeenth and G streets NW. He fell almost 100 feet from the eighth floor to the bottom after the plank was struck by an ascending car. Acting Coroner Glazebrook ordered an inquest set for Saturday morning at the Morgue. Thompson lived at 16 C Street NW.
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Navy Department
Matthew Thompson
Thompson
Glazebrook
C Street
Post Office to Buy Street Package Boxes amid Bid War
A special committee opened bids yesterday for street and combination letter boxes, with designs to be scrutinized before award. Ex Representative L E Flulgs and attorney warned bidders, notably Van Dorn Iron Works, amid prior legal actions by Isaac S McGrehan. The government’s royalty disputes and Lorenz’s 25 cent stand costs fueled a heated process likely to lead to further controversy or court action.
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Svice
G. A. Libbard
Bosco
L. E. Flulgs
New York
Attourney
van Dorn Iron Works
Cleveland
Ohio
Isaac 8. McGrehan
Columbia Supply Company
McGiehan
George Hi. Wuntington
A. W. Machen
Free Delivery Service
Federal Grand Jury
Huntington
van Dern Iron Works
MelGiehan
Bristow
George E. Lorenz
Machen
Lorenz
Woman Charged With Assaulting Husband In Domestic Row
Alice Parker, a negro, was jailed at the House of Detention after allegedly trying to strike her husband William Parker with a brick during a quarrel at 2443 M Street North West. Policeman Spicem of the Fourth precinct made the arrest. Blocked traffic on Long Bridge when trolley tracks failed near the south curve as car No 13 derailed, delaying travel for hours with transfers to Rosslyn and the Aqueduct Bridge.
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Alice Parker
William Parker
M Street
Spicem
Long Bridge
New Bridge
Washington
Alexandria and Mount Vernon
Horsford's Acid Phosphate Promises Strength
An advertisement extols Horsford's Acid Phosphate as a tonic for improving appetite sleep and nerve strength during illness or convalescence. It claims to supply essential phosphates for nerves bones muscles and brain and urges insistence on using the product as the greatest tonic and nerve food.
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Horsford
One Killed in Electric Accident at Capitol Excavation
Samuel Mahoney, a Negro laborer, died after a steam shovel struck a live wire during relocation at the House of Representatives office building site in Washington. Antonio Germotte and several others were injured or shocked. an inquest is planned to determine cause and responsibility.
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Samuel Mahoney
House of Representatives
First
C Streets
Antonio Germotte
Mahoney
Glazebrook
Siist
Union Station Plaza
Maloney
Germotte
Charles Agastine
D. ¥. Williams
Eugene M. Pullen
Henry Krusen
Mr. Wiliams
Mr. Pullen
Agustine
Germette
Fimal
Lloyd
Knoxville
Tenn
Baltimore
Washington
Brenson Construction Company
Weather Conditions and Forecast from Weather Bureau Report
Unsettled conditions prevail from the Rockies to the Mississippi Valley with showers widespread except along the Atlantic coast and west of the Rockies. Temperatures vary by region with cooler values in the Midwest and Central Rockies and rising temps in the Northwest and far West. Forecasts show continued showers Friday and Saturday in most areas, cooler readings in the Missouri and Middle Mississippi valleys, and variable winds along coasts and lakes. special warnings include frost for western areas and storm warnings on Lake Superior and near Northern Lake Michigan.
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U. S
Mississippi Valley
Rocky Mountain
Middle
Ohio Valley
Lower Lake Region
Atlantic
Gulf States
Middle Slope
Missouri
Middle Mississippi
Hantern
New England
Middle Atlantic
South Atlantic
Gulf Coast
Lake Superior
Lake Michigan
Lake Huron
Confederate Veterans Elect Delegates to Lynchburg Reunion
The Confederate Veterans Association of this city elected a delegation to represent it at the Virginia Grand Camp reunion to be held in Lynchburg on the 15th and 16th of the current month. Delegates include Cobbert, Maj Robt W Hunt Conrad, Thomas W Hun Canlaghan, Capt John Micke is Robinson, A G Holland, O F Smith, and Capt Littlepage. Miss Nannie Heth, daughter of Gen Harry Heth, named sponsor with two maids of honor. The camp also accepted Emack Camp’s invitation to Hyattsville Md on the 10th instant.
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Confederate Veterans
Confederate Veterans Association
Grand Camp
Virginia
Harry Heth
Lynchburg
Cobbert
Maj
Robt
W. Hunt Conrad
Thomas W. Hun Canlaghan
John M.icke
Is Robinson
A. G. Holland
O. F. Smith
Capt. Littlepage
Nannie Heth
Hyattsville
Search for human freak Yuki spurs habeas corpus case
Two deputy marshals and Attorney Armand W. Scott hunted for Yuki also known as the dog face boy with a writ of habeas corpus. George Davis of Sedalia Mo claims guardianship asserting Yuki born Henry Newlin is sixteen and unsound minded. The boy and guardian were said to be moved toward Halifax and Missouri with efforts to locate them failing.
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United States
Marghale
Armand W. Scott
Yuki
George Davis
Sedalia
Davis
William B. Drewery
Halifax
N.C
Duryea
John Doe
Justice Anderson
Scott
Drewery
Washington
Pennsylvania Depot
Georgetown
Henry Newlin
N. C
Sedalla
Rockville
Guardian
Maryland Court
Tony” Phillips
Sedaia
Missouri
Threatened Blaze Sparks City Firefighters Battle
A major blaze on Brightwood avenue threatened a row of houses and stables. Three stables and eight sheds burned or damaged before firefighters, aided by buckets and streams, extinguished the two hour fire. Loss estimated under $1,000 with insurance. Three other fires, two caused by painters and a gas curtain, also reported along with two purse snatchings nearby on Wednesday night.
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Brightwood Avenue
M. White
F. M. Helan
Caroline Cohen
Sixteenth Street
James Morris
M Street
Bay 212
C. A. Hah
Sta
Rhode Island Avenue
Box 213
Populist Watson Denounces Dems in Atlanta Speech
Thomas E. Watson, Populist candidate for president, lashed the Democratic leaders in Atlanta for renouncing democracy and courting Wall Street. He pressed the South to question Parker, urged unity with the West, and called on true Democrats and Populists to unite against what he termed a national party drift. The Georgia Populist convention endorsed Watson and named electors.
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Atlanta
Roosevelt
Parker
Thomas E. Watson
People’s Party
House of Representatives
Georgia
Wall Street
Walltreet
St. Louis
West Virginia
Judge Parker
James A. Ross
Ross
Hooker Washington
South
White House
Bishop Turner
Booker Washington
T. Thomas Fortune
New York
Grover Cleveland
South Carolina
Belmont
John W. Daniel
Virginia
Committee On Resolutions
West
Georgia Populists
Mr. Watson
John H. Sibley
Talbot
Weir
Fulton
RK. Les Moore
Jesse Ward
C. Montgomery
Bion Williams
W. T. McDaniel
W. P. Glover
W. H. Nally
John P. Brightwell
J. FP. Brooke
L. D. McGregor
D. R. Johnson
J. J. Holloway
J. K. Hines
Judge Hines
Democratic Party
Mason and Dixon
Lne
Two Workmen Plunge Into Scalding Water at Land Office
Jacob Pyrah a fireman aged twenty nine and Samuel Walker a laborer aged fifty four fell from a board into a vat of scalding water in the basement of the General Land Office Building at Seventh and E streets north west yesterday. They were pulled out by fellow workers and treated at Emergency Hospital before going home. Walker lives at 758 Thirteenth Street southeast and Pyrah at 70 12 O Street northeast.
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General Land Office
Jacob Pyrah
Samuel Walker
Seventh
E Streets
Yves
O Street
Walker
Lves
Thirteenth Street
Shot for Laughing at Dog in New York Saloon
John Flynn twenty five is shot in the body after laughing at a mongrel dog that followed two men into a saloon. The dog’s handlers, John Stehl of Jericho Connecticut and Joseph Stehl of Cranford New Jersey, are in custody. Also notes a Labor Day special train to Cape May from Washington with a three day stay at Congress Hall for twelve fifty.
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New York
John Flynn
John Stehl
Jericho
Conn
Joseph Stehl
Cranford
N. J
Cape May
Labor Day
Pennsylvania Railroad
Washington
Delaware River
Potas Wo Henge
Septeen Inc
Eave Ape
Eptember At & Dem. Roan
Congress Hall
Batiste
Fairbanks in Kansas Praises Republican Policy Advances
Senator Fairbanks spoke on anti-trust and anti-rebate laws and the gold standard, praising Republican gains in Kansas under McKinley. He urged forward votes to support protective tariffs, sound monetary policy, and farm prosperity while warning against Democratic setbacks.
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Republican Party
William McKinley
Kansas
Republic
Fairbanks
Tillotson Returns to Republicanism in Roosevelt Support
D C Tillotson, former Silver Republican chairman, declares the silver party a mere force and backs Roosevelt for president. He cites reasons for preferring the Republican party over the Democrats, signaling a party shift amid the campaign rhetoric.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Babcock
Republican Congressional Committee
D. C
Roosevelt Takes a Tramp After Morning Mail
Secretary Loeb delivered important matters to President Roosevelt at Sagamore Hill and after meeting with him the President left Sagamore Hill with two sons for a long country tramp. In South Bend Indiana the Democratic convention for the Thirteenth District nominated F. E. Herring for Congress after he declined twice.
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Oyster Bay
S. J
Loeb
Sagamore Hill
Roosevelt
South Bend
Ind
Sept. L
Thirteenth Congressional District
F. E. Herring
Congress
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Springfeld
Vicksburg, Mss
Bessie Sullivan
T Street
Elizabeth Mills
Bladensburg
John H. Woodbury
D. I
Watson
South 19
Oeferve Lansburgh & Bro
Ase
Panama
Tillotson
Cannon
Republican National Committee Today
Joseph G. Cannon
Columbus
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Athens
Cumberland
York
New Jersey
Connecticut
Rhode Island
Woodruff
Sept
Saratoga
Kings County
Brooklyn
Tomothy L. Woodruff
Pering Weddings
Seventh Street
Garroan
Pianos
Sanders & Stayman Go
F Street
Planog
J. DeMoll G Co
Waslington
Fiana House
G St
HUB Furniture CO
Seventh and
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Tharp
Berkeley
St. N.W
Messrs
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Charles Pranus Carusi
Mave
Cohimelaan
van Duren
W. OR Gurley
Staock
Maui
Heiskell & McLeran
Splendidar
District of Columbia
Alexandria
Mt Vernon
Shogmaker
Waite
Olesale
Edison
Capital Phonograph Co
Hutterly
7Th Street
McGill & Wallace
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Osteopathy
Savsamaa
Nanny R. Bali-Laaghman
L. T
Pope
Alice M. Paterson
Wilbur L. Smith
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