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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Sep 02, 1909
Page
12
Fleet operations off Norfolk Virginia report improved target practice under calm seas with new fire control towers on battleships. Ships conducted after dusk drills, tested heavy guns, and reported visible results from searchlight observations. The Atlantic Torpedo Net passed the Virginia capes aboard the Newport bound ship.
Kansas City, September 1. Congressman William P Borland reports Secretary of War Dickinson found no power to reinstate Richard W Hocker after his cadet dismissal over charges related to Cadet Rolando Sutton. Sutton’s brother Lieut Sutton died at Annapolis. Dickinson believed the penalties were too severe but cannot alter them.
Effort is under way to raise the speed supply ship Yankee which lies on the ocean bottom off the Massachusetts coast. Commander Charles Marsh, who was aboard when she wrecked, travels to the scene as the wrecking company hopes to surface the vessel this week. Delays came from locating air leaks in the ward room and after deck areas. most obstacles have been overcome and compressed air is used to aid the operation.
Captillotte Coulter of Guard Alabama claims unlawful killing of his brother Edward W Coulter Company D Seventeenth Colored Regiment at Fort McPherson. Coulter says soldiers fired as they pursued him near a near beer saloon after a disturbance. he retains counsel for a formal inquiry. A court martial reportedly vindicated the accused shooters.
In Annapolis Maryland on September 1, Robert T Charlton aged 2 of 313 North Washington Street Baltimore was rolled overboard from the yacht Marguerite at Bound Bay in the Severn River about eight miles above Annapolis. Charlton, aboard with Hoh Umbach and A T Wolfe of Tris, is believed to have rolled overboard while sleeping.
George W. Carroll a Gallant Green Maryland assistant post master was arrested after an investigation into thefts of registered mail. Inspectors detained and the case led to arrests related to mail robbery near Bryantown and Gallant Groom, Maryland, with officials reporting ongoing inquiries into the scheme.
After a good roads committee meeting in Alexandria, plans to extend vitrified brick paving on King Street from the city limits to Union Station were disclosed. Estimated cost about 18600 with funds from county supervisors, Washington Alexandria and Mount Vernon Railway, and Washington Southern Railway covering portions. County Engineer Garrett to supervise. The project aims to create a top paved main thoroughfare for the city.
Mary Cornell of Hagerstown filed for absolute divorce from John Cornell eight years after their Rockville marriage. Desertion charged. she had lived in Ohio three years before moving to Washington County. A passenger train on the Cumberland Valley Railroad hit and killed an unidentified man around 2 a.m. while he slept on the track at Thirty Six Mile Riding.
The report notes D ONeil resigning as secretary of Cumberland Central YMCA to lead XMC A in Painesville Ohio. It mentions shipbuilding and requisitions, the Michigan on trial trip exceeding speed limits with 18000 ton displacement and eight 8 inch guns, training ship Newport arriving from the Azores to Bermuda then Rhode Island, and local notices of weddings and a death in Hagerstown Maryland with biographical details.
Cobham on Sept 1. Miss Florrie Almada Jones daughter of Mr and Mrs WB Jones of Fichmong county wed Andrew J Stepheny of Washington DC at Cobham Park Hap tat Church Hivathavile. In the afternoon Miss Mary Lulan Brent wed Gamuel Julian Downing Mire Botts acted as ward of honor and Thom Downing, brother of the bridegroom. They will rest at Bureees Store Northampton county.
Rockville Maryland drew a large crowd on September 1 as spectators gathered for a seven race motorcycle program. Washington riders competed in two-mile and sprint events amid exhibition acts and warnings to gamblers with no arrests reported.
A fragmented passage outlines a high jumping contest and a racing card with multiple names, places, and purposed events. Mentions include Clarence Moore, Social Series League of Montgomery, tuberculosis notes, and a slate of participants and locations such as Washington DC and Maryland.
Sept 1 Warrenton reports a German fundraiser with many patrons listed as donors and attendees. The crowd includes numerous named individuals and couples, highlighting community support and names such as Mary, Alice, Barbara, Margaret, and John among others.
The sultan departed Constantinople at daybreak aboard the imperial yacht for Constantinoplia and Fruse, Avia Minor. He travels with the heir apparent and the princess, planning three days in the first Ottoman capital with grand preparations for a notable occasion. He will then proceed to Gallipoli to visit the tomb of his ancestor and conqueror of Hospodome.
Admiral Sir Edward Hobart Seymour hoisted his flag aboard the battle ship Inflexible at Portamouth as the squadron to represent Great Britain for the Hudson Fulton celebration in New York this month. September 9 will be the call.
August W. W. Russell reports from Caracas that a screen device check of 369375 funds will be paid by the Venezuelan government to settle damages to American property rights. An apnea protocol commits 415,625 more to be paid in seven yearly installments, likely including further payments to the Orinoco Corporation.
Fairmont reports the death of John W Everhart aged 78 at his home after a long illness. He was a Loudoun county Virginia native, survived by his wife, two sons, two daughters, including C Frank Burke of Grafton, and one daughter. Military service noted with reference to an old regiment from Keyner, W. Va. His passing marks the loss of a longtime resident with diverse ties to Virginia and West Virginia.
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