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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Sep 10, 1907
Page
19
A Maryland farmer’s wife dies after arsenic poisoning at a Montgomery County farm. The husband, brother-in-law, and others are linked to the poisoning as authorities search for missing Jone Maz and investigate a planned marriage to George. Neighbors describe a tense scene with meals and threats as the sheriff teams pursue leads and a potential motive emerges.
Fragmented OCR text outlines a push to reopen schools and budget concerns. Mentions a board meeting, a resolution, and calls for action by local officials. Names and places are unclear due to garbled source content.
A damaged OCR fragment mentions a deadly attack by bloodhounds near Wak Oy Spe Aiton and a party at Mook ot Live, with several names warped beyond recognition. It notes arrests and severe injuries, but the text remains unclear on date, location, and full sequence of events.
Ernest Simons appeared in Click Eninte faenons Ie 4 on Tavtg cual che death of Miss May Huateath oof Wivertester. Bail set at £301 for his appearance at the grand jury. A separate accident near Laveaville left a young man dead after a vehicle struck him while he was on his way. The case was adjourned to Friday with further hearing planned for the meander.
A letter from a North Carolina mother recounts how Grape Nuts cereal aided a gravely ill infant and recovering family. She describes relief from dyspepsia and teething relief after using grape nuts soaked in warm milk, noting a dramatic recovery and renewed well being for herself and others in the household. The account highlights gratitude and a testimonial tone typical of early 20th century advertisements.
Sydney E Mudd backs Gen L Allison Wilmer for chief judge of the Seventh Judicial district covering Charles St Marys Calvert and Prince George counties The Democratic wave nominates Judge Briscoa for the office Adrian Posey seeks the judgeship Mudd aims to keep Wilmer supported by the circuit counties The Sunclad convention will meet at Le Plate on Thursday September 12.
A major fire destroyed the Berkley Ice Works in Norfolk early today causing about 50000 dollars in losses with 17000 dollars insured. The blaze started in the room near the boiler where sawdust is used for steam pans. An employee reportedly slept and disappeared from the premises as the fire was found. Winds driven fumes toward the water helped limit the damage. Large ammonia tanks were affected by the smoke and heat.
The United States Improved Order of Red Men convened in Washington for its eighth annual session with over 150 delegates and thousands of visitors. The group debated establishing a permanent national headquarters, with Chicago and Washington among contenders, and discussed amendments barring saloonkeepers from membership and plans for a national fraternal sanitarium in Las Vegas New Mexico.
Alexander J Wedderburn’s Historia Alexandia copies, held by Alexandria, may be distributed at no cost by Southern Railway agent H V Richards. He proposes sending 1000 copies via Southern Express to Jamestown Exposition to publicize Alexandria, relieving city officials of shipment costs. City likely to approve, moving toward large free distribution from council chamber stock.
A Chesterfield County Court jury in Virginia found Harris, a colored man, guilty of attempted assault on 18 year old Lena Rowland in her father's Chester garden. He was sentenced to death with sentence to be pronounced Wednesday. Witnesses testified Harris sprang from behind bushes and overpowered Rowland as her brother and others aided. Harris confessed. The case drew national attention as the district faces a pending appeal.
The second annual Union Horse and Hunt Blow Association exhibition in Unison Loudoun County opens September 11 with over 30 entries across sixteen classes. Feature events include half mile fast hunts, close-country hunting, and steeplechases with liberal prizes and special trophies announced. In other news, Mrs Basan Lae vinsa Kearna seeks absolute divorce from Joseph A. Kearn in Circuit Court, alleging desertion after their Rockville marriage in March 164.
In Virgaria Court of Appeals a case from the Supreme Court of Appeals is reviewed. The Marin Insurance Company is involved with the death of Crawford Beaver aged twenty three. Beaver died at his home after a stroke weeks prior. The proceedings focus on liability and causation amid a lengthy legal argument.
In a clipped Virginia obituary a man named Jamey B. Beck aged about seventy died at a local hospital after long illness. He was survived by his wife and children and was known in the community for his work and family ties.
In Winaton Baldwin North Carolina Sept 9 farmer John Eade of Surry County was shot and killed by tenant Nathan Donathan over a dispute about chickens. Donathan, who had moved onto Mr Eads farm, allegedly fired after warnings and retaliated when chickens interfered with farm work. He was arrested and held. The incident stemmed from a quarrel over chicken cooping and property restrictions on keeping fowl.
Special to The Washington Post reports Erie Rosenthal a Baltimore merchant with a blank mind wandered in New York then boarded a train to Baltimore to reunite with his wife and family and restart his business. Meanwhile Emil Rosenthal, saloonkeeper at West Pratt Street, vanished last Wednesday prompting his wife Mrs. Rosenthal to seek police aid. rumors place him at New York Central Park Arsenal police station that night.
Special to The Washington Post Fredericksburg Va Sept 9 Thomas Raytop sixteen son of Thomas Raytop of Middlesex County drowned while fishing alone in a shallow part of the Rappahannock River. His balance failed and he fell overboard the boat capsized and he was drowned body recovered
The Virginia wedding notices list Richard Taylor and bride Chartee T. Doe among the couple pairs, with groom Haw Bing and wedding party details including Mise Vantte Hoo as maid of honor and Howard Wales as best man. Reverend G F Parham officiated at the Thursday ceremony.
Mrs W X Sadler wife of Baltimore Busher College president died suddenly in her state room on the Merchants and Mines steamer Ontario at Chesapeake and Ohio pier No. 5. Heart failure ended the visit during a Jamestown Exposition trip with husband, daughter, and two Wilmington friends aboard the ship as a severe storm and excitement may have triggered the attack.
A band of mountaineers ejected from a passenger train on the Virginia and Southwestern in Carter County Tennessee attacked the conductor and crew after a man named Den Berry was forcively expelled. Pistols flashed as Capt. Robert Carnahan and brakemen A D Crods and R B Taylor narrowly escaped harm. Berry, 25, was captured and returned to Elizabethton for jail while the mob dispersed. Brakeman Croncie was beaten into partial unconsciousness before rescue.
Special to The Washington Post reports a dramatic aeronautics accident near Hampton Roads. Sarael Ludlow of Shelby piloted a two engine aeroplane tied to a large kite when a fire broke out at the Cleveland Springs Hotel causing three deaths, many injuries, and the craft to capsize into the water. The event disrupted bystanders and investigators weighed the loss at about 15000 dollars as the wreckage was towed by the Gwinn under naval escort.
At a Maryland settlement near the Prince George County line in Montgomery County Wesley Warner colored about thirty six years old is bailed at Rockville charged with the murder of Bernard Smith colored at a rear farm tenement. Witnesses conflict on the quarrel after a craps game and a shotgun shot killed Smith instantly as Dr W T Brown examined the body noting seven shot penetrated the heart.
A Baltimore area man Malcolm Page Haines twenty six a junior member of a brokerage firm in Baltimore shot himself at his uncle Postmaster Lancelot Jacques home in Smithaburg Washington County. He came from Baltimore to visit and slept briefly that morning before dying by his own hand. His body found noon today after initial reports to his mother and local telephones indicated he was safe. The wider note covers West Virginia Knights of the Garden Engine electing officers at the twentieth annual session with names and titles for Grand Chief to Supreme Representative and the next annual session planned.
Special correspondence reports a violent incident near Pinesburg where Harry Cameron of Martinsburg was stabbed in the arm by Italian assailants during a confrontation with three Italians following a bush meeting. Fourteen shots were fired, but no injuries except Cameron, and arrests were attempted but not made. In other items, a Virginia court awarded Willis J. Winston $3,000 against Southers Railway for Thanksgiving Day injuries, and a West Virginia Supreme Court docket lists multiple cases and writs of error across several counties.
Ruth a melodramatic stage piece adapted from Libin draws strong emotion at Columbia Theater season opener. Eugen, Arden, and Capable Company receive praise for performances as Ruth confronts trust, deception, and confession in a domestic tragedy set around a factory and shattered marriage.
Vice President Makea address and a varied program in Pueblo Colo featured Fatrbane and Chase’s-Ryan-Richfield Company. The show included Irish skits, burlesque acts, ventriloquism, and music with Lillian Apel and others, drawing two large crowds and ending with a Grand Hotel banquet in Fairbanks’ honor.
Special to The Washington Pot reports a twelve year old girl Blanche Kohler vanished from 20 East Twenty nth Street. A forged note to her father Mr. George Kohler intensified fears. Searches spread to Staten Island and Montgomery Street, with suspicions surrounding an Italian fruit dessert vendor near the uncle’s home.
The New York Phonograph Company seeks a permanent injunction and accounting from Hyman Barron for alleged invasion of its New York exclusive territory by selling phonographs and supplies. Supreme Court session in White Plains will authorize examination of Thomas Watson by Commissioner Rollinson, with proceedings in New Jersey. The suit involves over $1,000,000 across multiple actions against several defendants.
Report from Peking details Empress Dowager and Yuan Shi Kai backing new imperial commissioners to study constitutions abroad. Three envoys to Japan, Great Britain, and Germany will report on constitutional systems as central administration shifts. Critics say reforms aim to curb viceroys power while throne interference likely to continue.
Tenace Hapbersall aged sixty four one of the oldest conductors on the Philadelphia and Wellington division of the Baltimore and Onlo Rastrand dropped dead aboard a northbound train near Bradahay after alighting in Washington. He was struck by apoplexy while collecting tickets. a physician passenger pronounced him dead. The body was sent to Philadelphia where he had lived for years. He was likely the absent conductor in charge of cervica in the employ of the Baltimore and Ohio Company.
Berlin reports that one hundred forty seven followers of Jacob Morenga the Hottentot chief surrendered to German forces. The number includes forty seven warriors and ends the threat of a fresh raid into South West Africa. Morenga’s force had numbered about four hundred nine and had remained quiet in British territory.
In Mexico City two men, Fiorencio Moyales and Bernardo Mora, were executed at Belt prison for aiding the 1907 assassination of former Guatemalan President Barillas. The June conviction and the April date led to a forceful, possibly war-threatening international episode, ending with their deaths in a swiftly conducted capital punishment.
Oklahoma and Indian Territory received general rainfall last night totaling several inches, ending a long drought. The soaking rain is expected to bring substantial relief and improve soil moisture across the region.
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