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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Sep 17, 1910
Page
14
A Chester incident reports a man slain and his son held after a fatal beating. The text notes a proprietor in Chester involved in a prior matter and a youth once treated for football injury now placed in a cell. The report references a gaping wound behind the ear and prior mental illness.
John J. Evans, proprietor of the Edgmont Hotel, is murdered in his room. Richard Jiason, 19, alleged to have killed him and is jailed at Medie. The affair follows Evans’s return to a Union Veteran Legion room earlier that evening as police pursue the suspect who fled to Elwyn.
A pension office clerk tried to gift 100 dollars to his mother for her birthday and entrusted messenger Slaughter Jackson to change smaller money. The crisp new $100 bill slipped from Slaughter’s shirt and fell in a Treasury hallway. It was recovered and returned to the vaults before he realized the loss.
Wounded men Frank brieze, a brakeman, and Thaddeus Harper a passenger conductor, were held for the grand jury on charges related to a shootings affray in Dry Fork Bal last night. Nichol son, a restaurant keeper, was awakened and attacked. a bottle strike knocked Frieze down and a revolver opened fire, wounding multiple men and leaving a fatal injury possible.
Detroit Midh reports Dr Fenton Turck argues in Mississippi Valley Medical Association that two meals daily of mince pie and beans degrade character and physique. He claims such diet harms national vigor, accelerating deterioration across Connecticut Maine and other states.
The elderly treasurer of Yok County Savings Bank, Hideford Me Septib-Richmond H. Insersali, was arraigned in his home on a $350,000 alleged defaulter case. He faced embezzlement accusations after the bank closed August 12 with a reported $330,000 shortfall. He was held on $20,000 bond.
A suit filed during Grand Cutted Order of Oud Wedows sessions seeks to remove editor manager I P Slaughter and declare recent elections void. Plaintiffs allege defendants tampered with funds property and offices and petition the court to enforce proper procedures per the order's records. Atlanta is slated as the next meeting place two years hence.
In April the government issued one hundred subpoenas to packers and workers of large beef concerns for use in securing testimony from ten indicted millionaire heads facing anti trust violations. Reports say witnesses planned to flee to Europe to avoid testifying, prompting the action.
Johan Tiberg, a Seattle laborer, is arrested on charges of stealing 14 345 dollars in gold from the Pierce Mining Company sluice boxes in Nome. Investigators say Tiberg, under suspicion last summer, arrived by steamer Senator, sold gold plugs to the U S assay office for 14 345, and exchanged the check for 39 000 draft, plus 5 24 bank.
In Rockville Maryland a temporary injunction stops merchant Charles F Windham from paying Laura R Cramer five thousand dollars borrowed in February 1905 to buy a farm. The farm was sold to John Barrett director of the Bureau of American Republics. Lee M Hurd, grandson of Fenton J Hurd, filed the suit represented by Robert B Peter. The case links the 5000 to funds traced through Hurd and his grandson in pursuit of repayment.
Pauline Wayne, a blue-blood Alderney cow sent by Wisconsin Senator Stephenson, moves toward the White House as the president prepares a suitable habitat. The high-grade Class A cow replaces Mooley in the dairy, with grooms hard at work to ensure a spotless, shipshape setup.
Louis V. De Birney filed for probate of Victor Andersons will claiming his friend is dead. The August 9 1910 document names De Birney sole beneficiary and executor. He seeks appointment as estate receiver after bond and a court affidavit of death around August 18 1910.
Mrs Emma Brooks and Mrs Rosie Holmes report to Inspector Boardman that their daughters Odea Brooks aged 13 and Edith Holmes aged 15 have been missing since Thursday morning. The women, living at 131 F Street NW, say they exhausted all local searches before seeking help at detective headquarters.
Altoona Pa Sept 16 Leo J Phillips a 25 year old Yale graduate class of 1910 was instantly killed when struck by an express train near Altoona He lived in New Milford Conn and was a special apprentice studying the Pennsylvania Railroad block system He stepped in front of the express to avoid a freight train, dying at the scene.
Chippewa Indians stand to gain 2.8 million this sale with bids from 23 bidders for timber on Minnesota lands. Offers totaling 42.3 million could enrich the Chippewa if accepted by the government. Sale occurred at Cass Lake, Minnesota, with reported strong competition according to the General Land Office.
The first conference of the Interstate Commerce Commission members after the summer recess has been postponed for two weeks due to the absence of several members from Washington.
In Philipsborn's window on Eleventh Street a millinery display by Miss Madeline Miller features Parisian automobile bonnets in silk beaver and velvet. The scene includes two miniature touring cars, with models portraying motor use. Hats mimic early colonial, Priscilla, Aunt Jane styles, and bathing caps with silk bows, bewitched by autumn colors from crimson to gray.
Miss Beatrice Conrad 17, detained at Union Station with Clyde Carpenter, halted marriage plans. Released to Harrisonburg, Va., by the Board of Charities. Carpenter freed later. Conrad vowed to wed when next opportunity arose.
Wreckers report the two masted bugeye Skylight, loaded with watermelons, will be a total loss after a collision with the schooner Enola off Hollowing Point near Gunston. The crew sought refuge aboard Enola as Skylight sank into six fathoms with changing tides posing a navigation danger.
Eleven cattle heads perished when a Grafton and Belington Line freight rear ended a B and O train at Cove Run, sending the cattle cars into the river. Twenty cars were wrecked. Crews escaped by jumping to safety.
Godfrey Mancegal Wagner appears in a clipped notice or brief column item with names listed in a fragmented OCR segment. The readable bits imply a naming sequence or committee but lack clear event dates or actions. The fragment preserves several strong proper nouns without a full narrative.
In district supreme court Justice Barnard approved the majority report of appraisers fixing the Shoemaker Company property value at 103 662 and annual rent at 6 219, up 2 219 from prior. The case, started by Frank A Munsey after a ten year lease expired in 1908, debated renewal terms and 6 percent rent based on value.
Dr Willcox testified that a deadly poison killed Crippen’s wife and described the lethal dose. The case also heard medical testimony supporting dismemberment by a person skilled in anatomy. Fashionably dressed spectators, including women, watched as Crippen and typist Ethel Le Neve face murder charges in London.
Funeral services for Rear Admiral Francia W. Dickins U S retired who died in New York City will be held at 8 o'clock this afternoon at the residence of his father in law Frederick W Pratt 2015 Columbia Road The Rev Mr Wingate of St Margarets Church will officiate Burial will be in Arlington National Cemetery There will be no military ceremonies pallbearers include eight bluejackets The death was caused by pernicious anemia and he had been confined to his room six months prior The body arrived yesterday from New York He had lived at 1334 Nineteenth Street and spent summers in Danbury Conn His first wife Marguerite Bates died in 1900 from burns in a naphtha explosion The second wife Edith Pratt survives him
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