Woman Identifies Negro Assailant at Jail
Miss Mabel Risley and her escort Forrest Gooding identified Joseph Wright, a 23-year-old prisoner, as the man who assaulted and robbed them near Luna Park Four Miles Run Virginia on Sept 9. Wright had been held for larceny and was connected to similar cases including the Jackson Boney murder. Annie Green, jailed in Alexandria, had previously implicated Wright.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mabel Risley
Forrest Gooding
Twenty-third
Four Miles Run
Joseph Wright
Wright
Annie Green
Jackson Boney
New Highway
Virgina
Alexandria
Boney
Wight
Wood
Johnson
Thomas Nugent
South
Pitt Street
Miss Risley
Louis Dains
Prigate Jonmson
Severita
Matthews
Seventh Precinct
Gooding
Capt Matthews
Miss Gooding
Forrest
Mr. Gooding
Luna Fark
Risley Cout
Jackson
Virginia
New Highway Bridge
Washington
Dip
Obituaries and marriage notices from early 1900s city paper
A garbled death and wedding notices page lists multiple obituaries and marriages. Beatrice Modaw appears to wed Willa Shaurleite sprung from Washington DC to Virginia, with others including Addie Dusalt, Foster, McCormick, Murphy, Offutt, and Louis B. Yetmed Rustand among the deceased. Funeral details reference Glenwood Cemetery Chapel and the Foundry Methodist Episcopal Church, with addresses and funeral directors such as W. R. Speare and J. William Lee. The fragmentary text preserves names, dates, and locations, but lacks complete coherence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fustamin
Don Abe
Charles 7 Fenteman
Glenwood Cemetery
Addie Dr
Thomaa J
Marie E. Dusalt
Eptember
Hid Sin
Judea Ela Caler
Judith Elen Foater
Methoist Episcopal Church
McCorwick
Gladstone
Bel Vane
Sarah M
McCormick
Gladstone Friends Innael
Murphy
Charles WH Murphy
Arradant
Lnte
Eleventh Street
Offutt
Belmore Street
True
Ae, Offutt
Joseph
Eta
Sourcay
Louis B
Rustand
Strike Begins at Standard Oil As 5000 Join Walkout
Chicago dispatch reports a wage dispute triggers a widespread strike against Standard Oil. Whiting Indiana workers quit to press for higher pay, with 300 firemen and over 5000 other employees set to leave Monday. The walkout aims to secure eight hour days and union recognition, threatening Midwest operations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Standard Oil Company
Whiting, Ind
Middle West
Standard Oi Company
IKE HILL DYING AFTER HEART AND KIDNEY PLIGHT
Isaac R. Hill a longtime official linked with the House of Representatives lies at the point of death at his East Capitol Street home. Gangrene formed in his legs and circulation failed as his condition worsened. His daughter Mrs. Hill telegraphed James D. Hill of Johnstown Ohio, who reached Washington, as doctors warned he could not survive the next two days.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Isaac R. Hill
House of Representatives
East Capitol Street
Richard Hingsman
James D. Hill
Johnstown
Ohio
Col. Hil
Why Edna May Resigned From The Belle of May Fair
Special Cable Dispatch reports Edna May quit her role in The Belle of May fair at the Vaudeville Theater alleging management overemphasized Camille Clifford to capitalize on her engagement to a peer's son. May, the star earning 2200 weekly, says she resigned after being urged to remain a mere drawing card.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cabe
Washington Post
London
Kedna May
Mayfair
Vaudeville
Camille Clifford
Miss May
Miss Clifford
Milas
Boy Slayer Exonerated in Patrick Coffey Case
Detroit, September 2. William Patterson, nineteen, was exonerated by the coroner’s jury after striking his uncle Patrick Coffey with a gun barrel, fracturing the skull and causing death. Coffey, intoxicated, beat his wife and sister. the boy acted to protect them and was freed from custody. Patterson and his sister and two brothers lived with the Coffeys.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit
Mich
William Patterson
Patrick Coffey
Carover
Coffey
Patterson
Coffeys
Woman Guards Suspected Strikebreaker From Lynch Mob
In Columbus Ohio a nonunion molder Moodispaugh shot George Davis a striking worker near Hayden foundry. A brewery crowd menaced Moodispaugh and a woman protected him by blocking entry to Jesse Hazlett’s home until police arrived. Davis is in critical condition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
Ohio
Frank Mood- Ispaugh
George Davis
Whch
Moodispaugh
Hayden Foundry
Davis
Jesse Hazlett
Hazlett
Moodtspaugh
Xenia votes wet under Beal law ending six year dry era
Springfield Ohio Sept 22 Xenia a 10000 strong county seat in Green County ended a six year dry period by voting wet under the Beal law. The tally Dry 1015 net 119 a wet plurality. Accusations fly that Mayor Jaces Brennan’s stance against saloons and his bid to close cigar stores and soda fountains fueled the reversal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Springfield
Ohio
Xenia
Green County
Aris
Atl St
Jaces Brennan
Magnolia to sail from Midway for Honolulu tonight
Honolulu dispatch reports the Magnolia will depart Midway for Honolulu this evening. The transport Buford arrived to convey the Mongolia passengers to this port, and embarkation began at once with stranded travelers ferried in rowboats from the island to Buford three to four miles offshore.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Honolulu
Magnolia
Midway
Buford
Mongolia
Dutch Ironclad Piet Hein Sinking Report
A special dispatch from Nieuwediep states the Dutch coast defense ironclad Piet Hein is sinking due to the opening of a stockade it cannot escape. Boilers are already submerged as the vessel sinks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amsterdam
Nieuwediep
Netherlands
Piet Hein
American Warships to Morocco to Back Fez Mission
Tangier Morocco Sept 2 report says the U S second cruiser squadron now at Gibraltar will arrive soon to back the American mission to Fez led by Minister Gummere regarding Perdicaris and Raisulla. A British cruiser arrived. German mission to Fez left for the capital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tangier
Morocco
United States
Gibraltar
Fez
Gummere
Perdicaris
Rosen
London
Mogador
Cassa Blancs
Sahara
France
Chamber of Deputies
Algeciras
Public whipping of Charley Conley in Delaware yard
Charley Conley, a black prisoner, received thirty lashes and a fifty year sentence for assault. In front of nearly 600 spectators at Newcastle County Workhouse yard, the flogging was administered to his bare back, drawing blood and leaving extensive welts. He walked to his cell to begin the term as crowds outside clamored for admission.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilmington
Del
Charley Conley
Beatrice Frankish
Guasie Leitch
Newcastle County
Conley
Dit
Fire injures three and destroys five story factory
Three people were injured and a five story brick building burned down at the Wadsworth Howland Company's paints and color factory in Chicago. Night watchman Michael Swartz suffered burns from an explosion. Spectator Hivelyn Smith was trampled amid chaos. Frank Walreg fell from the roof as the crowd fled. Loss estimated at 100.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Wadsworth- Howland Company
Michael Swartz
Jellico Explosion Death Toll Falls Behind Estimates
Jerlico Tennessee September 22 revived estimates reduce fatalities from the dynamite blast to seven with five yet living but fatally hurt. The dead include John Cook Joseph Selers Walter Rodgers George Atkins James Reynolds John G Gordon colored and an unnamed Syrian. Injured exceed 150 with about twenty gravely injured. Property loss placed at under half a million dollars but may rise. Mayor Baird asks AP to relay thanks for aid but notes Jellico can manage without outside help and merchants plan to resume business soon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jerlico
Tenn
John Cook
Joseph Selers
Walter Rodgers
George Atkins
James Reynolds
John G. Gordon
BR RB. Baird
Jellico
Baird
Associated Press
Mysterious attempt to poison girl in trance in Warren
Miss Verma Champlain, sixteen, was found with carbolic acid poured into her mouth while asleep. The bottle hidden behind the bed burned her gums, yet her clenched teeth prevented deeper injury. The act remains a complete mystery to her mother and Warren authorities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington Post
Cleveland
Ohio
Verma Champlain
Deforast
Warren
C. A. Archer
Beieves
Gil
DeForest
Champlains
Kilpatrick
Founders Day Plan Proposed for Carnegie Libraries
Pittsburg September 22 An effort is under way to have Carnegie libraries observe Founders Day on the same date each year. Secretary S H Church of the Carnegie Institute trustees reports favorable replies to letters sent. He proposes inaugurating the festival on April 1, 1907 with the next celebration on the first Thursday in November 153% and annually in November thereafter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburg
United States
Andrew Carnegie
H. Church
Cardegie Institute
Canadian yacht stranded near Victoria with Earl Grey aboard
Advices from Alert report Lieut. Gov. Dunsmuirs yacht stranded high and dry on the beach near Victoria. Earl Grey and his party were taken off by steam launches and placed aboard the steamer Oldra, where Lady Grey was traveling.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Victoria
Alert
Dunsmuir
Earl Grey
Lady Grey
Good red wines as tonic for anemia and digestion
Dr. E. Mauriac cites good red wines as a valuable tonic due to moderate alcohol and mild acidity plus iron, potash, and phosphoric acid. They aid digestion and are recommended for anemia chlorosis and netrasthemia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. Mauriac
Bribe-Takers Sent to Pen in Cemetery Bribery Case
Byron D. Gibson and William B. Jackson, former Erie County supervisors, were convicted of taking a 35000 bribe tied to the contract to remove bodies from Old North Street Cemetery for the new sixty fifth Regiment Armory. Justice Lambert sentenced them to five years in Auburn Prison, with a stay until a week from Monday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Warsaw
Byron D. Gibson
William B. Jackson
Erie County
Old North Street
Sixty-Fifth Regiment
Lambert
Auburn
Ocean Steamers News Roundup of Transatlantic Movements
Maritime notices report arrivals and departures of several liners. Names include Etruria Minnehaha Sable Island ships heading to New York and Plymouth, with arrivals such as Friedrich der Grosse and Noordam from New York. Port refs cover Havre Cherbourg Liverpool and Southampton, listing sailings and dock times.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Arrivad Amérike
Hemburg
Plymouth
Cherbourg
Hamburg
Etruria
Queenstown
Liverpool
Minnehaha
Lawton
Val’er
Dover
Antwerp
New Yok
Southampton
Slasconset
Mana
Mitonta
Trieste
Palermo
Sable Island
Nova Scotia
Oder
Rotterdam
Boulogne
Hobsteen
Newfoundland
Ladyvale
Havre
Philadelphia
Bremen
New Yob
London
Mesaba
New ‘York
Christiancand
United States
Umbria
la Provence
Friedrich der‘ Grosse
Bremrt
Philadelpha
Hlaecher
St. Paul
Zeetad
Cestic
Fom
Arrivad
Noordam
Bodiegas
Setadam
Vanderbilt Cup Trials End in Sparser Field and Tracy Wins
Garden City reports elimination trials for the Vanderbilt Cup produced a sparse finish with only three of twelve cars completing. Joseph Tracy won in a fast Lovamopite entry, turning sub four minute laps and setting a decisive lead over Hubert Le Blon as the race was halted by safety concerns and crowding near Lakeville.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Speda
Washington Post
Garden City
William K Vanderbilt, Jr
S. T. Davis, Jr
Joseph Tracy
Tracy
Hubert le Blon
Lishorde
Thomas
le Blon Thomas
Elwood
Haynes
H. N. Herding
Herbert H. Lyttle
Toledo
Wesler Christie
Christie
Frayer-Miller
Lowell
Lakeville
Lovamopite Hubou
Hayling
Boxepower
Haynes HH Saféle
Pape-Zoledo
Werp Lowell
Borcepower
Brayer-Mitter
Kesler
Oldsmoblie
Horcepower
Tesalois Keibuwel
Laweee Fae
Althouh
Lke le Blon
Calllois
France
le Blon
Montague
Roberts
Caillois
Monebla
Westbury
Roslyn
Umit
W. K. Vanderbilt, Jr
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Gev
Wiliam A Pleihes
Beatrice, Modaw
Washington DC
Willa, S Shaurleite
Ielapiane
Undertakers
W. R. Speare
F Street
N. W
Andre J. William Lee
Modest Priven
George P. ‘Zurhorst
East Capitol
R. F. Harvey’s Sons
Ewpalmers
Matorats Pric
Rommerdiaus Chanel
Pelenhane North
Standard Oil
Col
Ike” Hill
Edna May
Boy Slayer
Striker
Nonumon
Sultan
Delaware
Yellico
Carnegie
To-Kalon
Golden Gate
To-Kalon Wine Co
14Th St
Cheverly Gardens
Union Depot
F. P. Mendenhall
Colorado Building
Robert
Frayer
Belden
Wreyer-Miller
Faae . Bose
Mangini
Matheson
Manhassatt Hill
Panama
Rand
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7Th Street
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