Carlyle House Manin Genuine Says Palmer
Smithsonian expert Palmer declares the Alexandria Carlyle House remains likely a colonial era body. He notes mortar, canvas, and cement indications, suggests official examination to settle genuineness and possible burial vault usage. A Smithsonian official backs the need for archival records and expert verification.
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Europe
Confesses to Murder in Virginia Alley Tragedy
Special to The Washington Post reports J Frank Childress of Danville returned to Richmond after fleeing ten days earlier and confessed to killing C C Henderson in an alley near Lula Penn’s West Broad street home claiming self defense. He said after the encounter he fled to Arkansas Springs before surrendering. his father urged him to return.
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Virginia
Air ship catches fire over Electric Park
Lincoln Beachy, the aeronaut, escaped injury when a gasoline tank on the air ship leaked and caught fire during an ascent above Electric Park. The blaze drew thousands as Beachy opened the tank valve, guided the craft lower, and the crowd seized the anchor rope. his hands were burned.
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Electric Park
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Coski family sues Western Maryland Railroad for 16900
A father and son, William and James A. Coski, filed a joint suit against Western Maryland Railroad seeking 16900 in damages for injuries they say occurred in a freight collision on September 12. The younger Coski, a fireman on a locomotive, claims the collision resulted from trainmen’s incompetence.
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Bryan in New Orleans to Speak at City Park and Hotel Reception
William J. Bryan arrives from Jackson at 10 35 a m and attends a parade before a reception and banquet at the St Charles Hotel. He will deliver a speech at an open air gathering in City Park at 4 p m and depart for Memphis that evening.
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Exonerates Her Husband After Western Virginia Shooting
Special to The Washington Post reports Mrs Ben T. Sloiin of Thacker West Virginia was shot by her husband near the town this morning. The bullet pierced her left breast but she survived for an hour before dying. She said before death that the pistol discharged accidentally.
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Virginia Brengle
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King Street
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Father Kelly
St Mary's Catholic Church
Stabbing in Beeler House Left Bonner Seriously Wounded
In Hagerstown Maryland Clinton Bonner a Norfolk and Western freight foreman aged 22 was stabbed after a confrontation with a negra in front of the Beeler House where his mother is proprietor. He received twenty stitches and is in serious condition at Washington County Hospital. A Cumberland man Henry Daws was arrested claiming innocence.
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Norfolk
Freman
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Washington County Hospital
Henry Daws
Cumberland
Coffee Trouble Solved By Postum Switch In Family Tale
An elder brother recalls being the family runt due to coffee use for thirty years. After switching to Postum he gains strength and weight, and his cousin also improves. The letter claims coffee caused stomach and nervous issues and urges others suffering to quit coffee and try Postum.
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Wellvile
Democrats Plot Vigorous Campaign In Fifth And Ninth Districts
The Democratic State Central and Executive Committee will meet in Richmond to map a vigorous fight in Virginia's Fifth and Ninth districts. They target Col Slemp's labor record and back Robert P Bruce in the Fifth while sending top speakers to the Ninth as Republicans split on Slemp.
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Beng
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Warsaw
Harry L Maynard
Portsmouth
John Lamb
Richmond
Francis Rives Lassiter
Petersburg
Edward W. Saunders
Rocky Mount
Caper Glass
Jors Ab
James Hay
Maalson
Wlépth
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Rixey
Southern Day at Luna Park Donates Receipts to Mortgage Help
Next Monday Southern Day at Luna Park will donate park gate receipts to women raising funds to reduce the mortgage on Lea Camp Hall in Alexandria. Tickets include a tide on the circle swing. tours of the world are not free. The Washington Alexandria and Mount Vernon Railway Company will contribute portions of ticket prices to the cause.
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Pollution Threat From Potomac Mills Spurs Action
Special to The Washington wear Cumberland Maryland. Warden Gregon Milton Denia left Cumberland for Hancock after investigating Potomac River pollution by pulp mills at Luke and arranging an agreement with Luke brothers to abate the trouble. He visited the Hoffman drainage tunnel opened to drain Georges Creek mines. two miles long, moving 9,001,000 gallons daily, discharging into Wills Creek and then the Potomac at Cumberland. The effluent is rich in sulphur, estimated at 250 tons daily, capable of destroying fish and harming Maryland inhabitants if misused. Denia urged abandoning Georges Creek mines, pledged to check sawmills for sawdust and bark in the river, plan to destroy traps, and warned of prosecutions. He said Maryland spends $15,000 yearly for fish propagation and game protection and seeks the best results.
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Tobacco Prices Rise in Mixed Markets Across Virginia
Richmond notes larger weekly receipts and rising sales with primings improving while wrappers remain scarce. Prices edge up for low grades, with medium and good leaf lagging. dark fired stock remains quiet. Separate reports from Durham and Petersburg describe crop shortfalls, ongoing rains, and heavy leaf shipments to major companies. University of Virginia records a historic registration high, with potentially record total enrollment.
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Ada Johnson of Juniata College Registrar’s Daughter Dies
Ada Johnson, widow of Prof. Garman Johnson, registrar at Juniata College, Huntingdon, Pa., and daughter of Rev. W Scott Reichari, pastor of the German Baptist Church, Hagerstown, Md., died of tuberculosis at age thirty after a period of illness. Richmond, Sept 3 - William A. Walton, Virginia native, died in Phoenix, Ariz. His brother Dr. Z. Wilson Walton of Romney, W. Va., arrived at the bedside just before the death.
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Virginia
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Romney
W. Va
Peace Hopes Rise As Cubans Back Negotiations
Ambassadors extraordinary and plenary powers reportedly authorize flexible handling of Cuba talks. US forces claim no orders to land yet as ships carry stores. defenses refute rumor of immediate landing and false claims of Palma family voyage.
Funston sails from Tampa for Havana trip
Brig Gen Frederick Funston arrives in Decks onVile at 8 p m and departs for Port Tama ra to board the Oliverette tonight for Havana via Key West He says no orders beyond Tafts to report in Havana as soon as possible He notes possible talks with Cuban insurgents but does not recall meeting Isadoras and declines to discuss troop preparations.
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Plot to Kill Jews Fails as Repression Policy Embraced
Odessa reports reveal Black Hundreds and anarchists planned a violent Jewish New Year attack but authorities thwarted it. In St Petersburg, Dmitri Shipoff exits Liberal ranks over Stolypin repression with Guchkoff backing. Kursk nobility vote to expel three late Parliament members, including Prince Dolgorukoff, for Viborg manifesto.
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Viborg
Miner’s Fatal Compressed Air Accident Near Huntington
Chauncey Muller, a Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad shop employee, is dying in Huntington Hospital after a small air hose burst while he to repair it. The 90 psi air forced into his throat is believed to have destroyed his lungs and stomach, per physicians.
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Washington Post
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Tailor Held for Murder in New York
New York. Samuel Alexander was fatally stabbed with shears last Thursday. Tailor David Kaltman, once linked to Chicago fashion, was found concealed in a stable today and arrested. Kaltman married Tie Cohen in Chicago on October 8, 1900. They later moved to Baltimore, then to New York, where they separated. Mrs Kaltman recently acted as housekeeper in the murdered man’s home.
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Bruce declines office in National League race
Special to The Washington Post from St. Louis on Sept 22 reports John E. B. Bruce, secretary of the National Commission and St. Louis baseball club owner, denying any pursuit of the NL presidency and saying he would not accept the job if offered. Also in Lynchburg a murderers escape after Dave Wright killed Edwin Evans in a disreputable quarter. Evans' head was nearly severed before Wright fled.
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Provincetown Defenders Refute Evans Fleet Rowdiness Claim
A Provincetown statement denies Secretary Long and others accusing Admiral Evans of hoodlumism during the fleet visit. The city asserts no rowdy conduct by sailors, blaming civilian visitors from many towns for alleged disturbances and noting the fleet’s visitors were orderly last summer.
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Dowie Announces Mexico Departure and Millennium Plans
Chicago on September 2 John Alexander Dowie spoke at Shiloh House to followers detailing his intended departure for Mexico on Tuesday and his hope to return to Zion City next summer to build a great mansion on Mount Carmel for the coming of Christ. He warned he may be called home first and spoke of his broken heart caused by his twenty-five year marriage to Mrs Dowie and his forgiveness stance toward her if she resentfully returns while declining to restore her former position.
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Shiloh
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Poisoning in Pittsburg Bakery Affects Six Families
Twenty persons across Allegheny are reported stricken after consuming cakes from a Pittsburg bake shop purchased Thursday through Saturday last week. Doctors say most are out of danger, save two, with Br Graham’s family and Br Davis’s group among the gravest cases. Investigation cites powder roach poison spilling from a bakery shelf into sugar. Health authorities to consider action.
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Weller
Atlantic fleet sails for Provincetown gun practice
The North Atlantic fleet battleship squadron departed Bar Harbor at sunset for Provincetown Massachusetts to conduct target practice. The ships listed include Maine Kearsarge Kentucky Illinois Indiana Iowa Missouri and Alabama with the dispatch boat Yankton. A court martial will convene there Tuesday for Capt Samuel P Comly and Lieut Alfred W Pressey over the Alabama's collision with the Illinois near Newport last July.
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Telegraph Pole Saves Derailed Car At Fort Wayne Show
An amusement company exhibit in Fort Wayne Indiana saw a special car leave the track but be saved by a telegraph pole over a deep ditch. Fifteen persons were slightly injured in the narrow escape near Wabash.
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Fort ‘Wayne
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Holders of certificates notice for Metropolitan Railroad Co
Official notice to holders of Indebtedness series A certificates dated August 19 1906 payable October 1 1908 at Washington Railway and Electric Company office 14th and East Capitol Streets Washington DC interest checks cease after October 1 1906 W F Ham Treasurer September 15 1906
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