An ongoing journal of genealogical and family discovery.
Casino–Vaudeville. At the Casino next week one of the features will be the Diamond Comedy Four, a singing quartet. Another interesting act will be the Todesca Keating trio, comedy bicyclists. Harry Burgoyne, an eccentric comedian, will entertain with conversational patter Read More …
WOODEN GUNS TERRIFY Convicts Make Escape With Dummy Weapons. FOUR QUICKLY RECAPTURED Desperadoes Board Engine In Yard of Leavenworth Penitentiary and Force Engineer to Back Out Through Iron Gate–Farmers With Shotguns Help Recapture The Men Special to The Washington Post. Read More …
James Keating, alias John O’Donnell, after pleading guilty to two charges of petty larceny and receiving a six months’ sentence, afterward pleaded guilty to two accusations of housebreaking, and was held in $5,000 bond for the grand jury’s action. Detectives Read More …
Faces Thirteen Charges. According to the police, they have a “find” in James H. Keating, alias John O’Donnelly against whom there is lodged eleven charges of robery [sic]. Keating was to have been arraigned in the police court yesterday, but Read More …
AIRSHIP ON LIVE WIRE One Killed, Two Hurt Trying to Disengage Dirigible. Special to The Washington Post. Ottawa, Ontario, Sept. 16.–Edward Keating, of Belleville, Ontario, was instantly killed by electricity, and two other men were badly hurt today, while attempting Read More …
Society […] The week has been replete with interesting weddings and engagement announcements. One wedding of the past week which is of particular interest to Washington was that of Mr. William Franklin Sands, son of Rear Admiral and Mrs. Sands Read More …
MINISTER SANDS WED TODAY AT MEDIA The marriage today at Media, Pa., of Miss Edith G. Keating, daughter of Mrs. John M. Keating, of Sunnyside, Wawa, Pa., and Mr. William F. Sands, United States minister to Guatemala, will be one Read More …
Loses Eyesight by Counting Money From the New York Telegraph. It was bad money, really bad, that cost Miss Mabel Keating, assistant treasurer of the Manhattan Theater, her eyesight. She is now in the Manhattan Eye and Ear Hospital undergoing Read More …
File Wills For Probate […] Mrs. Mary E. Keating, who died recently at her home, 3417 R street, bequeathed the bulk of her estate to her husband, John T. Keating, and made several small bequests to near relatives, according Read More …
Had Habit of Falling Downstairs Garden Valley (Cal.) Review: Ves Keating had a horrible death night before last, his neck being broken while walking in his sleep, and falling down the long stairs in his saloon and residence. It seems Read More …
AFFIRMS MOYER STORY Pinkerton Declares Miners’ President Served Time in Joliet Special to the Washington Post Chicago, Ill., May 11.–There is no doubt in the mind of William Pinkerton, head of the detective agency, that the Moyer who served time Read More …
FINDS HIS STEPSISTERS. Charles Keating, Heir to Irish Estate, Locates Women in Denver. Special to the Washington Post Springfield, Ohio, Aug. 17–Charles Keating, of Washington, D. C., has, after a search of thirteen years located his two stepsisters Catherine and Read More …
DEATHS FULL OF HORROR Two Convicts Drink Wood Alcohol and Perish in Convulsions Rawlings, Wyo. May 31–William Wardlow and Jessie Keating, convicts, died at the State penitentiary here yesterday from the effects of drinking wood alcohol. They were workers in Read More …
OHIO MEN GET JOBS Charles Keating and George Paull Appointed to Post-office Department Charles H. Keating, a Mansfield, Ohio lawyer, was nominated by the President yesterday as deputy auditor for the Post-office Department. Keaton [sic] was indorsed [sic] for the Read More …
Social and Personal […] The marriage of Lieut. Arthur Barnes Keating, U. S. N., to Miss Louise Ogle Beall will take place next Saturday afternoon in St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Baltimore, and will be followed by a reception in the Read More …
Death in Tunnel Collision. Washington, Pa., Nov. 6.–In a head—on collision of Baltimore and Ohio freight trains in Brady’s tunnel, hear here today, Engineer Joseph Keating was killed and Engineer Martin O’Donnell and Fireman Leclair May were seriously injured. The Read More …
Deaths. (Reported up to 12 m August 10, 1905) […] Edna M. Keating – 452 O sw – 8 months. […] Source: Deaths, The Washington Post, Washington, District of Columbia, 11 August 1905, p. 3.
TORNADO IN APRIL People Hurled Through the Air, but Escape Serious Injury. Mahanoy City, Pa., April 10.–A tornado struck Jacksons, a mining village near here late this afternoon, causing considerable destruction. Houses were unroofed, trees were uprooted, and telephone and Read More …
Prevented a Conflagration Special to the Washington Post. Winchester, Va., Jan. 21.–An early morning fire at the Miller Supply Company’s building on Water street this morning, in the business part of the town, caused several hundred dollars’ damage. The fire Read More …
LICENSED TO MARRY Jesse Goode and Mary E. Johnson, both of Boston, Mass. Jacob R. Nelson, of Ashville, N. C., and Hannah Mitchell, of Arden, N. C. Nace Montague and Nannie Allen, both of Stafford County, Va. David L. Pitcher, Read More …