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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1902
Page
1
Auditor reports as of November 30 1902 the state with receipts of 101 584 48 disbursements 7 504 94 and a balance of 3 804 700 89 General School Fund closes November with 389 890 34 totaling 2 008 651 25 in all funds.
A massive blaze at Pocahontas Collieries Company supply house destroyed a 25 by 100 foot building housing mining supplies. Eight oil barrels and several steel tanks exploded as firefighters contained the flames. Origin of the fire remains a mystery.
The Ladies Guild of the Episcopal church holds a Christmas sale in rooms once used by the Karnak club on December 4 and 5. The event runs from 3 p.m. until night each day, offering useful and fancy presents with refreshments served. Dining room at Sterne's Restaurant on Bland street.
Savannah tale of Capt. F. C. Wilson and John Sullivan Schley lining up a field of honor duel after a Thanksgiving hotel lobby altercation. Wilson a famed marksman with 100 medals. Schley a Sea Girl contestant and Savannah lawyer. A Savannah board of honor ponders amicable settlement while civil authorities have yet to act.
John T. McGraw of Grafton West Virginia has purchased the Dry Fork Railroad, a feeder to the West Virginia Central and Pittsburg line. The 33 mile line connects with the Pittsburg road at Hendricks and runs into a timber and coal district.
A letter from F J Kimball, president of the Norfolk and Western Railway, to Edwin Mann of the First National Bank outlines Bluefield upgrades valued over 500000. Plans include yard extensions, track reorganization, new overhead bridges, a wall along Princeton avenue, paving between delivery tracks, and housing for officials. Kimball urges city officials to align street and sewer improvements with the railway work.
Petersburg Virginia council discussed an ordinance to issue 190000 dollars in 4 percent city bonds. The measure will be adopted at the next council meeting.
Gallup Kentucky druggists G. C. McClure & Son hail Ramon’s Liver Pills and Tonic Pellets as the most popular and satisfactory liver medicine they have handled. They claim the pills aid constipation and biliousness, are cheaper than prescription drugs, and invite trials at 25 cents.
Daniel Banatz of Otterville Iowa says after years of asthma and failed treatments Foley's Honey and Tar gave immediate relief He recommends it to others and notes it is sold by G H Wade druggist in Otterville Iowa.
William Thomas a small Black 17 year old from Danville who had been sentenced to four years in the Virginia penitentiary for breaking into a car on the Norfolk and Western railroad escaped from Christiansburg jail. He climbed the chimney to the roof and leaped to a tree limb outside the sidewalk. A woodyard worker alerted the jailer, revealing the escape.
B R Ketton formerly street commissioner received tidings of a fortune amounting to $57,000 left by a brother who recently died in Sacramento California.
William H. Murray charged with the 28 year old murder of Woodroon near Williamsburg Indiana was arrested in Dunlap Tennessee. He was brought to Chattanooga and returned to Williamsburg for trial. Murray had lived under the name William H Howard in Dunlap for 25 years and was a respected village blacksmith.
Antonio Troina a 37 year old laborer at the Pennsylvania Railroad engine room Fifteenth and Filbert streets Philadelphia was crushed by a twenty foot fly wheel after entangling with belting. He was hurled through a plate glass door and died from multiple injuries including a fractured skull and broken limbs.
A Chicago, Duluth and Eastern syndicate closed on 100000 acres of mineral and timber lands in Eastern Kentucky with options on 400000 more. Surveyors begin layoff work. two years to complete abstracts. Plans call for three railways into the Big Sandy region: Cincinnati Hamilton and Dayton, Chesapeake and Ohio, and Sea board Air Line.
George Bowens of Washington DC announced a legacy from his uncle N A Brent for the hospital charity wards. Brent died last week leaving $3 000 to his brother and Bowens, his nephew.
R A Gray of Oakville Indiana writes that ten years of kidney disease confined him to a bed with pain and immobility. After consulting top medical skill he found no relief until Foley’s Kidney Cure was recommended and helped him greatly. Sold by G H Wade druggist.
Bluefield Lodge No. 269 B P O E will hold memorial services Sunday at 2 PM in the new Elks Opera House. The program includes solos, a sermon by Rev. Tyler Frazier, memorial address by Bro. Anthony Bullock Danlay of Cincinnati, duets, quartette numbers, and a doxology honoring deceased members.
In Boston a prominent Episcopal layman accuses churches of gambling and blackmail in parish fundraisers and blames women parishioners. Bishop Lawrence replies that male patrons must increase their giving before criticizing women, noting no man should complain without giving a tenth of his income.
Agents of Armour & Co have nearly completed arrangements to control the potato crop in the northwest. Trainloads of potatoes stand ready in Minnesota and Michigan awaiting storage with the firm. A price rise to 60 cents per bushel is expected by December 15.
An attempt to wreck a car occurred on the Newport News and Old Point Railway tracks at Mill Creek Bridge near Old Point. Two heavy beams were placed across the rails, but averted by the motorman before collision.
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