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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1909
Page
1
Washington D C December 11 Taft and cabinet members senators judges and diplomats attended the Gridiron Club dinner filled with satire and whimsy. The evening featured mock explorations of the North Pole and political lampooning of Taft Roosevelt and Cannon amid suffragette interruptions and a carnival of comic acts.
Miss Virginia Wardlaw aged aunt of Ocey Snead the bath tub tragedy victim appeared in East Orange New Jersey before Recorder Nott charged with murdering her niece. Witnesses described discovery of Snead in a bathtub and medical testimony on emaciation and a note claiming self destruction while handwriting experts plan to challenge that note.
The transport Prairie, aground December 2 with seven hundred marines bound for the Caribbean, was floated today. Experts say the ship is not damaged and it will likely be mid next week before it can sail to its final destination in Nicaragua.
John Husson of Grafton West Virginia dies at age 101 in the city today. He is survived by four sons with the eldest son aged seventy one.
A re-arrest occurs without a formal charge as an injured woman babbles. Public belief centers on a single Black man seen entering the house linked to a triple crime. He is now missing and may be captured soon.
In Savannah the delirious statements of Mrs Meggie Hunter, sole survivor of three women attacked at a home, led to the re arrest of her husband J C Hunter. Doctors doubt a charge yet as police seek a likely assailant, a missing Black man seen entering the house with an axe during the murder.
Toledo, Ohio report says a federal grand jury returned indictments against sixteen Sicilians named as Black Hand members. The tally lists fifteen Italians from Columbus, Greenville, Coshocton, Cleveland, Dennison, and Indianapolis targeted for extortion. The charges allege the group uses threats, bodily harm, or property destruction to enforce payments.
In Louisville Kentucky a shabby stranger named Sinking appeared at eight year old Alma Kellner’s home claiming he could produce the girl. The mother pressed him for details and he fled in Mr Kellner’s automobile. Police pursue the man as rumors swirl about a covered wagon toward Cincinnati with two men suspected of child involvement.
Entrapped in a lake of flowing tar at the McClintock Irvine Company roofing plant four workers were consumed by flames. Three were burned to death while a fourth escaped by freeing himself before the fire reached him.
A Shoemaker mine fire in Johnstown Pennsylvania caused three miners to die from suffocation and twenty one to be overcome with difficulty. Emergency crews responded as crews battled the blaze.
Announcement from Charleston West Virginia reports a planned twenty mile railroad from Altman Boone County on the Chesapeake and Ohio system to near Griffithsville Lincoln County. The project will drain and develop Coal River and Mud River basins, opening about 6009 acres of coal and timber lands with 200 million feet of merchantable timber. Partners include Horse Creek Coal and Land Company and Horse Creek Coal and Mining Company led by Crawford and Ashby and others. New York interests previously sought the half million acres at forty dollars an acre.
In Kent Ohio on December 11 a skating accident killed five members of the Cormany family. The dead include Frank Cormany aged 32 and his four children Helen Flora Mabel aged 9 7 4 and E Russell Cormany aged 18. The four girls urged their father and uncle to join them on the ice and vanished while promising to return for dinner. Mrs Cormany organized a search with neighbors and the bodies were recovered that night.
Washington dispatch reports Roy Waugh will be appointed district attorney for the Northern District. The article notes no opposition remains from Tyree and Elliott factions, and signals reappointment of Marshal Tyree in the Southern District and Marshal Elliott in the Northern District as a backdrop to Waugh’s expected rise.
Charleston W Va Dec 11 It is believed a charter issued today by the secretary of state to the Kansas Gas and Electric Company of Charleston with its field in Kansas signals a formed group of eastern capitalists to control western oil fields. The company has authorized stock of 4 500 000 and plans to supply artificial and natural gas and electric current to consumers.
Walter Rutt of Germany and Jack Clark of Australia claimed the six day bicycle race at Madison Square Garden finishing 2 660 1 miles in 142 hours. They outdistance a tired field and trailed last year’s 2 727 1 miles by McParland and Moran by 77 miles.
The British budget dispute spurs a lively election buildup with trade unions and religious groups backing the budget. Analysts estimate 15 to 20 million dollars will be spent on campaigning and propagation of views, with labor and suffragists mobilizing as major parties push for victory before election day.
Washington reports Attorney General Wickersham states the Justice Department will vigorously pursue recovery of government funds from sugar frauds in New York. He notes a long corruption network involving importers and officials, with precise figures pending and a request for a special appropriation to support prosecutions.
The attorney general calls for $50,000 to pursue cases under the commodities clause and promises further litigation on interstate commerce law. He questions Supreme Court rulings on corporate ownership of transported commodities and urges amendments to close evasion schemes. He presses ongoing public land fraud prosecutions, broadens government appeal rights in criminal cases, and recommends immunities, indeterminate sentences, and stricter bank embezzlement penalties. He also cites poor sanitary conditions in the District of Columbia and urges urgent appropriations for improvements.
Pittsburg December 11 The Imperial Window Glass Company reports a new combine of independent hand made window glass manufacturers. The group aims to consolidate plants nationwide in a 6 million dollar deal and may secure a monopoly due to a strike at the machine producing American Window Glass Company. Prices have risen five cents. Only six hand made factories remain outside, including one in Western Pennsylvania, one in West Virginia, and four in Ohio. The Imperial Window Glass Company will serve as selling agent for the group.
The Minneapolis coal market denies any famine threat as switchmen near return to work Monday. Henry E. Smith of a major Twin Cities coal firm asserts conditions are nearly normal and no one will suffer from coal shortages in Minneapolis or St. Paul.
Nine hundred sixty four distinguished men hear three cabinet members speak at the 118th annual dinner at the Waldorf Astoria. Franklin MacVeigh condemns customs frauds at New York port while Attorney General Wickersham and Secretary Knox address broader topics.
Wesley M. Wilson, postmaster of Princess Anne Courthouse in Norfolk, died by his own action when he shot himself with a shotgun. The incident occurred December 11. No further details are provided in the dispatch.
A man described as despondent after losing his job writes letters to relatives saying he cannot bear the idea of being thrown into the street and killed by hungry pursuers. The fragment hints at a public fear of pursuit and violence. The source portrays anxiety and imminent danger surrounding the man’s fate.
J Frank McNeese a Farm land Indiana printer despondent over job loss shot himself in the head in the Inn Hotel public room here at about 5 pm The 32 caliber revolver bullet lodged near his left eye He appeared to have acted alone while the room was vacant Letters to his wife and parents and a note to notify his Winchester father accompany the body which the Odd Fellows will ship home tomorrow.
Rinefields Nicaragua Dee 11 The city housing the provisional government braces as government army strength grows General Estada awaited by Zelaya’s forces Estrada seeks US aid and marine intervention from Des Moines to safeguard insurgent effort Vazquez parleying near Rama as Zelaya’s main army advances toward Bluefields Grey town reports say government forces are outmatched by Glamorre's advancing troops
A fierce Lake Erie storm wrecked ships and killed forty nine crew members with many vessels grounded. The ill fated Clarion and the Marquette suffer losses as the search for thirteen and thirty eight crew members continues.
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