14 Dec 1905
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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1905
Page
1
Mrs. E. M. Easley and Mr. W. E. Pearson will perform a duette from the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta Pinafore on Saturday night. The event features local performers in a light program likely to attract community members.
The West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals in Charleston handed down Tuesday a decision in State v. Withrow, overturning the lower court ruling that admitted the wife’s testimony. The case involved Woodrow, convicted of murdering his infant. the child’s death and the wife’s injury were linked by a single bullet. The court reversed the Mineral County conviction and ordered remand.
Dr. Richard B. Jackson a colored physician from New York City has established a hospital for colored people in Blane field. The staff includes Drs. A. M. Curtis and Charles I. West former Freedmen's Hospital surgeons in Washington DC. Patients will receive careful care and attention.
The West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals ruled that failure to meet franchise conditionsJustifies forfeiture of rights. The Wheeling and Elm Grove Railroad Co v Triadelphia held counties may grant county rights without town authorization for operation within town limits.
In Saint Petersburg on December 18, workers grow discontent with executive councils amid rumors leaders misused strike funds for personal luxuries. The government accuses detained Moscow leaders of dining lavishly with questionable companions, while unions call for nonstrike tactics to sustain the revolution.
An Elizabetgrad musician reports being forced with eight band members to entertain at the governor’s residence during a brutal riot. Police and military guests, couples, and dancers attended a wild cakewalk as gunfire and screams filled the open windows. The writer claims the censor approved the account.
Seven Harvard graduates, all athletes, form a stock company capitalized at 59000 to buy 2000 acres in Shenandoah Valley Virginia and cultivate it on a communistic scientific system led by J. Walcott. Members include Ted Weir Bill Ritine Bert Kassa Foster Kellog Dana Hyde and Virgie Richmond with rowing and football backgrounds.
David Waterman a 60 year old New York Central flagman died in a Rochester hospital from injuries suffered while saving Mrs. Catherine Weber 69 of Rochester who was caught between trains. Waterman moved her to safety but was struck by a train and sustained nine fractured ribs and other injuries. The woman escaped with bruises. Waterman leaves a family.
In New York a directors meeting today accepted the resignation of George W. Perkins from the finance committee. Alexander K. E. Orr was named to Perkins’s former role and John C. Leflin was appointed to the finance committee.
New York Dec 18 Charles A Peabody was elected president of the Mutual Life Insurance Company to succeed Richard A McCurdy who has resigned. The move follows McCurdy stepping down after a long tenure.
In Wheeling West Virginia on December 13 15 year old Annie Helferbine a Mount DeChantal student died after a hidden romance with John Ameler a wealthy Bellaire Ohio oil operator. They had married months earlier and she sought education under her maiden name while Ameler posed as her uncle. Her death followed Mrs Ameler bursting a blood vessel while running on seminary grounds.
Dr. William D. Kerr a sixty year old physician known across southern West Virginia was struck and killed by a Chesapeake and Ohio train in Huntington. His body was found with severe injuries.
Rockland Me December 13 The battleship Louisiana completed a standardization test with a one mile speed record of 18.92 knots per hour highlighting performance during the test period.
Assistant Postmaster General DeGraw weighs a protest from an Ohio farmer alleging a rural carrier sold polecat musk as a sideline. The farmer says letters from his sweetheart and his newspapers carried a strong odor from the skins, and officials seek a workable solution.
Hackensack New Jersey December 13 An Italian woman named Antoinette Tolla who shot a man pursuing her married lover at Kingsland last March has been sentenced to hang on January 12. She has two children and fired five shots with a revolver. Jerry Rossa, another Italian, was sentenced to death by hanging on the same day for killing Demetrio Dinofrio at Lodi in February 1904.
President Roosevelt told Representatives Kabo and Hayes of California that he remains strongly in favor of Chinese exclusion. He said the aim is to keep coolies out and to deport any exempt individual who becomes a laborer in the United States.
The gunboat Hist arrived in Newport Rhode Island this morning after leaving Sunday to aid the Nan tucketehoala lightship and losing contact. The gunboat Wasp had reached port late yesterday.
New York dispatch notes 3800 Columbia University law students show interest in petitioning President Roosevelt on the Russian Jewish situation. A committee will draft the petition and a one day sale by a New York firm offers charitable items for delivery.
One day only event by Byefield Mercantile Co in New York featuring a large display of dresses for ladies and children with over two thousand items seeded for delivery. Shop for desired items and take advantage of the limited sale window.
The Blaefield Choral Society will render sacred and secular music Saturday night at the opera house with citizen support urged. Residents are asked to attend and lend assistance to the community musical event.
Local advert proclaims store hours extend into the night. The notice lists W. P. Hawley Mdee, Co as the business entity behind the promotion.
Reports from St. Petersburg and across Poland describe deteriorating control by local authorities, near anarchy, street battles in Brest and Litovek with Socialists, lootings, and beatings of shopkeepers, riots in Riga with arrests and hooligan violence, and peasants driven from towns with several deaths in Tamboff.
A Vienna report says an assassin posing as a deaf and dumb woman reached General Sakharoff in Novozelitz Russia. The would be killer was captured but freed by a revolutionary party and carried toward Novozelitz.
In Beaver Falls Pennsylvania on December 13 Michael Brew, a watchman at New Brighton, was killed by burglars who numbered four or five. They had gathered loot from the Red Cross Pharmacy and fled after Brew confronted them. he died ten minutes later.
J Her bert Balantine arrived in Charlottesville to investigate blackmail linked to the death of his brother Robert D Ballantine. He met with Commonwealth's Attorney Gilmer and Louis Henckel, the lawyer said to guard the will of the deceased young millionaire.
President Castro of Venezuela telegraphs urgent appeals to Colombia Ecuador Peru and Brazil asking for support in the crisis with France and requesting a hundred thousand reserves to reinforce the Venezuelan army and protect territory.
The White House announces the engagement of Alice Lee Roosevelt to Nicholas Longworth. The wedding is planned for the middle of February.
A heavy runaway trolley car rolled down College Hill in Meadville Pennsylvania this afternoon striking a Cambridge Springs car. Two passengers were killed and a dozen injured when a chain broke causing the vehicle to start down the hill.
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