First Night Session Opens as Senate Debates Public Lands Message
The Senate approved a bill allowing gov ernment appeal to the Supreme Court to test constitutionality of criminal law. DC appropriation near eleven million passed. President Roosevelt urged public land legislation including conservation and government leasing of mineral lands. He warned against past eastern coal losses and cited numerous land entry frauds. House advanced naval appropriations, striking a 1 400 dollar steel dry dock, after 45 pages, then adjourned.
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Associated Press
Washington
Senate Today
Supreme Court
District of Columbia
Roosevelt
Senate
House
President and Californians Expect Agreement Friday
Mayor Schmitz of San Francisco and the California school board concluded a White House conference with President Roosevelt. He said a final conference Friday would yield full agreement between the president and California delegates.
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Associated Press
Washington
Schmitz
San Francisco
California
Roosevelt
White House
Get a Grip on Fairview Addition Lots Now
Real estate firm A. S. Booker & Co urges immediate attention to Fairview Addition lots. Do not wait for spring activity. daily updates will reveal new details and advantages to readers.
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Fairview
A. S. Booker & Co
Illness of juror’s wife stalls Thaw trial
The Thaw trial paused for the day as juror Joseph Bolton’s wife suffered double pneumonia. Bolton returned after a two hour afternoon session, with chances of postponement if his presence cannot be trusted. Delmas to offer will in evidence next.
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Jerome
Bolton
State Hospital For the Insane
Morr’s Plains
N. J
John T. Desmar
Kitting
John Ross
Harry K. Thaw
Evans
Thane
Desmar
Bingaman
Thaw
Delmas
Evelyn Nesbit Thew
West Virginia Weather Forecast Projects Clear Cold Days
Forecast calls for fair and cold conditions on Thursday and Friday across West Virginia. Temperatures are expected to remain low with dry conditions and light winds, easing from midweek into the weekend.
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West Virginia
Bloodshed Predicted in Ohio Miners Strike
In Pomeroy Ohio on February 13 a mob of about five hundred union miners formed near a mine guarded by fifty strike breakers. The crowd escorted the workers toward town while guards kept order. Trolley trouble and the importation of twenty colored strike breakers from Columbus heightened tensions, with forecasts of bloodshed if the dispute remains unresolved.
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Pomeroy, Co
Fred Ebersbach
Marshal Arnold
Columbus
Predicts Electrical Disturbances Today
Pittsburg February 13 Prof John A Brashear of the Allegheny Observatory reports a giant sun spot likely to cause electrical disturbances nationwide by tomorrow night The phenomena may include auroras and telegraph or telephone outages The spot is described as one of the largest and most active visible through smoked glass
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Associated Press
Pittsburg
John A. Brashear
Allegheny Observatory
Penrose Issued Order to Break Open Gun Racks
Corporal Madison testifying before the Senate Military Affairs Committee in the Brownsville investigation said Major Penrose ordered gun racks to be broken open if guns could not be secured otherwise. A rack was opened by Sergeant Burr and racks were pounded as the call to arms came with no lights allowed due to fear of an attack. Madison insisted Company C could not have been involved.
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Associated Press
Washington
Madison
Company C
Senate Committee On Military Affairs
Brownsville
Penrose
Burr
Fifteen Thousand Telegraph Operators May Strike
Chicago February 13. A special meeting of Western Union employees will decide next Sunday if fifteen thousand telegraph operators nationwide will strike. If approved, both commercial and railroad telegraph services could be impaired. Telegraphers say 90 percent of the 700 local workers are union members.
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Chicago
Western Union
Larchmont Knolton Collision Claims 138 Lives
Reports from Providence and Block Island detail the wreck of the toy line steamer Larchmont and the coal schooner Knolton. About 157 aboard, 71 bodies recovered, 38 identified, 100 still unaccounted. Survivors describe freezing conditions, harrowing attempts to reach shore, and crews aiding victims.
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Toy Line
Larchmont
Harry Knowlton
Island
Watcr Hill
Harry Knolton
Kentucky
Providence
Senate Breaks All Records in Passing Pension Bills
Tonight the Senate passed pension bills at an unprecedented pace, with 991 measures approved in 1 hour 6 minutes. Senator McCumber was the sole senator on the floor as Vice President Fairbanks presided over the session.
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Senate
Washington
McCumber
Fairbanks
Treasurer's Shortage Over Half a Million
New Britain Connecticut February 13 The actual shortage of Treasurer W E Walker of the Savings Bank of New Britain is five hundred sixty five thousand dollars according to President Corbin and the directors statement.
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New Britain, Conn
W. E. Walker
Savings Bank of
New Britain
Corbin
Senate Sets 11 O'Clock Start for Daily Sessions
Washington reports the senate adopts an order to begin daily sessions at 11 o'clock starting Monday. In Fredericksburg fire destroys Bed ford stables and two houses, loss about 2000 dollars. Justice Gould grants divorce to Charles G Bassett from Mrs Fanny Rice Bassett claiming infidelity. St Petersburg hears 130 to 150 fishermen swept to sea from Frederikshavn with only ten reaching shore and seven bodies recovered.
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Washingt
Senate
Washington
Gould
Charles G. Bassett
Fanny Rice Basset
Bassett
Senator Rice
Arkansas
St. Petersburg
Frederiksham
Thomas Looney Dies in Radford Hotel
Mr Thomas Looney an insurance man died at Hotel Shere East Radford from a hemorrhage of the lungs. He arrived on the midnight train from Memphis accompanied by his mother en route to Bluefield His body to be brought here He was 38 years old formerly a Baptist minister ill health sent him to Mexico years ago. He leaves a wife mother and two brothers.
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Thomas Looney
Radford
Memphis
Hotel Shere
East Radford
Bluefield
Looney
Mexico
Telegraph Operators to Get Salary Increase
Western Union telegraph operators in major cities will receive a ten percent raise starting March 1. It is unclear if the Bluefield office is affected, but local operators are expected to share in the raise. FOR SALE 15 shares of Bluefield Grocery Company stock with 80 percent privilege value, par $100, cash. Apply to M. B. Postlethwaite, Trustee. 29-tf.
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Western Union
Bluefield
Bluefield Grocery Company
M. B. Postlethwaite
Thirteenth Unlucky For Primary Bill Defeated
The Cooper primary election bill failed 45 to 34 after final passage was reached before adjournment. Bluefield delegates heard a senate finance committee hearing on their Miller bill amendment. A new Bluefield city charter amendment will be introduced by Delegate Dillard and Senator Baker tomorrow morning. Senate actions included bond refinancing for counties and medical licensing rules, while the House passed several local bills and school district creations.
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Cooper
Charleston
W. Va
Bluefield
Senate Committee On Finance
Miller
Messrs
A. J. Hearn
C. Botsford
W. P. Hawley
Kk. FE. Carter
Bluefield City
Dillard
House
Baker
Senate
Monongalia County
Monongahela River
Logem
Martinsburg
New Cumberland
One-cent Postage Stamps in Book Form
Postmasters are notified that preparations are underway to issue 1 cent postage stamps in book form starting March 1. Each book contains twenty four stamps, arranged in four sheets of six, interleaved with paper and bound like the 2 cent stamp books, selling for 25 cents per book.
People and Places in and About the City
Mrs. Crockett Tickle travels to Princeton to join her husband and settle there. Mrs. L E B Tierney of Powhatan heads to Lurich to visit parents. George F. Strother of Welch returns home on No 3. J W Mitchell of Logan visits Bluefield. J A D Gadd, Mercer Republican editor, seen in Bluefield. Wilkes Witten of Tazewell in city. A special car carries 38 Italians from Bluefield to Cincinnati seeking work. most speak little English. Heavy time freight on the Pocahontas division with at least fifteen Williamson trains arriving in 48 hours. west end yard crowded, only the westbound track open for passengers.
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Bluefield
Cincinnati
America
Pocahontas
Williamson
West End
Blarney of Em Accuses Real Estate Imposters
The text warns of impostors harming Midway lot buyers by copying ads and using the Midway name to sell fake parcels at triple the genuine prices. It condemns their poor values and misleading advertising while contrasting them with legitimate Midway lots.
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Midway
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