15 Feb 1898
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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Feb 15, 1898
Page
1
The De Lome incident remains open with no official Spanish disavowal yet. Dispatches from Madrid and statements by Woodford and others imply dissatisfaction and potential pathways to war, while Cuba’s starvation toll and reconcentrados deaths underscore escalating stakes and funding pressures.
Madrid society escalates a boycott of General Woodford and the American Legation staff amid Spain United States tensions. A toast by the Argentine minister’s Marchioness provokes congratulations to Weyler, whose prosecution is delayed until Cortes and Senate authorize.
Washington reports in official papers that mortality from starvation in Cuba remains high. In Santa Clara, a 12 000 population city, January deaths reach 1000 with 48 remaining unrecorded at time of dispatch.
At a Planters Hotel banquet in St Louis ex Union lawyer Colonel Patrick Dyer proposed a toast to General Longstreet. Union veterans largely refrained while Confederate veterans rose to honor the ex Confederate general amid tensions over Longstreet's views on Lee and politics.
Cannes reports Henry Gladstone says his father and the family plan to depart around the end of next week for a watering place in the south of England. Gladstone’s physician believes his parent has gained the utmost benefit from the Riviera sojourn.
A clearance sale offers walking bats and sailors priced at fifty and twenty five cents. Prospective buyers are told to check Mrs Stevensons window to be convinced.
An Elkhorn West Virginia mining firm promotes its teas and coffees and markets its motto honesty is the best policy along with a pledge to everlasting effort. The notice invites all ladies in town to try the products as the company reports flourishing business and asks reader opinion.
A digest of diverse items from Nome and abroad notes political moves in Hawaii and Washington along with Bryan's plans for a broad party unity. It cites a New York custom house bill, a Portland Indiana murder note, cabinet shifts in Norway, and overseas shipping and Dreyfus era unrest. The column also covers a Wyoming cathedral fire loss, a New Jersey tax push, Inheritance tax debates, Lincoln Day tensions, and the Dupuy De Lome letter authenticity debate.
Local brief notes list visitors and residents in Bluefield. Names include W H Childers from Ennis M G Witten from Bethel L L Chambers from Welch and J F Black from Pocahontas. Several others from Pocahontas Pocahontas Graham Princeton Vivian Mayberry and nearby towns are noted as in or visiting yesterday. The piece also mentions church revival, Daughters of the Confederacy meeting and a valentine social at Fred Geilinger's home with multiple attendees. The infant James O Lynch died yesterday and burial plans are set.
The advertisement claims Hood's Sarsaparilla builds health and strength, easing nervous troubles and making hard work easier, and promotes Hood's Pills as a reliable family cathartic and liver tonic. It pledges gentle, dependable results for all.
Paris discussion centers on whether an illegality occurred in the Dreyfus court martial and if the Zola case will prompt a revision. General Billot rejects revisions while Beauregard is kept off the docket. Booksellers report Zola's works off sales, and arrests occur after a schoolboy protest at Zola and Scheurer-Kestner homes.
Ex President Harrison, speaking after the Marquet Club Lincoln oration, rejects talk of a 1900 bid. He says he is taking no interest in political matters locally or nationally and dismisses reports as groundless newspaper chatter.
The Mercer County Board of Health declares a strict quarantine along the Clinch Valley Division line of the Norfolk and Western Railway infected towns. Trains entering Mercer will be inspected and purified by inspectors at West Bluefield tower and Bluestone Junction. Public cooperation requested. Feb. 12, 1898.
The Elkhorn Alaska Golf Mining and Development Company shows off beautiful Klondike gold nuggets in their Elkhorn West Virginia office inviting visitors to view the exhibition.
Washington reports the Hawaiian treaty will be pressed to a conclusion with a test of strength likely soon. Friends anticipate sixty votes for ratification or else pursue annexation by resolution, as opposition plans to delay only if necessary while Speaker Reed faces House dynamics.
An Illinois editor touts Dr King s New Discovery as the sole cure for consumption coughs and colds. He claims it outperforms all rivals and guarantees satisfaction with free trial bottles at N N White s Drug Store.
M. G. Whitlow, a Raleigh street plumber and timer, offers railroad workers custom sized dinner buckets. He guarantees any bucket size and invites calls to phone 12.
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