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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Feb 15, 1908
Page
6
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The article reports a political dispute over local option legislation in West Virginia. The Thorn Amendment passed in the Senate while the Williams amendment, favored by opponents, did not pass the judiciary committee. President McDermott faced questions over delayed recognition of Senator Foreman and the vote announcement.
Deputy Chief Charles W. Kruger aged 57, longtime fire department figure known as The Grand Old Man, died after falling through a trap door into a water-filled sub-basement while directing crews at a Canal Street fire. About thirty-six years with the department, his death occurred as flames from 217 Canal Street spread to adjacent buildings and threatened a church.
A jaded innkeeper plots to mend a chronic grumbler named Bei zer by denying him a good meal. The quip comes from Meggendorfer Blatter in a Daily Telegraph subscription ad style.
Jacob Nabe a 50 year old saloonkeeper killed himself at his Roanoke home. He swallowed poison wiped the spoon with paper burned the paper and telephoned a friend good bye before dying. He had long served as chief of the Roanoke post office letter carrier force and left a family.
Mrs. Emma Jarvis, convict of involuntary manslaughter in the death of her husband, was sentenced in Charleston West Virginia to six months in jail and a $25 fine plus costs.
Virgil Hatten shot and killed Henry Bean at the Bean home in Pritchard after a confrontation over the planned marriage to Miss Daisy Bean. Hatten, accompanied by a minister and friends, confronted Henry Bean who allegedly insulted him before the fatal shooting. Both families are prominent in southern West Virginia.
John Grant an unemployed printer jumped from the Brooklyn bridge today and landed among floating ice in the river 200 feet below. He escaped with only minor injuries.
George Midgets alias William Johnson, a Black man, was hanged in Alexandria Virginia for the October 1906 murder of Charles Smith. He had been linked to a prior assault on a police officer at the circus grounds as authorities tried to arrest him.
The American coal carrier Emily Reid, sailing from New Castle N B W for Portland Oregon, went aground at the mouth of Nehalem river early this morning. The ship broke in two and ten sailors were lost while six were saved including the captain and his wife.
An ironworker seeks revenge after a quarrel by knocking at his friend's door at night. The friend wakes, and the prank hinges on pointing out a window with the other man’s head still through it, prompting a chuckle and a resolved exit.
An uptown church ladies guild planned a social evening and reception but the rector advised charging a small admission to attract a crowd. The guild consented and later events proved the rector right. DeWitt's Little Early Risers pills are advertised as pleasant and easy to take by druggists.
Meridian reports a tornado that hit Mossville, Service and So towns in Jones County around noon. At least six dead, with estimates up to ten. The small communities were nearly demolished, with buildings ripped from lots and debris scattered across fields.
Milwaukee report: Wisconsin’s Democratic state convention instructs the delegation to vote as a unit for William Jennings Bryan at Denver. Evans, the permanent chairman, denounces the Republicans for abuses of power and pays tribute to Bryan.
In Parkersburg on February 13 Marshal Spillman of Pennsboro attacked his mother with a knife. When brother John intervened Spillman used an axe, severing his brother’s leg and maiming him fatally. Spillman, said to be intoxicated, faces murder and assault charges.
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