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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 04, 1908
Page
6
Bluefield is alarmed by a midnight marauder slashing a mare at the Bluefield Telephone Company stable. Police suspect a local, with a $50 reward offered for cow crook capture. Also notes past cow slashes and a call to subscribe to the Daily Telegraph.
Sarald Guiseppe an Italian employee of Vaughan Construction Company died after being struck on West No 6 track by a backing freight in the local yards. He died at Bluefield Sanitarium shortly after the injury. The engineer did not see him due to being at the train’s far end.
Samuel Kinsler, a 24 year old Democratic politician from Wayne county, shot Mayor Samuel Bartram of Fort Gay four times following the municipal election. Bartram died on the pavement while Kinsler fled into the hills and remained at large. The incident occurred after an argument between the rival politicians.
Local residents travel for visits and holidays as friends and relatives move between Bramwell Ada Peterstown Lynchburg and Roanoke. Ex senator R Walter Dickerson and other unnamed locals were seen in Roanoke and nearby counties while families plan returns from Peterstown Kyle and Shamokin.
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