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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1925
Page
9
Fragmentary report notes Montana experiences a four inch snowfall amid lingering heat and rain effects. Reading is incomplete. no clear event or sources are named beyond weather details and a mention of historical snowfall context.
President Von Hindenburg will preside over an extraordinary cabinet session in Berlin. The German disarmament claim and related government actions are set for formal consideration as officials prepare interpreters and staff for the morning meeting.
The article reports unusual four inch snow in Montana while eastern regions endure a heat wave with record high temperatures. Heat-related deaths rise. storms and drought affect several states. Weather officials foresee little relief and partial thunder showers in coming days.
Arizona observed a formal tribute to the late Thomas R. Marshall, wartime vice president, as all state capitol offices closed during his Indianapolis funeral hour. In Scottsdale, twelve miles east, business paused for the morning, noting the Marshalls’ winter home and shared kinship with the Yeo brothers-in-law Wah and Morten Kimsey.
Washington reports bolshevist agitation rising in China as Shanghai students strike and anti foreign sentiment grows. Munitions and bolshevist literature found in international settlement hotels as U S gunboat Sacramento and 300 Marines move toward Shanghai to reinforce security.
Chicago June 4 The prosecution used two more peremptory challenges to bar a second juror panel as being too favorable to the defense in the Shephard trial. The state now has nine challenges left while the defense has used three of its score. William Scott Stewall, chief defense counsel, again accepted a tendered panel.
Oslo reports two Norwegian naval scout seaplanes to be dispatched on Saturday aboard the Ingertre to Kings Bay and Wellman Bay to join the Farm and Obby in a mid June search along the ice edge near eighty first latitude. Captain Roald Amundsen and five companions are still unaccounted for after departing in their quest for the North Pole.
A twenty three pound radio set fell from a ninth floor window of a meat store striking David Siegel thirty five on Thirty second Street near Broadway. The box containing the set slipped from a piled truck as it passed the window.
Floyd Russell, 43, failed to kill himself and his ten year old niece Dorothy escaped a mass shooting that left nine relatives dead in Hamilton Ohio. Russell wounded in the chest is in a county jail padded cell with a lunacy warrant filed. officials say he has been rational since arrest. The victims include his mother Ronn Russell 60 and brother John L Russell 35 sister in law Emma.
The body of former Vice President and Indiana governor Thomas Riley Marshall was laid to rest in Crown Hill Cemetery beside James Whitcomb Riley with a simple service. The ceremony included a Scottish Rite tribute, Masonic rites, a pastor’s eulogy, and tributes from colleagues and friends, reflecting a humble, devout Christian life.
West Virginia lawmakers approve a three and one half cent gasoline tax aimed at boosting revenue from the special session. The Senate 14 11 and the House 39 34 vote to pass the tax with an exemption for industrial and certain non road uses. A related gross sales tax bill faces conference committee settlement as talks continue.
Rewards have been posted for the arrest and conviction of those who robbed the Pocahontas Fuel Company store at Saga more and the Greenbrier Coal and Coke Company store at McDowell. Reports indicate a band of thieves are behind recent coalfield robberies with heavy merchandise losses. county officers police and private detectives are investigating.
New Jersey state police said Baby Blakely Coughlin may be alive after a five year disappearance from Norristown Pa and collapsed their earlier theory. They will continue the probe following 48 hours of new information from Augusto Pasquale known as The Crank who is serving life for the kidnapping. The authorities said the fresh clues were unfounded.
The Bluefield Salvation Army Citadel on Raleigh Street hosts a formal dedication Saturday with Brigadier David Main presiding. About twenty officers from Richmond, Roanoke, Lynchburg and Charleston attend with a 3 pm program, public inspection at 4 pm, and an open air service that night followed by a rally and Sunday activities.
An extended hearing on the sixty cent natural gas rate faced by Peoples Natural Gas Company from the city of Pittsburg neared completion before Public Service Commission Chairman W D B Ainey. The agreement calls for engineers from both sides to determine a recorded valuation of the company’s physical properties to guide a fair return. Testimony still to come on protests against other district gas companies and several western Pennsylvania municipalities joined the filing.
Artificial waves will be released in the Ohio and Kanawha rivers to free the towboat Transporter from a sand bar near Point Pleasant. Major H M Trippe, U S Army engineer, says the vessel owned by Wheeling Steel Corp carries 12,000 tons of steel to Cincinnati and has been stranded since Wednesday due to dam 26 maintenance reducing water.
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