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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1925
Page
14
Bluefield and Mercer area items list coal buyers, meat markets, grocery ads, store inventories, and notices. Includes deliveries, prices, a public picnic, hall openings, church and civic meetings, a check misprint correction, moonshine seizure, highway work, and a train wreck report.
In Bellaire Ohio on June 26 leaders of the United Mine Workers Philip Murray Frank Ledvinka Lee Hall William Roy and G W Savage addressed about 2000 miners warning that a conspiracy to break the Jacksonville wage agreement could destroy years of organizing. They condemned exaggerated reports on coal industry conditions and urged a reduction in working hours to fix the excess of miners.
Washington reports the indicated capacity of American petroleum refining plants has reached 2,864,842 barrels daily, up more than 141 percent since 1918. California leads with 743,729 barrels, followed by Texas, Oklahoma, New Jersey, and Louisiana. 31 states host refineries, with counts listing Texas 113 and California 93.
Alatin Trigg age fifteen daughter of Mr and Mrs Simon L Trigg of Lawson street died at Lomax Hospital Friday afternoon about 1 o clock after an appendicitis operation. She was a member of Mount Zion Baptist Church. Funeral arrangements have not been announced. Christian Church Rev William Alphin evangelist of United Christian Missions Society will address street Christian meeting tonight. The membership is urged to be present and the public invited. G M Dickerson J Mrs Hemmings entertains party at Peck street home Thursday evening. Continuous names listed among guests. Norfolk and Western Shop baseball team leaves for Columbus to play the rail roaders in two games. Mrs D C Johnson and daughters will spend the summer on their farm in Bedford County Virginia.
Two nearly grown boys pulled a false alarm at Box 23 Princeton Avenue and Monroe Street. Residents saw them race into a dark alley after sounding the alarm as Eastbound train No. 16 neared the depot. The crowd paused for emergency crews amid congested traffic, violating city ordinances.
H A Lucas and family traveled to Floyd Virginia after learning of the sudden death of A Q Lucas on Thursday night from heart trouble. The 55 year old was survived by his widow and several children. Funeral services and interment were planned for Floyd.
New York judge Rosalsky criticized a board of trade proposal for life imprisonment as impractical. He imposed eighteen and fifteen year sentences on highwaymen Charlies Stapleton and James D Jones after guilty pleas for a restaurant robbery with $60 stolen.
Berlin reports the Zeppelin plant at Friedrichshafen will build an airship for two polar expeditions led by Dr Fridtjof Nansen. The project is funded by Zeppelin with Arctic exploration costs covered by international subscriptions. After missions, the dirigible may assist other international research efforts.
After six weeks of trial and a dramatic jury deliberation, William D. Shepherd is found not guilty of murder in the typhoid murder of his wealthy foster son William Nelson McClintock. Chief Justice Olson voices disappointment and notes admissible evidence not offered by the state. further actions may follow in relation to the McClintock will.
The article notes Shepherd could be released on nominal bail or on his own recognizance. No formal steps have been taken on a third murder charge beyond Judge Harry Olson's coroner inquest accusation that Shepherd killed his brother Dr Oscar Olson, a McClintock family friend, to further an alleged plot to seize the McClintock mines.
Charleston approval by the state board advisory council backed President R P Sims of Bluefield Colored Institute. The faculty at BC I will henceforth include a director of physical education.
Berlin reports Dr. Jacob Gould Schurman arrived to assume the role as American ambassador to Germany, succeeding Alanson B. Houghton. He will present credentials to President von Hindenburg on Monday while noting domestic preoccupations and delays with household goods. The Zeitung Am Mittag lauds his ties to Germany and his support for Hague arbitration.
The N. and W. storekeepers met yesterday for two sessions then toured to Tazewell and attended a Hamilton Hall banquet. Delegates heard humorous and instructive addresses from Tom Walker of Cincinnati and L. W. Scratchard with Earl Lowder at the piano as the convention awaits its noon closing.
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