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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1901
Page
4
A visitor to Matewan told the Telegrapher that Associated Press reports overstated the Thacker field strike. He said there was minor conflict between union and non union workers, no fatalities, no anticipated riots, and about two hundred miners on strike. He doubted military intervention.
Hon. Wm. J. Bryan will lecture at Pocahontas on July 2 under Y M C A auspices. Special trains will run to enable residents to hear the Nebraskan orator regardless of politics. Many from nearby territories will attend to hear him and his friends and foes will watch with interest.
Local notes list visitors and residents from Williamson Tazewell Algoma and Huntington. Social updates include church services and flood relief plans plus golfers and minor league matches with the Graham club scoring 18 to 3. Plausible health and retail ads appear for Electric Bitters and Bucklen's Arnica Salve.
John Fugate of Tom's Creek Virginia found guilty of murder in the first degree after shooting his wife weeks earlier. The court prescribes no chance for life imprisonment, Judge Bond to set the execution date before adjournment.
The day begins warm with a sardonic sun and gusty breeze as clouds bring a light rain. A scuffle erupts in the city with a bottle assault and a knife wound, tied to a social circle clash among local youths and a well known young woman.
Walter Douthat, while painting Dr A Johnston residence yesterday afternoon, fell from a ladder and broke his collar bone. He is not expected to use his right arm for at least a month.
George E. Cary founder of the Guide Fairfax reports relief and cure after using Chamberlains Pain Balm for a severe ankle sprain. Sold by H N White druggist. Also Oxford ties and Julia Marlowe slippers sold at Bluefield Bargain House at cash prices. Winterset Iowa bank cashier W S Waedoo recounts a carpenter cured of diarrhea with Chamberlains Colic Cholera and Diarrhea Remedy. For sale by H N White druggists.
A White House visitor reports Mrs McKinley frequently knitting slippers to fund charitable causes. Her tale of Hobart supplying soles for the slippers boosts support for her voluntary work and a sale of slippers raised 250 dollars for charity. The piece also recounts a California town lot tale and a humorous exchange about land between town and farm.
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