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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 28, 1925
Page
8
At the Merlebach mine in Lorraine an accident sent a four deck cage with eighty two men aboard plunging into the shaft. Forty seven men were found dead in the first rescue descent while thirty five were injured and four died later. A new cage used for passengers had failed due to improper counterweight handling.
The Salvary Baptist church schedules morning and evening services led by Rev. Samuel W. Moore with sermons on Looking Away Unto Jesus and The Secret of Failure or Success. Junior and Senior Christian Endeavor meet and prayer groups convene midweek. A police lieutenant confiscated four gallons of moonshine on a Norfolk and Western freight train entering the Bluefield yards. no arrests.
The Bluefield Gun Club met at the Hotel Virginian electing Harry C. Weller as president J C Walters as vice president and E E Boggs as secretary treasurer Dr A H Hoge and R Burks named field captains with Burkes and Walters chosen as coaches for the coming season The club voiced opposition to bills seeking to bar automatic loading repeating and double barrel shotguns from sport and planned to push resolutions to Senator Kee and Delegate Bird The season opens April 11 with Saturday trapping news and membership drives to recruit beginners
Edward T. Stotesbury told the Pennsylvania public service commission that his fee for financing the Philadelphia Electric Company hydro-electric project at Conowingo Md would be 1 170 000. Drexel & Co would also receive commissions tied to market conditions when the 38 million bond issue is floated. The hearing included O C Merrill and Maryland and federal officials as the firm seeks certificates to move power to Philadelphia and eastern Pennsylvania amid opposition from the Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company.
Monday evening at Bland Street Methodist Church district governor F Roy Yoke and Nat Frame will explain Bluefield’s forthcoming community scoring program. The event includes a short musical program and aims to show the program’s purpose and potential with many committees meeting throughout the week to prepare a city score and inventory.
William McCarthy of Wytheville dies after long illness. Eugene McQuade of Dunmore and Mrs. Zang of Sacramento attend. Funeral at Sacred Heart Church conducted by Rev. Father Burk. Burial with wife and son planned in Wytheville. Pallbearers named. list includes J C Akers and J A Cassidy among active, many names as honorary. Remains at Hawkins Chapel with viewing at Elks Club.
The list includes Kirk, P. T. Lilly, R. C. Lilly, George F. Daugherty, E. H. Easley, J. Wright, F. M. Hawley, O. C. Jenkins, W. A. Pankey, A. S. Booker, C. H Goodykoontz, C. A. Bradshaw, E. M. McCulloch, Harmon Woodward, Norman McDowell, L. A. Dunn, C. L. Borden, A. M. Ecksteine as participants or members in the referenced roll call.
Chattanooga Tenn March 27 The defense argued the bones found under a Chattanooga house were not from a murder victim. They contended Miss Augusta Hoffman who was connected to Bennett could not have been killed in 1915 and hidden under the floor. The state argued the Bennetts murdered her between 1915 and February or March 1915, with the trial to be handed to the jury tomorrow.
In Pittsburg on March 27, George Schreiber and Leo Linkiewicz pleaded guilty to robbing two employees of the Standard Cigar Company of a payroll totaling 8,200 dollars. Schreiber received five to ten years in the Western penitentiary while Linkiewicz drew four to eight years. The robbery occurred last November.
New York March 27 railroad men expect ICC hearings on the Van Sweringen Nickel Plate merger to clarify the eastern program. Plans call for four trunk line systems centered on the New York Central Pennsylvania Baltimore and Ohio and Nickel Plate Railroads with possible compromises to satisfy Pennsylvania and protect Reading and Lehigh Valley or Lackawanna interests.
Captain David P. Copenhaver, longtime Norfolk and Western passenger conductor, who has been ill for months, is en route to Mayo Brothers Hospital in Rochester Minnesota for treatment.
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