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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1908
Page
3
May 8 report from Laxewood New Jersey states Mrs Cleveland confirms former President Cleveland is doing splendidly in the hotel confinement with further encouraging signs tonight.
A mass convention of Republican voters in Mercer County is called for Bluefield on May 16 1908 at 11 00 AM. The gathering will select 24 delegates to the State Nominating Convention in Charleston and nominate county officers for the November 3 1908 election. It will also name a county executive committee chairman and secretary and designate district vote allocation based on Theodore Roosevelt 1904 votes. Bramwell W Va April 4 1908.
Mercer county Democrats summon delegates to the state convention in Wheeling on May 28 1908 and to district meetings. A mass meeting is set for Princeton court house May 12 1908 at 1 p m to elect delegates. Wirt A Frenci state committee chairman. Also contains adages about flattery marriage and self praise.
The Bluefield Normal and Business College outlines daily schedules from 9 to 10 with shorthand typing bookkeeping rhetoric and related studies, from 4 to 7 with cornet violin flute clarinet and vocal music, and from 7 to 10 with arithmetic grammar spelling and penmanship. A local Bluefield Feed Co advertisement promotes flour prices and urges calling phone 540 for orders as part of town commerce. Also a drugstore pitch for Kodol claims quick relief and long usage benefits.
Reports show Philadelphia defeated Brooklyn 4 to 3 while several games were postponed due to rain or wet grounds. New York and Boston split scores with 3 and 0, and St Louis beat Cincinnati 8 to 2.
The Euclid Avenue Trust Company of Cleveland assigns to the Cleveland Trust Company. No liabilities or assets are disclosed. The bank had $200,000 capital and J. P. Meligan served as president. Deposits are estimated at $1.2 to $1.3 million. Depositors are promised full payment as soon as collections permit. Clearing house refused to clear the bank, leading to its doors being closed. No other bank is involved.
Richmond reports a push for a US public health department and a board of control for prisoners. Frederick L. Hoffman criticizes old age pensions while Boston Mayor Geo A. Hubbard defends keeping an aging city worker.
Justice Backus holds four Jamestown Exposition firemen and two Powhatan Guard members for the next Norfolk county grand jury on arson charges. Two Petersburg and two other-fireman defendants filed written confessions admitting they started the fire that destroyed Pine Village and adjacent buildings ten days earlier.
Berlin reports Prince Philip zu Eulenburg placed under arrest amid the Harden court scandal. The arrest follows perjury charges after he swore innocence in the Harden trial and Die Zukunft allegations. The public prosecutor had pursued actions after the Harden case concluded.
Washington May 8 The special house committee investigating wood pulp and print paper adjourned to Corinth New York to examine the Hudson paper mill and operatives. Victor E. K. Bender publisher of the Daily Nonpareil Bluffs Iowa testified that ten years ago paper cost 1.70 per hundred pounds in Council Bluffs and his current contract stands at 2.50.
A woman thought to be Mrs Helle Gunness passed through Syracuse at 12 15 am bound for Utica. Two Syracuse detectives boarded the same train and followed to Utica.
Workmen recover the body of an Italian victim at Mine No 6 on Wednesday. The death toll climbs to 361 as the decomposed remains are identified by a watch found on the man.
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