Revolting tragedy at Elk Ridge ends in death by own hand
Drunk Cr. L. Austin of Elk Ridge Coal and Coke Co. at Northfork Junction, West Virginia, goes on a murderous spree against his wife and two children before killing himself. The attack, carried out around 2:20 p.m., leaves a ten month old with injuries, a three year old child fatally harmed, and the wife wounded but surviving. The scene is described in stark, moral terms as a cautionary tale on alcohol’s ruinous effect.
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Cr. L. Austin
Elk Ridge
Austin
Federal troops to stay until militia reorganization completed
Major General George W. Read arrived in Charleston and will inspect the Coal River district tomorrow. He plans talks with Governor Morgan on reorganizing the West Virginia National Guard and says federal troops will remain for weeks until the state militia is ready for field service under federal approval.
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Read
Coal River Military District
Morgan
Charleston
W. Va
George W. Read
Fort Benjamin Harrison
Fifth Army Corps
Coal Slver
Mingo County
H. A. Fisk
C. F. Thompson
Madison
Blair
Coal River
Matewan Trial Moves Forward With Four State Witnesses
In Williamson West Virginia on September 13 jurors for Reece Chambers and Fred Burgraff returned from Matewan to view the battle site. Four state witnesses testified including Mrs Cora Lombard who said Burgraff shot Ferguson while he climbed a fence and Chambers was with Burgraff. Judge Bailey noted no clear rest time for the prosecution or trial duration.
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Williamson W. Va
Reece Chambers
Fred Burgraff
Matewan
Williamson
R. D. Bailey
Chambers
Barcraff
W. J. Ferguson
Baldwin-Felts
C. C. Testerman
Ferguson
Mary Duty
Cora Lombard
Excess profits tax repeal not retroactive
Senate finance committee approves keeping excess profits tax for another year and repealing the capital stock tax effective next year. It raises the corporate income tax to fifteen percent from January 1, 1922 and weighs maintaining freight and pipeline transport taxes pending treasury savings data.
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Washington
Senate Finance Committee
House
Mellon
Penrose
Treasury
White House
Flood Death Toll Reaches Ninety in Texas Floods
In Taylor Texas on September 14 officials report ninety dead from the San Gabriel river and Brushy Creek floods with more bodies likely to surface. Mexican victims near Youngstown total twenty seven, while Thorndale reports forty five recovered from the river. Damage to Taylor estimated at about one hundred thousand dollars. In Waco missing Santa Fe Railway officials F. W. Leatherberry and M. Robinson were found near Cameron along with Bailey Turner and H. C. Sullivan missing in the flood.
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Taylor
Tex
San Gabriel River
Brushy Creek
Youngstown
Bower
Bowers
Thorndale
San Gabriel
Milam County
Waco
F. W. Leatherberry
M. Robinson
Santa Fe Railway
Little River
Cameron
Bailey Turner
H. C. Sullivan
West Virginia suspects held after attempted assassination
Frank Samia Joe Ansiano Ralph Yamma and Frank Yamma were rounded up in Follawsbee yesterday as suspects in the attempted assassination of James Circone wealthy Italian merchant Sunday night. They were held to the Brooke county grand jury under bond of 2000 each after a preliminary hearing before Justice George Yatos.
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Follawsbee
W. Va
Frank Samia
Joe Ansiano
Ralph
Frank Yamma
James Circene
Brooke County
Justice of Peace
George Yatos
Curran Builds Early Lead In New York Republican Mayor Race
Early returns show Henry H. Curran leading the Republican field for New York mayor with about three to one over F. H. La Guardia. Opponents include Duggan, Bennett, and Pee, with La Guardia and Daines leading in other borough races as results trickle in from 593 of 2733 districts.
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New York
Henry H. Curran
Coalition
F. H. Laguardia
Board of Aldermen
Henry H Duggan
Organization
John F. Hylan
Curran
William M. Bennett
Reuben S
Pee
Julius Miller
Tammany
Borough of
Manhattan
James J. Daines
anti-Murphy
Charles ©. Lockwood
Vincent Gilroy
Board of Alderman
Charles L. Craig
Murray Hulbert
Mr. Bennett
Man Kitts and Roy Morgan Sought After in Hills After Puckett Killing
Jim Puckett, 40, was shot in a Sanders estate cornfield near Graham on September 13, 1921, as a posse hunts Charley Kitts and his son in law Roy Morgan. Witnesses say Kitts fired after an argument over Morgan's wife, Kitts's daughter, with the coroner's jury ruling Puckett died from a gunshot.
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Jim Puckett
Sanders Place
Graham
Charley Kitts
Roy Morgan
Kitts
Puckett
Floyd
Hall Addison
Tom Collins
Sanders
Mr. Puckett
Morgan
Addisons
Addisons and
Collina
Squire B. M Newman
B. P. Ratcliffe
W. T. Gillespie
C.H. Moore
W. B. George
H.S. Lesler
D. N. Matthews
Floyd Ad
Bluefield Daily Telegraph to Print School News Feature
The Bluefield Daily Telegraph announces a weekly Sunday feature titled The School News written by pupils with occasional instructor pieces. Prizes are offered for personals stories news items jokes editorials and a class prize pool. rules require authentic pupil work signed with class, envelopes prepared by teachers, and submissions by Thursday for Friday or Sunday publication.
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Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Bluefield Daily Tellgraph
Skimdster
Beaver Pond
Daily Telegraph
Telegraph
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C. L. Austin
Northfork Junction
Wife
Fatty Arbuckle
Battle
Coene Matewan
Judge Bailey
San Francisco
Calif
Fatty” Arbuckle
Virginia Rappe
Arbuckle
Matthew Brady
Vey Provost
Miss Pyrron
Brady
Alice Blake
Miss Blake
Berkley
Oakland
Mr. Arbuckle
St. Francis Hotel
Miss Rappe
Mrs. Delmont
Semnacher
Lowell Sherman
Ira C. Fortlouis
Frederick Fishbach
Veg Pyrron
Rappe
Fischbach
Roscoe
Fatty) Arbuckle
Texas
Graham Bureau
Bluefield
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