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Newspaper
Bluefield Evening Leader
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1909
Page
1
A group calling itself strikers detonates two cars using hazardous materials as part of a protest. Authorities are assessing damage and investigating the incident, with no reports of injuries at this time.
Sympathizers in Philadelphia blow up two streetcars at Twenty third Street and Columbia Avenue causing damage and injuries as riots continue through the night. Strikers claim rank growth and public sympathy will deepen the crisis with little service running and Mayor Rayburn hinting at police-run cars if needed.
Multiple Virginia institutions including Virginia Christian College Sweet Briar Institute and Randolph Macon Woman's College schedule commencements in Lynchburg Amherst and nearby areas. Details cover baccalaureate sermons closing addresses and campus events through June with notable speakers and student activities.
Rev Dr L A Fox head of philosophy at Roanoke College delivered a notable sermon on Christian Education at the Graham Lutheran Church. His clear logic and vivid language captivated over four hundred worshippers, with musical performances praised as among the finest heard in Graham. The service was part of commencement week activities and repeated at Graham’s Lutheran church to allow all residents to attend.
May 31 Pittsburg professor H B Fetterman fired a pistol at a tree to start a race wounding Percy C Barber a student with an 88 calibre bullet behind the left ear Barber was mortally wounded and Fetterman was jailed without bail as the outcome awaited.
The eight member Board of Affairs led by Frazier Stowers will convene to organize the new body under Blue Meld's bipartisan charter. They will assign heads of finance streets and sewers police health and charitable services and public safety with salaries likely at 750 a year.
Washington May 31 Rep Champ Clark minority leader in the house assails Republicans for claiming the Payne Aldrich tariff will provide sufficient revenue. He says only certainty is it will not fund government as extravagantly run by Republicans and dismisses retrenchment as flub dub.
A violent quake struck the Mora Peninsula in southern Greece with heavy damage reported. Several towns were destroyed and many lives feared lost after a second, more severe shock followed the initial tremor in the early morning.
Charleston May 31 The state board of public works announced appointments of county boards of equalization and reviews for fifty five counties. Key picks include Mercer County L D Hears and 41 C Pack as Republicans with other names across Fayette Logan Mingo Monroe Raleigh and Wyoming counties.
More than thirty states were represented as 80 000 attended the Church of the Brethren conference in Harrisonburg Virginia with 12 000 visitors arriving on three western trains. A water pressure failure during peak heat sparked fears of a water famine but the issue was short lived.
A fragmentary news item discusses a zeppelin flight of forty hours and then shifts to a column joking about strict new Washington criminal code provisions affecting social gatherings and cosmetics. The piece mentions interference with fashion practices and notes Pred Arps of Norfolk as a social figure.
Seattle crowds await the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition opening with Taft set to press a telegrapher’s key signaling the start. Delegations from China, Japan, Idaho, Oregon, and other regions join ceremonies as exhibits and buildings near completion amid holiday spectacle.
Berlin May 21 Count Zeppelin with a large dirigible balloon sconded from Goeppingen after a nearly forty hour flight covering about nine hundred miles. The airship doubled the previous aviation time and distance records before descending to overhaul the motor. A trifling mishap brushed trees but did not injure the airship and a crowd gawped as the craft landed safely. Count Zeppelin and his engineers with seven crew members were aboard.
In a West Virginia case David A Nease of Texas sues over ownership of about 20 000 acres of coal land once connected to the coatant railroad. He alleges promoters promised 20 percent royalties if the railroad was built, otherwise he would own 49 percent of the land. promoters formed Braxton Coal Company but never built the railroad or operated the land.
The forecast for Washington D C and West Virginia today through Tuesday calls for continued warmth and mostly cloudy skies with scattered showers likely. Temperatures remain high for May with occasional showers expected and wintry conditions unlikely.
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