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Newspaper
Grafton Sentinel
Location
Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1909
Page
1
A fragmentary report from Ray City notes irregularities in a local sale. Officials launched a preliminary audit to investigate possible discrepancies in bidding records and settlement proceeds. Further details remain unreadable in the surviving OCR text.
Fragmentary text notes a disaster involving Paul and a king with a tense date reference. The readable bits hint at a casualty or action prior to a specified time, but essential facts are missing to provide a clear event, location, or outcome.
George Preston Sheldon, former president of Phoenix Fire Insurance of Brooklyn, lying near death in Greenwich Connecticut, faces a first degree larceny indictment in New York over alleged $45,000 embezzlement. Authorities say he used company funds in stock trades for personal profit. grand jury to probe others’ involvement while his health remains critical.
In Struthers Mahoning County, a frame two story house occupied by Harry Birney and Louis Smith families was blown apart at 1 30 this morning. Seven people were inside. one, William Birney, 64, was injured. Sheriff Turner suspects non union workers at American Sheet and Tin Plate Co. plant were targets. Prior attempt on Co L Gibson's residence is linked. rewards totaling 6000 offered, no arrests made.
Fairmont West Virginia December 9 a Philadelphia company gusher on the E E Swiger farm near Boothsville in the Shinnston field increased its daily output to 12000 barrels the largest in the state's oil history The gain was measured for the twenty four hours ending at 6 pm Wednesday A disrupted Eureka Pipe Line reduced throughput and seventeen new locations were created by the Philadelphia and Fisher firms as the field base shifts from Shinnston to Monongah.
Mr. Isaac Rinker of Knottsville displays two ears of white Dent corn with 1080 and 990 grains, eighteen and twenty rows respectively, from 20 acres yielding 240 by measure and 250 by weight. Sentinel invites other Taylor county growers to compare. Grafton endures wind storm as legal questions loom over Big Four case funds.
Charleston West Virginia December 9 A H Wilson known as Cap who led a Nicaragua insurgent unit on leave from Panama where he worked as a civil engineer returned home Wednesday He says many Americans serve in Estrada forces and expects thousands more to join He claims insurgent officers include many Americans and believes their cause may succeed and that he will be back to help.
Boston December 9 The Republican party trends toward lower tariffs with the Payne tariff bill only a side issue Treasury Secretary Franklin MacVeagh declares at the Massachusetts Bankers Association banquet. Speakers include George E Roberts and Governor Eben Draper. A curio on Indiana murderess Gunnes appears.
The Philadelphia Company of Pittsburg, parent to Fairmont at Grafton Gas, will drill two wells in Taylor County. Locations are Perry Gawthrop farm north of Evans lease and Upton Weaver farm south of Evans lease. The company aims to start as equipment arrives, adding to three own wells including one recent unit with over a million feet of gas daily capacity.
A Wednesday charity event at the Dixie Theatre drew large audiences despite cold weather. The program featured the final screening of Les Miserables the life of Jean Valjean and the film showed his struggles from the 1830 barricades through his care for Marius and Cosette ending with their arrival as he faces a sorrowful, noble end. The benefit supported the Empty Stocking Club, with praise for Manager Belts for the choice of an uplifting film and successful fundraising.
Philippi West Virginia December 9 The county court rejected four applications for liquor licenses ending a ten day fight. Liquor proponents failed to remove Barbour county from the dry list and court action is final no higher appeal.
Milwaukee widow Mrs John H Fertig died after four years with a surgeon s sponge left in her body following an operation for a tumor. Initial surgery failed to remove the sponge and successive operations gradually exposed and embedded it, with fatal result.
Richwood, Dec. 9. Indignation rises over Nicholas county board of health declaring a smallpox quarantine on the town. A notice from M. W. Godfrey of the State Board of Health says cases exist but are confined and convalescent with no new infections, urging continued precautions and stating quarantine may be suspended if conditions hold.
Honolulu December 9 United States district Judge George W Woodruff of Hawaii cabled his resignation to President Taft accepting a position with the Pocahontas Coal and Coke Company of West Virginia The Hawaiian Bar Association is expected to endorse Alexander G Robertson for the vacancy Woodruff was appointed April 29 and previously served as assistant attorney general for the interior department He is from Pennsylvania.
Hard cold weather drives shoppers to city clothiers as overcoats move briskly. Retailers report several days of strong sales and rising demand for warm outerwear.
In Gark Warren Pa a 68 year old Mrs Anna Anderson testifies she killed her husband in self defense during a late night duel after he threatened to kill her. She claims she fired back until the revolvers exhausted, then wrote to her son warning of her fate. The case draws a crowded courtroom and intense public interest. In Martinsburg W Va Charles Crowell 21 killed his 15 year old wife in a field then shot himself, a jealous rage ending in murder and self-inflicted death. Coroner's jury rules murder and death by own action. the tragedy shocks Berkeley county society. A local advertisement for a sewing machine appears at the end.
New York December 9 A court heard Mary Blair Brokaw testifying against her husband W Gould Brokaw millionaire yacht man in Mineola S I for separation and alimony of sixty thousand dollars yearly on grounds of cruel treatment and failure to provide support She described jealousy abuse and intoxication from marriage in 1907 including forced isolation and incendiary scenes at the honeymoon She also noted a later incident in February 1908 involving an attempted self harm at a shooting lodge in North Carolina and hinted at prior divorce settlements with Coralle Coudert and Katherine Poulen
The West Virginia state board of regents opened an inquiry into hazing at Fairmont State Normal School in Fairmont. Miss Mattie Taylor, daughter of a prominent Elkins attorney, was reportedly subjected to a ice bath and red paint after rooting for the rival team.
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