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Newspaper
Mathews Journal
Location
Mathews, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Apr 13, 1911
Page
3
Champ Clark was elected Speaker of the House on Tuesday April 4 answering the oath. He outlined Democratic goals including tariff reform direct election of Senators and government spending controls. The Senate session was calm with notable arrivals from Maine and New York observers as party lines showed.
In St Louis on April 5 Dr R Barrington of the Ethical Society and pension examiner faced cross examination where his wife Mary Harrington identified a contract he signed. The note ordered him not to kiss or caress her and to confine conversation to nonpersonal topics so meals could be tolerable and any guests be kept to himself.
Reports from the State Health Department via Assistant Commissioner A W Freeman say hundreds of farmers at meetings show deep interest in rural sanitation. They seek guidance on better wells and sanitary outbuildings and plan to bring their facilities up to state standards.
Health department inspectors report growing results and rising medical interest in hookworm control. State bacteriological laboratory receives many specimen submissions weekly in new containers, with widespread requests for information as diagnoses rise.
A garbled exchange appears to show Sareesani asking about a duefiuag guar of 200 and another speaker teasing a boy for always making ME sure wow asta vs iutehuen, leaving readers puzzled by the unclear dialogue.
Norfolk special report notes Governor Manno mocks a one sided race track dispute while commenting on telegraph firms preparing to cut wires to the track to avoid possible legal violations amid spring meet fever.
Harrisonburg special report states Mary Argenbright, a colored woman, is charged with choking to death her mother in law, 80, near Gaheyville. Coroner's inquest to be held today under suspicious circumstances.
Memphis leaders announced a plan to lure William Jennings Bryan by offering one million dollars to relocate and publish the Commoner in the city. A delegation traveled to Washington to invite the defeated presidential candidate, while Bryan indicated he would remain in Lincoln, Nebraska, except for his Texas farm, as Memphians prepare a Thursday luncheon and formal invitation.
Washington D C Special President Taft sits with in terest the Sixty second Congress focuses on ratification of the proposed reciprocity treaty with Canada. Speaker Clark omits reciprocity in a Democratic program outline, sparking comment and surprise. Democrats say they will pass the agreement by session end. the President plans to send his message today.
A light vote is being polled in the Democratic municipal primary in Suffolk Virginia. Only 305 votes had been cast by noon. Mayor Norfleet declined renomination and the contest is triangular among W B Ferguson, Joseph B Holladay, and Malcom Newton Farnell. Holladay appears best positioned to win the nomination.
Joseph M. Klutfman, a wealthy farmer near Rileyville ten miles north of Luray, died Sunday night at age seventy four after five weeks in a single position due to fear of hemorrhage. His shifting position Sunday night triggered the fatal event.
The steamship Saratoga arrived in New York breaking the Havana to New York record. It completed the Morro Castle to Scotland Lightship leg in two days twelve hours thirty one minutes, best in years by thirty six minutes. Total distance covered was 1153 miles.
In a terse exchange, Miggs vows to join the fellowship and mentions Brown, a member, who recently took his name. Riggs asserts silent communication between members and denies speaking two each other.
Los Angeles Cal Special Ad Wolgast's manager Tom Jones says the Wolgast Packey McFarland bout set for April 28 in New York is canceled after warnings against risking Wolgast against an overweight opponent. Jones notes McFarland is chasing a catch weight and Wolgast would be endangered by the mismatch.
Franklin Virginia Republicans held a mass meeting in Rocky Mount to nominate a slate for November. For Legislature J Virgit Cannaday was chosen, for sheriff Henry Durley, for commissioner of revenue William C Sledges, Flem Lee Turner as a candidate in the first and fourth districts. Delegates were named for Franklin and Floyd counties to nominate a candidate for the State Senate. The gathering was chaired by County Chairman Brown James A Dinwiddie spoke along with H H A Davis A Sink and BR Pedigo.
William Jennings Bryan and Ohio Governor Judson Harmon have stayed at the same hotel for two days without meeting or exchanging courtesy. The two men, both contenders for the presidency, have consciously avoided each other, prompting worry among observers.
Theodore Roosevelt Jr is described as making good as a carpet salesman. Hartford Carpet Company manager F Towler, visiting San Francisco, praised the young Roosevelt’s earnest display during his trip while a guest at Hotel Alexandria in Los Angeles.
Mr Towler stated that the young Roosevelt is performing so well that he plans to promote him to a road salesman position in the near future.
Richmond Virginia attorney for the Commonwealth in Tazewell County asks the Governor to offer a reward for Henry Lester who fled after a shooting in which Henry and Ben Lester fatally wounded Robert Lester and Luther Lowe. Henry Lester was believed fatally wounded and later moved to Saltville for treatment. a $50 county reward exists and the governor is asked to match it.
A five story East Side apartment building on Seventh Avenue from Twenty sixth to Twenty seventh Street caught fire early today. The blaze originated in the basement and cut off exits trapping residents. Nellie Donnelly raised the alarm. her family escaped onto a fire escape with other residents as firemen rescued about one hundred people using sealing ladders.
The Pam Manufacturing Company, a major treworks concern, collapsed into bankruptcy. It cites the spread of a safe and sane independence day movement as the cause, noting the demand for quiet celebrations and the toll on its business. The Cleveland Leader comments the bankruptcy reflects a wide effort to prevent torture and danger during Fourth of July festivities.
A fragmentary dialogue asks what a metrical romance is and replies with a humorous claim that this month’s gas bill serves as an example. The exchange highlights playful wordplay and references a fictional source, Toledo Biade.
Harper's Weekly asserts in verse that Champ Clark and allied candidates will win the House speakership. It hails Clark as a peer of past leaders and promises support from the Show Me State and across the nation from hub to coast. The piece flaunts ambitions to place a strong leader in the nation’s top chair.
Special meeting of the Sixty-second Congress opens in Washington with Democratic House control after sixteen years in opposition. Speaker Champ Clark takes the oath and ushers in a crowded Capitol, while in the Senate 31 new Democrats and 14 Republicans prepare for a changed chamber amid vigorous posturing and plans for the upcoming session.
Two masked men burst into A T Rogers home in Las Vegas New Mexico and forced Mrs Rogers to surrender her two year old baby at gunpoint They demanded twelve thousand dollars in cash due at midnight The money was paid and the child recovered The baby is grandson of Kansas City attorney Henry Te Waldo One kidnapper Dennis Hart recently broke jail at Albuquerque police scour the area for these men
Washington April 47 years ago Lincoln wrote to the Postmaster General to employ Susan Dugger of Carlinsville Illinois a sole supporter of her crippled Union soldier brother. Secretary MacVeagh kept her on Treasury payroll after reading a yellowed aging letter.
The News and Courier reports a New York court grants a divorce to Nat Goodwin's latest wife and bars him from remarrying during her lifetime. The actor plans to wed again in another state, as the decree lasts only in New York. Rumors link him to several stage beauties since the separation.
Frank R. Johnson, known as the boy prosecutor, is charged in an affidavit with violating the Rose local option law by entering Michael Coogan’s bar on May 13 1910 and announcing his candidacy while inviting patrons to take what they wanted. Johnson had led raids on druggists and former saloon keepers and had a detective arrested for perjury amid recent enforcement actions.
The Republican caucus assigns responsibilities for paneling 160 GOP members including insurgents as Representative James Mann and Underwood chair the Ways and Means Committee oversee the typical post caucus task of distributing committee seats in the new House.
William Carleton Jones and Florence May Rogers, both of Norfolk, wed quietly in Washington to avoid church pomp. The couple, accompanied by Virginia Tech quarterback Billy Feuerstein, checked at the Marriage License Bureau and were married by Rev. Lowrie. They expect a two week honeymoon in New York before returning to the groom’s father’s home.
Special from Douglas Arizona describes outlaw Red Lopem leading insurrectos riding through Sierra Madre foothills just across the border. Lopez arrives in town with officers and finds his 209 troops have deserted and returned to camp without him. A courier reports Lopez locating his horse near Agua Prieta as the search for his soldiers continues toward Frontemng, about thirty miles south.
Major Elmore Taggart of the Twenty fourth Infantry receives a thirty day leave of absence while on duty in Virginia as state troop inspector. He will begin after completing his current Virginia tour. A State Senate candidate plan outlines a series of joint debates with J KE West as aspirant for the Senate. A committee representing Wight, Nansemond and Southampton counties will coordinate.
Norfolk Virginia Rev C Lingamfelter pastor of Armstrong Memorial Church was stricken Sunday while preparing to attend Sunday school. He celebrated his birthday Saturday and was in apparently good health earlier. He is currently in precarious condition.
Stormy conditions stop target practice by the first division of the Atlantic fleet. High winds and rough seas caused target rafts to bob. Orders kept battleships in place as Secretary Meyer arrived in Washington.
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