14 Dec 1905
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Newspaper
Mathews Journal
Location
Mathews, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1905
Page
1
A partridge flew into a plate glass window at C. E Whitney’s North Adams home. The impact badly cut Mrs. Whitney and her two children, leaving their injuries described as severe.
Elizabeth City Special. Wilcox and Utty planned to shoot guards and escape with a trusted third man. The scheme unraveled after the third man alerted Superintendent Moon, who confined the conspirators and then recovered two loaded revolvers hidden in the yard.
Washington special lists chairmen for major committees in the new Congress led by Speaker Cannon. Names include Payne, Tawney, Jenkins, Hepburn, Hull, Foss, Overstreet, Cooper, Fowlar, Southard, Burton, Grosvenor, Wadsworth, Lacey, Sherman, Hamilton, Sibley, Bartholdt, Gardner, Sulloway, Loudenslager, Babcock, Mandell, Howell, Crumpacker, McCleary, Landis, Gardner, Mann, Ilmstead, Driscoll. A unanimous consent resolution expands many panels to add one member each. Kansas City special reports the arrest of M. M Leits for stealing railroad tickets in 1903.
A Brooklyn court allows American Tobacco Company to sell to any buyer. Jerome directs Ryan to answer insurance questions. Rockefeller dodges subpoenas in Missouri case. Ohio courts convict nine bankers last year. Peabody to head Mutual Life. Atlantic and Birmingham engineers strike. Lightship 38 sinks near Nantucket. requests aid. New York Mutual Life eyes Hughes as president. National Civic Federation to tackle overimmigration. Divorcees remarried in New York after 15 years apart. 82 mile return purse errand by Texan. Confederate veteran leader thanks Roosevelt for care of graves. Several arrests and deaths in New York, New Jersey, Oregon, and Mont. Notables attend memorials in Andersonville. Insurance probe report sought by Jerome. Amudson finds magnetic North Pole on King William Island. Carnegie touts immigration premiums. Cotton crop forecast 9,623,000 bales. Navy secretary critiqued for destroying Constitution. Mrs Corey seeks Nevada divorce. Corey silent. Gjoa reports Northwest Passage. U S Consul killed in Mexico by trolley crash. Swedish envoy Graves returns with King Haakon greeting. Campbell Bannerman forms new British ministry. St Barensburg post office clashes injure strikebreakers and police. Boycott and oil shipments from Russia noted. Massacre inquiry into American mission circles implicates several.
London dispatch reports revolutionary groups threatening to proclaim a governing body in Russia. Labor unrest escalates with arrests of strike leaders, bomb threats, and mutinies in Kharkoff and Manchurian columns. Cronstadt fleets mass, naval barracks to be abolished, reflecting widespread military turmoil.
In St Petersburg the telegraph strike worsens as M Durnovo arrests Krustaleff, president of the workmen's council. Cossacks move on the council headquarters while two strike breakers and a guard are killed near the general post office. Police and workers exchange heavy fire. many wounded and alarm spreads of a general strike.
A Washington report from the Appropriations Committees outlines the fiscal year 1907 estimates totaling 804,206,415 dollars for all government purposes, up from the current year by 10,170,155. Navy and Department leads in requested increases, while river and harbor funding is omitted.
Nashville special report: at two o'clock in the morning a fire swept the northeast corner of the public square destroying the O'Bryan Bros overalls plant. stock loss about 60,000 dollars with full insurance. building loss for B. B. Allen property estimated at 20,000 dollars. damage noted and investigation likely to follow.
In Manhattan a derrick at a Post and McCord building near Fifth Avenue collapsed as workers narrowly escaped. A prior similar incident at Fourteenth Street and Tenth Avenue was blamed on strikers by employers. The report also covers court decisions, including Browne’s conspiracy conviction, Rosenthal bail, Montauk Theatre manager Cohen’s death, Milan declared fugitive, and Woman’s Association of the Bar approval. Peter Forrester, former Stock Exchange member, pled guilty to three counts of theft from Lucinda Dougherty’s estate, after lengthy delays and jail contempt.
A garbled OCR fragment mentions Alps fashion, infant mortality in London, Oscar Hunt of Carlisle, Cape government projects in cotton, Elias Hart Reading, Gov Miguel Otero, Southwest sheep, a Kokomo Civil War veteran, Rear Admiral Schley, English bicycle makers, and police hidden typewriter sales. The lines mix disparate topics with unclear context and dates.
A steamer foundered off Amherst Harbor amid a gale and blizzard, with 2 crew reported dead and several passengers lost. Names include R. J. Leslie, a Canadian Parliament member, and firm associate of Jestiey Hart & Son. The vessel had run between Pictou and the Magdalen Islands since spring.
Mabel Rogers was executed at the Vermont State Prison in Bennington for the murder of her husband. The process was marked by delays, appeals, and last minute reprieve attempts, with officials confirming the execution proceeded as ordered despite legal and procedural uncertainties.
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