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Newspaper
Mathews Journal
Location
Mathews, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1905
Page
2
Public notices list ad rates and submission rules with signatures required. The segment recalls the Fifty Second Congress opening and a mixed mix of political commentary, names, and a school arithmetic test with scores.
The tale recounts Senator Vance visiting a village campaign where locals insisted on religious affiliation. He feigned honesty about his mother’s Methodist faith, causing laughter as a listener reveals the next speaker would be a Congregationalist. The anecdote highlights religious identity in politics.
In Lind sey near Punxsutawney six children died in a morning fire that engulfed a small outbuilding. Parents William Morgan and wife and the remaining two children escaped, mother leaped from a window with two kids, later losing part of a foot. Father and mother suffered burns. The blaze started from a stove in a nearby outbuilding. neighbor aroused the family as flames consumed the roof and rear. Morgan had recently moved from West Virginia to Lindsey.
John Garland Pollard proposes using the old Delegates Hall in the remodeled State Capitol as a state hall of fame. He will seek lawmakers to dedicate the room via the Capitol Commission and introduce a bill. The plan includes bronze tablets listing Virginians and epitomes of their achievements.
Captain John Kimond of the schooner Clara Garrett reports a severe gale off the mouth of the Potomac on Sunday December 10 while en route from Baltimore to Smith's Creek with grain. Anchors chains stood jib were carried away as seas raked the vessel yet she rode out the storm and reached the Potomac. The captain calls it the severest windstorm and highest seas he has ever seen on the Chesapeake.
A court martial at Annapolis acquits midshipman Minor Meriwether Jr. of manslaughter in the death of midshipman James R. Branch Jr. The panel convicts him of violating navy rules by engaging in a fist fight and of conduct prejudicial to good order. He is sentenced to confinement within the naval academy limits, with part remitted by the secretary of the navy to avoid barring him from training ships.
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