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Newspaper
Mathews Journal
Location
Mathews, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 05, 1911
Page
3
In a forceful Richmond address, Robert Lecky of the Associated Charities denounces loan sharks and beggars as social parasites and calls for the almshouse purge. Leaders urge legal steps, charity reforms, and a provident aid system to aid the poor while curbing crime and exploitation.
A London Daily Mail report describes a young meteor sighting over New York City as it travels through the American sky. The event is noted for its vivid, copious observations and its impact on observers along Wall Street Drive and Fifth Avenue.
Writer Mr. Holt, weary but undaunted, wraps up a city tour including Brooklyn Bridge Penn Station visit City Hall and newspaper offices. He sails tonight on the Mauretania and plans to publish impressions from the voyage possibly in one or two volumes. He also describes sights on Broadway and an interview with Chuck Connors the Bowery king.
Roanoke special recounts Charles Baxter, a former brakeman with a crushed leg, who pawns his advanced artificial limb to cover daily expenses. A guardian friend linked to the railroad helps him, and a tense encounter with Norfolk and Western officials occurs as payday nears. The story portrays hardship, gambling with survival, and a peculiar reliance on a prosthetic asset.
Fragmentary text reports foreign relations and military movements during a Mexican upheaval. Mentions a Senor De La B ambassador, patchy references to revolutionists, commands, and mountain combat. Reads as a terse dispatch on state action and border implications.
Reports from Mexico City indicate Diaz orders arms importations halted and Mexican exchange offices to return arms. U S diplomats note Chihuahua revolutions gaining ground with Guerrero still under rebel control despite official denials. Ambassador Wilson cites continued revolutionary reach in northern regions as pressures rise.
A steamer bound for Cape Charles caught fire near Bushduff Point after a blaze swept the freight hold and amid scorched walls. Deckhands assisted in evacuation as officials reported no serious injuries. the Maryland and Pennsylvania vessels aided in rescue and damage assessment.
In Vicksburg Mississippi on December 19 the court was startled when a dead body was brought in at the request of District Attorney Thames for the murder trial of Rose Miner. The embalmed body of George Smith had not been buried and was to be offered as evidence, but Judge Mounger ruled it inadmissible and the state ordered the body removed. Miner appeared visibly affected by the dramatic move.
The Irish community in Washington plans a mass meeting Sunday to back Home Rule. Representative Champ Clark will preside with speakers including Graham of Witnels, AFL President Samuel Gompers, and Edward OMeagher Condon of Massachusetts.
New York police officer Charles Pfeifer found an owl in his chimney on a Tuesday night. The bird burst into the dining room when the child cried Santa Claus. The owl caused chaos breaking globes and a sewing machine before Pfeifer trapped it with a waste paper basket after a roof chase.
Danville Virginia reports the private banking firm of Johnson & Cheek failed to open Friday morning. Liabilities run about 180000 with assets near 200000, mostly paper assets unlikely to realize. The firm, run by Charles L. Fol land and Edmund B. Meade, had long operated under the old Johnson and Cheek name and now faces reassignment of deeds to trustees for creditors.
Dec 13. Mrs Gertrude Hoffmann, after a nervous breakdown, leaped from a hospital window with three nurses nearby. Two passersby helped restrain her as she fell feet above the street, then caught and saved her. She is now in the hospital, least harmed. This marks the third such incident in Pittsburgh in a week.
In Derbyshire High Peak shifts to Unionists while Leek in Staffordshire goes Liberal. War Minister Haldane holds Haddingtonshire seat in Scotland defeating the Unionist candidate, with a smaller majority than last January. Independent Nationalists take South Cork as totals show Liberals 264 Laborites 41 Nationalists 67 Independent Nationalists 9 Government coalition 581.
Turkish forces in the Syrian vilayet clash with Bedouin tribes between Kerak and Damascus. Turks report recapture of Kerak and driving tribesmen back with heavy losses. Advices from Damascus and Huaran say over 1,000 tribesmen killed. Fedouins pursued across the desert as Turkish troops avenge fallen comrades.
Annette Jr. McCrea among the most authoritative U.S. architects recalls warty fighting and the loneliness of leaving children with a housekeeper. She writes that letters from her kids kept her going as she faced missed contracts, sleepless nights, and bleak hotel rooms. Landscape architects are not supposed to cry.
A heated backlash follows the suppression of Secretary Dickinsons war readiness report. President Taft blasts the administration while Major General Wood faces criticism. Lawmakers from the Far West rally for stronger coast defenses as controversy deepens over military appropriations and preparedness.
Subcommittee of the Senate Judiciary Committee acted favorably on a resolution for direct election of senators. House debates appropriations bills opened including the legislative executive and judicial items. Urgency deficiency bill carrys 849000 was reported by the House Appropriations Committee.
In Richmond a Chancery Court judge granted an injunction restraining Ida Hahn from interfering with her husband Saloman Hahn at 327 West Front Street. Hahn seeks a partial divorce, alleging desertion in 1899 and cruel treatment. Mrs Hahn, present with her daughter in Philadelphia, contested the order before deputies and an interpreter. The case blends domestic dispute with local election chaos described later in the report.
Richmond memories recount Reconstruction era politics where white rule aimed to preserve power. Captain John A. Curtis recalls desperate, often violent elections, carpetbagger influence, and the vow to secure votes by any means. He notes voting rights granted to Black citizens led to tensions and brutal political clashes.
In London early Saturday an American Wild West style holdup in the Exchange Building in Hounslow resulted in two police officers being killed and three others seriously wounded. The attackers, believed American, fled after the shootout as darkness and fires lit the scene.
Mrs Ilda Charles and her husband Gilbert K Pollock appeared in Richmond Police Court after shoplifting at Miller and Rhoads. Charles confessed to thefts from multiple stores totaling about 1000 dollars. Five hundred dollars security posted for each of the couple. another man, Calman, dismissed on lack of connection. Ted Mack, ex convict highwayman, was killed in Toledo during a police pistol battle after robbing box cars.
Washington reports British ship demands indemnity from a South American government after the death of a colonized person. The incident follows cable advice and involvement of state officials noting that only the United States may speak for delingment. Authorities state tensions rise as creditors face repulse in the region.
Tokyo announces naval budget details for 19bi 12 with ordinary expenditures at 407 113 274 yen and receipts near 92 198 000 yen. Premier Marquis Katsura says funds aim to keep pace with era standards while peace with major powers continues. Next year rail construction estimated at 26 000 000 dollars noted in the same budget.
A Colorado letter warns of interstate mining job offers luring Virginia and West Virginia workers with promises of high wages. Workers and families migrating to Colorado reportedly face unpaid wages, destitution, and inability to return home, amid agent schemes by coal operators and cross-state contracts. The writer urges wide publicity to protect wage earners.
An unnamed man was found frozen near Pier 1 on the North River, then moved to German Hospital in Brooklyn after suffering from the cold. A. W. Harmon, a local dentist, reported the incident as record cold and widespread suffering from the weather.
A westerly blizzard drove the masted schooner Thomas B. Ga of Portsmouth into breakers near Great Point Nantucket. Coast guard or lifesaving crews lashed a breeches buoy line to the wreck and rescued the crew. The vessel is a total loss.
In Hagerstown Maryland an ordinary cow caused a stir as it wandered, pushing a sliding door open and tumbling headfirst into a cellar. A group of about forty men gathered, with locals speculating on a solution including moving the cow and securing the cellar.
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