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Newspaper
Mathews Journal
Location
Mathews, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 27, 1910
Page
8
Minnie Finkenstadt, 35, hanged herself with a gingham apron loop in her dining room at 307 Mangum street, Atlanta, after her sister Dora found her body. Despondency over continued ill health cited as motive.
John R. Walsh, a convicted Chicago banker, is reported ill in the Federal prison hospital at Leavenworth Kansas. Doctors diagnose heart disease and a deteriorating liver condition. He is seventy two years old, and officials fear imprisonment may worsen his shock. The family man declares he is not broke, humorously noting his past expenditures.
Cape Charles Virginia special report: Ed ward Driggins living near Preston killed his wife with an ax while she lay in bed. He fled the scene and vanished into a nearby forest as authorities search vigilantly. Also New York dispatch notes a Montclair Heights rock collapse releasing over 240 snakes.
Ottawa dispatches report seventy five dead on Canadian Pacific wreck near Webbwood Ontario. Forty six killed and ninety two injured in latest tally from the Sudbury line crash. Conductor Bernhis drew passengers from freezing water and a submerged diner car as the Pullman tumbled and fire broke out.
Mrs W A King of 815 West Clay Street Richmond Virginia describes long back and kidney pain relief after using Doan’s Kidney Pills. She says the pills cured her backache and urinary troubles and kept her well since. Each box costs 50 cents and is sold by dealers or mailed by Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
A Canadian Pacific passenger train running behind time struck a Webbwood bridge over the Spanish River. The heavy diner left the track and plunged into thirty five foot of ice filled water. Cars followed creating a blazing wreck as passengers perished and others escaped to witness the fire. Sudbury dispatched a wrecking train but救 fire loss proved catastrophic with few means to reach the sunken car.
Norfolk Virginia Special final head on collision between two Norfolk and Fortsmouth Traction Company cars occurred at 7 AM near Church and Calvert Streets. Motorman Stempar and Motorman Kurtzman were shaken. fourteen passengers slightly injured and one hospital bound. passengers included T G Parr Thad Twiford and Sergeant Dozier plus eleven others. injuries varied from head to facial cuts.
A report from Newport News outlines the deteriorating health and confinement conditions of an individual named Jasi. A committee, led by Judge Barham, reviews the prison system and recommends medical care and potential remodelling of facilities to address alleged evils and improve humanity.
Ja cob Allen, a Northern negro, was convicted in Harrisonburg Circuit Court of burning his own house at Broadway Rockingham County to collect insurance. He was previously convicted Saturday in the Loudoun Mutual Insurance Company circuit and sentenced to five years in the penitentiary.
A 984 foot dirigible carrying 300 passengers is proposed for air traffic between London and Hamburg. Count Zeppelin works on landing stages. negotiations for sites under way today. Alexandria police chief reveals a former inmate escaped four cells using only fingers. calls for updated locks and a patrol wagon.
Virginia Senate Finance Committee proposes a revenue boost from liquor interests totaling over 126000, with minimal opposition. The Holt bill, aimed at revenue not temperance, could dampen statewide prohibition efforts as petitions and legislative shifts loom. Tax increases target breweries, distillers, wholesalers, and retailers, doubling some licenses to bolster state funds.
Petersburg Virginia reports on peanut prices with a Spanish market at 1.40 per bushel and firm prices for fancy stock. Machinery moved with 23 cents noted, shelling stock at 2 to 4.
Captain George W. Mays, one of the oldest conductors for the Southern Railway, died at his King Street home in Alexandria, Virginia, on Thursday. He was many years with the company and was a member of the Alexandria Washington Lodge of Masonry, survived by his widow and one daughter.
Washington D C special House committees on Expenditures in the Interior Department opened an inquiry into Rep Hitchcock s charge that a 1 000 000 fund to guard the public against frauds was misused by the General Land Office in buying expensive furniture hiring unnecessary clerks and doubling clerk salaries Commissioner Dennett testified he had not read the charges.
Lynchburg Virginia report notes Samuel H. McKinney a longtime Lynchburg merchant born in Appomattox County died of old age. He lived seventy years in Lynchburg with wife Mary Averett of Baltimore who died in 1876.
Miss Elsie Maurie Brauer wed Charles James Miller of East Richmond at St. John's Episcopal Church. The lace gown bride and violet accents accompanied by bridesmaids, ushers, and out of town guests from Newark, Philadelphia, and Baltimore. The couple departed for a extended trip south after a Venable Street reception.
The New York Press reports d'Annunzio and Duse have renewed their quarrel, then patched up relations. It notes his brutal egoism in earlier accounts may have drained her talent, while both retain strong artistic individuality. They reportedly met again and renewed a dramatic, volatile dynamic.
A jumble of quotes from Aldrich and various figures references costs of politics and punishment. Notable items include Aldrich claiming two billion dollars spent pre stamps, a House of Lords critique of budgets, Manuel in France with a 650 head hunt, and a Buffalo man accused in a wife sale case. The text mixes political cost chatter with odd anecdotes and sensational lines.
The Wasp notes a pale stereotype about appeal tied to money rather than race, stating bluntly that it is our wealth that attracts them. The remark reflects a defense of economic status influencing social attention among white audiences.
In Wellington Kansas Special-T Lee Vandaveer, 61, faces trial for the August 1909 killing of Alam Cann, 35, a neighbor accused of attentions to Vandaveer’s wife, 57, mother of twelve. Witnesses describe Vandaveer lying in wait behind a hedge and firing with a shotgun. Cann died after hours of life. Vandaveer also faced a separate incident in which a man attempted a bank-like theft at a moving picture show window he operated with a son-in-law.
Jacob Allen colored of Rockingham County Richmond VA will serve five years in the penitentiary for burning his home. The October fire led to arrest and conviction through Department of Insurance work. Allen had a 1000 dollar policy on his home and sought 1500 on the building, later reduced to 1000. He tried to insure furnishings for 1000 claiming cut glass valuables. An inspector was promised before issuing the policy, but the fire occurred first. An investigation found the cut glass removed from the house an oper loa decanter was the sole item. Officers then took Allen into custody.
The Boston Herald quotes Hank Stubbs and Gige Miller debating the plan to demolish Madison Square Garden in order to free space for a new building.
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