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Newspaper
Mathews Journal
Location
Mathews, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 18, 1912
Page
8
Fragmented notices list hair goods prices and fashion items in Richmond Virginia. Offers include zinc buys auto tires bones and shoes and requests for prices. Also promotes bone liniment and farm loan plans with low interest from Standard Home Company Norfolk Virginia.
Police struggle to locate self-styled suspect Price in a Richmond area case involving the murder of Thomas Seaboldt at the Walker home on South Avenue. Investigators weigh the credibility of Mrs. Walker’s account and search descriptive circulars while chasing leads.
Governor Woodrow Wilson selects William F. McCombs as his preferred candidate for chairman of the Democratic National Committee. Wilson plans no public announcement yet, leaving ratification to committee members. Wyoming officials and national figures including Hudspeth, Ewing, Watson, Chilton, and Broussard were cited as having talks or expected visits.
Dr Harvey W Wiley told the National Educational Association in Chicago that Wilson and Marshall will carry the progressive cause. He backed Wilson and Roosevelt as leaders, with Taft trailing. He predicted Wilson would win New York Connecticut Maine Ohio and perhaps Illinois.
Atlantic City highlights the Prohibition Party opening of the National Convention with delegates pledging funds to the campaign. Over $11,400 subscribed in small amounts, lifting the fund to about $42,000, as organizers aim for $150,000 before November. Presidential selection remained unsettled during the session.
Morris D Bloom a 702 West Broad Street merchant was dismissed in Police Court Findlay on a charge of assaulting Thomas J Todd. Todd testified Bloom attacked him in the store citing unpaid money and Bloom warned he would kill him. Bloom denied striking Todd and was rebuked for uncivil language.
Senator Lorimer, speaking at 10 o clock Friday, denounced opponents who attacked him and claimed outsiders funded the 1904 campaign. He cited Roosevelt and Cortelyou testimony, accusing malefactors of great wealth of trying to silence him and describing an assault as a thief in the night.
The Illinois senator delivered a forceful Senate speech accusing conspirators including President Roosevelt and Democratic leaders of corrupt collusion with the press to mislead voters. He denounced the Helm committee as part of the derisive attack.
Washington, D. C. Special. A British embassy note to Secretary Knox faces Congress with a choice on Panama Canal tolls. Britain objects to free passage for American ships, citing the Hay Pauncefote treaty. President Taft and Cabinet split on Stimson’s tolls view as Senate and House battles loom.
Jennie Davenport of Hampton asks Governor Mann to free her son James, jailed five years for alleged malicious cutting, claiming identity confusion with brother John who is at large. Davenport says James is dutiful, while John is troublesome, and Governors’ officials review papers for possible relief.
Thirteen sailors aboard the Italian bark Genee told how pirates boarded the vessel after a storm near Inagua. The Genee crew, forced to surrender, were placed in small boats and left without water or provisions before the Allemania rescued them near the Bahamas. A British cutter pursued the pirates as the Genee crew awaited further word from New York.
New York reports that Kathrine Gelshenen Braker, widow of William Gelshenen, plans to wed real estate broker William Lavery Lower at St Patrick Cathedral. Braker, 49, holds vast wealth from her late husbands, with a third marriage on tap amid social scrutiny and historic ties to major financial figures.
Stockholm Special reports a day of new records at the international Olympic games. American athletes excel in the 400 meter finals while A J Talpale of Finland set a new world and Olympic discus record with a 148 feet 1% inch throw, surpassing the previous 145 feet 9% inch mark held by James Duncan of New York who finished third.
In Stockholm a German nobleman Baron Von Briedenheim living aboard saved Jules Anderson a Finnish sailor who fell overboard. He swam to the sinking man and hauled him aboard despite injuries to his hands, turning from ridicule to hero in front of returning U S athletes.
Patrick County in Virginia launches a community road improvement drive without funding or convict labor. Gov. William S. Mann issues a proclamation urging all residents to assemble on August 16, 1912, weather permitting, to devote a full day to road work improving transport for crops and daily life.
The House approved thirteen articles of impeachment against Judy Archbald of the Commerce Court by a 222 to 1 vote with ten members present but not voting. Representative Farr was the sole vote against. House managers named to prosecute before the Senate are Clayton Webb Lloyd Davis Sterling Howland and Norris. The impeachment proceeds to the Senate for action.
In Washington, special hearing before the Titanic investigating committee, F. Kells of Rochester North Carolina unveiled a lifeboat lowering apparatus. The War Department endorsed the idea and urged fast patenting for use on army transports. The model attaches to ship side, uses pulley and tackle, lowers to water and disengages on splash, allowing full boat loading.
At the West Virginia Republican State convention in Charleston a stormy session opened to avert a party split over the State ticket. Dr. WH TD Batfield, gubernatorial nominee, said he would resign if a national split disrupts the State party. If electors favor Roosevelt, plans will nominate Taft pledged electors.
New York authorities say Geo Wilson, a burglar and ex convict, vanished from the Tombs after entering through a manhole. A wide search found no trace, and keepers Crudden and Kelly face trial for neglect of duty. Wilson fled via a utility shaft and coal holes after overpowering keeper Hooli han and stealing a revolver. The case prompts calls for more guards and notes Wilson's Swedish origin, age 27, height five feet four inches, 142 pounds, tattooed with Liberty on both arms.
Special report denounces county convict camps as inhumane and blot on Arkansas. Gov Donaghey pardoned all convicts under contract with Weigel and pledged to probe conditions in other counties, amid ongoing grand jury and court actions on abusive penal practices.
The report details Jim Tredwell's 1911 conviction for carrying weapons disturbing the peace in Rock police court. He paid a $400 fine and received 180 days on the farm plus work credits, with 618 days remaining to serve upon pardon, highlighting harsh farm labor sentencing and neglect of inmate welfare.
A blaze at the Roe land and Rockport Lime Compan Yards on Morgan Avenue Brooklyn destroyed five thousand tons of coal and spread to Scranton Lehigh Valley coal yards. Two boats moored in Newtown Creek were burned. Night watchman John Warner sounded the alarm and Deputy Fire Chief Sally sent multiple alarms as seventy five horses in stables were stampeded and saved.
Chicago lightweight Packey Metarhind collapsed succumbed to heat in Philadelphia and cannot fight tomorrow night. The Olympic Athletic Association show is canceled rather than replace him. The chaplain's prayer validity was not challenged.
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