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Newspaper
Mathews Journal
Location
Mathews, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 10, 1906
Page
1
A young artist, famed for her temperament, sells a painting for a sizable sum and uses the proceeds as a first payment on a small cottage. The former owner warns of neighbors while she jokes about getting them to invest on shares. Also notes a petrified wood schoolhouse in New England North Dakota built from ancient forest material.
After nearly three months of negotiations the Anthracite Strike Commission awards a three year extension of the 1903 terms for Eastern Pennsylvania miners and operators. Work to resume as soon as practicable. men not involved in violence to be re employed. The agreement awaits ratification by the tridistrict convention at Scranton.
The U S Board on Geographic Names clarifies Maryland spellings for county seats and counties. Ell iott City replaces Ellicotts Mills and Prince Georges replaces Prince George's. St George Island becomes St George Island, and Queen Anne’s becomes Queen Anne County.
Washington special report to Congress from the International Waterways Commission urges limits on hydro power diversions at Niagara Falls. It recommends water diversion ceilings of 36009 cubic feet per second from Canada, 18000 from the United States, plus 10000 for the Chicago drainage canal, to be set by treaty or legislation.
In Quebec the Montmorency River above the falls witnessed a boating tragedy as one man, frightened, leaped aboard overturning the boat. He swam ashore but the other four men drowned.
The Senate Committee on Finance authorized an adverse report on Senator Newland's resolution for a national credit guarantee to San Francisco. It declared the relief plans to be outside proper scope and reserved judgment on joint committee mayor Pp.
News brief lists multiple ills and events across cities including a Staten Island homicide involving Charles L. Spier Jr who was killed with his own revolver after telling his wife he would check on burglars.
A London boarding house case sees Howard Cary found dead from self inflicted wounds. Prince Adolph von Wrede’s former servant William Glase faces arrest in Berlin for blackmail. Guadaloupe candidate Al Boitsneuf shoots at a window, killing two socialists. Eka terinoslav’s governor general is assassinated by six unknowns. John Biddle presents credentials to King Peter of Servia in Belgrade. Infanta Maria Teresa’s marriage to Prince Louis Ferdinand of Bavaria reportedly unhappy. Chancellor von Buelow marks birth anniversary with a porcelain vase gift. Officials in Thorn discuss cholera control between German and Russian health departments. Armenian revolutionists plan a tunnel break in Baku arsenal. Baron Iswolsky named foreign minister in new Russian cabinet. Father Gapon’s death disputed by his attorney. Mrs. Nannie Langhorne Shaw marries Waldorf Astor in London. Hamburg dock labor lockout delays vessel logging.
Mr Cortelyou urges Congress to appoint a seven member commission to study second class mail and report by December 10 1906. The panel would include a senator a representative an post office official and publishers representatives from daily weekly semiweekly and periodical presses. An appropriation of 25000 is requested to cover investigation costs.
Louis Hartman, 28, at St Elizabeths Hospital Belleville Illinois underwent an unusual operation to remove a part of his vertebral wall pressing on the spinal cord after a fall of slate and coal. Surgeons Wangelin Bechtold and Hilgarde performed a three inch back incision and report relieved pressure, with partial recovery of feeling.
Harold Beck, 16, of 316 Fifty Sixth Street Brooklyn shot himself at 10 30 P M after despondency over his extraordinary height and thin frame drawing attention. He stood 6 feet 2 inches in stocking feet and had been growing rapidly, earning the nickname Shadow from schoolmates.
In Oakland California a special report recounts E. H. Harriman offering his chauffeur F. A. Lathe $500 to stop smoking. Harriman praised Lathe’s steadiness, pressed him to refrain from the habit, and promptly handed a check once Lathe agreed.
M F Shankle a Southern Railway brakeman was killed when a passenger train backed from the yards and struck him as he transferred freight cars near Danville. He was about 35, recently from Concord North Carolina.
The piece notes Wagner and Sheckard in top form, Maroney strong for Brooklyn, and Bennett a winter schoolteacher. It highlights Cleveland’s Dutch battery, Heydon defending against Salkenberg, and Detroit singled out by Ned Landon. It mentions trades involving Danny Green, Gessler, Kuyols, and Jordan, plus opinions on a close season race and outfield depth for New York Nations and the Americans.
The item surveys diverse topics from Vesuvius conditions and Newberry College funds to endowments and museum plans. It notes a 355 per capita Filipinos cost, a 1100 ton sperm whale near Vancouver Island, and a typhoid bill of 60000 in Lincoln England. It mentions Carnegie offers to Strike College, a detectors program in China, and a locomotive factory bid in Mexico.
Vessels arriving at Leith Scotia from Iceland report Mount Ed at Mount Hecla is erupting. No damage has been caused according to the brief dispatches.
Report from Persia describes a fast moving plague in the northeast as residents refuse medical aid and government intervention. Health officials warn of rising cases and call for quarantine measures to contain the outbreak.
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