14 May 1908
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Newspaper
Mathews Journal
Location
Mathews, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 14, 1908
Page
1
Cassidy and Casey discuss Harrigan bragging about beating Finnegan last Monday. They question the exact timing and note Harrigan only recently appeared, with casual, period voice reflecting a newspaper gossip tone.
A sunny Washington event marks the cornerstone ceremony for the International Bureau of American Republics in Van Ness Park. Delegations from 21 nations attend as flags are unfurled, cable messages praise Pan American unity, and Secretary Root presides with Andrew Carnegie and Cardinal Gibbons in attendance.
A large rock from a hillside struck the smoking car of the Chicago and New York Express between Carhmore and Ohio stations seven miles east of Fairmont. Three passengers were injured: J B Powell of Fairmont with a head cut and bruises, B F Gilmore of Goshen Indiana with a head injury, and Griffith Jones a Fairmont resident lightly hurt. The train was traveling forty miles an hour. Powell and Gilmore were hospitalized after physicians treated them at Fairmont.
Mrs Emma Lodgren hurled her children Arthur three years old and Julia six months from a second story window injuring both severely Likely to die. Baby skull fracture arms broken Arthur internal injuries and a leg broken. Mrs Lodgren charged with attempted murder.
Richmond special report details widow Blanche Diggs after fiancé R C Fueral abandons her hours before the ceremony. He packed and left on Friday, leaving a note claiming it would not be best to marry. Diggs, widow for 10 months, planned a second wedding at Clay Street home as guests gathered.
Prof Carl Busch once chair of German and Greek at Antioch College Yellow Springs Ohio died after being hit by a freight train while walking on railroad tracks near Sterling Ir He had suffered financial reverses six years earlier resigned from the college and wandered thereafter
A frightful exanthematous typhoid epidemic grips the Kiev city prison with over 200 deaths reported and most inmates infected. Authorities are withholding details as the outbreak worsens.
The Senate and House addressed multiple issues including I C C clarification on the commodity clause, President's letters regarding Brownsville and Colonel Stewart, Wheat crop yields, Ute Indian Colorado claims, Paper Trust pricing, Col William F Stewart treatment, Census wage data, Cannon’s 72nd birthday, Jamestown Pocahontas Memorial funding, postal savings banks discussion, interstate rail compliance with the commodity clause, forestry service criticism, Colombia arbitration demands, and Stephen Decatur Smith bequest.
In Laporte Indiana crowds flocked to the Guinness farm after reports halting Sunday search for bodies. Officials planned further digging in the ruined house yard as investigators examined ashes for clues. The case involves Mrs Belle Guinness accused of murder with bodies unearthed in the barnyard.
Twin boilers in a bio lumber plant at Collins Mississippi exploded killing William Whitten and Thomas Robinson, both white. The disaster caused an estimated loss of 100000 dollars.
Boston special says Attorney General Dana Malone’s suit against the New York New Haven and Hartford Railroad for unlawfully securing control of six Massachusetts street railway companies is sustained by the full Supreme Court bench as it applies to five of the roads. The decision upholds the legal action against the railroad’s consolidation practices.
A five story tenement at 101 Orchard Street burned quickly with incendiary origins. Four people died Eva Berg 53 Samuel Sach 10 Hattie Kopelmann 4% and an unidentified man. Over 100 were rescued from crowded fire escapes and many others were injured. Mrs Kopelmann narrowly survived with her child who perished on a hot platform.
Denver report details robbers boarding Rio Grande train No 4 at Castle Rock and fatally shooting Express Messenger Charles H Wright age 60 of Globe Express Company. They looted a small safe, leaving a large but locked safe untouched. Wright's body found by Globe Company night staff O M Bishop and TB M Peterson after entering the car through a door Wright was guarding.
Secretary Root and Ambassador Takahira signed a general arbitration treaty in Washington. The pact follows European arbitration precedents and Hague Conference ideas, allowing arbitration for most disputes between the signatories.
German ambassador Baron Sternburg sails from New York on May 14 for a three month trip to Europe. He will touch Genoa and spend time in Saxony handling personal affairs. Baroness de Sternburg and Countess de Faramond join in Paris after May 19 from New York.
A new eight ton monument at Pottsville Pennsylvania will bear about 1 800 names commemorating the Brownback family. In New York City coal burn totals over six months reach 10 156000 tons according to recent reports. Manhattan post office receipts now run about 854 370 daily on open days. A noted oculist Dr Aao Tom s attributes nine tenths of mental headache cases to eye strain.
Winchester readers report that many soft drink shops opened after the dry victory and a Baltimore made beverage claimed to contain one tenth of 1 percent less than 2 percent alcohol is under investigation by Commonwealth Attorney James P. Reardon at the Anti-Saloon League request. The Byrd liquor law allows no beverage over 2 percent alcohol except fresh apple cider. Some tasters find the drink pleasant but not satisfying.
William Massey Grover Massey and Tom Spencer were bound over to the grand jury after a preliminary hearing in Danville for ambushing and murdering Samuel Saclon Charles Dodson and James Holly near Philpotts Henry County. Heresford Spencer was acquitted on a similar charge. The defendants bonded at 500 dollars. Followers from both factions attended the hearing. The accused did not testify, but self defense is expected as their plea.
Alexandria report says a midnight blaze destroyed the Burroughs, Bristmill and barn of T. F. Burrough, Sons & Co., plus four frame houses on South Patrick Street near Hunting Creek. Incendiary origin suspected. Burroughs estimates losses at 35 000 to 40 000 with houses adding about 15 000 more, total near 350 600, some insured.
Richmond Special reports Mrs Henry M Tyler wife of a prominent lawyer and cousin of Wirt A Taylor was killed when thrown from a buggy at Gwathmey Hanover County. Her body was mangled and the tragedy saddens relatives in Hanover and Richmond. Garland B Taylor deputy clerk to the City Circuit Court is a brother who learned of the death by note and notified kin. Henry M Tyler, her husband, serves as private secretary to Congressman Gamb in Washington.
Mrs. Maxie Peltier, found in critical condition, confessed on her deathbed to murdering two of her infants. She described throwing one infant from a railroad bridge into a stream. Three other children are in the custody of the Children’s Home Society of Virginia.
Leesburg special reports Rev Alexander Stuart Gibson son of Bishop Gibson of Virginia has accepted a call to the rectorship of St. John s parish comprising the Episcopal Churches of Aldie Middleburg and Oatlands in Loudoun County.
In Winchester a wedding united Edward Bartow Jones of Point Pleasant West Virginia and Elizabeth Harnsberger daughter of Captain and Mrs J Samuel Harnsberger of Harrisonburg Virginia. Rev Robert A Brooking officiated at the bride’s home.
Winchester county J Reid aged 64, a Hampshire County West Virginia native, died in the city after illness. He spent many years with West Virginia’s mining department and was unmarried. Also noted is Richard C Gunter, 72, dying at Hotel Gladstone Frostburg, with son William R Gunter proprietor.
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