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Newspaper
Mathews Journal
Location
Mathews, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 05, 1905
Page
1
A poem in the American Illustrated Magazine images autumn leaves as embers for a winter day. The speaker, Frank Drmpeter Sherman, vows to place in a book the gold and red beauty of the season before winter comes with curfew and snow.
Selina presses Rastus Bangs to propose to Mrs. Smith within three days after a hidden closet mix up where he hides to escape discovery. The sister and Mrs Green negotiate a bargain, forcing Bangs into a vow and a comically staged suitor crisis that ends with a prompt proposal under pressure.
Henry Leonard a 24 year old clerk at Halle Stieglitz admitted stealing 359000 in securities from National City Bank by forging a check. He claimed the crime was a bet to test bank safeguards, mailed 300000 of the securities to Dyer Pearl then led police to the rest, was held on $50000 bond. Leonard lived at 586 East 136th Street with his parents and had attended St Jerome's Church in the Bronx. He said the plan developed over three to four months beginning with blank Hanover checks and a rubber stamp at Bowery. He denied drinking or smoking and gave a detailed yet questioned account of the theft.
New York special reports John D. Rockefeller paid ten million dollars to the General Education Board in cash as announced last June. The funds were delivered to the board’s executive committee by F. T. Gates, a Rockefeller representative and committee member, in six checks for one million and two for two million each, payable to George Foster Peabody, the board treasurer.
Special report from Jeffersonville Ohio describes a blaze that destroyed the entire basin section of the village in Fayette county near the Clark county border. The town of about 2000 residents faced rapid spread and total loss of the burned area as firefighters battled the flames.
A Soo Line Eastbound passenger train leaving Union Station at 9 05 A M collided with a Chicago Great Western stock train at the Fourth Street viaduct in St Paul Minn. Five passenger cars plunged down a 27 foot embankment. One passenger dead and five were seriously or light bruised. The total harm was limited despite the crash.
A briefing of diverse items includes Kansas City councilman Moritz Wuerz’ weight loss after a three week period. Elizabeth Patterson returning home to find her property divided among her children. George Barrett alleged blackmailer act against Paul Morton. and Mrs. Mathilde Hogan with five children found destitute in Verona. Also noted are a seven year old burned to death in Marinette, lawsuits over government-land fencing, a Kentucky moonshiner shot, and an array of political, corporate, and international items across the United States, Canada, and Europe.
In Cambridge Illinois a farmer’s wife, mentally distressed, killed her seven children with an axe then set the house ablaze. She and the children were found in a burning bed of coal oil. she later died from burns. A note to her husband spoke of love and safety in the arms of the Lord. The husband, away at work, is prostrate. The children ranged from 10 to a baby. The family lived apart from neighbors and had been poor. The oldest child was nine.
George Moore, 50, a clerical looking man, confesses a four year scheme swindling women in Chicago and Milwaukee. He posed as an agent for an art journal published by a department store, offering yearly subscriptions at $1.50 and giving orders for six yards of dress goods. The store allegedly filled these orders gratis to attract magazine signups, and Moore reportedly collected substantial weekly receipts.
In Detroit a father William E Harrington attacked Charles Martin with a baseball bat while protecting his 16 year old invalid daughter from an alleged assault by Martin who had boarded at Harringtons home The beating occurred in the rear yard and Martin died later in a hospital, authorities say.
Edith M. Bailey, wife of a wealthy manufacturer, was held for the grand jury on a manslaughter charge after her car struck Joseph Broestle at the Superior Street viaduct on September 15. Broestle died the following day.
Des Moines Iowa special report says Frederick A Harriman a lawyer banker and one of the wealthiest men in Northern Iowa was killed in an automobile accident as he descended a steep hill the car went out of control and plummeted into a deep gulch. Arthur and Frederick Reed were injured in the crash.
Sutherland M. Prevost third vice president of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company died at his Philadelphia home from kidney and heart trouble. He was 60, had been ill for over a year and unable to work since last July, after which he was bedridden for several weeks.
Railroad officials worked as switchmen Saturday in the Grand Trunk Railroad yards where yard men struck. Division superintendent F W Egan Assistant Superintendent W K E Costello Yard Master M J Conron and others aided a small group of non union switchmen to make up trains and throw switches.
James O'Brien was acquitted of complicity in the lynching of Richard Dixon. Prisoners testified they saw him seize Dixon and hand him to the mob, who then lynched him. O'Brien was among six indicted for complicity and the session ended with acquittals.
A 21 year old Anna Allen was arrested on bigamy charges after a three mile chase by detectives in a launch along the Hudson. She fled from One Hundred forty ninth street to Brooklyn by boat, then was later arrested at her Pulaski street apartment. Additional items note a church sermon via telephone, two youths charged with theft, Mrs. Russell Sage funding Sag Harbor school, and a claim against Charles B. Rouss estate by Elizabeth Slattery Cowan.
A leading Wall Street banker reports Europe has been an unusually heavy buyer of American securities this past summer. He cites Holland as the heaviest buyer holding about 284 million dollars in American railways and 261 million in American industrial securities by face value.
In opposing habeas corpus for Henry Kopp of 28 Manhattan Avenue Williamsburg now in a sanatorium at Armtyville Mrs Kopp says he insists on skating on rollers while he sailed kites and in one day bought 10 dogs 15 pictures and 200 padlocks for his trunk Kapp denies the charges in court Mrs Kapp pleads for restraint saying he drinks 15 to 20 glasses of whisky daily and sometimes two quarts
Washington special report cites a cable from Minister Merry in San Jose Costa Rica stating William S Albers was sentenced to three years in prison an appeal to the Supreme Court has been taken. American consul Donaldson at Managua had his exequatur canceled as an incident of the case and is expected to arrive here early next week.
Live Washington affairs report multiple items. Thomas P. Moffat of New York becomes consul at Laguayra replacing Carl Batley Hurst in Turks Island details. Indictments returned against Edwin S. Holmes Jr. Cotton leak case. Secretary Taft arrives in Washington after fast Yokohama trip. Census Bureau notes cotton ginned to Sept 25 at 2,350,031. President to travel to New Orleans then back on a cruiser. Malta goat herd imported for milking arrives. Liberia trade with the US has dwindled per Minister Lyon, cited causes include lost American markets.
A jubilant display along Pennsylvania Avenue welcomes the President as he arrives at the White House. Dignitaries including Mr. Root and Mr. Shaw greet him on the way to the mansion, where fans and diplomats share in a glowing, celebratory scene.
Witte sails from St Petersburg to Bioerke in the Finnish Gulf to meet Emperor Nicholas. The historic interview site recalls the 19th century talks between Nicholas and William. Witte may be named chief of the cabinet of ministers, a post granting power to appoint most ministers.
Philadelphia witnesses the launch of the battleship Mississippi at William Cramp Yard with sponsor Miss Mabel Clare Money daughter of Senator Money. Yellow fever kept Gov. Vardaman and party from attending. Governor represented by Money. Guests included Dewey, Wo Bear Admiral Rogers, Lt Cmdr, and other naval officers and prominent locals.
A well dressed educated Japanese man registered at the Delaware Hotel on Third Avenue and Thirty fourth Street as K. Naka. He slashed his throat from ear to ear and leaped from a four story roof extension. He was found with both legs broken and described as a broad Japanese Russian term.
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