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Newspaper
Mathews Journal
Location
Mathews, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 12, 1911
Page
6
E. G. Moseley dismisses a Virginia Advocate editor's charges as unfounded while defending his critique of the Advocate's handling of editorial ethics and alleged political influence. The exchange centers on quotes, misquotations, and questions about university trustees contracts and a Blackstone trust arrangement.
The Poet of the Sierras Joaquin Miller is said to have the worst handwriting in America since Horace Greeley. An invitation to join a club prompted a four page reply unreadable to all. The secretary asked for a simple cross or circle to indicate attendance or absence. A reply arrived with a sideways mark, but its meaning remained unclear.
The Denver Post profiles Sitting Pik, the long lived Ogallalla Sioux chief famed for resisting war with whites, claiming ninety six years and a life of peace advocacy. He recounts battles and bravery, notes childless status, and remains vigorous in public appearances amid Denver crowds.
A Providence Journal anecdote recalls Marjorie Elizabeth visiting an Episcopal church with her aunt. The baptismal font promptingly leads to a playful remark about faith, as the child notes she plans to stay Presbyterian when she returns home.
Nora Goad identifies Antonio Rosa as the assailant of a sixteen year old cyclist near Golden’s Bridge on New State Road. Rosa is held under guard in Bristol with an armed posse searching the area after the capture and rapid handling by authorities and the furious crowd.
The Monticello, a leading Norfolk Virginia hotel, sold Thursday to a local business syndicate. The group, led by Colonel Charles H. Consolvo, acquired the Monticello Realty Company stock and immediate management shifted to Consolvo. The seven story 250 room property fronts Granby Street and City Hall Avenue, with estimated site values exceeding one million dollars and bids financed via a Boston loan.
In Richmond Virginia Addison Bright a Black man on the Hastings Court stand yesterday had bandages slip from a knife wound in his side. Ambulance surgeon aid prevented likely blood loss. Bright had been jailed for six months for fighting and testified against Willie Smith charged with malicious assault. The wound reopened causing Bright to scream and fall to the floor before being helped.
In Buffalo New York at 21 Tremont Avenue Melvin Hathaway 63 was shot and fatally wounded by his brother-in-law George De Lavergne 26 Curtis Hathaway the elder’s son was also shot and seriously injured Both men restrained De Lavergne until an officer arrived Police report he seemed to have suddenly become insane>The event occurred early today in a Residential hallway.
In Washington Special the District Court heard arguments on whether children born after September 1912 to the Cherokee nation should share in an act of Congress distributing land assessed at 4.4 million dollars with 2.56 million dollars in cash, highlighting the inheritance scope for Cherokee heirs.
In Poplarville Mississippi special report says every member of the Thigpen family including two infants in arms is under arrest after Lydia Thigpen, twenty, killed Warren Alsobrooks, twenty five. Lydia claims she was forced to kill to save her father. Alsobrooksbody riddled with shotgun wounds.
Vicksburg Mississippi report says pull of 750 union trainmen and conductors may quit in sympathy with shop workers. Strikebreakers arrived last night. guards accompany the train to New Orleans. railroad fears demonstrations against the workers.
Mexico City dispatch says the government deploys the navy to quell the rising anti Maderist revolt its gunboat patrolling the coast fired on the Drake a steamer en route from New Orleans believed to carry arms for the insurgents confirming a serious menace to central authority
The piece reflects on Chicago s 40th anniversary of the Great Fire, noting the vast destruction of three square miles, over seventeen thousand buildings, and a fifth of the population left homeless. It contrasts Chicago s post disaster rebuilding with Boston and urges renewed fire prevention and construction improvements.
An anniversary observance in Chicago sparks a wider push for fire safety. Officials in Illinois and Indiana declare October 9th as Fire Prevention Day urging citizens to tidy premises, remove hazards, and foster community cooperation for public safety and health. Cities like Rochester and Portland consider similar measures, with schools and officials urged to educate children on prevention.
Richmond special: H M Taylor an escaped lunatic and wife killer, hiding behind a front door at 62 North Twenty second Street, was captured by Detectives Atkinson Kellam Krengel and Wiley. He escaped guards at Williamsburg weeks ago, fled to North Carolina, and will be returned to the asylum. Taylor, aged fifty one, was tried at Hastings Court for stabbing his wife to death and found insane.
Madrid dispatches report the monarchist uprising in northern Portugal ended in a fiasco after Royalist forces reportedly fled. 2,000 troops said to operate around Chaves and Braganza near the Spanish frontier as Lisbon reinforces northern garrisons and protests Spain over royalist rendezvous on Spanish soil.
A New York report notes Inman grows angrier when told his watch keeps wrong time than when criticized watchmaker for inaccuracies. The remark highlights tension over punctuality and responsibility in timekeeping.
The Alexandria Gazette notes Beulsh Binford and Suydam with Fred Noble planning vaudeville acts for stage elevation while Gaby Deslys underperforms on a U.S. money run. Grace Darling rejects a London offer to stay at her lighthouse post, and The Maid of Northumbria is cited as a lasting historic memory amid fading celebrity attention.
Directors of the Minneapolis and St. Louis Railroad and Iowa Central Railway appoint committees to negotiate a lease and possible merger. Plans call for a large stock issue and a $75.9 million refunding bond, with possible 260 miles of new track to reach Southern Canada and a Chicago link to join the Atlantic Seaboard.
The piece notes Da vid Graham Phillips and O Henry produced more work after death, with Phillips finishing two long novels and about a hundred short stories posthumously. It contrasts publishers’ demand with Henry being financially strained, as manuscripts surfaced after their deaths. Walt Mason comments on a colored gentleman in somebody's woodpile.
A respected Southern physician urges abandoning outward mourning symbols arguing hearts need not advertise sorrow. He notes historic and cultural shifts from blue for Romans to violet in Asia Minor and pale brown in Persia, with white once used in Europe and now seen in China.
Daniel Simpson a twenty six year old Negro driver was fatally shot in the abdomen last night by Sergeant Hardgan guard in charge of the Mill Creek post Fort Monroe. The shooting occurred on the Old Point reservation in front of the post hospital as Simpson allegedly insulted women and drew a revolver when Hardgan tried to arrest him.
Cal Rodgers assembled his aeroplane on the O Connor farm near Joliet at 8 45 this morning and flew over the city at 9 00 heading toward Springfield Illinois.
Reported as Rodgers, an aviator, passed away at 12 15 AM after a night flight. The wording indicates a likely mishap during a route toward Peoria, with the event noted in a terse military or special dispatch.
In Craven County Superior Court this week John Casey and his wife Leonora face a murder trial tied to the preceding death of Joe Whitley. Witnesses describe paid motives to kill, rumors of attempted bribery, and evidence of poisons in the victim. The case includes more than fifty subpoenaed witnesses and ongoing testimony as the jury nears decision.
In Capitol Grounds Washington a tall policeman orders two men off the grass. The exchange escalates as one man asks who appointed him, and the officer cites Mr Stokes Jackson of the House of Representatives. He says he twice warned Representatives Garner of Texas and Lee of Georgia to stay off the grass.
A stranger arrives in a New Mexico town and enters a poker game where flushes are banned. After seven hours he holds four aces, while an opponent has four rings. He borrows twenty thousand dollars from the bank by proving his hand, a story repeated by a Southwest politician in The Twice-a-month Popular Magazine.
The National German American Alliance convention unanimously endorses a resolution opposing treating and beer drinking. Phill Rapport urged all members to pledge not to accept or give liquor and not to drink at the gathering.
Sunday in Vermont recounts remarks by Waldo of New York on Sabbath observance. A humorous vignette follows about a friend vacationing with a rich Vermont farmer who learns he should swap a cane for an umbrella on his stroll.
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