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Newspaper
Salem Times Register
Location
Salem, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 12, 1900
Page
2
The Times Register urges business readers to advertise in its pages as the best 1900 investment, noting job printing and space sales. It reports on the Epps bill for separate rail coach seating, Boer War updates, and Virginia politics discussions, urging lawmakers toward earnest work.
Telegram reports the death of Hon. J. C. Green at his Wytheville home after sudden heart trouble. A former Salem merchant, hotel proprietor, and Confederate veteran, he served in the State Senate twice and helped build major southern rail projects. He leaves a wife and three children and was buried after friends attended the service. The notice also promotes Pain-Killer, touting its use for grippe and colds.
Hugo Fischer, a long time resident and expert watchmaker born in Germany, died suddenly this morning at his home after a short pneumonia illness. He will be buried in East Hill cemetery once his son Hans arrives from Atlanta, while another son Harry travels in Europe for the Bonsack Machine Company.
East Radford Virginia January 10 The death of Mrs Martha Caffee a young widow in Bluefield Saturday has drawn a stir. An investigation led to the arrest of Dr W W Dickie a prominent physician on an ugly charge. Justice K T Oliver and a jury heard witnesses including Drs Fox Martin and Zimmerman who examined the body. Dickie was released on fifty dollar bail. Mrs Caffee was ill about thirty hours before death.
Telegram from Alexandria Gazette reports sensational developments in the Watts lynching by an unknown mob after an alleged assault on Mrs. Simpson. The woman is said to have been involved, with talks of lynching her. Detectives hunt the lynchers while Watts’s family denounces the death as murder.
Papers detail bankruptcies of John K. Kanes and Charles Schloss in the Western District of Virginia. Orders set March hearings at Lynchburg and require publication in Salem Times Register with notices to creditors. Clerks William McCauley issue and attest to true copies of petitions and orders.
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