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Newspaper
The Daily Telegram
Location
Clarksburg, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 28, 1908
Page
8
The foreigner charged with attempting a criminal assault on Jesse Savage nine year old daughter of Andy Savage of Union Heights was held for the next Grand Jury after bearing before Magistrate Gordon Tuesday afternoon. His bond of 32,000 was fixed but he failed to meet it and was sent to jail.
Oct 23 The Central Trust Company of New York, trustee for Cleveland Railway bondholders, asked the federal court to appoint a receiver for the Hotelpil Traction Company which operates the former traction lines in the city. Judge Taylor issued a temporary order tying up funds held by the municipal company.
President Roosevelt published a letter from Secretary Donnelly of the General Arbitration Board of the New York Builders Trades. Donnelly upholds the President in his presentation of the Taft record as stated in the letter to P. H. Grace of Binghamton.
Judge Taylor orders Lorain & West Virginia Railway Company released from Wheeling and Lake Erie Railway receivership and returned to original owners. Road deemed solvent and not independent. Cleveland report dated October 23.
Following an ultimatum from Great Britain France and Russia Bulgaria decided to disband its reserves and provide financial compensation to Turkey. The move marks Bulgaria’s concession to the allied powers during October.
The Western Union telegraph office in the Leggett Building on Third Street flooded Tuesday night. Manager A. W. Boggess found the floor two inches deep when he arrived Wednesday morning. A hydrant spigot was turned on while the water was shut off, causing the flood. extensive cleaning followed and no damage resulted.
Mr. Meredith UC William Brerearth, father of Francis M. Davis and grandfather of I. Wade Coffman, is critically ill at his Fairmont home at an advanced age and not expected to live many days. Mrs. Davie remains at his bedside.
Owing to insufficient water for domestic and industrial use all consumers are notified to limit use to a minimum. Warned that water may be shut off at any moment and to take care to avoid danger to boilers engines and heating apparatus. Clarksbury City Water Works Magh Callaghan Superintendent.
News from El Paso reports a clash between Papago and Yaqui Indians at Fort Altar Sonora resulting in forty deaths. The brief item notes the casualties without detail on the combatants' movements or context.
W. Cartwright of Hope Natural Gas Company offices in Empire and his wife welcome a fine boy born Wednesday morning at their Mulberry Street home.
Mr and Mrs Virgil Swearingen attended the funeral of his father in Kingwood Tuesday night after his death at home Monday. Dr Wardman, specialist, offered eye, ear, nose and throat care with spectacles fitted and repaired, promising precise measurements and matching frames.
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