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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Apr 22, 1910
Page
1
In harmony delegates vote to table amendments during a heated session. Fifteen hundred visitors call at the White House and shake hands with President Taft. Nine vice presidents general are chosen, but balloting must be repeated today for other elections. A trip to Annapolis is planned.
At a recent convention in New York City tensions rose over discipline and the constitution as pirates in state auxiliaries and other issues divided delegates. The session featured reports on the Real Daughters and a heated vote for vice president general, with delays and dramatic proceedings highlighting internal conflicts within the organization.
The congress debated minutes and minutes action for the tenth vice president general election. Candidates include Mrs Heystly Tibault Benning Davis and Masury with votes announced, roles assigned, and administration claiming victory as balloting continued today.
Miss Bessie Sessions, said to be stepdaughter of Lieut. Col. Benjamin Reeves Russell, has debuted in Bright Eyes at the Forrest Theater Philadelphia. Her Washington mother and sister Almyra learned of the stage move from a Post reporter, prompting remarks on family concern and expectations as Sessions pursued theatrical life away from home.
Kansas City reports a rigorous probe into State evidence in the Dr. B C Hyde murder trial of Col. Thomas H Swope. Ruby Garrett admits papers may not have been lost and Miss Pearl Keller testifies Hyde allegedly injected a substance in Miss Margaret Swope. Police study strychnine via dogs as defense evidence. court rules on letter access and prior notes in dispute.
Four days after returning from New York with Dr. Hye, Lucy Lee Swope was attacked by typhoid fever. The State details a brief report on her condition and the incident, noting the efforts to inject clarity into the story.
Chicago entries report Supreme Court reversal in a contract dispute over life time medical attendance. Mrs J H McVicker’s heirs challenged the arrangement with Dr L C Hea Zeigler. the court awarded $100000 to the doctor after five years of service until her death in California.
Norman B. Cummings, a retired real estate dealer and clubman of Chicago, disappeared Wednesday after leaving home with jewelry valued at 17000 and cash 3500 to visit an express office. His wife suspects robbery or foul play. The case prompts police inquiry in Chicago.
In Moscow on April 21 a diamond ornament worth hundreds of thousands of rubles was stolen from the gilded icon of the Virgin in Uspenski Cathedral Kremlin. Several precious stones were removed from saintly frames. total value estimated at 600000 dollars.
Wall Street reports cite an immense fortune once pegged at 100,000,110 but executors now estimate it under 36,000,000. They have paid four preliminary inheritance taxes on this revised figure. Virginia railroad investments drained resources as securities were relinquished.
Stormy scene in the House of Commons as Irish members press for a government inquiry to strip Sir Robert Anderson of his pension over the Parnellism and Crime articles. Amid chants of Pigott and Dublin Castle, the motion was rejected 164 to WM. A three month election pause was announced with parliament recesses set from April 4 to May 2.
In Bibb county superior court today thirty six divorces were granted in two hours. One wife was sued for drinking her husband's whisky. One man who sued a woman for divorce was himself sued by another woman.
William C. Moore, a Pennsylvania Railroad engineer, wrecked an extra freight north of Edgemoor yards after passing danger signals at high speed. Two cars demolished. no injuries among crew. Fireman F T Wellbrext and staff subdued Moore, who claimed the Lord told him to act. Moore hospitalized at Delaware Hospital. doctors say he may recover.
Special Washington Post report from Wilkes-Barre Pennsylvania dated April 21 describes twenty boys aged eight to thirteen being arrested in their classroom amid racial disputes. They were placed in a dirt wagon and paraded to the police station, then moved to the town hall as crowds protested before examination.
In a Washington Post filed Kansas City suit, Vassar College protests a candy brand using a seal image showing a collegiate woman in scholastic dress and a mortar board. The case seeks to restrain the company from further use, arguing the seal mocks the college and misleads public perception.
Theodore Roosevelt, former U S president, arrived in Paris to an exuberant reception from the republic’s representatives and the public. He met President Fallieres and Foreign Minister Pichon, attended a Comedie Francaise performance, and received a standing ovation. The press hailed his European tour as unmatched in history, praising his vigor and popular appeal.
An itemized summary notes cross national recognition for Lydia’s Last Viet Here Honored by Two Nations, with editorial comment and coverage of social notes, sports results, and financials. Mentions Boston defeats Nationals and Harvard crew victory as part of the sports roundup alongside miscellaneous society items.
President Taft issued a statement on Mark Twain's death praising his work for widespread intellectual pleasure. He said Twain's writings can be read by fathers and daughters alike and that his humor was American, yet valued by Englishmen and people worldwide. Twain has left an enduring part of American literature.
William J. Bryan will tour Missouri to back statewide prohibition with a November vote. He denounced attempts to make prohibition a national issue and attacked liquor interests as selfish conspirators endangering home and state. He opposes brewery and distillery influence on liquor laws and defends democratic control over regulation.
Frederick Gebhard a famed New York clubman and society patron is dying in Stratford House New York. Mrs Gebhard is expected from Washington tomorrow. Intimate friends report grave doubts of living beyond 24 hours after a long decline with only buttermilk kept down the past three weeks. He has been bedbound for six months and suffered a general breakdown after pneumonia. Doctors Dr Potter and May remained with him.
Ex congressman W Bourke Cochran to provide legal defense for Victor Nelson a penniless African American man charged with murder in New York Justice Malone appointed Cochran in general sessions to protect Nelson's interests amid the case linked to Charles Humparey with a laundry dispute noted in the fragmentary report.
Mark Twain's daughter and her husband remained at the writer's bedside as he lay in a natural sleep after returning from Bermuda. Brief rallies failed to revive him, fatigue grew, and death occurred without pain, leaving supporters and friends to reflect on a humane, peaceful passing.
The record summarizes Samuel L. Clemens born 1825 in Florida Missouri, early work as printer's devil and Mississippi River pilot apprentice, Westward years in Nevada and California, marriage to Olivia Langdon in 1872, founding publishing house C. L. Webster & Co, 1868 to 1966 lecture tour to cover debts, death in 1910 in Reading, Pennsylvania. It lists Yale LL.D. 1901, Missouri LL.B. 1902, Oxford Litt.D. 1907, first work The Jumping Frog, best known Innocents Abroad, and other titles: Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn, A Tramp Abroad, The Prince and the Pauper, Pudd'nhead Wilson, Joan of Arc, Eve's.
Langholme Clemens known as Mark Twain passed away after extended agony at his Redding home. Attendants noted fluctuating strength, a final sleep came as his glasses were requested, and biographer Albert Bigelow Paine confirmed the death. Family and staff witnessed his last hours as doctors described the fatal cardiac strain and failed oxygen therapy.
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