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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Apr 22, 1910
Page
14
A heated session ends with delegates tabling amendments while 1500 visitors greet President Taft and shake his hand. Nine vice presidents are named, but balloting must be repeated today to choose others, with a plan to travel to Annapolis.
The report details a two day convention with a ceremony and banquet at Ar ingha featuring Bina Matthew s address. It covers discussions on discipline within state auxiliaries and the presidential race for vice president general, including debates over governance and the organization’s future direction.
Proceedings recount a heated session as two daughters backed a motion to adopt minutes, while the president general denied knowledge of the proposal. After protracted debate the tenth vice president election was set for this morning with candidates Mrs Heystly Tibault Benning Davis and Masury. Several candidates for honorary vice president general failed to secure a majority. Admins claimed victory as balloting continued.
Miss Bessie Sessions, Washington society figure and stepdaughter of Lieut. Col. Benjamin Reeves Russell, has reportedly debuted in Bright Eyes at the Forest Theater Philadelphia. Her mother Mrs Russell and sister Almyra, also a performer, are cited. the family reportedly unaware of the stage engagement until a Post reporter informed them.
Kansas City April 2. Rigorous probe into lost documentary evidence in Dr B C Hyde's murder by poison trial of Col Thomas H Swope ordered by Prosecutor Virgil Contling. Nurse Pearl Keller testified Hyde claimed a harmless injection while state posits pus germs caused Swope’s convulsions. a toxicology plan includes dogs exposed to strychnine to demonstrate its effects.
Miss Lucy Lee Swope, returning from a New York company with Dr. Hye, was attacked four days later. The article notes typhoid fever as part of the brief report and details surrounding her condition and the state's response.
Chicago case reports supreme court reversal affirming Dr. L C Hea Zeigler's entitlement to $100,000 from Mrs. J H McVicker's estate for medical attendance during her life. He fulfilled five years of the contract until her death in California, despite lower court losses by her heirs.
Chicago clubman Norman B. Cummings vanished after leaving home to go to an express office with 17000 dollars in jewelry and 3500 in cash. His wife reports the disappearance and suspects robbery or foul play. Police are alerted.
In Moscow on April 21 a diamond ornament valued at hundreds of thousands of rubles was torn from the revered Virgin icon in Uspenski Cathedral Kremlin. Several precious stones were removed from saintly picture frames, with total value estimated at about $600,000.
Executors lowered the late magnate's fortune from Wall Street estimates of 100,000,110 to under 36,000,000 dollars. A preliminary inheritance tax has been paid. The Virginia railroad investment drained resources and forced securities to be let go.
In London the Commons erupted as T P O'Connor sought to strip Sir Robert Anderson of his pension over the Parnellism and Crime articles. Irish MPs demanded a government investigation, shouting Dublin Castle and Pigott as Campbell faced calls to withdraw. The session ended with closure moved and O'Connor’s motion rejected. Parliament will recess three months, delaying any veto resolutions until June.
In Macon Georgia on April 21 the Bibb County superior court granted thirty six divorces in two hours. One wife sued for her husband’s whisky, while a husband who sued for divorce was himself sued by another woman in a complex clash of cases.
William G C Moore an engineer on the Pennsylvania Railroad wrecked near Edgemoor yards Wilmington Delaware after passing danger signals at high speed He toppled two cars and struck an oncoming freight from Philadelphia Both Moore and the fireman escaped injury were subdued and placed in jail hospital afterward Doctors say Moore may recover
Twenty boys aged eight to thirteen were arrested in a Plains schoolroom this morning and placed in a dirt wagon, then driven to the police station amid a protesting crowd. Witnesses said racial tensions at Martin Strat School sparked a light, while supervising principal Gonnitt and Martin Scully oversaw the response and the boys were held at the town hall pending examination.
Special to The Washington Post from Kansas City April 2 Vassar College objects to claims that its students are always fresh or wear mortar boards and to a seal like the college image used on a chocolate brand. The suit, filed in federal court, seeks to bar the defendants from using the word Vag gar and from depicting a young woman in scholastic garb with a mortar board as the central seal image on advertisements.
Theodore Roosevelt arrives in Paris to a vast crowd and applause. He meets President Fallieres and Foreign Minister Pichon at the embassy, attends a performance of Sophocles Rex, and receives a standing ovation. French press praise highlights his unique popularity as a non kingly democratic figure.
Editorial note highlights diverse items from the era including politics, crime and society. Headlines mention a welter murder trial, captured fugitives, Boston defeating the Nationals, Harvard crew victory, cotton market trends, and Navy reports.
President Taft mourned the death of Mark Twain stating that his works will continue to give pleasure to future generations. He noted Twain wrote lines a father could read to a daughter and praised his American humor and wide international appreciation.
Missouri speech by William J. Bryan supports state wide prohibition with no aim to make it national. He denounces liquor interests, warns against breweries' political power, and affirms the Democratic stance while opposing trust-dominated liquor laws in a springtime Missouri visit.
Special to The Washington Post from New York reports Frederick Gebhard a famed New York clubman and racing patron lies gravely ill at Stratford House. His condition is dire with little nourishment retained after weeks of illness and a recent pneumonia relapse. Mrs Gebhard is expected from Washington. Doctors Dr Potter and May attend him.
New York April 21 Victor Nelson, friendless and penniless, charged with murder, will be defended by former congressman W Bourke Cochran. Justice Malone appointed Cochran to uphold the policy of assigning leading barristers to aid poor prisoners in general sessions. Charles I Humparey is listed in connection with a laundry attack charge.
Mark Twain dies at his bedside with his daughter Susy and her husband present after returning from Bermuda. A brief rally of restoratives fails to cheers the spirit as weariness deepens then a painless death ensues. the writer faced illness with dignified calm. Strong entities include Mark Twain and Susy Clemens, Bermuda voyage, and family. The tone reflects a late 19th century obituary with concise biographical weight.
Samuel L Clemena born 1825 in Florida Missouri rose from printer's devil to river pilot apprentice in 1852 and later founded C L Webster & Co. He traveled lecturing 1868 66 to settle debts of a bankrupt firm. He died in 1910 at Reading Ohio. He earned LL D from Yale 1901 BD Missouri 1902 Litt D Oxford 1907. Known for The Jumping Frog Innocents Abroad Tom Sawyer Huckleberry Finn and other titles.
The final hours at Mark Twain’s Redding home described a patient’s decline amid heavy care. Family members and biographer Albert Bigelow Paine witnessed his frail state as doctors noted heart weakness and limited response. Despite sedatives and oxygen, Twain sank into deep stupor and died after a last request for “a breath of Redding air.”
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