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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Mar 05, 1913
Page
7
Front Royal health authorities deny a typhoid outbreak linked to the water supply. State bacteriological tests show no typhoid germs and a reservoir inspection found no contamination. Republic schools operate normally. business and civic life continue uninterrupted.
Nelson V. Carter was found guilty in Spotsylvania circuit court of murdering his wife Hattie Carter at their home on February 6. The trial had lasted since Friday, and the defense had pleaded homicidal insanity. Judge R. H. Sk. Chichester set April 2 for execution at the State penitentiary.
Charleston dispatch reports a massive parade through the capital streets ahead of West Virginia’s inauguration. Dr Henry C Hatfield took office as governor on the capitol grounds with Judge George Pottenbarger administering the oath to Hatfield and other state officials. Three former governors spoke at the reception as the new administration began.
Retiring Governor Glasscock pledges private life but backs key reforms from the last session including woman suffrage direct primary law and eliminating the fee system in public offices. Governor Hatfield adopts a progressive stance urging loyalty from appointees and geographic considerations in selection. Glasscock endorses suffrage noting support from West Virginia women as the new administration hosts receptions and an inaugural ball at the armory.
In New York on March 4 the coal tar trust defendants in a government suit consented to a dissolution decree. Judge Holt signed the order barring operations of American Coal Products Company and Barrett Manufacturing Company and dissolving some subsidiaries. Stock sales and dissolution must occur within six months. The parties deny violations but accept the decree to avoid costly litigation and reform their organization and practices.
Ira G. Cordray a 42 year old Hagans farmer died from wounds suffered February 8 after a crowd of young men assaulted him at a church meeting near Morgantown West Virginia. Cordray who was hospitalized after the attack left a wife six children and several fraternal memberships.
Raleigh dispatch reports Telter, a Mount Rainier workman, plunging eleven stories from Citizens National Bank building. He describes a dizzy drop after an elevator signal and bricks fell on him, sustaining a fractured skull, two broken ribs, and other injuries. He was hospitalized in unconsciousness with grim prospects.
In Buffalo a federal court fined the New York Central Railroad thirty thousand dollars for failing to observe published demurrage rates at East Buffalo. A stipulation was filed discontinuing ninety eight actions against Lake Shore and Michigan Southern and New York Chicago and St. Louis railroads over cattle shipment violations, with the railroads paying twenty five thousand dollars.
Cardinal Gibbons arrived in New Orleans for a ten day rest and was accompanied by Rev. Louis R. Stickney and Rev. T. J. Kenny, visiting his brother John T. Gibbons at the cathedral city. The party includes Baltimore clergy and travels from Baltimore.
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