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Newspaper
Winchester The Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 09, 1908
Page
1
Denver July 8 A large crowd filled the hall for a Bryan oriented session of the Democratic National Convention. The atmosphere was buoyant as the Cowboy band played and delegates debated credentials and platform timing, awaiting the report from the credentials committee and next day’s platform hearing.
In Summit Point West Virginia on a farm owned by William Frazier a young boy about 16 died after an accident with a horse drawn wagon. A wagon wheel passed over him after the horses bolted spooked by frightened horses and he died at 6 PM despite Dr D B Bushong attending.
Major James F. Meline, assistant treasurer of the United States for 16 years, has improved after ten days of serious illness in Washington. His condition was once listed as critical, but doctors and family report better status. He has many friends in the city and winters at the Winchester Inn.
A lawn party is planned by the Winchester base team with numerous ladies invited to manage the event. Details describe a village style festival organized under local sports club auspices.
Daniel Nelson, a Black man, rode a bicycle to Martinsburg, then beat his way back to Hagerstown. He was fined 15 dollars and costs in Winchester police court before Justice Wilson and jailed when unable to pay. Authorities may review his record for other warrants. Nelson is described as a dangerous looking gum shoe type and is known to have connections in Harrisburg.
Constantinople July 9 reports say one thousand people were drowned when a flood washed out Tokat on the Eyeshil Irmak river in Asia Minor. A second item notes a building collapse near St. Petersburg killing twenty workers and injuring twenty. A third item reports a Rhine bridge under construction at Cologne collapsing with many lives lost.
Fydy Marshall will be at Sager's Livery Friday and Saturday July 10 and 11 to buy good driving and work horses and mules. Good prices paid.
Readable fragments show Fresh Sartle's Coffee offered at Winchester Tea Co with 2 percent optional content unclear but indicating a product listing or shop advertisement in a historical newspaper.
George W. Hardy 55 native of Berkeley County died at Kings Daughters Hospital after a June 29 fall of earth and rock at Standard Lime and Stone Company in Martinsburg. He worked as a quarryman and was brother of Capt. Frank Hardy, the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad detective.
Winchester defeated Shepherdstown 9 to 1 in a high scoring afternoon tilt at the Park. Montgomery allowed ten hits while Cy McDonald and B Wood sparked the Shepherdstown offense. Giants schedule a rematch with Shepherdstown while Hagerstown plays here tomorrow.
Denver reports a heated race for nominating Bryan and the vice presidency. Delegates expect many seconding speeches delaying roll call past midnight. By noon the platform nears completion with anti injunction and currency debates unresolved as New York backs Bryan.
Mrs. Sarah C Cobaugh wife of Capt Harry C Cobaugh died suddenly at her home The Murphy in Washington at about 7 20 pm Her husband a Treasury official and her son two daughters and several siblings survive The death follows a period of improving health after a prior paralysis two years earlier Mrs Cobaugh 53 was a daughter of the late Jesse B Sloat of Winchester and a native of the area Funeral arrangements are in Washington with a late afternoon departure for the journey.
Hon. Richard B. Byrd of Winchester spoke at the Maryland Bar Association meeting at Blue Mountain House on the decay of personal rights and guarantees. Applause greeted his remarks praising past leaders and noting his 22 years of public service. (Continued on page 8.)
Odessa reports bloodshed as Cossacks crackdown in Tabriz sparks bread riots. Thousands take to streets, women and children join, casualties feared in the hundreds amid food scarcity. Also notice of Friendship Fire Co memorial service planning for Mount Hebron Cemetery on August 2.
A morning blaze at Coney Island caused extensive damage valued at about a quarter of a million dollars. The Varave Hotel and the Pabst Hotel were total losses, and parts of the Culvertine station burned. Mrs. Frank Clayton suffered the loss of diamonds worth $10,000.
Cambridge fire at a four story tenement destroys part of the building. Brown escapes with life as his wife dies from burns. Other residents, including Flora Austin and Fannie Neill, are hospitalized with serious injuries. Two killed in a separate wreck in Hammonton, New Jersey, when a Reading express train collides with a vehicle. Italian victims reported.
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