Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1909-01-21
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Happenings Of The Country Boiled Down
For The Busy Reader.

George Pugh, ticket agent for the
Southern Railway, at Danville, Va, is
missing, and simultaneously with his
going 81, 300 of the company's cash dis
appeared. Same old story of another
good man gone wrong.
Twenty persons were killed and thirty
injured, many of them seriously, in a
head-on collision between a freight and
passenger train, on the Denver and Rio
Grande railroad, near Glenwood Springs,
Colorado, on last Sa urday morning.
Owing to the mutilated condition of
eight of the victims, recognition was
impossible. These were all women and
children.
Eiihu Root, Secretary of State in
President Roosevelts cabinet, was on
yesterday at noon elected United States
Senator from New York to succeed Sen
ator Thomas c. Platt, whose term of
office expires March 4th next. The
Democratic members of the legislature
cast their votes for Lewis Stuyvesant
Chandler, who was the Democratic can
didate for governor at the November
election.
Charles Gillespie, colored, who on
Sunday morning, the 10th instant. at
tackled and cruelty beat Miss Marie
Stumpf, a prominent young lady of
Richmond, Virginia, while she was on
her way to early mass at the Catholic
cathedral, was found guilty of attempt
ed assault by jury sitting in the hust-
ings court at Richmond on last Satur-
day, and he was sentenced to die in the
electric chair on February 10Th.
Mrs. William X. Thaw, mother of
Harry Thaw, is preparing to make
vigorous fight for the release of her son
from the asylum at Mattewan, when
argument as to his sanity is brought up
in New York again, which will be in a
short time. Justice Tompkins, of the
New York court, has ordered that
hearing be given Thaw as to his sanity.
and the mother is leaving no stone un-
turned 10 the hope of being able to Sc
cure the release of her son when the
time arrives for hearing the case.
After reviewing the evidence for
twenty-five hours and taking fifteen
ballots before all were agreed, the jury
IN the trial of Thornton J. Hains on last
Friday afternoon found the prisoner not
guilty as a principal with his brother.
Captain Peter C. Hams, Jr., in the kill
ing of William E. Annis, the magazine
writer, at the Baysjde Yatch Club.
Flushing, N. Y, several months ago.
Spectators applauded vociferously when
the verdict was announced. Captain
Hains will be tried in March next.
During the past six months the New
York city postoffice handled lO1, S51, 766
pounds of mail, almost six million of
which was local business. A commits
sion has been appointed to consider
means for relieving this congestion, and
making the facilities for handling mail
unsurpassed in the world. The amount
of mail handled in this one office equals
that of the states of Alabama, Arizona.
California, District of Columbia, Flori-
da, Georgia, Kentucky. Louisiana,
Maryland, Mississippi. Nevada, New
Mexico, North Carolina, Oklahoma,
South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah,
Virginia, West Virginia and Wyoming.
After lying buried in the ruins of
the American consulate at Messina
for three weeks, the bodies of Mr..
and Mrs. Arthur S. Cheney, have been
recovered by a detachment of sailors
from the battleship Illinois. The bodies
were lying side by side, and there is
every reason to believe that death over
took the unfortunate couple while they
were asleep. AS soon as the bodies
were recovered, they were placed in
caskets, wrapped each in al American
flag, after which American sailors bore
them to the ship Culgoa in the harbor.
AS they made their way through the
ruined streets, Italian soldiers and sail
ors saluted and the people took off their
hats.