Monessen Daily Independent, The (Newspaper) - May 26, 1922, Monessen, Pennsylvania and Saturday Probably showers Little in MONESSEN BAllY INDEPENDENT VOLUME 20 NO 298 MONESSEN PA FRIDAY E VENING MAY 1922 TWO CENTS PER COPY Trio Ordered prom Seashore Colored Policeman is Murdered WASHINGTON COUNTY ASSEMBLY FIGHT STILL UP IN THE AIR Man Wanted In Connection With Murder i The Spring Song n Police of this and surrounding towns have been asked to fee on the lookout for Lewis CatHn a negro in the der of Richard Thomas a colored policeman at Washington Pa early this morning The officer was mating his rounds about midnight and stopped in the store of Sam Spiro at Forrest and Highland to chat with the proprietor and two customers Mr and Mrs Thomas Kantz who also reside in an apartment above the store i After they had exchanged ings Mr and Mrs Kantz left the store and entered their apartment Hey followed by the officer and just as he had stepped from the door of store two shots j were heard and the policeman mortally wounded on the steps Mr and Kantz hurried from their apartment andi found the officer ing on the doorstep dead a bullet having him on the chin and then taking an upward course into his brain It was first believed that the cer had committed suicide but an investigation showed that no shots had been from his gun and when Mr Kantz reported seeing Catlin waiting on the door steps of the store when they the building a was made for the suspect and it was found that he had mysteriously disappeared Catlin was well known to the dead officer having married las niece some years ago but the two have not been living together The dead man is survived by his wife ten children f Team A reorganization of the local ball dob was effected last evening which greatly strengthen the team where it was aad will give the starting out the season with two tories the Legion team has ed four successive defeats and on top of it all Lamey manager and coach tendered his resignation after the game with Charleroi It was accepted with much regret as it was through his good work that the boys did so well last year in the press League This action however really led to the reorganization and Scissors of Charleroi and minor league ferae Was selected and the job as manager and coach of the local Legion team His ity is too well known hereabouts to make any special mention but as ha has never managed a losing nation it is certain the wealth of material he will have to select from that he not start now In addition to himself he will bring with him three of namely bis old team Schaeffer and Protin a catcher and two Races at May sal trophy wiH toe competed for in a great racing daai at Uniontown Saturday r ers and all heavy titters With this additional ment made here this incident with the announcement It developed that a lease for the 1922 racing season had been secured upon the big Speedway plant at town by a group of Pittsburgh cap- and others interested in the automobile industry Seeing failure to race at under the old management these Pittsburgh man with Charles Johnson of town at their secured the lease for the preset season Conferences were held with of- of the American Automobile Association and the June was approved official sanction given by the Three A io the new leases of the speedway Details of the big racing meet wile be announced in the next day or two In the mean time entry blanks and telegrams have gona out to drivers all over the country and especially those at Indianapolis the big meet there on Decoration A large Donora Man Lost Lead In Re-count This morning for the fourth time since election day the winner for one of the places in the Republican nation for Assembly in the second dis- of Washington county has the lead to by 11 votes and this was followed by the official count which gave the nomination to Van by 20 votes Dr asked for a recount of the ballots in the Ellsworth district and on Tuesday an error in tabulation of this district gave him the lead again votes Van Voorhis -friends however were not satisfied and they in turn asked for a recount of two in Charleroi and after the recount had been made Van Voorhis wits shown to be in the lead by 5 votes the total vote in the district being 2707 for Voorhis and 2702 for Sprowle Dwight M Anderson attorney for Mr the court for n recount of the First and Fourth district of Donora and friends Donora man believe that a recount here will an error that will again give him the and nominal tion Air attorney has also filed exceptions with the court over the opening of the ballot from the Charleroi district claiming that the ballot were the proper jurisdiction since election dey Locals Lost Game Fatal Explosion fBr United Emporium Pa Hay reported killed in an explosion at the Powder plant near Aged Lady Dead of the entrants at -1 pens will be here for the June 17 and pitching j assurance to that effect having bolster the team considerably bcen in telegrams to those in- i in staging the Uniontown plenty of fight into the players as it will be necessary for body to hustle to hold their jobs which means a arach better brand of baseball and will give the local more their j This new combination will have j its initial workout tomorrow noon when it will play A3 i strong ents AT has gathered a goods team of ball players around himself morning and should make the Legion j 6 months aad team hustle for a win which the For the past years Mrs Burt cals certainly intend to do as they resided with her son in Latrobe to shake their Prior to that time she lived n Derry The game at p where the promptly and the usual charge will known Her husband oe ago aad children free So come ont Surviving are the the team as it is the desire drew Mrs the local fans winning Valley Mrs Stump At the home of son Burd on Irving avenue Harriett C at 6.30 years 36 combination that resulted Derry Emmett A in mating a team successful Arrest Suspect cf fee Infantry stationed at a discharged soldier Tis have been arrested in an slot to at he of ten 1 arrests under tlK of Caut I bars Mrs Beecher lessen and Mrs Mary the G A- R at Seventeen aad Funeral services will be held at 2 p -T- at the of ner Rev A Sharp fill L 4 in Unity at be ia a farther has Ban o the CEMETERY PATRONS to lie large of i an umpire at the hand no More orders for lot in f he Saturday to i cut Sexton RuIJi LOCAL MAN AND COMPANIONS BANISHED FROM SEASHORE ON CHARGE OF WOMAN In a poorly played game the local High school team met defeat at the of the High team last night at Page the game being called at the end of today Three packing the sixth inning en account of rain houses each containing three em- j with the visitors leading by a score of were 6 to 4 Mon City had batted in their ports indicate many others were in- half of the seventh inning scoring two: jared First aid trains were runs so heavy tSe contest and called and the score reverted to the of dynamite iri of inning were id have was on the mound for the up The occurred at the and although he was hit hard plant of the Powder at times he should have won his game twenty miles Irom here but for the ragged support of his First reports were that nine teammates The locals started off like killed and many Injured The ex- world beaters by scoring three rans plosion at today in their half of the first inning but after this McVicker the opposing Cher tightened up and bad little n keeping them from scoring John Belco of this city Herbert A Jacobs of Charleroi and Donald Cramer of after spending three days in the jail at Atlantic City were ordered out of the city yesterday when arraigned before Acting Recorder Joseph A Corio on a charge disorderly conduct on the complaint of a young Pittsburgh matron said to Sss Mrs Katherine The woman appealed to the At- City police that she had been hounded the three men on the entire trip and that she feared ly harm at their hands When brought the Acting Recorder they defense to offer and were found guilty and fined each sentences being suspended when they agreed to leave thp city and not return The woman's husband is ill in a sanitarium She is stopping at a boardwalk hotel Saturday according lo the police the young woman called up headquarters asked that detectives bs sent to her apartment Two men were dis- patched by Captain of Detectives I John Barnshaw The Pittsburgh visitor was in a highly nervous state and declared that she had met the three men in Pittsburgh and they had her to New York and then again to Atlantic City where she had fled in an effort to escape them The were taien into custody at a side avenue hotel on Tuesday and have been in jail since The woman would not go into court to press the case or probably the sentence of the three defendants i would have been more severe Both teams meet again noon st this after- New Cash Grocery Announcement is made in this sue of the Independent of the ing of a new cash grocery to be Enforce Curfew Br United Belfast May from II p m to 5 a today throughout the six counties Ulster Anyone out of doors between these hours most account jor himself or be locked up Following closely upon issuance of this order one was killed and known as the Westmoreland Cash Grocery and located at 265 known man was have been maker avenue The new beaten and thrown into the River went is under the ownership and There were foar incendiary fire Gary Optimistic United New York May am still an Judge Elbert H Gary I president of the American Iron Steel Institute declared today at the annual meeting of that organization i here today i even profitable business has been ahead of ns ail these years since i the armistice now we seem to be I nearer a realization Judge Gary beeped his hearers to appreciate the opportunity for j Pity the chronic blind deaf ana j foolish pessimist of the United States The country has not entirely passed from clouds of adversity however Gary said Certainly we are hitherto of governmental official dens be continued At wHl not soon be faily discharged Arrest a Mistake By United Press Paris May R Crane former American ambassador to China and authority upon the Near East laughed today wnes informed an order for his arrest and for 20 years on a charge of inciting U> riot bad been issued by the French government in Syria It's upon a with said Mr Crane who ha just returned from studying the Syrian problem Government officials here totaKy ignore the for Crane's arrest and he was out acd about a free man today Crane said that when he was ing Damascus bis automobile was foy x which gave him an enthusiastic feat he knew of no T May End Strife Accepts Apology By United i By ED L KEEN Press Staff Correspondent London May Britain day accepted and approved Lloyd George's for Genoa The overwhelming vote of dence which the little Welshman won flora the House of Commons dey afler minutes of brilliant oratory was reflected by public ion and press comment today The was 235 to 26 Attacks upon Lloyd and hi at the Genoa conference arc on party Knes The s after to itc word of the sian In civilization has nun another chance lo the ace at Tbe of all personal management of Peter toll erico a pioneer resident of this killed and four community who for the past teen years has been the progressive merchants and active business men Mr America came to this city 23 years ago and shortly after Tiis ar- rival he opened a store at 249 Schoonmaker avenue which he still operates He has gone through panics misfortunes of many kinds bat through agement the establishment has and he now comes forward with the announcement of the ing of his second store an ment that wJI scil fancy and im- ported for cash at prices that compare with the many chain sores that are springing up over the country Through special Mr will be able to secure imported at an exceedingly low and in ing for cash he can offer them to the at real Mr Americo a of the Board of Trade for years has an active vA worth io Iho and in charily etc moral t any worthy ard ho hat made a six Trial Hearing End W Va Mav A jury of twelve farmer folk lolled ia swivel chairs in John Brown's house today listening to final arguments in Blizzard's trial The evidence was closed Only the points of counsel remained to be heard Attorneys maintain arguments be concluded rn time for the case ty eo to the jury Sunday Ucn hours have been allotted to this purpose Found Mav s broker former member of the Consolidated Stock Exchange oe a charge guilty of in the first degree H- broker a week to cf crand s Tin yoa ran A May to the and fictional strife rendine and sooth taken here today member of tic the Insh S Arthur Gavan to present crisis Thr Irish called io explain fierce And Valera They were to assure British by part the By May were t prompt of war grafters arid rs an- and his delay war c of the today fraud 31 of end able thai fort it rij r JOTT war and it is g U will that Jay in not wtt j ar He i be Ten Killed fBr Ala Mpy Ten V ir jfi tbe the Iron TR let It a The been 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