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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jan 03, 1910
Page
9
Charles W. Morse left New York bound for Atlanta to begin a 15 year federal prison term. He spoke little, denounced the verdict, and urged support for a new trial. his wife planned a petition drive while Morse's sons said goodbye amid photographers.
New York mayoral winner Caynor announces names for key posts including top aides and department heads. Officials vary across city agencies as the new administration outlines its staffing plan.
New York January report shows Mayor Gaynor releasing his early appointments and detailing relations with Charles F. Murphy of Tammany Hall. He notes Murphy urged “best men” but offered no demands, and reflects on public perceptions of Murphy while hinting at further appointees and biographical notes.
A life saving crew rescues twelve persons after they are manoo ned and in danger at sea. The boat is dispatched to assist and brings all twelve to safety with no reported injuries.
Great stretches of roadbed washed away between Los Angeles and San Bernardino. Trains stalled at Indio and along the Salt Lake Santa Fe route with widespread isolation. A Venice life-saving crew rescued twelve marooned people on a flooded riverbank aided by Mrs. Henry T. Gage at the Gage ranch.
Special Dispatch reports two missing freight brakemen John E B Woods and J E Snyder appeared at Nihil five miles east of the wreck site today. The freight engine and caboose were shoved down the track a mile and a half by the collision with the passenger engine. Six brakemen walked to Nihill and telephoned today. Testimony before the coroner's jury said No 44 should have been held at Judith Gap and the extra freight was reported on the siding at Oxford.
Salt Lake City Jan. 2 The Los Angeles limited went west over the Southern Pacific today and will be rerouted until the washouts on the San Pedro Los Angeles and Salt Lake line are repaired General Manager R B Wells is at the washout scene It is reported that 1000 feet of track and two bridges have been carried away and restoration may take a week
Baltimore, January 2. With the arrest today of Charles W. Gruber and John K. Kenney seven men are now in custody charged with complicity in attempts to destroy a Baltimore and Ohio railroad bridge. Gruber’s house yielded dynamite. Kenney, 17, claims he was the tool of others and says he threw a brick bat during the machinists strike that fractured the skull of Frank W. Wilger, a company watchman.
A mass meeting at Carnegie Hall chiefly of women denounced city magistrates for bias against strikers. The shirtwaist workers and suffragette leaders condemned magistrates as instruments of persecution sending innocent young women to the workhouse for trivial causes. Mrs. H. P. Belmont attended with society women. Miss Anne G. Morgan held a box.
Special Dispatch reports ZechariAh Jacobson of Victor missing after attempting to drive a bull across the Bitter Root river. A 50 man posse has searched the riverbank and dynamited along the flow since Thursday. hopes of finding him alive faded by tonight. Jacobson, 75, settled in the Bitter Root valley in 1868 and leaves a daughter in Minneapolis.
Agnes Booth a renowned actress and wife of Tremont theater manager John B Schoeffel died in Boston aged 63 after nearly a year with heart trouble Born Mary Agnes Land Rookes in Sidney Australia she debuted as a dancer and rose to leading lady with Edwin Forrest She married three times with husbands Harry Perry Junius Booth and finally Schoeffel in Boston
In the Irish Channel a fog collision between the British steamer Ayreshire bound for Durban and the Arcadian heading to Glasgow sank the Arcadian in five minutes. Twelve lascars drowned after returning to recover their money. Ayreshire with 200 passengers was badly damaged but towed to shore by tugs.
William A Monnish formerly a prominent Atlanta physician living in San Francisco for months was found dead in his hotel suite with an empty chloroform bottle by the bed and a half full bottle in his hand. Police cannot determine if death was suicide or accidental overdose. He mourned his wife’s death last year and leaves a 13 year old daughter. he was 48.
Charles W. Morse the convicted New York banker on his way to Atlanta for a long sentence spent 15 minutes in Washington. He refused to see anyone at the station and no personal friends were present. A large delegation of newspaper men met him at the train and those who found the stateroom were denied admission.
National figures answer Bruce Barton questions for the Plymouth league at Oak Park Congregational church. Vice President Sherman says Jesus spirit grows in all life and being a professing Christian is not a disadvantage. Gifford Pinchot calls faith a source of confidence for public leaders. Speaker Cannon also affirms the trend.
William J. Bryan arrived today on the steamer Magdalena and immediately boarded a train for Panama.
Report says a motorman died in a collision near an electrified line. Details remain unclear as authorities reveal a hidden death near the scene.
Jesse T Pecht alias Edward B Russell a street car motorman from Somers Montana dies after colliding with an interurban on Kentucky avenue in Indianapolis He revealed his real name to the hospital saying Tell my folks at Somers Mont The incident uncovers a past tied to a St Louis affair and a Pennsylvania childhood with a chambermaid named June Wood who knew his real name and heard his motive for changing it.
A local council advances a resolution with no opposition recorded. The motion names the conference committers and sets the procedural steps for the measure's adoption without scheduled dissent or debate.
Great Falls Mill and Smelter Men union members report from Butte conference where Western Federation of Miners resolutions call for immediate resumption of switching and handling of ore trains in Butte Great Falls and related yards. Judges named for referendum on adopting these resolutions.
Special Dispatch notes J P Pecht once a Somers farmer and mail recipient is known at that place but his current whereabouts are not yet confirmed by late tonight information.
Two American congressmen were refused service at the Plaga hotel bar in Havana. They returned with a crowd of hundreds, triggering a riot that ended with police intervention and several injuries. Two Americans were arrested amid anti American sentiment suspicions.
In St Louis Archbishop J. J. Giennon learned that unopened gift boxes from his jubilee celebration contained 144 pictures valued at 25,000 dollars. The gifts, copies of Tisset’s Bible studies of New Testament characters, were presented by Herman C. Layties, a wealthy chemist, and had sat unopened in his basement.
Westbound Gold State limited on the Rock Island railway derailed after tracks were sprung apart by a blown cylinder head. The train fell 10 feet down an embankment at Mi nooka Illinois. No one was killed and few were hurt. The locomotive cylinder head failure caused the rails to separate and the crash occurred with the train traveling about 50 to 60 miles per hour.
Two earth tremors were recorded in Kingston Jamaica today January 2. They were of slight intensity and caused no damage or alarm.
New York on January 2 Morris Nathane son a real estate holder and cloth manufacturer was found dead in the loft of his factory bound hand and foot the loft filled with gas no marks of violence the coroner questions whether a man with only one free could tie the knots Isaacl Nathane his partner was arrested amid conflicting stories of last night and ongoing police inquiry
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