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Newspaper
Ashton Gazette
Location
Ashton, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1913
Page
2
Government figures show U S sugar imports for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1913 reached six and a half billion pounds, a new record. Broad coverage notes other items including a senate remark on trusts, crop reports, and federal funds for western banks to move crops.
Washington officials say no move on Mexico policy will occur until John Lind, President Wilsons envoy, studies the general situation. Reports say two American women and an unknown American man were killed on a rebels attacked train near Rancheria 65 miles from Juarez. Senator Clark criticizes the administration for not providing adequate protection to Americans.
The Balkan states signed a peace treaty at Bucharest. In honor, the city decorated with flags, guns fired, bells rung, and bands played. Four militant suffragettes attacked Medical Officer Pearson leaving Holloway jail. Arson squadi set fire to Sutton schoolhouses but saved them from destruction. Mme Crespy acquitted of murder in Agen. Dr Sun Yat Sen arrived incognito in Moji from Formosa and talked of options.
Personal Dr. Oliver Livingston Jones dies in a New York hospital from wounds of a safety incident. Judge George W. Hays is sworn in as Arkansas governor, succeeding acting Governor J. M. Futrell after months in office.
The Frawley committee report on Gov William Sulzer's career gains adoption by the New York Assembly with a call for impeachment. It accuses Sulzer of falsifying campaign records, diverting contributions to stock, and obstructing witnesses. The panel urges action by the legislature or other officers.
Governor Dunne outlines plans for an efficient, nonpolitical fish and game commission. Attending the conference were Judge J. B. Waugh, Henry Von Meeteran, and C. J. Ditmar. He cites past corruption, praises a 1913 investigation, and announces a consolidated, science-based reorganization with three named commissioners.
A mystery shooting at a West Side rooming house leaves one man dead and another fatally wounded as police arrest about a score of occupants. Dio C Moreno, 22, is held in connection with the murder of Anthony Pucca, 20, and wounding of David Cozza, 26, who shared a bedroom with Pucca.
Martin M. Mulhall began a second testimony before the House investigators, repeating Senate disclosures and urging a broad probe. The committee will examine congress members and public men named in Mulhall letters, including Richard Bartholdt of Missouri, over eight hour labor and anti pilotage bills.
The John P. Stevens Construction Company led by president John F. Stevens, once named chief engineer of the Panama Canal by Theodore Roosevelt, filed a voluntary bankruptcy petition in New York.
In Savannah on August 18 Recorder John E Schwarz fined Miss Bessie Carter fifty dollars for wearing a short skirt and low cut waist on the main shopping thoroughfare. Her escort Henry Smosk paid twenty five dollars.
In New York on August 13 the military guard at the body of Tancrede Auguste, late president of Hayti, fired at the cage instead of presenting arms, riddling it with bullets.
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