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Newspaper
Big Piney Examiner
Location
Big Piney, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1915
Page
2
Will Stanley, a Black man charged with killing the Grimes children on a Texas farm, was dragged from a courtroom and burned on the public square at midnight in full view of thousands. The mob cheered, and Stanley struggled as he was cast into the flames. A shot reportedly hit him as the crowd dispersed. Grimes and his wife remain unable to recount the events.
Two American sailors were killed in a nighttime assault on Port au Prince. U S sailors and Marines held the city with 400 men from the cruiser Washington. attackers were beaten back and no other sailors were wounded as order was restored.
In 1902 Daniel G Reid and William H Moore organized a three railroad pyramid to control the Chicago Rock Island Pacific system. On Friday the Rock Island railway was placed in receivership signaling a near collapse of the scheme.
The Missouri Pacific Railroad company filed suit in federal district court to declare the Nebraska 2 cent fare statute null and void and to enjoin the state railway commission from imposing penalties for violations.
Theodore Roosevelt, former president and Progressive leader, visits Salt Lake City and urges Utah Progressive leaders to sit tight until next year and work out their own salvation.
Eight men were killed and twelve injured at the Patterson mine of United States Coal company in Elizabeth Pennsylvania when a cable carrying a mine train broke. The cars plunged into workers gathered at the mine mouth.
The Rev. Gertrude von Petzold a Unitarian church pastor from Birmingham and known in the United States has been expelled from England by order of the home office. She had married in England eighteen years ago.
The receivership of Goldfield Merger Mines, a Washington corporation holding Nevada properties, was terminated by court order Friday in Seattle.
Wilmington Delaware The Hercules Powder Company announces wage increases for all employees who have served the firm for fifteen days or more, effective immediately, as part of a new personnel policy.
New Haven reports a new time schedule at the Winchester Repeating Arms plant reducing hours from 55 to 48 per week. The change affects workers at the factory in Connecticut with potential impacts on overtime and shifts.
Washington reports federal rules under the Harrison antidrug law now permit osteopaths to administer drugs in states where they are legally registered practitioners, expanding medical authority for osteopathic physicians.
In London reports the Norwegian steamship Trondhejemaljord was torpedoed and sunk Friday by a German submarine while the Belgian steamer Prince was sunk after striking a mine. The crew of Kotl vourcla were saved.
The Eastland steamer capsized while leaving the river wharf with 2500+ passengers from Western Electric and families aboard. As divers recovered bodies, rescue efforts continued amid crowds at the riverfront and improvised morgues in nearby warehouses.
Two hundred leading citizens of Baltimore and Maryland have organized the Maryland league for national defense. Included are three Court of Appeals judges bankers lawyers and businessmen.
An investigation into bribery charges from the March elections led to the arrest of K Hayashida, chief secretary of the lower house for twenty years.
A coroner jury in Chicago found six men responsible for the Eastland capsizing and urged grand jury action for manslaughter. The passengers were not blamed. the verdict cites improper construction and loading, and calls further probe into the boat’s management, construction, and the federal inspection system.
A. RK. M Hardington, longtime chairman of the A. A. A. content board and active head of the Lincoln Highway Association, dies early Wednesday in Detroit. He was widely known as a national figure for highway work.
The Italian government plans large purchases of American meat and grain to supply the army and navy until July 31, 1916 and also for public use.
Two masked men robbed an auditor aboard a passenger train near Fort Gibson. The incident on the Muskoges line disrupted service as authorities investigated the armed hold up and theft from the Louis, Ron Mountain and Southern line.
In Columbus Ohio ten thousand families in the Hocking and Sunday Creek valleys depend on outside aid for food. There is no airike in these districts, but most of the miners are out of work due to mine closures.
Toulon reports new French submarine and air base action on Lagosta island. Le Bisson crew reportedly demolished Austrian depots causing heavy losses with only one French casualty.
Chicago reporting on the Eastland disaster where Secretary William C. Redfield and a federal grand jury led investigations into the capsizing cause. Underballasting and improper water tank manipulation are suspected after witnesses and inspectors tease out ballast tank behavior and ship capacity.
Ossining New York Charles Becker was electrocuted at 5 45 Friday morning. He entered the death chamber with two priests and a litany. Before dying he signed a typed statement proclaiming his innocence and praising his wife Helen Becker, ending with Father I am ready to go.
John Surgun, a former Austrian soldier, died Thursday from wounds received after being shot during the oil strike riot at Bayonne. He was among the men attacked at the plant during the unrest.
A water main feeding Blaine from the reservoir on the international border was dynamited Thursday night, leaving the town of Bellingham area without adequate water supply.
Alameda resident Alameda Cal Fred Westphal son of a pioneer miller banished from his native town for life with three months in jail. Westphal departed Iowa following the sentence.
Dispatches from Petrograd indicate Russian armies may fall back to a new defensive line and evacuate Warsaw and Polish territories to avoid battle until organized and equipped. Critics say politics influenced the advance into Prussia and Galicia, with Germans poised to seize 50,000 square miles if evacuated.
Paducah Kentucky reports a massive civic effort as ten thousand volunteers pause their work at 6 pm Thursday, declaring the 150 mile interstate corridor between Paducah and Memphis fully advanced in its major features.
Rudolf Malik, an Austrian, arrested weeks ago for sending a threatening letter to President Wilson and a postal card threat to the Austro Hungary consul general, was acquitted by an instructed jury on grounds of temporary sanity.
A correspondent from Havre reports Germany has imposed a fine of 11 million dollars on Brussels for the destruction of a Zeppelin dirigible by Allied aviators at Ever. The news comes from Petit Parisien sources.
The chamber of deputies raised the defense bond limit to 1.4 billion dollars and the lower house appropriated funds for relief of populations in French districts invaded by the Germans.
Floods from two cloudbursts hit Rock Springs Tuesday flooding the business section and causing about 300000 in property damage. One man, Thomas Naker ie, is reported drowned in the disaster.
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