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Newspaper
Bridgeport Evening Farmer
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
May 03, 1916
Page
3
Coroner John J. Wales conducts an inquiry into Mrs Colgan s death after a trolley car crash on July 27. Dr J Wigan son in law testified at the inquest that she never left the house after the accident and that injuries from the crash likely caused her death at 255 Barnum Avenue.
The New Haven road reports an 80 percent rise in delivery trackage in New Haven city and freight receipts now at a level far higher than a year ago due to embargo enforcement. Specific shippers face unloading delays, with cars used for storage and drastic action threatened if storage persists. Government embargoes extend to all freight tendered at origins, affecting coal, cement, timber, and other items, with detailed conditional allowances and exceptions.
Rev. Matthew Jankola pastor of St. Cyril’s Slavik church was stricken with a stroke during mass on April 23. He showed initial improvement but relapsed and is sinking, with Dr. B L Smykowski and Dr. Charles M Haskell in constant attendance since midnight.
Local merchants and property owners near Main and Congress oppose John Farrell's plan to move his saloon from 1312 to 1328 Main Street. The city condemned current property for Congress Street widening, prompting remonstrances filed with county commissioners. Signatories include Lyric Theatre manager and other local business figures. No commissioner decision yet.
Suits for damages totaling 30 000 filed against Connecticut Co after a December 25 collision that killed Alfred Camp. Arthur A. Greenhill of Stratford seeks 50 000, claiming the auto crossed trolley tracks at Stratford and Connecticut avenues when struck. Agia Cornhill and Ann Cornhill seek 10 000 each for serious injuries. Florence Camp, administratrix for Alfred Camp, seeks 10 000 stating Camp fractured his skull on impact.
Berlin holds firm on submarine warfare terms and argues no delays beyond the German reply. The State Department awaits Gerhard’s report as Berlin’s stance and William’s involvement shape the chance for immediate action or a diplomatic break.
A delivery wagon blocked Cannon Street near Howland Dry Goods. A sailor’s ball hit a horse, horse bolted down Fairfield Avenue toward Main Street. Frank Beebe, 93 Wood Avenue, leaped, grabbed the bridle, calmed and redirected the horse back to the dry goods store loading area. The wagon and horse escaped damage.
Isaac Pokras a 71 year old man from 56 Highland avenue testified this morning about a dress he sold to Mrs. William J. Osborne of 1091 Madison avenue. Mrs Osborne threw the dress at him and pushed him from the porch. A dispute over payment led to an alleged beating by William Osborne, who works on the fight gang at A T & S Co. He was fined $25 by Judge Wilder and appealed.
Harriet G. Northrop of Newtown directs her farm and house be sold to pay debts, monuments costing 150 dollars each erected over grave sites of husband and herself, with the remainder about 3000 dollars divided among the children of her deceased daughter Annie D. Lattin and her sons George and Chester P. Northrop.
Stratford May 8 At a special meeting the board of selectmen awarded the town tree spraying contract to ONeill and Bennett of Bridgeport and Stratford at 70 cents per tree for 500 to 600 trees. Bidders included A W Metzer of Hartford and Frost Bartlett of Stamford. The Stratford Methodist church parish meeting reported receipts of 3278.26 and expenses of 3208.43 with 23 in treasury. 300 members. Herbert Straut resigned as organist. Eula Toucey chosen as replacement and Elsie Nobbs as soprano. Christ Episcopal church planned a gate social at Red Men's hall to fund building. Subcommittee listed. Pay Henry Wells and Allan Wilson Pay will be May 13 at Tuttle's auditorium instead of May 6. A fire from a rubbish pile damaged Frank E. Conine’s roof by about 10 with Stratford Chemical department extinguishing it.
A public hearing on Dr. M. Cole petition to extend a spur track from the railroad 120 feet along Singer Avenue will be held by the Public Utilities commission in the common council chamber at 10 o clock tomorrow morning. Cole seeks extending the track the full length of Singer Avenue and plans a large steel and concrete freight shed.
Major Harry H. Bandholtz of the Thirteenth Infantry will command this year's Plattsburg business men's training camp at Plattsburg New York. He is a well known officer with a noted career in the regular army and the Philippine constabulary. As last year, prominent Americans will enroll in the course.
New York May 3 copper demand rises as Anaconda Copper Mining Company reports higher sales across metals. 1914 sales were 36,475,559 with total revenues of 54,377,000 and a 6,778,000 surplus. 1915 figures climb to 61,478,677 in sales, 87,387,000 in revenues and a 15,052,000 surplus.
Frederick Broadhurst three years old was struck by a moving passenger train on the New York New Haven Hartford line in New Canaan Connecticut. He suffered scalp wounds and superficial injuries but is believed to have serious internal injuries and was taken to a Stamford hospital. Meanwhile four thousand more International Harvester workers in Chicago joined the strike, bringing total strikers to eleven thousand.
Obituaries for Margaret E Ryan, Frances H Cunningham, Michael P Cavanaugh, and May Price, with funeral details and survivors. also Baltimore Smelting & Rolling Co workers gain eight-hour day. and half million rifle cartridges seized by U S troops at Laredo Texas.
Friends of Katherine M. E Stewart learned she married Warren W Johnson in Miami Florida on April 22. Johnson, formerly an employee of T. L. Watson & Co, was once married to Attorney Jesse E Stewart who left the city years ago and is now believed to reside in Montana. This marks the first public knowledge of their divorce.
Directors declare an extra dividend of one half percent on common stock in addition to the regular quarterly dividend of one percent. The company has paid four percent since 1909, after earlier rates of 5 to 7 percent. Other items mention May Day unrest in Germany, ship replacement plans, and obituaries notices for Mary T Black, Mary McCabe.
Brief notes report a fourth Russian troop contingent reaching Maréeilles France, Spanish revolutionary activity stirring government worry, Butler Bros stockholders approving a capital increase to 15 million, and a German Red Cross appeal rooted in the Philadelphia bazaar. Also noted are a 277 year old Bible sent to Tonawanda New York, wage hikes for 1800 workers at Chalmette Louisiana, a lost Greek ship from New York two months past, blockade clashes over German origin foods, Rock Island Arsenal workers threatening strike, Republican convention ticket demand, speculation on a third party centered on peace prosperity and pork, fashions of riding breeches in women’s athletics, nationwide tuberculosis fight, urban auto sales myths, and a complaint about a $7 111 074 printing bill.
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