07 Jul 1913
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Newspaper
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 07, 1913
Page
1
Walter A. Knight brokered a peace that ends the ice strike with a pact valid until April 1, 1914. The Cincinnati Ice Delivery Company plans to resume service soon and return property to manufacturers. Delivery will be reorganized to serve suburbs and city customers.
Johannesburg July 6 The Rand strike settlement proved ineffective and mobs reassembled. Trains and streetcar service halted, newspapers stopped, and troops guarded the Rand Club amid new clashes. A vast majority favored the proposed settlement in a reefwide ballot.
Frank M. Gay, 21, from Ohio, was dragged from Palisade Amusement Park by a runaway dirigible. After a perilous 20 minute swim, he was rescued near Sands Point and recovered, while the balloon veered toward the Atlantic. The craft lacked engine or rudder and carried 7,000 cubic feet of gas.
Mrs Emmons Crocker of Fitchburg, wealthy patron of charity, sends her ailing Pomeranian Peter P Bouffles to the sea coast for recuperation. The dog, famed for daily rides in a private baby carriage, suffers paralysis but is cared for by specialists. Summer refuge at Oak Bluffs Martha's Vineyard.
Pittsburg Clearing House Committee met to save a troubled national bank. Pre government cooperation is planned and efforts to resolve the issue will continue. Bank doors are expected to reopen Monday with financial backing reportedly offered from 40 million to 200 million dollars.
After ten days of fierce fighting along the Vardar line and near Nish, about 200,000 troops clash with heavy losses. Bulgarian advances threaten Greek and Serbian positions, with reports of guns captured and refugees flooding Saloniki as 40,000 are killed or disabled and 4,000 flee to Nigrita.
Simeon Helfenstine, jailed for forging a $12,000 check, claims he killed Pearl Bryan in 1898 and six other Ohio victims from 1900 to 1910. He says accomplices William H. Jackson and Willing paid him $4,000, and that they died by the gallows without naming him. The police doubt his story as mentally deranged.
Chairman of the Citizens' Charter Committee, Joan E. Bruce, accuses Herbert B. Bigelow of demagoguery and inaction while praising Walter Knight for resolving the streetcar strike and aiding citizens. Bruce questions Bigelow's handling of the ice strike and child health during hot weather and urges focus on real deeds over talk.
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