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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Jul 11, 1913
Page
2
Washington dominates the week with major interest as foreign affairs loom large. Legislatures across many states stay busy crafting laws and weighing policy shifts while the week highlights lights and shadows in the news environment.
Mt Senate Democrats seek to bind their caucus on the Tariff bill as debate in the Senate opens Monday July 14. The Interstate Commerce Commission ruled Panama Railroad officers and employees are government workers not eligible for free passes on other lines. Secretary Daniels allows a woman in Kittery Mo to drive a cow to her summer home across the Portsmouth Navy Yard once annually.
Lady Camoys gave birth to a son in London and both mother and child are healthy. Ex King Manuel of Portugal plans to wed Princess Augustine Victoria in Sigmaringen, Germany, on September 3. Miss Jessie Wilson and Francis B. Sayre annou ncement signals a high society match. Vincent Astor plans a new yacht twice the size of Norma and larger than J P Morgan’s Corsair.
Sporting star Jean Bouin ran a one hour race in Stockholm covering 19021.90 meters to beat Alfred Shrubb’s prior record by 307 yards. Willie Ritchie stopped Jose Rivers in San Francisco to claim the world lightweight title. Jet Davis pitched a no hit game for the Columbus Club against Indianapolis. Only three NL teams Giants Phillies and Brooklyn show big earnings while Pittsburgh gate receipts fall.
A wide garbled digest lists drownings and accidents from Albany to Warren, Pittsburgh to Brooklyn, including drownings at a family dispute, lightning deaths in Marysville and a Yorktown Heights murder, riots in Hell town, and a behead of labor strikes. Other items note war secretary actions, naval costs, saloon crackdowns, and canal gate operations.
A ragged summary of violent events spans leagues from Canada and Portugal to Cuba and England. Reports note fires in Earlton and Avradanovkio in Russia, a bomb killed a child in Lisbon, suffragette arson and protests in Britain, legal shifts barring women from law, and a Washington statue unveiling in Argentina.
A massive bank collapse centered on the First Second National Bank in Pittsburgh, with deposits over $32,000,000, prompts closure orders by federal and state authorities. The linked failures include the First National Bank of McKeesport and Amherst Bank Company, Ohio, all controlled by the Kuhn interests, tying up about $115,000,000 and stretching to related holdings such as American Water Works & Guarantee Co with $74,000,000 in capital and extensive utilities and coal operations.
London jury in the Probate Court found that Lady Sackville will receive about 5 million dollars from the late Sir John Murray Scott. The verdict cleared her of fraud and undue influence claims. Executors sought probate for the will which included Paris property and an estimated 2.5 million in cash, opposed by Donald Malcolm Scott for the Scott family.
Frederic C. Penfield of Philadelphia was nominated by the President as Ambassador to Austria Hungary. The nomination follows prior fundraising support for Woodrow Wilson and Penfield testified before the Senate campaign committee amid scrutiny of liberal contributions.
Atlantic City, Mrs. Annie Chacano of 126 North Georgia avenue was brought before Recorder Keffer on a common scold charge after neighbors testified. Twenty residents appeared as court sent her to jail and warned that further verified accusations could lead to banishment.
Veterans from the 1860s gathered at Gettysburg for a unique reunion mixing humor and pathos. Tales included a Union prisoner hidden beneath a fallen Confederate guard during the march to the sea, exchanges of uniforms between Oregon blue and New Orleans gray, and odd coincidences like two John Carsons from Burlington in different states meeting by chance. A grandson of Francis Scott Key attended, and Captain W. H. Pleig of Texas, aged ninety, remains active in camp.
A Gettysburg reunion marks 50 years since the battle with blue and gray veterans embracing. Gray cavalry and northern veterans sing, while Mrs. Longstreet and General Sickles receive tribute. A South Carolina widow praises Sickles as veterans recall the fight.
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