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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Oct 06, 1911
Page
2
The government report from Washington shows a record cotton crop with ginning far advanced. William S. Lewis, a longtime White House mail clerk for 35 years, died in Washington at 86. he served as Lincoln’s bodyguard during the Civil War.
The Johnson Wells title bout scheduled for October 2 in London was canceled due to opposition from authorities and strong public sentiment. In Albany Governor Dix urged repeal of the Frawley Boxing law while Senator Frawley vowed to oppose any repeal with full effort.
Spertinge Governor Dix urges the immediate repeal of the Frawley boxing law in a special message to the Legislature. With new grounds, Cincinnati will have a spacious field permitting home runs to any part of the park, and seats for the first two World Series games are selling fast in New York and Philadelphia.
The Nassau Boulevard aerodrome event closed on Sunday after nine days of aviation activities. The meet incurred about $20,000 in losses and featured pilots including Cromwell Dixon, who died during an Spokane fair exhibition.
News roundup covers Taft finishing his Iowa tour with a speech at Ottumwa. Also reports aviation, railway, weather, health, and obituaries including a German aviator’s death, bubonic plague case in Seattle, and a Nebraska ex congressman’s death at sea.
Williamsport Pennsylvania reports Bayless Pulp and Paper dam failure near Austin Potter County after heavy rains. Revised death toll 150 to 200, property loss about 5 million dollars. Costello below Austin wiped out. Warning by a bicycle workman saved some lives as relief began with Red Cross aid and a 15000 dollar fund. District Attorney probes dam break and 300 townspeople perish estimate by Chief Baker.
Flood relief supplies are abundant for women and children as state troops guard wreckage and oversee rescue and distribution. About 500 workers search for victims, with around 100 bodies recovered, many mangled by flood debris and collapsing buildings.
Tokyo dispatch via Kokumin claims the US obtained a secret treaty and perpetual lease on 50 000 acres near Harbin after failed Manchuria attempts. Land to be developed by International Harvester Co according to the despatch. Also noted is a $2 000 000 damages suit against United Shoe Machinery Co by Goddy Sons Metal Fastening Co trustee.
President Taft sent telegraphs of sympathy to Pennsylvania mayors and directed the Acting Secretary of War to dispatch an officer to assess federal aid. He also communicated with Red Cross head Miss Mabel T. Boardman offering organizational assistance for relief.
Rear Admiral Winfield Scott Schley, famed for the Santiago battle and Greely relief, collapsed outside the Berkeley Theatre Building in New York from a brain blood vessel rupture. He died after medical aid and was mourned by family including son Captain T. F. Schley and daughter Mrs. R. M. Wortley.
Abraham Lichtenstein treasurer of Lichtenstein Millinery Co pled guilty to undervaluation and conspiracy counts in two indictments. Judge Hough sentenced him to four months on Blackwell's Island and a nominal $1 fine, identified as the principal in the Sleeper Trunk smuggling mystery.
Dr Homer J Webber admits killing his wife Bessie Kent after a police interrogation and noting he lacked his preferred drug. Kent had married him a week after his union with Zoe Varney, a second wife, in January. Kent knew of the other marriage but urged only a later divorce.
Cromwell Dixon, famed for the first Rocky Mountain crossing by air, is killed in Spokane when his aircraft veers into a vertical air current and plunges. He nearly righted the plane within 100 feet of the ground but could not recover.
E Alan Earle, a Calley Run farmer, mourns as floodwaters sweep Sinnemahoning Valley and Austin. His brother drowns. later the body is found hanging from a tree, a grim scene witnessed by Earle during a lone vigil through the night.
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