Ferry Disaster Drowns 24 Pittsburg Workmen
A gasoline yaw ferrying Me Kee's Rocks workers across the Ohio River from the Pressed Steel Car works sank after crowding beyond capacity. Twenty four men drowned as the boat overturned and sank mid stream near McKees Rocks. The day shift had worked overtime to meet rush contracts, prompting the anxious rush home.
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Pittsburg
McKeen Rocka
MeéKees Rocks
Ohio River
Passengger Car Department
McKees Rocks
Graham
Pennsylvania Malleable ‘Works
Mrs Mary L Dalzell Dies After Long Illness
Mrs Mary L Dalzell wife of Pennsylvania Representative Dalzell died in Washington DC after a long illness. Daughter of the late Professor Peter Duff founder of Mee business college idea in the United States. She married in 1807 and since 1887 has lived in Washington and was active in social, charitable and hospital work. Survived by husband four children including daughter Mrs George E Dunn and three sons William Pittsburg attorney Samuel private secretary to his father and Robert D a college student.
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Pennsylvania
Mary L. Dalzell
Dalzell
Washington, D. C
Peter Duff
Mee Business College
Idea
United States
Danzell
Ife
George E. Dunn
Colonel Dunn
U.S. A
William
Pittsburg
Samuel
Robert D
Colege
Puddler Becomes Rich After Saving Child in Philippines
Peter Renninger of Reading, a puddlier’s helper at Glasgow Iron’s mills in Pottstown Pa, quit his job and used his saved earnings to go to New York. A woman offered to pay him $36,000 for saving her daughter in the Philippines, after an attorney’s letter and a telegram spurred him to act. He told fellow workers he would not return to iron work.
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Philippines
Peter Renninger
Reading
Glasgow Iron Cmpany
Pottstown
New York
Ray
Enninger
Train Robbery and Wreck Cripple Washington Line
A freight passenger train between Colbert and Mead Washington is robbed and wrecked by bandits. The locomotive and mail car are separated from the train, looting occurs, and the engine is reversed into passenger cars. Conductor and another man place a tie on the track to halt the bandits flight but the cars are driven into the coaches, causing injuries to several passengers. The assault ends with a hazardous crash and disruption of service. An additional item notes a royal wedding in Abyssinia with young ages.
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Colbert
Mead
Washington
Veteran Jewel Presented to Henry G Davis at Elkins
Henry G Davie of Elkins W Va and Henry Gansaway Davis a former U S senator received honorary veteran's jewels at the Elkins opera house. Grand Master Jr Dallas Marsteller presented on behalf of Randolph Lodge No 116 I O O F in a ceremony witnessed by a large audience. Davis has been a member for nearly sixty five years as Judge Alston G Dayton spoke.
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Henry G. Davie
Elkins
Davis
Alston G. Dayton
Federal Court
Old Settler George T. Faris Dies at 93 in Bridgeport
George T. Faris aged ninety three died on his Bridgeport land once patented by his grandfather in 1785. He voted in eighteen Presidential elections and is survived by son Samuel S. Paris and daughters Mrs. John Dunkin and Mrs. Benjamin F. Bailey. His father served in the county legislature at Richmond and traveled the buffalo trail across the mountains.
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G. T. Faris
Bridgeport
George T. Faris
Samuel S. Paris
John Dunkin
Benjamin IF. Bailey
Richmond
Officers Break Up Battleship Ball in Donaldsonville
A social tangle arose at a Donaldsonville Mississippi ball honoring the visiting battleship Mississippi. With too few officers, jackies joined village girls in courting the dancers. Sailors were ordered out but followed by many girls who held a second ball in a nearby hall.
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Donaldsonville
Miss
Mississippi
Jackies
Posse Captures Thieves After Store Burglary
Two burglars are captured in New Bedford Pennsylvania after a telephone summoned posse surrounded W. B. Lowry general store. A shot through a window wounds Dr. L. L. Swagger while Mrs. Samuel Cover alerts neighbors. The thieves surrender and are kept under guard overnight.
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New Bedford
Lowry
Samuel Cover
Gliss
Farmara
L. L. Swagger
Taft Returns to Congress on Porto Rico Self Government
President Taft warns that Porto Rico has too much power vested in its island legislature and faults its lower house for failing to fund government. He says Uncle Sam gave too much autonomy and urges amending the enabling act to curb future refusals to cooperate with the executive council.
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Taft
Congress
Porto Rico
Jower
Uncle Sam
Red Cross inks for 600 designs for Christmas stamp
The Red Cross in Washington collects over 600 designs for a Christmas stamp to be used on packages and letters. An associate committee of artists will judge the designs and award $100, $50 and $25 prizes. Last year the stamp’s sales raised $128,000 for Red Cross efforts.
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Red Cross
Waehington
Free Cide For All Guizeha of Zoar Ohio cistern plan
Citizens of Zoar Ohio plan to clean an old concrete cistern in the village center with capacity about 100 barrels. They intend to fit it with a pump and allow public use for elder hex cidering season, reviving a facility once used during the Communist society era and later abandoned during hotel bar activity.
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Guizeha
Zoar
Ohio Civil War Veteran Pardoned after 31 Years
James Saunders alias William Glyndon, once a sharpshooter in an Ohio Civil War regiment, was pardoned by the Iowa governor and released from Grundy County penitentiary after 31 years for an alleged murder of a fourteen year old girl. He is seventy one, had a soldier's pension, saved 1800 dollars, and plans to seek relatives in Hagerton Ohio.
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Ohio
Iowa
Fort. Madison
James
Saunders
William
B. Glyndon
Grundy County
Sheppard Imposes Jail Sentences in Sherman Case
In Savannah Georgia Judge William B Sheppard overruled the defense motion in arrest of judgment and sentenced five men found guilty of violating the Sherman act to varying penalties. Spencer P Shotter chairman of the American Naval Stores board drew three months in jail plus a $5000 fine. Edmund B Nash president of the company was fined $3000. J F Cooper Myers vice president of the American company faced penalties outlined in the ruling.
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Savannah
William B. Sheppard
Spencer P. Shotter
American Naval Stores Company
Edmund 8. Nash
J. F. Cooper Myers
American Company
Presi
Notable fines handed to multiple defendants in transport company case
Carl Moller of Jacksonville Florida was fined four thousand dollars as agent and general manager of the American and National Transportation and Terminal company. George Mead of New York was fined two thousand dollars as treasurer of American Naval Stores. The case saw three months imprisonment for one defendant and a two thousand five hundred dollar fine for another, with bond set at twenty thousand dollars for all, and all released pending appeal.
Helen Finds a Friend Pittsburg Attorney Takes Up Case
Pittsburg attorney H Y Breck has joined the fight for Helen Boyle, sentenced to twenty five years for kidnaping Willie Whitla. He plans an appeal, alleging judge prejudice and possible Whitla family ties. Breck says he will present extensive evidentiary material for a review. He notes the judge spent a day at the Whitla home before sentencing.
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Pittsburg
Boyle
H. Y. Breck
Helen Boyle
Little Willie Whitla
Western Penitentiary
Breck
J. A. Willama
Whitla
Williams
Boyles
Sharon
Convention in August to set Pennsylvania primary slate
Democratic leaders meet in Harrisburg to arrange preliminaries for August nominating convention. The state convention will nominate candidates for justice of the supreme court auditor general and state treasurer. Date to be decided by the new executive committee at the July 21 Harrisburg meeting.
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Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
Supreme Court
State Central Committee
Body Found in Cellar After Wife Murder Arrest
In Zanesville Ohio General Means and another man killed his wife then died by suicide after his arrest on murder charges. The woman’s body was buried in the Means home cellar and she had disappeared last November. Meanwhile two girls Edith Ault seventeen and Caseball fourteen drowned at Hansford West Virginia when their skiff went over a government dam.
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Zanesville
General Means
Means
Hansford
W. Va
Edith Ault
Caseball
Government Dam
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