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Newspaper
Long Branch Daily Record
Location
Long Branch, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1913
Page
2
The fragment discusses the blue laws of Connecticut attributed to a Lane Tory. It notes a 1781 publication titled History of Connecticut that allegedly set forth these laws, but claims the laws were fabrication. The text touches on honey and beekeeping as a contrasting aside.
In Passaic New Jersey on August 5 two women Rebecca Wilton and Anna Leake and man Abraham Wilton clashed with Detectives Hewes and Johns as police tried to break up a riot after a strike at 440 Main avenue. The two detectives were badly hurt and treated by doctors while arresting the trio.
Titusville New Jersey August 5 The thirteen year old George Hilderbrant Jr the son of George Hilderbrant Sr of New York City visiting his aunt and uncle John Hilderbrant disappeared after an argument with his aunt He was last seen walking along the path between the Delaware River and the canal and is feared to have fallen into the canal. His sister had recently run away prompting concern.
Utica on August 5 reports Miss Emma Be Krill a nurse formerly with Lying In hospital New York charged with murder in the death of Dr Stanley E Tron. Detectors traced the case to June 22 and an autopsy found morphine in the stomach. Krill fainted at arrest denying the crime while claiming the pair were happy and Tron planned to marry her.
A Peabody quote blames mine owners and an employee for waste while noting railroads as large coal users wasteful heat. It claims up to 70 percent wasted and only 380 percent utilized, then shifts to a light joke about a teacher advising a pupil to keep chin up in a Boston Transcript cartoon snippet.
In Fairview New Jersey on August 5 a man was found dead by a rope tied to a tree after a picnic. A letter in the pocket named Franz Moeller a former fireman on the steamship Phyliss of Lamaskrona and signed George Moeller first engineer. The body was sent to Fort Lee.
Acting Governor Fielder limped through the executive offices after injuring his left foot by stepping on a nail hidden in driftwood at Sea Girt. He dressed the wound and wore a shoe, with no serious consequences anticipated.
Colonel E B Balligan a noted northern New Jersey veteran and school instructor died at age 74 in Phillipsburg He is survived by a widow and a son Twenty Three Miners Trapped at Cadder Colliery Mavis Valley pit near Glasgow caught fire leaving twenty three miners entombed and hopelessly trapped.
Grand Forks North Dakota August 5 Mrs J Johnson and her infant son and W A Steward and his daughter Alice were drowned in the Red River of the North near Dayton North Dakota fifty five miles north of here when the automobile driven by John Anderson went over the river bank all four occupants were aboard Anderson and J Johnson swam ashore Weather forecast calls for fair today and tomorrow with light to moderate variable winds.
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