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Newspaper
New Castle News
Location
New Castle, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 01, 1908
Page
17
James McAleer, St. Louis manager and winter resident of Youngstown, aims to buy an Interstate league franchise. He would transform Youngstown with polo ties, claiming access to top polo players if he secures a team. He has long sought a sale but no managers have agreed.
Dr T W Douglas presiding elder of New Castle district sets second quarter appointments for Methodist conferences. Readings list Grace church New Bedford East Croton Mount White Chapel Mercer Sheakleyville Fallowfield Mills West Mechanicsville Simpson Hillsville Wesley West Mahoning Oakland Avenue Sharon Charleston First church Newad Italian mission Epworth March 1. Politicians in Mercer predict revival will influence local option legislative contests and candidate selection.
Court last night considered The Good Roads Company versus Union Township supervisors. The case was withdrawn from the jury and continued this morning amid questions over the correct corporate name. Arguments on the objection will be heard in February.
Lawrence County Poultry Association opens its annual show at Masonic Hall near Love and Blogown's drug store this morning with over 1 000 entries. Birds from across the country are exhibited and organizers promise a big event lasting through Saturday night.
The jury ruled in favor of Sebastiano against Antonio Musamando this morning, awarding $867.75. The case concerned funds paid on a property deeded to the defendant, who is the plaintiff's father in law, with claims that payments were misdirected or made to the wrong party.
Deputy Sheriff William F. Douds began his 26th year of service at the courthouse this morning marking 25 years since he first assumed official duties as sheriff. He continued in the deputy role after his term and has served ably under successive sheriffs. Friends called in to wish him a Happy New Year.
Quick action by an engineer on the Bessemer and Lake Erie railroad stopped passenger train No. 15 after encountering a partial landslide near Muddy Creek seven miles south of Butler. The engine halted just as the crew spotted an obstruction in darkness, avoiding a wreck.
Laborers drain the Lampblack swamp to locate identifying clues as Prosecutor Vickers reviews possible leads. A Camden woman described as the victim has been missing since Christmas morning and may have met a man in Jersey City. details withheld pending investigation.
Frank McClain a Reynolds street resident and tin mill painter collapsed with paralysis Wednesday around 9 am while crossing the railroad tracks on South Mill street. Bystanders aided him, Suttons ambulance took him home.
A pet crow alerted Herman Enfeldt’s son Carl in Troy Hills New Jersey. Carl, hanging by a wall crevice after a tumble, was found unconscious with a trapped foot. The crow’s alarm and the boy’s rescue prevented a fatal outcome, doctors say.
County commissioners on Tuesday appointed Joseph W. Stritmater as mercantile appraiser for the coming year. The well known real estate agent brings long mercantile experience to the post and will begin duties immediately. retiring appraiser William Crawford served acceptably in the past year.
Elzie W Brothers lifelong city resident and Bell Telephone solicitor died Tuesday night at 11 at 111 Butler Avenue from typhoid fever contracted a month earlier. He was 28 years old and survived by wife Edith and two daughters, his parents J W and Mary E Brothers, and four sisters. Funeral Thursday at 2 pm at the family home with interment at Valley View cemetery.
Patrick Boyle a longtime Lawrence county resident and Civil War veteran died early Wednesday at Shenango Valley hospital after a year of ill health and six weeks of uraemic poisoning He served in the 28th Pennsylvania cavalry and later ran a hotel He survived by six children and his wife who had died earlier Funeral services are Friday at 1 pm at the residence of his son Thomas L Boyle Shenango House 26 West Washington Street Eastbrook United Presbyterian Cemetery will receive the interment.
Friends gathered Tuesday afternoon at 2 30 for the funeral of Philip Kerber held at the family residence 111 East Sutton Street. Rev J H Miller of St John Evangelical Lutheran church conducted the services with interment at Oak Park. Pallbearers were Frank Young William Knobloch William Hess Alva Wescott William Boal and Chris Conzett.
Mr and Mrs Louis Barth of Morehead avenue mourn the death of their six year old daughter Elsie Margaret after a prolonged illness from mumps. The infant child of Mr and Mrs Nicholas Julio died at the Sheep Hill home, aged one day, with funeral set for 3 pm Wednesday at St Vitus cemetery.
Pittsburg Pa January 1 a New Year's downtown fire caused about 150000 in damage and threatened an entire city block before city firefighters contained it after three hours. The blaze started on the top floor of a nine story brick building owned and occupied by the Excelsior Casket company makers of caskets and coffins.
Harry Thaw led New Year celebrations at the Tombs prison as inmates banged tin pans and blew horns for about fifteen minutes after midnight. Thaw, a Pittsburg millionaire awaiting his second trial for the Stanford White killing, electrified the scene with a loud horn blast.
New York widow Elizabeth Brown arranged to have her husband's body exhumed and photographed after three weeks in the grave. The plan yielded a picture of the departed, since Brown had never previously had a portrait taken.
In Georgetown Kentucky Major Owens opens for Caleb Powers as Judge Morris reopens session to complete speeches this afternoon. Owens condemns key witnesses Youtsey Noaks and Golden, likening their confessions to Judas Iscariot. The packed courtroom sees Powers surrounded by family as the case heads to the jury either today or Thursday morning.
Philadelphia banker Robert Holmes Page saved his two small children during a house fire at Mount Airy early today. He secured a ladder, reached a second story window, and carried the children to safety as flames closed in. The Page family was in Philadelphia until late. property loss is about $50,000. Page is the son of financier Harlan Page.
In the Pittsburg district the only United States Steel mill resuming with assurance of permanent operation is the New Castle plant. It will supply tin bars for several plants of the American Tin Sheet and Tin Plate company. Officials have not officially announced it but expect other tin plate mills to resume around January 6.
The Queen Eleanor reached New York with three Chinese crew members in irons as twenty others demanded Havana shore leave. The mutiny plan threatened to slaughter chief officers but was halted before escalation. The ringleaders were secured and discipline imposed to prevent violence.
Chicago January 1 report says Miss Marjorie Allen daughter of a millionaire manufacturer has given her hand to Count Eberhardt Von Moltke a grand nephew of the famed German field marshal in a cable to the Tribune.
Fire in Philadelphia today gutted the Kerr Saylor and Company carpet makers and the Pennsylvania Gas Fixture Company building. One death occurred as J. C. Hoagland, owner of a nearby livery stable, died of heart disease while moving horses to safety. Property losses reach $150,000.
Fifteen passengers were injured when the Pennsylvania Railroad express from Buffalo to Philadelphia wrecked at Montandon, ten miles west of Sunbury, as it neared the scheduled Philadelphia arrival at 7 32 this morning. The train left Buffalo last night and was due in Philadelphia early today. Some injuries described as serious were reported.
Fire tore through a crowded flat on a San Francisco street early today. Louis Sigone jumped from a window, suffering minor injuries.
New Castle lodge no 404 elects officers for the term with William H Fox as Co C Harper Dick as V C Archie Gordon as M of W Frank Weir as Prelate Craig Steen as M at A J Howard as Inside guard Z C Amon as Outside guard Archie Gordon as Trustee and William J Moffatt as Pythian home representative. Robert Blum lodge names O H Heasley V C L B Nail M of W A O McFadden M at A C S Parker Prelate Herman Heas Inside guard L E Pyle Outside guard James Frazier Trustee Herman Hess Henry Dresser as Pythian home rep William J Clappie as Outing assoc.
New York detectives and relatives search hospitals and river fronts for Elvira Pescia a 22 year old daughter of a wealthy former Italian government official after she writes a suicide note saying she is tired of life and seeks oblivion. Family finds no known love affair.
Real estate owners and saloon men in Birmingham lament the ban on saloons at the new year. Rents drop up to 50 percent on saloon sites in the business district. Fifty counties close saloons. seventeen counties remain open for liquor sales next year. Fälle claim large liquor stocks stored in mansions.
A Kansas City electrician recalls a trainee who could climb a pole but froze at the top. He describes early belt use, a pole mishap with a missing ax, and a fall from a high truss over the Missouri River. The man later quit lineman work and entered the grocery business.
A local option meeting will be held Friday evening in a church at the corner of Mill Street and Reynolds Street. Residents are invited to discuss community matters and hear from local leaders.
For sale a team of work horses and a transfer wagon in good condition. Sold together or separately. Inquire at 229 Pittsburg Street. Union phone 487.
For Thursday and while they last we offer exceptionally good bargains in Ladies White Lawn and Silk Shirt Waists. The waists are as good in quality and style as any spring stock, but to avoid carrying them over we have marked them down about half or more, with many under half price. All are extra good values.
The News publishes a detailed roster of fire alarm boxes compiled by City Electrician W. 8. Devlin. The list cites locations across streets and intersections including Shenango Valley hospital, Central station East street, and box numbers from 8 through 512 with several named industries and blocks such as glass works, box factories, mills, and streets in the Shenango area.
In Beaver Falls on January 1, Mlle Claraete Carrinos entering a bear cage during a vaudeville act was bitten in the breast by one of the bears. Spectators, believing the attack part of the show, applauded loudly as the wound was inflicted.
Announcement says all American Sheet and Tin Plate company tin mills at New Kensington will start up in full around the middle of January. The move resumes production after a shutdown period and involves the entire New Kensington complex.
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