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Newspaper
New Castle News
Location
New Castle, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 18, 1908
Page
1
Rebels gain control of Tabriz as Rachin Khan's forces retreat amid a general uprising. Houses of shah supporters are sacked and inmates injured while mobs hunt down stranded soldiers. Reinforcements are expected and a counterattack may follow.
Capt M 8 Marquis Robert M Hainer J J Asenhurst from New Wilmington and James Peebles from Harlandsburg returned Friday from Columbus Ohio where they served as delegates from Lawrence at the National Prohibition convention. The Pennsylvania delegates wore novel badges a ribbon with a water wagon top and an old oak bucket bottom.
Police received notice Saturday morning to watch for two 17 year old boys from Morganza reformatory Edison Magee and Earl Madison who have escaped from the institution.
Early morning reports claimed the Royal Blue limited train was held up at Edenburg. Investigation shows no robbery occurred. Rail workers explain a hobo boarded and reboarded the train, prompting rumors the train was stopped for an escape at New Castle Junction.
Lady stenographers in the city move to form an association excluding men. A meeting in the Jackson block discussed organizing, with another session next Friday to elect officers and finalize plans. A committee will interview local stenographers to join the group.
More than 200 Glidden automobile tourists arrived in Boston and plan a rest day. The tour will resume Monday morning with a stop scheduled at Holland Springs, Maine.
District No 4 Hickory Scott Washington and Plaingrove Townships names listed include Miss Katherine Evans Miss Bessie McMullen Miss Blanche Brown with heavy OCR fragments and district counts such as 18 685 18 631 17 160 and others across districts 3 5 6 7 plus entries for Miss Estella Allen Miss Florence McConaghey Miss Anna Medard and others as 4 078 appears at end.
District Attorney Charles Young returned from Franklin to state Ruth's tale of the Blevins murder is a fabrication. Ruth admitted the $7,000 bond delivery to Hugh Martin and kept newspaper clippings, spoiling any pardon chances. He faces trial in September for attacking and robbing Mrs. Eliza Copeland and locating $150.
New York dispatch reports "Big Tim" Sullivan and Bennie Lane intervened when an alleged affair was exposed. Lane reportedly attempted to shoot but was restrained. Mrs Elsie Lane, arraigned under a new infidelity law, admitted love for the affinity and sought divorce from Lane.
At Sagamore Hill a conference between Attorney General Bonaparte and President Roosevelt discusses possible federal action against the so called paper trust. Herman Ridder of the American Newspaper Publishers' Association had urged Roosevelt to seek a settlement, and the president redirected the issue to the attorney general for a course of action.
A public bet here set Taft’s election odds at 20 to 1. Both participants were Republicans and unseen government employees. Wagers ranged from $100 to $5.
State troops cavalry and infantry patrol Adamsville Jefferson Blossburg Pratt City and surrounding districts after a battle left deputy marshal Robert Gardner dead and a dozen miners shot. Strike breakers are escorted by guards as Gatling guns arrive and 500 deputies plus militia guard the area.
In Huntsville Missouri Beulah Carter testified that Thomas Bagby threatened her family prompting an unwritten law defense. The defense adds self defense claims claiming Bagby’s threats justified a deadly act on the Carter family farm. Carter remains jailed after preliminary hearing and will face circuit court.
Clayton Johnson a negro cook is being hidden after narrowly escaping a mob that wanted to lynch him for fatally wounding Albert Crawley a white man who asked for food. Sheriff Buchanan moved him from jail to save his life. Crawley said he chopped wood and asked for food when he grew faint from hunger before the shooting.
Harold Spee Barnett age 2, of La Throp Street, listed with Mrs. W. A. Elliott as guardian. Infant Sampson, 3 months, of 521 South Street. Martha Herberg, 39, and West William Sanford, 81, of Park Gate, noted among deaths in local notices.
The first car over the New Castle Ellwood end leaves Ellwood for a conference with railroad counsel J Norman Martin. Officials report roadbed and trolley wires ready for operation with hourly service to start next week and a half hour schedule planned later. The News verified the line from Butler Evans City to Ellwood City is uninterrupted and ready.
A saloon keeper lost 19.80 after cashing a forged check bearing J Ed Mc Williams. A smooth stranger circulated a story at the St Charles hotel and Wash ington street bar, then disappeared after the bank revealed the fraud. Police seek the currency thief rumored to frequent the Seventh ward.
South Norwalk, Conn. Miss Jennie Burchard, daughter of wealthy New York importer Boardman Burchard, faced two burglars alone at her father's house. She fired a pistol shot over their heads and threatened to shoot to kill, sending the men fleeing.
A second appeal was filed today by Attorney Colonel O L Jackson to the supreme court of Pennsylvania regarding the damage case of Fred Wallace of the Seventh ward against the Pennsylvania Railroad. Wallace was awarded about $14,000 by Lawrence county court after a prior trial and a subsequent retrial yielded a slightly larger verdict for the plaintiff.
James Raikes fell forty feet from the top of a blast furnace in Youngstown and landed in a pile of iron ore. He suffered severe injuries and died shortly afterward.
New York merchants plan nationwide newspaper opposition to a proposed rise in freight rates east of the Mississippi and south of the Ohio. The move draws political pressure, Sherman Law potential prosecutions, and a push by Indiana manufacturers to resist the Central Freight Association plan. A broad conference of shippers from across the country is expected to rally against the railroads before the election.
After a scolding from her mother Anna Dupley of Sharon aged 16 swallowed concentrated lye and several matchheads. She is expected to recover.
Cardinal Gibbons, en route to New York for Europe, fears rising secular influences in the United States. He argues morality depends on religion and public schools, urged segregation of schools by denomination, criticizes electoral corruption, and expresses confidence in the people despite calls to revise divorce laws.
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