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Newspaper
New Castle News
Location
New Castle, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1911
Page
8
Paris dispatch reports Count Alexandre Tolstoy, nephew of Leo Tolstoy, admitting two unrecognized marriages and a 59,000 dollar settlement bid by Mary Frothingham. He says his marriage to Frothingham is the only legally binding Russian ceremony, per church law.
In Vancouver on June 3 United Press reports 8000 workers may walk out next Monday unless a compromise is reached. Carpenters machinists and bakers are already out. thirteen unions plan to join after tomorrow night for a closed shop. Printers and bricklayers await international approval. street car men and telegraphers vote referendum. If all strike, about 20 labor organizations affected.
William McNutt, famed for a safety gasoline can invention, was jailed at the Tombs and will begin a two years and six months sentence at Sing Sing for swindling John Wyatt of 3500 in a 1905 mining deal. He had been released on bail after conviction and later earned substantial royalties.
The Northwest, a million dollar passenger steamer operating on the Buffalo to Duluth route, lies at the bottom of the Blackwell canal after a fire caused by spontaneous combustion. Total damage is estimated at 750000 dollars. Fire was spotted by two watchmen at 4 30 a m before fire boats arrived.
A delegation of Scranton mining company representatives urged Governor Tener to veto the Catlin bill. It would allow municipalities in the middle coal field to regulate coal mining within their territorial limits. J. H. Torrey claimed 100 or more municipalities would pass ordinances, and noted a legislature created a commission to study mine cave-ins.
Sabario Zetelle, hurt at New Castle Junction when struck by a heavy wooden beam, was discharged from New Castle hospital. Also leaving today was Mr. Johnson of Forest Avenue, recently ill with typhoid fever, from the same hospital.
J L Rittenhouse sixty two retired Indianapolis man ended his life by hanging in his daughter’s home on Prospective avenue Ingram following the death of his wife a year earlier. He tied the rope to a bed post and swung to death. Mr and Mrs J P Sankey of Pittsburg visited Miss Grace Woodworth and Miss Helen Osborne hosted guests over the weekend.
One hundred dollar reward offered for an incurable catarrh case. F J Cheney & Co of Toledo certifies honesty and solvency through Walding Kinnan and Marvin wholesale druggists. Catarrh Cure taken internally, affects blood and mucus surfaces. Testimonials and price per bottle are noted. sold by various family pills brands for constipation.
Rear Admiral George W. Melville contends the battleship Maine was destroyed by an internal accident rather than Spanish action. He cites expert opinion and a 1902 letter, noting ongoing dives to confirm cause as pumping begins June 14 in Havana harbor.
The Stanley committee hears C Frick defend the T C I absorption as financial stability while Gary accuses it of masking losses. Subpoenas may branch to J P Morgan Henry Frick Cassleyard and others with Roosevelt Carnegie Root expected to testify.
Leon Von Wilhelm gave up an inheritance of 80000 in Prussia to marry his sweetheart in Vandergrift Pennsylvania and now has neither fortune nor fiancée. The girl married another, and the youth plans to return home confident his parents will forgive him once they learn she wed elsewhere.
A special meeting for men will be held at the Y M C A on Sunday at 3 PM. Attorney D N Keast will lead and John 12 will be studied replacing the usual ministerial address. Attendees may ask questions to participate in the lesson.
Five men, including three Philadelphia policemen John J. Lynch John D. Sweeney and Charles D. Shubert and Republican leaders Thomas J. Duffy and Richard DeBussy of the Seventh ward, were sentenced to one year in county prison for conspiracy unlawful arrest and intimidation of voters and watchers in the 1910 election.
Samuel Gompers and John Mitchell will not address the Pennsylvania railroad strikers at Sylvan lodge Lakemont Park due to a court injunction. Anna Baker, owner, says she leased the property for amusements and objects to labor meeting attendees.
Thirteen monkeys, the remaining members of a sixty strong monkey poison squad used by Dr. Frederick Proescher of Albany General Hospital to study infantile paralysis, are resting at River View Park Zoo in Pittsburgh. The animals show clear improvement and are expected to resume experiments by fall.
A Toledo delegation of 890 members from the Men's Personal Workers' league will reinforce Billy Sunday’s crusade in Erie Pennsylvania on Sunday June 11. The group will travel by special trains and conduct a personal campaign Sunday morning among the underworld.
In Braddock, Pittsburgh area, Michael Kozur attacked his wife after she gave a neighbor’s child $15 as godmother. He allegedly sharpened a kitchen knife at the table while she prepared a meal. she lies dying in Braddock Hospital.
Boston June 3 Dr Em ma Mooers custodian of the Neuro Pathological collection at Harvard medical school died a martyr to science. Her death followed pneumonia and blood poisoning contracted while she searched for the germ behind the present epidemic of tonsillitis.
J. P. H Cunningham of North Jefferson Street and Jared Reis of Lincoln Avenue have left for Canada for several weeks to fish.
The article notes that most villagers in Asia Minor rely on local herbs for remedies, with few physicians called for. It contrasts with larger cities where many doctors are available, highlighting high mortality in rural areas due to lack of medical care.
Mrs. Anna Dinsmore and several couples including Mr and Mrs Samuel Moore Mrs B E Sankey Mr and Mrs Samuel Rearke Mrs Caroline McChesney and others from Grant Wallace North Jefferson and Wallace avenues traveled to Youngstown to visit Mr and Mrs M Gibson returning home after the trip.
An English oceanographic expedition reports detection of distinct light traces at depths exceeding 3,000 feet, suggesting possible illumination in deep ocean zones and prompting interest in marine photic conditions and subsoil biology.
L F Berg of New York president of the Mobile and New Orleans railway was fatally injured and his wife instantly killed when the Winnipeg flyer on the Zoo line left the track at Verdas after a washout. The private car with the Bergs buried, fire followed from gas pipes, four coaches burned, and several others injured including Roy Lewis with a sprained ankle and L L Lovellan with a sprained foot.
Washington reports that Rep Ira Copely Illinois tells Bliss Electrical graduates that a five man oligopoly dominates US wealth industry and utilities. He cites United States Steel owning seventy percent of railroads and AT&T owning telegraph and telephone networks. banks in New York and most gas and electric plants are in their grasp.
Washington June 3. Steps will be taken toward the suppression of excessive gambling in the city of Panama after a conference among President, Secretary of War Stimson, and C. C. Arosemena Panama’s interior secretary. The issue was raised by Col. Goethals, chairman of the canal commission.
Robert B. Little was held for court by Alderman Morrison on a false pretense charge. Attorney E F G Harper stated the claim. Bail set at 1000 dollars. It is alleged Little pretended he paid a mortgage, which is disputed.
The Church of God on Wilson Avenue holds Sabbath school at 2 p m a song and praise meeting at 3 p m and preaching by Rev J C Cunningham at 8 p m.
Letters testamentary issued to M Lewis Wallace and Frank W Wallace for Wim E Wallace of New Castle Pennsylvania. Creditors urged to settle promptly and claimants to present them for payment. Attorneys Akens Wilkison Lockhart and Chambers. Publication dates April 29 May 6 13 20 27 June 3.
Trae Values Faturday June 3 1911 advertises Waco Bottles in pint size for 1.00 and Thermos Bottles in pint 3.00 quart 5.00 with other models 3.75 to 6.75. Leatherette lunch boxes priced 3.00 include a fitted tin box and pint Thermos bottle.
Wanted help in reupholstering refinishing and repairing furniture. Andrew B. Spencer advertises on the Square with Bell 604 Union 327 W for contact.
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