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Newspaper
New Castle News
Location
New Castle, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1908
Page
6
Republicans urged a Chicago platform pledge defending court integrity and limiting injunctions while Democrats resisted. Samuel Gompers led AFL protest denying any attack on courts and asserting belief in their integrity.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Baldwin of Grant street spent Sunday in Pittsburg. Charles H. Johnson of Highland avenue is a business visitor in Cleveland today. Miss Elsie Robbins of Walnut street has returned from Erie where she stayed with Miss Aris Boyee. Miss Florence Carmichael of Hubbard returned after visiting her cousin Mrs. J W Barnett and Miss Mary Snyder. Miss Clara Gaston of Shenango township returned to Slippery Rock State Normal school after a week with her parents. Frank H. Foulk and George Greer with their spouses joined dinner at Kildoo's at McConnell's Mills Sunday.
The C W E M auxiliary of the First Christian church will host an Earning Social on Thursday June 25 at the church. Each lady will earn a dollar for the centennial fund and share how she earned it. A program will be given. Section one of the Woman's Union meets with Mrs J S McKibben on North Bay Street Tuesday afternoon.
Samuel E. Vandivort, son of Mr and Mrs Theodore Vandivort of Vine Street, earns a civil engineering degree at Western University of Pennsylvania during graduating exercises Monday at Carnegie Music Hall Pittsburgh.
Advertises Dr Miles Anti Pain Pills claiming fast relief from headaches with no harmful ingredients. The testimonial notes a wife’s longstanding pain and urges readers to ask their druggist, who guarantees benefit with the first package or refunds money. Elkhart Indiana and Waterview New Jersey references appear in the copy.
Dr Henry Lamb 45 a Mercer county physician and 12 year coroner died Saturday evening at Medico Chirurgical hospital Philadelphia from heart trouble. He practiced 18 years at Sandy Lake and is survived by wife three brothers and a sister. Funeral Tuesday Union Home cemetery Mercer county. Also infant Josephine Perdue 2 years 9 months died Saturday night after spinal trouble and dropsy. funeral Monday 2 pm Methodist cemetery Eastbrook.
A large crowd gathered at Battery B for a reunion in Nesbits Grave area near Mt. Jackson. The event featured a decorated platform for survivors, a morning business meeting, and afternoon addresses led by Rev. A. B. McCormick. A ball game and an evening concert benefited the monument fund.
Telegraph briefs report the new battleships Utan and Florida authorized. A cyclone near La Crosse Wisconsin killed two and injured three seriously. A tornado in Charles City Iowa killed W. R. Beck and a child and wrecked over 200 houses. German concerns rise as Emperor Nicholas plans meeting with King Edward at Reval tomorrow. Judson Brusi arrested in Los Angeles for embezzlement. Jack London sails Samoa aiming for six years at sea. Bandits kill three on a pay train near Mexico City and steal $4000. A plot to assassinate King Manuel and royal family thwarted at Lisbon. Rev Sidney Goodman preached in Atlantic City. Raymond Hitchcock trial begins in New York. James Kingsbury eludes pursuit after killing Sheriff Garrison.
Battleships Maine and Alabama set course from San Francisco at 7 am to Honolulu and Manila. They lead Atlantic fleet pathfinding for Admiral Sperry’s ships in the world cruise, aiming to reach Hampton Roads by October 22.
The Shenango Iron and Steel Company, operating the Wheatland plant three miles from Sharon and linked to the Fort Pitt National Bank collapse, has a receiver. C. C. Murray, already bank receiver, fills the same role for the steel company.
In Cambridge Springs public school system pupils face fines for damaged texts with payments due before promotion. Pennsylvania schools provide free books but require students to care for them to avoid charges.
Chicago reports rising tensions at the Taft ally meetings as Hitchcock comforts his stance on the first ballot. The piece details disputes over Florida district seats and Kentucky contests with claims of fraud, countered by Taft delegates denying the allegations and defending their methods.
While testing a new automobile in Pittsburg on Saturday Mrs. C. E. Mehard of Highland avenue was thrown from the car but escaped serious injury. An employee of the company was driving the machine when it ran over an embankment and threw the occupants from the vehicle. Mrs Mehard escaped unharmed.
Governor Deneen and the state pardon board rejected Herman Billek’s appeal for clemency in the murder case of the Vizal family. Billek is scheduled to be hanged Friday in Springfield Illinois after days of deliberation.
New Bedford returns reported for Miss Florence Gibson from Laveta California. Co C Miller, teaching at Wellington, D. C., has come home. Miss Lizzie Fear returns from Pine Bluff North Carolina for health. Repairs start on United Presbyterian church and services move to Presbyterian church. Rev Gealy assisted by Snodgrass of West Middlesex and McBride of Omaha at communion. Charles Cooke and wife on trial in Wheeling for killing Charles Bennett of New Kensington. Confession claims wife lured Bennett to a lonely spot. husband aided. Prosecutors expect repudiation.
Harmony R G Brown travels to Sharpsburg and many residents host or visit relatives across the region. Measles illness affects Clarence Nesbit. Pythian outing planned September 3 near the area. Earl Windinger visits Charles Beam. Mrs Joseph Grover of Butler guests of Mrs McCormick. Bonita Hallstein visits from Warren Ohio. Baseball games Zelienople Cubs vs Beaver Y M C A yield 7 2 and 20 3 scores.
A late bulletin from the residence of O H Belmont Hempstead Long Island reports he is sinking with little hope of surviving the day. Four doctors attend him as his family is summoned.
Rev A B McCormick of Central Presbyterian church will attend the Westminister reunion in New Wilmington and deliver the class poem. Paul Leatherman, son of Rev and Mrs C G Leatherman, is seriously ill with gastric fever.
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