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Newspaper
New York Times
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1908
Page
2
The confrontation ends with gunfire after a complex dispute aboard a yacht club float. Captain Hains and his brother T Jenkins Hains face murder charges. Annis, mortally wounded, dies after scenes detailing custody, scandal, and court plans unfold as investigators push for trials.
Springfield scenes of lynching and unrest as crowds confront violence. National Guard totals rise to 4,200 with Illinois units deployed to quell riots after a death and multiple lynchings. Guardsmen secure the Capitol area while towns report fear and sporadic depredations.
Norfolk recalls 1891 Fort Monroe shooting of Edward Hannegan by Thornton J. Hains. Hannegan and Hains were lifelong friends. Hannegan was grandson of Col. Tom Nelson of Indiana. T. Jenkinsons was tried for murder in 189x and acquitted. Special The New York Times.
Atlantic City saw a surge of visitors with about 50 100 arriving last night and today as saloons stayed busy spending estimated at least 100 000 on drinks though only one drunkenness arrest was recorded John Hardy was cited as the sole intoxicated individual found with excess liquor before the day’s shop restrictions began Police reported most amusements remained closed while Boardwalk arcades and beach hotels filled with patrons seeking liquids and crowds stretched outside entrances
Milwaukee Mayor David S. Rose, visiting the East, defends regulated licenses over Prohibition. He cites Milwaukee’s lower drunkenness, describes a city run by a strict license system with 2400 licenses reduced, and argues prohibition cannot work here.
B F Yoakum argues 400,000 idle men and rail shortages threaten the economy. He cites last year rail purchases at 1.25 billion dollars, currently halved, costing manufacturers and trade hundreds of millions daily. He links labor, materials, and construction to prosperity and urges public policy aiding restoration of railroad activity and employment.
Philadelphia researchers Dr. Thomas B. Eldridge and Dr. George H. Simmerman, with two women, completed an all night ascent in the balloon Philadelphia from Point Breeze to near Elkton Maryland. The party reached 10,300 feet and traveled about sixty miles landing after dawn.
In Greenwood Lakeland a white patrolman named George Distler attempted to arrest Sue Merritt, a Black woman, after which hundreds of Black residents hurled bricks and stones. Distler was injured and three Merritts, including Martin Merritt and Sue Merritt, were arrested as a whites’ posse intervened.
A pamphlet titled The Freight Rate Primer is being distributed to farmers and merchants to promote a 10 percent increase in class freights. It argues the rise would be small, with examples from clothing, farming equipment, and furniture to show the minimal impact on consumers and the broader economy.
Arthur Berry a parachute jumper and aeronaut, escaped fatal injury after a balloon descended in a wind at Palisades Park. He climbed a chestnut tree to break the fall, then was rescued by Michael Reilly and George Knoffka and treated by Dr Wegser. He suffered only contusions.
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