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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1907
Page
5
Boston declares there is no room in Charlestown for the Constitution. Governor Guild urged to petition the president against removal while the slogan Dont give up the ship echoes from the state capital.
At Barnstable mass fair nearly five thousand spectators watched balloonist Professor Maloney drop two thousand feet after ropes jammed the descent. A gas leak and wind prevented cutting the parachute. He struck a cedar fence post, torn and injured but not fatally. Governor Curtis Guild joined medics and spectators in rushing him to a local hotel for treatment.
George C Rice a 62 year old wealthy retired merchant refused to answer Do you take this woman to be your wife. He accompanied bride to be Miss Clara Annie Wood and two witnesses to Rev C W Hutchinson to be married. He said I ll take a chance and do the best I can and the minister showed them the door.
Washington Aug 30 The house given to Admiral Dewey by the American people after his victory in Manila has been leased to Frank Mitchell Washington's millionaire clubman. It is understood the new tenant will begin occupancy in October. Admiral Dewey has not lived in the house for a year. A For Rent sign has adorned a front window for months. The admiral, it is said, found the house suitable for his needs due to the extensive entertaining his position demanded.
In Derby Conn Aug 80 John Rousinski of Collinsville leaped before a passenger train to end his life. He was rescued after a struggle and jailed on a charge of attempted death by his own action following a scuffle with his wife who accompanied him into a saloon and pushed him out.
Four men perished in separate incidents from a dynamite explosion on the Grand Trunk railway near Wea Ontario to a wind storm at the Iowa state fairgrounds causing about 100,000 dollars in damage. Nelson Morris the Chicago meat packer died recently in life and estate valued at over 20 000 dollars. Dames Winetree a Washington man aged 34 was found dead in a Pullman berth at Norfolk Virginia. In Philadelphia two Italian laborers were killed instantly when struck by an express train while working on the Pennsylvania railroad.
Senator Henry A Du Pont of Delaware faces government charges in a powder trust case. Once head of a dominant powder firm, he reportedly remains a principal stockholder though he withdrew from active participation. Born 1888, he is a great grandson of Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours and West Point graduate, Civil War veteran.
King Edward publicly rebuked indelicate songs in Marienbad after entering a cafe chantant and leaving the stage amid scandal. The king’s action drew intense excitement as he, followed by the Duke of Teck and others, denounced the performance as horrible and appalling noted by his entourage and spectators.
Two workmen were killed and two injured when a scaffold at York County jail failed under a one pound stone, sending workers 50 feet to the ground amid iron girders. Assistant Foreman Ward A Conk of Olean New York and William Frey a York stonemason are named among the dead. Injured are T E Cunningham and Emory Pettorff both York stonemasons with serious injuries.
Five farmers report a 16-foot alligator in the Ohin river near Vernon Indiana. Their skiff nearly sunk as the creature lashed the water with a horse sized body and a long tail. They attacked with oars and the gator disappeared after a brief splash.
George Careel of North Lyons aged refused help in hay season was operating a mowing machine when he was thrown and crushed by the knives. He died almost instantly in a tragic farm accident amid scarce help during haying season.
In San Francisco on August 20 Kaufman defeated Mike Schreck of Cincinnati in the seventh round. Kaufman landed a left hook that sent Schreck reeling and the challenger collapsed. Referee Racha ruled against Schreck’s protest as he was not on his feet within ten seconds, awarding the bout to Kaufman.
In Ocean Grove New Jersey Hotel proprietor Robert S Gravatt 47 shot his wife Irene and wounded their 9 year old daughter Mollie during dinner belatedly shooting himself in the head in the dining room. Domestic trouble is given as motive. The child shielded her mother as Gravatt fired. The wife suffered a leg wound and Gravatt died by suicide.
Military and civil authorities in Antique Province Panay Island appeal for suppression of a night raider gang that slips lances through floor gaps and tickles sleepers sometimes fatally. The panic-ridden residents report the bizarre “tickling” is aces to victims and fear spreads across the province.
A section of the St Lawrence bridge near Quebec collapsed during construction. Ninety men were at work when the span fell, with scores of workers swept into the river. At least forty to fifty deaths are feared, many bodies recovered as crews searched the wreckage. The Phoenixville Bridge Company led the project with subsidies from federal and provincial governments. the bridge was budgeted at 40 million dollars and aimed for completion in 1909.
Beatrice Reyner, a year old girl, died at Kings County Hospital after hydrophobia recurred following a Pasteur treatment. She was bitten on the leg and arm by a mad dog while on an errand for her father. Her sister Pauline was bitten but recovered.
Paul Ainson aged 19 from Youngwood and Harry Miller 18 from Buffalo escaped Morganza Reform School in Washington Pennsylvania. Guards fired a volley over their heads to frighten them but they succeeded in fleeing. News notes include Western Union sued in Michigan for 75000 penalties over failure to file incorporation papers. A Hakodate Yokohama fire caused 15000000 in damages leaving about 15000 homes and 60900 homeless.
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