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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1909
Page
3
Savannah police chase through the Yamacraw district after a brutal ax attack left Mrs. Hunter and Mrs. Gribble dead and a third victim near death. Bloodhounds track multiple trails as authorities pursue a scheduled killer who planned the assault in advance.
A jumble of items reports Mme Sembrich racing to Los Angeles for her husband's life, a Harrsiburg youth Clyde Liddick dying of tetanus after a hunting accident, and medical advice on digestion and pepsin preparations. The clipping mixes sensational phrases with ad-like health claims and scattered names and places.
In Washington Pennsylvania a man Walter Seybold aged nineteen shot and killed a girl named Lauramina Braden then turned the gun on himself as officers closed in. A second youth was wounded slightly in the leg before Seybold fled toward town outskirts and fatally shot himself when surrounded by troopers and police.
C G Richards, a Christmas carnival performer in Wilkes-Barre Pennsylvania, dangled by a wire over the Susquehanna River. Halfway across the slide stalled, he clung to the cable and inched forward until he fell after failing to reach the last yards. He was found unconscious with ankle and hip injuries and possible internal damage.
New York Dec 11 The jury in the Donnelly antimonopoly case before Supreme Court Justice Wheeler found the American Ice Company guilty on two counts. Wheeler fined the corporation $5000 and granted a stay of execution pending appeal. The indictment charged an arrangement to suppress ice production and sale competition and connected acts.
United States judge Hough grants a ten day stay to Charles W. Morse, convicted banker, while Morse seeks a new trial after his misappropriation conviction. In Washington, a Daughters of the American Revolution clerk is accused of embezzling several thousand dollars, but the society will not prosecute, the clerk is dismissed, and her name withheld.
Washington reports Rayner Maryland introduced in the senate a resolution authorizing the president to use necessary steps to apprehend and punish President Zelaya of Nicaragua for murder if warranted by state department facts. The measure notes the execution of Americans Grace and Cannon by order of Zelaya. Sen Rayner will speak in support as Zelaya’s retirement rumors grow and Madriz is named a possible successor.
In New York on December 11 Henry F. Cochrane opened the sugar trial defense arguing the seventeen Brooklyn dock scales were obsolete and indecorous and that many government weighers were incompetent. The defense contends shortages in weighings stem from scales and inspectors, not sugar firm employees. Oliver Spitzer testified denying bribery attempts and the alleged signaling to warn workers of inspectors.
Elizabeth Herd sues Anabel Zelaya Jr claiming he courted her while a Columbia medical student and promised marriage. She seeks 109000 dollars after Zelaya’s father, Nicaragua’s president, allegedly forbade the union deeming it a mesalliance. Trial anticipated soon amid related crime notes from San Francisco and Oakland.
In Banner Springs Tennessee Atkins endured exposure during a night watch, catching a severe cold that worsened into lung issues. He finally found relief and a cure from Dr King’s New Discovery, which restored him to work and improved his coughing and throat inflammation. A local pharmacy advertises Pearline Pills.
The Heptasophs held an election in their lodge room electing six to wing offices: ruler or master, vice ruler, usher, treasurer, finance officers, inspector, warder, sentinel. The Frederick Conclave reported a fraternal insurance fund around a million dollars, with the local group about ten years old.
Philip Francis Lee was appointed to the Board of County Commissioners to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Colonel L Tiernan Brien. The term runs for six years beginning May 1, 1908. Lee is son of Columbus O Potin gill Lee and nephew by marriage of Colonel Brien, recently purchasing Brien’s Urbana farm where he resides.
Pat on West Seventh Street and Peter Is. Limgett of West Patrick Street are both reported sick with slight or improving conditions. Also Dorothey Wiley on West Third Street shows improvement after a week of illness. An ad touts Rydale’s Cough Elixir as a cure for throat and lung ailments, claiming rapid relief and claiming it to be the best chronic lung treatment discovered. Sold by Geo. F. Smith in Telalpita.
Wilmington Del December 11 Mrs Mary Simgioh age thirty years was shot three times during a convengation with her husband Willem inipson at the residence of Jantea McMullen Richardson Park and is in critical condition in a local hospital. The husband, who appears to have fired, fled. Both were employed as housekeeper and mangle. A man named Kiled Age iture said to kill on a farm north of Shrove. He was brought to the hospital where he died. Two or more went to return to Hampton Roads with the entire feet. Zeppelin in serious condition. Berlin December 11 reports Stuttgart state Count Zeppelin, airship inventor, who recently had neck abscess operation, is worse and now in a hospital.
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