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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1909
Page
3
A vaudeville performer, Miss DeVole, sues for 250000 after alleged broken engagement by Mr Gould. She recounts luncheon claims and reports about her, followed by Gould sailing to Europe, while her suit details and letters reveal tensions and financial stakes in the theatrical world.
A government meat inspector Gus Schnell at the Nel won Morris plant committed suicide by shooting. He stated his lack of forgiveness and health as the cause and left his body to be donated to medical students.
C P Yaft of Cincinnati confirmed purchase of the Philadelphia National League grounds from Jobo Rogers and A J Reach. The move centers Philadelphia baseball history as Taft secures the site for future club use.
Readable items report church services at St Anthony's, Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, school openings and breaks for St Anthony's parish school, and local visits from residents to and from Baltimore and Hagerstown. Community notes include wagon moves, snow blockades, cantatas, preaching schedules, and various visitors and residents in Glen Echo area towns.
A verbose community note lists residents and visitors in Creagerstown and BurrigsVille during Christmas week. Names include Mr Bany Mathias, Mrs Annie Havner, Mr Lebter Grushon, Mr George Hann, Mrs Clara Warner, and many others visiting relatives in Waynesboro Frederick Baltimore and Hagerstown.
The Independent Refiners prepare damage claims against a section they argue harms competition. The group vows to pursue legal action if the Supreme Court upholds the contested provision.
A large portion of a culm bank at Laneford near the Lehigh Coal & Navigation company works collapsed. A force of 100 men worked to rescue four trapped workers. Three were recovered, two dead and one in critical condition, with one remaining missing as officials believed more may be buried.
Pittsburgh reports fifteen deaths from exposure as a severe cold wave grips western Pennsylvania. Hundreds seek shelter at police stations while trains run late and temperatures dip to five degrees below zero. Officials fear rising flood danger if warm weather returns.
In Pittaburg on December 31 a teller at the Workingman's Savings Bank on North Side was sentenced to 40 days in jail on embezzlement charges. It is alleged he misappropriated about $80,000 of bank funds on or before December 29, supported by information from a bonding company.
In United States Circuit Court Kansas City Missouri on December 31 Judge C. One declared that the LZ Block Exchange ahead at a treat and ordered the association dissolved following a suit brought by the attorney general of Kansas. The association operated at the Kansas City stock yards.
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