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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Sep 02, 1911
Page
7
A major railway efficiency report shows 81 870 miles operated in 1911 with 981 790 employees down from 1 069 570 in 1910. It notes a 9 percent cut in line mileage and a wage saving of about 94 million dollars yearly, amid disputes over wage increases and rate rises.
Relatives in Elkins West Virginia show little interest in the famed Elk ins baby. The child’s father, now dead, was a distant relative of Senator Elkins and poor. In New York the four month old Virginia Elkins found her mother and will stay with her, ending adoption efforts.
A global drive has produced 100 Dreadnoughts or ships under construction with 13 nations contributing. Britain leads with 30, Germany 21, and the United States 12. Japan, Austria, Italy, France, and others also advancing programs amid varied costs and gun calibers including 12 and 14 inch guns.
Representative Charles D. Carter of Oklahoma caused a scene in Washington shopping district when he assaulted four clerks during a shopping trip. He said one clerk insulted his eighteen year old daughter Miss Italy Carter who accompanied him.
Quotations from Frederick County Farmers Exchange list prices for wheat corn rye barley flour and mill feeds with ranges for crop year 1911. Prices include No 2 red wheat 86 cents per bushel corn shelled 75 to 80 cents per bushel rye 70 to 75 cents barley 65 to 70 cents bushel winter wheat flour 4 70 to 5 20 spring wheat 5 10 to 5 60 per bushel cornmeal 1 60 to 1 70 per 100 pounds mill feed bran 27 per ton middlings 31 per ton hog meal 22 30 per sack dairy feed 23 to 26 per ton and seeds and hay prices for timothy clover and mixed hay with bale weights. Advertise in The News fee.
Over a half million trout were caught in Pennsylvania streams during the 1911 season, according to William E Meehan. The catch totals about 100000 pounds or 40000 dollars in value, challenging claims that trout fishing is declining. Data came from United Sportsmen clubs and individual fishermen across 239 streams.
Miss Harriet Quimby, one of America's two aviatrices, flew a Moissant monoplane at dawn near Mineola and at Dongan Hills recording four five and a half minute flights at two miles per minute. She piloted the same plane that Johnstone used to set the endurance record, beating the old mark by about thirty six minutes, and plans several night flights at the Staten Island county fair with Captain Thomas Baldwin.
London editorials seize on Sir William Ramsay's Portsmouth address predicting England's coal fields could be exhausted in 175 years if consumption continues. Calls to adopt U.S. style conservation measures. Also reports Ida Goyette's death from a hobble skirt accident in Cohoes and a note on Chamberlain's Liniment for sprains.
Norfolk reports Admiral Osterhans demands Captain Gove explain how the Delaware’s shelling of the sunken San Marcos endangered the Panther with 500 men aboard. Shots at 125, 100, and 75 yards were fired by mistake as the Panther resembled the San Marcos. Also reports a Syracuse engineer died in a sewer incident, and a Constantinople cholera tally.
In West Chester on Sept 2 two hundred four subpoenas issued for Coatesville residents to testify before a grand jury investigating the lynching of Zack Walker, the Edger Rice murderer, Aug 13. District Attorney Crawthrop keeps list secret as witnesses named include Norman Price and Chester Bostick with others possibly among mob participants. several women expected to testify. Witnesses and indictments motion around, with a Ferret-style grand jury session awaiting bill action. Also notes Price, Bostick, Lamning, Gilbert, Gerry, Schwartz, Stahl, and Schogeld as indicted or involved. unrelated item mentions plans to hold up Price of Cotton in Atlanta with agriculture commissioners meeting Sept 12 in Montgomery, Alabama.
A damaged local notice laments displacement among the poor forced to seek a different climate. It praises Dr Kings New Dus for coughs colds and lung troubles, claiming relief at home and in the general remedy market. The writer W T Neison from Pune Ark endorses the cure and notes weight gain claims and a free trial bottle offer at a local drugstore.
Baseball scores from New York and other venues show varied results. Washington defeated by New York 6-0, Chicago beat Cleveland 2-1 in doubleheader action, and Boston split a pair with Athletics 1-3 and 4-2. Standings list Athletics 73-42, Cleveland 61-60, Detroit 74-48, Chicago 61-61, New York 64-59, Boston 62-60, St Louis 35-85. Tri-State League notes Reading 7 32 680 York 48-55 466, Harrisburg 45-58 437. Advertising boosts business activity.
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