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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Sep 10, 1907
Page
5
Harrisburg attorney general Todd arrived from Philadelphia to aid the prosecution in preparing criminal and civil suits in Dauphin county against parties linked to the Capitol construction contracts. A conference will decide who and when suits are filed. Rooster Attacks Roy.
Washington news reports a mill worker Henry Perry of Wheeling West Virginia dying after brutal hazing by fifty Tyler Lube & Pipe Company steel workers Perry was bound to a crane hook and swung over a blast furnace until burned and unconscious doctors feared for his recovery Warrants were issued but suspects fled town. Separate item notes a Philadelphia farrier and Villanova athlete William J Mulhall 21 killed vaulting onto a mustang during drills in Strafford. In Little Rock Arkansas a minister John Grant shoots Baptist minister Martin Glenn over a garden hog problem.
New York reports Mrs Burke Roche Batonyi expected to sign papers separating from Aurel Batonyi the professional whip. Her 88 year old father Frank Work threatened to disinherit daughter and grandchildren over the alliance. Detectives probed Batonyi’s past as Arthur Cohn and a pricey settlement may secure her legacy in a $15 million estate despite the couple’s stated friendship.
Justice Miller opens the September term of the supreme court in Ithaca New York and shocks observers by denying all citizenship petitions. He states too many ignorant foreigners have been admitted and vows not to grant papers to any immigrant lacking intent to stay or understanding of the U S Constitution. He warns an ignorant electorate risks corruption and dangerous democratic outcomes.
Announcement from Ohio State University scientist Professor Blythe credits Theodore Wolfram, a German chemist living in Columbus, with discovering an antitoxin that can kill diphtheria germs in living humans within three minutes. It was tested in hospitals and homes and can be infused in any quantity suitable for the patient.
Secretary Taft plans a world itinerary departing Seattle on September 12. Stops include Yokohama September 25, Kobe September 29, Nagasaki October 4, Shanghai October 6, Hongkong October 11, Manila October 14, Vladi vostok November 11, Irkutsk November 16, Moscow November 25, St. Petersburg November 26, Berlin November 29, Cherbourg December 4, and New York around December 10.
Fire destroyed the hotel at Cleveland Springs North Carolina killing three people. victims are MT Smith of Enhero North Carolina and two unidentified hotel workers. Property loss about 25000 dollars with 10000 dollars insured. Fire started by lightning. one person escaped.
Fire destroyed the Berkeley Iceworks at Norfolk Virginia causing a loss of ten. Walter Wellman's airship North Pole dash abandoned for this year. In El Dorado Kansas masked men bound and gagged a Missouri Pacific railway agent and robbed the sare of Fao.
Allentown Pennsylvania September 10 bears have been seen in the North Tanntuin region over the past month. Passengers on the Lehigh Valley Bowman creek branch trains have watched several bears, deterred only by engine whistles. An afternoon bound for Wilkes Barre, Engineer Miller saw a large black bear on the track ahead and after tooting and ringing the bell the animal moved off the rails and into an apple orchard.
Delaware will raise revenue by taxing tombstone manufacturers and by taxing Oppenheim & Co clothing plant in New York. Castle County workhouse official says these innovations aim to boost state funds, likely triggering court battles. Adverse horse injury incident in Wyoming and a mill wages tale from Massachusetts highlight varied 19th century woes.
Two farm hands George Shotwell Alfred Foster die after allegedly drinking wood alcohol mistaken for wine. Brother Luken Foster gravely ill. Prosecutor Atkinson orders post mortems by Dr. J. C. Brown and Dr. Alexander H. Small. no foul play suspected, but investigation continues into the farmer Thomas Blaszak who supplied the drink.
W BE Wheeler and Charles Sundstrom, engineers and contractor, were injured near Central Valley New York when they stepped from the main line to avoid a freight train and were struck by a construction train. Wheeler lost his left foot and sustained a crushed hip. Sundstrom suffered back and internal injuries.
A Worcester obituary notes a man who registered as A. R. Goldstein of New York and killed himself after reading his own life sketch. Other brief items tell of a man seeking a wife by mail in Yuma and Bloomington, a marriage after a long-distance setup, a lightning death on a Springs road to a wedding, and a stray commercial line urging patience in building trade.
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