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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Sep 17, 1907
Page
5
Rome reports alarm at liberal currents among clergy as Pope Pius XIII denounces modernism in a global encyclical. He condemns reforms in faith philosophy and history, urging teaching aligned with Catholic discipline in schools and universities, signaling a major pontifical stance.
Mrs Cassie Chadwick, once famed for financial deceptions, collapsed in the Ohio penitentiary and was revived after nitroglycerine and hot whiskey. Doctors diagnose a nervous breakdown with temporary blindness, worsened by her son’s visit, while officials plan ongoing care and ophthalmologic treatment.
Professor Macauley of Harvard reports a woman roaming wild in the forests near Ottawa Quebec on the Gatineau river. Her face is deeply tanned and framed by dark coarse hair as she fled into the brush. In New York Maxim Gorky and Mme Andrieva are married, according to Marold Mac Grath from Capri.
Stanley Emanski, a Russian, was arraigned before Magistrate Smith in Chester on a charge of permitting music and dancing at a christening held at his home Sunday night. He had been warned that the mayor and chief of police forbade such celebrations. Emanski was fined $5 and costs.
Rear Admiral John G. Walker United States Navy retired died suddenly at a friend’s home near York Cliffs Maine on September 17 at age 87. A New Hampshire native he promoted the famed White Squadron and led efforts for the Panama Canal project being praised as best suited to chair the Isthmian Canal Commission appointed in 1897.
Harrisburg reports attorney general not ready to begin criminal proceedings against 18 named parties tied to the capitol construction and equipment contracts. James Scarlet and associates continue prep, aims to file suits before a Harrisburg magistrate to present indictments to Dauphin County grand jury next Monday. In Philadelphia, Adelph Segal and two former Real Estate Trust officials were indicted for embezzlement and conspiracy following the bank collapse aided by unlawful methods tied to KE Crankie and the president's suicide.
Farmer John Mersh, while ploughing a swamp in western Steuben County, uncovered bones of a monster animal near Llechester. One tusk measured eight feet, another four feet. ribs four to five feet long. a tooth weighed nine and a quarter pounds. other teeth found. Bones were well preserved.
M Hanson, a noted Danish horse dealer who sold horses to King Haakon of Norway, dined with the royal family at Christiania. He misread a kingly toast for praise, stood, toppled the table cloth, and sent dishes crashing to the floor in his first court visit.
In Altoona Pa on September 17 Miss Jennie Newlin age 19 was killed after her mother was wounded following a quarrel with suitor John Crown who then killed himself. Crown aged about 28 a resident English born boarded with the Nevlin family. In New York a mob attempted lynching after Francesco Sicca wounded two Becker brothers and police rescued them. In Fish Creek a 16 year old on a mouth organ was killed by an electric train near a bridge. In Wilmington Del a husband killed by an express train. In Cleveland women are barred from puff hairstyles in schools. In Morristown N J a phonograph supplied sacred music for church services.
A large eagle seized Gladys Vreeland, age three, and bore her to the top of a hemlock before she escaped with minor injuries. The incident occurred after the bird attempted to grab a chicken, its talons catching in the girl's clothing as help arrived. The tale follows other local notices of fires, drownings, arson sentences, a tomato-landing accident, and a death from septic poisoning in nearby towns.
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