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Newspaper
Nutley Sun
Location
Nutley, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1909
Page
6
Government crop report shows winter wheat condition May 1 at 83.6 percent, below the ten year average. Area to be harvested about 27.87 million acres, the lowest since 1904, with yield estimates differing between old and new methods. Rye and other notes appear alongside unrelated crime item about Atlantic City arson confession.
In Hatler Pennsylvania Mrs. Lawmanle Orber was convicted of disorderly conduct on the accusation of witchcraft by Mrs. Julia Kroner. Orber received a $5 fine and ten days in jail after the alleged incident in Kroner’s barn involving a spell on a crow.
In Port Griffith on the Susquehanna River nine relatives visiting the Andrews family died when their small crowded rowboat capsized. William Andrews and eight others were swept downstream and drowned as bystanders struggled to help. Victims include Theodore Andrews and Adam Strukus among others.
Atlantic City, N J. David Hirschman aged twenty confesses to setting fire on Atlantic avenue to aid his brother Benjamin in collecting 7000 in insurance Magistrate Grove sent both brothers to the grand jury. David held without bail on arson charge and Benjamin offered 5000 bail for aiding and abetting the crime. David said he received 59 for starting the blaze while the waiter was away.
The executors report the late Representative Joseph W. Babcock of Wisconsin died in Washington D C last week and left an estate valued at 307 500 dollars.
John Menning, seventy two, squandered a fortune on dress and wore gold coins as buttons. His extravagance led to indigence and he became a resident of the county poor farm.
Mercer Pa James Boyle and alleged wife Helen were convicted of kidnapping Billie Wichitta from Sharon on March 18. Boyle received life imprisonment and his wife 25 years plus a $5,000 fine. Both collapsed on sentencing and were taken back to jail. Boyle later claimed Forker plotted the abduction and paid hush money for years. Forker Whitla and others denied the accusations. a razor and suicide attempt surfaced as authorities noted a possible double tragedy.
Albert T. Willard of the Washington Navy Yard shot Irving W. Beck after Beck refused to reveal his wife's whereabouts. Beck, a 28 year old grocer, died at nine p.m. at his Second and N streets store. Dorothy Willard, 14, had enticed the couple to marry. the father objected to the union and shot Beck in the doorway after Beck refused to disclose the wife's location.
Coast Artillery Corps men Daniel Doherty aged 35 and Cornelius Crowley aged 30 drowned when their rowboat capsized in the wash from a steamer off Hough's Neck. Companions aboard, Thomas Hung, survived by clinging to the boat.
Logansport obituary notes Schuyler Holley was instantly killed by a trap he had set for a thief entering his chicken house. He prepared an old muzzle loading pistol to discharge when the door opened but forgot to disconnect the mechanism, causing a fatal shot to strike his chest.
The third annual congress of the Playground Association of America met in Pittsburgh with delegates from forty cities. Mayor Magee welcomed the visitors. Bendah Kennard of the local association spoke, and Dr. Lutter Gulick, president of the national group, addressed the gathering. President Taft sent a letter urging playgrounds to strengthen youth morality and health as city shadows grow.
Obituary notes Augusta J Bivans Wilson of Mobile Alabama died at home. Born in 1833 in Union Ga she moved to Texas early then Mobile where she wrote popular novels including St Elmo Beulah Vashti Infelice and At the Mercy of Tiberius earning wide Southern fame. Also included is Father John A Tracy the Church of Our Lady of Good Counsel rector in St Louis who plans to attend baseball games rather than relocate despite Archbishop Glenton’s orders.
In Brooklyn a jury returned a verdict for 58000 in favor of Miss Addie M. Hunt a trained nurse against the Long Island Railroad Company after she lost both legs when a moving train at Great Neck station dragged her from the footboard and injury led to amputation.
Thomas Chappel, held on a six month term in the county workhouse at Trenton New Jersey, escaped by crawling through a sewer pipe roughly half a mile long. The narrow passage nearly stripped his clothes as he emerged and fled into nearby woods.
A dead child found in a bale of cotton at a Manchester mill is identified as the missing child of George P. Hartman. Hartman, believed to have been lost or stolen in Texas last December, is now living near Minden Louisiana.
The Turkish Government has dispatched 150000 dollars and physicians to relieve distress in Adana province and surrounding areas in Constantinople.
Judge William N. Penfield former solicitor of the Department of State and noted international law authority died in Washington after a long illness.
A Robinson Investment Company president, Fia Jonn Robinson, fell overboard from a light er in a small creek. Hyacinths blocked his ascent, and he drowned.
Jefferson City Missouri The Senate Committee on constitutional amendments reported the woman suffrage resolution unfavorably to kill the measure.
Mrs Mary L Datzell widow of Pennsylvania Representative Datzell died in Washington after a long illness. She lived in the capital and was known in political circles. Funeral arrangements were to be announced by the family.
In Staunton Virginia the County Medical Society proposes establishing a tuberculosis sanitarium. In Delaware at Lewes Willie Henderson aged 16 fell from his boat while fishing in Rehoboth inlet and drowned.
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