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Newspaper
Steubenville Herald
Location
Steubenville, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1913
Page
4
The Federal court session before Judge Sater in Columbus extended from Monday into Tuesday with 40-plus witnesses for the plaintiffs and a dozen for defendants. Testimony covered assaults, intimidation, and strike activities at the Pope plant, with officials detailing picketing and threats. A modified injunction is anticipated once testimony concludes, and a final ruling may come that evening.
Charles Pugleise of South Sixth street is to appear before Squire Lawler on two charges this afternoon after police found a concealed razor and a torn attachment notice at his shop. Also, Lou Emmons was whipped for embezzling $19 from Charley Oliver, fined $25 and costs, and sent to the Canton workhouse for 9 days in default. A West Virginia joy ride chase ended at Market street bridge with police seeking the car now known to be in WV territory.
Ray Kelly aged 4 years and Margar ite A Martin aged 18 of Steubenville, Henry R Westhafer aged M years of Anbricheville, and Estelle Ndile aged M0 years of Steubenville.
The yearly meeting of the Friends church convenes in Mount Pleasant Ohio from August 26 through September 1 with Evangelistic services each day and three Sabbath meetings. Several noted ministers will attend and centennial exercises on Monday September 1 will reflect on the church's 100 years.
The Board of Education selects a five to 100 acre site on Pleasant Heights west of the engine house for a future school building to serve rapid suburb growth. Existing Pleasant Heights facilities with five rooms are at capacity, signaling need for enlarging the La Belle View school, recently built for 30 000 dollars, as 120 pupils enrolled last year. A new Congregational Church site on Pleasant Heights brow above Market Street near the streetcar line is also chosen for a downtown relocation.
Capt J H Speices builder of tab ernacles finishes ground work on the High Shaft site. carpenters begin on mammoth structure this afternoon. four big raising days planned with ministers in overalls, no dancing or liquor, and dinners for workers each day. Rody Homer Rodeheaver ill in Warsaw Indiana hospital. Speices urged workers to avoid cursing when nails split fingers.
Charles Bowers, jailed after breaking into a freight car in Pan Handle Yards, supposedly ate 250 watermelons before being stopped by Detective Hinchscliffe and Judge Lawler. The melons were bound for Amicon Fruit Co. Authorities have not ruled if it was record chasing or hunger. The detective likened the scene to a darkey picnic.
A bul head collision occurred early Sunday when an eastbound engine on No 1 track met a westbound freight. The engineer fled the block and struck the stationary engine, leaving both locomotives wrecked and eight cars burned to ash. A second freight train approaching during the wreck was unable to stop in time.
A derailed engine was damaged when another unit side swiped it while backing up the New Cumbellani branch. Steubenville wreck crew arrived to clear the scene. Engineer Charles One of Dennison sustained a leg injury and was taken to the local hospital.
Word from New York City reports Peter Donnelly formerly of this city was fatally injured while working as a lint man. He reportedly fell from a scaffold, broke his back and was confined to a hospital with poor chances of recovery. Donnelly left here for New York City months ago with his family, and many friends here will regret the news.
The Phillips Sheet and Tin Plate Co filed a petition in Columbus seeking an injunction against fifty two Amalgamated Association officers and organizers over the Philips tin plant strike. Hearings before Judge Sacer concluded today as defendants and plaintiffs and their attorneys traveled to Columbus. The defense claims protection under Federal law and quiet operation at Steubenville and Weirton mills. No extra deputies were needed at Weirton as organizers and strikers acted without disturbance.
Albert Ford Harry Jacobs and Mrs Cora Ford of Steubenville were arrested at Elm Grove yesterday on charges of sealing chickens. They, with two Elm Grove Black residents, face depopulating multiple chicken coops and stealing fowl. Police reported a busy weekend with twelve drunks on the blotter. Paul Gordon was detained near the Papstin plant after an assault report. Billy Shimo, a Hungarian, was jailed Saturday after resisting officers. a revolver was found and he was fined for carrying concealed weapons.
Jake Johnson received 25 dollars and costs with go days in the workhouse for abusing his family. Harry Frazier, a local painter, got a 60 day suspended workhouse sentence on condition he sends 2 dollars weekly to his wife. Lou Emmons was jailed on embezzlement charges after taking a race horse money from Charley Oliver and fleeing with the horse. A hearing for Emmons is set for this afternoon.
H Hergert the Wheeling and Lake Erie agent has been promoted and sent to Wheeling as agent. G E Howard moves from Wheeling to Steubenville as agent. H Reese of New Cumberland becomes chief clerk and E A Belknap resigns as bill clerk to join W F Davidson wholesale peony. Harry Slee takes over as bill clerk.
Richmond post office burglars were chased by Constable Orwick and Dr. Culp of Richmond. The fugitives left a Pan Handle freight train in Steubenville, then moved through Mingo and Avilla before crossing into West Virginia. Deputies followed a trail with a bloodhound, but the search was given up around Avilla at 3 p. m. Thursday.
The sixth annual Yocum family reunion and branches gathered at Stanton Park on Thursday with over 200 attendees. A pavilion supper preceded a hall game where Arat cousins defeated second cousins 11 to 2, Mayor McLeish homered thrice, and Adbert Martin Mollie Frank lin recited while James McLeish and Silas Yocum led roll call. Eight births and three deaths were recorded. officers elected included president Ployd Yoewmm and vice...
President Geo W McLeish, secretary and treasurer Albert Martin convene at the same location and time in 1914 to review financials and coordinate duties. The record notes their joint attendance and roles in the meeting.
In East Liverpool a man named Mike was shot and died hours after an argument over expectoration in a beer pitcher. The shooter, Pete, drew a revolver following the insult and was arrested for murder. two Italians, Firlando and Italien, lie in the morgue and another Italian, Pote ie manac, is jailed. Police acted swiftly and detained the suspect.
Foreign miners drew nearly ten thousand dollars from the National Bank of Burgettstown on Wednesday triggering a run as a false report circulated. Most funds were later redeposited. baker Henry Bero was arrested for circulating the bank’s poor condition story and posted $1,000 bail. Bank noted as financially sound with $247,000 cash in vaults at close. Ottstown merchants bolstered confidence with higher deposits.
Frank Anderson a Black contractor held at Wheeling on white slave charges linked to the Sarah Kohler case. He is accused of bringing Sarah and another Kohler sister to Steubenville and living with them, with witnesses from Steubenville East Liverpool and Wellsburg expected at trial. He faces criminal relations charges with three Kohler girls including a married sister Mrs Wilson of Sistersville and driving her husband away by threats. The charges allege taking Sarah from West Virginia to Steubenville and living there a week and taking the younger sister to East Liverpool and living there for a time.
Last night at ten o'clock a serious accident occurred at the Gem City garage in Toronto when a Met calf boy asked ten year old James Burns to hold a lamp while filling a machine with gasoline. A gasoline flare ignited causing a large explosion. The boy suffered severe burns and was sent home while Dr. Nixon treated him. Firemen contained the blaze with only slight loss to the garage, which was saved. The burned lad is said to be a relative of Charles McConnell of the city.
John M Young, a 28 year old former Carnegie steel plant engineer living with his family in this city, disappeared after planning a trip from Steubenville to Beaver and New Sheffield. He left Friday morning after saying goodbye to his wife and has not been heard from since. He has epilepsy, auburn hair, blue eyes, weighs about 150 pounds, and wore light trousers with a blue coat. He carried $10 to $12 and wore a diamond stick pin.
Milwaukee August 12 AP wire reports the rotation of a national Catholic women's league and an address by T B Minaham of Seattle will highlight today's session of the American Federation of Catholic Societies twelfth annual convention. Committees on resolutions and organization have worked for a year toward forming a definite league structure with Miss Elizabeth Marshall of Milwaukee named as a possible president. Archbishop Masner urged the group to learn from league discussions.
Delegates debate suffrage and nearly split on its role, as the assembly moves to bar suffrage discussions to avoid discord within the upcoming league. The stance reflects strong views among both men and women participants on equal rights and organizational governance.
In Washington on August 12 the Senate began a 1 am meeting to hasten the tariff bill. Senator Gronna filed 22 amendments to the agricultural schedule seeking higher rates on cattle sheep corn wheat barley oats beans and other farm products.
In Ohio on Aug 12 the Japanese government said it would not receive General Felix Drax as Mexican envoy to Japan but would welcome General Diaz only as a private individual. Diaz party left Seattle for Vancouver and planned to sail on Wednesday. Diaz declared he would still go to Japan regardless of Tokyo's stance.
In Wheeling West Virginia on August 12 police search for a man who threw acid at Miss Bessie Donnelly as she walked to a letter box. She saved her eyes by raising her arm but suffered facial burns. This is her second attempted harm after intruders bound and gagged her at home weeks earlier amid threatening letters.
San Francisco reports California’s alien land law becomes operative, defending the measure as a standard state response aligned with other states. Attorney General U. S. Webb says the move stems from race unsuitability concerns, not race prejudice, and notes federal action mirrors state actions across Delaware, Kansas, Kentucky, Minnesota, and Mississippi.
Washington Aug 11 Democrats in the House faced a long fight over the administration currency bill as Chairman Glass with ten banking committee Democrats and backing from Underwood Palmer and other administration leaders pursued united support for the measure. Opponents urged expanding the note system to include warehouse receipts for corn wheat and cotton and commercial paper, a feature pushed by Henry of Texas Neely of Kansas and others.
Seoul August 11 James Mason American manager of the Ung San gold mines in northern Korea was sentenced to eighteen months penal servitude for manslaughter. He killed a Chinese employer who, left in charge of the Mason couple s daughter, assaulted the 12 year old girl. Mason pleaded unwritten law but was condemned. An appeal will be filed immediately.
Charleston West Virginia Aug 11 reports say a large force of special and late officers was deployed along the Chesapeake and Ohio and Norfolk and Western railroads in West Virginia to capture a gang that robbed merchants of about 100000 dollars last week. Charleston and Bluefield are thought to be the gang's main headquarters with activity spanning many towns.
Three more bodies were recovered from Buckeye Lake this morning, bringing total dead to five since the steamer Wilda sank last Thursday night. The recovered victims have been identified. Among those lost were twenty and negroes.
The report details recovery of Margaret Russell of Columbus and John Thomas of Newark. Stanley Wilson of Delaware and Mabel McGillery of Columbus remain missing. A seven year old named Stanley Wilson was among the recovered remains from Keye Lake, as the total death toll rises to six.
A collision on Main Street Wellsburg between an automobile owned by Charles Her bert of Follangbee West Virginia and a survey driven by G N Parks of Wellsburg damaged both vehicles. Park was severely bruised and dragged about 20 feet before stopping the horse. The accident occurred about 8 30 o clock as street lights at the point were broken.
At the East Liverpool power plant of the Tri State Railway and Electric Co a lightning flash around 8 pm burned out a large commercial switchboard. Electricians Ross Hill and John Kearns were burned about the face arms and hands when the lines carrying about 2300 volts reportedly grounded and an electric arc enveloped them.
The first hearing of John Anderson charged with white slavery in Wellsburg is postponed one week to Tuesday, at the request of prosecution. United States Commissioner George F. Boyd in Wheeling will hear the case. Anderson is accused of improper relations with Sarah Kohler, the Wellsburg girl found after a suicide attempt along street car tracks.
The Brilliant Sunday schools outer picnic failed to reach Rock Springs as the steamer Joe Fowler could not pass Brown's Island. The boat turned toward Wheeling and tied up, unable to reach Moundsville. The picnic was held aboard the vessel upon its return to Brilliant in the evening.
The Wintersville Grange announces an Open meeting on Friday evening August 1s. The program includes a male quartet, cornet solos by Cora Richmond and John England, duets by Lucile McCoy with Eva Sanders, recitations by Fred Sanders and Lucile Rhinehart, a solo by Josephine Mansfield, and addresses by M. Floyd and D. J. Sinclair.
August Lober, 46, was run over by a Wheeling & Lake Erie freight train in Illonvale yesterday. He sustained injuries and was rushed to North Wheeling hospital where doctors amputated his left leg. He remained in serious condition but had a fighting chance to recover.
The coroner filed verdicts listing Mele Bolish dying July 28 by being struck at the LaBelle open hearth furnace. Frank Zeffer dying June 22 in Glens Run mine from a roof fall due to lack of props. John Lobo dying August 1 in Glen's Run mine from a roof coal fall for neglect to post the coal. Samuel Henry died August 9 from carbolic acid poisoning. An unknown child on Wilson Avenue August 2 died with unknown cause.
The Columbus Journal notes butter remains pricey despite storage gains. It cites 45 million pounds in cold storage, 10 million more than last year, with retail prices higher now. Cold storage sustains constant speculative demand and limits consumer access, driving up living costs.
Jefferson county grand jury indicted liquor violators in Steubenville and surrounding areas. State Dairy and Food Commissioner's liquor tax deputies list seventeen Jefferson county speakeasies on the $1,000 Aiken tax duplicate. County sentiment grows to close grog shops at end of three year net period as calls to revive saloons fade.
Federal petition seeks a blanket injunction against the Amalgamated Association and 12 defendants over labor unrest at the Pope tin plant. Judge J. E. Sater set Monday for a hearing on the request to enforce peace and resume operations amid violence, boycotts, and alleged unlawful acts by strikers and officials.
James O'Donnell, indicted for second degree murder in Constable George Griffith's death, was released this afternoon after furnishing a $2,500 bond for his trial appearance.
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