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Newspaper
Steubenville Herald
Location
Steubenville, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1913
Page
7
Twelve of the men sentenced for the Mahmoud Shefket Pasha assassination were executed this morning in Bayazide square. The area was secured by a double cordon of troops and police, and there was no disturbance. Several condemned men delivered farewell addresses from the scaffold.
In Washington on June 24 anti free sugar Democrats in the Senate caucus backed Senator Shafroth’s amendment to end free sugar by 2016 and impose a duty about half a cent per pound thereafter on refined sugar. The measure accepts Underwood bill rates for three years and keeps a roughly one cent per pound duty on refined sugar through 1916. Louisiana and beet sugar states press colleagues to drop free sugar for another 50 percent cut in 1916.
Report from New York shows 27 of 32 city mayors favor Sunday baseball, prompting a request to legislators to repeal the statute banning professional games on Sundays. Governor Sulzer notified of the referendum results.
About a thousand Imperator crew members gathered in Hoboken New Jersey to denounce working conditions aboard the giant liner. They adopted resolutions demanding better food, improved lodging, and a nine hour workday and planned to present them to the ship’s commander. Speakers criticized treatment as harsh, with long hours, crowded quarters, and inadequate sanitation cited by stewards pantry cooks coal trimmers and firemen.
Jacob Mador ski, second of four manslaughter defendants in the garment workers strike killing of Morris Gelbman, pleaded guilty to assault and battery in Cleveland criminal court. He received the maximum penalty of a $200 fine and six months in the workhouse, mirroring Morris Laskin who took a similar plea and sentence. Gelbman, a striker, was killed after announcing plans to return to work.
Hoylake England June 24 J H Taylor, four time British Open champion, captured the title again with a total 304 for four rounds. He shot 73 in the first round 75 in the second 77 in the third and 79 in the final round.
President Wilson starts a nationwide relay from the White House to Chicago to deliver a felicitation to Mayor Carter Harrison. Fred Reed carries the message in the haversack as scouts run mile-long legs through Maryland Gettysburg Pittsburg Cleveland Toledo South Bend and Beaver Falls toward Chicago, with the finish expected June 28.
Eleven thousand garment workers obeyed a strike order today causing a near total halt in shops and factories. About 8,000 were in Cincinnati with 3,000 more in Mount Healthy and Reading suburbs and across the river in Newport and Covington. Women demand a 48 hour week and men seek 50 hours with a 10 percent wage rise.
The Cincinnati dispute between ice manufacturers and striking drivers helpers engineers and firemen persisted with no near settlement. Outside shipments rose to meet hospital demand while small public deliveries continued. Three days of cool weather limited public suffering.
The House Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing on Thursday in Washington to investigate delays in federal prosecutions ordered by Attorney General McReynolds. Targets include Maury Diggs and Drew Caminetti in San Francisco under the white slave law, and Western Fuel Company officers charged with conspiracy to defraud the customs.
Columbus June 24 The state board of administration has arranged a plan to pay prisoners at the penitentiary and Mansfield reformatory three cents per hour or retain wages for them to be delivered at release. An appropriation of 70,000 dollars funds the system, effective August with the pay-prisoner law. President Thomas E Davey says the move will build a post release fund and reduce idleness that leads to crime.
June 24 in Marietta reports John Britton of Belle Valley shot and killed his wife while she slept at the farm home of Orville Ward near Lowell. Britton then shot himself in the yard. The couple had been living apart for several months.
More than a thousand miners from the New River coal field gathered at Mount Hope for a Union picnic. After grievances are presented, committees from Paint and Cabin Creek districts press officials to order a strike unless operators immediately reemploy all workers who were on strike.
Book reviewers hail Benson J. Lossing LL.D. author of The History of the Civil War as a superb writer and authority. They praise his accuracy, engaging style, and ability to present vast facts with charm, noting admired quotes from Warner Morley Matthews Besant and Besant.
Harrisonville, Missouri June 24. Jesse OBannon a 14 year old boy who killed his father J W OBannon a farmer near here last night was exonerated by a coroner s jury today. The inquest brought out evidence tending to show the boy fired in self defense.
Quotations furnished to A C Donglas of Steubenville Ohio by Moora Leonard and Lewis in New York and Pittsburgh. Stocks listed include American Sugar, Goodyear Rubber, Union Pacific, U S Steel and Pittsburgh coal among others with prices and percent figures noted.
Opening guns sounded today for the Christian Endeavor Convention in Lima with a large Steubenville and Jefferson County delegation. Belmont and Columbiana counties join in booster efforts for Steubenville to land the 1914 convention, with banners and Badges prepared and a special Wellsville car provided. The song invites delegates to Steubenville and highlights Ohio’s capital city status and regional progress.
A meeting is called for Monday evening June 30 at 7 30 at Wells High School to arrange entertainment for Honorable Alexander JM Rowe Adjutant General of Idaho and former Wells principal. Former students and friends urged to attend. The event honors decades of service and memory in Steubenville.
A mothers meeting was held Monday evening in the Italian district on South Sixth street under the Social Service Union. A well known Italian woman spoke in Italian on child education and sanitary home conditions, with a musical program by local young ladies. Many mothers attended and the meeting was successful. The next session will be Monday, July th.
A paid notice explains natural gas costs rise from 30 to 32 cents per thousand feet after the July reading. Cash customers receive a 2 percent discount, and the minimum rate will be discontinued. The change aligns Steubenville with Pittsburg area prices after prior boosts.
Julius Kale, a 40 year old black laborer from Gallipolis, collapsed at the north city dam Tuesday morning. The coroner took charge as heart trouble is given as the cause. body moved to the morgue and little else is known about the deceased.
The La Belle Tron Works directors held their regular monthly meeting on Tuesday and considered routine business. The preferred dividend declared at the last meeting will be paid June 30 and the common dividend on July 1.
T W Duffy of East Liverpool former president of the National Brotherhood of Operative Potters now chairs the state liability board of awards is to be chosen as a member of the state industrial commission. Governor Cox is expected to make three appointments this week with Wallace Yaple of Chillicothe and M P Hammond of Columbus also named along with Duffy in the Cleveland Plain Dealer report.
Terre Haute June 24 John Brantlinger charged with larceny leaped from the prosecutor's office on the third floor of Vigo county courthouse and killed himself as the prosecutor prepared an information against him.
Sugar prices rose with all hard refined grades up ten cents and all soft grades up fifteen cents per hundred pounds in New York trading on June 24.
Toronto residents viewed Steubenville's new 105 hp La France fire engine during a demonstration led by H A Katchizer and Vice Chief Martin. Mayor Murray, Councilman Francy, and Fire Chief Paisley observed the truck's handling and potential use for patrols and fighting fires locally.
The trade extension committee of the Chamber of Commerce calls merchants to meet at the Pro bate Judge’s office at 8 tonight to consider creating a refund bureau to cover car fares for out of town shoppers. The committee and chamber are not committed, and the meeting is for conference and merchant decision only. Committee members listed: L L Macpold, Lambert Friedl, W C Sterling, F R Smith, H W Ironsakew.
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