Murder by Foreigner Involving Italian Girl Eyewitness
A Russian man, Michael Popovitch, 26, was shot and killed by Kojo Beshut, a fellow countryman, near Popular and Prospect avenues opposite LaBelle Iron Works. An Italian girl witnessed the event as Beshut, allegedly jealous, fired four shots from a 38 caliber revolver after luring Popovitch to a hilltop spot. The motive centered on a quarrel over a woman, with Beshut fleeing and authorities seeking him. Coroner to hold an inquest. Popovitch carried $70.40 and papers identifying him as from Middletown Ohio.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Michael Popovitch
Kojo Beshut
Popular
Prospect Avenues
LaBelle Iron Works
Beshut
Popovitch
Herb
Middletown
Ohio
Poplar Avenue
la Belle Mill
Altamont
LaBelle
Mettenberger
Montana
Popovich
Troops Pass Through City on Panhandle Line
Trains carrying United States troops, cavalry, infantry and equipment traveled through the city Thursday night on the Pan Handle railroad. A third special from Pittsburgh is due this afternoon en route to Fort Bliss Texas. Five cars carried soldiers. the rest held equipment and supplies. A local counted 26 machine guns and field artillery on one train.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Pan Handle
Pittsburgh
Pennsylvania
Fort Bliss
Texas
Burton Seen as Likely Compromise Choice for GOP
Washington report to the Wheeling Intelligencer says Senator Theodore E. Burton will secure at least 150 votes on the first ballot and lead the candidacy. Burton shows growing strength in the western states including Kansas, Oklahoma, California, Washington, and Oregon, with New York and New England unlikely for Roosevelt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Wheeling Intelligencer
Theodore E. Burton
Burton
Roosevelt
Massachusetts
Johnson
California
Sherman
Ilinois
Illinois
New York
New England
Ohio
Kansas
Oklahoma
Oregon
West Virginia
West
Pennsylvania
Steubenville Red Cross Ships War Aid to Europe
The Steubenville branch of the American Red Cross Society ships three boxes for European war sufferers. Contents include hospital shirts six dozen, cup covers ten dozen, fly screens nine, baby kits two dozen, plus a first box of surgical dressings with 72 abdominal binders, 90 T binders, 18 fracture pads, 12 elbow vests, and hundreds of bandages and gauze compresses. Also sent are gently worn men’s shirts, pajamas, socks, union suits, and old linen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Steubenville
American Red Cross Society
La Belle Co Plans Major Store Expansion on Market Street
La Belle Clothing Company awarded a contract to enlarge its big Market street store with a three story brick addition behind the present building adding 3,000 feet of floor space. Remodeling includes removing the middle wall to create a doubled men’s furnishing department. New terra cotta front, upper floors remodeled, several new departments, and a dedicated Children’s Store will be added to the revamped complex.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
la Belle Clothing Company
Market Street
Elson
Bold Hold Up Thugs Rob Franks Carr in Steubenville
Frank Carr, a Cincinnati arrival and new Steubenville potter, was attacked by two men at Adams Street near the Pan Handle railway. They knocked him into a fenced yard, stole $26 and his suitcase, and fled along the railroad track. Carr pursued briefly but the assailants disappeared. Police seek the two men, one described as a Negro, no witnesses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Carr
Cincinnati
Carr
Steubenville Pottery
Adams Street
Pan Handle
Conference adjourns amid unresolved terms in Eastern Ohio miners dispute
Miners and operators of Eastern Ohio No 5 adjourned talks in Wheeling with no changes to the points at issue. A mass meeting of miners may be called next week to decide whether to reopen negotiations or end efforts. Operators refused the desired changes, and officials warn a strike affecting about 16,000 miners remains possible. The district includes last year’s fourteen month strike group.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wheeling
Ohio
No. 5
Double death shocks Fourth Street family in New Somerset
Ele mer Ellsworth Groves aged 52, a painter of New Somerset, died after months of illness. His widow and two children survive. Less than a day later, 13 month old Clinton Wells Lester, grandson to Mrs. Ida Lester of East Liverpool, died suddenly at the Groves residence. The bodies rest at Coe morgue and a double funeral will send both to New Somerset, DC, for interment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elemer Ellsworth Groves
Fred Lester
East Liverpool
Clinton Wells Lester
Groves
South Fourth Street
Fourth Street
Elmer E. Groves
Walter
Tierney Maine
Ida Lester
Henry
Isaiah
Samuel
New Somerset
Maddie Wiles
Nebraska
Mary Saltsman
Mooretown
Ohio
Lester
Coe Morgue
New Somerset, DC
Case Settled Iroquois Manufacturing v Medcalf
The case of Iroquois Manufacturing Company against John A Medcalf has been settled at cost to the defendant.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iroquois Manufacturing Company
John A. Medcalf
Tiltonville Man Pleads Not Guilty to Assault and Weapons
Mike Olsom of Tiltonville was indicted on two counts for assault with intent to kill and carrying concealed weapons. He was arraigned before Judge Smith Thursday afternoon and entered a not guilty plea to both indictments. He was released on bail pending trial.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mike Olsom
Tiltonville
Smith
Beall Gavin case reversed by Court of Appeals in Steubenville
The Court of Appeals on Thursday reversed Judge Smith, ruling Gavin violated the city contracting law within one year after leaving office. Judge Spence rejected Hogan's prior opinion and affirmed the Beall Gavin decision, restraining Gavin's payment for sewer work on Steele Avenue. Other cases from the term will be decided May 22.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Court of Appeals
William M. Beall
City of
Harry Franckhauser
Civil Service Commission and Common Pleas Court
Sofia Callerzio
Beall
Smith
Gavin
Spence
Timothy Hogan
Hogan
Walter Leake
Bergholz
Metcalfe
Leake
W. C. Brown
William M. Duncan
Wheeling & Lake Fire Railroad
Mike Perland
Dillonvale
Joseph Bainbridge
Clyde S. Mercer
Pollock
Trustees
Mt. Pleasant Township
State of Ohio
P. H. Morehouse
Somerset
Joseph D. Flenniken
R. Wylie Dodd
Salem Township
Richmond
Flenniken
Dodd
Board of Elections
Army expansion plan approved by conferees
The House and Senate conferees agreed on a 206000 peacetime army capable of expansion to 254000 in wartime as the first major national defense measure. The report goes to both chambers for ratification next week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Herald-Star
Washington
House
Senate
Congress
Near Murder on Wabash Bridge Ends With Arrests
A bridge holdup turned near murder when three Eichelberger brothers fought a knife wielding attacker. The victim was the assailant, later found unconscious, and the three brothers were arrested then released after no witnesses testified. Police from Mingo and Brooke county pursued the case.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wabash Bridge
Mingo
Brooke County
W. Va
Curtis
Applegate
Charles
John Eichelberger
Wellsburg
Wellsburo
Ohio
Ed Eichelberger
John
Carnegie Millards
West Virginia
Fichelberger Brothers
Yorkville tin plant to expand to eighteen mills
The Yorkville tin plant in this county plans an expansion by six more mills, increasing to an eighteen mill facility. Ground is available and contracts followed in stages. A future furnace and a box factory are planned, centralizing box production that is now done in Martins Ferry. The project aims to create one of the country’s finest plants.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yorkville
Martins Ferry
Burglars Strike Highland Avenue and Marsh Alley
Last night thieves hit the foreign quarter of Highland avenue and Marsh alley taking $84 in cash, a gold watch, and jewelry from trunks. At 306 Highland avenue they rifled Andy Trepanowski’s trunk after moving it to a yard, while 317 Marsh alley saw four trunks smashed in the alley. A resident woke others and two burglars fought back before escaping. police suspect locals familiar with the area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Highland Avenue
Marsh Alley
Andy Trepanowski
Trepanowski
Starr Nominated for Annapolis Cadetship by Hollingsworth
Representative Hollingsworth yesterday nominated FE. W. Starr of Steubenville to a cadetship at the Annapolis Naval Academy. Starr was endorsed by hundreds of Steubenville residents and his appointment pleased the district, praised as a superior choice by Gen. Hollingsworth.
Marriage Licenses for Steubenville and Nearby Areas
John A Brady and Marie J Kane both of Steubenville. Amnett R Sharer of Steubenville and Bridget W McAndrews of Mingo Junction. James H Jacobs of Pittsburg Pa and Flora M Bins of Steubenville. Mike Lesmanski and Marie Holodrink both of Steubenville.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John A. Brady
Marie J. Kane
Steubenville
Amnett R. Sharer
Bridget W. McAndrews
Mingo Junction
James H. Jacobs
Pittsburg
Flora M. Bins
Mike Lesmanski
Marie Holodrink
Jefferson County Grand Jury Returns 32 True Bills
The Jefferson County grand jury completed its session Thursday, filing 32 true bills after examining 126 witnesses across 26 cases. Indicted for crimes include assault with intent to kill, robbery, and weapons offenses, with notable cases involving Giovanni Taraddei, Steve Saudh, J W Harris, Rose Miller, and others. The panel found jail conditions satisfactory and recommended two bloodhounds for crime tracking.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Giovanni Taraddei
Guiseppe Ottavania
Ramsey
Ohio
Jefferson County
Taraddei
Steve Saudh
Dillonvale
J. W. Harris
Rose Miller
West Virginia
William Williams
Market Street
Harris
Miller
McMaster
Mike Ollom
Tiltonville
Martin’s Ferry
Lizzie Hicks
Turner Freeman
Curtis White
Amato Bernabei
Pottery plants idle as strike ends in Ohio
Alliance Ohio May 13 two thousand pottery workers in Sebring’s five potteries were made idle as manufacturers shut down all departments in response to kiln drawers strike demands for 25 cents. The wage agreement runs to October 1917 and troubles over eight months prompted closures believed likely to last indefinitely.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Herald-Star
Alliance
Gazette Figures Prompt Recount of Ada Ballot Error
The Steubenville Gazette notes a discrepancy in primary results claiming Harding 444 votes and Willis 1,244, while the Gazette condemns misinformation about Ada and calls out misreported county tallies in Hardin and Marion. The Press-Standard comments on Democratic press bias against Willis after nomination.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Willis
Democratic Press Bureau
Press-Standard
Carrollton
Brown Seeks Divorce From Amelia Over Wilful Absence
Lorenzo T. Brown files for divorce from Amelia M. Brown alleging three years of wilful absence and total disregard of marital duties. He requests custody of their one child. The couple married in Wellsburg in 1909.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lorenzo T. Brown
Amelia M. Brown
Wellsburg
Frightful accident on Ferguson oil lease injures boy
Emmett Widger thirteen of Holliday's Cove West Virginia lost his right leg when he tripped near a gas engine fly wheel at the Ferguson oil lease. He was brought to Ohio Valley Hospital where he was reported improved the day after the incident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ferguson
Holliday's Cove
W. Va
Emmett
Henry Widger
Ohio Valley Hospital
Widger
Sunday Brawl at Rush Run Ends With Critical Injury
A bowling alley brawl at Rush Run Sunday evening left Charles Ronyatz in critical condition with possible skull fracture. Alleged assailants Steve Sharkey and Paul Chucka are jailed and may face more charges as investigators pursue the case. Witnesses say alcohol flowed all day and the dispute began after drinking. Ronyatz was struck on the forehead with a beer bottle or a tenpin and initially taken home before possible transfer to Martins Ferry hospital.
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Rush Run
Charles Ronyatz
Steve Sharkey
Paul Chucka
Ronyatz
Squire H. L. Dunn
Ronyatt
Martins Ferry
Seven bishops chosen for Methodist Episcopal church ballot
Saratoga Springs May 1 A committee report to the general conference recommends immediate balloting for bishops. Seven bishops to be chosen, two more than before. One bishop to Korea where missionary supervision exists and another to staff the new Episcopal residence in Detroit Michigan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Saratoga Springs
N. Y
Committee On
General Conference
The
Methodist Episcopal Church
Korea
Detroit
Mich
Distribution Ordered in Cdbert-Wabash Co Case
The court ordered distribution of proceeds in the Cdbert Coal Company versus Wabash Coal Company et al case. Receiver C. F. Maurer to oversee the disbursement as directed by the court.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cdbert Coal Company
Wabash Coal Co. Et al
C. F. Maurer
Proceeds Distributed and Real Estate Sale Confirmed
Proceeds from the sale of real estate in the Kenneth Naylor versus Golda Moore case have been ordered distributed by the court. The sale of property to United States Coal Company in the George W. Rine executor of Henry Rine versus John T. Rine et al case has been confirmed. Elizabeth Stull, after several days with the Social Service Union, has been sent to her uncle at Miller's Station in Harrison county. Charles Ingram was bound over by the grand jury today on a charge of assault and battery. bond set at $200.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Kenneth Naylor
Golda May Moore
United States Coal Company
George W. Rine
Henry Rine
John T. Rine
Elizabeth Stull
Social Service Union
Miller's Station
Harrison County
Charles Ingram
Grand Jury
Squire Downer
Ed. Rohrey
Body of unidentified man found on bridge at Yellow Creek
The body of a man who fell from a C. P. & freight train while crossing the Yellow Creek bridge lies in Wellsville morgue unidentified. A cloth bearing the name William Powell was found pinned to his vest. The body will be kept until early next week in hope of identifying him.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yellow Creek
Wellsville
William Powell
McNally Granted Divorce Over Neglect of Duty
Lena B. McNally is granted a divorce from George B. McNally on grounds of gross neglect of duty. The defendant is enjoined from interfering with the plaintiff or the child.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lena B. McNally
George B. McNally
Pleasant Heights Improvement Company quiets title suit
The Pleasant Heights Improvement company through its receivers John A. Huston and Earl T. Jenny sues Thomas G. Moreland and others to quiet title to property on Pleasant Heights.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pleasant Heights
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U. 5
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LA Belle CO
Man
Stranger
Elmer Groves
Gavin Case
Judge Spence
Torney
BIG Pottery
Sebring
Hasleg
Ley Hospital
M. E. Church
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