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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Apr 05, 1912
Page
10
discussion centers on banning railroad ships from using the canal waterway. Officials including Mr Wick ersham Mr Stimson and Mr Prouty discuss the Adamson bill provisions. Key figures warn the plan could curb railroad control of port facilities and provoke a heated Senate battle.
April 4 proceedings reveal unexpected defense claims as Hamel Thompson testifies Soto threatened two months before the alleged crimes. Thompson recalls a party at Mrs Vertitys home where Smith allegedly made a remark about poison. The defense challenges this testimony while Smith denies the events and Pepper sauce details enter the record.
Voters faced confusion as ballots were challenged and appellate divisions debated district results. In one district delays followed polling opens while sheriffs and judges argued over procedures. The scene described tense courtroom moments and contested election actions as legal questions loomed.
A fragmented report recalls a Massachusetts court ruling on a Chelsea fire case invoking act of God and standard power to prevent. It mentions a $1,206,000 fee and a separate $40,000 claim tied to the incident, with references to defendants and a passenger stake in the event.
A Patchogue case recounts a newborn's face body inflammation lasting nine months. After trying multiple treatments, the mother found relief using Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment, with the baby’s skin clearing and remaining healthy. The letter, signed Miss Taine Valentine, promotes the Cuticura remedies with free samples offered.
April reports from Philadelphia note active recruiting among unemployed miners by United Mine Workers and a short time plan at Philadelphia and Reading Railway shops. Scranton yards lay off most coal crews as anthracite tensions rise amid calls for union action and potential new leadership.
Utica April 4. State militia patrolled New York Mills to curb disorder as three cotton mills faced eviction actions. Strikers clashed with deputies, women hurled epithets, seven men arrested for brawls, deputies briefly forced to defend themselves with billies. Little serious damage reported, but trouble anticipated with eviction of hundreds housed on company property.
Two men died and three others were wounded at the Missouri Pacific Railroad shops in Nossington Kansas when Bud Smith a discharged black employee opened fire. Smith killed watchman Charles Levin wounded timekeeper Layman and others while bystanders were hit by stray bullets. Officers intervened rescuing Smith before a lynching mob could act and he died minutes later.
Andrew F Tully secretary of the Metropolitan Association of the Amateur Athletic Union publishes a letter to Secretary Hiles of President Taft explaining that the Olympic games commission has not requested foreign commissioners. He notes the Swedish committee in control has not voiced such a desire while some members of the international Olympic committee have asked for a US commissioner.
Five injured and property damage totaling 100 dollars after a fire destroys the Webber building at Main Street and Depot Square Tarrstown New York. A keg of gunpowder in a hardware store on the ground floor exploded sending bricks and flames through the structure. Three store employees including a woman were knocked down and burned and two passersby were hurt by flying debris. In Cumberland Maryland Harry Hardy nine year old son of R E Hardy drowned in the Potomac River on the West Virginia side while fishing or possibly blown in by high winds. The body was recovered this afternoon.
Shipping news lists incoming and outbound vessels with routes from New York to Rotterdam Queenstown Bremen Liverpool and Havre. Vessels include Koenigen Suiza La Sa lle Adriatic and Sable Island cargoes, with sailings and docking times near Queenstown Liverpool and New York.
In Newark on April 4 a trolley struck a crossing child on Bowers street. Dr Adolph Flachs, summoned in haste, discovered the mangled body to be his own four year old daughter Ella. The girl was crushed beneath the car wheels and died instantly, Dr Flachs barely lifting the body to carry it home.
Lincom Nebraska April 4 Woodrow Wilson writes to Secretary of State Walt requesting his name be withdrawn from the Populist ballot as a candidate for the preferential vote at the primaries. Admirers filed his name for both Democratic and Populist tickets in this state where the two parties are usually fused.
Pittsburgh April 4 Anthony Visco a Prosperous Trajan fruit dealer on Larimer avenue received three letters in a week demanding 3000 dollars placed near his business He ignored them and an incendiary fire destroyed his property and damaged the First Italian Presbyterian Church and several other buildings Frostburg Veterans Postmaster Dead Special to The Washington Post Frostburg Md April 4 Charles Hervey Walker postmaster for 24 years died today aged He had run the Western Union telegraph office in Frostburg and served as coach lieutenant of Company B Twenty eighth Pennsylvania volunteers taking part in Shermans march to the sea
A. W. Mellon, Pittsburgh banker, wins two petitions in common pleas court. One fixes the first Monday in October for trial of his divorce from Nora McMullen Mellon of London. The other allows testimony to be taken in multiple U S cities and Europe to avoid sensational publicity and accommodate recalcitrant witnesses.
Special to The Washington Post from Rockville Md April 4 Taft association leaders And Dr Ryan Devereux left Rockville for a county wide car tour to boost Taft's renomination They will organize district groups to encourage primary voters for May 6 A Taft meeting is planned here on April 16 under Taft association sponsorship
A gigantic spelling bee will be held in Harrisonburg on the night of April 12 at the theater. Fifty spellers on each side will hear words called by Dr. W. Currell of Washington and Lee University, with lawyers, doctors, editors, and business men from Harrisonburg and nearby towns expected to compete.
Special to The Washington Post from Annapolia Maryland reports the death of Mrs Katherine Berkely Goottewood Iglehart widow of William T Iglehart a former attorney and publisher aged 78 She is survived by Lieut E Berkely Iglehart USA retired and two daughters Mrs L Dorsey Gassaway and Miss Annie Iglehart all of Annapolis.
Clementine Bernabet, self described mayor among seventeen negroes, was indicted by a Lafayette grand jury for the murder of Robert Randall and his family last November. She shrugs, sings hymns in her cell, and boasts of a forthcoming newspaper photograph while naming two accomplices Maryonchon and Irene and claiming a jarb doctor aided in the killings.
Dr John Les Coulter of the Department of Commerce and Labor urged rural industrial cooperation at a South education conference in Nashville. He proposed each cotton community own its warehouse gin oil mill and compress with local credit societies funded by stored cotton and a federation to provide funds, citing grain farmer models. He also endorsed cooperative stores for farmers purchases and urged similar marketing cooperatives for fruits dairy and vegetables.
Annapolis Md April 4 at a special city council meeting action moved to reorganize the Annapolis Water Company after the city acquired control of the stock. Mayor James I Strange named to vote stock at the directors meeting and to back George T Melvin and Charles G Feldmeyer for six and four year terms. Melvin is slated as company president. Dr Gordon H Claude is the only other stockholder besides the city and has not sold his five shares.
Raleigh dispatch reports Clyde police chief Rog era, also a Haywood deputy sheriff, held without bond in Waynesville on murder charges from a school closing exercise. After a coroner’s verdict and a preliminary hearing, bond was denied and he awaits the July term of Haywood superior court.
Special to The Washington Post Winston Salem NC April 4 J H Lehman and J H Nixon who recently accepted a $2000 wager by a wealthy New Yorker to operate an automobile backward from Winston Salem to New York will leave April 16 they expect to average 50 miles per day experienced machinists have accepted an invitation to go via Washington and expect a cordial reception in the National Capital Rising Sun Md April 4 within two weeks of the day she was to marry Alfred Miller Miss Clara Frist of Port Deposit while visiting the Miller parents Mr and Mrs John Miller of Rising Sun was stricken with appendicitis yesterday and there is little hope of her recovery.
Rome April 4. The antitipping crusade reaches the Vatican with an official papal edict condemning church functionaries who accept tina for seating tourista and visitors during holy week services. The ceremonies draw demand for good seats and some church servants have been profiting.
Miss Helen Marshall a Woodward avenue shoe store employee was fatally shot by James Rasasco who then turned the revolver on himself ending his life in view of many pedestrians. Mike Marshall arrived in Detroit about ten months ago from Brantford Ontario.
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