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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Jul 09, 1910
Page
1
A mob dragged Carl Etherington from the Newark jail and shot him after a raid on alleged liquor joints. A strikebreaker Howard, shot during the raid, died as detectives fought crowds battering jail doors. Police and anti-saloon workers faced mounting tensions in a city gripped by vigilante action and public outcry.
New York reports Frank Jay Gould and actress Edith Kelly were married five weeks ago in Paris. Helen Kelly Gould and Ralph Hill Thomas took out a New York City license, and friends say Gould’s divorce from his first wife was finalized last year. Details remain secret as officials and guests decline comment.
Two 50 year old women from Northwest Washington were injured when a streetcar collided with an auto at H Street near Connecticut Avenue. Mrs. R. Z. Roberts, sister of Representative Barclay, and Mrs. E. Peck were taken to Emergency Hospital, with Mrs. Peck the more severely hurt. Both were later returned home under care of family physicians.
Detectives aided by police rescued amid a Newark melee as a mob followed them to jail. Wayne B Wheeler of the Antisaloon League says officers were not state league staff but hired by a county group through a Cleveland agency. In Granville, twenty men were sworn as special officers under the Woods act to raid Newark liquor outlets, while troops and militia were readied but not dispatched. The unrest ended with Etherington’s lynching rumor and retreat of the mob.
A pedestrian recalling a near fatal crossing accident describes stepping onto H street tracks just as a streetcar loomed. He awoke amid a crowd after a loud gong, noting a car driven by Conductor Edward Ged dais and Motorman F. A. Tarber. The auto sustained about 300 dollars in damage and witnesses blamed no one.
A Jungfrau glacier avalanche near Bergli hut hit two alpinist parties. Seven rescued including three guides with serious injuries. Five still missing presumed dead, two Germans among them. Nationalities of others unknown. Disaster occurred on Jungfrau glacier.
Jack Johnson is due in Washington in late July as a delegate to the I B P O E convention. Two rival lodges of the Elks race to host the boxing hero, with nightly meetings and church groups drawn into the dispute. A large New York reception and a 100-car parade are planned for Johnson’s arrival.
Richard McGuirk a St Louis machinist was arrested after attempting to intrude on boxer Jack Johnson's home at 3244 Wabash Ave Chicago armed with a rifle neighbors called police fearing he meant to kill the heavyweight champion. He claimed to have lost 25 from a Reno prize fight and said he lived in Bransford Canada but worked in St Louis.
Governor B B Comer suffered a slight injury in a runaway at Abbeville Alabama. He was thrown against the front seat of a carriage and again injured the leg previously troubled by a horse kick. The report notes the incident occurred July 8 in Montgomery. Horsford s Acid Phosphate is advertised as nerve vitalizer and digestive aid.
Special to The Washington Post. In New York on July 8 the Maharaja Gaekwar of Baroda arrives at the Plaza with part of his family and suite. He has made two trips to the United States and governs a semi independent Indian principality. He aims to apply ideas from abroad to improve his people’s condition and development back home. He notes he cannot study educational systems further on this trip and cites Japan’s schools as a model for mass reach and homogenization as a key Indian problem.
Special to The Washington Post New York reports George Crowther, seventh husband of Mrs. Mary J. Sappage, sues to set aside deeds to property valued between 380000 and 100000 dollars. He alleges she used liquor to induce transfers with promise of income, citing a long line of prior spouses including Wakeman and Sanders.
Special to The Washington Post from St. Louis July. Col Abe Slups returns to St. Louis from Reno with $3000 hidden under two porous plasters stuck to his chest. He explains it was the only safe way to carry money there, says he did not sleep two hours during the trip and kept vigil, worried his wife would find the rofl stuck on him.
A Voisin biplane piloted by Baroness de la Roche plunged to the field at Rheims after losing nerve at 50 meters. Rescue and medical care followed as Lindpaintner, blamed by the crowd, was protected by gendarmes. An official inquiry cleared him of responsibility.
Norfolk July 8 A rumor claims $6500 vanished from a safe on the receiving ship Franklin last night. Officers deny none, cap tain of the Franklin to be reached. Paymaster Hilton recalled from leave after a ten day break. A sentinel assigned to guard the safe was placed in the brig for alleged neglect of duty citing failure to sleep in the office.
The Washington Penn Mobile Alabama reports Dr Bergheim a Texas Red Cross surgeon refused to treat Julian Irias the Madriz delegate. Brigadier General Clifford Sands of Heathe and Exiled American captive near Principalka survived. Sands stood with seven defenders for 40 minutes before trenches fell and Irias ordered his death. Bergheim demanded Sands be paroled before treating Irias.
A special dispatch from Paris reports mutiny aboard the two masted yacht Tolna owned by Count Rudolph Tolna of Austria. Ringleaders were handed to police in Madeira after the count confronted them with a revolver. The yacht Thistle, formerly owned by Commodore Robert Todd of the Atlantic Yacht Club, sailed from New York May 24 with Count Festetics de Tolna and Miss Alice Weatherby aboard. Also notes a railroad timetable for the St Louis Limited and Baltimore returns.
A dramatic incident unfolds as a mob hangs a white man in Alexandria. Local authorities respond. ongoing investigation and public safety concerns mount amid tense city atmosphere.
Clarence A. Knight may receive two hundred fifty thousand dollars for services in settling the estate of Charles T. Yerkes. Master in Chancery Granville W. Browning, appointed by Judge Cutting, ruled the fee not exorbitant and deserved. Trustees and beneficiaries have contended over Yerkes holdings in the United States and England.
In a 15 minute raid at St Leonard's in Brooklyn three masked burglars targeted the church desk and fled after priests Koenig Oppel and Sanders defended the treasure. A maid was knocked unconscious while alerting the rector. no money was taken. Police hunt the suspects.
Visalia dispatch reports a July forest fire in Yosemite threatening the M grove of giant sequoias. One worker may have started the blaze as cavalry, forest rangers, and ranchers join Capt. Wright and four troopers in a desperate effort to check it.
Two heat fatalities occurred amid a heat wave that hit the capital over the past two days. Temperatures climbed to a high of 301 degrees at the downtown weather bureau kiosk, reflecting extreme conditions that affected residents of all ages.
Washington sweltered under a scorching day as two deaths were linked to the heat and six more people collapsed. Among the dead were Frank Weldon aged about 88 in his yard at 88 Fifth Street NW and Charlies Whitney, a four month old infant in Virginia Whitney’s care at 1003 Rhode Island Avenue. Six others were prostrated across the city, including Lawrence Fitzpatrick, Samuel Gress, J W Lancaster, John R Stewart, Jesse Watson, and P McWhorter, all treated at local hospitals with varying seriousness. The thermometer peaked at 101 or 161 on the period’s instruments, with forecasts predicting continued heat and southwest winds.
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