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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Mar 09, 1913
Page
5
Investigates the MeloChord Club incentive from Aeolian offering the PIANOLA Player-Piano at a club price of 385 dollars for 250 members, including free music rolls, library exchange, free tuning, bench, and easy terms. Immediate delivery and manufacturer guarantee endorsed by the seller.
Chicago vice commission hearings on female labor wage levels and morality examine employers like Edward Hillman and James Mandel as they pledge to raise juvenile wages and study individual cases. Witnesses discuss living costs, with Hillman noting saleswomen average $8.17 weekly and a 13 to 15 year old wage floor. a male suspect is jailed for assault after a troubling incident.
Clarence Darrow faces a mistrial in a second trial on a jury bribery charge as four jurors favor conviction and five favor acquittal. He requests a new trial while Assistant District Attorney Ford announces resignation plans. Attorney Mooney moves to recall District Attorney Fredericks over union-labor stance.
Special to The Washington Post reports the battleship Wyoming leaving Tan gier Sound to train at Southern drill grounds off the coast. For five days she will fire every gun except one out of commission earlier at Guantanamo Bay. Targets towed four to seven miles away by the tug Sonomy. Wyoming to dock in Norfolk about March 15.
Dunstan's Roman Catholic Cathedral, the province's largest church, was destroyed by fire today in Charlottetown Prince Edward Island. The loss is estimated at $300,000. The fire likely started behind an altar by an electric light, fanned by a breeze, and spread rapidly into the bishop's palace, where it was controlled. The church had been built six years ago and Bishop O'Leary was to lead a May service wiping out its debt.
Rear Admiral Joseph Clies Eaton USN retired who led the transport Resolute in the Spanish American War and informed Admiral Sampson the fleet left Santiago Bay died suddenly at his Norwell home. Born in Greenville Alabama in 1847, he received the Medal of Honor after the battle of Santiago and retired in 1905 after 39 years of service.
Police prepared photographs of Gaetano Viviano known as the King of the Black Hand. They will send the images nationwide to locate him after his return to the United States following deportation in 1912. Officers traced him to White Ash, TfL, but he has not been seen there for two weeks. He had two prison terms in Italy and was deported as an undesirable citizen under immigration laws.
Winnipeg reports Riding Mountain outlaw John Baran was convicted of killing Constable Charles Boke of the Manitoba mounted police and was sentenced to hanging on May 20. Baran's crimes are linked to two other deaths. U. S. Marine Corps examinations for second lieutenants will be held July 14 in Washington and San Francisco with other sites as needed for candidate numbers and fourteen or more vacancies.
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