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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1913
Page
12
The Post announces the correct solution of its dynamite plot puzzle as 9 721 with a breakdown of digits. It notes 896 1s 343 2s 228 3s 58 4s 193 5s 116 6s 216 7s 84 8s 250 9s making 2 615 figures totaling 9 721. The piece outlines contest rules for a second puzzle next Sunday and prize guidance amid outcomes.
Metropolitan and Chevy Chase clubs schedule a Monday morning benefit baseball game for Providence Hospital at the Mieri can League pary. Captain Henri de Sibour leads the Metropolitans squad with 14 teammates listed. the Chevy Chase lineup includes James Archibald captain and several doctors and officers.
Vienna reports that Essad Pasha, who led Turkish troops at Scutari during the siege, has been killed in Tirana. Dispatches claim the act may stem from a blood feud linked to Hassan Riza Pasha, his predecessor at Scutari. The murder follows Essad Pasha’s march to Tirana and the establishment of a provisional Albanian government.
George N Cervera a tile worker died yesterday afternoon after plunging 30 feet from a scaffold in the dome of the new Scottish Rite Temple at the Avenue of the Presidents. An inquest was ordered to determine the cause. Cervera, 39, lived with his brother at 432 Tenth Street Northwest. He and other Spanish tile workers were recently brought from New York to complete art details.
George Fosnutt owner of the Bb bitt House was acquitted after witnesses on both sides testified. The case, begun Tuesday morning, was given to the jury by Joize Mullownes as the prosecution led by Corporal Williams progressed in the county court yesterday.
Dr Carl L Alsberg announced a Department of Agriculture plan to bar polluted oyster beds from interstate commerce and promote sanitary handling to restore consumer confidence. He noted rare cases of illness from bad beds and urged public publicity and state cooperation to reduce the high cost of living. Congress may be asked for a sanitary survey funding.
Details of a lieutenant who shot himself at his boarding house in Annapolis ten days ago are partially released. Secretary Daniels says Naval Academy officials provided a brief report and requests for fuller information are denied due to the report’s meagerness. The deceased, Lieut Hill, had just returned from a trip, and was engaged to Miss Henrietta Erwin of St Louis, a fact not publicly announced before the tragedy.
Louisville Ky native Thurston Ballard Ballard was elected president at the annual congress of the National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution. A Howard Clark of Washington DC was chosen secretary-general.
Pastor B Wilkinson of the Columbian conference told Takoma Park delegates that 2000 new members joined in four years, tithes rose 332000, foreign mission offerings reached 20000, and ten churches were built in multiple states including Maryland West Virginia Delaware New Jersey Ohio and Pennsylvania. Churches were erected at Fords Store Hagerstown Pondsville Charleston Parkersburg and Takoma Park. Pastor W B White noted a missionary boat operation amid New York harbor vessels.
The funeral of George Gibson a veteran businessman of the District was escorted by Knight Templar yesterday. Burial occurred at Oak Hill Cemetery with honorary pallbearers named from the Columbia Chapter No 1 R A M and other lodge representatives.
Crowds in Washington witnessed Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show at Fifteenth and H streets with Pawnee Bills Far East Show. The program mixed two continents with camel and elephant acts and a new auto polo game. Col Cody appeared in a carriage and recounted frontier scouting days. Two performances today close the engagement.
Prosecutions in the naval commissary graft scandal conclude as F He Hobiba and W J Hunt are acquitted of offering bribes to secure navy provision contracts. Indictments drop against R M Eastwood L J Upton H B Walker H E Holston William E Adaun and George T Davis, former commissary steward of the battleship Dauisiana.
The Munsey Trust Company offers four percent interest on savings with quarterly compounding and no penalties for early withdrawal after a six month minimum. Deposits can begin earning after deposits are processed, with tiered rates for under six months and a maximum five thousand dollar account limit, plus pass books and optional certificates of deposit.
The Postmaster General approved two more stamp book designs after 1900s profit of 190000, plans for six books including a 96 1 cent stamp book for $1 and a 24 1 cent plus 1 cent stamps book for 75 cents, pricing to cover manufacture and more. Rev. Henry P Hamill, DD, will preach at Calvary M E Church South at 11 am. father was the postwar Democratic congressman from Maryland’s Sixth.
The Court of Appeals stayed the mandate in the contempt case against labor leaders Gompers, Mitchell, and Morrizom. They will appeal to the United States Supreme Court. The stay was granted after counsel cited Gompers’s illness, delaying consultation in the appeal preparations.
Leaders of the Chicago Federation of Labor and members of its executive and legislative committees are summoned to appear before the Illinois House. A federation resolution attacks Speaker McKinley and House leaders over the defeat of the initiative and referendum proposal. The notice, mailed by secretary E McNabe, claims Lorimer and others discussed the measure with House leaders. Also mentioned is the Calumet Club and Lafayette College baseball links, with Kendall Myera noted as a Western High School player.
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