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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Sep 05, 1905
Page
16
The Ben Hur launch plunged after a lantern fire set gasoline alight. Four of thirty aboard drowned including H J Wonger of Petrolt and NLA Man of Buri. Other passengers were rescued as fire was extinguished and the craft damaged.
Elmer Estrada, a 19 year old black man, was nabbed in Philadelphia after a quarrel with a woman led to a room search. Detectives found about twenty five pawn tickets for jewelry and valuables, tying him to a New York burglary case involving Jose Aymer Estrada. He awaits requisition from New York officials.
A crowded street scene on a holiday ends in tragedy as infant Gertrude Dinser is found dead. Detectives under Inspector Fiend and Capt Ward arrest the Dinser household, question neighbors, and uncover a partial confession from Dinser claiming the child was punished for misbehavior. Coroner Scholer cites fatal injuries not caused by a fist and details of the strained family dynamics emerge as the case unfolds.
Bayfield Wis Sept 4 later accounts show eleven crew of the steamer Sevena drowned after the ship broke on Sand Island Reef in a gale on Lake Superior. Four women and others were rescued after a night of buffeting by waves and a perilous lifeboat voyage to shore. Eleven volunteers stayed aboard to assist shipmates as the vessel tore in two. capt McDonald and two mates plus four sailors perished. The survivors faced a brutal trek through Northern Wisconsin to reach Bayfield for aid.
Mercer County farmers formed a mutual aid group suspected of conspiring to destroy the massive reservoir near St Marys Ohio. Arrests followed after dynamite was used to blow the bulkhead near Montezuma. Witnesses and suspects, including Pinkerton men and local officials, indicate a wider plot, with several men confessing or awaiting trial.
A ten pound French poodle named Fritzl Scheff awakened Emma Werner on 310 West 118th Street as smoke filled a top floor apartment. The dog’s barking led residents to evacuate, saving lives as flames damaged the stairwell and lower floors. Firefighters smoked out the blaze and halted spread.
George C Miller a retired grain broker shot himself after attempting to kill his divorced wife and Mrs Hill at 325 Chicago avenue. The incident, two weeks after a separate killing at the Del Prado Hotel, leaves Mrs Hill uninjured and Miller dead. police fear the motive may relate to the Mrs Mize case but cannot yet prove the theory. Miller did not regain consciousness.
Albert Brandi an engineer aged 32 was mortally wounded in a fight with his brother in law Thomas Harris over an eighteen month old daughter. Harris and his brother Stephen demanded the child at Brandi's mother's home and a struggle ensued. Hammer blows felled Brandi then Harris was shot as Brandi fired a revolver in self defense. Simon Brandi later fired the weapon at Harris as the two Harris brothers were captured four hours later.
Tin dall former Asbury Park license inspector who vanished last winter and later repaid 1500 to the city is reported missing again. He had fled after embezzling city funds and then worked as manager for the Asbury Park Billposting Company where books show he is short with new employers. Tindall was last seen Friday and remains under indictment for official embezzlement from Asbury Park.
The Bedbug Special train run by the Union Pacific was dispatched from Cheyenne Wye on September 4 to exterminate bedbugs and other vermin in section houses along the line. It carries steam hoses poisons and disinfectants and will use engine steam for extermination.
In Troy Tennessee at a tent meeting Adolphus Holder nineteen, son of Rev B L Holder, shot and fatally wounded John Wells. Wells' sister allegedly caused the shooting. both men belong to prominent New York families. Separately, a cargo of seven percent sugar arrived in New York from Rio de Janeiro aboard the Prince Tane Castilian Prince, Rio Janeiro's first sugar shipment to the United States, attributed to a large crop and low U.S. prices.
Mason City Iowa September 4 A residence linked to the Iowa Gold Fellows burned to the ground. Firefighters rescued fourteen residents including twelve children and elderly residents, saving lives as flames engulfed the structure.
The coroner Nevitt report shows an increase in personal crisis reports in the District last year while police records for August show a decline from prior years. Six people died by own action in August, with several others attempting suicide using laudanum, morphine, or hanging. Druggists favor stricter poison laws, noting easy access to deadly drugs and urging registration and purchaser accountability to curb such acts.
The American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia is organizing an elaborate celebration for Benjamin Franklin’s birth anniversary, with President Roosevelt expected to participate. The event, set for January, will involve New York and Boston, with support from state and federal governments and France. Gov Pennypacker will preside in Philadelphia, and the society has $40,000 available, half of it legislatively appropriated.
Proceedings begun to appoint a guardian for Irving D Smith a Lake County farmer known as a millionaire. His wife filed the action claiming he is unable to manage his estate amid many requests for donations. He has given away a total of 29 720 acres valued at 3679 to his wife tenants and relatives.
Traveling eye specialist Dr Abbo Coventry of Deadwood accidental gunfire kills wife Mrs. Coventry while hunting two cats. He mistook her approach in brush, firing a bullet that struck her brain and caused death.
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