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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Sep 05, 1905
Page
24
Four passengers jump overboard when a flask of jimes ignites gasoline on the St Clair Plus 4 during a launch at night. The Ben Hur ferry sinks with four drowned and several rescued by nearby craft as fire is controlled and the vessel sustains damage. Notable names include ALGLST ta of Ausstana and H J WONGER of Petrolt.
Elmer Estrada, a nineteen year old man, was arrested after a quarrel with a woman led police to his room in Philadelphia. Officers found about twenty five pawn tickets for jewelry and other valuables, and he is awaiting requisition from New York where he is linked to last week’s New York residence robbery of Jose Aymer Estrada.
A baby named Gertrude Dinser is killed in a New York tenement. Detectives, led by Inspector Fiend and Captain Ward, arrest the Dinser family and neighbors as witnesses. Dinser gives a partial confession admitting punishment with fatal results, while Coroner Scholer notes injuries inconsistent with a fist.
Bayfield Wisconsin Sept 4 later accounts show eleven of the crew of the steamer Sevena drowned when it broke on Sand Island Reef in Lake Superior late Friday night. Eleven others were rescued including the remainder of the crew and four women. The disaster is told as a perilous shipwreck with seven volunteers staying aboard to aid shipmates. The vessel broke in two and the lifeboats endured a long, hazardous voyage to shore as crews fought surf through a terrifying night.
A Mercer County farmer ring is suspected of plotting to blow the bulkhead of a massive reservoir near Montezuma, threatening St Marys and vast farm losses. Pinkerton and local detectives tighten the case as arrests spread, with claims of confessions and planned third attempts, while dynamite sources are traced to regional quarries.
A ten pound French poodle named Fritzl Scheff alerted Emma Werner on 310 West 118th Street when smoke filled the top floor hallway. The dog barked and woke residents, guiding firefighters to a blaze that endangered fourteen people and damaged the stairway as crews arrived.
George C Miller a retired grain broker shot himself after attempting to kill his divorced wife and her husband at 325 Chicago avenue. Mrs Hill escaped unharmed while her husband would lose an arm. Police link the act to the earlier killing of Mrs E Mize near the Del Prado Hotel. Miller died today. Mrs Hill and her husband survived.
Albert Brandi an engineer, was mortally wounded in a fight with his brother in law Thomas Harris over Harris daughter. Brandi died an hour after admission to county hospital. Harris and his brother Stephen demanded the child at Brandi's mother’s home. a hammer was used on the Harris brothers, and Brandi fired a revolver. Simon Brandi seized the weapon and fired. Harris brothers were captured hours later.
Tin dall former license inspector for Asbury Park who vanished last winter after embezzling a large city sum is again missing. He had refunded 1500 dollars to the city council and then worked as a manager for the Asbury Park Billposting Company. He was last seen Friday and remains under indictment for the city embezzlement.
Cheyenne Wye on September 4 dispatched the Union Pacific bedbug special to exterminate bedbugs and vermin in section houses along the road. The train is equipped with steam hose, poisons, and disinfectants, and steam from the engine will be used.
In Troy Tennessee at a tent meeting Adolphus Holder aged nineteen son of Rev B L Holder fatally wounded John Wells. Both men belong to prominent families and Wells' sister was cited as the cause of the shooting. New York dispatch notes the event alongside a Rio Janeiro sugar shipment aboard the Prince Tane Castilian Prince.
Mason City Iowa September 4 flames destroyed the Iowa Nda Fellows home. Nearly all residents escaped but three dozen people including thirteen aged residents were rescued in time amid the rapid blaze. Local officials investigate the cause.
Coroner Nevitt reports a rise in personal crisis cases in the district last year, yet police records show August deaths by own action down from prior years. Several sailors and residents died by morphine or laudanum, with women and youths chiefly attempting self harm. Doctors urge penalties for suicide attempts and tighter drug controls as druggists back stricter laws to curb poison sales.
The American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia plans a national celebration for Benjamin Franklin’s birth anniversary, with President Roosevelt expected to participate. Proposals include events in New York Philadelphia and Boston, supported by a $40 000 fund with half from the state legislature, and with Gov Pennypacker presiding.
Proceedings started to appoint a guardian for Irving D Smith of Lake County known as a millionaire farmer. His wife filed the action claiming he is unable to handle his estate. Smith has donated to his wife tenants and relatives an aggregate of 29,720 acres valued at 3679.
Dr Abbo Coventry, a traveling eye specialist from Deadwood, shot and killed his wife Mrs. Coventry while hunting two cats near Clyde Park. He mistook her approach in brush for an animal and fired, the bullet piercing her brain.
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