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Newspaper
Waterbury Evening Democrat
Location
Waterbury, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1908
Page
12
Baltimore reports await an imminent arrest in the Charles B. Roberts shooting on Atlantic City boardwalk. Police cite a possibly unmasked shooter, while a private telegram says Roberts and Mrs. Williams know no assailant. A negro describes the suspect. identification may follow quickly.
Atlantic City officers probe a early report blaming a robbery theory. They state Charles B. Roberts was shot Wednesday night and suspect W. G. Williams, husband of a woman who was with Roberts, though it's unclear who fired. Investigators question Williams, deny European absence, and consider a witness from Mrs Williams’ circle. Police press may follow leads in Baltimore and New York to locate Williams.
New York state Republican leaders at state headquarters indicated plans to press the party’s course without national interference. State Chairman Woodruff warned against directing the forthcoming convention, saying such meddling could cause disaster. Roosevelt’s stance remains to be heard as primaries and caucuses proceed.
Augusta Ga Aug 20 Twenty two bodies recovered and more found hourly. The river steamer Swan captain said he saw at least twenty five corpses on a trip up the river all but one were negroes. Reports say many drownings among negro farm hands in the lower valley. The Chronicle estimates deaths at sixty. Citizens in mass meeting and city council and board of health have taken relief measures.
In New York Magistrate Crane jailed prizefighter John McCarthy nicknamed Rube for six months on $1,000 bond after beating his mother Mia. McCarthy claimed he supported her, offering 50 cents and a dime weekly. The magistrate urged better care and warned of harsher consequences.
N Y August 20 two large wildcats attacked Robert Bihn a New York theater manager at a camp near Cooks Point Lake George. The man fought back with help from Roscoe Conklin Peck a lawyer. Peck felled one animal with a hatchet. Bihn was taken to Fort Ticonderoga for care and is recovering from deep neck and chest wounds with danger of infection now past.
Ferdinand Pinney Earle and his wife are reunited after he was released on $1,000 bail from Goshen jail where he faced a charge of beating his wife. Lawyers indicate the charge may be dropped as exchanges between the couple reveal an apparent understanding reached after his Tuesday arrest.
In New York on Aug 29 a terrier rampaged through Mrs. Michael Maher’s East One Hundred Nineteenth Street flat, biting her feet and her four-year-old son John. Mrs. Maher and bystanders beat the dog until it died. a policeman later shot it.
An old health note explains how excess uric acid harms kidneys and causes back pain, headaches, and joint stiffness. It urges using Dean's Kidney Pill as a prompt, effective remedy for these symptoms and kidney discomfort.
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