Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1909-12-31
Interesting Facts Cleaned from
Columns of EVENING STAR
Are Compiled for Readers.
POLE DISCOVERY
ADDED TO HISTORY
Bathtnb Murder, Skeleton Mys-
terry and Elections Among
Important Local Events.

Important Local Events.
William ]. Gaynor elected Mayor of
New York city, defeating William r.
Hearst and Otto T. Barnard: Tam
many Hall loses In New York city. faii-
ing to elect a single candidate; Isaac
Sheenthal defeated George E. Russell
for surrogate; Essex county Republic
cans elect complete Assembly ticket;
Republicans make clean sweap of New
ark elective officers. 3. Archdeacon
Lewis Cameron buried; General c. Ed
ward Murray, of Mercer county, an
nounces retirement from State and ma
t1onal politics. 6. Pennsylvania passen-
ger train collides with engine in Jer-
sey City, killing five people. 7. Mrs.
Augusta Stetson, Christian Scientist.
gives up her fight against home church
in Boston; Ex-Governor Franklin
Murphy e 1911 Senatorial fight by
writing pen letter. s. Robert Simpson
dies in hypnotic test at Somerville.
Professor" Arthur Everton, of New
ark, placed under arrest on charge of
granddaughter; Board of Freeholders
said to be planning to make Surrogate
George E. Russell warden of Overlook
Asylum. 8. Nine men burn to death in
fire at Robert Morrison & Sons celluloid
factory, in Brooklyn. Robert Morrison,
owner of plant, committed suicide
through grief; fall inspection and
parade of Newark police force;
hatters' strike ends; Miss Lii
liam L. Price. veteran school teacher.
dies. 9. Major Cortlandt Parker resigns
from First Regiment; Louis Strang
breaks auto record for one mile at At
lanta by making distance in 0:37 7-1O.
10. c. w. Morse pleads for new trial in
New York city; claims jury that con-
victed him was allowed too much
liquor; William Altheimer, veteran
trunk manufacturer, dies, aged "a
years; Mrs. Henryette Kaufherr pur-
chases Shoreham apartment house at
ummer avenue and May street for
100000; City Clerk James F.. Con-
molly makes public plans for city EN-
ployment bureau; William H. Drollette
killed by street car on Broad stree;
Union Lodge, F. and A. NJ, of Orange,
celebrates century anniversary; the Rev.
DR.. Dean Martin Gessner, of Elizabeth,
CASpA 4fAo Cohit I'LL e q L4ic
Rev. Isaac Thomas. retired Methodist
Episcopal minister, died at Morristown.
IL. Mob in Cairo, ILL.,, hangs negro muir
derer Of Miss Anna Policy; town is IN
der martial law for two days pending
further outbreak; Mrs. j. w. Pudney,
of Verona avenue. suffers loss of leg
when run down by Eria Railroad
freight train at Summer avenue cross
ing; President William H. Taft reaches
White House after 5000 mile journey
covering Sc days around country; Cow
ernor John Franklin Fort answers ex-
Governor Murphy's letter of November
s; County Counsel Joseph S. Mum
rules that handkerchiefs manufactured
in Essex County Prison must peal
prison stamp. II. Tenney, great run
ming horse, once Brooklyn Handicap
winner, dies at Lexington, KY, farm:
Directum, 2:05A, for seven years holder
of worlds trotting record, dies at Saw
age Stock Farm, Minneapolis; Robert
H. McCarter home on Broad street
looted by thieves; News from Jamaica
says storm loss by rain and hurri-
cane will be $1,000. 900; Mrs. Isabella
Guthrie McCosh dies at Princeton, aged
SO years. IA. Dan A. Stuart, noted
sporting man and fight promoter, dies
in New York: William Rogers, mem
Der of First Regiment. drowned while
on fishing excursion; storm sweeps
Great Lakes, causing loss of six YES
sells and SO lives; the Rev. Henry r.
Rose, of Church of Redeemer, declares
for open Sunday in Newark; Emma
Goldman lectures in Persons Hall on
Francisco Ferrer, the Spanish educator;
explosion and fire entombs 3S4 miners
in ST. Paul Coal Company mines at
Cherry, ILL.,; Plainfield Y. NJ. c. A. cele-
brates ~forty-second anniversary. 10.
Duane e. Minard succeeds Major Cort-
landt Parker as judge advocate of First
Regiment: Niearaguans ask United
States Government to interfere and end
reign of Zelaya; Leonard Groce and
lie Roy Cannon, American citizens, re-
ported shot to death in Nicaragua by
order of President Zelaya; Mr.. and
Mrs. Thomas Storrs Waterman. of Or
ange, celebrate fiftieth anniversary of
marriage. 16. American Telephone and
Telegraph Company buys George j..
Gould's interests in Western Union
Telegraph Company and ecure control
of Western Union Company; the Rev.
DR.. Michael A. McManus, of st. Alo-
ysius's Church, dies; c. A. Conner. for
mer prominent Newarker, dies in aims
house in North Carolina: John ]. Dean,
veteran plumber, dies. aged GO years;
Eugene Unger, wealthy jeweler. thrown
from horse and dies from his injuries;
Engineer Charles Anderson killed in
wreck in Lehigh Valley yards at Ere
t,,1IH,xcar an1 MaokAr axan11aG- New
Jersey State Sunday School Associa-
ton opens three day convention in
East Orange. Is. Richard Watson Glider,
noted poet, former Newark newspaper
man, dies in New York city, aged s.