The Monmouth inquirer., 1909-08-05
News of
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Through the coolheadedness of
President Thomas L. Lewis of the
United Mine Workers a strike of coal
miners involving at least 10000 men
was ayerted. An amicable agreement
was reached at Pittsburg between
President Lewis and the officials of
the Pittsburg Coal company which
means peace in the coal regions for
months, possibly years to come.
William English Walling of Chicago,
Socialist, husband of Anna Strunsky,
the noted Russian authoress, and
grandson Of a candidate for vice presi-
dent, was made the defendant in an
action for breach of promise, brought
in New York court by Anna Berthe
Grunspan, a young Frenchwoman,
who sues for 100000.
Following complaints from citizens,
who said the game was insulting to
loyal Americans, a booth in the jap
anese village at the Alaska Yukon Pa
cific exposition at Seattle Wash,
which contained an attraction known
as ''Assaulting Uncle Sans Whiskers,"
was closed by the director of conces-
sions.
In a realistic war test carried out in
the upper part of Portsmouth harbor
the inefficiency of a massive boom
with wire entanglements to prevent
the entrance of hostile torpedo craft
was fully demonstrated, the torpedo
boat destroyer Ferret cutting through
the distractions with the greatest ease
Joseph Cohen, rated as millionaire
manufacturer of corsets, was placed
In the Ludlow street Jail, New York.
for failure to pay an installment on a
judgment which Hyman Rappaport OBJ
tanned against him some time ago in
a suit for the alienation of Mrs Rap
paport's affections.
Manning G. Palmer, former presi-
dent of the American Exchange Ma
tional bank of Syracuse, N. Y, who
was convicted of misapplication of
the banks funds and sentenced to FIVE
years Imprisonment in the Auburn
state prison, was pardoned by Presi-
dent Taft
Another chapter in the Sullivan-Crai
slot machine mixup was written when
an order was issued directing that a
Judgment In favor of Ralph J. Craig
for $S34.77 be filed against Timothy P.
Sullivan, otherwise Little Tim" for
work in installing the machines iii
New York
Harry S. Rightmire, a well known
and well connected resident of Cam
den, n j., was summarily arrested
on suspicion as a burglar at Ocean
City and was detained ten hours in
the stuffy little box of a lookup. His
innocence was then established.
Miss Helen skipworth Wilmer a
Baltimore woman of wealth and So
cial position, settlement worker and
charity nurse of the Johns Hopkins
dispensary. was married at Baltimore
to DIR. Caleb N. Athey, health ward
en- of Baltimore county
Formal application was made in Al
bany by the Metropolitan Life Insur-
ance company for permission to buy
$50 acres of land in New York state,
on which to build sanitarium for the
treatment of employees suffering from
tuberculosis.
An order was issued by Supreme
Court Justice Bischoff in New York re-
ducing the bail of Charles w. Morse,
the convicted banker, to S., 900 on an
Indictment returned against him in the
court of general sessions alleging per
jury.
Without a dissenting vote and car
ried forward upon a wave of enthu-
siasm, the bill to ratify the income tax
amendment to the constitution Of the
United States was adopted by the
lower branch Of the Alabama leglisla-
ture.
Frank Cozonova Jones, Jr., son of a
wealthy New York manufacturer, and
Miss Gladys Kemp, daughter of Mrs
George Kemp, were married at Proyi-
dence, r. l., under circumstances that
point to an elopement.
Three swimmers, attacked with
cramps while they were bathing in
Wickham lake, at Warwick, N. Y,
were rescued by Miss Grace Kane,
who swan out to them with life pre-
servers.
Mrs. Virginia Prickett Burrows,
daughter of Banker w. r. Prickett of
Edwardsville, ILL.,, was married to
Henry Clay Pierce. the multimillion-
ARE refiner Of Texas. in London.