Violence at the Old Watering Hole..times 2

Last Night to Liquor Up

CERAMIC CITY DRY AS TINDER

(By United Press)
EAST LIVERPOOL, O., July 23.– Residents of the city, one of the largest in Ohio to vote “dry,” are ????y provisioned for a thirst siege. Yesterday was the last day for two years in which liquor could be sold. So the saloonkeepers had bargain sales and men and women crowded in to get the stuff.

The saloon finish was also marked by a shooting a??ray in which Charles Hineman, a saloonkeeper, was fatally wounded. A.L. [or I] Mercer, a photographer, is alleged to have done the shooting and is held with a companion without charge pending the result of Hineman’s injuries. Hineman is said to have tried to stop a fight. Mercer and his companion escaped down the river on a ????ch [maybe launch] but were captured by detectives.

New Castle News (PA) 24 Jul 1907

On the upside, with the booze ban, he was gonna be out of work anyway, so Mr. Photographer may have done him a favor.

UPDATE: Here is an update (2 separate articles) on the saloon shooting, with some interesting information about the dead man’s wife in the second one:

MURDER MARKS DROUTH’S ADVENT
Free-for-All Fight Takes Place in East Liverpool Saloon
East Liverpool, O., July 23.–A shooting which is likely to result in a charge of murder, marked the closing tonight of the saloons for their long dry season under the result of the recent election. Clark Hineman, a saloonkeeper, is in the hospital with a bad bullet wound, and the surgeons say he cannot live until morning.

Azel Mercer and George Heckatholm are in Jail. Mercer to be charged with murder if  Hineman dies, and Heckatholm to be charged with being an accomplice.

The shooting occurred during a free fight in front of Hineman’s saloon just at closing hour. Hineman attempted to play peacemaker, whereupon, it is charged, Mercer drew his revolver and shot him through the abdomen. Mercer threw the gun away, and he and Heckatholm made for the river, where they boarded their steam launch. The landed between East Liverpool and Wellsville, and were at once arrested by Policeman Dawson and McDermott of this city.

The Elyria Chronicle (Elyria, Ohio) 23 Jul 1907

FORTUNE
Awaits the Slain Man’s Young Widow if She is Cured of Drug Habit.
East Liverpool, O., Aug. 3.–The bulk of $15,000 in cash in a Pittsburg bank and considerable real estate in this city and Chester, W. Va., are to become the property of Maude Smith, whose name before her marriage to Clark [D or L] Hineman of Moundsville, W. Va., was Marie Bertrand, of Wheeling W. Va., if she is cured of a drug habit she is alleged to possess.

The will of her late husband, which has just been filed for probate in the Columbiana county courts makes such provision for the young widow.

Hineman was fatally shot here the night of July 22. The fact that he was married did not become known until after he was taken to the
hospital.

The Newark Advocate (Newark, Ohio) 03 Aug 1907

Saloon Shoot-Out

A Texas saloon shoot ‘em up story. I had ancestors  living in this area back in the 1890’s.

Held Up Seven Men

SHERMAN, Tex., Jan. 17,–At Bell’s, twelve miles east of here, George Smith, a farmer, entered a saloon Wednesday night and compelled seven men at the point of a revolver to hand over their money and valuables. As he was leaving the saloon Jim Sibet, the town marshal, fired, but missed him, and Smith returned the shot and the bullet entered Sibet’s head. He will die.  Smith was afterward captured, brought here and placed in jail in spite of the efforts of the mob to lynch him.

New Castle News (PA) 21 Jan 1891

Angry Guests Put Groom In Coalbin

Coal Train

I ran across this new item while searching and thought it was funny.

MIDLAND, La., April 28,–Walter Eaton, “best man,” and seven other “guests” today faced charges for disorderly conduct following a wedding “prank” last night. When all the guests were seated at the table, the bride’s mother announced that the wedding had occurred five months ago and that the couple had gone to the train for their belated honeymoon. The enraged guests overtook the couple at the depot. Clarence Weidner, the bridegroom, was imprisoned in a coalbin all night and his bride was ducked in a public trough.

New Castle News (PA) 28 Apr 1913

With friends like these, who needs enemies?

Baker in His Dough Vat

On Strike

These people play rough!

Strike Sympathizers Make Raid on Non-Union Establishment.

New York, May 15.–Max Alheim, a baker of East New York, who did not close his bakery when the bakers recently went out on strike, was dragged from his bed by strike sympathizers and thrown into a vat of dough in the basement of his establishment.

He was so badly beaten that his removal to a hospital was necessary. The women raiders meanwhile attacked Mrs. Alheim and threw pailfuls of dough upon her. The police dispersed the raiders and arrested two of them.

The Indiana Evening Gazette (PA) 15 May 1909

1 Stone, 1 Snake 2 Stone, 2 Snake

Copperhead Caution

This fellow was mighty brave, but he also knew his luck could run out  on the turn of a stone.

Three Stone, Three Snake, Four Stone—But Man Lost His Nerve.

At a certain point where the Buffalo Rochester & Pittsburg railway are making an extension to their lines near Homer City, copperhead snakes are said to be unusually plentiful. The other day an Italian laborer was told to get some rocks out of the way and after securing a crowbar he went to work.

Under the first stone he found a copperhead, which he dispatched immediately; turning over the second stone he found another copperhead ready to bite him, and killed it; going to a third stone he turned it over and there lay another snake ready to dart at him. By this time the Italian was wrought up to a high nervous tension, but succeeded in killing this reptile; then he went up to the boss and said:

“Why you no let me work at some other place. The Devil him sure must have been here. One stone, one snake two stone, two snake, three stone, three snake, but I kill him all.  Now want nother place, for maybe four stone, four snake and him bite me.”

Indiana Evening Gazette (PA) 19 Jul 1913

Musical Interlude…And Science

Dancing Cow

A man ahead of his time, or was he just keeping an eye on the bottom line?

Lancaster Cows Like “Swing”

LANCASTER, Jan. 19–Fellow dairymen shook their heads when Park Miller installed a radio for his 31 cows about a year ago. Today he explained [what] his experiment disclosed. Cows like to hear dance orchestras.

They seem to prefer snappy tunes to the dreamy waltz numbers.

Classics are not so effective.

Symphonies and bits from the comedians and speeches never should be tuned in.

Miller explained he installed the radio because he figured music would help keep the cows contented. Poultrymen discovered some years ago that they got more eggs by putting electric lights in their hen houses. It works out the same, he said.

When he turns on the radio his 31 cows show immediate interest. If the orchestra swings into some catchy tune, they’ll listen in bovine contentment, seldom taking their eyes from the machine.If the music doesn’t have that certain swing, the cows appear bored.

Then there’s something else about putting a radio in your cow barn. Miller said he observed that his hired men went about their work with a lot more vim and vigor when a snappy tune was on the air.

Indiana Evening Gazette (PA)  19 Jan 1937

Now, about those chickens…

FARM CALENDAR
Timely Reminders From Pennsylvania State College.
Eggs and Electric Lights–If artificial lights have been turned on in the poultry plant, turn on an equal amount of common sense with them. Those who get an egg production much over fifty per cent for any length of time will pay dearly next spring by having their flocks go to pieces and molt.

Indiana Evening Gazette (PA) *unknown date

Little Orphan Annie

Orphan Man, Sitting With A Girl

And her father’s solution was to hand her over to the Children’s Aid Society. Nice!

HER STEP-MOTHER
Drove Little Annie Heasley Away From Home.

The little girl who was found wandering on the streets of Shelocta last week, and afterwards turned over to Human Agent Thompson, has been identified. Her name is not Jessie Anderson, as she told Mr. Thompson, but Annie Heasley, and her home is near South Bend rather than Five Points.

When taken before Sidney Marlin, J.P., she told quite a different story than on her first questioning. Her father who was informed of her whereabouts through the GAZETTE, was present when the child told her story and was much shocked as every detail of the plan to send her homeless into the world was revealed.

Annie’s story was like this: Her step-mother told her that she must never again use the name, Annie Heasley, but must always pass as Jessie Anderson; neither was she to tell anyone that her home was near South Bend. Quite a clever scheme was fixed up to conceal the identity of the child, and she was then driven from home, followed by threats of a severe whipping if she returned, or departed from the story which had been manufactured for her.

From South Bend she wandered to Shelocta where she was picked up and brought to Indiana. Her father when he found she was in town, thinking she had run away, had papers made out committing her to the Morganza reform school, but on hearing her story turned her over to the Children’s Aid Society, who have given her over to a family named Kauffman, near Homer City, to raise.

Indiana County Gazette (PA) 20 Jul 1892