Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 38, Number 205, 7 July 1913 — Page 10

"XT PAGE TEN. THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, MONDAY, JULY 7, 1913

Ml TRUST TO LUCK . OH STREET COKTRIICT As Bids Were Equal Contractors Agree to Place Names in Hat.

PUMPS PURCHASED

In order to settle the awarding of a contract on two equal bids at the board of works meeting this morning, . S. E. Slick and Daniel Burkhardt, contractors, both agreed to trust to luck. Accordingly, the names of the two bidders were placed in a hat, shaken up, and drawn by one of the members of the board. Burkhardt received the contract for the work. , The bids were for the construction of a seven-foot cement sidewalk on both sides of North Fifteenth street from B street to C street. Besides the bids of Slick and Burkhardt, Schneider Brothers submitted a bid, offering to do the work for , 12 cents per square foot. Slick and Burkhardt each bid 10 cents per square foot. Improve Light Plant. The purchase of three pumps for the light plant, the aggregate cost of which wijl not exceed 2,000, was ordered upon the recommendation of Engineer Howard Gluys.. The pumps will be installed In the new light plant addition, which is at present under construction. The plans for the building to enclose the machinery, much of "which has now been installed, will be brought before the board at the meeting next Thursday. ; The contract for the construction of a sewer in , the first alley south of

-Charles street between Ridge and Boyer Sts., to a point 170 feet west of Hunt street, was awarded to S. E. Slick, whose bid to do the work was $1.69 per lineal foot. The contract for the construction of a six-foot cement walk on the north side of South D street from Thirteenth to Fourteenth street, was awarded to Daniel Burkhardt at 10, cents per square foot. Resolution Adopted. A resolution for the construction of a cement roadway in the alley between Fifth and Sixth streets from South A to South B street, was adopted.

Railroad News

AT KOKOMO FRIDAY.

Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Tttle spent the Fourth in Kokomo. Mr. Tittle Is a clerk In the Pennsylvania freight office.

SMITHS AT PETOSKEY.

P. W. Smith, director of the G. R. & I lines, and Mrs. Smith have gone to Petoskey for the summer.

HODGIN3 IN PITTSBURG.

S. W. Hodgins, division engineer of the Pennsylvania railroad at Richmond, has gone to Pittsburg on business for the company.

TAKING VACATIONS.

Local railroad officers and employes are taking their annual vacations.

GET SPECIAL TRAIN.

The city council haa arranged with the C. and O. railroad company for a special train to convey the members to Gary, Tuesday. The special will leave at 12:18 o'clock noon.

PITTSBURG BANKS ARE CLOSED TODAY (Continued from Page One)

a statement concerning the bank's affairs. -

McKEESPORT BANK CLOSES. McKEESPORT, Pa., July 7. The First National Bank of McKeesport closed its doors at 10:30 o'clock this morning. The following unsigned notice was posted: "On account of the First-Second National Bank of Pittsburg asking for a receiver, it is thought best for all of our depositors to close this bank for .the present."

RUN ON SAVINGS BANKS. PITTSBURG. July 7. Following the news of the closing of the FirstSecond National bank a steady run started on the Pittsburg Bank for Savings, which is also controlled by the Kuhn interests.

City Statistics

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Births. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Grover, 31 North Eleventh street, boy. Marriage Licenses. Geo. W. Croft, 36, city, and Elizabeth J. Collins, city. Harry Alexander Norman, 34, cabinet maker, city, and Nellie Hazel Bright, 26, city. Deaths and Funerals. RICKNER Arthur H. Rickner Infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Burt Rlc liner, died at the home of his parents, 6 Fort Wayne avenue, on Sunday morning. The funeral was held at 10 o'clock this morning at the home. Burial in Earlham. i. WOLKE Mary Catherine Wolke; 84, died Sunday evening at hertfeome, two miles west of the city on the National road. She is survived by three sons: Weasel Wolke, Harrison Wolke and Anthony Wclke, and two daughters, Mrs. Casper Rohe and Mrs. Chas. Kllgus, and also one brother, Frank Hollmann. The funeral will be held Wednesday morning at 9 o'clock from St Andrews' chiych and burial will be at St. Andrew's cemetery.

BIG COMPANY. MAY FAIL. PITTSBURG, July 7. A report was current here today that a receiver for the American Water Works and Guaranty company, of which the Kuhn interests are the controlling financiers, will be asked. The capital of the company is $20,000,000, and it controls water and irrigation works in many states and bituminous mines in Pennsylvania.

MANY BEING SUPPLIED

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Ice From Palladium Free Ice Fund.

PALLADIUM'S FREE ICE FUND.

Previously acknowledged ...$35.10 Cash 5.00 Cash 50

Total. $44.60

As the rule of the sea Is, "Women and children first, so the rule in Richmond Is "Babies and sick first," as far as ice is concerned. The Palladium's ice fund is growing each day with contributions from philanthropical residents and charitable societies of the city. Calls for ice from indigent poor persons have been answered and many families, where ice is a necessity, are being supplied daily. Names of worthy poor persons may be Bent to the , Palladium, and upon investigation the families will be supplied with ice.

JUDGMENT SHOWN BY WEATHER MAN

After treating the city to a hot ware lasting from the twenty-sixth of June to the fifth of July, during which the mercury stood between eighty-aeven and ninety-four degrees, the weather man took pity on the citizens Sunday and today, moderating the temperature several degrees. The temperature kept falling until It reached forty-eight early thig morning. The weather report for the week follows:

Max. June 29 94 June 30 95

worth, a veteran on the Champaign force, and Ray Williams, bootlegger, were dead, and chief of police Albert Keller and Oliver Harding are wounded. Chief Keller was reading a war

rant to Williams, when the bootlegger drew his revolver and opened fire oni Keller and Dodsworth. la the anootln that followed Harding, a bystander was hit.

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ABANDONED BY HUSBAND; IS GRANTED A DIVORCE

Anna H. Bryant was ganted a divore from George H. Bryant on the chare of abandonment by Judge Fox in the circuit court. Bryan was defaulted and no defense of the charge was made. The case had been pending since April 30.

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PINCH BOOTLEGGER; TWO WERE KILLED (National Newt Association) CHAMPAIGN. Ills., July 7. The arrest of a bootlegger in Champaign which resulted in the death of two men and the serious wounding of two others, today had stirred this city to a high pitch of excitement and divided it on the question of allowing the legal sale of liquor. Policeman Thomas Dods-

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