CROSSVILLE CHRONICLE.
May 20, 1910.
BRIEF NEWS NOTES FOR BUSY MEN. (continued) The Standard Oil company has increased the wages of its workmen from 6% to 10%. The order is retroactive and became effective May 1.
It is estimated that the company will add from $8,000,000 to its annual pay roll expenses. The new scale affects employees engaged in the company’s works and factories, but the office men will not be benefited by this increase.
Most of the employees who will get the increase are laborers, and the advance applies to all the subsidiary companies in the United States. The company has approximately 70,000 employees. The Stand is one of the very few very big concerns of this country which has never had a strike among its employees.
Nearly $10,000,000 will go to Princeton University to be used for the benefit of its graduate school under the will of Isaac Chauncey Wyman of Salem, MA, filed for probate.
(Uncle Gib note: The Wyman House at Princeton was commissioned and occupied in 1913. It serves as the residence of the Dean of the College.)
State’s Attorney Edmund Burke of Springfield, IL, opened his investigation of the alleged use of money in connection with the anti-local option bill in the legislature by issuing subpoenas for seven men prominently identified with the liquor interests of the state.
The first hint of the movement to oust Rev. Dr. William H. Roberts of Philadelphia from one of his two offices of state clerk and treasurer of the Presbyterian general assembly, came in the report of the bills and overtures committee, which was presented to the assembly at Atlantic City, NJ.
The entire region in the department of Buches du Rhone experienced severe seismic shocks. Walls fell at Lambeac and Rognes. The population is wild with terror.
Miss Minnie Adlers, a pretty 20-year-old school teacher of Princeville, IL, was found dead in her bed at the Metropolitan hotel in Peoria, IL, with three bullet holes in her body. Hr companion, S.T. Easterly of Chillcothe, IL, a freight conductor for the Santa Fe, was detained by the authorities.
Four houses were demolished, several others badly damaged, a number of persons slightly injured, several barns wrecked and many trees torn up by the roots by a cyclone which struck the northern part of Cairo, IL.
When Charles DeWitt was killed in the recent explosion at Canton, OH, his life savings of $700, which he carried on his person, were lost and no trace of the money has been found.
Three packages containing $32,024.24, were stolen from the Pennsylvania depot at Oil City, PA, while John J. Truby the station agent, was loading baggage on to a train.
After standing unclaimed for seven years embalmed as a mummy, arrayed in full evening dress, with hat and cane, the body of Sidney Lascelles, better known as “Lord Douglas,” has been shipped from Macon, GA, to Washington.
(Uncle Gib note: Oh, my goodness! You will just have to look this fellow up for yourself. FindAGrave is a good start, and says he died in Asheville, NC. He was a notorious swindler and bigamist all over Europe and the United States. He was known to have married at least 20 women. His body went unclaimed until one of his wives claimed it, had it cremated and the ashes thrown into the Potomac River.)
Thus ends the Brief News Notes for Busy Men, at least for this week.
Old Uncle Gib is a historical feature published each week. Old Uncle Gib is a pseudonym that was used by S.C. Bishop, who founded the Chronicle in 1886. Bishop actively published the Chronicle until 1948.