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Newspaper
Advance Hustler
Location
Advance, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 28, 1908
Page
3
Gen Stoessel, condemned by a military court for surrendering Port Arthur, has the sentence commuted to ten years in a fortress and dismissal from service. The court acquitted Gen Smyrnoff and Maj. Gen. Riess, while Gen. Vader presided. A public mood of sympathy and a festival plan followed the verdict.
The Kentucky Anti-Saloon League published replies from ex Governors Beckham and Bradley on the county unit local option bill. Beckham unreservedly favors the measure and would withdraw if Republicans and six opposing Democrats pledge support. Bradley supports the bill as part of the Republican platform and notes its use by Beckham supporters to block other reforms.
An Australian company secured a Russian concession to extract 30 million feet of timber yearly from a Siberian forest 900 miles from Vladivostok. The timber will be shipped to Melbourne about 8,000 miles away, a distance far exceeding New York to San Francisco.
Red hog men flood Louisville as the annual pink Duroc Jersey pig sale begins. Sixty two fine animals were sold today at an average of 40 dollars each with many more to be offered tomorrow.
Washington special reports Chaplain Cowden prayed for the unemployed during his invocation in the House of Representatives asking that an opportunity to exist be given to them.
Washington Special Collier's Weekly, famed for charging public men, is sued in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia for 150000. Plaintiff William Wolf Smith, ex-resident of Indianapolis and son of Indiana historian William H. Smith, claims libel in March 1906 and February 23 1907 articles. Defendants are Peter F. Collier Robert B. Collier and Norman Hapgood.
Judge Farlin Ball dissolved the injunction on voting 281000 Illinois Central shares allowing E H Harriman to take control and oust Stuyvesant Fish. The ruling also holds foreign corporations may own and vote stock in Illinois companies, impacting major railroad consolidations and the government suit against Pacific combinations. A court stampede followed the decision.
In Chicago the blizzard, the worst since 1884, paralyzed traffic and caused widespread destitution. Detectives search mountainous drifts in suburbs for 33 missing persons while two new fatalities raise storm deaths to 10 and injuries to over 150.
Clarence Robinson, a Hed ding College Park student in Abingdon, was seized by masked youths during a Tuesday blizzard. Gagged and bound to a tree on West Campus he struggled for hours, nearly freezing before freeing himself and crawling six blocks through the snow.
Chester R B Gillette of Cortland is to die in the electric chair in the week starting March 30 after the New York Court of Appeals unanimously sustained his murder in the first degree conviction. Grace Brown was his sweetheart.
In Rome the Pope enjoyed a spring day and visited the lions sent by King Menelik to the Vatican. The visit highlights a rare public encounter between the papal party and the royal gifts now housed in the Vatican gardens.
Father Leo Heinrichs of St. Elizabeth's Catholic Church was shot dead during Sunday Mass in Denver by Giuseppe Guarnaccio an Italian anarchist who entered under the pretense of taking the sacrament. Cronin pursued the killer as panicked worshippers fled. Guarnaccio carried a list of assassinations and planned to kill four priests.
The 1907 report from the Bureau of Vital Statistics shows 552 divorces granted in South Dakota, 320 to nonresidents. Divorces drew about 1,500 dollars per case including residence, attorney, and court costs, yielding roughly 480,000 from nonresident divorces. If the last decade’s trend held, the state earned about five million from divorces.
Brussels reports the Congo Independent State matter again grows tense as King Leopold withdraws promises and seeks control of the special fund. He also requests 50 million dollars for various projects, shifting power from Parliament to the crown.
Stockholm reports Miss Jane Lundstrom chosen as Sweden's most beautiful woman after a summer contest and jury award. She will compete against Marguerite Frey of the United States and other national winners for the title The Most Beautiful Woman in the World.
In Bienne Geneva a Swiss couple elopes by sleigh on a toboggan run. The girl persuaded her parents to watch the Evilard course, a haste sleigh swept down taking the lovers to Bale where they will marry immediately. The girl's parents are unable to stop them as she is of age.
Mrs Natica Burden once Natica Rives a famed society beauty and Belmont descendant was found dead in her Fifth Avenue home with a gas lamp on. Coroner Shrady believes accidental gas release from a misadjusted drop lamp caused the tragedy. The case recalls high society scandal and recent harassment rumors.
Paris court of appeals upholds lower court ruling ordering Count Boni de Castellane and Mme Anna Gould to pay opera singer Vera Nemidoff 24000 for jewels bought before the divorce. Gould claimed no knowledge of the transaction but court reasoned jewels were bought for the buyer's wife.
The will of Vernom Lincoln leaves $500 to Andover to fund annual old fashioned spelling matches. Contests occur in a public hall for children aged 10 to 18 using the choosing up method. Prizes of $10, $6 and $4 go to the last three spellers each year.
In Washington the House committee on claims moves to consider a bill granting about 1.5 million dollars to reimburse E H Harriman’s company for funds spent to safeguard the Imperial Valley from Colorado River flooding, following a Roosevelt statement of no differences with Harriman.
Tokyo interest rises as nations await U S decision on 1912 Tokio exposition participation. Viscount Kaneko urges a generous appropriation, noting Japan gave 400000 to St Louis and plans 10000000 yen for its own expo venture.
New York dispatch reports Mrs William Thaw speaking publicly at Matteawan to oppose Evelyn Thaw and urge her son Harry to remain with his wife. She recalls Harrys 1906 act and accuses Evelyn of public indiscretion while seeking a separation.
Berlin reports Gabriele d Annunzio refused an American manager s 50 000 offer for a lecture tour saying the money would not keep him in cigars The Italian dramatist famed for style is mocked by German critics for his latest play and fashionable image.
Mary A. Murphy, 20, found a love note from a rival to C. A. Connolly in trousers belonging to her sweetheart. She hanged herself with one leg of the trousers tied to a cellar door two hours later. Connolly had been engaged to her for about a year. he lived at her boardinghouse.
In New Britain Connecticut a man burst into a Ladies Auxiliary of the AOH gathering carrying a teething infant. He told his wife to take the child and said he was sick. He dropped the baby into the mother’s arms as about fifty attendees watched in amusement.
A private dispatch from Kamen etz in Podolia reports thirteen casks of gold uncovered in an ancient quarry near St Petersburg. The treasure, valued at about $750,000, is believed to have been hidden during the Tartar invasion centuries ago.
Statistics presented to the Biological Society of Paris assert tobacco use by women harms motherhood, with cigarets linked to race suicide. The study claims smoking or tobacco in any form by women reduces fertility and threatens maternal capacity among populations.
Mary Joyce of Albany heiress to millions and Vassar graduate becomes engaged to John Covart, chauffeur for Boston society leader Mrs H Hollis Hunnewell. The couple confirms a high society romance linking two prominent families in Boston and Albany.
William Evans of Kasbeer Bureau county wed his third wife in a ceremony here. He is the father of fourteen children and she the mother of eight. Their ages are 60 and 68 respectively.
John Flentge aged 19 son of Cape Girardeau postmaster E W Flentge was called a mollycoddle and mamma's boy by classmates at Western Military Academy Upper Alton and escorted to a train then sent home. E W Flentge a prominent Republican politician is his father.
Lonnie Costley age 15 and Guy Brown age 14, pupils at an Atlanta school, fought a knife duel on the playground over Sarah Peabody age 13. Costley was fatally wounded and Brown suffered serious injuries as a large crowd watched.
The Pullman Palace Car Company will halt liquor sales in buffet and dining cars. An order from Philadelphia withdraws alcohol from the Philadelphia & Reading line and the company plans to extend the dry policy across the Pullman system.
The House Committee on Coinage Weights and Measures unanimously approved reporting favorably the McKinley bill to restore the national motto In God We Trust to gold and silver coins over Roosevelt’s veto.
Ten people died and over twenty injured in a riot on the main street of Tehran during a religious procession. Several clergy were among the wounded.
Washington special representative Waldo of New York urged impeaching Judge L R Wilfley of the Shanghai United States Court. He sent articles of impeachment and sought House judiciary committee action to pursue proper proceedings.
Roosevelt La post office officially opened this week at Stamboul Station on the Missouri Pacific in honor of President Roosevelt. Leo B. Shields, host and guide during Roosevelt's bear hunt stay, has been appointed postmaster by the President personally.
Havana hosts a grand carnival with weeks of preparations and a gala regatta featuring six four and double crew races. Ramona Garcia, a cigarette girl, crowned queen with a $500 purse and diamond ornaments for attendants as American visitors flood the city.
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