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Newspaper
Advance Hustler
Location
Advance, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 27, 1908
Page
3
John D. Rockefeller in a series of World's Work articles defends Standard Oil, denies crushing rivals, and argues industrial combinations are here to stay. He notes public suspicion of corporations but calls for balanced legislation to protect public interests.
Andrew Carnegie plans a new hero fund in his native land with a gift of 250000 to trustees of the Carnegie Heroism Fund. The fund aims to support widows and children of those who volunteer as doctors and nurses during epidemics and to enrich the lives of workers who face danger in service.
Macken follows August Eberharte to America after persuading his aunt to flee Austria. He then murdered his aunt by pushing her into a railroad yard and shooting her, wounding another woman who survived. He was sentenced to thirty years in the state prison.
Pittsburg Ohio special: Jch Glunt superintendent of the Carnegie Steel mill at Homestead has resigned his $10,000 a year post to enter the ministry. He has been admitted to the Western Theological Seminary and has begun his studies.
Lady Francis Cook formerly Tennie C Claffin travels from London to Liverpool aboard the Cedric. She aims to stamp the United States efforts for Bryan as part of her plans.
Chicago indicates the Prohibition party will use the camel as its ballot emblem replacing the fountain and rising sun marks. Alonzo Wilson, state chairman, cites the camel as the original water wagon able to seek water ahead, faster than the elephant or donkey, and not needing a hump.
Western supporters urge President Roosevelt to campaign for Taft. Officials in Chicago confirm a Westward stump tour is under consideration with Taft planning to return from his current speaking circuit as national leaders anticipate a strong push.
President Roosevelt telegraphed W. J. Bevan denying Governor Haskell's oil ties and noting court records show Prairie Oil and Gas ownership by Standard Oil. He denounces the Democratic treasurer as unfit and contrasts Taft's deeds with Bryan's shifting positions and alleged risky plans.
Rumor holds that Mary Garden may wed Prince Mavrocordato of Russia living in Paris. Garden neither confirms nor denies engagement while the prince, wealthy at about 5 million dollars, courts the famed Hammerstein operatic star.
In South Bend Indiana unions from Indiana and other states forward resolutions to W J Bryan Democratic nominee demanding the union label be placed on his publication the Commoner.
Special Justice Verard signs the final decree of absolute divorce in New York Supreme Court. Elsie French Vanderbilt is granted divorce from Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt on referee David McClure’s recommendation.
Indiana temperance fight ends as local option bill passes the House 55 to 45 and Governor Hanly signs it. Law to take effect after publication in ten days to two weeks. Representative Kinsley alleges bribe offer. vote followed intense session with ministers and officials hopeful for state-wide prohibition. House also passes constitutional amendment submission by 71 to 28 with cross-party support.
In Lenox Massachusetts J Pierpont Morgan was quoted as saying his shave cost six thousand dollars plus a quarter tip. He was visiting guest Charles Lanier with Edwin V Morgan American minister to Cuba. They waited for two barbers and joked about the high price.
In Moscow detectives uncovered a gang faking postage stamps by cleaning used stamps for reuse. The organization, active in Moscow and Warsaw for some time, is reported to have circulated 6,000,000 forged stamps in the last two months.
Theodore Roosevelt Jr will begin service with Hartford Carpet Works in Thompsontown after a plant visit led by General Manager Higgins. Duties not yet known but may place him in operating departments.
The Abruzzi duke will marry Katherine Elkins in the United States in November. After the ceremony, on returning to Italy, the couple will be escorted home by several warships.
In Windsor Vermont Edward Moot of Weathersfield proved a famed claim by Maxwell Evarts, chopping, splitting, and piling five cords of wood in under the required time. He finished an hour and a half earlier and left an extra eighth of a cord in his pile plus an extra half cord split and ready on the ground.
In a blizzard near Young's Point on the Northern Pacific Railroad a freight and a passenger train collided head on. Twenty five people were killed or injured as cars and engines telescoped and wreckage trapped passengers and crew. The storm prevented warning and likely limited fire risk.
In St Petersburg and across Russia the cholera epidemic has sickened thousands with 15 683 cases and 7 102 deaths nationwide. Officials applaud Stolypin backed measures raising sanitation and cutting new cases, but workers and the poor resist sanitary rules amid widespread fear and superstition.
Governor Charles N. Haskell of Oklahoma resigned as Treasurer of the Democratic National Committee amid a flood of calls for his removal. The charge involved connections to the Standard Oil company and its industries, with President Roosevelt and William Randolph Hearst cited. Both parties signaled disapproval as Bryan faced telegrams urging action.
Herman Ridder editor of the New York Staats Zeitung and vice chairman of the publicity bureau of the Democratic National Committee was named by National Chairman Mack as treasurer of the national committee to succeed Governor Charles N. Haskell of Oklahoma who resigned.
Springfield Ohio reports Guy Barringer from New Carlisle is jailed on a lunacy charge. He claims to be a partner of the Holy Ghost and sometimes envisions a cobweb string which he continually reaches for.
Western Canada is expected to produce 120000000 bushels of wheat this year with 95000000 bushels slated for export. The estimate comes from Arthur Hawkes, an official of the Canadian Northern Railway.
In Bucyrus Ohio a club of 12 young ladies forms to adopt the new sheath gown. They plan to wear the original pattern rather than altered versions.
A September day in Kansas saw the first snow in 19 years as a Western heat wave broke with rain turning to snow. In Des Moines coal miner Joseph Lencer froze to death after being expelled from a party vehicle near the woods camp. Temperatures across the region dropped near freezing with gale winds and early snow.
Senator Foraker defends himself against Hearst letters and presidential reactions. He accuses the President of snap judgment, condemns Taft's letter to Roosevelt as insulting to the colored race, and contests claims about Providencem and the Brownsville incident. He notes past legal fees from Standard Oil and says none since 1899.
Robert H. Bosman, a Hong Kong landowner and wealthy Chinese immigrant with five wives, was detained on the steamer Korea and denied entry by immigration inspectors. He admitted polygamy and planned to seek landings rights through a special Board of Inquiry, vowing to pressure the government. Bosman, born in China to a British father and Chinese mother, says he will bring many servants and expects to return with his family.
Past Assistant Surgeon George W. McCoy of the Marine Hospital and Public Health Service is named champion rat killer in the United States. He destroyed forty thousand rats in San Francisco while seeking plague afflicted specimens, finding fifty eight diseased rats among them.
Utica reports say Adirondack fires, fanned by a strong wind, have moved beyond the control of hundreds of firefighters. Large areas are engulfed and several small villages and camps are being wiped out.
Mrs. Terry Beecher, 55, of Terre Haute Indiana, unable to lie down due to asthma, fell asleep in a chair with a burning lamp at her feet. The lamp toppled and set her clothing on fire, causing fatal burns.
The body of Thomas Cockrill identified in Louisville following a Saturday train run over death. Cockrill, a noted Breathitt county feudist and brother of Jim Cockrill the former Jackson marshal who was assassinated, had been involved in feud battles and had killed at least one member of the Hargis faction.
A reflective line notes that sacrifice seems foolish to one who is already lost to the world or fate, suggesting a viewpoint on courage and regret.
In Mt Carmell Illinois a Princeton Indiana young man wearing a belt and suspenders loses them while exiting a carriage. His trousers drop to his feet exposing him to a public embarrassment. He retrieves himself with a quick grab and drives off with a blushing companion amid relieved bystanders.
In Toulon during a gunnery drill on the armored cruiser La Touche Treville the after turret exploded killing all thirteen gunners and wounding several others. The accident mirrors a prior incident on the Couronne near Hyeres where a breech burst killed six and injured eighteen.
In Sarthe with officials of the French Aero Club and the American ambassador Henry White present, Wilbur Wright set a world aviation record surpassing his brother Orville. The flight lasted one hour, thirty one minutes and fifty one seconds, covering ninety eight kilometers about sixty one miles before a crowd of about ten thousand.
Special report highlights Alta Weiss as a standout pitcher for Wooster University amid a college circuit, noting her earnings from baseball and a stormy scene involving the Star of Bengal where 110 of 137 aboard drowned after the ship split from tugs and wrecked on Coronation Island. survivors totaled 27, many of them Japanese.
Ten month old child of R O Middlemas, a Springfield area farmer, fell head first into a milk bucket and drowned before parents discovered the accident.
Twenty persons are dead and nineteen seriously injured in a collision on Berlin's Elevated Railway in the city center. Nine of the injured are in a hopeless condition.
Irene Dickinson, 12, killed a forty inch rattlesnake with five rattles and a button in Big Muddy Wyoming. The girl faced the reptile during a local event and succeeded without injury.
A large portion of the town of Pasig near Manila has been destroyed by fire. The blaze caused extensive damage to homes and businesses, disrupting residents and local services. Fire crews from multiple districts battled the flames, with efforts continuing through the night.
In Philadelphia Mrs. Margaret Harrison Riley, wife of Rev. Dr. Riley of Green Hill Presbyterian Church, will appear as a show girl in the Fritzi Scheff opera company. She is now rehearsing with the troupe, and the arrangement has caused her husband concern over two years of her stage ambitions.
Fragmentary line notes a saying about heaven and earth suggesting spiritual insight from humble, earthly spots. The text presents a philosophical musing without identifiable people or events.
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