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Newspaper
Akron Register Tribune
Location
Akron, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1907
Page
8
A compact chronicle lists major events and figures from 1700 to 1908, including the founding of St. Petersburg, Marlborough’s Ramillies victory, Canadian confederation milestones, Doyle born, the Brooklyn Bridge opening, the Congo Free State annexation, and other imperial, political, and scientific notes. It tracks transitions in leadership, explorations, wars, and notable cultural moments across Europe, the Americas, and Africa.
In St Louis federal court Judge Adama denied habeas corpus to Waters-Pierce head Pierce and ordered him remanded for extradition to Harris county Texas to answer an indictment charging perjury in an affidavit May 1900 about Waters-Pierce not joining any pool trust or restraint. Pierce showed mental strain. two appeals were noted and bond set at 20000. Dr Oster bemoaned drug overuse at a Philadelphia Pathological Society address. Delaware county grand jury returned 59 indictments against former Deputy Auditor Harley W Simpson for defrauding the county by forgery.
Unprecedented cold grips the nation east of the Rockies causing widespread crop damage. Reports from Peoria, La Crosse, Minneapolis, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Wabash, Keokuk, Omaha, Detroit detail oats, wheat, corn, and fruit losses, with Michigan and Nebrasaka among hardest hit. Weather bureau cites Siberian snow and high northern pressure as factors.
A Maine farmer, Samuel Gordon near Macwahoc, invited a daytime patent cure charlatan who claimed to reveal an Indian treasure. The faker promised a second sight seance for pay, led Gordon to mortgage his farm, and directed a foolish dig for gold. Despite years of effort, only rocks were found. Gordon died after deteriorating health and family drift.
A 700 page government statistical abstract traces U S growth from 1800 to 1906 across area, population, wealth, money, deposits, imports and exports, and agricultural and manufacturing output. It shows population density rising from 6.5 to 28 per square mile and per capita wealth increasing from 307 to 1310 dollars, with cotton, sugar, corn, and manufacturing value expanding dramatically.
Pierre Marie argues against a single brain region governing speech, noting aphasia tests show preserved word meaning but impaired connections. He suggests the word deafness localization theory is unsustainable and calls for modifying established views, though his stance may be too radical for broad acceptance.
The Supreme Court held Georgia may protect its forests from smelting works on the Tennessee side. It enjoins Tennessee Copper and Drextown Sulphur and Iron from destroying Georgia vegetation, gives Georgia until October term to propose a decree. Companies are installing a dense fumes plant and its decree may become unnecessary. The decision shapes forest and vegetation protection, tied to Standard Oil interests. Detective Hamilton, shot during child custody incident in Smithfield Ala, dies. Federal medals honored crew of Hish and others for saving steamer Larchyno passengers at Block Island.
Dun's Review of Trade reports Chicago district bank clearings for May at $196,517,104, up 14.2 percent from the same week in 1906. Failures total 17, compared with 14 last week and 20 four years ago, while commerce shows stronger money supply and rising consumer demand.
Unseasonable cold and wet weather across the northern half of the country again hindered retail trade, leaving large stocks of goods unsold. The shoe and leather markets remain quiet, pig iron prices stay strong, and foreign iron purchases persist. May shows heavy steel rails bookings and strong structural steel activity, with business failures in the United States totaling 140 for the week ended May, while Canadian failures numbered 14.
Chicago markets show prime cattle 4.00 to 6.65, hogs 4.04 to 6.37, sheep 8.00 to 6.50, with grains and produce including wheat 96 to 98 cents, corn 52 to 54 cents, oats 46 to 48 cents, rye 84 to 86 cents, hay and butter ranges, eggs 13 to 15 cents, and potatoes 95 cents to 1.20 a bushel. Indianapolis and St Louis follow similar spreads for cattle, hogs, sheep, and grains, while Detroit, Milwaukee, Buffalo, New York, and Toledo list mixed but parallel values for wheat, corn, oats, rye, and dairy items.
Judge Charles T. Woodruff newly appointed to the Maine Supreme Court has no publicly circulated portrait. Greenville Mississippi police chief William Quinn died by his own hand in his daughter’s presence. Sam Moor, an African American, charged with poisoning four people, was arrested in Roanoke Virginia. Mike Markovitch and John Toutzbat, workers in a Youngstown Ohio sand bank, died after being trapped in a cavern. The National Medico Psychological Association, at Jamestown exposition, will meet next in Cincinnati Ohio. Captain Harry Bowen, hired to recruit strike breakers for a New York steamship combine, was attacked by striking longshoremen. Grain handlers joined the longshoremen’s sympathy strike, extending to Montreal.
A historic report details a famine in China affecting about 15 million people with up to 5,000 dying daily. Cannibalism, graves robbed for meat, child selling, and widespread disease including smallpox surge as famine victims suffer amid extreme hunger. Captain Kirton of the Foreign Relief Committee recalls a village scene where starving crowds mobbed biscuits, narrowly prevented by guards and soldiers.
The census bureau reports in the continental United States in 1900 there were 4,933,630 women at work, making one in every five women over 16 a breadwinner. Divorced women largely support themselves. domestic service remains the largest occupation.
The United States plans a division of information to direct immigrants to areas where work exists. Commissioned agents will identify state resources and publish multilingual data to guide newcomers. The South expects settlers, with Italians increasingly common in the cotton and sugar regions, showing strong economic uptake.
On July 19, 1908 the College of St Cuthbert marks its hundred years at Ushaw Durham England. Dr W H McGlaughlin named universalist general superintendent in the United States. Rev John O Yester teaches theology at Tacoma Puget Sound University. Gipsy Smith comments on his 450 sermons and vast outreach in the United States. New chaplain appointed for Sacred Heart Sanitarium Milwaukee. Fifth international Sunday school convention opens Rome with delegates representing 80 million people.
The Hague conference date is set for the 15th while Germany signs a commercial treaty with the United States effective July 1 for one year with six months’ notice. Austria’s election shows Socialist gains and a Reichsrath split. Alfonso XIII opens Spain’s parliament as Conservatives dominate, Clemenceau defends labour policy, and Finland elects twenty women to parliament for the first time.
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