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Newspaper
Albion New Era
Location
Albion, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1908
Page
6
The Louisville Post reports a close friend of former Governor W. S. Taylor says Taylor will return to Kentucky from Indianapolis after the November election to stand trial on complicity in the Gobel murder case. A change of venue to Louisville is considered likely. Taylor has reiterated his willingness to return if he can obtain a fair trial and bail.
The Wright aeroplane crashed at Le Mans France causing wing damage that will require several days to repair. Wilbur Wright attempted a new descent by gliding from seventy five feet and the left wing struck the ground tearing the frame though he was not injured.
H. J. Dufty aged 60 attacked his son Fred Dufty and his daughter with an axe in a north western Los Angeles home and then cut his own throat with a razor. Report says he had suffered weeks of “religious enthusiasm” and was near serious insanity.
A blaze caused extensive damage before firefighters arrived. total loss is placed at five hundred thousand dollars, with authorities investigating the source of the fire and assessing the scene for further risk.
The body of a man believed to be Claude Washburn of South Bend Ind was found floating in Michigan City harbor. A card in his pocket shows membership in Electrical Workers Union No 132 for three years and the man likely worked on a traction line. He appears about 30.
A severe hail and thunderstorm struck Henderson Kentucky causing over 100000 dollars in Henderson County losses. About sixty percent of the tobacco crop is believed destroyed.
A 60 year old unidentified man who was deaf and dumb was killed by a Baltimore and Ohio train west of Ravenna Ohio. The victim bore the initials W V tattooed on his right forearm. No other details are provided about the circumstances or identity.
Rear Admiral Robley S. Evans, recently in command of the Atlantic battle fleet, will be placed on the retired list on August 15. He is currently at Lake Mohonk, New York, on leave of absence.
Four Chicago residents drowned when a pleasure launch capsized on the Wisconsin river near Kilbourne Wisconsin. The tragedy occurred as the boat overturned leaving rescuers to recover bodies and identify the victims.
A smudged notice discusses a will and guardianship connected to a parrot once owned by Mrs. Lowry. The filing mentions care arrangements and a site directing actions related to the estate and pet.
A temporary floor at the new Italian Catholic church in Perth Amboy New Jersey collapsed killing Jamies Fox aged 11 and Francis Crbanski aged 7 while a third boy Walter Urowski aged 10 was seriously injured.
A 17 year old Missouri heiress known as the Missouri beauty killed herself in Kansas City after her parents refused to allow marriage to her chosen suitor and threatened sending her to Chillicothe girls’ school. She had recently been named state’s most beautiful woman and stood to gain 15 000 dollars. She drank carbolic acid in her room and died shortly after.
Irving Spalding, 15, son of A F Spalding of Springfield UL, spent a day on a Santa Catalina Island ledge 600 feet high. His father organized a search when evening fell. a rope lowered from above brought him to safety after a two hour rescue. The boy escaped with severe fright and nervous strain.
The Bowhead owned by Liebes and Co. mutinied at Fort Clarence near Newe Alaska. Captain James A Tilden and officers fought twenty two mutineers for about an hour. The crew was placed in irons after the captain triumphed and the fire set the previous night was extinguished by pumps.
Moses D Brown, 83, labeled oldest practicing lawyer, fined 1000 dollars while two confederates received 1 to 5 year prison terms in a Chicago case over a plot to grab Mrs Nolain's property. The verdict, likely to be appealed, shows the defendants conspired against her estate.
A tornado hit Mandan North Dakota causing about 50 000 dollars in damage to trees and buildings. A boy was tossed three blocks and seriously bruised. The Inter Ocean hotel roof was torn loose and fell into the dining room. The Lemars Hotel was unroofed and many houses overturned with shattered windows.
The eighty five ton Gloucester ship Maggie and May owned by G Dennis was struck by the German schoolship Fryea sixty miles off the Nova Scotia coast. Nine crew members perished including Captain Erick MacCatheran.
An explosion of a steam automobile near Painesville Ohio killed two women, Mrs Mary Rowdan 65 and Mrs Rose Beckwith 43, fatally injured Fred Beckwith 45, and badly bruised Bessie Beckwith 16.
Alfred E. Cox treasurer and GM of the Atlantic works East Boston and Edward P. Robinson of the same company were arrested on charges of conspiracy to defraud Boston through collusive bids for city contracts. Each held on $2 000 bond for trial.
Five people were killed and twenty two injured when two trolley cars crashed head on between Sidney and Piqua in Ohio. Six teen seriously hurt and three fatally injured in the wreck of the Western Electric traction company line.
Heavy rainfall drenches Chicago and the Midwest, with rainfall easing drought and aiding crops as farmers monitor potential benefits and risks to harvest prospects.
William J. Bryan accepts the Democratic nomination and declares the main issue before the country is Shall the people rule. The statement frames populist reform as central to the 1908 campaign.
Harry K. Thaw has filed for bankruptcy in Pittsburg as defense costs mount. A campaign to challenge the legal expenses grows, signaling efforts to curb the burden of the lengthy trial.
The Chicago Directory Co reports a population of 2 425 000, up 20 700 from last year. The 10S issue lists names including the Johnsons at 10 24, the Smiths at 3 110, and 848 German relatives with Schmidt. It notes quirky names like Szszkowics and Cagrzwski and mentions individuals such as Edward Fat, Thomas Lean, Frank Broke, Samuel Rich, Philip Garlic, John Onions, Edward Gentle, Charles Rough, Frederick Camp, and Morris Dry.
Mrs. Margaret Castens, now aged 75, died in St. Louis after receiving more than 15000 dollars four years ago from a German convent compact. The girls of 65 planned to fund a Berlin bank, paying marks yearly to the last survivor. Castens, once a Stuttgart pupil, was the sole remaining member when the fund matured.
Elizabeth M Stewart known as Mother Stewart died at her Hicksville Ohio home aged 92. She founded Ohio's first WC T U in Osborn in 1873 and helped establish England’s first WCC T U in 1878. After Civil War she lectured for war sufferers in the South and later studied with Alexander Dowie at Zion City.
A severe hail storm swept nine counties including Walworth McPherson Edmunds Brown Faulk Spink and Clark devastating farms. Harvesting slowed in the hardest hit area from Ashton to the Clark County line with losses estimated from 25 percent to total though much grain had already been cut. Mound City in Campbell County reports twenty five farms swept clean by hail.
A mob at a Pennsylvania railway station near Sandusky Ohio tried to lynch Goodlove after a shooting. Women on the depot platform fainted as panic spread amid long standing business rivalries between the men involved.
Police officers from Methuen Massachusetts were found beaten to death in a meadow on the outskirts after being sent out to watch for chicken and vegetable thieves. The scene shows clear signs of foul play with suspected homicide.
George Cooke the renowned landscape architect linked with Samuel B Parsons of New York died at the Willows summer resort near Alpine California from injuries after a wagon accident. He was pitched from a wagon and fell fifty feet over a bluff breaking five ribs and dislocating a shoulder.
A train was fired on near Blocton injuring eight and killing four including conductor Collins a deputy sheriff and a strike breaker. The train carried First Regiment men strike breakers and about twenty special deputies.
Mahimed Ali Bey the Turkish minister to the United States admitted receiving government advice recalling him from his post in Washington. Mundji Bey, consul general of Turkey at New York, has been appointed charge d affairs pending arrival of a new minister.
In York Pennsylvania a boiler exploded at a rolling mill killing several workers and injuring many as the mill, shut for a week, suffered extensive property damage while forty men labored on an engine repair.
Prickett, assistant attorney general of Wyandotte County Kansas, was arrested at his home on a state warrant charging malfeasance. The complaint alleges he accepted fees and settled eyes before defendants were arraigned in court.
A negro boy about 18 named Charlie Lokie was lynched at Pitton, Georgia for making insulting remarks to white women. The report notes no excitement followed the lynching and no other incidents occurred.
Mars Tanise Chattier Moulton, a renowned tevedist and givets writer of New England, died at her home in Rutland Square Duston at age 73.
In a move responding to Duma criticism, the Russian Czar removes Grand Duke Nicholas Nichelaivitch from the presidency of the Council for National Defense. The action signals a shift in wartime governance as liberal factions pressure for reforms.
Indiana items span heat danger at Bluffside Beach to a spate of accidents. Purchasers take control of the Bank of Shirley Evans & Wood. Child Gerry Johnson dies after a runaway horse incident near Elkhart. Lincoln Linden brakeman Harry Knowles suffers a severe leg crush in car coupling. County actions delay courthouse cornerstone in Miami. Fish deputy J G Hadley breaks leg near Plainfield. Carlisle youth William Higgins dies by carbolic acid. Lawrenceburg votes against library tax, provoking club legal plans. Quail found with 450 chinch bugs. Montezuma coal vein discovery. Patriarchs Militant convention in Marion with notable attendees. Various local deaths from accidents, poisonings, or violence including Amos Goad, John Browning, and John Catt. Multiple patent grants issued across Indiana towns.
In Lincoln a Bryan nomination event unfolds with a 46 gun salute and a rally at the State capitol. Clayton delivers the notification letter, Bryan accepts, and Bryce Isern adds a closing remark as Bryan ridicules Republican excess and lauds people rule.
A favorable crop report and easing financial conditions spur rail orders and steady trade. Demand grows in pig iron wire and lumber while western freight, ore, and copper move up. Merchants attend wholesale markets in larger numbers as dry goods and apparel bookings rise. Failures in Chicago district drop to 21 from 22 last week and 26 a year ago. Dun's Review of Trade.
A French invention offers small quantity home ice at low cost. The cylinder seals chemicals for long life, revolves in water to produce ice and can also send cold air. It is a double wall tin vessel holding five gallons. Freezing uses gradual automatic admission of carbonic acid into the space, then into the interior to cause a rapid temperature drop.
Pr Bourrille of Paris proposes a simple practical test for early tuberculosis detection. The method compares chest measurements at full inspiration and full expiration. a title difference exceeding six inches indicates a possible disease. The test was described while examining job seekers.
The founders of the new center in New York aim to represent a national theater. Chosen Winthrop Ames of Boston is director, Lee Shubert is business manager, and John Corbin serves as literary manager.
The American team tallies 115 points at the Olympic events in England. alongside England and Sweden, they compete in multiple contests with English entrants prominent.
The week brings favorable trade, crop, and industrial signals with fall merchant excursions boosting sales by jobbers and wholesalers. Industrial activity shows mixed timing with rising output in some sectors while iron and steel, hardware, coal mining, and ice lumber trade report gains alongside caution in buying. US and Canada business failures for the week ending Aug 6 decline from prior weeks, with 205 in the US and 19 in Canada.
The report lists bid ranges for cattle hogs and sheep across Chicago Indianapolis St Louis Cincinnati Detroit Milwaukee Buffalo New York and Poledo with No 2 wheat at 94c to 6c No 2 corn 79c to 80c and oats 9c to 50c. butter eggs and hay prices also shown. clover seed October 8 22.
The Kan wis farmer proclaims a prosperous section in a terse local wit seen in a Pittsburgh Post style. A humorous misprint or wordplay fragment hints at a grand piano and netted profits in a quirky, era-tinged caption.
A chaotic scene unfolds as Pasturedepth is saved for S900 while questions arise about who consumed funds. A sheriff warns against trusting strangers amid a tense exchange. Mrs Stubb notes a magazine claim about the Liplanders and height comparison. The dialogue highlights doubt and social skepticism about money and trust.
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