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Newspaper
Albion New Era
Location
Albion, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1909
Page
2
Short local notices from Albion Indiana include updates on town events and community happenings dated December 1 1909. The items reflect daily life in an early 20th century Midwestern town with a focus on residents and common affairs.
A brief sports item notes a 1909 event on Saturday the 27th with men’s quarterfinals and a 20th percentile/27th marking for the competition.
A dynamite blast at the Mascari fruit and wine house in Danville NJ wrecks thirty buildings with losses estimated at 40000. Tony Palmisano, linked to Italian society, is questioned. Other items note a fatal dance fight in Mobile AL, Warrenton VA under martial law after a major fire, a huge water tank burst near Newman IL, six miners fatally burned in Martins Ferry OH, Wright Company forming to build airships, Missouri Governor Hadley injured, and Morse trial motions in New York.
Five persons burned to death in a Brooklyn tenement house fire. Eight Italians were seriously burned and rushed to nearby hospitals.
The Eaton Indiana post office was robbed of 1500 dollars in stamps. The thief manipulated the safe combination to access the vault.
Mrs. Phillip Snowden, leader of England's suffragettes, met President Taft in Washington for a brief talk about women's rights and suffrage.
Continued improvement in the condition of John G. Carlisle was noted at St. Vincent's Hospital in New York City where the former Secretary of the Treasury has been seriously ill for some time.
Twenty one miners in Cherry Illinois rose alive from the St Paul mine after seven days entombed with three hundred ten others. Fire broke out at midnight halting rescuers and forcing water streams into the shaft as the town reeled between joy and dread.
President Taft accepts the resignation of Vespasian Warner from the post of United States Commissioner of Pensions. Warner, appointed in 1904, returned to Clinton due to his son C M Warner’s illness. Officials say the elder Warner came home to relieve his son and hoped to resume duties, but the family health issue persisted.
Survivors trapped underground describe hearing sounds during their long confinement that give hope other men may still be alive. They say the passages around them may hold living colleagues as rescue efforts continue.
Secretary Wilson orders immediate seizure of all bleached flour after millers refuse to heed a government warning. Inspectors seized fourteen consignments including several hundred carloads. about $1,000,000 worth likely manufactured in the past year, with most remaining stock in the New York area.
Police Captain Michael Casey of Toledo confronted a burglar in his home at daybreak. The intruder tugged at Mrs. Casey’s ring, fired twice as the captain leapt from bed, bullets lodged in the bed near Mrs. Casey, and the burglar escaped.
William M. Laffan, successor to Charles A. Dana in managing the New York Sun and its publisher for twenty five years, died at his Lawrence Long Island home after an appendicitis operation.
Benjamin Lamont of New York, imprisoned four years for robbery and assault, committed suicide by hanging in his cell at the Montreal penitentiary.
Hundreds of letters from veterans nationwide pour in over weeks urging Mr. Warner to remain in place while he is currently at West Baden.
The article notes H Rockwell an Iowa strawberry enthusiast after twelve years of effort claims to have produced an ever bearing strawberry. It also covers St Paul officials denying imminent freight rate increases in the Northwest and other agricultural and meat market observations across the United States Canada and Montana.
An unknown tramp who held Harry Garrett captive for 24 hours at the Garrett ranch near Boise Idaho was shot and killed at daybreak after the boy escaped. The kidnapper, worn by vigil long, fell asleep allowing Garrett to jump from a window. Shots fired from below ended the alarm as the fugitive refused to surrender.
Axel Oberg his wife two children and two sailors endured eighty four hours on Lake Superior in a dead gasoline launch after being driven off course amid a heavy storm. They lacked food for sixty hours and suffered exposure but were cast ashore on the south shore near Duluth. A 12 year old sailor Robert Oberg described their escape as the craft ran into a gale washing cargo overboard and flooding gasoline tanks. No injuries were reported.
A Pennsylvania train ran through the new tunnel from New Jersey to Long Island marking a near completion of the route. Work continues on the subterranean line yet officials expect regular traffic by June with the line paralleling a transcontinental railway in scope.
Albany merchants Andrew Klein and Joseph Bolts bought a joint old trunk at an auction sale of effects from murder, crisis, and accident victims for 2.75. The trunk reportedly contained bonds of a French traction line worth about 95 each with accrued interest since 1903.
In New York, as Recorder McGovern and witnesses awaited Justice of the Peace William C Budenbender, the man who claimed to wed Anna Gould and the Prince de Sagan shot himself. Budenbender faced fraud accusations over alleged monetary deception.
The body of I. B. Borlard, once County Treasurer and local politician, was found in a dense Franklin thicket after a missing-from-home case. A note claimed an accidental self-inflicted gunshot wound in the leg, though the circumstances remain under investigation.
Four Velocanoes in eruption create four craters on Ten e, ejecting incandescent matter with frequent explosions. Lava flow has covered nearly four miles and continues to advance. Ground conditions prevent damming against the fertile land.
Bodies of Frank Loftus William Hasty and James Hays were found four miles west of the Hill Top mine in the Horssse district Colorado. They perished in a blizzard after being exposed to cold.
Hawld Jenks of Florida and Leslie Abell, students at the State Normal Schop, San Jose, Cal, were injured probably fatally in an automobile accident.
Moris Landauer, noted financial writer, killed himself by leaping from a sixteen story window into a light well inside the Real Estate Trust Company building in Philadelphia. The motive behind his suicide is not yet known.
Dr Haldane Cleminson was found guilty of murdering his wife Nora Jane Cleminson in Chicago. The jury returned a life sentence after less than three hours of deliberation. The couple’s death at 6823 Wayne Avenue followed a burglary claim that investigators later deemed false.
Dr. Wilfred T. Grenfell an Arctic missionary marries Miss Anna McClannahan in Chicago Episcopal Church. The ceremony notes his bravado facing arctic trials and the bride’s eagerness to join him in Labrador and meet his people.
The New York board of superintendents voted to abolish football as a recognized sport in public schools. The sweeping ruling targets many institutions and ends the game across numerous programs.
A Georgetown University library fire in Washington DC destroys rare volumes valued at about ten thousand dollars. A spirited team and drivers on a hose cart raced down a fifty foot embankment as a fire horse was killed during the heroic pump effort. fifty students slept in the dormitory above but all escaped.
QODS BENDS reports Wilbur and Orville Wright purchased 700 acres northwest of Springfield Ohio near Tippecanoe City as a site for a park to be used in aero plate experiments. Howard B. Phillips longtime trainer and driver of light harness horses in Pennsylvania died at Pottstown after a long career. Firestone won the Nassau handicap at Aqueduct. The Kentucky Trotting Horse Breeders Association fall meeting closed with horses sent to Baltimore and Parkersburg. The 25th national horse show at Madison Square Garden drew over 1500 entries with Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt Reginald C Vanderbilt and other noted horsemen present.
Congressman David A. DeArmond and his grandson were killed when a fire destroyed their Butler Missouri home at 3 am on Tuesday. Bones believed to be the congressman were found. other family members escaped unharmed. DeArmond, born 1844 in Blair County Pennsylvania, had served in Congress since 1891 and was known for combative floor episodes including a past fist fight with John Sharp Williams.
The United States demanded a full explanation from Nicaragua for the execution of two Americans, Leonard Grace and Le Roy Garrion, by order of President Zelaya. Two warships were ordered to the scene as the note was delivered to Enrique Rodriguez, Nicaragua's chargé d affaires. Earlier, a dispatch to the Bluefields Steamship Company sought State Department protection from insurgent interference.
Richard Watson Gilder editor in chief of Century Magazine, beloved poet and lecturer, died of angina pectoris at a friend's home 9 West 10th Street New York. He was surrounded by his wife and children and had shown slight illness for two weeks before the sudden death Thursday afternoon.
A band of 122 Chippewa Indians from the Rocky Boy area, said to belong in Canada, has been rounded up in Montana under the Blackfeet Indian Reservation superintendent. They had been roaming the country and living as they could.
Three workers are entombed after a cave in at the Leonard mine of Empire Steel and Iron Works in Mount Hope New Jersey. Only one body has been recovered while the other two remain under thirty feet of earth and rocks in a drift 500 feet below the surface.
Giuseppe A Aiello a Black Hand Society member in Cincinnati died in Leavenworth Kansas federal prison hospital from anition and acute melancholia after two weeks of violent insanity.
A leg and part of the thigh of a girl about 16 years old were found in an ash pile in a lot near the town of Trov. Authorities described the remains as recently severed from the body and began an investigation into the cause and identity, with officials collecting evidence at the scene.
The weekly Dun report notes optimistic trade outlook with bank reports showing deposit and discount gains. It cites strong collections, rising wholesale orders, and robust retail demand in Chicago and interior regions, with costs rising and Christmas trade expected to be very encouraging.
New York reports warmer retail mood with winter weather lifting distributive trade. Northwest snow slows some wholesale routes yet overall weekly business shows encouraging signs. US business failures for the week ending Nov 18 totaled 232, up from 221 prior week and varying in prior years.
A listing from multiple cities shows cattle hogs and sheep price ranges, plus grains and produce. Prices cover Chicago Indianapolis St Louis Detroit Milwaukee Buffalo Toledo Cincinnati New York with values for wheat corn oats rye barley butter eggs and potatoes.
After a raid on George Kreitz’s home near Lexington Kentucky growers seek troop protection as fear of night rider attacks spreads following his family’s resistance and a daughter’s shotgun warning.
The Daughters of the American Revolution project to have the government build a road from Yorktown to Jamestown via Williamsburg won endorsement from the national congress of good road builders held in Columbus Ohio.
The federal Circuit Court in St Paul ruled Standard Oil of New Jersey illegal and monopolistic under the Sherman act, dissolving the trust within thirty days. The decision, seen as a major government victory, could be applied to other industrial combinations. the case will proceed to the Supreme Court for review.
Reports from Willemstad and Washington state that Colonel John Jacob Astor's Nourmahal was seen in San Juan harbor on November 15. The Caracas captain said the yacht showed no damage and appeared unharmed in the aftermath of the Jamaican hurricane.
The London Standard confirms Herbert Gladstone's appointment as governor general of South Africa. It notes the liberal executive committee of Gladstone's constituency has asked T. E. Harvey to stand as liberal candidate in the upcoming election.
In Delhi Louisiana a mob killed James Estes a Black man who had just struck City Marshal Walter Nichols Estes was dying after the assault when a mob fatally harmed him Nichols had attempted to arrest Estes on a minor charge but Estes died in the mob action authorities reported the violent confrontation.
Unknown assailants hacked eight people to death with an ax in a farmhouse in Bogulslawitsch near the Russian frontier. Victims include farmer Wasielsewski his wife five children and his father in law. Murderers suspected to have crossed the frontier.
Consuelo, Dowager Duchess of Manchester and among the first American women to bear an English title, died Saturday morning from heart failure after a period of illness and recent complications from neuritis.
Fire gutted Elmira City Hall New York after a blaze began in the engineer’s room and spread rapidly severe smoke and heat prevented firefighters from containing the flames.
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