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Newspaper
Albion New Era
Location
Albion, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1910
Page
2
A collection of brief items from The New Era Albion July 6 1910 covering fashion humor and social notes. Topics include hats to curb pests, anti kissing buttons, Paris frauds, Chinese abolition, ginger for temper, dynamite transport dangers, and a car crash incident with a bemused warning about doors.
A plumber jailed on 38 vagranucy charges protests the arrest, arguing police could have charged President Taft similarly. He suggests officers erred in applying the law, noting the common bathroom visit by a plumber makes the mistake plausible.
A philosophical musing contrasts flies and human behavior, noting that both buzz and annoy in various ways but only the fly spreads disease as a fatal offense. The piece asks why, if a man did such things, he would be killed, then questions why the fly faces no equivalent punishment.
State dairy and food agents reported that 144 samples tested in Minnesota during April violated state laws, indicating a need for close inspection and enforcement.
Beverly Massachusetts report states President Taft's son Robert T Taft drove an automobile that struck a street laborer at Pride's crossing two miles from home. The injured worker was found unconscious and railroaded to hospital where skull fracture indications were noted. Joined with two college friends Lendall King and George Harrison, Taft had been driving the cars recently around the city.
Washington reports the first regular session of the Sixty-first Congress adjourned with most of Taft's program carried out. Taft signed the rivers and harbors bill late, signaling future reforms in bill framing. He also signed the postal savings bank bill and the omnibus public buildings bill, authorizing $23,000,000 in improvements pending later appropriation decisions.
General Frederick Funston commandant of the army service schools in Leavenworth is gravely ill with heart disease at his home. Post physicians and nurses attend him around the clock. Mrs. Funston, in California, has been notified. He is suffering angina pectoris, with a history of mild heart trouble.
Jefferson City Missouri. The state Supreme Court upheld a rate law that bars railroads from charging higher rates for short hauls than for longer hauls in the same direction. The decision resolves a challenge to the Missouri prohibition on discriminatory freight charges.
Water Valley Mississippi Cumberland Telephone and Telegraph company was found guilty of violating the state anti trust law by Judge I T Blount in chancery court and fined 175000 dollars.
A. G. Spalding of San Diego formerly of Chicago and head of a major sporting goods firm said on Saturday he would seek the United States Senate if campaign expenses are limited and he can remain at home.
Jackson Tenn. The Tennessee Supreme Court on Saturday ruled the Memphis charter bill constitutional and sustained the commission form of government.
Hamburg prosecutor ends inquiry into Deutsche Vacuum Oil alleged graft methods. American manager E. L. Quarles faced no charges and all investigation costs fall to the state. The ruling marks a notable triumph for American interests in Germany amid long running newspaper attacks.
Three masked bandits robbed passengers on the northbound Oregon Short Line No 1 from Ogden at 1 30 am injuring two passengers and two trainmen. They forced the express messenger to surrender the safe contents and fired into the air before escaping in a buggy. Sheriff Wilson organized a posse and pursued the bandits.
Omaha attorney C W Britt lost sight in his right eye due to long exposure to flickering moving pictures. He underwent surgery at Clarkson hospital performed by Dr Harold Gifford on Sunday to remove a growth under the eyelid.
Famous aviator Glenn H. Curtiss in Chicago hints he may enter the Walter Darlington prize of 5000 dollars for the first successful flight across Lake Michigan during the aviation meet on July 2 3 and 4.
A severe southeastern Kentucky storm left over a hundred homeless in Whitesburg as the Middle Fork of Beaver Creek overflowed. Dozens of farm homes along the riverbank were carried away, with losses running into millions of dollars and feared fatalities pending a full report.
A Saturday capsize of a sailboat on the Rock River left Milliard Haskell a 19 year old Nanols University class of 1910 graduate and Clemment Weary a 17 year old dead. Both individuals were identified by age and university affiliation in a lake area incident report.
Fond du Lac Wisconsin Allenton, a small Soo railway hamlet in Washington county, was almost wiped out by a Saturday blaze. Estimated losses run from 25000 to 40000 dollars.
Samuel Douglas McEnery 73 United States senator from Louisiana died at home in New Orleans from acute indigestion after arriving from Washington. He served a third term ending March 3 1915 and was known as an independent Democrat. Gov Jared Y Sanders expected to be chosen as his successor by the Louisiana legislature.
Senator Robert M. La Follette of Wisconsin spent two hours with Theodore Roosevelt at Oyster Bay. They discussed current congressional insurgent legislation as reporters pressed for details. La Follette praised Roosevelt, calling him the great living American in fighting trim.
Indianapolis veterans traveling to the G A R national encampment in Atlantic City must pay three cents per mile one way or one and a half fare for the round trip after trunk lines refused a two cent per mile round trip rate. Indiana G A R leaders urged lower fares. railroads cited a lack of legal basis for such discounts.
Ida von Claussen, once married to Dr. William Francis Honan, filed a suit in New York claiming slander and conspiracy by Theodore Roosevelt, Robert Bacon ambassador to France, Charles Graves minister to Sweden, and Mrs. Alice Wright Graves. She alleges their machinations deprived her of a royal marriage to Prince Eugene of Eden.
Porter Charlton, who admits killing his wife Mary Castle Charlton and stuffing her body in a trunk found in Lake Como, Italy, fights extradition from Hudson county jail. Judge Charlton and local attorneys press insanity defense as four alienists concur he is insane and incurable.
New York reports Porter Charlton's case paused awaiting state department negotiations with Italy in Washington. His counsel asked to delay formal arraignment and pledged no habeas corpus or related moves to seize the prisoner from New Jersey authorities until the adjourned arraignment on July 8. Extradition decision expected as international aspects are addressed.
The excursion steamer J with 1,500 aboard caught fire Saturday night on the Mississippi river near Bad Axe Island. Four killed, many injured, about 400 lightly burned as passengers scrambled to shores 15 miles south of La Crosse Wisconsin.
Four men died and 11 were injured when Edward Bushay’s saloon and hotel five miles north of Minneapolis blew up from an acetylene gas tank in the basement. The dead include Eugene Hamlin Louis Hammish Charles Siggelkow and an unidentified man. The blast tore the roof off, fire followed, and the ruin spread in 30 minutes. Authorities fear more bodies may be in debris.
W T Bostwick barricaded inside his home near Irwinville Georgia after hours long standoff. He killed two besiegers before soldiers rushed the house and killed him. Six children were unharmed. Militia company from Fitzgerald responded to the scene.
Baltimore reports Mrs James S Sherman wife of the vice president shows some improvement after arrival at Johns Hopkins hospital and her condition is not regarded as critical.
Five hundred thousand dollars worth of property in Paterson New Jersey’s business district was destroyed by fire Tuesday. Two firefighters were seriously injured in the blaze.
State Commissioner George W. Miles reports 1 063 German carp removed from Indian Creek near Madison after seining. Carp disturbed nests and muddied water causing other fish to flee. inquiry into mills near Matthew and strawboard pollution planned. Pettiford fined for bass illegal size. Pommerher fined for shooting squirrels. Samples taken for water analysis of Big Blue River.
Crawfordsville was selected as the next meeting place for the Indiana Municipal League at the closing session. Officers chosen include Lemuel S. Darrow of Laporte as president James E. Burke of Jeffersonville as first vice president John Thom of Noblesville as second vice president Loring W. Melette of Elwood as treasurer and Fred B. Robinson of Crawfordsville as secretary. Gary alone opposed Crawfordsville but later favored waiting and withdrew its bid.
State Superintendent Robert J. Aley announced the new agriculture course for country schools after Purdue consultation, calling it the first time his office is fully satisfied with the outline. The plan, prepared for printer, reflects progress in Indiana rural education and agronomy training.
No word from the Austrian Lloyd steamer Trieste eight days overdue from Trieste. The vessel carries thirty four passengers and a crew of eighty five. Three ships are searching the Arabian coast for clues or signs of the ship and its occupants.
William Pittman, the American captured by the Madriz army during fighting near Bluefields over four months ago, has been found guilty of conspiracy against the government. He faces a prison term of at least ten years in Managua. Efforts will be made to seek Washington’s intervention to halt execution.
Joseph Thomas aged eighty three, credited as the inventor of the hoopskirt, is dying at his Hoboken New Jersey home from general breakdown.
Bloomington relatives were notified that Capt. E. Y. Miller, former city resident and noted captain of an Illinois company in the Spanish American war, drowned in a river in the Philippines.
New Haven, Connecticut. The wage increase ranges from eight to fifteen percent for workers on the New York New Haven and Hartford railroad clerks. About 2,300 clerks will be benefited.
Dr J P Simonds of the state health laboratory says rabies germs are not hardy and unlikely to infect cattle sharing a pasture. He notes that infected cattle can contaminate grass but germs probably do not survive stomach digestion unless mouth or throat injuries occur. The report cites 12 cows in a Richmond dairy dying from a rabid dog and total disease deaths in Kokomo area reaching 31 animals, including 12 dogs.
Appellate court rules mine operators bear absolute duty to remove loose rock and make roof safe before workers enter. Judge Roby states the law fixes the standard of care, excluding the owner except for those engaged in safety work. The article then notes June tax settlements totaling over 500000 with lists of county contributions.
Two hundred delegates from across Indiana attend the opening of the Baptist Young People's union joint state convention in Muncie. Rev. Lewellyn Brown of South Bend opens with "The Call of the Times," warning that churches lose influence when they chase mere modernity rather than guiding influence.
President Dan B. Harris General Manager A B Andrews and twenty one Southeastern Underwriters association members were convicted in a magistrate court of unlawfully conspiring to fix rates. Each fined 500 dollars. Cases appealed. Outgrowth of 10 per cent rate raise to meet a 314 per cent license tax hike. Court found rate increases retaliatory showing the association could penalize cities. Appeal planned in September.
In Sawlersville Kentucky heavy rains and a cloudburst drove Licking River to over thirty five feet. Six people drowned and many remain missing including three entire families. Two bodies recovered unidentified as searching teams contend with high waters and ruined crops across five miles of flooded headwaters.
Bishop A Zellow of Jamestown argues that church folk may yell when moved by faith just as baseball fans cheer. He criticizes local police for trying to quell the encampment noise. Reported revival claims say forty cures of ailments occurred in twenty four hours at the olive of anointing service.
A young man in ragged trunks and worn coat jumped from the center span of the Brooklyn Bridge into the East River, 135 feet below, claiming $3.50 in cash, two new suits, and the hoped for fame. He was rescued.
William Neilson McVickar, Protestant Episcopal bishop of Rhode Island since 1903, died after a lingering illness at his summer home at Heverly Cove in Beverly Massachusetts. He was born October 10 in New York.
Five carpenters are killed and three are seriously injured when a freight engine crashes into a gang on a trestle at Twenty first street on the Baltimore and Ohio line near the Belt tracks in Baltimore Maryland.
Charles A. Oxland plunged about five hundred feet to his death while prospecting near a high cliff seven miles from Valdez Alaska. He was accompanied by a companion during the excursion.
A blaze on Main Street in Paterson New Jersey damaged a block from Front Ward to Market Streets. Loss is estimated at 500000 dollars. Five firefighters were injured when a wall collapsed.
Robert O. Abel died and Frederick Abel and Harry Jessom were burned and bruised when an icitomo bone of a vehicle they rode in veered into a ditch, capsized and burned in St Louis County.
Ann Arbor Mich Ilarry Burns Hutchinson has been elected president of the University of Michigan to succeed Dr James B Angell.
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