New Era
Albion Indiana June 23 1909 issue notes a regular publication date for the New Era with local items and notices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albion, Ind
View this page and access billions of articles with a 7-day free trial.
Start Free Trial
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
Not what you were looking for? Search our billions of articles
Articles on This Page
This newspaper page contains 32 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Albion New Era
Location
Albion, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1909
Page
6
Blood feud killings shock Mississippi town Meadville
Two men are dead and several others wounded in a Meadville street battle tied to a long running feud. State troops guard the town as the conflict ends and investigations begin. Also reported is a record shipment of alligators from New Orleans to Los Angeles with a $900 rail fare. Dr A M Newman and Silas G Reynolds are named among the dead. Lenox Newman and Herbert Applewhite among the wounded.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mississippi
Meadville
Miss
Brookhaven
A. M. Newman
Chancery Court
Franklin County
Silas G. Reynolds
Lenox Newman
Herbert Applewhite
New Orleans
Los Angeles
Cal
Big Piano Plant Burned in Gary Ind
A factory in Gary Indiana suffered a major blaze as assailants shot Joseph Schow 36 from Marion. He survived though left eye damaged chin mashed right hand blown off as officers search nearby sand hills for the unknown assailant. General John S Konitz dies in Toledo at 78. He led the Grand Army of the Republic as commander in chief in 1884. Erie No 9 wreck near Waverly New York. Passengers unhurt but shaken after cars derailed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ne “Morse
Joseph Schow
Colore
Gary
Ind
Marion
Croker’s
Schow
South Bend
Konitz
John S. Konitz
Grand Army of the Republic
Toledo
Ohio
Bright
Eral Kouitz
Thirty-seventh
Ohio Volunteer Infantry
Dr. E. E. Hale Dies After Long Public Life
Rev Dr Edward Everett Hale, noted author and peace advocate born 1822, former pastor emeritus of Boston’s South Church, died at his Roxbury home after a long career. He helped establish The Hague tribunal and supported humanitarian reform movements alongside Julia Ward Howe. This obituary recalls his Harvard education and his role in 19th century moral reform.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward Everett Hale
United States Senate
Roxbury
Mass
Julia Ward Howe
Hale
Old South Church of
Boston
Dr. Hale
New England
Nathan Hale
Edward Everett
Boston Advertiser
Harvard University
Hague Tribunal
Raymond
Lisle Crabtree
James H. Washburn
Captain Raymond
Elijah Such
Bratton
Mercy Hospital
Des Moines
Charles W. Raymond
Engineer Corps
West Point
Son of Siamese Twin Killed by Lightning in Barn
Jesse Bunker, a deaf mute and youngest son of one of the famed Siamese twins, was killed by lightning in his tobacco barn in Surry County North Carolina. He and a son and a workman sheltered from a rainstorm. Bunker's hat and shoes were torn but the body showed no bruising.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jesse Bunker
Chang
Surry County
N. C
Bunker
Virginia
Thieves Return $15,000 Stolen From Duluth Woman
Mrs. George Sheat of Duluth Minnesota reported to Seattle police that on May 30 she was robbed of $20,000 hidden under her mattress during a parade. A letter from "Two Thieves" arrived offering to return $15,000 after using $5,000 to furnish their home and stating no further need for the money.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Sheat
Duluth
Decrease in Smallpox Cited by Government Surgeon
Government surgeon Benny S. Mathewson argues for stronger vaccination and revaccination. He cites Germany’s long standing compulsory program and U S data showing a steady decline in smallpox cases and deaths from 1902 to 1908 with 11 701 cases and 52 deaths in the latest period.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Germany
United States
Benny S. Mathewson
Public Health
Marine Hospital Service
Washington
Mathewson
Building Collapse Buries Four at Detroit Stove Plant
Four workers died when a six story section of the Peninsular Stove Company building at 8th and 2nd streets Detroit collapsed under falling stoves and debris. A basement fire was quickly put out as rescuers searched the rubble.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit
Rail bonds and mergers shape western rail growth
J. P. Morgan & Co underwrites 15 million of 60 million Chicago Great Western bonds. Soo Railroad builds 220 miles from Moose Lake to Thief River Falls. Missouri Pacific stockholders to approve merging 21 subsidiaries, boosting capital from 100 million to 240 million. Burlington and Northern Pacific launch Chicago to Seattle service aiming at four days New York to Seattle, with coast to coast time 95 hours 35 minutes and a separate 72 hour night run. Seaboard Air Line reorganization plans reduce fixed costs by 25 percent, end voting trust, foreclose less, and curb stock assessments. Hawley interests controlling Chesapeake and Ohio Railways resist Pennsylvania offer, fueling talk of a transcontinental link competing with existing trunks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. P. Morgan & Co
Chicago Great Western Railroad
Soo Railroad Company
Moose Lake
Duluth
Thief River Falls
Winnipeg
Western
Burlington and
Northern Pacific
Chicago
Seattle
Pennsylvania
New York
Burlington and Northern Pacific
Seaboard Air Line Railway
Hawley
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway
Five Shot in Mississippi Feud Sparks Meadville Shootout
Dr A M Newman chancery clerk in Franklin County was killed in Meadville while riding in his buggy. Silas Reynolds and two bystanders wounded as a feud flare follows Newman's April acquittal in the Cornelius Prichard case. A bystander named Boyd is said to have fired the fatal shot. Troops moved toward Meadville after the slayings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Meadville
A. M. Newman
Franklin County
Mississippi
Cornelius Prichard
Silas Reynolds
Newman
Newman-Prichard
Butler
Dr. Newman
Ernest
Lenox
Herbert Applewire
Prichard
Boyd
Fight for the Pennants American Association Race
Standings overview shows Indianapolis leading with 34 wins by margin over Milwaukee 31 and Louisville 30. Columbus 30 and Minnesota 28 trail as Kansas City 24, Toledo 23, St. Paul 20 battle for spots. recent results noted 28 30.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ind’n
Louisville
Columbus
Attempted mayoral assassination and arson in Bellefontaine
A burning bottle with kerosene was thrown through the mayor William R. Niven’s home window in Bellefontaine Ohio. Curtains carpets and furniture burned before firefighters stopped the blaze. Niven, a prominent Democratic politician and former congressional candidate, was not home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ohio
William R. Niven
Bellefontaine
Niven
State Committee
Congress
China backs down on big loan dispute
Acting on representations by Henry P. Fletcher, the American legation in Pekin reports China will not ratify the $27,500,000 foreign loan from British, German and French bankers for the Haakow Sze echuen railroad. The move aims to permit American participation via European arrangements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry P. Fletcher
Pekin
China
Haakow-Szeechuen
London
Paris
Berlin
Europe
Robbery on Fast Mail Express Captured in Rochester
Five New York and Brooklyn men robbed the express car of the fast mail from New York reaching Rochester at 1 52 a m. The theft was detected at Syracuse and Rochester police were notified. The robbers tried to flee at the depot but were captured.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Rochester
Brooklyn
Syracuse
Robbers Take $40,000 in Gold at Nellie Mine Heist
Five men and two women were held at gunpoint by three masked robbers at the Nellie mine bunkhouse on Bear Creek near Telluride Colorado. A running gun battle ended with the trio escaping after securing $40,000 in gold and slipping away.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bear Creek
Telluride
Colo
Wager Gone Fatal as Brooklyn Laborer Eats Beer Glass
James Shea a laborer died at his Brooklyn home after participating in a freak wager that required him to eat a beer glass. The incident highlights a dangerous stunt connected to a drinking wager with lethal consequences.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Shea
Brooklyn
N. Y
Wright brothers Honored by Taft in White House Ceremony
The Wright brothers Wilbur and Orville of Dayton received gold medals from the Aero Club of America in a White House ceremony with President Taft presenting the awards. Governors from states sent laudatory messages and scientific bodies prepared resolutions and letters for the Wrights.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Europe
Wilbur
Orville Wright
Dayton
Ohio
White House
Taft
Aero Club of America
Wrights
Wright Brothers
Aero Club of
Herbert Parsons
New York
Tait
Pioneer Aviation Club
United States
Katherine Wright
Cosmos Club
Gates Stop Flood After Lock Break Sparks River Damage
A flood barrier at the 800 foot lock area halted the surge after a failure ripped out lower gates. The steamer Crescent City was forced through by the torrent and raised for temporary repairs before moving to the lower lakes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iiker
Crescent City
Perry G. Walker
Cupid Pouts at Health Law Impacts Seattle Marriages
The Washington State law requiring medical exams for marriage licenses except for women 45 and older took effect recently. Ten couples presented physician certificates in Seattle, while two couples planned to wed in British Columbia to evade the new rule, with county officials predicting more Americans will wed in Canada.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington State
Seattle
British Columbia
Canada
Sports Highlights From The Detroit Fairgrounds And Beyond
Jack McKerron ran a mile in 2.18% at the Detroit fairgrounds. A New York to Seattle motor race covers 4000 miles. Frank Gotch defeated Henry Ordemann in 35 minutes 35 seconds in Minneapolis. King Edward's Minoru won the English Derby in a downpour with Louviers second and William IV third. Sir Martin fell. Olambala won the Latonia Derby at Cincinnati, with The Peer over four lengths back and Plate Glass last of the starters. Dr Burgan, Hamline’s coach, broke his arm blocking a slide-in. Ed Fierke snapped his wrist with a throw. Ed Adams on Chicago and Walter Miller of St. Paul staged a three hour wrestling bout with no fall. Brooklyn’s Ebbets says he’d buy two Chicago Cubs stars for 25000 dollars or offer a blank check to named figures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jack McKerron
Tretroit Fairgrounds
New York
Seattle
Frank Gotch
Henry Ordemann
Minneapolis
Minoru
Louviers
William IV
Sir Martin
Olambala
T. G. Greener
Cincinnati
Plate Glass
Dr. Burgan
Hamline
Ed Fierke
St. Paul
Ed Adamson
Chicago
Walter Miller
Ebbets
Brooklyn
Chicago Cubs
Murphy
Slavonia Wrecked Off Azores With No Lives Lost
The Cunard liner Slavonia carrying 110 saloon and 300 steerage passengers was stranded Friday off Flores island in the Azores. Rescue by Prinzess Irene and Batavia saved all aboard while refloating is deemed unlikely. The ship, bound from New York to Naples and Genoa, is a 10,600 ton steel liner 510 feet long valued around 750000 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Slavonia
Cunard Line
Flores Island
Azores
New York
Naples
Genoa
Lloyd Line
Batavia
Altonia
Pannonia
Carpathia
Senate Deliberates Tariff Bill As Reading Advances
Senate adjourns after second reading amid debate over tariff items. Arts works kept on free list. starch industry gains 1 cent duty on nonfood tapioca and sago. Crude potash and radium placed on free list. Sugar policy splits Bristow and supporters over Philippines duty. Senate tests amendments to cigars and silk schedule as House recesses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senate
Committee On Finance
Finance Committee
House
United States
Bristow
Philippines
American Sugar Trust
Murphy
Missouri
Secretary of the Interior
Cyrus Bede
J. Blair Schoenfeldt
Union Station
Indian Territory
Bede
Schoenfeldt
Burkett
Nebraska
Aldrich
la Follette
Borah
Florida Senate votes for life imprisonment for kidnappers
The Florida Senate approved a bill to impose life imprisonment on kidnap suspects. Oklahoma Attorney General in Guthrie announced preparations to move to dissolve the Frisco-Rock Island merger. Twenty nine army medical school graduates in Washington DC received diplomas from War Secretary Dickinson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oklahoma
Guthie
Rock Island
Army Medical School
Washington, D. C
Dickinson
President Penna of Brazil Dies in Washington Dispatch
President Alfonso Penna of Brazil died at 7:20 a m Monday, according to a State Department dispatch from the American ambassador in Rio de Janeiro He was born May 30 1847 in Santa Barbara Minas Geraes and educated at Caracas College and Sao Paulo Law School He aligned with the Liberal party and served in the provincial legislature from 1874 and was later chosen as representative to the National Assembly from Minas Gerais.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Penna
Brazil
State Department
Washington, D. C
Rio de Janeiro
Alfonso Penna
Santa Barbara
Minas Geraes
Caracas College
Law School
Sao Paulo
Liberal Party of
Minas
National Assembly
A. Fal
Steel wage hikes and plant developments in steel firms
The Philadelphia area report notes 7,000 Pennsylvanians at the Pennsylvania Steel Company in Steelton will have 10 percent pay restored on July 1 after a cut on April 1. Maryland Steel Company employees in Baltimore gain alike amid improving trade. Ground is broken at Sparrows Point for a $1.9 million open hearth department. Riverside works of National Tube Company will resume plate and tube production, employing 5,000. U S Steel operates 80 percent of blast furnace capacity, highest since October 1907 panic, with daily orders of 30,000 to 40,000 tons.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pennsylvania Steel Company
Steelton
Maryland Steel Company
Baltimore
Sparrow’s Point
Maryland Company
National Tube Company
Riverside Works
United States Steel Corporation
New Hope for Thaw as Sanity Hearing Granted
Harry K Thaw may again attempt to prove sanity in seeking release from Matteawan asylum where he has been confined since his 1907 murder trial of Stanford White. Justice William J Gaynor granted a new writ of habeas corpus returnable before Justice Mills in White Plains on application by attorney Charles Morschause of Poughkeepsie.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stanford White
Harry K. Thaw
Matteawan Asylum
William J. Gaynor
Brooklyn
Appellate Division
Supreme Court
Charles Morschauser
Poughkeepsie
Thaw
Oldest Slavs Murder Suicide on Pennsylvania Farm
An 87 year old farmer George Baker was murdered on a Der ry township farm near Honesdale Pa. His 86 year old brother in law Mark Van Duesen allegedly used a shotgun and then killed himself.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Derry Township
Honesdale
George Baker
Mark van Duesen
van Duesen
Seattle Bans Cigarettes Under New Law
Seattle enacts a cigarette ban with penalties including fines and imprisonment. Exposition police will enforce a strict prohibition of smoking on the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition grounds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seattle
Gas Find Stirs Wayne County Ohio
Wayne County Ohio reports a new natural gas flow reaching 3,000,000 feet per day by gauge. The strike occurred on a farm about ten miles west of Wooster, exciting local residents and farmers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ohio County
Wayne County
Ohio
Wooster
Business improves as bank clearings rise and wholesale demand grows
The report notes lower failures and a new high five day total of heavy bank payments. Crops progress is favorable while unsettled weather slows retail activity but boosts wholesale demand in dry goods. Freight, passenger transport, grain marketing, and finished goods rise, with iron, steel, pig iron, and lumber sectors expanding and more labor re-employment evident. Bank clearings total 27 417 for five days, up from last year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Exbee
Dun
Trade reports show year over year meat and work figures
In the June 10 period, trade reports cite 197 against 191 the prior year for meat and like week figures. 1908 comparison notes 29 in work and 24 in the like week, referencing Bradstreet's figures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bac
Bradstreet’s
Market Prices Across Cities for Cattle Hogs and Grains
Chicago to Cincinnati report shows live cattle pricing from $4.00 to $7.25 in many markets, hogs $3.50 to $8.00, sheep up to $9.00, with wheat No. 2 around $1.50 to $1.64 and corn No. 2 mixed about 73c to 84c. Regional variations listed for Detroit Milwaukee Buffalo New York Toledo Indianapolis St. Louis Cincinnati.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Detroit
Milwaukee
New York
Toledo
Indianapolis
St. Louis
Cincinnati
Also Mentioned on This Page
Theis
Hardman
Erie
Waverly
N.Y
Trueblood
Earlham College
Richmond
Dublin
William N. Trueblood
Morse
Charles W. Morse
United States Circuit Court of Appeals
Indiana
Posey County
Guaymas
Southern Pacific Rail Road
Pesmera
Hermosillo
Mexico
A. ¢. Budge
Nogales
Levi Miller
Norristown
E.E. Hale
Roxbury, Mass
Minneapolis Journal
Missouri Pacific Railway Company
Iron Mountain
American Association
Cleveland
Ph’d'Iphia
Wash’gton
Aero Club
Cupid
Qous
Work of Congress
Florida Senate
Mary Louise Phillips
Hanford
University of California
Notre Dame University
William Corby
Co. S.C
Gettysburg
Texas
Bermuda Islands
Bermudas
Gould
Stephen Barne
White Plains
Giles B. Harber
Japan
Tokyo
Ambassador O'Brien
Harry Thaw
Shoda
Self
Search the Albion New Era Today with a Free Trial
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
Not Finding What You Were Looking for on This Page of The Albion New Era?
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
Browse Newspapers
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
By Location
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
By Date
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
By Publication
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.