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Newspaper
Ashton Gazette
Location
Ashton, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Apr 09, 1908
Page
3
Charles Herbig drowned after his boat lost an oar above the Freeport dam. He and John Griffin were rowing when Griffin stepped ashore and Herbig was swept toward the dam. He battled the current before being pulled under and carried downstream.
Wives and children of drinkers will be posed in Bloomington on April 7 as object lessons on whisky’s harm. At every polling place these distressed families will represent the impact of liquor to aid a temperance vote.
Arthur Lathop age 22 of Elgin, visiting friends in Pensacola, drowned in a Texas Bayou after his horse fell into a hole near shore. A swift undertow swept him away as a crowd watched helplessly from a bridge. The body was recovered and sent to Elgin.
The State of Illinois sues the Economy Light and Power Company of Joliet. Judge Mack of Cook County will conduct the hearing on April 20. The evidence centers on expert depositions on waterways. Generals and congressmen figure among the witnesses.
Miss Teiva May Allen, aged 38, who was said to be the world’s largest woman, died at her home in Menard county. She had grown rapidly after age 12, reaching 600 pounds at 80 and 569 pounds at death. Her coffin required a dray because it would not fit in a hearse.
Attorney General files suit in Jefferson county Circuit Court to recover 19000 dollars in fees collected while Charles W. Pavey served as auditor. Bondsmen named include three deceased. Pavey, elected in 1888, recently resigned a Justice Department post in Washington due to ill health.
A 2-year-old, Charles Glick, wandered from home and was found sleeping between two hogs in a pen after a 24-hour search by about 100 neighbors and his anxious parents in Tower Hill. The infant was reunited with his relieved family.
A Clinton farmer named George Spray has pledged 18000 dollars to fund a new Y M C A building after Col Tom Snell declined to donate. Once the gift is confirmed work on the facility will start soon, marking an end to years of efforts by the committee.
Joseph Romine of Ficklin claims lifelong sleep of two hours in twenty four and maintains excellent health at 58. He routinely rises before dawn, eats at 3, and walks seven miles to his sawmill each day. A porch climber stole four thousand dollars of property from six Sterling homes. Albert Ray alias George Givins, a Chicagoan, was arrested with the loot after breaking into Clin tort Iowa houses.
Wind damaged John Halpin’s home near Kempton injuring a 3 year old who later died. Norris City losses reach 37800 dollars from eight burning businesses. Marshall and Westfield post office safe robbery nets over 1000 dollars. Gold township wolf hunt tallies three wolves five coons and hundreds of crows. Centralia Glass Works strike involves 250 workers over wages. County and city incidents include suicides, arson, wrecks, and a factory blaze amid broad statewide activity.
In Tuscola a jury convicts Harry Allt alias John Ryan of man slaughter for the killing of Edward Stillions at Galton on September 2, 1902. The case recounted a prior Kansas confession and a sensational jail escape, with Stillions’ widow identifying Allt as the shooter. Allt claimed the confession was a ruse to gain release. he received four years hard labor.
An elderly veteran who adopted a homeless girl has given 70 000 to the Illinois Children's Home and Aid Society. A tract signed by A B Judy of Potomac directs a new building valued at 30 000 with 400 acres near Potomac for water works and a cottage with dining and kitchen. The gift funds equipment for a school at 3 000 and aims to open this fall, honoring the donor's mother Mary A Judy who died in 1897.
A comic Urbana item reports George Henson punishing his flock after drunken chickens caused a stir by eating fermenting cherries. He required all hens to sign a pledge and threatened fricasse to any who refused. Headaches and suspended egg laying followed, with the scene unfolding at his hen house.
Cathokians raise a fund to repair the oldest Mississippi River edifice the church of the Holy Family at Cahokia erected in 1688 near Joliet and Marquette exploration. Pontiac slain nearby. fund aims to preserve the ruinous church amid time and hunting ravages. Tornado damage at Pekin Monmouth and surrounding areas destroys residences barns and a distillery with heavy losses. Mrs Weston dies from a bonfire accident while minister Rev John Weston survives injuries.
The United States enters a broad soft coal strike with about 260000 miners from Pennsylvania to Colorado refusing to work on April 1 to protest conditions and push for wage and arbitration changes. Central Pennsylvania Indiana pits stay open while others suspend operations.
President L Clark Seelye urges lighter entrance requirements in a Smith College report arguing current standards deter timely marriage and raise costs. He warns harder access harms poorer students and family life, amid Wisconsin college consolidation plans and Minnesota teacher salary trends with a new model school contract at Moorhead normal school.
Government table of mortality rates shows tuberculosis deaths dropping and cancer deaths rising. Across fifteen registration states and DC, typhoid fever, whooping cough, violence, and other causes shifted, with New York City recording the highest urban death rate and California the highest state rate for cancer.
Miss Alice L. Earle of South Norwalk Conn wakes to a bed siege by sixty one bats during a midnight storm in San Antonio Texas. She uses a bed covering, flees, and faints. attendants later find the room with the creatures slain.
FPMAAPOCIAL CHICAGO reports Dun. Co. weekly trade review for Chicago district shows steady recovery in bank payments but high commercial mortality and ongoing liquidation. Factory outputs lag last year while general merchandise and staples see improved distribution. Spring retail lines attract interest, and mercantile collections near normal as farmers invest in machinery and improvements. Failures total 89 in district, with 12 over 5,000 liabilities.
The first week of spring shows expansion in retail trade and larger building operations in the West, with conservative buying and stock replacement driving demand. Primary trade is quiet, industrials below normal, fall trade cautious awaiting crop and price clarity. Iron and steel activity muted. textiles subdued with wage cuts in cotton goods. Leather and shoe trades irregular. shoes shipments 26 percent below last year. US weekly business failures total 286, Canada 40.
A dense list of regional commodity prices updates for Chicago Indianapolis St Louis Cincinnati Detroit Milwaukee Buffalo New York and Toledo. Includes cattle hogs sheep wheat corn oats rye barley butter eggs potatoes and clover seed with varying grade ranges and unit prices. Also notes William T. Manning, Parker’s 1904 campaign manager, died of pneumonia in New York.
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