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Newspaper
Ashton Gazette
Location
Ashton, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1905
Page
2
The Ashton Gazette published by Ralph J. Dean in Ashton signals a local newspaper record. No further readable article text is available to establish a distinct event, date, or named individuals beyond the publisher and city.
Commissioner Vespasian Warner ordered a medical board to examine Kyse as to sanity after he voluntarily returned a $60 pension. The board found him sane and healthy. Kyse said health improvements after joining Christian Science led him to reject the pension and return the money to the treasury. The Rawlings family faces hanging for the Carter children murders, ending a long Georgia feud. Rev J G Rawlings and his two sons Milton and Jesse, with a servant Alf Moore, are to be executed. Leonard Rawlings, spared due to youth, was convicted with his father.
A Louisville saddler received a litter of seven amalgamated kittens born to his gray cat. Twenty eight legs seven heads seven tails and a single central body form a mottled furry ball. The owners struggle to separate them while the unorthodox creatures fascinate locals.
The weather bureau weekly crop summary notes hot and dry spells in the middle Atlantic, Kentucky, and Tennessee, with showers delaying work and damaging crops in Virginia, West Virginia, and parts of the Ohio and Mississippi valleys. It reports rapid corn growth, widespread good condition, and needs for rain in Kansas and Alabama, plus harvest progress for winter wheat and oats across multiple states.
The New Orleans board of health reports 154 suspected yellow fever cases and 34 deaths with about 50 patients under treatment. The first case this season came from Central America, and authorities say quarantine has tightened. Precautions include strict sanitary regulations and mosquito control efforts modeled after Cuba.
A major blaze swept the business area of Guntersville Alabama causing about $50,000 in damage with roughly one third covered by insurance. The Alabama militia was deployed by the Governor to prevent a lynching of five black men held in jail at Galveston for the murder of two white women. Fred W. Perkins of Lyon Massachusetts was elected president of the Universalist Young People's Christian Union at the Hartford convention.
A Chicago case shows Josann Hoch narrowly dodging execution when a $600 gift to officials and a late appeal spared him. The convicted bigamist and alleged wife slayer awaits further court action as Governor Deneen grants a reprieve to a later Friday.
Col 7 Wilcox Brown of Baltimore files suit in the U S Circuit Court Southern District of New York seeking a receiver for Equitable Life Assurance Society with $413000000 in assets. He asks cessation of new policies and an accounting of funds since inception, with a plan to conserve and equitably distribute surplus to policy holders and annuitants.
Mr and Mrs James Reynolds of Plowville Berks county Pa woke to screams from their infant as a dozen rats attacked and chewed the cradle. The incident halted when workers from Girard Iron Company Youngstown Ohio, Marve Qstligan and John Under were killed by being caught in a cage.
The yellow fever crisis in New Orleans intensifies as cases spread and fear grows. Quarantines block movement statewide, rail and mail services shrink, and citizens scrub gutters and cisterns while officials debate containment and potential regional spread. A Philadelphia strike by eight hundred cutters highlights broader labor disruption amid the era’s public health fears.
Walter Scott, a 27 year old Death Valley prospector, has become the year’s most talked about figure. He claims an inexhaustible mine and has spent lavishly, tying a $500 bill to a mongrel and a $100 bill to its tail to show sympathy for the unfortunate. He toured Chicago and New York, drawing heavy attention from sensational press and wealthy backers, while his wife, a New York woman, accompanied him.
The West’s great wheat fields appear in late June and July with hills and valleys cloaked in golden grain. From Hill City to Graham County, vast tracts are harvested by hundreds of machines, as Rice consoles the landscape with 110 quarter sections and 10,000 acres devoted to wheat.
B H Tallmadge of Chicago received a preliminary hearing in a government land fraud case at Noswell New Mexico. One case was dismissed and a venue change was granted in the second count.
The thirty first annual convention of the American Bankers Association in Washington will be held October 11 12 and 13 1905. The trust company section and savings bank section meet October 10.
Suit against Armour Packing Company seeks 20 million dollars for injuries from contracting carbon disease during handling by the defendants. The case was filed in Galveston Texas.
Americans set a world record by dragging a trawl to 28 000 feet depth near the Tonga Islands in the South Pacific. They found animal life in near freezing water under 9 000 psi pressure. The return trip with the net took a full day of steady labor.
In Cleveland Arkansas on July 31 a local resident, A E Carlile, recounts a 23 year battle with kidney trouble and endorses Dodd's Kidney Pills as the best remedy. He claims the pills cured his condition and urges others to try them, noting the product heals kidney ailments from backache to Stright's Disease.
A nervous passenger asks why the train moves slowly. The ticket puncher replies that a new baggage master may have mischecked the train, implying a clerical error caused the delay.
A Gainesville Texas letter extols Cuticura Soap Ointment and Pills curing chronic ulcers and eruptive skin disease after thirty years of suffering. Also noted are a 100 pound gun projectile claim and various health ads including Allen’s Foot-Ease and Piso’s Cure for Croupy Children, with dated testimonials from 1901.
An old advertisement touts Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as the best remedy for kidney troubles in women. It cites increasing female kidney disease, urges early treatment, and credits Mrs. Sawyer of Conyers Georgia with recovery after suffering prostration. It promises free advice from Mrs. Pinkham at Lynn, Massachusetts.
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