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Newspaper
Ashton Gazette
Location
Ashton, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1909
Page
2
The Ashton Gazette notes publisher Ralph J. Dean leads the paper in Ashton with continued community coverage. The brief item highlights the newspaper’s steady operation in the town.
A broad Illinois wrap reports Emma Goldman barred from addressing crowds in New York police action, Taft addressing Howard University graduates, and lines of strikes, finance and politics. It notes railroad robberies near Omaha, cabinet retrenchment plans, high oil fortunes, packing industry totals, and legal cases including Landis fines and Jerome disputes.
One thousand five hundred bales of cotton owned by Bassett Nash & Co. burned in the Norfolk Warehouse Corporation’s storehouse in Norfolk Virginia. Loss estimated at seven thousand five hundred dollars. Substantial earthquake relief gifts for Messina Italy prompt discussion of an international fund to aid disaster victims.
The Senate considered the lumber schedule of the tariff bill as Root Heyburn and Dolliver urged protection while Clapp Burkett and McCumber argued against it. The vote ended 56 to 25 against McCumber's free lumber amendment with 15 Republicans and 10 Democrats in favor. Dolliver surprised by opposing free lumber though not fearing industry harm. Root urged dressed lumber differential while Borah and Heyburn pushed highest duty and argued protection as a system. Clapp Burkett warned Canada could match U S lumber costs and tributes Canada’s government.
Five children at Mrs B C Boyds school in Central City Kentucky were burned possibly fatally when a candle set their white muslin dresses ablaze during a commencement ceremony. Spectators applauded loudly as Dorothy Clay dropped a candle starting the disaster. men covered the flames with coats to save the victims while mothers battled to reach their children near the foot lights.
John Carter aged 75 perished with three grandchildren in a house fire in Eldon Iowa. The blaze destroyed the Shaw home after a lamp toppled during a storm. Mrs Lela Shaw, their daughter and the children's aunt, was at work overnight and left the youngsters with their grandfather.
Four masked men halted the Overland Limited near Omaha and seized several registered mail pouches. They forced the engineer and clerks to cooperate, fired shots during withdrawal, and fled south along a cut‑off road. passengers were not harmed.
The report notes Judge Milton D. Purdy resigning from the U S District bench and J Adam Bade expected to fight to reclaim the Eight Minnesota district seat. It covers local dry ballot in Charleston and a census controversy raised by Senator McCumber criticizing the six North Dakota census report.
Extreme rainfall across northeastern Oklahoma swelled the Grand River and surrounding waterways, submerging parts of Afton and Muskogee. Rail bridges near Catale sustained damage, other bridges and tracks faced disruption, and four days of rain drove rivers higher across a 15 mile stretch from South Haven Kansas into Oklahoma.
A fire at King's County Hospital in Brooklyn on Saturday night endangered sixty spinally disabled children. Doctors and nurses evacuated all safely and, in a notable effort, forty-two were moved without unstrapping from Bradford frames. The wards lie in the rear three-story brick building, with spinal cases on the top floor where the blaze began.
A mob of about three hundred men seized Lovett Davis from Pine Bluff jail, hanged him from a telegraph pole after a rope broke, then rehoisted him. Deputies hidden in the jail were overwhelmed as the crowd smashed the building with sledgehammers and gathered on the street.
A shepherd dog saved Rev. Asay Ferry of Bethany Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia and his brother Rev. Ebenezer Ferry of Morrisville Presbyterian Church after they fell into the Delaware River. The dog first reached the elder and dragged him to shallow water, then returned to rescue the Philadelphia pastor and pulled him to shore.
The Dora arrived at Seward Alaska with 194 survivors from the wrecked Columbia off Unimaka Pass. The April 30 sinking in heavy surf left Italians, Japanese, Americans and Scandinavians aboard. panic among Italians was quelled by revolver restraint. Christ Christopherson and Ernest Anderson laid a life line to shore, and a May 2 storm forced the final abandonment and ship burning.
An American sailor held near Christiania Norway confesses to aiding Belle Gunness murders at her Laporte Indiana farm and says he killed Gunness himself. He is under observation for mental condition as the case is reported to the American minister.
Gilbert a retired French merchant laments speeding cars and leaves his entire fortune to churches in French cities for masses for the repose of victims. In Uskup an Albanian garrison uprising near Saloniki is linked to the deposed Sultan leader’s son aiming to reinstate Abdul Hamid. Yildiz palace inventory reveals 2.25 million dollars in bank notes and jewelry including a 375000 dollar rosary. Abdul Hamid reportedly had over 5 million in foreign bank deposits. The Young Turks withhold cash.
The Dun's Weekly Review of Trade notes healthier conditions in Chicago with stronger bank activity and lower defaults. Demand rises across heavy materials, factory products, grain and textiles while livestock and packing ease. Bank clearings total 271.8 million dollars, up 19.5 percent from 1908 and above 1907.
Weather remains irregular but staple crops show improvement and retail business is modestly better, though still disappointing. Optimism grows for fall and winter trade. tariffs and weather partly explain slow gains. US failures rise to 219 this week vs 224 last week. Canada reports 25.
Chicago to Toledo markets list bids and price ranges for cattle hogs sheep and grains. The compilation shows city by city figures including Chicago Indianapolis St Louis Cincinnati Buffalo New York and Toledo with varying bids for cattle hogs sheep wheat corn oats rye butter eggs and clover seed.
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