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Newspaper
Ashton Gazette
Location
Ashton, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1909
Page
2
The Ashton Gazette notes a government declaration that the postal strike in Paris was effectively over as official figures showed a large uptick in gold supply worldwide. Also mentions a varied mix of political and social items across worldwide headlines.
Thomas Todd, a native of Ken tuckians and former captain in the Mexican war, has died at his home in Shelbyville Kentucky. Also noted is a Jersey City shipment of zoological oddities addressed to San Siexert including a five legged sheep and a three legged hen. A special grand jury in Ada Oklahoma began investigating the lynching of four cattlemen on April 19 following the killing of federal deputy marshal A A Bobbitt.
Captain Peter C. Hains Jr. was sentenced in Flushing to an indeterminate term of eight to sixteen years with hard labor for manslaughter in the first degree in the Bayside Yacht Club killing of William E. Annis. Defense motions for a new trial and jurisdiction were denied. Hains appeared dazed during sentencing as family members showed emotion. The defense was given 24 hours to file an appeal.
Charles Rapp, 32, once a pitcher for the South Bend Green Stockings, murdered his mother with a hammer and butcher knife at the county jail in South Bend Ind and then killed himself with the same knife. Police said he hinted he planned to harm the entire family after a night of drinking. He had been a popular local figure before the crime.
Morris & Co of Chicago won a $3 to $5 million deal with Oklahoma City Chamber of Commerce to erect a packing plant with daily capacity for 1000 cattle 2500 hogs and 1500 sheep and employ about 1600 workers. Construction plans to start immediately and the move could transform the state live stock industry by shifting slaughter from Kansas City and Fort Worth to Oklahoma.
A dredging company has begun constructing an immense drainage ditch in Hutchinson County South Dakota southwest of Sioux Falls. The project will drain a large area of farm land now unusable due to flooding and will remove a 1555 acre lake, reclaiming the land for future crops.
Tracy and Co stock and grainhouse with Chicago pacts and New York offices goes to a receiver. Estimated liabilities reach 1.25 million with 500 thousand in assets, as creditors seek relief. William W. Tracy led the firm. blamed losses from taxicab ventures and grain cornering by James A. Patten.
The noted robber chieftain Savitsky, called the Robin Hood of the Russian revolution, was killed by the rural guard near Mohlev after a long era as a terror to police in Tchernigov and Mohilev. He then distributed spoils among peasants and delighted in daring stunts before being betrayed by a band member.
The Chicago Burlington and Quincy Railroad planned to refund nearly 65 million dollars in bonds at four percent. The Pennsylvani a Railroad expanded its nursery planting with 813000 forest seedlings and 222 bushels of red oak acorns. Slason Thomson of the Bureau of Railway News reports 1907 losses far higher than the Interstate Commerce Commission estimates, with gross earnings down about 330 million and net earnings down around 129 million, partly due to 2 cent passenger laws and new accounting costs.
Henry H. Rogers Standard Oil vice president and financier dies at his New York home from apoplexy. He rose from newsboy to head of Standard Oil and helped found Amalgamated Copper, with ties to railroads and major oil industry development. His birth date remains undocumented but is believed to be 1840 in Fairhaven Massachusetts.
Louise Arbogast, 22, is formally arraigned in St. Paul police court on a murder charge for the death of her father Louis Arbogast, a wealthy meat dealer found dead with a crushed head. She denies the crime and says fortune tellers influenced a delusion. defense hinges on sanity.
Lieutenant General Anatole M. Stoessel and Rear Admiral Nebogatofft were released from confinement at the fortress of St. Peter and St. Paul by order of Emperor Nicholas. Both men, gravely ill, had been serving ten year terms for surrendering Port Arthur and the Sea of Japan battle respectively. Gregorieff and Smyrnoff were pardoned and released a month earlier after their prior death sentences were commuted to ten years.
Harvey Johnson a life prisoner at Columbus Franklin County has vanished underground within bolt shop No 6. Guards and officers have searched since Wednesday with sightings at night including a head peeking from a belt shop window. A crude improvised ladder and stained clothes were found beneath the floor as Warden Jones orders guards to shoot to kill if he does not surrender. Police notified.
Helen and Edward Koch, 38 year old twins and children of Justice A. Koch of Youngstown Ohio, died suddenly after playing in the morning. The boy died within a half hour followed by the girl as convulsions brought their deaths. Coroner Klyne will hold autopsies to determine cause. Poisoning feared.
SQLS BENDS The Patchen Wilkes Stock Farm will soon start training at the Kentucky Trotting Horse Breeders Association track. The Columbus team, once American Association champions, opened the season with seven straight losses. John B. Taylor, Freeport Illinois racing magnate, died from injuries after a buggy fall. Montana Governor Morris warned horsemen in Frankfort that only money-driven gambling could end racing. The Western Canada Baseball League forms eight teams in Winnipeg to Edmonton, with many Americans from Northern clubs.
A testimonial from Mrs Emma Imsk of Milwaukee praising Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for curing female troubles and back pain after a tumor fear and surgery advice. The letter notes vast mail to Pinkham from Lynn Mass and offers free advice. Also includes a separate anecdote about taste and smell loss affecting food perception with a Baltimore Herald quote.
Norman Duncan remarks at a Lawrence dinner that his brother’s nature studies are fascinating yet false as Kansas cyclone yarns. A stranger in the fertile plains sees a tall pinnacle and asks about a factory chimney, only to learn it is Jabez Greene’s well as Cyclone turns her inside out.
A Wisconsin woman recalls four years of indigestion, heart palpitations, and weakness. After switching to Grape Nuts and Postum, she reports rapid relief, restored energy, weight gain, and clear skin in weeks, attributing her recovery to the cereals and drink. She endorses their taste and invites readers to see The Road to Wellville.
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