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Newspaper
Ashton Gazette
Location
Ashton, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 25, 1906
Page
2
Texas cattlemen press for federal aid to exterminate the fever tick after reports of over 15 000 cattle deaths along the quarantine line. Dan McCunningham of Colorado City urges a united north and west meeting to express support for government cooperation, warning of ongoing losses.
John Doran, arrested in Wilkinsburg on charges of attempting to cremate his wife, faced a mob of over 100 neighbors who tried to seize him. Police Chief James R. Doran urged restraint, insisting on a fair trial as Doran was moved to Justice Walker for a hearing and held for court.
A Chamberlain Dakota mother saved her 17 month old daughter from an eagle attack. The bird clung to the dress while the mother struck with a broom until the eagle dropped the child and fled. Gov Folk granted respites for Aggie Meyers and Frank Trotman in a murder case awaiting Supreme Court review.
Bandits held a crowd at bay for three hours in Sawyer while part of the gang forced open the Sawyer State Bank and pocketed about 4500 dollars. Posses scoured northern North Dakota in pursuit of the robbers.
State assessors remitted all state taxes except a small school levy as the treasury holds funds for fixed expenditures. Fierce blizzard with heavy rainstorms hits from the eastern slope to the Sierra Nevadas causing extensive property losses. Ohio reports 61000 births 51804 deaths and 4417 marriages in the year to June 30. Mrs Lena Potter Cowden, daughter of Bishop U Henry Clotter, hanged herself at a private sanitarium near Cromwell Connecticut. Senator Burton begins six month prison term at Tren ton Missouri.
A fast Northwestern eastbound train struck a carriage near Lowden Iowa carrying Mrs. Charles Luett two children and Mrs Luett's brother in law William Luett. All were killed except a baby girl. A gale in San Francisco toppled walls and caused five deaths and multiple injuries from collapsed structures.
The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court holds that workers may exercise the common law right to strike but limits union coercion to disputes with workers in the same trade. A strike aimed at a third party with no trade conflict is improper, as in a dispute between stone cutters and pointers in Boston.
A blaze at Mrs. BE Watley’s boarding house on Third Avenue Birmingham Alabama during the early hours killed ten men and seriously injured two more with a third slightly hurt. Twenty one boarders mostly street railway workers occupied the second floor where all fatalities occurred. The lower floor occupants escaped with nothing saved as the entire building burned and the fire is suspected incendiary.
John A Stranahan of Fairbank South Carolina reports experiments with Hertzian waves yield electricity from the air. His ranch lights all buildings and runs farm machinery and irrigation pumps. A pair of tandem box kites carries a collector string to gather and store electricity from the air.
City chemist declares a box of bonbons sent as a peace offering contains enough strychnine to kill three people. Dr. James Eldridge tested the candy after a quarrelled recipient gave it to him for analysis. A separate note reports four year old Margaret Schweitzer found unharmed in a wolf den near Menominee Michigan after two days missing, contentedly playing with wolf pups.
Fourteen crewmen or their bodies lie at the bottom of Biserta harbor Tunisia under 180 feet of water after the French submarine Lutin vanished during trials. The loss is believed to mirror the fate of the Farjadet crew drowned previously.
In Canton Ohio Casper and Sylvia Ertle and Dora Rice aged 3 4 and 7 were smothered to death after failing to return home for supper. A search party found the children in a gravel pit where they had been playing.
Five people died and about 100 were injured when a gasoline explosion ripped through the Meinerding dry goods and hardware store in Fort Recovery Ohio. Fire quickly spread destroying tightly built structures on the town’s west side as the blaze engulfed the area. The cause of the blast remains undetermined.
A blaze at Summerside PEI began in the railway station and spread quickly, drawing help from Charlottetown. The fire destroyed forty two structures including the post office, the English and Baptist churches, and four hotels.
Lord William Scully a powerful landowner with about 200000 acres in Illinois and other states died in London leaving an estate valued at five million dollars. A hurricane swept western Cuba and southern Florida disrupting telegraph lines and destroying around one hundred houses in Miami Florida.
George Rashid, a Syrian leper once expelled from several cities, died of heart failure in a Pickens shanty near Clarksburg, West Virginia. Cremated by county officials after removal and nurse care. He had been relocated to a shanty by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad and later evaded surveillance before dying.
Two buoy messages sent adrift near Franz Josef Land by the 1901 Baldwin-Ziegler polar expedition were found July 10, 2008 on Moffen Island by Captain Stremergen of the arctic whaler Gottfreund and sent to the State Department. The typewritten notes, mailed from Washington, appeal for coal and recount the expedition turning back due to fuel shortage.
A married couple from Tiffin Ohio completed a 3000 mile journey by trolley, boat and steam, starting in Toledo. They traveled through Ohio Pennsylvania New York and a portion of Canada with the majority on water and electric trolley, with only the final Toledo segment by steam car.
Ohio woman stands accused of drugging her father and attempting to injure him to hint the blows came from an animal. Authorities allege motive was control of his farm. The case follows various sensational items from a wide range of reports.
An outbreak of Ute Indians in Wyoming sparked a battle near Gillette. Two cowboys were killed and several Indians wounded as the raid on a cattle camp unfolded. The Indians, who had left Utah six months earlier, took cattle and meat home, while Gov. Brooks sought federal troops to capture them and return them to their Utah reserve. The dispersed group aimed for the Dakota bad lands, but white settlement blocked that route.
A grand jury in Jackson Tennessee returned a voluminous indictment against Standard Oil Company of Indiana. The 1524 counts allege discriminatory oil transport rates over three years. Potential penalties range from 1.524 million to 30.48 million dollars. John D. Rockefeller officials may be summoned to testify.
Secret Service men count ten million dollars in coin and currency at the United States sub treas ury in St Louis to verify a reported shortage of sixty one thousand two hundred dollars. Paying teller D P Dyer Jr has been relieved pending inquiries as inspection is overdue ten months. Sub treasurer Adkins flagged suspicions prompting the investigation.
Mrs. Charles Freeland, 22, died of heart paralysis in Steubenville Ohio, seven weeks after a sick cat bite believed rabid. She feared hydrophobia after treatment and consumed rabies literature, and despite care she never recovered. Doctors call it a rare case of death by fright.
A hurricane sweeping Florida Cuba and Central America caused massive loss of life with hundreds drowned at Elliott's Island Havana and San Salvador reporting deaths. Property damage ran into millions. In Ohio a jury found Standard Oil guilty under state anti trust law and liable to fines and imprisonment. The Rockefeller case awaits appeal.
A barrel of fancy potatoes wrapped in pink tissue paper was shipped from Greeley Colorado by express to Palmer Brown in Paris France. Brown, a wealthy Greeley resident, will pay nearly 18 cents per potato and dislikes those sold in Paris. Frank Mordaunt Dead After Four Years of Nervous Disorder
Adam Hage who killed William Edwards after his home was wrecked and who was dismissed by Mayor Thomas of Hamilton Ohio died at Mercy hospital from nervous shock caused by the tragedy.
The Carnegie hero fund commission awarded medals and some cash to fifteen individuals and the heirs of one more for valiant deeds. Of the recipients, sixteen were from or near Chicago.
A jury in Findlay Ohio found Standard Oil guilty of violating state anti-trust laws after a seven day trial. The verdict carries a fine of 50 to 5000 dollars per day or six to twelve months imprisonment. The case introduces information and affidavit procedure against monopolies. Hymns were sung during deliberations as jurors remained awake for 32 hours before agreeing. The verdict may head to Ohio Supreme Court for final decision.
Western Kansas farmers increasingly rely on steam ploughs to boost efficiency. About 600 steam outfits operate across the wheat belt, pulling gang plows with traction engines to till 30 acres daily, aided by two men per outfit. Ploughing costs drop to roughly 40 cents per acre, compared with 75 cents to 1.50 by manual teams, enabling 1000 acres to recoup costs in a few years. Some farmers even plough at night under bright headlight glare to finish fall work.
The passage discusses Cuba politics and foreign affairs with satirical lines on Swedish Finns religious freedom in Russia, spelling reforms, a Panama Canal contract, and Jamaica workers. It notes looming Cuban trouble and political theater, with quips about Oyster Bay and electoral campaigns.
Ex U S Senator M C Butler of South Carolina writes from Washington praising Peruna for dyspepsia and stomach trouble calling it a wonderful medicine and tonic. The piece notes catarrh of the stomach as the cause of many dyspepsias and that Peruna treats this internal catarrh. A separate anecdote recounts Judge Mat and Punch Wheeler tale about fining a tenor for revealing show routes in Galveston and at Broadway.
The text notes Og King of Bashan Samson and the famed Goliath as giant figures. It argues Goliath was not tall by modern standards yet awe inspiring, given warriors’ reluctance to face him.
Public notice style advertisement extols Grape-Nuts as a cure for indigestion and nervous dyspepsia. Praises the cereal as light in digestion and energy boosting with testimonial from a Maine user. Promotes the slogan There’s a reason and the book The Road to Wellville.
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