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Newspaper
Big Timber Pioneer
Location
Big Timber, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jan 14, 1909
Page
4
Fire at Thompson Falls Montana wiped out a full business block causing about 25000 dollars in losses. Nearby reports list continued regional incidents including a new Taft post office in Uinta county Wyoming and weather driven game protection efforts.
A gas explosion at Joseph Leiters colliery in Zeigler Duquoin Illinois killed twenty five workers with thirteen bodies recovered and eight still buried in the mine. Italian youth survivor and relief efforts led by owner Mr Leiter are noted as rescue operations resume after recent mine fires and a two month shutdown. The mine opened in 1903 and previously suffered a 1905 explosion killing fifty one men.
The body of Madame Ogston, wife of Messina's British consul, was recovered from the wreckage. The consul and his daughter escaped with injuries, and rescue teams recovered survivors ten days after the collapse. A sharpshooter party saved an elderly man aided by a dog's alert.
Senator Depew of New York declared Saturday night that the United States Senate will rigidly scrutinize the fitness of public appointees, asserting the chamber will exercise its constitutional responsibility fully in the future. He stressed this will not be done in an antagonistic spirit toward the president.
Mayor Hutchinson ordered a blanket Sunday crackdown in Roanoke to enforce every ordinance. Police stopped sales of cigars tobacco and related items and halted milk ice cream and dray wagons while recording driver names. Streetcar and freight train details were logged to ensure compliance.
Judge Jones sentenced Garrett Johnson Tid Burton Bob Ransom Fred Pincon Arthur Clear and Sam Applewhite to death for the murder of Captain Guentin Rankin. Bud Morris and Bob Huffman received twenty years. Lawyers gave notice of appeal to the state supreme court with a possible February 19 hanging if not stayed.
Oliver P. Billings age 10 was arrested in Joplin after a five week chase for looting Noel State Bank in Noel McDonald County. He entered through a rear window during a cashier’s noon meal and stole $92 from the cash drawer. The boy confessed to the robbery.
Washington reports six million dollars of imports from Panama and sixty million of exports to Panama over the past five years in a Bureau of Statistics bulletin. The document notes much of the trade supported canal workers while portions aided Panamanian residents not directly tied to canal work.
Washington reports the House adopted without dissent a resolution of inquiry led by Mr. Tawney to investigate current year appropriations for fraud detection and enforcement. A five member committee will gather papers under oath to identify branches funded by Congress that guard against fraud and prosecute offenders, listing personnel, pay, and duties from this year and last.
Kansas Supreme Court affirms Shawnee county verdict against International Harvester Company. The court orders a 12600 fine across 42 counts for violations of Kansas trust laws. Evidence centered on Cyrus McCormick statements claiming market control.
The battleship Connecticut arrived in Naples with sister ships Vermont Kansas and Minnesota. They escorted relief to Messina but did not fire salutes due to national mourning. Many Italians in the US seek transport for relatives in Sicily and Calabria. Legal questions may require action in Washington.
During Sunday services a near Sion church collapsed trapping worshipers in ruins. Firefighters recovered forty corpses and many more are believed buried. About sixty were seriously injured as panic spread and villagers sought safety. Collapse blamed on time worn underground crypt pillars.
In Williamstown Kentucky a street feud between the Lantern and Ranson families erupted after a dance at Wesley Barnes home. Ethel Ranson, 25, was killed and six others were wounded two seriously. Sidney Rayson was struck near the heart and Charles Clark wounded in the lungs.
Congress censured the president by a 212 to 35 vote for remarks in his messages about the secret service. The House declared it would not consider any communication not deemed respectful by its members, fueling a pointed clash over legislative and executive powers. Caustic speeches followed as members criticized the president’s language and actions.
President Roosevelt details an inquiry by post office inspectors and secret service into Senator Tillman over an Oregon land grab. The report alleges influence to force a railroad to relinquish land grants for private profit and misuse of franking privileges. Some senators doubt violations but view the report seriously.
Mrs Burns reports a peculiar electric phenomenon in Santa Cruz with hot metal pellets falling from the sky. Residents confirm roofs show molten marks and a boy is burned. one theory attributes the event to a disintegrating meteor.
The senate on Thursday passed a bill outlining conditions for the upcoming thirteenth census. The house amended to permit private contract printing and binding of census reports if the director deems it desirable. An attempt to place 3500 census officers under civil service was defeated. Senator Culberson's resolution on presidential authority to permit Tennessee Coal and Iron absorption by the Steel Corporation was adopted.
Rev John Havi Carmichael a longtime Methodist leader in Michigan is formally charged with revolting murder. He allegedly lured neighbor Gideon Browning to a church near Columbus, murdered him after a struggle, dismembered the body and burned the pieces in the church stove.
In Rice Lake Wisconsin four boys aged eight to sixteen, sons of Christ Lee, burned to death when their home burned early Thursday. Mr Lee his wife and three younger children escaped in night clothes barefoot. Mrs Lee and two children collapsed half a mile from a neighbor and the husband carried the three others. The third child walked to the neighbor and reached the house with frozen feet.
Thirty five Mt. Carbon school pupils near Pottsville and teacher Miss Laura Deisher were overcome by coal gas from a leaky stove pipe. Prompt actions by the teacher saved the students. Deisher herself was overcome after saving four children. Neighbors found the entire group in a comatose state.
In Muskogee Oklahoma December 18 a man struck by a train was identified as H L Edmisson of Edgewood Kansas and buried there. A man claiming to be Edmisson confessed the body was Irving Thomas of Dallas Texas to hide Edmisson identity. He said he was a deserter and used the ruse to cover his crime. remorse led to the confession.
Vienna reports no real progress after M Milovanovich inflammatory speech. If Baron Aethrenthal offers pecuniary compensation to Turkey the crisis might be saved. otherwise the situation risks deteriorating as Austrian diplomacy plays a dangerous game with Turkey.
Andrew Carnegie urged abolition of tariffs on steel oil and tobacco and called for strengthening foreign trade. He insisted on acting promptly to gradually transition from exporting raw materials to manufactured goods for ongoing prosperity.
In Kansas City a St Louis salesman W G Brault and his wife were found dead in their hotel room. Police detected chloroform odor but found no other traces of the drug. The coroner says Brault killed his wife then himself, while friends suspect foul play.
A garbled European and Asian miscellany notes Britain’s wartime fleet totals, a remark about an egg corner, China gifting Mrs Roosevelt a tiger skin, and India’s Sholapur match factory. It mentions Chicago’s ban on tramps, removal of free lunch in saloons, and Chauncey Depew attending Congress with a new tale.
In Munich a woman fainted under the weight of her hat as fashion reporters note the heavy airiness of the merry lid trend. The incident highlights crowd reactions to oversized headwear and the era’s millinery craze.
London Punch quips about suffragettes being disguised as ladies with a mix of sarcasm and caution, reflecting press tone of the era as it comments on gender politics and public perception.
Theodore Roosevelt Jr has been named a major on the governor of Connecticut's staff. The move follows large crop value estimates, prompting farmers to wonder who will receive the money and how it will be allocated.
Doubts about athletics clashing with scholarship prompt Prof Hadley of Yale to avoid showing preference for the opposing team during events.
The article notes more than 20,000 workers died in American industries last year. It warns civilization pays dearly in human blood and calls for action to reduce workplace fatalities.
A New York driver flashing a $1,000 bill in Harlem court stirred the judge, an event not echoed in western courts where a $1,000 fine might be issued. A Chicago municipal court judge recently admitted he only read Gibbons’ Decline and Fall after election, noting crime in Chicago limits leisure for judges.
A woman fainted on a Munich street attributed by a doctor to the weight of her Merry Widow hat. The column notes the humorous contrast with her husband’s likely reaction to the bill and observes how some theatergoers still wear such hats in enclosed spaces.
The United States paid pensions totaling 3,654,663,364.42 dollars from 1866 through 1908, with the payment organization incurring 122,574,462.96 dollars in costs. The combined total 3,777,237,828.38 dollars surpassed the 1907 money in circulation by over 1.12 billion dollars.
Experiments in Washington show orange colored underwear and hats may shield soldiers in the Philippines and other tropics. Black fabrics absorb heat, white blue and green fade under sun, while orange, though containing some red, nearly blocks heat rays.
A noted counterfeiter offers to give up his outfit and quit crime, praising the honesty of his motive as he claims the United States secret service pursues him so vigorously that the counterfeit business is unprofitable. The remark suggests others could share the same view.
The passage discusses nonconsecutive terms for Cleveland creating confusion about numerical order. It states Cleveland is the twenty second or twenty fifth on memorials, Harrison as twenty third, McKinley as twenty fourth, and Taft expected as twenty sixth.
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