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Newspaper
Brimfield News
Location
Brimfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Apr 02, 1908
Page
7
A collision near Hakodate in foggy seas sank the Matsu Maru after striking the Hideyoshi Maru. About 275 aboard perished, including 244 passengers and 43 sailors. The Hideyoshi Maru, damaged, rescued some survivors as dawn broke.
The Japanese crew aboard a wrecked steamer were rescued after naval fast destroyers sped to the scene. Fifty Years to Lighthouse profiles Miss Ida Lewis who plans a rare vacation after sixty six years as Newport lighthouse keeper. She earned the Carnegie hero fund pension for saving eighteen lives and is the first African woman to receive the Cross of Honor.
A quirky column blends notes on a new nickel trust in the moving picture industry with remarks about the Vanderbilts and two Hungarian counts. It touches Col John Temple Gratves on wages for women, a weather bureau joke, and comments on the Prosperity Convention. The piece wades through autos, moonshiners, and a Georgia colonel at a drug store fountain.
Philadelphia professor Horvath says he found Stradivarius varnish secret after years of tests. He presented two violins to experts, a cheap $2 instrument and a factory $22 violin, showing treated items matched the best. A six month test is planned for more violins.
The record of embezzlement and bank losses shows totals shrinking from 1307 to 1008 with $1,988,605 in losses and public officials abstracting $787,466. The Cement Age notes concrete car bumpers tested by Lackawanna Railroad, monolithic with granite faces and rail projections. It also cites reinforced concrete flywheels for a pumping station near Johannesburg weighing 6,900 pounds and 14 feet in diameter.
Under a District Court ruling, St. Louis County must pay 157.74 to the Minnesota State Treasury. Detroit women form a two person stork club in January 1907. a baby has arrived to each since that time.
Union labor leader boasts members are not in want though many are unemployed. A country wide canvass yields estimates of over a million idle workers with about 600 000 in major cities and another 600 000 outside them. The report lists jobless by trade and state, citing labor leaders and Donnelly praising the lack of destitution among union men despite mass unemployment.
In Boston a deadly tragedy at the Laprens School for Girls left Miss Weed and Miss Hardee dead after a confrontation with a supposed assailant, once believed to be a friend. Weed had recently fled a sanitarium amid overwork collapse and endured a fatal chain of events ending in suicide.
Spares from the wires report the Southern railway has laid off nearly 700 shopmen across Southern States. An unofficial dispatch from St Peterssburgh claims the Czar commuted the death sentence of Gen Stoesner. Rev Dr Hikitington of Grace Episcopal Church New York opposed the Broadway Lexington Avenue intimate poing. The tube will be directed to pass under the Wanarenker building.
A collage of quips and commentary from various papers covers society jokes about manners, politics, divorce costs, war talk, and economic woes. Notables include remarks on Mrs Vanderbilt, an Ohio judge on women, and jokes about markets, taxes, and career fantasies. The piece ties light humor to current events and national mood.
Illinois GOP delegates and alternates chosen to back Joseph G. Cannon for the national convention in Chicago. The platform endorses Cannon, calls for tariff revision with a maximum and minimum rate plan, and praises Roosevelt and Deneen. Boutell urged Cannon as next nominee. Leland hotel fire disrupted proceedings during his speech.
A chronological list of diverse historical milestones including the Plymouth treaty with natives in 1621, 1628 Massachusetts plans, 1776 American letters of marque, 1781 Uranus discovery, 1864 Grant full command, 1881 assassination of Alexander II, and 1907 floods with Marines in Honduras, highlighting global political, scientific, and military milestones.
A Philadelphia Press snippet reports a domestic dispute where Henpeck asks his wife for a quarter until payday and she declines. The exchange frames Henpeck as meek and harmless, while his wife’s distrust is emphasized.
Montana stockmen plan extra heavy cattle shipments to early markets due to excellent winter condition. Register Schmit in Helena deposits 10 as state land sale revenue credited to educational institutions. At Tawa Falls action seeks electric lights for farmers along a high tension line. Durum wheat delegates in Grand Forks urge price fairness and county organization led by J L Cashel and T B R Atkinson. Minnesota clears Itasca Park timber for 860,000 feet at $11 per thousand. La Crosse County votes to donate fairgrounds for a state agricultural school and domestic agency department. John Berg elected president. $11,000 state appropriation planned.
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