Illinois notes and world events in a Miscellany column
A sprawling summary of scattered items from Illinois and national affairs. It mentions Illinois manufacturers boycotting coal, Moreton Frewen recounting Spanish-American war details, a New York to Chicago air race prize, Taft era political maneuvering, graft investigations, legal decisions on interstate rates, and various political bribery allegations linked to Lorimer and Springfield. The report cites many named figures and places, including Taft, Lodge, Holleben, Pauncefote, McVeagh, Belmont, and Kiev.
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Moreton Frewen
London
Baron Holleben
Lord Pauncefote
Wayne McVeagh
Senator Lodge
Plea Cites Unlawful Combine In Freight Rate Case
Attorney General Wickersham leads federal action halting 25 Western railroads from enforcing planned interstate freight rate increases. Judge Dyer granted a temporary restraining order citing Sherman Act violations. Tariffs by Eastern lines poised to expand the dispute nationwide.
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Western Railroad Lines
Eastern Toads
Western Railroads
United States District
David P. Dyer
Hannibal
United States
United States Circuit
St. Louis
Dyer
Edwin P Grosvenor
Washington
Frederick N Judson
George W Wickersham
William S. Kenyon
Charles A. Houts
Minneapolis
Interstate Commerce Commission
Ohio River
Mississippi
Missouri River
Atlantic
Eastern Trunk Lines
Woman's Age Secret Costs $10 in Federal Case
Miss Sarah E Peck a Union College faculty member Lincoln Nebraska paid a $10 fine in federal court to purge an indictment over age disclosure to a census enumerator Lewis Terry. Peck refused to reveal her age on three occasions warning she could pay the penalty.
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Census Department
United States
Sarah E Peck
Normal
Union College
Lincoln
Ned
Federal District Court
Miss Peck
Lewis Terry
Stampede Begins to Alaska Prospectors Feared Sailings Overbooked
Officials of steamship companies on the Bering Sea report an estimated 15,000 travelers will depart Seattle for Nome and St Michaels on early June voyages. Rumors of rich Iditarod gold fields lure prospectors, leading to steerage accommodations only and a waiting list larger than the northbound fleet capacity.
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Alaska
Bering Sea
Seattle
Nome
St Michaels
Iditarod
Death of Robert Koch the German bacteriologist
German Professor Robert Koch, famed for tuberculosis coloring method tuberculosis antitoxin and sleeping sickness research, died in Baden Baden at seventy seven after a long illness linked to malarial district work. He pioneered rodent-killing gas and claimed his lymph treatment as a practical preventive in most cases.
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Robert Koch
Baden Baden
German East Africa
University of Berlin
Koch
Wallstein
Central
Africa
Julia Ward Howe Celebrates 91st Birthday Quietly
Aged author Julia Ward Howe, age 91, received floral greetings from friends worldwide. She spent the day at her Beacon Street home in Boston with family, after the annual New England Women's clubs breakfast was held two days earlier.
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Julia Ward Howe
New England Women's Clubs
Coal Consumption By Royal Navy Reaches 3 Million Tons
The British navy ships burn about 3,000,000 tons of coal annually. A proposal seeks to ban exporting Angora goats from Turkey to America and Australia. Turkish interior minister drafts new rules on this subject. Commander Robert E Peary gave a polar lecture in Berlin under the Berlin Geographical Society with around 200 attendees before traveling to Rome. The czar attended a theater recently in a top secret, surprising the public during a grand military concert for veterans. In Albania, Turkish forces under Gen Shefket stormed Katchank Pass on the 79th to crush rebels, who retreated to surrounding mountains and held their ground.
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America
Australia
Turkey
Robert E. Peary
Casino
Berlin
Berlin Geographical Society
Rome
Opera House
Albania
Shefket
Katchank Pass
Treat Falls Dead, Kaitten Stricken by Apoplexy
CH Charles Henry Treat, longtime United States treasurer under Roosevelt, died of apoplexy in his New York Hotel Victoria apartment. He was about sixty eight, survived by his wife and two daughters. Born in Frankfort Maine, he was linked to notable ancestors and Dartmouth graduate of 1865. He helped organize a large shipping fleet and later served as Delaware's at large delegate in 1888, aiding the Harrison delegation and later as Internal Revenue Collector for the Wall Street district during the Spanish American War.
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Charlies Henry Treat
United States
Roosevelt
Hotel Victoria
New York
Mr Treat
Frankfort
Robert Treat Paine
Robert Treat
Connecticut
Dartmouth College
Delaware
Chicago
Benjamin Harrison
McKinley
Wall Street
Town Swamped Railways Damaged In Norway Flood
Immense melt from phenomenal warmth floods rivers and lakes inland from Norway. Town of Lillestrommen near Christiania submerged. residents take refuge high in houses. Railways and crops suffer widespread damage. Separately in New York, the assembly defeats the Cobb compromise direct nomination bill 46 to 34. Governor Hughes vows to veto the Meade Phillips bill.
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Norway
Lillestrommen
Christiania
Hegkes
Senate
New York Assembly
Hughes
Meade Phillips
Beeld Robbery 1 Committed at Unity by Twe Hen Who Earage
The State Bank of Unity Wisconsin was robbed recently of 2900 dollars after the safe was dynamited. Two men, who had lingered around the bank for days, are suspected. The bank opened in 1905 with a capital of 1000 pounds.
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Unity
Twe Hen
State Bank of Unity
Wia
Religionist Distribution Shows Catholics and Protestants Spread
A historical report notes Catholics near 27.9 percent in large cities and 47.8 percent outside major urban areas. Protestants in first class cities total 7.3 percent, with Episcopal and Christian Science showing strong urban concentrations. Growth in communicants since 1890 is recorded, with New York 44.7 percent, Chicago 40.7, Philadelphia 48.8, Boston 62.6, St. Louis 46.6 per population.
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Protestant Episcopal Church
Church of Christ, Scientist
New York
Chicago
Philadelphia
Boston
Ct Louis
State Senator Indicted for Perjury in Bribery Probe
State Senator D W Holstlaw of Iuka Marion County represents the Forty second Senate District in Illinois was indicted by Sangamon County Grand Jury on two counts charging perjury in testimony in a local legislative bribery probe. Evidence against four others is under State's Attorney Edmund Burke review with more indictments possible. Perjury allegedly concerns a sworn denial of writing a letter to J W Knox Derby Desk Company salesman, while Burke reportedly held a Holstlaw letter to Knox prior to a contract letting.
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D W. Holstlaw
Iuka
Marion County
Senatoria
Ilinois
Grand Jury
J W Knox
Derby Desk Company
Burke
Holstlaw
Knox
Cyclone Ravages East Africa Killing Over 500 People
Dispatches from Mozambique report a terrible cyclone sweeping East Africa and adjacent ocean drowning more than 500 persons. Many ships, large and small, were lost at sea and on land damage was extensive. Among the drowned were 400 miners bound for the Rand mines.
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East Africa
Mozambique
Rand
Wage rises and fare hikes ripple through rail and steel
President Tuttle of Boston and Maine announces June 1 fare increases to pre 1907 levels due to higher wages for workers. Chicago Rapid Transit reports a 31 percent drop in accidents since pay as you enter cars began, with suburban routes unaffected. Railroads and steel firms push wage scales and 6 percent to 16 percent gains, while coal miners gain 5 percent in Pennsylvania and Pittsburgh districts.
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Tuttle
Boston
Maine
Chicago
Steel Companies
Pittsburg
Steel Trust
Postal Telegraph
Cale’ Com Ompany
Middle West
Pennsylvania
Red flannel underwear experiments mocked by war department
Uncle Allen Sparks quips about scientists in the war department testing red flannel underwear and hair shirts. He jokes that red fabric fails to cool, and wearing hair shirts next to the skin would be very uncomfortable, as quoted by the Chicago Tribune.
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Uncle Allen Sparks
War Department
Chicago Tribune
Mother Grays Sweet Powders for Children
Mrs Gray offers Baby Powders claimed to cure feverishness headaches teething disorders and stomach trouble while regulating bowels and eradicating worms. Advertises 25 cents and a free sample by mail from Allen Olmsted Le Roy New York, with assurance of harmlessness and quick relief.
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Mother Gray
Allen
le Roy
N. Y
Fire in Coal Pile Defies Water Dousing
A mining journal notes interior coal pile fires persist due to slow oxidation and coke formation. Water drenches fail as the burning mass reorients, so the cure is driving an iron pipe into the pile and delivering water from the top to reach the burning coal.
Cocoa Canopy Protects South African Cocoa Trees
A traveler notes how cocoa is grown in South Africa under a protective canopy. Young plants require strong shade from banana and plantain trees and even mature trees rely on protection from mortality trees , called the mother of the cocoa by planters.
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South Africa
Feeding Children With Grape Nuts Boosts Health
A mother reports her children improved after cutting potatoes and meat, and feeding fruit with Grape Nuts and cream. She notes sturdy growth and fewer bowel troubles, crediting food elements in the product and a reference to The Road to Wellville.
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Wellville
Inphex
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