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Newspaper
Brimfield News
Location
Brimfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1907
Page
3
A scathing critique of American railway management blames financiers and consolidation for overtaxed systems. It cites widespread wrecks, fatigued crews, and insufficient equipment as peril grows while profits trump safety.
Dr C Lindahl of Copenhagen reports in the London Lancet that tears possess a bactericidal power against disease producing bacteria. The lacrimal fluid acts independently of its leukocyte content and retains activity after heating and cooling, inhibiting bacterial growth.
M Gerard officer of the Trench navy has devised the tellmeter. It uses two prismatic rings to produce a variable refractive angle enabling distance to a known height object to be measured without complex calculations. The article also mentions a tornado wrecking four structures in Rome Texas and San Francisco labor troubles.
A Beijing telegraph reports a deadly earthquake at Helin Kiang in Sinkiang causing about 4 000 deaths and widespread destruction. The empress dowager orders relief measures as residents face starvation amid a remote western China province renowned for mountains and earthquakes.
Union Pacific and Southern Pacific directors authorize 75 million and 36 million in preferred stock and bonds respectively. Burlington Railroad enforces grooming and dress codes for conductors, while a Dutch ceremony marks palace of peace events. Carnegie funds 1.5 million as conference openings loom.
Boise correspondence reports Harry Orchard aka Alfred Horsley on the witness stand detailing a string of murders and bombings tied to the Western Federation of Miners. He names Haywood Moyer Pettibone as patrons and explains motives, money, and conspiracies from Coeur d Alene to Cripple Creek.
A fire at Blatsdell New York burned the Buffalo Lake Erie Traction Company car barn and twenty five cars, with a loss around 100000 dollars. In Colorado Iron Springs hotel, a major summer resort, was destroyed with an estimated 73000 dollars lost. Albert Crowell was found dead with a bullet in his New York hotel room, police suspect an alias.
Justice Brewer holds Congress cannot limit a court’s power after creation arguing judicial power extends to all controversies within national territory regardless of parties. He cites that the nation’s courts cover disputes arising within its borders. Former Senator Spooner echoed similar views in the Senate rate bill debate.
A St Paul dispatch relayed to the Boston Transcript notes long shortages of horses and workers in the West. Prices for pacers rose from 100 to 200 dollars eight years ago to 200 to 300 dollars now, with good teams valued around 500 dollars. Horses are needed for lumbering, rail construction, and mining, but labor shortages persist as men demand higher wages.
The May bank payments indicate higher district business activity than ever before, with more money in circulation and lower discount rates. Breadstuffs markets cooled, prices stable, and crop conditions improving as temperatures rise. Local sales of essential goods rose, while country stocks declined and agricultural buying strengthened. bank clearings reached 196,517,104, up 14.2 percent from 1905. Chicago district failures numbered 17, down from 20 a year ago.
New York reports frost and wet conditions curbing retail activity across the north, with May ending the coldest in 25 years. Shoe and leather markets soften while pig iron stays quiet yet firm in price. Early deliveries scarce boosting foreign iron and steady steel rail orders for 1908. Structural steel bookings remain heavy, with May strong for the industry. US business failures fall this week to 140, Canadian failures at 14.
Across Chicago Indianapolis St Louis Cincinnati Detroit Milwaukee Buffalo New York Toledo buyers report prices for cattle hogs sheep and grains. Prices range with Chicago cattle 4.00 to 6.70 hogs 4.00 to 6.40 sheep 3.00 to 5.40 wheat No 2 87c to 99c corn No 2 52c to 68c oats 45c to 50c rye 81c to 86c hay and butter and eggs also listed.
Notes report Judge Charles T. Woodruff has been appointed to the Maine Supreme Court and has never had a portrait taken. The dispatch also mentions Greenville Mississippi police chief William Quinn’s suicide in his daughter's presence, and other brief items including a Roanoke poisoning arrest and a sand bank accident in Youngstown Ohio.
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