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Newspaper
Brimfield News
Location
Brimfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1910
Page
9
A collage of observations from street life and public affairs including remarks on hats pests gossip about China and fashion a New York play Piscator and a glimpse of a Philadelphia roof theft plus a legal update on the National Packing Company antitrust case with Judge Landis dismissing the indictment and calling a July grand jury.
New York reports Charlton admits killing his wife Mary Charlton during a brutal quarrel aboard the steamer to Hoboken. He said he packed her body into a trunk and dumped it near Lake Como, later expected to shoot police but was disarmed and confessed. An Italian flight mishap injures Capt Fr Cody at Abdershot after a 100 foot fall.
Emperor William arrived in Kiel on the imperial yacht Hohenzollern to attend the annual yacht regatta.
The Senate concurred with the House on the postal savings bank bill by a 44 to 25 vote and sent it to President Taft for signature. Provisions allow 65 percent redeposited in local banks and 80 percent for government bond purchases, with a 5 percent reserve. Deposits capped at 500 monthly, 2 percent interest, and a $1 opening with ten cent stamps available.
New York colonel Roosevelt faces a flood of letters and telegrams at Oyster Bay and his office. Thousands have arrived with friendly greetings and political advice, many from old friends, but most will never reach him. He asks writers to understand the volume is too great for personal attention.
Mise Edith Au gusta Gaynor daughter of New York mayor and Harry Kermit Vingut eloped to Wilmington and wed by Rev Dr George L Wolfe at the First Methodist Protestant Church with Andrew Gray of Wells Fargo as attorney general of Wells Ware.
Washington Burrows names a seven member sub committee for the privileges and elections inquiry into Lorimer of Indiana. The panel includes Dillingham Gamble Heyburn Frazier Paynter and Johnston as investigators.
Dayton report notes Gov Judson Harmon was renominated for governor by acclamation at the Ohio Democratic convention. A resolution endorsing Harmon for the 1912 presidency failed 840 to 254 as Atlee Pomerene was named lieutenant governor on the second ballot. The convention attacked the Payne Aldrich tariff and urged Democratic unity to defeat tariff interests.
The federal grand jury indicted Illinois Central for violating the Elkins act by failing to observe tariffs. The Pennsylvania Company and Pittsburg Fort Wayne and Chicago Railroad were charged with destroying waybills in violation of interstate commerce law.
At Paul Minn the Republican state convention nominated Adolph O Eberhart for governor with no opposition. George T Simpson was chosen for attorney general Julius Schmahml for secretary of state and Charles F Staples for the railroad and warehouse commission.
New York reports Stand Oil reduces refined oil wholesale price from one and a half to one cent per gallon, bringing nationwide prevailing price to seven and a half cents. Standard Oil controls over seventy percent of refined output, making the impact significant for the corporation and markets.
A rainstorm visited western South Dakota on Thursday benefiting crops in Many areas. East of Rapid City the rainfall was heavy and reports from grain districts are more favorable overall.
New York police officer George Darcey of Staten Island died two weeks after being struck by a pitched baseball in the abdomen. He died Thursday from his injuries totaling a fatal workplace accident.
Count Zeppelin's craft the Deutschland completed the first scheduled airship voyage from Friedrichshafen to Duesseldorf carrying 20 passengers. The nine hour trip covered 300 miles at an average 83 mph, with peak hourly speed of 43.5 mph. Directors of Hamburg-Amerikan Steamship and German Airship Stock Company joined the journey.
Tex Rickard announced Reno was chosen for the Jeffries Johnson fight. Arena sites include Hart Root arena, a business property, or near State park by the insane asylum. Reno committee plans fundraising to cover arena costs and a $1,000 fight permit is included in the bill.
Former President Theodore Roosevelt denies a rumor that his daughter Ethel is engaged to James Thompson Williams Jr. He rides into town from Oyster Bay in poor humor calling the report scandalous infamy of a scoundrel.
New York reports the actress known as Miss Marion Dell Taylor drowned when a skiff with four theater people was struck by a barge in the Hudson. Her birth name is Marion Dell Sneider and her parents live in Kankakee.
The Chilean supreme court confirmed the death sentence on Wilhelm Beckert former head of the German legation who killed a legation employee in Santiago.
Harrisburg delegates praised the president and his tariff plan as the convention adopted the platform. John K. Tener was nominated for governor aboard a ticket aligned with Taft and the tariff program.
The piece urges readers to visit Canada to buy 160 acres for a home, citing strong crop prospects, rising land prices, and immigration. It notes a big wheat harvest last year, expanding rail networks like Grand Trunk Pacific, Canadian Pacific, and Canadian Northern, and government agents ready to assist with maps and plans.
Keen observers predict a large property boom in Wantland Colorado a new town in the Little Snake River Valley Routt County An irrigation system will cover about 60000 acres of land offered by the state at 50 cents per acre with water rights at 35 dollars per acre payable over ten years Possible industries include sugar plants dairies canneries Sugar-fac Stories Sour rils are among proposed businesses Information obtainable from Routt County Colonisation Company 1734 Westin St Denver Colo
A clipped, fragmentary exchange centers on Ethel and a youthful speaker. The dialogue hints at otters and a confidential inheritance from an uncle, with enthused reactions and abrupt, incomplete phrases.
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