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Newspaper
Clinton Plaindealer
Location
Clinton, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1907
Page
6
A series of destructive events impact Prairie region, including a plant fire at Louis Hide and Co complex causing heavy losses. Robberies target officials while a major investigation ties to drug activity as authorities pledge firm action and cautious stance toward corporations.
Across Maryland New Jersey New York and beyond the article tallies a string of fires deaths and accidents. Notable items include the death of David E Evans president of the Maryland Telephone Company in Baltimore and a $185000 railroad storehouse fire in Susquehanna Pennsylvania. Several fires claim multiple lives. a New York cigar factory fire causes heavy damage. a fatal auto crash near Bernardsville New Jersey. and a scaffold collapse in Brooklyn injures workers. Also noted are political events such as the Republican State convention in Baltimore and Thaw’s retrial outlook.
Stolen sacks containing 525000 were taken from a Burlington mail train between Denver and Oxford. Gompers announces Labor Federation will sue Manufacturers' Association over box cutting. Mrs. Brace Sardiasi dies from injuries after bandit era. A 20 year old man found dead in an Italian roam house. proprietors held. A New Orleans theater riot follows a quarrel between a Negro and a Greek. War Department advices record a court martial sentencing Private William Taylor to death for shooting his battalion commander.
Western J Ogden Armour purchased two English gray shires and plans to exhibit them in Chicago. Civilian injuries reported after a streetcar crash in Oshkosh Wisconsin involved Mrs Helen Odell and four others. A warehouse fire at the International Flax Twine Company in St Paul caused about 30000 dollars in losses, insured.
An Anderson Indiana glass blower Arthur Nelson fell from a skiff into the Kentucky River at Big Eddy Kentucky and drowned. Thomas F Maddox a Maine battleship officer died of stab wounds from a sailors fight at Phoebus Virginia in which Garrett Walsh was killed. J O Gasnor convicted in Savannah harbor frauds is critically ill in Macon Georgia jail as Tle and Greene await Supreme Court appeal. Governor Comer of Alabama vows to force state roads to lower fares and freight rates possibly with legislative action. Will Clifford a negro confessed assaulting Mrs Mary Cowan and throwing her body into a river and killing another woman last year was hanged at Mapleby Kentucky while being moved to a jail.
The article reports President Roosevelt criticizing nature fakers in a magazine piece and proposing barnyard study as enlightenment. Attorney General Bonaparte asserts that only lawbreakers will be prosecuted with no special favors for the rich. Washington officials wonder about Wall Street’s access to the speech and its stock impact. An inquiry asks if tropical duty length for staff corps enlisted men is fixed at two years, with ordnance to be exempt.
A fragment shows Westex Merritt dies of yellow fever in Havana while other items report a wave of global events. The text notes a General strike of commercial telegraphers in the United States and Canada ordered by President Small, plus multiple international tensions and disasters across Europe, the Caribbean, and Africa.
Reports from Saranac Lake New York say actor Richard Mansfield is steadily failing. Three men were fatally burned repairing a gasoline engine by torchlight at Vandergrift Pennsylvania. Governor Deneen commuted the sentence of Stephen Quinn at Joliet for eighteen years. A nameless hobo saved two farmer sons from drowning in the Morris Canal near Centerville New Jersey.
The article reviews banking and trade conditions with emphasis on capital flows, discounts, and letters of credit. It notes higher bank reserves, continued credit tightening, and cautious consumer lending while reporting improvements in wholesale output and finished goods distribution. It also cites grain totals, bank clearings, and fewer corporate failures year over year.
Bradstreet's Commercial Report notes uneven gains across sectors in the week ending Aug 15. Ores show progress toward harvest, textiles report demand and price shifts, iron and steel see easing prices as deliveries rise. Business failures total 46 in the week, with Canada at 30, reflecting divergent regional trends.
The report lists cattle hogs and sheep prices from Chicago Indianapolis St Louis Detroit and New York markets. It covers wheat corn oats rye and barley with bid ranges and standard classifications No. 2 and mixed grades. Prices show wide variation by market and commodity with primes and common varieties noted.
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