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Newspaper
Denver Tribune
Location
Denver, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1908
Page
4
A compact notice outlining comprehensive coverage of past events and future prospects. It emphasizes thoroughness in presenting all observed conditions and details to ensure a complete view of the subject.
Police and coroner’s inquest fail to confirm murder in the Fort Wayne, Indiana deaths of Emile Jabas and his wife. Officers contend heart failure and accidental injuries from a fall caused the couple’s demise, suggesting broken bones resulted from handling or postmortem procedures rather than foul play.
G Winthrop Sands son of W K Vanderbilt was killed in a high speed automobile crash outside the Chateau St. Louis de Poissy country seat near Paris. He rode with a chauffeur. the car left the road, struck a tree, overturned, and caught fire as both occupants were pinned under wreckage.
Laban Pollock of Mansfield Ohio died from bumble bee stings after disturbing a nest while in a hay mow. He was about 71 years old and reportedly stung forty or fifty times in various parts of the body before he could escape.
A westbound Santa Fe California Limited derailed at Wakarusa near Topeka Kansas. The engineer was killed and several passengers injured as all coaches left the track. The crash is attributed to excessive speed.
William Oliver, a young aeronaut from Mason Michigan, was killed during a parachute drop at Hague Park on Vandercook Lake near Jackson. The parachute strings snapped on one side as it filled, sending him to his death from about 2000 feet.
A Jeffersonville Ohio dispatch reports a fire of unknown origin in a vacant room of a business district building that threatened the town. Six adjacent business structures burned, with losses around 25000 dollars.
A lightning strike sparked a blaze at the Enterprise Foundry in Sackville New Brunswick destroying the foundry and threatening neighboring Intercolonial Hotel. Loss estimated at $100,000. Fire spread through adjacent structures causing total ruin of the hotel. Local authorities investigate the incident.
In Cincinnati a vast crowd gathered at Charles P. Taft’s home as William Howard Taft accepted the Republican nomination. Taft pledged to continue Roosevelt policies, with a flag draped platform serving as a dramatic backdrop for the historic demonstration in Ohio City.
The peach dominates the fruit world for three months before yielding to the apple. Southern states ship peaches north in large quantities, Georgia leads with about 10000000 peach trees bearing fruit and over 5000 carloads expected. Comparisons show last year yielded around 1000 carloads, with Georgia producing exceptional fruit due to ideal weather and disease-free trees. Delaware and North Jersey report large crops, with North Jersey losing standing to disease.
The speech outlines Taft’s vision for a progressive administration with strong corporate oversight, restraint on unlawful trusts, and justice for labor without favoritism. It cites Roosevelt’s influence, party unity, and calls for injunctions against big violators while opposing Democratic price controls. Debs tours begin September 1, and Hearst attacks continue amid Democratic funding limits.
A violent mob attacked a jail in Pehancola Fia killing three men and wounding nine as they overran sheriff forces. They hanged Leander Shaw, a black man, in a city park at midnight after a second assault that breached the jail on all sides. An estimated 2,000 people gathered. shots filled the scene.
The Independence party convention in Chicago nominated Thomas L. Hisgen of Massachusetts for president and John Temple Graves of Georgia for vice president. The gathering saw a dramatic interruption as James L. Shepard of Kansas sought Bryan’s nomination, was escorted out, and expelled from the National Committee. The platform urged government ownership of utilities, postal savings, a larger navy, anti-child labor, and reforms including recall, initiative, referendum, and anti-trust measures.
Laporte Indiana coroner reports from Rush Medical College indicate deadly doses of strychnine and arsenic in the stomachs of Belle Gunness and two children. The case strengthens the theory that Mrs Gunness killed her children and then died by suicide, with implications for Ray Lamphere in related indictments.
The Weekly Review of Chicago Trade notes improving business conditions with money in investments and buoyant security markets. Crop reports are encouraging, profits up, and demand rising for finished products. Factory activity expands in rails, steel, and farm implements as building accelerates, while lumber and quarry demand grows. Bank clearings total 218 million, down 5.1 percent from 2007, with 35 district failures and eight large-liability cases.
Bradstreet's report notes moderate expansion in future buying, especially in the West and Southwest, with industrial revival reducing idle operatives. Retail trade remains fair but uneven, price cuts spur sales while some stocks linger. Failures rise to 263 in the U S and 24 in Canada for the week ending July 28.
Commodity quotes span cattle hogs sheep and grains across multiple markets including Chicago Indianapolis St Louis Cincinnati Detroit Milwaukee Buffalo with prices for corn wheat oats rye barley butter and pork products in varied ranges reflecting regional trading activity and quality grades. Notable figures include cattle near 4.00 to 7.40 dollars hogs 3.50 to 7.25 dollars and wheat around 60 to 91 cents per unit.
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