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Newspaper
Denver Tribune
Location
Denver, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1909
Page
3
Telegraphic story reports a deadly tenement fire at 12 7 4 Seventh Avenue New York City where ten Italians and one unidentified Frenchman perished. A five person rescue group including a policeman and a baby were injured and hospitalized as firemen saved residents by ladders and swinging across from windows.
A mass meeting in Hammond Indiana brings together manufacturers businessmen and municipal officers to form Calumet by uniting Hammond Whiting Indiana Harbor and Fast Chicago with about a dozen smaller places. The merger would total 75000 residents and rank as Illinois second city.
Ohio man claims the Bryan mule award after Congressman James M. Cox receives a letter from William J. Bryan urging Montgomery County to certify the presidential vote to prove the county’s right to the mule. Bryan suggests figures indicate Montgomery County won the bid. Two more Indiana counties vote dry in local option, Jay County closes twenty one saloons, Sullivan County already dry. Westinghouse and Brocklebank daughter wed in Ironton Cumberland England. Fire and explosion in the Delaware and Hudson mines Wilkesbarre kills one, traps fifteen. Buffalo engineer Frank L. Hollingshead, 37, killed by switch guard while guiding a fast Lake Shore train.
A hectic week features violent market readjustments as grain demand rises amid bad roads. Gompers criticizes judges after court reversals on Equitable Life. Taft era cabinet moves progress with MacVeagh as Secretary of the Treasury. Legislative probes and statehood debates unfold in Tennessee and the Old Northwest.
May wheat rose to 1.18 at the Chicago Board of Trade and was expected to climb further to 1.25. Patten and the firm of Vanderbilt Bartlett & Co. led the big buyers while shorts faced heavy losses as a Wall Street clique reportedly held large short positions. Reginald C. Vanderbilt and Sidney C. Love figure in the trading controversy amid speculation and market pressure.
A Senate committee on territories unanimously abandons the New Mexico and Arizona statehood bill after a sensational vote. Senators Nelson and Beveridge had charged corruption and jury bribing by leaders of the so called gang in control of New Mexico politics.
An explosion of a freight train boiler on the Baltimore and Ohio line at Hoytaville Ohio killed engineer L G McCullough of Cambridge Ohio instantly and fatally injured fireman Jack Simmons of Garrett Indiana.
Postoffice Inspector Swenson reports a large scale confidence game tied to a group led by J. C. Maybray now believed under arrest in Little Rock. A misaddressed letter opened access to inner workings and a diary lists over a hundred potential victims across the country with losses from five thousand to thirty seven thousand dollars each.
In England suffragists organize women riders to protest Parliament’s opening on the 16th. Across the globe reports note two Grand rank railway conductors arrested in Toronto for defrauding their company after five weeks of undercover work. Moscow police seize a man with an American passport tied to revolutionists while Eugene Azef flees through Switzerland as Russian terrorists pursue him. Sweden adopts universal suffrage with proportional representation. lower house votes 120 to 98 and upper 134 to 94. The Grand Duke Vladimir, linked to Bloody Sunday and long a target of revolutionaries, dies in St. Petersburg from heart disease.
The court upheld laws barring special privileges for trusts and affirmed state jurisdiction over corporations. Cases include New York Central Stanford fined 134000 for sugar rust and Brooklyn Cooperage, and United States Against express companies restricting free franks. HurMnond Packing Chicago fined 10000 for meat price fixing in Arkansas. State public service commissions can regulate rates for common carriers, including telephone and telegraph firms.
The Ohio River at Cincinnati could hit sixty feet on the current rise, threatening extensive damage to riverfront property. Water and inundation already flood downtown, with about 30 residences submerged in Covington Newport and Bellevue. Rail traffic could shift from Union Central and Pennsylvania stations once fifty five feet is reached. Plans use 8th Street or Storrs station as alternatives. upstream levels rise from Pittsburgh to Cincinnati. A disastrous flood is not expected at any point.
Money conditions show an easier tone while discount operations extend slowly. Trade activity improves with higher bank payments and easier credits. Freight movements rebound after storms with larger forwarding of heavy materials and general goods. Wheat and corn markets rise though stock values pull back. growers ship liberally despite poor roads.
In New York a shift toward lower prices in iron and metals contrasts with expansion in dry goods and seeds. Weather and poor road conditions curb retail trade while farm deliveries face delays. Despite price declines, overall business remains unsettled with weekly failure totals 244 versus 282 prior week, 311 in 1908, 194 in 1907.
Across major markets Indianapolis St Louis Cincinnati Detroit Milwaukee Buffalo New York Toledo reports list cattle hogs and sheep prices plus grain values for No 2 wheat corn oats rye and barley. Notable ranges include Chicago cattle 4.00 7.10 hogs 4.00 6.60 wheat 1.25 1.31 corn 0.68 0.72 oats 0.49 0.60 rye 0.78 0.82 and butter eggs and lard prices vary by region and grade.
The Minnesota Senate passes a resolution barring the State Sanitary Board from taking actions without consent, signaling tighter control over public health functions and future regulatory moves.
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