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Newspaper
English News
Location
English, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 10, 1908
Page
2
The English News notes ongoing incidents of passing Confederate bills more than 40 years after the Civil War. It praises readers who scrutinize the inscription promising payment by the Confederate States of America and warns that such notes have no real value. It recalls a $100 note passed in Troy and mentions veterans' souvenirs.
Mrs. Mary Grace Quackenbos, an expert on peonage abuses, is named special assistant to the U S attorney general at a salary of 5000 dollars. She has distinguished herself as an investigator who uncovers peonage and helps bring lawbreakers to punishment, with the justice department recognizing her value and humanity.
The essay notes Esperanto replaces Volapuk and could aid business and international communication, yet The Christian Register doubts it will ever be a literary language. Health officials report New York milk territory shows good sanitary conditions, praising farmers while noting their challenges and need for support.
Barkness Goto of Japan visits Washington entertaining diplomatic and social circles. A titled lady plans a three month stay with American society figures. A Long Island City policeman faces a dangerous incident as journals report a busy Empire State scene with a striking remark.
Washington reports President Roosevelt condemns Rear Admiral Brownson for resigning under orders. He urges discipline and rejects personal pique and sensational exaggeration. The president also directs hospital ships be commanded by medical officers with civilian crews.
Boise Idaho ex governor murder trial ends for most defendants as George A Pettibone is acquitted. Charles H Moyer is released and will return to Denver with Pettibone. Orchard remains under prosecution in Canyon County.
Mexican port official Portas reports the steamer Ibero sank off Vera Cruz during a December storm. He says all aboard perished except three survivors.
Two people were killed and one possibly fatally injured in a Sunday collision between a passenger train of the Chicago Burlington and Quincy and a freight train of the Chicago Great Western in East Dubuque.
New York reports the first day of local ice skating ended in tragedy with two boys and a man drowning after breaking through the ice. Rescue attempts were unsuccessful.
In Ludington Michigan Leonard Brown from Grand Rapids killed his wife and wounded Robert Johnson’s wife before attempting suicide. Brown blamed Johnson for breaking up his home. In Easton Pennsylvania Frank Smith killed his wife, then wounded himself. Smith had accused his wife of infidelity and was found by his father, who then faced a second attempted suicide.
London reports the countess of Yarmouth Alice Thaw of Pittsburg sister of Harry K. Thaw applies in camera for an annulment of her marriage to the Earl of Yarmouth. Medical evidence prompts a sealed hearing as the couple’s unhappy domestic life, funded by the countess, becomes public amid her brother’s legal troubles.
An explosion from a lamp ignited a fire at George Steger’s house in Collinsville. Three children aged eight years, four years, and 18 days died in bed as coal scattered and clothes caught flame. The mother Mary Steger was seriously burned while trying to save them.
A Nashville teen Miss Bessie Turney aged 17 and her cousin A B Faris were trapped between two Hodiamont street cars Sunday afternoon in St Louis. Both were seriously injured with Miss Turney suffering a broken ankle and possible internal injuries. Faris also wounded.
Incipient disturbances erupted on the East side as landlords clash with striking tenants over rent. Police reserves quelled the disorder after clashes on East Eleventh street left several injured and five tenants arrested as decorations and flags were removed during a mass meeting.
Chicago mourns the surgeon Nicholas Senn longtime national figure from the Spanish American War era He served as surgeon general of the Sixth Army Corps with lieutenant colonel rank and chief of operating staff He saw Cuba service from May to September 1898 and later wrote several books He attended Berlin 1900 as American medical congress delegate and St Petersburg 1901 as Red Cross delegate Born at St Gall October 31 1844 in Switzerland.
President awards Edward McGrath railroad life saving medal for rescuing six year old Emma Hummich at Stowell station Milwaukee. While warning her as crossing gates closed he risked his life to pull her from in front of an oncoming train.
Lansing Circuit Judge Wiest ruled that adding cereal and water to sausage constitutes adulteration prohibited by the state pure food law. In Baltimore, Rev. Dr. Alois Kaiser, renowned composer and longtime cantor of Oheb Shalom, died at 68 from heart disease.
A Columbus jury returned a guilty verdict Sunday against David Fox of Smithville and Jacob Kirk of Kirkville for white capping. Willant L Vanest of South is referenced in connection with the case.
In Russellville Kentucky a raid by night riders left three men shot and several buildings burned. Local officers and citizens prepare for action with a state investigation led by Fire Marshal Ayres. Separately Burley tobacco talks in Winchester collapsed over price and volume as the American Tobacco Company balked at terms.
Judge Pritchard appointed R. Lancaster Williams of Richmond and S. Davies Warfield of Baltimore as receivers for the Seaboard Air Line Railroad system. Bonds set at $50,000 each. The decree grants immediate possession of 2382 miles from Portsmouth to Tampa with branches to coast points east and to Atlanta Montgomery and Birmingham west.
In Muncie Indiana Sunday service resumed with cars running on all lines under strikebreakers. Only scattered stone throwing near the outskirts. Maj. Gen. W J McKee in command reports improved conditions and predicts no further outbreaks beyond small boy incidents.
Three thousand suburban residents along the Western railroad line riot at the St. Lazare terminus in Paris after daily delays cost them hours of work and wages. Police were held at bay for an hour before the fire department dispersed the crowd with hose streams. the company cites cold weather as the cause.
Charles Carroll Marsh of Warsaw, son of the late congressman Marsh, aged 427 years, committed death by his own action at his home near here on Friday. Ill health and melancholia are given as the cause.
The editor of Die Zukunft, Harden, was sentenced in Berlin Friday evening to four months in prison and ordered to pay a fine. The Harden Von Moltke Wbel trial concluded with the conviction and penalty.
Annie Catron of 927 Main St Cincinnati Ohio reports Peruna cured her years long catarrh of head and throat. She describes offensive breath headaches and poor digestion improving within a month and says her general health remains excellent. The ad also promotes Peruna tablets and Mac-etia laxative and offers a free Peruna Almanac for 1908.
A youth named Dick, under sixteen, loses his disdain for feminine charms after attending dancing lessons. He asks his father for two theater tickets to take a girl, naming Mabel. The father questions which girl, and Dick jokes that his aim is the experience, not the girl he favors.
A Michigan couple describes severe illness from coffee, then recovery after switching to Postum. The husband’s condition improved, headaches faded, and kidneys and skin recovered. The wife also drank Postum and gained weight and strength, contrasting with prior nervousness and weakness.
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