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Newspaper
Francesville Tribune
Location
Francesville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 09, 1908
Page
3
Special correspondent Zed D. Copp, probation officer at the Juvenile Court, claims three cases of negro skin whitening point to a bacillus causing the change. He envisions isolating the germ and inoculating colored people to turn the race white, with questions about heredity and permanence.
Lisbon parliament hears Dr. Jose Maria De Alpoim accuse leaders of the Progressive and Regenerator parties of plotting regicide and planning to kill King Carlos and Crown Prince Luiz. He says Republicans attended the meeting and that payments of 20000 and 10000 were arranged for the assassinations. The plan allegedly included monarchist objections and flight cover while shots fatally wounded Crown Prince Luiz.
Special Commander Robert E Peary starts another north pole expedition aboard the steamer Roosevelt built for the Peary Arctic Club. The voyage departs from East Twenty fourth street as Peary plans to reach the pole using the drift method and to study Greenland and Grantland coasts with Eskimos and dogs aboard.
The last spike of the Mexican section was driven at Suchiate on the Guatemalan border last week. President Cabrera announces Guatemala will soon finish its section of the Pan American line.
New York reports Mae C. Wood an Omaha woman who sued Senator Thomas C. Platt for divorce has been indicted by a grand jury on charges of perjury and forgery. Miss Wood is released on $5,000 bail.
The State Board of Pardons commutes Harry Orchard's death sentence for the murder of ex Governor Frank Stellenberg to life imprisonment, reducing the final punishment and altering the fate of the case in Boise Idaho.
Milwaukee dispatch reports Edward Wawerinski of Sweden, International Chief of the International Order of Good Templars, criticizing the prohibition movement as an unstable wave driven by eloquent speakers and masses uneducated on the issue, cautioning that prohibition may not endure without proper public understanding.
In Atlanta the lesser known Joseph M. Brown captured the Democratic nomination, toppling Hoke Smith who had been considered the state’s leading figure. The nomination is tantamount to election in Georgia.
Indianapolis special report says Henry W. Marshall former speaker and Western Construction president is indicted for conspiracy to defraud the city over asphalt street repairs. Also named is Cyrus J. Clark county auditor charged with improper county claims. The grand jury criticizes county jail food conditions.
John Quincy Adams secretary of the American Flaghouse and Betsy Ross Memorial Association emphatically denies that Betsy Ross did not make the first American flag. He cites exhaustive Philadelphia records and traditions supporting that the first flag was made at 229 Arch Street, Betsy Ross's home.
The Count Zeppelin airship at Friedrichshafen completed a six hour and forty-five minute endurance test with an average speed around 341 miles per hour and peaking at 3814 miles per hour, marking a new high in performance.
In Manchester New Hampshire wooden structures in the business section are honeycombed by termites. Buildings risk collapse as the white ants damage supports. Property owners unite to combat the pest and protect their structures.
Alfred Soderman grows potatoes and tomatoes on the same vine at the Worcester state agricultural experiment station. Above ground tomato vines carry fruit while underground potatoes reach egg size.
Oyster Bay special president Theodore Roosevelt asks Secretary Loeb to deny reports he sought a New York City site for a city home. The request underscores Roosevelt’s intent to keep his residence in Oyster Bay, Long Island, amid speculation.
A Paris cable reviews a French officer’s article predicting war across powers is inevitable, with Japan’s aim in China and Asia. He argues the Philippines tempt Japan little now, and warns a US clash would devastate Japan’s commerce while Russia and Western powers loom in Asia.
The 16 battleships of the Atlantic Fleet, fresh from drydock and full of coal and ammunition, departed San Francisco led by the Connecticut under Rear Admiral C. S. Sperry for a around the world cruise. They will reach Honolulu July 16, tour Auckland Sydney Melbourne Manila, and return to Hampton Roads in February, after 14 months at sea.
In Baltimore a fox wandered onto Pennsylvania avenue causing amusement and excitement as about a hundred people and a dozen dogs chased it past the Northwestern police station to a nearby livery stable. The fox hid under straw before its tail was spotted.
Brussels cable reports twenty thousand attendees at Beaussines- Lalaing village fete hosted by marriageable maidens. About five thousand bachelors among the crowd, with engagements from the day not yet announced but expected to surpass last year’s.
A severe blaze swept Port au Prince near the palace and senate buildings. Strong winds fan the flames as the fire spread rapidly, resulting in over 100 structures burned including the courthouse and the prison.
In AtlantaColonel W L Peel hosts a pretentious reception that ends in tragedy as two prominent couples allegedly snubbed arrive uninvited. The scene a medical death claim by Mrs Peel an undertaker and police and fire crews respond amid rumors of prosecution and scandal.
National Socialist Labor party nominates Martin R. Preston of Nevada for president and Donald Munro of Virginia for vice president. Preston, jailed in Goldfield after a 25 year sentence for shooting a restaurant keeper during a strike, is described by Daniel DeLeon as an honest workingman and says constitutional age is no barrier to candidacy. Telegrams were sent to the nominees and the platform mirrors the four year old platform.
Washington reports a full scale uprising in Asuncion led by Jara against President Ferreira. Telegraph lines are down, and reliable details come only from Buenos Aires as fighting continues over alleged misrule and economic collapse.
Fitchburg Mass special rule now limits to one drink per person only if the drink is for refreshment and not intoxication. Saloon keepers join brewers and police in pursuing a reform of liquor sales in the city and nearby towns.
Benjamin T. Nixon, famed Jeffersonville marrying squire who united about 3600 couples, died last week at age 81. He was born November 19, 1827 near Salem in Washington County and served as a noted local official.
Special: balloonist Fred Murray was fatally injured during a July 4 ascent in Culver Indiana when the parachute snagged a guy rope and he was hurled about fifty feet to the ground.
The will of Benjamin Rose filed in the Probate Court here directs the bulk of a $5,000,000 estate to founding institutions for the aged and for deformed children, with funds to be distributed to charities and related foundations.
Fire losses total $525 935 as 71 people die and 2 624 are injured nationwide during Fourth of July celebrations. The report lists cities with fatalities and attributes causes to fireworks cannons firearms gunpowder torpedoes and toy pistols.
A China report describes geese used to harvest gold fields. Flocks are tested, and those of a certain weight are killed for their gold-filled crops, yielding about 350000 dollars yearly to Pekin. Geese then are dressed for sale at 14 to 20 cents each.
In Tebriz last week 370 men were killed and 100 wounded amid fighting. A Russian subject is among the wounded. Rahhim Khan and his horsemen, allied with the Shah, continue pillaging as anarchy spreads across northern Persia.
A gas explosion at the Rikovsky mine in Yusovo European Russia leaves 157 bodies recovered with many burned. Authorities expect the death toll to reach 200 as 73 workers were rescued but 10 died later and many remain in serious condition. Troops deployed to maintain order.
Severe solar heating caused a special combustion incident in Pottsville area leading to widespread hayfield fires across the county. Several alms house fields at Schuylkill Haven were burned as the flames spread too quickly to permit firefighting.
Washington special reports claims Brazil is building battleships for transfer to Japan. Mr De Aniart of the Brazilian Embassy denies the report, saying it aims to foster enmity between the United States and Brazil.
Twenty fishermen marooned for months on Victor Island were landed at Yokohama after rescue. Japanese police arrested the Hokui captain for marooning the crew amid reports of severe starvation during the ordeal.
A touring party carriage plunged from a Taunus cliff near Wiesbaden. Three were killed and six more fatally injured among sixteen passengers.
In Caracas via Willemstad the Court of Cassation confirms Civil Courts of First Instance ruling that condemns the New York and Bermudez Asphalt Company to pay a $5,000,000 fine to the Venezuelan Government. No appeal from this judgment is possible.
The Foreign Office confirms reports of continued fighting at Tabriz with 1500 women and children seeking refuge in the Russian Bank buildings as pillaging persists.
Vienna reports the Anti-Dueling League wins imperial sanction to prohibit dueling in the Empire without consent of a military court of honor. Duel attempts without consent will be punished severely under the new decree.
Eli Hood a 17 year old boarder near Hazelhurst Mississippi killed himself in a dual act to impress three young women Carrie Nelson Eva Spillman and Henrietta McDonald Each was given fatal poison or a shotgun by the grieving suicide who left notes For Carrie the morphine For Eva the laudanum and for Henrietta the shotgun His actions were witnessed only by the solemn hearsay of town gossip and a note on the morphine wrapper.
Murat Halstead lifelong journalist and vigorous editor died at his Cincinnati home last week in his seventy ninth year. The noted writer and magazine contributor helped shape American journalism for over five decades.
Detroit police say they are tracking Mrs. Belle Gunness of Laporte Ind whom they suspect of wholesale murder on her farm near Detroit A pair of young women held by police reportedly met Gunness after her alleged burned body was found in the ruins of her home
In Oneida county New York thirteen of twenty six towns with 28477 residents reported no marriages from May 15 to June 15. Ava Remsen Steuben and Trenton totaling 5018 population have had none since January 1.
Reports from floods in southern China show hundreds drowned while thousands starve in destroyed villages. Chinese and foreign groups have joined to raise a large relief fund.
Boston reports that automobiles killed sixty two citizens in the last twelve months and sixty four hundred sustained serious injuries among those known to be injured.
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