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Newspaper
Fremont Eagle
Location
Fremont, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1911
Page
1
A compilation of wry anecdotes and short items from a Chicago paper. The notes joke about winter, boots, soap production, border unrest, theater arrests, breakfast breakfasts, comets, middle age, hunting deaths, postal burlesques, and odd science claims. A rotating cast of travelers, burglars, astronomers, and clergymen contribute quirky observations.
Lilian Graham and Ethel Conrad are acquitted on assault with intent to kill and assault with intent to do bodily harm after being held since June for shooting millionaire W. E. D. Stokes. The jury deliberated 68 minutes. the defendants embraced in court as cheers rang.
Sunday lid 18 is voted down as Springfield voters reject all four saloon ordinances. Supporters of regulation gain strongest support on Sunday closing. Opponents triumph against licensing bartenders and related schemes with 6,347 No votes.
State headquarters of the United Mine Workers of America reports J P White of Oskaloosa Iowa re elected president over T L Lewis of Ohio. Frank J Hayes of Collinsville leads for national vice president. Mancie returns John Walker of Danville as state president with a large plurality and Duncan McDonald of La Salle appears re elected secretary treasurer. Adolph Germer of Belleville leads Paul Smith of Carbon for vice president.
The Lords adopt the national Insurance bill providing compulsory sickness and unemployment insurance for workers. With Commons passage and pending royal signature, it stands as a landmark legislative measure.
Allan Ross McDougall was sentenced to two months at hard labor for throwing a brass bound box at Chancellor David Lloyd George as he left a women's liberal meeting, hitting him in the face.
An American drowning in a Honduran storm is identified as Fred W. Enos of Charlevoix Pennsylvania.
Peking notes by representatives of all powers to the Shanghai conference urge international intervention to stop the Chinese civil war. The diplomats deem peaceful pressure essential to avoid chaos and support a constitutional monarchy as China’s path to unity. Tang Shao Yi’s life is guarded amid fears of assassination.
Federal grand jury investigates sources of funds for dynamite deeds tied to the McNamaras and others. District Attorney Mille carries the case, while Edith Winebrunner Hull, former bookkeeper for the International Association of Bridge and Structural Iron Workers, is questioned. Stubs of association check books and five years of accounts are examined.
Rescue workers report fifty nine miners dead after the Cross Mountain mine explosion near Knoxville. Five workers survived, but officials say many more were present unlisted or unaccounted for. Prospects of finding living miners are grim as rescue operations end.
The pure food board of the agriculture department voted to prohibit absinthe imports into the United States after January 1 next. They call the drug dangerous to addicts. The order awaits Secretary Wilson’s signature before taking effect. Dr. Wiley calls absinthe a major enemy of man and urges keeping Americans from becoming slaves to the demon.
Twenty thousand Denver citizens appeal to the supreme court to remove Hiram E Hits from the county assessor’s office and call for Mayor R W Speer’s resignation. The move followed four capitol meetings denouncing the midnight seizure of the assessor’s office by Hits and armed police after his succession to Henry J Arnold.
Portland leader Rev. Frank W. Sandford, head of the Holy Ghost and Us Society, was sentenced to ten years in the Atlanta federal prison for causing the deaths of six on the yacht Coronet.
A Vienna dispatch says claims the Emperor Franz Josef is dangerously ill are unfounded. The monarch reportedly has only a cold, with no basis for serious illness.
President Taft informs the Senate of abrogation of the 1832 treaty with Russia and seeks ratification. Foreign Relations Committee backs a joint resolution approving the action. Taft notified Ambassador Balakmetief at the White House and cited Russia’s protest over the Sulzer resolution while offering renewed talks on a modern treaty of friendship, commerce and navigation.
Rear Admiral Cameron McRae Winslow, famed for rough Cuba actions in the Spanish war, is assigned to command the second division of the Atlantic fleet at the New York Navy Yard and to fly his flag from the battleship Louisiana with Newport R. I. as duty points.
The Supreme Court of the United States upholds the constitutionality of Union statutes to indemnify property owners for damages caused by mobs or riots, affirming state recognition of remedial measures against civil disorder.
Former President Morales led an invasion of San Domingo that ended in disaster as his top general fell and his followers were routed by government troops after a surprise engagement at Cape Haytien.
A nine month plot to destroy Fort Riley surfaces after the arrest of Rev. C. N. Brewer and Mrs. Anna Jordan. Incendiary fires dynamite explosions and threats plagued the post with fires at the quartermaster storehouse cavalry ordnance building and Troop A stable. A bridge was dynamited and a water main damaged in attempts to cripple the fort.
Dr. A T True head of the office of experiment stations in the Department of Agriculture asks Secretary Wilson for a substantial increase in funding to expand agricultural education. He says current efforts are inadequate and urges at least 10000 dollars extra for the next fiscal year to reach farmers and schools nationwide.
Twelve killed and about twenty injured when a silk train running as section No 2 of the Columbian flyer failed to stop and collided with the rear Pullman at Odessa Minnesota. The engine plowed into the Pullman and the dining car telescoped the front. Officials cite block signals and lack of warning as causes.
The War Office informs agents in the British Isles that American beef packers on trial in the United States with large government contracts are barred from tendering for army supplies. The British government cites labor opposition and radical MPs to U S trusts as justification for the policy.
The Indiana Supreme Court upholds the full crew act regulating train crews on freight passenger and mail trains as constitutional. John K H Murphy of New Bedford Republican committee guilty of bribery in the last election on two counts and sentenced to six months on each count.
Sydney reports Cyclone Johnny Thompson loses on points over twenty rounds at the stadium to rival Rice, a middleweight from Australia. The bout ends with Thompson defeated after a lengthy draw out contest.
The Argonaut argues against a federal health board, warning it would intrude on individual rights and force one medical school’s doctrine. It asserts the proposal risks coercing orthodox practice, branding other therapies as inferior, and eroding liberty in medical choice.
A boy asks his grandfather why the back man hits a lady every night in the play Othello. The exchange follows a theater visit and reflects a child’s curiosity about the production.
A girl asks if lawyers are always tempered. Her father replies with a teaching tone as she mentions reading about cross-examinations in papers. The pun highlights the clash between reader perception and professional behavior.
A humorous exchange between Plodding Pete and a resolute woman. Pete admits a lack of a square measure in two days. The woman releases the dog Towser, asserting she will excuse him.
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