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Newspaper
Fremont Eagle
Location
Fremont, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1906
Page
2
John M Pattison governor of Ohio died at his suburban Milford residence at 4 20 PM after months of illness following his election last November. The unexpected death ends Pattison's tenure and raises questions about succession and state leadership.
A break-in at Union results in the theft of Mir Wade's valuable papers and related records. The burglars set a fire at the scene. authorities fear loss of key documents and possible duplication of records connected to Victoria, Postmaster at Lageco, Tad. Loon Cormiett, 68, Master at house Pray, was found dead after a recent despondent spell following the event.
Reports allege a knife slasher prowled Wooster Ohio driving fear among parents while a separate notice confirms the death of Gen Howard Porter a leading shoe manufacturer in Haverhill Massachusetts linked to YMCA movement activity.
Olsen Hiatt aged 13 of Cureenfield Found died after falling from a cherry tree and striking an iron fence, an iron spike entered his head. Fire at Orwell Ind destroyed the De Matte livery stables. eleven horses burned. Loss estimated at 311000.
Fifty fruit growers join the American Society of Equity at a two day session in Chicago to form the fruit vegetables and dairy department. A committee of eight will set details and branch offices across the country to market products and secure better prices. JJ B Sherman notes farmers pay high commissions and vows to teach business methods to unite growers for fair earnings.
Four meat packing firms were found guilty by a federal jury in Kansas City on charges of accepting rebates from the Burlington railroad on shipments from Kansas City to New York for export. The Cudahy case involved a 24 cent rate on a land shipment to New York for export to Germany, against the 34 cent legal tariff. This trial marks a major expansion in rebate prosecutions under the interstate commerce act.
A young man named Cole, living near Lahoma Oklahoma, abducted his year old stepsister May Ward at gunpoint to flee from her father. Sheriff Campbell and deputy pursued with help from Woods county. Cole opened fire injuring Deputy Charles Campbell, and was mortally wounded. He died at Golbrook after confessing to killing a bartender in Lahoma about a year earlier.
Grand jury failed to indict Standard Oil Company figures in Findlay Ohio. Prosecutor moves in probate court against Buckeye Pipe Line and Manhattan Company alleging they are subsidiary units of Standard Oil, signaling a legal surprise.
An official summary shows 4005 cholera cases and 214 deaths since last August through April 21. Provincial totals include 0 cases and 12 deaths, while Manila city accounts for 288 cases and 1 death.
The court martial that tried Captain Perry Furst in connection with the grounding of the battleship Rhode Island has returned verdicts on some charges and Secretary Bonaparte waits on the full ruling.
The Chicago Hurlington and Quincy Railway Company was found guilty by a jury in the United States Thiriet Court in Kansas City on four counts of granting concessions on packing house shipments for export. The conviction carries fines of 1000 to 20000 dollars on each count.
A blaze starting about 11 40 Monday night damaged the Armour packing plant ore department building at South Omaha Nebraska. One man was killed and the pecuniary loss is estimated at 100000 dollars.
A fire at dawn destroyed the Savannah docks of Merchanta and Mineral Transportation Company, the steamer Mancy, and six to eight cotton barges in Baltimore. Loss estimated at least $1,000,000. In Minnesota politics A. L. Gale of Walker nominated for Governor on the fourth ballot at the Republican State convention in Duluth. United States Senator Koote Nelson nudged for re election amid loud cheering.
The United States Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Paul reversed a Nebraska district ruling on Omaha water rates. The Omaha Water Company won on appeal and the case was remanded for further action. In a related matter Fairfield and Heth were fined $50 each for failing to produce company books.
A large fire in the block between Bergen and Brook Avenues and 147th to 148th Streets in Strens New York destroyed piano plants of the Stuyvesant and Wheelock companies and Charles Rieger's Sons. The blaze caused property losses over half a million dollars and injured nearly twenty people while forcing many residents to flee.
Indicted graft details describe Standard Oil canceling a low-rate contract with Pennsylvania to steer millions to railroads, with independents bearing the excess as rebating, according to the report.
Kansas makes its strongest wartime appeal for field laborers as harvest crews needed to protect the wheat crop. Officials warn 25,000 additional workers may be required to harvest the grain and avert losses.
The measure to admit Oklahoma and Indian Territory as one state passed both houses and awaits the President's signature while proposing voter in Arizona and New Mexico.
Joseph Leroy Highard Hinch and Tewts Holden of Fulton New York perished in a blaze at the Allen Excelsior and Butter Tub works. Longworths Meet King Nicholas Longworth and his wife conducted a grand reception for King Edward VII in London.
Seven year old Charles F. Muth son of jeweler Charles Muth was abducted from his Philadelphia classroom after a note claimed his mother was seriously ill. A messenger delivered the note from a man around 45 who then led the boy to a street car and disappeared with him. Police have no trace of the kidnapper. The father later received an unsigned letter advising against attempting recovery.
Captain George F. Bridgett of the steamer Asuncion reports the Argus bound from Puget Sound to San Francisco with 150000 feet of lumber was blown up near Destruction Island. He saw hull and bow burned away and lashings on the lifeboat untouched, suggesting crew perished in an explosion.
Lieut Edward Bolton of the Seventeenth Infantry and Benjamin Christian a discharged soldier were murdered on the west coast beach of Davao Island Mindanao by a Mungalayan and his two brothers. The attackers fled and were not captured.
Mrs. UC A1 Patterson, wife of the Bankers Trust Company of Kansas City president, dies when a large auto she rides in with her husband, daughter, and driver A Phillips collides with two trolley cars at Fifth and Harrison. Gasoline on the machine explodes. other occupants escape serious injury.
The Pressed Steel Car Company of Pittsburg completed the first steel passenger coach. It is one of three specially designed units built for the Southern Railway and resembles standard wooden coaches in general appearance.
William Malfoy, charged with murdering his wife, was acquitted by a Kansas City Criminal Court jury. Earlier he asked to plead guilty to second degree murder and accept a fifty year sentence, but the prosecutor refused.
Nine men were killed and about forty injured when a blast tore through the British steamer Haverford of the International Navigation Company at Liverpool. Investigators suspect an infernal machine caused the explosion, though a barrel of pitch may have detonated.
A burglar choked Mrs. Elizabeth Tresch to death in Peru Indiana. The 517 year old victim was revived briefly after the assault to relay what happened but could not identify her attacker.
Russian troops infused with revolutionary doctrines refuse to suppress peasant uprisings and may abandon the government if the agrarian plan is rejected. The report notes growing unrest and potential shifts in loyalty among the soldiers.
Richard Tilghman a wealthy Philadelphia manufacturer and prominent clubman died from poison taken by mistake as medicine. The incident was recorded as a fatal poisoning with unclear circumstances surrounding the mistaken dose and his social prominence.
The conference report on the statehood bill was withdrawn and a new report with compromise terms presented. Other actions include a 36 hour livestock transit limit, reappointment authority for dismissed Naval Academy midshipmen, and passage of a post office funds deficiency appropriation.
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