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Newspaper
Fremont Eagle
Location
Fremont, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 01, 1906
Page
2
Rosa M. Cole and others lose writ appeal as Supreme Court refuses to review Cole v City of Indianapolis. Court of Appeals ruling in favor of city stands on right to control Natural Gas Company works in Indianapolis.
Fire partly destroyed Trowbridge Hall the girls dormitory at Defiance College Defiance Ohio injuring none but 56 young women narrowly escaped. Estimated loss about 10000 dollars is covered by insurance and the blaze caused extensive smoke and water damage.
The Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen served notices demanding an eight hour day for switchmen with no wage reductions. Committees on nearly all U S railroads requested conferences within ten days. Action echoed in Chicago area and cities including Pittsburg Omaha Council Bluffs St Louis East St Louis Denver Pueblo with coast negotiations ongoing and premium pay in Oakland and San Francisco. Cleveland and Cincinnati workers are voting, expected to present soon.
The national convention in East St. Louis fixed farm product prices including Wheat at 1.00, Corn 0.45 to 0.55 depending on date, Oats 0.40, Barley 0.55, Rye 0.07, Buckwheat 0.70, Potatoes 0.65 to 0.75, Cotton 0.12, Wool 0.30, Logs 0.50, Cattle 6.00, Sheep 5.50, Hay 14, Broom corn 75 to 100. Officers elected: President J. A. Everett, Vice President J. B. Whiting, Secretary J. W. Tubbs, Treasurer John P. Stelle.
Louis Johnson of Fremont Ohio and Frank Weiler were wounded after a running fight with a mysterious man seen peering through a window. Keeler alerted Johnson as the suspect fired a revolver during a pursuit around Johnson and son in law Weber’s home.
Amid corn harvest needs in Nebraska, petitions push for parole of convicts to help farm work. Rollin Rivers, a Black man sentenced to three years for burglary, was paroled to a farmer after favorable action. Governor Mickey stated no wholesale parole policy.
Burglars dynamited the Bank of Kerkhoven in Minnesota badly damaging the vault as they attempted to reach the money chest. Citizens aroused by the explosion spotted the robbers who fled on horseback after leaving the scene.
In Cincinnati a federal eight hour day law case ends with the Sheridan Kirk Construction Co found guilty after a brief jury deliberation. The firm allegedly violated the act during dam work on the Ohio River at Fernbank. Fire damage and injuries accompany the event.
In St. Bank, on Schnelle's gasoline launch, Peter Tho his brother Joseph and George Schnelle sustained serious burns from a gasoline explosion. Mr and Mrs William Schnelle suffered minor burns.
Four hundred striking chauffeurs halted the sole cab sent by employers as police reserves and a fire company broke up the mob in New York. Mrs May tush Saybrook died in Ashtabula Ohio hospital four days after a wagon accident caused fatal back and neck injuries.
Thousands of life preservers and other wreckage washed ashore near Cape Hatteras indicating a sea disaster with extensive debris. The Cincinnati Hamilton and Dayton Railway Company announced a fare cut starting November 1, offering a straight 2 percent crate rate in iodlane.
A Louisiana resident urged forcing all toughs and bootleg desperadoes into war with a hostile nation to be killed off. Secretary Bonaparte noted the letter but declined comment without details, warning that war often harms more good citizens than it removes bad actors.
Fifty six girl students narrowly escaped a blaze at Defiance College Defiance Ohio early morning. Two residents above the furnace room raised the alarm. Six girls on the second floor slid to safety on improvised rope lines from a radiator. Damages estimated at ten thousand dollars.
Delegates from a dozen states attend the farmers cooperative congress in Topeka Kansas as it aims to weld farmers groups into one federation and control wheat and corn prices. C B Barrett of Georgia is named temporary president and the group plans focus on bucket shops and more agricultural colleges and experiment stations.
Secretary Taft pledged to neutralize insurgent wits as the war moves on. A Cuban artillery unit spent the afternoon casting surrendered arms into the sea from Morro Castle outer bastion, signaling a symbolic step in the Cuba operation.
A Pennsylvania Railroad train from Camden New Jersey to Atlantic City plunged from a drawbridge into the sea when a rail failed. Several cars wrecked into the water and many passengers were drowned or seriously injured in the incident.
Clarence N. Hughes of Swainsboro Georgia age 22 was convicted in Houston Texas on three counts of forgery and given two years in each case. She pleaded for mercy and received the minimum penalty in each count.
Robert G. Fleming a Philadelphia pioneer of the Southern Cottonseed Oil Company of New York killed himself after a discovered shortage in his accounts totaling about $100,000. Officials believe fear of exposure and disgrace prompted the suicide.
Joseph Schroeder plunged 400 feet into an air shaft at an abandoned coal mine in Pottsville Pennsylvania. His companion William Kalbach went for help and hours passed before rescuers brought Schroeder to the surface. He was found to be little the worse for the tumble.
In New York's Tombs police court Augusta Bruning, a cook formerly married to four men, acknowledged wedlock to four husbands. She faced a bigamy charge before Magistrate Hiebert and was held in 500 bail to the grand jury after waiving examination.
Unofficial information indicates the President will appoint Attorney General William H Moody of Massachusetts to the Supreme Court vacancy created by the retirement of Associate Justice Henry J Brown. Moody is the leading candidate according to sources close to the administration.
A severe blizzard on the Nebraska range left hundreds of cattle dead near Angora in a deep cut and more lost east of Alliance. A trainload of 1,800 head of sheep perished from exposure along with some cattle.
The sixtieth annual meeting in Oberlin Ohio heard treasurer N W Hubbard report total receipts of 423627 for the year and a debt reduction from 89254 to 67912. Income from Daniel Hand funds totaled 71413 and reserve legacy funds totaled 104405. Current work receipts were 42362 with expenditures 402285, leaving a year-end credit balance of 21341 applied to old debt.
Southern Pacific engineers halted the river's flow into the Imperial Valley near Imperial California turning the water back to its channel toward the Gulf of California. The $25,000,000 in property and the homes of 10,000 people were rescued from inundation as Salton Sea begins to dry. A concrete dam or gate and a rock gravel dam were built across the break at a current expense of $10,000 a day.
Perry Ryan of Seattle has been recognized as the youngest Civil War soldier after pension officers verified his records. Enlisted as a drummer boy in Company D, Twenty fourth Town Volunteers on August 22, 186? at age 9 years 10 months. Born October 22, 1852 in Lane County, Oregon. He enlisted from Mount Vernon, Iowa. He will receive a substantial back pension.
The Circuit Court in Bellefontaine Ohio voids charters of three bridge companies after a bridge trust hearing. Variety Tron Works of Cleveland Iron Substructure Company of Columbus and Columbus Bridge Company lose charters. Poean Bridge Company of Beaver Falls Virginia ordered expelled.
White Jerald Havener acted on stage in Racine Wisconsin when his wife lay dying in a hospital. He rushed to her bedside just before she passed. In the past year Havener lost his wife father mother and brother and a five year old son was killed in a street car accident.
Searchers at Lemuel Hill’s Winona Minnesota farm uncovered personal property valued around 350000 buried under a barn floor, as relatives believed the aged bachelor hid a fortune before death. Premley and wife arrested in Fort Smith Arkansas on murder involvement tied to a tied corpse found at Pawpaw. Twemley confessed implicating another man but claimed no direct murder role.
Howard KB Nicholas confessed with Leonard Leopold a registered pharmacist to murdering actress Mrs Margaret Leslie at the Palace hotel Chicago and robbing the body of jewelry valued at $2000.
Wall Street hears a report that Stuyvesant has sold his Central interests to KHHL Harriman and that George J. Chammar has been offered the road presidency at 100000 dollars a year.
Joseph Smith of Chicago reports being robbed twice in one day by new-found friends in St. Paul. He pledges never again to trust strangers while traveling after losing a3.
Four men were killed by a powder explosion in mine No 11 of the Southwestern Development Company near Mineral about twenty miles south of Pittsburg Kansas. Separately Edward Mason a Canton Ohio man aged 35 drowned in Silver Lake near Rochester after a boat capsized with two companions aboard.
Business conditions show steady advance in Chicago despite high rates, with strong demand, rising factory output, and plans for capacity expansion. Lumber delays and rail delivery issues complicate supply, while wage rises appear across industries and rail unions seek higher pay amid tight car supply and labor scarcity.
Market figures for Chicago Indianapolis St Louis Cincinnati Detroit and Milwaukee show cattle hogs sheep and various grain prices. Entries list prices for No 2 wheat corn oats rye and other commodities across multiple cities with ranges and unit details.
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