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Newspaper
Galveston Leader
Location
Galveston, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 01, 1908
Page
2
Six are dead and over twenty injured in a Chicago explosion and fire at 178 Huron Street. The blast damaged a five story building used as a boarding house with Pabst Chemical Company on the ground floor. Five dead are a single family. the sixth is an unidentified man.
Congressman James S. Sherman of Utica New York Republican vice presidential candidate who fell ill in Cleveland with gall stones on his return from the Chicago convention is resting comfortably. Doctors report progress and say the danger of immediate surgery has passed though treatment continues. Temperatures have dropped about two and a half degrees signaling hopeful recovery.
The former McKinley home in Canton Ohio will be converted into a Catholic hospital. Felix M Bopp administrator of the Cleveland diocese ordered the remodeling of the building.
A blaze in the southwestern section of Philadelphia destroyed the abattoir and an adjoining beef warehouse owned by D. H. Martin & Co. The total loss was estimated at 150000 dollars.
Milwaukee road freight train crashes into Hagenbeck Wallace circus train in St Paul Minnesota injuring eight. Chicago man Earl W McConaughey 23 dies from a fall at Isle Harbor Minnesota while surveying a new post graduation engineer with American Bridge Company.
Three men attempted to rob a street car conductor near New Orleans. Bandit Henry O'Dell was wounded in the thigh, and motorman Ernest Reviere sustained a thigh injury.
Quotations from Taft Fairbanks Cortelyou Dewey Stevenson Cleveland biographers and contemporaries celebrate Grover Cleveland as a towering figure in American public life praising his wisdom courage patriotism and lasting legacy as a president and leader.
The speaker argues that laws, once dormant, must be reasserted as a concrete condition rather than a theory. He asserts party honesty aligns with expediency, calls for thoughtful patriotism, warns against deceit, and cites the duck hunter as a born instinct.
Henry Phipps of Pittsburg has contributed 500000 for a psychiatric clinic at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. It will be the first of its kind allied with a major university and hospital. The facility will treat both public and privately funded patients.
The Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, led by Justice Wright, ruled Garfield’s disbarment of Attorneys James H and Edward Spalding Milo B Stevens Co and Edgar T Gaddis unconstitutional and void. The lawyers argued the move occurred without a hearing and would delay about a hundred thousand pension and patent cases they were handling nationwide.
Grover Cleveland, former U S president and Democratic leader, dies at his Princeton New Jersey home after three months of rheumatic gout and indigestion. He had long suffered gout and diabetes with a severe indigestion attack in early 1906.
A compact summary of a long political career, outlining service as clerk and attorney in 1853, multiple statewide elections, and a later focus on law practice. It traces key moments including attempts at re election, presidential nomination near 1892, marriage to Frances Folsom, and final settlement in New York after public life.
The Indiana roundup records the death of former President Grover Cleveland with biographical notes from his birth in 1837 through his Buffalo and New York career, his two presidencies, family details, and Frances Folsom Cleveland as the White House bride.
The item notes a $5 840 loss from a Great Northern Express Company robbery in the Great Northern tunnel between Spokane and Seattle. It also reports stock shooting by trespassers in Stanley county North Dakota and homesteaders near Wakame bound over for malicious mischief. Minnesota dairy officials warn calves under four weeks cannot be sold under a 1905 law with penalties. The May report on port trade highlights rising imports of sugar and diamonds.
The report notes improved collections and stronger activity in sectors like grain provisions livestock and hides with rising ore coal forwarding. Demand grows for pig iron and steel. factory woods minor metals and leather goods show prep for higher output. Bank clearings total 220300379 down 9.5 percent from last year with 33 district failures, nine above 5000 liabilities.
New York reports little change in trade with a continuance of the better zone for the future and some textile investment expansion. Retail stocks are not large though fill-in orders are frequent. fall buying is steadier in eastern and central western centers, but crop and political uncertainties restrain full buying. Collections lag, and weekly business failures total 244 in the United States for June 18, with Canada at 2% as against prior weeks.
Regional price bulletin lists cattle hogs and sheep values across Chicago St Louis Cincinnati Detroit Milwaukee Buffalo New York and Toledo. Wheat corn oats rye butter eggs and clover seed priced with grade and region specifics for October.
The Amador Mining and Development Company of Montana and a $10 million Chicago headquarters firm collapses. Letters to 1,400 stockholders reveal the copper gold mine, sunk $560,000, is worth less. The mine sits near Amador in Missoula county.
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