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Newspaper
Galveston Leader
Location
Galveston, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1910
Page
2
A subway blaze in New York City trapped hundreds in Mott Avenue tunnels. Passengers fled through smoke with limited exits, 15 overcome and two seriously injured as fire from a pumping station filled the area. The incident caused only nominal damage.
Governor Augustus B. E. Wilson and United States Senator William O. Bradley oversee a near complete Capitol. The General Assembly has not yet provided mural decorations, delaying final completion.
The British Antarctic Expedition departs London bound for New Zealand. Captain Scott and Lt E B R Evans announce the fleet is best equipped yet for a polar search. Twenty seven officers and scientists make up the crew.
A man about 45 to 50 years old stepped over the rail near Prospect Point and went over Niagara Falls. He was six feet tall with a medium build, dark moustache, wearing a sack coat and soft hat.
The second annual workhorse parade by the Youngstown Humane Society drew at least 20,000 spectators. The event highlighted working horses and community support for animal welfare, with crowds gathered to watch demonstrations and socialize.
Post office officials seek the origin of a chain letter promising good fortune to all who mail nine copies of its prayer. Calamity is threatened to anyone who breaks the chain.
Joseph S. Harris former president of the Philadelphia and Reading Rail Road Company dies suddenly at his Germantown residence in Pennsylvania.
United States District Judge David P. Dyer in Hannibal Missouri blocked twenty five Western railroads from enforcing a general interstate freight rate increase. The order follows a Sherman act antitrust challenge filed by the U S government led by Attorney General Wickersham and cites unlawful combine in restraint of trade. Railroads restrained include Missouri Pacific Chicago Northwestern Toledo Rock Island and others with main lines through St Louis Chicago and Minneapolis and Saint Paul. The injunction aims to prevent immediate rate hikes harming the public.
Western railroads face an injunction under the Sherman anti trust act preventing new freight rates west of Chicago. Eastern lines file tariffs with the Interstate Commerce Commission in Washington. Tariffs push higher commodity rates across the Midwest north of the Ohio and east of the Mississippi, widen the legal battle to the Missouri to Atlantic regions.
Carrie Pritchard a 25 year old milliner employed by J F Ball and Bro shot and killed Sam E Ford bookkeeper for the same firm in his Pollock Louisiana office after accusing him of jilting her and a reported engagement to Birdie Long on June 22 She drew a revolver from her satchel and fired hitting Ford in the head before clerks could interfere She was arrested.
Officials of steamship firms estimate 15,000 travelers will depart Seattle for Nome and St Michaels on early June sailings. Rushed capacity bottlenecks form as prospectors flock north after reports of Iditarod gold finds. Wealthy travelers take steerage amid crowded offices and long waits.
Dr Robert Koch eminent German bacteriologist died in Baden Baden after a year of ill health. He exposed himself in field research in German East Africa and other districts. Koch, in his sixties, studied at Berlin University and became known for coloring methods that isolated tubercle bacillus and linked it to tuberculosis.
War claims Kaiser era fame for his antitoxin discovery to prevent diphtheria and his Central Africa sleeping sickness research. He also developed a rat killing gas that rid skins of rodents. Koch did not claim his tuberculosis lymph cure was infallible but considered it preventive and practical in most cases.
Julia Ward Howe reached 91 with no public observance. The event included a family breakfast at her Beacon Street home in Boston with children, grandchildren, and great grandchildren. Relatives sent gifts and messages from around the world.
Union and government officials consider halting export of Anzara scoats from the Turkish region to America and Australia as Turkish Interior Minister drafts new regulations.
Charles Henry Treat longtime U S treasurer under Roosevelt died of apoplexy in his New York hotel apartment. The 68 year old Boston native left a wife and two daughters and had a career in shipping business and Republican politics including serving as Collector of Internal Revenue for the Wall Street district during the Spanish American War. He was born in Frankfort Maine and descended from notable colonial figures.
In Norway heavy floods driven by unprecedented warmth flood lakes and rivers. The town of Lillestrommen near Christiania is submerged with residents taking refuge in upper story rooms as railways suffer extensive damage and infrastructure buckles under the rising waters.
The Cobb compromise direct nomination bill failed 46 to 94 in the New York Assembly after Senate passage ending a fourteen hour session. Governor Hughes said he will veto the Meade Philips bill with primary reform seen only as possible via an extraordinary session.
Two men dynamited the safe of the State Bank of Unity Wisconsin and escaped with about $2,000. The robbers had been seen around the bank for days. The Unity bank, established in 1905, had a capital of $10,000.
Census based figures show 1900 religious adherents total 2 050 445 in the United States with Protestants at 20 1 147 and Roman Catholics at 12 679 142. Of Protestant communicants many live outside major cities and city concentration varies by denomination.
Sangamon County grand jury charges Holstow of Iuka with perjury in testimony during a local legislative bribery probe. Four others are under consideration for indictments by State's Attorney Edmund Burke. The investigation centers on a letter from Holstow to J W Knox stored by J D Divvie in a contractor matter.
Reports from Mozambique indicate a terrible cyclone swept East Africa and adjacent ocean causing over 500 deaths. Many ships and barges were lost at sea and several coastal communities suffered extensive damage.
President Tuttle of the Boston and Maine announces a June 1 fare increase to levels before the 1907 10 percent reductions. The move, tied to higher wages for workers, excludes suburban service.
One thousand two Jewish families ordered to leave Kiev under Russian policy to purge Jews outside the pale. An additional 199 suburban residents face deportation unless they prove residence rights by April 14. Reports note passport refusals and harassment at resorts, with funds being raised to aid those facing expulsion.
The article reports on Senator Lorimer defending himself before a Senate inquiry into bribery allegations tied to the Illinois legislature. It notes his protestations about a political conspiracy, coverage of a 4000-word politic outline, and references to indictments and attacks on Governor Déjenn and Representative White.
A severe blaze engulfed implement warehouses in Minneapolis bounded by Washington Avenue and 3rd Street to 6th Street. Firefighters from St. Paul aided three engines as losses mounted to $750,000 covering Northern Rock Island Plow, Great Northern Implement, Waterbury and a C W Wright building in Saginaw Michigan.
A parcels post package was mailed in Bremen Germany May 2 and delivered in Seattle May 14 twelve days. The Post Master General in Washington notes this as the best time ever reported for such mail.
May butter receipts were larger than usual yet the top grades fetch higher prices in New York than at any point this season since the Civil War.
A night blaze nearly wiped out the village of Inglis Oregon destroying the sawmill and yards of the Oregon Lumber Company. No further details on casualties or cause are provided in the accessible text.
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