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Newspaper
Grand Rapids Tribune
Location
Grand Rapids, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1909
Page
6
A mixed page from the Grand Rapids Tribune notes global travel and safety, Ibero-American politics, and Nevada gold findings. It discusses street life, aviation, aviation laws, and the idea of ancestral vanity, alongside odd odds and cultural observations from the era. References include Venezuela, Castro, Gomez, Mars signaling, and a Las Vegas‑style vault hoax.
Lewiston National Bank lost 137000 over five years via adding machine manipulation. Stockholders repaid loss. no arrests expected yet. Bank and Idaho Trust Company merged recently. current deposits around 900000 with 450000 subject to check. Officials confirm gradual embezzlement by employees, no current suspicions.
Washington report on streams pollution shows epidemics of typhoid linked to water contamination across states. Public nuisances and ruined waters affect domestic use, manufacturing, fishing, boating, and bathing. Despite many laws, activity lags behind need.
Omata Ned-G Woods Fred Torgensen and James Gordon bound over to the next grand jury and held on 25000 bond each to answer charges of holding up and robbing the Overland Limited Tail Car on the Union Pacific railroad May 22. Judge W H Monger presided in United States district court. Twenty two witnesses identified the prisoners with the robbery. Six young witnesses aged eight to eleven saw the men near Brown Park before and after the crime. Revolvers and paraphernalia led to arrests of three men.
Dr. John T. Binkley Sr. was found dead in a Wellington hotel room amid claims of foul play. Miss Eleanor Upchurch, his granddaughter, testified she was assaulted by a man trying to lock her in a room after discovering the body. Police shift to a murder theory and hunt a suspect described by witnesses.
Ton Junkin, a Black man, was found guilty by a quick jury in Centerville for the murder of Clara Rosen. Judge M A Roberts ordered immediate death sentence. Junkin to be hanged the last Friday in July 1910 at Fort Madison under guard. Adj. Gen. Guy Logan witnessed the sentencing amid a large crowd.
Mrs Sarah Richman was arrested on complaint by her brother in law Carl Ferguson for stealing flowers from her husband Deco ration day. Ferguson found the missing flowers on a vase decorating his sister in law’s porch. In police court Richman admitted taking them and was released on bond.
Oneida Illinois hears sensational report that Mrs Josephine Carleton Archer who died in Los Angeles was secretly exhumed here. Coroner notes strong strychnine in liver kidneys and spleen while stomach contents await analysis. Relative claims murder motive as husband Richard Archer involved in brokerage rings.
United States Attorneys move to continue the Abel case to October 11 in Indianapolis. Stuart McNamara and Charles W. Miller seek to introduce witnesses including Frank H. Hitchcock and Norman E. Mack to show descendants Delavin Smith and Charles Williams knew of the denial when drafting their later Indianapolis News editorials.
Chicago hosts a national conference on criminal law and criminology at Northwestern University School of Law. Leaders from across the country attend discussions on reforming criminal laws, expert testimony, jury systems, judicial procedure, appeals, suspect supervision, and other legal complexities.
At the United States Brewers association convention final session in Adraptic City New Jersey speakers urged strict liquor traffic laws and enforcement to wipe out low dives. Percy Andress of Ohio and William Manchester of Michigan pressed for proper saloon regulation and a clear separation of liquor business from crime. Carl J Hester of Columbus pledged to push enforcement and regulation during his presidency.
Milwaukee judge overruled a demurrer in a $20,000 hair dye damages suit by Mrs Bowman. She alleges loss of hair from a dye purchased from a drug company and a St. Louis manufacturer. The ruling lets her pursue the action, arguing a woman’s hair is a chief asset and damage to it warrants legal remedy.
John D Rockefeller, fit and tan, returns Friday from Hot Springs with Mrs Rockefeller for health. He says he is now a golfer, uninterested in finance, and praises the golf courses there. He notes H H Rogers’s death as a blow and asks about unemployment, expressing gladness work seems to have increased.
The New York cases of Harry K Thaw and Albert T Patrick lost their appeals in the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Friday. Thaw accepted confinement as insane when pleading insanity in the Stanford White slaying. Patrick remained in custody as the governor could commute his death sentence. Both had sought habeas corpus as their appeals proceed to a higher court. Nearby reports: counterfeit arrests in Newark, cabinet resignations in Lima, a Pere Marquette wreck killing two, a mine riot in Bellaire, a federal commissioner's removal in Helens, missing mining engineer located in Seattle.
A Boston news item recounts an American minister on sabbatical touring London who attempted an intimate view of Parliament. The gatekeeper asked which lord he served, and the puzzled minister replied with a mistaken name, confusing the lord with a bird. The anecdote ends with the assistant’s remark.
A Chicago man recalls intense itching beginning on his hands, tearing the skin in places and disturbing sleep. After trying many doctors and remedies, he reports relief within days of using Cuticura Soap Cuticura Ointment and Cuticura Pills, with complete disappearance in weeks. November 18 and 23, 1907.
A fragmented tale from the San Francisco Argonaut recounts a strange incident aboard a train involving a fragrant remnant, a box, and a conversation with a railroad worker. A man reveals the box contains his brother, and the worker responds with a grim remark about death.
A collage of light anecdotes and tricks from household hints and jokes. A mother uses cows to teach a stubborn child, a joke about chafing dishes prompts a practical tip, and a quip about a blue kitchen ends the snippet with a humorous bite.
A fragmented late 19th or early 20th century style column blends theater chatter with stray anecdotes. It mentions Professor Charles Zeulin of the University of Chicago landing at Miner the Krenfent paAlninge, along with odd vignettes about a captain, a reformatory visit in New Orleans, and humorous exchanges on ailments and elopements.
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