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Newspaper
Grand Rapids Tribune
Location
Grand Rapids, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Nov 25, 1908
Page
6
A garbled Grand Rapids Tribune text mentions Wisconsin items, cholera notes, legal figures, university ties, and various names. The piece rambles through people like Wright, Orville, and a New York citation while weaving disparate topics from medicine to rail capitals and forestry fireproofing.
Rockefeller testifies for two hours at the Customs building, recounting Standard Oil’s early growth and the formation of its Ohio operations. The witness defends the company's rise as a natural result of oil industry development, amid questions from Judge Ferris in a U.S. government antitrust case.
Six men were killed instantly at Ellsworth No 1 mine in Washington County Ohio after a cage broke during descent from the outlet to the shaft bottom. Ten men aboard the cage, including several officials, were involved as the incident halted operations and caused injuries to others.
Emily Chadbourne Gardiner, daughter of R. T. Crane, faces a U S government suit seeking forfeiture of property valued around 62 900 dollars for alleged smuggling. The action covers artworks and tapestries including a Madonna and Child painting and a Tuscan fresco oil painting.
Vineland New Jersey authorities captured Herbert Grigg, described as an unwitting accomplice, in Pall morphia. The case follows the arrest of Walter Sailer and Lim Wheeler after the murder of William Read, the aged grandfather of Zeller, with conflicting confessions and alleged poisoning claims arising among the suspects.
Reuben Crown mortally wounded in a New York attorney's alleged shooting after a quarrel over money in Joseph Crown's Pittsburg office. Joseph Crown, seriously wounded, is adjacent ward. The incident occurred Wednesday night amid wrangling. Mrs Eastman marries Edward Edwards in Asheville. Sophie Bastian, daughter of Carter Harrison, marries Balor Edwards of Norfolk amid ongoing suit.
At Kobe the Japanese fleet of 210 vessels including submarines paraded before Emperor Meiji and Admiral Togo aboard the Asama. The ceremony featured a sunlit spectacle, electric lights, volleys, and a detailed briefing on ships’ strength and Russian prizes from the Russo-Japanese War.
Chicago merchant Peter Van Vissingen admitted a long career of deed and mortgage forgery totaling over 9.75 million dollars. He faced an indeterminate Joliet penitentiary term after a late confession detailing 18 years of schemes. Associate Jefens aided the arrests and admissions.
After a nationwide surge of anger, Emperor William promised to govern through constitutional methods. An interview published in the London Daily Telegraph reportedly sparked the shift, with the emperor pledging to act only via the chancellor and senior ministers in Potsdam after a Tuesday morning audience.
South Bend police and post office inspectors pursue a $15,052 stamps theft that shattered the Saturday night post office vault. Authorities report two arrests, including a man nicknamed Detroit Whitey, though formal statements are withheld as the investigation continues.
A famous Lookout Inn in Chattanooga Tennessee and four cottages burned to the ground late Tuesday. The sale of the Inn property for 125000 had just been agreed but the fire derailed the deal. The hotel opened in 1839 and hosted notable visitors worldwide.
In Brooklyn on Friday a massive explosion tore through Goll Street near York, killing at least one woman and four children among twenty two presumed dead, with nineteen workers feared buried beneath fallen debris. Four laborers escaped the cave in a nearby sewer opening, pulled free by Arthur Strandway as floodwater rushed in. The blast, caused by a water main leak, sent wreckage skyward and drew dozens of rescuers to the scene as authorities worked to recover bodies and account for all workers.
A fire at the Northwestern Improvement Company mine on Red Lodge’s fourth drift, Butte area, Montana, killed nine miners. Three bodies have been recovered. six are missing. Seven men were relieved from duty at 1 p.m. Rescue teams and 50 volunteers fought the blaze, bringing a hundred men to the surface, many exhausted.
Port au Prince reports Gen. Antoine Simon, longtime south commander, refused to meet President Nord Alexis and is declared a rebel. The revolutionary movement seems serious as Gen. Simon holds arms and ammunition and southern communications are interrupted.
Alarming reports to Secretary Wilson detail two contagious foot and mouth disease outbreaks in New York and Pennsylvania. Four children in Danville Pa have contracted the disease, prompting quarantines on interstate cattle shipments. Other briefs note a Dayton Ohio factory collapse injuring fourteen, a Meade-Flett custody case in Washington, and the death of Richmond publisher Joseph Bryan.
Washington reports Mary Cheek, the sole woman handling major rural free delivery routes, has served as regular carrier from Toledo since 1902. She endures winter and summer duties, loves the work, and credits it with improving her health amid strict public expectations on conduct and propriety.
A garbled excerpt presents a cabinet of Victorian curiosities with jokes, parables, and snippets from magazines. It references a Kansas City item about a man marrying near a town and remarks on family opinions, plus a biblical tale misread by a four year old who asks why making soup is mentioned.
An elderly woman describes relief from stomach trouble and nervous strain after replacing coffee with Postum for several years. She recalls weakness and hunger before adopting Postum, noting improved digestion, energy, and steadier nerves, attributing the change to Postum as a life upgrade.
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