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Newspaper
Gravity Independent
Location
Gravity, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 09, 1908
Page
9
Discussion from 1906 highlighting high death and injury rates in U S coal mines due to lax regulations, unsafe explosive use, gas and dust hazards, and poor ventilation. Calls for adopting European mine safety measures including explosion limits, governmental testing, and formal oversight to reduce fatalities and improve information on mine conditions.
Be careful of eye health through rest, proper light, posture, and suitable glasses. Diet, digestion, and general health affect eye condition, while reading with poor light, bad posture, or on trains strains eyes. Old age punishes those who neglect eye care. young people should protect vision to keep it late in life.
The Indianapolis Star notes Mrs Roosevelts forthcoming Mississippi journey from the gulf to St Paul follows the president's river trip to Louisiana bear hunt. The paper calls river travel a worthy outing offering many new insights about the country and mocks the haste to “get somewhere.”
The 1907 report shows 22 739 books given to state school children by the Illinois Pupils' Reading Circle. It urges forming circulating libraries in populous districts and notes such literature aids adults and kids. Rural districts already have libraries but need more, according to the St Louis Republic.
Frank Gotch defeated George Hackenschmidt at Dexter Park Pavilion Chicago on April 4 to become world champion and claim $10,000 plus side bets. After two hours of grappling Gotch forced a flying fall, Hackenschmidt surrendered, crowd of 8,000 surged into ring, police intervened.
At St Louis April Thomas A Watson of Georgia and Samuel W Williams were nominated for president and vice president by the Populist national convention which adopted a platform and adjourned sine die. Nebraskas J B Jones briefly opposed immediate nominations and urged postponement to July 16 as chaos erupted in the hall.
Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt is named defendant in a suit filed in New York Supreme Court by his wife Ellen Franch Vanderbilt. The nature of the action is undisclosed. Justice O Gorman appointed David McClure as referee to hear testimony and report findings. The couple’s domestic affairs have drew public attention since March 24 when Ellen left for Newport.
Minot resident Gus Johnson a wealthy farmer living five miles south of Kenmare was murdered. R B Noah and Patsy Coyle, both jailed, stand charged. Neighbors reported Johnson’s Sweden trip and absence allowed the ex-convicts to manage the farm. Grain and stock vanished amid suspicions, and the body was found in the cellar with clear evidence of violence.
Rewards totaling 10000 are offered for the capture of the person or persons who dynamited General Burke Ley Wells in Telluride Colorado in an attempt on his life. Sheriff Fitzpatrick said evidence to warrant arrests had not yet been obtained. Henry Anker a waiter arrested for incendiary language has been found to have no connection with the crime.
Indiana Republicans adopt platform in Indianapolis and back Vice President Fairbanks for national nomination. Delegates directed to Chicago to vote for his nomination and approve a 1916 ticket led by James E. Watson for governor with Fremont C. Goodwine Fred A. Sims John C. Bilheimer Oscar Hadley James Bingham George W. Self Lawrence McTurnan J. S Peets Quinty A. Myers and David Myers for supreme and appellate court positions.
West Virginia and Virginia towns along the Tug, Elkhorn, and Bluestone rivers faced the worst flood in memory after 36 hours of rain totaling three inches. Hundreds of families camped on mountain slopes as homes flooded, with three deaths at North Fork and two at Keystone. Bridges washed out and rail traffic halted along the Norfolk and Western line.
Washington report notes the house approved an agricultural appropriation totaling 11,508,806 dollars amid a looming Democratic filibuster. In executive session the senate confirmed David Jayne Hill as ambassador to Germany, Spencer F. Eddy as minister to Argentina, and Arthur M. Beaupre as minister to the Netherlands.
Judge Ward McAllister of San Rafael California, son of the New York society leader, died Tuesday in a local sanitarium after an appendicitis operation. He had suffered paralysis for two years and died soon after the procedure performed last Saturday.
Joseph E. Smith of Conner University Lincoln, a 19 year old junior from Overton Nebraska, was designated Thursday as Nebraska's Rhodes scholar for study at Oxford University.
Two hundred fifty thousand coal miners halt work across the United States awaiting a wage settlement and a new scale. District meetings occur as President Lewis moves to revive the interstate unit rule and invites operators to discuss an interstate wage convention for central competitive fields.
Gifford Pinchot chief of the forestry bureau writes to committee member Pollard defending himself and the bureau. He denies paying newspapers for ads, denies instigating attacks on public men, and denies misuse of funds. He argues press and editors act as a barrier to unfair campaigns and says officials attend forestry meetings to hear complaints and offer suggestions.
President Roosevelt sent to the Senate the nomination of Dr. David Jayne Hill as American ambassador to Berlin. Charlemagne Tower’s resignation, effective June 1, is accepted. Hill will assume duties on that date, ending the Hill incident.
Mary Green aged 22 daughter of a former sea captain dressed in wedding finery and died by gas asphyxiation on Thursday in New York. She was to wed William Edgenton an electrical engineer, with Easter plans for the ceremony.
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