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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 04, 1909
Page
2
A powerful quake struck central and southern Mexico causing Acapulco shoreline destruction, Acapulco markets ruined, and widespread fear. In Mexico City the tremors toppled walls and buildings while residents fled to open spaces. Official counts report fourteen deaths with ongoing uncertainty over total losses.
Nearly fifty times as many applicants as homesteads are expected for Indian reservation land draws on August 9. Spokane officials ordered 60,000 more registration blanks as Superintendent Witten reports over 300,000 applications with little time left. About 6,400 homesteads exist on Kalispel Spokane and Coeur d Alene reserves.
William Jennings Bryan denied plans to make Texas his home saying he will not leave Lincoln or Nebraska. He stated he may spend winters there but remains a fixture in Nebraska, dispelling rumors of relocation to Wexar.
Repeated attempts to steal the cornerstone of the old Methodist church on South Third street Williamsburg N Y have led police to station a detail there day and night. The building is being demolished for a new structure amid long running rumors that gold coins were deposited in the cornerstone. Several night attempts to cut it free have been reported.
At Pittsburg a disturbance near a Negro evangelist gathering led to police intervention. Chester Brown and Rivera Williams, a Black woman, were arrested after a crowd mobbed the street as Brown and Williams wrestled following allegations he insulted religion. Williams defended religion amid the confrontation.
Orville Wright flew a ten mile cross country test at Fort Myer Virginia with Lieutenant Foulois. He beat the government contract speed, set new records, and proved the airplane’s feasibility for peace and war. Taft watched the event as the plane completed the flight in fourteen minutes and forty two seconds.
Mrs. Ella Flagg Young, 64, named superintendent of Chicago's public school system, the first woman to hold the post. An educator since 1862, she led Chicago district schools 1887 to 1899 and taught education at the University of Chicago 1899 to 1908, directing the Chicago normal school since 1905. She also edits the Educational Bi-Monthly and has authored multiple educational works.
Jealous suitor Pietro Sedallia urged his dog to attack a young gypsy girl at a Wanderers camp near Mast Liver pool Ohio along the Youngstown and Ohio River railway. The girl suffered severe bites to face arms and shoulders before others intervened. The dog was killed and Sedallia fled.
A twelve year old, James Graham, playing leapfrog on a seven story tenement roof, leaped badly and fell seven stories into an airshaft. He suffered a fractured skull seven broken ribs and internal injuries and lies in St. Vincent's hospital New York. In a separate incident J Garnet Woods a general agent for the Des Moines Life Insurance Company fell from an eighth story window of the Southern Trust Company building at Little Rock Arkansas and was killed instantly.
Enraged wife Mrs Panilla kills her husband Tony Panilla and attacker Mrs Clara Pizzani in Canton after an elopement. A brutal struggle follows as Mrs Panilla stabs Pizzani thirty times. Pizzani reaches a phone to call police but dies before help arrives.Panilla changes her bloodstained dress before surrendering.
Cassia Malusky, a Polish poet known as Young Poet called by Misfortune, shot himself in Philadelphia in the presence of friends after a stressful year. He had sold his library and taken bakery work. friends had bought drinks before the fatal act.
A collie sat on the river bank at Estill Springs Kentucky and howled to summon neighbors after its master Joseph Brown, visiting neighbors, fell from a boat crossing the Kentucky River and drowned. The dog helped as best as it could but could not drag Brown to safety.
A Black man named O'Neal fled a mob of over fifty white individuals on West Sixth Street downtown after slapping a child and injuring Mrs. Benjamin Winer with a sharp object. He escaped as the crowd threatened lynching and several others were knocked down with minor injuries.
Violent political riots in Guadalajara triggered by a meeting supporting Porfirio Díaz and Remón Corral led to more than 200 arrests and numerous injuries, including two Americans, with two deaths. Mobs damaged streetcars and vehicles while shouting anti Díaz slogans and a barricade was erected amid gunfire.
French aviator Louis Bleriot welcomed an Alaska Yukon Pacific exposition offer of a 25 000 purse for a plane race against the Wright brothers. He said he would accept immediately if Seattle conditions allowed and any Wright challenge was issued.
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