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Newspaper
Inter Mountain Globe
Location
Hulett, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Nov 18, 1909
Page
3
Chaos at Ald Cherry Illinois area as 570 workers were underground when a coal dust explosion sparked fires. Rescue teams failed to reach survivors as air shafts were sealed and officials expect no hope of saving imprisoned miners. Food and aid are being organized amid widespread destitution.
About 10 o clock Friday evening R L Gilbert of Omaha was knocked down and robbed in the alley behind the Butte County bank. He lost seven or eight dollars and bears facial injuries indicating a severe beating. Gilbert worked for the Canton Bridge Company of Omaha.
The report describes Bernice and Verl Shroyer accused of assaulting Gilbert in Butte County. Gilbert was knocked down and searched, then robbed as they fled to a Wideawake grocery alley. Warrant issued, bonds set at 600 dollars each, arraignment and hearing scheduled for the week.
Thomas F. Walton known as Professor Tom, a famed frontier scout from early Indian wars, and his wife Mary Marshall Walton live in a ruined upstairs room at 2206 Champs. Once prosperous with a store and dancing school, they were ruined by the 1887 panic and progress razed their home. Walton's military record includes desertion trial and pardon, later inspiring Dakota Hill poetry as Colorado Kit.
Washington November 1 President Taft issued a proclamation declaring November 26 as Thanksgiving Day. The statement designates the date for national observance.
Washington November 12 General Marshal Chief of Engineers commends river and harbor improvements in his annual report. The note highlights 350000 dollars of the total funds requested and cites 360000 dollars for Missouri river improvement from St Mouth to Fort Benton in Montana.
Washington reports former Sheriff J. P. Shipp of Chattanooga and five deputies await the U S Supreme Court sentence for contempt connected to the lynching of Ed Johnson. The case stems from a 1906 Chattanooga lynching after Johnson’s rape conviction and appeals.
A reflective line notes the gap between self perceived fit and actual opportunities. The statement hints at aspiration versus reality in work roles and the psychology of readiness. It frames ambition against the constraints of chance and competence.
In Basin Wyoming on November 16, a dramatic plea deal ends the ten sheep herder murders case. Brink, convicted of first degree murder, will get a new trial and then plead guilty to second degree murder for life imprisonment while four co-defendants and others face leniency negotiations.
The text lists defendants including Dixon Keyes and Farris and references a Brink case. Two informants from companions were detained and later testified. Brink was tried and convicted, influencing other defendants to plead guilty, with ongoing confusion in the record.
Russian German Mrs. Joh Franteverg rushed from a second story window to rescue her 72 family members as a fire started in a door. She directed children to the ground one by one and narrowly escaped smoke while saving all.
Nalodzeari Modica in Sonora honors Tealus Garcia who lost his life saving others by moving burning dynamite cars. Cu billas and Hermosillo officials attended the 7500 cost ceremony. In New York reports detail flood, hurricane and tremors causing widespread damage in the West Indies with heavy rains and many deaths. Kingston records 48 inches of rain and half a million dollars in damage.
Reports from Kingston indicate massive destruction across Jamaica with Bailroada crippled and thousands of acres of fruit trees damaged. The steamer Bradford I wrecked near Antonio, several small sloops damaged, and the American survey ship Eagle ashore at Fort Anuach. Kingston faces waterlogged streets and crippled water supply and electric service.
Storms floods and tremors lash the island for weeks causing heavy damage and some deaths. Reports from Port de Paix Conives and Cape Haiti describe a tidal wave believed caused by an ocean quake.
Viandreau Nov. 12. John Erickson a local businessman and his five grown children homesteaded six quarter sections in Butte county. Three quarters recently sold for 7400 total. The family expects the remaining tracts to rise in value and yield crops until a eventual sale.
A poem fragment explores humility as not cringing and suggests many who practiced harmony on earth expect to play harps in heaven. The lines contrast worldly modesty with heavenly reward and invite contemplation of virtuous living.
Rose Pastor, a noted writer, discussed socialism in America claiming the nation is ripe for socialist change. She spoke of revolution by ballot and expressed cautious hope that ballots could bring political transformation.
Belle Fourche reports a brawl on Crow Creek ten miles northwest between Bee Wedy Isley and Paul Bassett during sheep handling for Fuller. Isley suffered a battered head while Bassett bore a long cut on the back and minor scratches. No warrants or arrests expected.
Rapid City residents subscribe $60,000 in under two hours for a prize fight bid. Officials say an additional $26,000 can be raised. Alderman William Pascoe, formerly of Chicago, promotes the scheme for the event.
A Lead dispatch says the Lead City Boosters Club asks the government to build a wagon road through the Black Hills forest, east and west. Farmers haul grain from fifty to sixty miles, hindering markets. The road would open access to fishing and hunting areas for tourists and could host a stage and mail route to Newcastle, Wyoming.
Public advisory warns against catarrh ointments containing mercury. Health authorities urge consumers to check ingredients and avoid products with mercurial compounds to prevent poisoning risks.
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