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Newspaper
Inter Mountain Globe
Location
Hulett, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Oct 26, 1911
Page
2
Condensed summaries recount notable happenings across politics, society, and culture from the past week. Highlights include key speeches, elections, policy moves, and notable local events shaping public interest without extended analysis.
The Han kow consulate is protected for half of 320 personnel aboard three American gunboats. Navy yard accounts show a $925,000 shortage after initial $3 million discrepancy due to bad bookkeeping. The railway commissioners refuse to abolish express firms via forced railway control. Cardinal Gibbons marks jubilees with a cornerstone laid for the Catholic University of America amid nationwide ceremonies. The national monetary commission will begin hearings in New York on the Aldrich reserve plan before its report to Congress due January 8, 1912.
Violence marks strike arrival in New Orleans while La Follette begins western tour in November. Tariff on raw sugar eyed as a tax. Taft urges arbitration and decries war as a curse. Express firms resist railroad absorption. Witnesses claim beer and whisky aid campaigns. Ortiz Sonora tidal wave灾 killed seventeen. Chicago Northwestern reports little western activity. Japan foresees prolonged China conflict and will stay abroad to protect subjects. Plans to dissolve American Tobacco per Supreme Court ruling. Morocco pact kept secret until second part signed. Wholesale Druggists urge interstate drug regulation. Duke and Duchess of Connaught arrive to preside over Ottawa ball for King George. Rome reports quiet peace overtures among powers and Italy. Indian reservation critics call for reform or abolition by Congress. Krupp sues Midvale for infringement. Bourne attacks Gibbons Ireland on initiative referendum recall. Six miners injured in mine cage accident. Texas rail stat says personal injury payouts equal earnings. Chinese reform deemed urgent in San Francisco. McNamara dynamite trial opens in Los Angeles. Lincoln memorial unveiled at Council Bluffs with foreign visitors. Kansas fish warden Duche to build world’s largest hatchery at Pratt.
Late returns show that woman suffrage triumphed in California while early tallies indicated defeat. The article records civic reactions in Seattle, Chicago progressives, and nationwide talk of suffrage outcomes amid other political events.
Paroled Leavenworth banker John R. Walsh draws attention as politics swirl around Senator Cummins. Frances I Madero rises as Mexican president. McNamaras face jury after a month delay. Funk accuses Lorimer of damaging reputation. Republicans from twenty states attend Chicago conference. Cardinal Gibbons honored on ordination anniversary. Mormon Church leader John Henry Smith dies in Salt Lake City at 66. Thayer dies in Panama. mis Missourian linked by marriage. Writer Philip Verrill Mighels dies from accidental gunshot in Winnemucca. Associate Justice John M Harlan mourned as leading constitutional authority.
Eugene Ely, 30s, Davenport Iowa, aviator, dies after his Curtis biplane fails to rise from a sensational dip at Macon Georgia state fairgrounds. Witnessed by about 8000, the crash destroys the aircraft and fractures his body, he dies minutes later. Ely had been performing for eight days, warned attendants before flights, and later burial was in Davenport. He earlier staged deck landings on warships in California and Chesapeake Bay.
Minneapolis reports Hugh Hobin son racing toward New Orleans in a hydroplane voyage. He covered about 300 miles by afternoon, enduring weather and an earlier accident at Winona. A broken front controller forced him to steer by body weight while at high altitude.
W. I. Burg, train caller for Illinois Central, was attacked by strikers in Centralia as the strike began and suffered serious injuries.
Market notes from Minneapolis show December and May wheat trading around 1.14 with No 1 northern bids and corn and barley values noted. Additional figures include rye and oats in scattered lines reflecting a busy commodities session.
The Interstate Commerce Commission announces October 28 for arguments on the Flour City Line complaint. Minneapolis Milling and Traffic associations seek through rates on flour from Minnesota to the Atlantic seaboard via the Flour City route with no steamers to Buffalo.
President Taft arrived in Montana from the south facing snow and frozen streams. In Butte his program featured an automobile parade breakfast at the Silver Bow club and an address before traveling east through Livingston to Billings for a two hour stop.
An advertisement extols Pinex a strong pine extract cough remedy. It claims rapid relief within hours for sore throat hoarseness and chest pains, using White Pine extract with sugar syrup and honey. The ad promises guaranteed results or a refund and notes Wayne Indiana origin with imitators noted.
Fox invites Bear to join a golf game at the links and Bear agrees to help with any job that comes up, despite not knowing the game.
A Peterborough angler placed a wasps nest with grubs in a kitchen oven to kill them for bait. Morning discovery released a swarm as the oven, not hot enough to kill the grubs, warmed them instead.
Lieutenant Mackenthan, for the red force, flew around the enemy front for 85 minutes and returned to base to report. The maneuver, accomplished solo, would have required a strong cavalry force for four hours.
A vintage advertisement touts Fletcher's Castoria as a safe remedy for children. It urges parents to ensure the product carries the signature and notes it has been in use for over years, with children crying for Castoria.
A dialogue fragment shows a doctor asking about health and the patient admitting some pain while the doctor reassures he can stop the distress, implying emotional or heartache tension in a medical setting.
Norway and France links marked by a statue event at Aalesund as Rouen council honors Gange Rolf with a large public unveiling. Population and agriculture numbers show Denmark's dairy rise and temperance group membership while Nykjobing seeks female school principals. Captain Sverdrup becomes US citizen and plans work with a new Alaskan California whaling company.
Private correspondence of Bjornstjerne Bjornson published for admirers in Norway draws praise and a second edition is expected. Admiral Sparre denounces Norway’s weakened naval defense since 1900 and cites costly dreadnoughts versus cheaper torpedo boats and mines. Dr. Sigurd Ibsen criticizes the Karlstad and Integrity treaties as harming Norway’s sovereignty. A military riot and grain troubles in Uppland, plus a fatal aviation accident in Bern, cap the dispatch.
The Swedish gunboat Skagal collided at night with the steam sloop Svante near Borgholm. Svante suffered severe damage above the waterline and its lifeboat was smashed.
Washington reports the government abandoned its bid to recover a penalty from the St. Louis National Stockyards over alleged violations of the twenty eight hour law governing feeding and watering of livestock in interstate transport.
St Louis based Lumberman's club adopts resolutions calling for unity against what they term ruinous prosecutions by prosecutors and agitators. They condemn federal and state investigations, noting about 2,000,000 dollars spent by the federal government and over 600,000 by states in recent years on examining large corporations.
A magazine editor recounts William Dean Howells recalling a Wall Street figure from 1869 who supposedly carried all his wealth in a bandana handkerchief. Now the same man’s possessions are described as tied up in his wife’s name.
A playful dialogue recalls a summer idyll in a fly Eden with no screens or elephants to eat. Two flies swap tales of seasons, quarters, and easy meals while planning the next summer escape.
A Texas farm note extols Postum as a healthier alternative to coffee. The author credits Postum with nursing a baby and alleviating bilious habits and other family benefits, citing relatives who quit coffee and improved digestion. The testimonial references Postum from Battle Creek and the book The Road to Wellville.
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