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Newspaper
Inter Mountain Globe
Location
Hulett, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Sep 28, 1911
Page
2
Canada will send 130 Conservative and 86 Liberal members to Parliament, a sweeping result that gives the Conservatives a large majority while the Laurier cabinet suffers a crushing defeat. In Peoria Taft laments the defeat of reciprocity and faces a day of cautious reaction.
New York report quotes Secretary Meyer returning from a British tour who saw no move toward smaller battleships. He noted large 27,000 ton armored cruisers at 28 knots and said earlier American papers predicting a shift to smaller ships were unfounded. He also praised humane treatment of deserters and planned detention barracks modeled after Aldershot and Portsmouth.
A New York letter to the Cincinnati Times Star profiles a downtown businessman who gives ex offenders steady work without preaching religion or promising police immunity. He tells employers who his men are and what they did, upholds strict standards, and helps when failures are due to the man but cuts ties when a man won’t improve.
The fragment notes a Black man in a hotel being deemed unsuitable to face a danger described as chicken peril with a dismissive, racist tone implying likely harm or exposure would fail due to race.
In St Paul on September 20 rumors swirl that famed wrestler Frank Gotch from Humboldt Iowa may run for Congress. Supporters expect farmers and followers to back him if he consents, though the champion's own thoughts on politics remain undisclosed.
Orlando reports States Attorney John C. Jones declares he will prosecute Elder Egbert Gillette and Eldresse Elizabeth Sears for first degree murder of Sadie Marchant. He cites premeditation and lethal chloroform, rejects religious defense, and says the case will go before Osceola County grand jury at the fall term opening November 28.
Pittsburg reports James W. Reynolds sales manager for Harrison-Walker Refractories Co. committed death by own action in his bathroom today. Overwork alleged as cause.
Director George W. Perkins met with Attorney General Wickersham as rumors spread that the Harvester Trust faces possible leniency after pledges to reform or reorganize under the Sherman antitrust act.
Missouri Speaker Champ Clark arrived in Lawrenceburg Kentucky, his birthplace, to a rallied crowd that gave him a presidential boom with a lively send-off.
New York September 22 More excitement on the stock exchange than since the 1907 panic. Heavy selling of steel stocks drove prices down five points in five minutes. The decline is attributed to financial conditions abroad amid war scare.
Charles Sunderland of Alton, a one armed man with no hands, guides a wagon and loads coal using stumps and shoulders. The St. Louis Republic calls him a marvel as he drives, loads, and unloads solo, supporting a family and running his own business despite early accident in a molasses mill.
Hugh K. Robinson, aviator, nominated by the Trans Mississippi River Flight association to fly 1917 miles from Minneapolis to New Orleans in hydro aero craft. Flight would set a world cross country record and raise $20,000 for river city hydro aeroplane exhibitions. Start timed near deep waterway convention in Chicago with staged legs.
Denver prepares for the Public Lands convention running September 28 to October 3. Delegations from seventeen western states attend as a battle lines are drawn between federal conservation supporters and advocates of state rights in public land administration. A draft resolution argues for policies that let lands pass to individuals to yield state tax benefits.
President Taft arrives in St Louis amid insurgent sentiment and defiant remarks. He says he accepts responsibility for his actions and invites repudiation if voters disapprove. He breakfasts at Mercantile Club, tours the city by auto, attends a Jefferson hotel lunch, and plans a large evening address.
Charles V. McKelvey chief ticket agent for Harriman Great Northern and Northern Pacific at Portland has been discharged amid accusations of long term embezzlement. Subordinates are cleared due to being misled. Fred McFarlane named new head. traveling auditors to review accounts. McKelvey admits guilt and explains scheme involved tearing off Seattle bound stubs from tickets sold in Portland to Seattle, netting him extra money.
A Chicago investigation uncovers a new pool system where bettors win by predicting the team that will score the most runs in a week. Participants enter fifty cents each, and winners are decided by lottery with prizes for top and bottom run totals. The scheme covers twenty two prizes plus weekday entries from the National and American Leagues.
Ambitious Chicago music students seek grand opera caliber voices as Director N B Emanuel auditions a chorus for the Chicago Grand Opera company opening November 22. He aims to surpass last year with a prettier chorus while awaiting Andreas Dippel. The season includes Samson and Delilah Die Walkure Lohen Grin Tristan and Isole Natoma and newer works The Secret of Suzanne and The Jewels of Madonna plus Quo Vadis.
In St. Louis on September 21 a produce company faced charges for selling interstate dried apples labeled as the highest grade. The government argued the fruit remained standard. On a guilty plea, Hall recommended a $10 fine and costs. Judge Dyer quipped about grades and childhood memories of drying apples.
New York headlines sting as Governor Crace denounces the Flynn Morrin prize fight. He says New York would tolerate no such spectacle and cites a 6 percent revenue sharing to promoters. Crace prevented the event from being held in Oklahoma, denouncing the spectacle as disgraceful.
Two men were killed by knife wounds and a third died from a stab wound in Dodaon Garrett county after Larry McDade a 38 year old minor refused to give two Italians a drink. He then used a revolver to shoot them.
President Taft spoke to a large Marquette crowd today after a motorcade. He delivered an address in a big tent setting, drawing a strong turnout and public interest.
Philadelphia Sept 20 Connie Mack favors the New York Giants to claim the National League championship and has begun drafting maps and studying geography for a campaign against McGraw’s Giants In October he declines to predict the Cubs Pirates or Athletics outcome or claim his champions have a better than fair chance to win the American League pennant again
In Little Falls Minnesota on September 21 a Winnipeg flyer aviator performed gliding exhibitions at the county fair and alighted near the Northern Pacific train. Passengers glimpsed the aviator and the train was immediately emptied. The conductor demanded action but the plane remained airborne until it landed again.
Thirteen hundred street car men voted to strike this morning. The car barns have been picketed. Rogue Ashman is planning to cross the Atlantic in two hundred days using no propulsion other than iron and glass.
The excerpt discusses Volcan Poas eruption and a critical view of forest service policies. It notes the tension between perceived benefits of coal and hindrance to settlement due to Washington rules. Governor Hawley of Idaho is mentioned as reading a paper in the forestry discussion.
In Kanaan City on September 21, two well dressed women led a small disturbance at a business center restaurant after being refused whiskey with lunch. They demanded service, were told it required gentlemen, protested, and left without paying the bill while the proprietor followed them to the street.
A crowd of about four hundred men and boys joined an improvised race triggered by admiration for a proprio. Police pursued for three blocks and surrounded the crowd urging payment of a bill or submission to arrest. They paid.
In Pueblo Mexico on September 21 Utin Torrell son of the chief and Felipe Cantero a 12 year old schoolteacher's son dueled over a ten year old girl. Cantero was killed by a single bullet to the heart. Torrell was arrested by his father immediately after the shooting.
Boston September 20. President Sidney W. Wilson and associates connected to the United States Shoe Machinery company were freed on bail for alleged anti trust violations. Bail set at 10 000 dollars.
Governor Shafroth at the international good roads congress urged use of convict labor for building and maintaining public roads. The congress adopted resolutions endorsing the plan. He noted Colorado grants convicts ten days off per thirty days worked and argues federal laws should compel convict labor with one third of earnings to the convict and family.
Madison Wis Sept 22 Senator La Follette in his weekly editorial calls for the retirement of plotters who tried to oust Dr Harvey Wiley from government service He urges stripping icribe and suggests Wilson may be forced out while Wickersham should not stay in office Spiritual tone and strong partisan push outline La Follette positions against perceived conspirators and cabinet critics
Paris report describes Major Darget who photographs thoughts. He concentrates on an imagined bottle, eyes fixed in a dark room, fingers in developer. A bottle image appears on the plate, matching his thought. The piece was shown to the Academy of Science amid a fuller delegation visiting Belle Fourche for the national irrigation congress in Denver.
Scranton Pa Sept 22 Avistor towers landed east of here and is now 145 miles from New York on his journey to the Pacific.
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