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Newspaper
Kingman Star
Location
Kingman, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 01, 1910
Page
3
Major General J Franklin Bell predicts within five years heavier-than-air craft will carry three to five people and explosives. He foresees ground-fired ordnance and ballistic tables to hit aircraft, plus high speed photography for rapid reconnaissance and enemy mobilization tracking.
The report notes shifts in labor groups including Austrian Bricklayers down to 22009 from 39000, Brotherhood of Railway Clerks set for a Boston June 1912 meeting, and AFL data showing 20Internationals 23 State councils and 153 local councils affiliated. It cites wage efforts for women and sixteenth century era reforms, with industrial risk and gains across several unions.
In Anderson County Court Rudolph Zimmerman asks for relief against Joseph Beatson over a claimed iron chest with 100000 in gold coins said to be under David Bowers bed at his death. Testimony splits between those who saw the chest and those who deny its existence. 300 witnesses called.
A major blaze in Hartsville damaged the business section on the public square. The MecClintic drug store sparked the fire, spreading to a restaurant, barber shop, two general stores and the First National Bank. The town hall and school building also burned as wind hampered bucket brigades. Estimated loss stands around 40 000 dollars with 10 000 insured.
Lennie Alberts a Pittsburg native and chorus girl with a theatrical company was instantly killed when an automobile carrying five plunged into a ditch after a tire burst near Indianapolis. The car toppled over trapping her as her companions escaped with minor injuries. Driver Frank Clemens an auto salesman known for racing cars led the party.
Seventeen 110 ton freight locomotives from the American Locomotive Company in Patterson New Jersey head to Gary to aid switching at the local steel plant and blast furnaces. Each locomotive costs about $15 000, totaling over a quarter of a million dollars, and the engines are consigned to the Kirk yards of the Elgin Joliet and Eastern railway owned by United States Steel Corporation.
In Lawrenceport residents enjoy a wild fish haul as Charles B. Stewart nets hundreds of black suckers with bare hands and sells them for 50 dollars. river harvest totals over 8,000 pounds in days near the old dam. Nearby, a family faction is jailed for delinquency in Tipton County over charges tied to underage girls from Anderson’s orphanage. Evansville sees a man die after being thrown from a saloon, while Newton County man James A. Brunner dies by suicide due to ill health.
Edgar Jennings a 32 year old man from Frux ton Missouri was ground to pieces beneath a train at Vincennes. His brother William witnessed the tragedy as the brothers were en route to Cincinnati.
Conductor A. J. Siller from Pennsylvania fell from a train near Valparaiso and was beheaded. He was 40, leaving a widow and six children in Fort Wayne.
Senate Lodge led majority findings on 1900 to 1910 price rise citing farm production costs rising land values wages and greater demand as key causes. Immigration banking expansion cold storage advertising and industrial combinations also pushed prices higher while distribution costs and higher living standards played roles.
The article traces the postal savings bank idea from Britain’s 1861 establishment and earlier English agitation in 1807, then previews a table of current global status with establishment dates and deposit data. It also notes arbitration results at Delaware and Hudson Railroad and wage increases at Baltimore and Ohio Railroad affecting 6,000 workers.
Special agents of the immigration commission have investigated nearly 700 000 industrial workers forming 200 000 families across 250 communities. More than twenty five industries including cotton goods iron and steel meat packing clothing and coal mining are part of ongoing or completed inquiries. The aim is to assess immigration impact on industries workers communities and immigrant progress in the United States.
Massachusetts Supreme Court Justice William C. Waite says courts should curb alimony to reduce divorces. He argues divorcing spouses must prove fault and that sensational reporting spurs mercenary actions, claiming fewer divorces would result.
The Carnegie Foundation report on Medical Education in the United States, led by Abraham Flexner, criticizes low entrance standards and overproduction of poorly trained doctors from proprietary schools. It notes misaligned hospital relationships, excess schools, and proposes consolidating to about one fifth of the current 155 institutions with better distribution. It also names fit and unfit colleges across cities.
French scientist Tissier reports experiments cited by Literary Digest showing a vegetable diet can sustain active work with reduced intake. He describes transforming harmful microbes in the gut by a carbohydrate rich plan that excludes meat eggs milk and cheese and favors fruits and vegetables.
Several thousand physicians attended the American Medical Association convention in St Louis. Dr Welch of Johns Hopkins and other prominent doctors presented papers on new practical methods of curing and preventing disease without drugs and urged reliance on natural methods under proper patient conditions.
Former president Theodore Roosevelt received a mass welcome in New York as thousands lined the Battery to 59th Street and a grand procession through Fifth Avenue. A committee of 300 greeted him aboard the German steamer Androscoggin, with dignitaries from across the country in attendance.
Dun and Co reports favorable retail rotation with warm weather boosting goods and large fall sales prospects. Heavy movements in grain hides lumber and factory outputs accompany reduced apparel stocks. Bank clearings fall 4.4 percent versus 1909. failures total 19 in Chicago with 3 liabilities over 5000.
A Confederate memorial at Toledo honoring soldiers buried on the former federal prison site was unveiled. Gen Gordon of Memphis delivered the address as Confederate and Union colors were displayed side by side.
Sir George Newnes, wealthy publisher and founder of Tit-Bits, owner of the Westminster Gazette and other papers, died in London at age 54.
Edwin Gould offered a $15,000 prize to the first aeroplane using two motors and two propellers with reserve motive power. The Evening World also announced a permanent silver cup trophy for the best amateur flight each year with conditions to be set.
The steamship Boethia sails from South Boston carrying trin kets and gumdrops for the Igloo. Chartered by Harry Whitney of New Haven and Paul J. Rainey of New York, the voyage supports a hunting expedition in the Arctic.
In New YorkBradstreet's notes irregularities and relative quiet persist in trade and industry with Western distribution showing sharp improvement against slow reports earlier. Warmer weather boosts crop and trade prospects in the West Northwest and Southwest while East markets suffer from lingering cool moist conditions. US business failures for the week ending June 16 total 178, Canada 27, with prior weeks and years giving context.
Chicago and other cities report cattle hogs sheep and grain prices. Cattle range from four to nine dollars per hundredweight with regional variations. Grains include wheat No 2 around 1.02 to 1.10 dollars, corn No 2 near 59 to 69 cents, oats around 38 to 41 cents, rye up to 83 cents, and barley at 64 to 65 cents. Butter eggs and clover seed prices also noted.
Joseph A Young formerly general superintendent of the Southern Pacific Railway in San Francisco has been elected president of the Northwestern Commercial Companies and of the Alaska Steamship Company placing him at the head of all Morgan Gugenheim interests in Alaska and Puget Sound.
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