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Newspaper
Madras Pioneer
Location
Madras, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1910
Page
3
Rebels fight through night as battles erupt in Torreon and western Chiapas areas. Many killed yet rebels gain ground recapturing cities and pressing toward Vera Cruz and Gomes Parra as Federal troops retreat under heavy pressure. Reports describe renewed attacks on Cuatro and strong entrenchment by rebel generals.
A large rebel force confronts about 2,000 residents and 600 soldiers in Torreon with street fighting and crowds lining major avenues. Soldiers and rurales set up defenses along the Central Railway line while reinforcements from Gomez Palacio and the City of Mexico move toward the city to quell the uprising amid reports of rising rebel numbers and arming of civilians.
Testimony by T. B. Fisher a cigar manufacturer recounts telling De la Campa of the Tobarong Workers union that strikers were escalating violence after J. F. B. ling was shot. De la Campa allegedly replied about needing drastic action to stop the men from going further.
A tramp steamer collided with the steamer Bea off Point and sank the Selja bound for San from Hongkong. The wreck resulted in two deaths among the crew, with the collision witnessed near the lightship.
New York post office inspectors, led by Postmaster General Hitchcock, raid Burr Brothers and the Continental Wireless Telegraph and Telephone company over alleged mail fraud valued between 40 and 50 million dollars. Charles Vaughan, director of Continental, is held on bail. other arrests and ongoing investigations target numerous firms tied to bucket shops and fraudulent investment schemes across the country. The crackdown aims to convict and deter interstate fraud using the mails.
A Portland report says the North Coast line in Eastern Washington will soon be identified with Harriman interests and may be sold to a major system. The project, backed by Robert E. Strahorn, reportedly aimed to open access for the Oregon Railroad & Navigation Co to the Yakima valley and provide a Portland Spokane route, with Union Pacific likely to control the property.
The conscience stricken president of the defunct Walla Walla Saving Bank has sent his check to the clever losers of the failed institution from 17 years ago. About $800 arrived in the city with John Smaile receiving around $50. His son Lloyd then a baby, who had more than $100 deposited in nickels, got every cent. Edmington plans to repay all, potentially tens of thousands of dollars.
Kaiser opposes Rum Flemaburg and Prussia in opening the Maerwick academy. He reads an address emphasizing qualifications for naval officers and later urges temperance among cadets. He says the times demand iron-hearted men and that character rests on moral and religious convictions.
William Mitchell 19 of South Dakota, a West Point entrant candidate, died after a mental collapse caused by over study. He broke down while studying in Annapolis and died in a hospital with heart trouble listed as the direct cause.
A smuggling plot to place Japanese stowaways aboard the Inaba Maru is uncovered as Yaomatsu Kikuchi and two seamen are arrested in Yokohama. A hidden cupboard built by Chinese carpenters concealed stowaways, with remuneration from Seattle Japanese residents. Taft returns to Washington and predicts canal opening ahead of schedule.
Joseph Atwater a Oklahoma negro appealed to the Supreme Court eleven days after the election. He seeks an injunction against Oklahoma City election officials who denied blacks the right to vote on November 8. The appeal challenges the grandfather clause in the Oklahoma constitution as discriminatory on the basis of color and past servitude. The clause bars those who cannot read or write from voting unless they or their ancestors voted in 1866.
Washington reports pessimism among army and national guard officers about labor unions hostile to organized militias. Colonel E. M. Weaver calls for state constabularies modeled on Pennsylvania to supplement local police in repressing disorders.
Washington hearings opened on freight rate increases for the Eastern trunk lines. Shippers opposed the hikes as unjustified and urged scientific management as the remedy to raise net income. Only railroad witness was Joseph Ramsey of the Ann Arbor railroad defending the need amid higher operation and material costs.
Washington H M Hoyt counsel for the department of state died at his home from peritonitis at 8 20 Sunday morning after illness in Canada during reciprocity talks. Since returning Monday he was confined to his home as physicians deemed the case extremely serious from the start.
Hard fighting is reported around Torreon and Gomez Palacio with control in revolutionist hands, while Chihuahua and Puebla are feared to fall. Messages from contacts of Francisco I. Madero indicate intensified clashes and strategic gains in key railroad towns.
The 18th census puts New York at 9,113,279, up 1,844,385 since 1900, a 25.4 percent rise. Ohio reaches 4,767,121, up 609,576. Memphis census doubts arise as Durand accuses padding of 16,000 to 20,000 names in the 1900 count, explaining the smaller 1910 rise.
Washington report notes the alfalfa pest weevil spreading from Utah prompts Agriculture Department plans for a major campaign next season. Chief D C Howard says the effort aims to exterminate the pest by biological controls including a fungus parasite and a predatory mite.
The Indian bureau admits a smallpox outbreak among Arapaho on the Shoshone reservation in Montana but denies a heavy death toll. Superintendent Wadsworth reports 90 mild cases and no deaths so far, in reply to bureau inquiries amid exaggerated press claims.
Representative Tawney, chair of the appropriations committee, says no fortifications for the Panama Canal and opposes any military or naval defense plan until world nations can express themselves, while noting the canal should be treated as neutral territory.
A humorous exchange reveals rumors about engagements quarrels a baby name debate and a false noble title interwoven with a character asking about the opera heard and the other replying I saw the name on the program The snippets sketch a playful collage of social gossip rather than a single performance.
A dialogue ponders insignificance under the stars. A speaker notes feeling small in the firmament and another replies that such thoughts arise when gazing upward at the night sky.
Mr. Stubb spends the afternoon moving pictures between rooms while Mrs. Stubb nags him about finishing. He jokes about being a machine as she quips that he would be a moving picture machine, then he washes up and heads for the club.
A medical student examining a man's eye with an ophthalmoscope reports an extraordinary finding. The expert remarks on an eye never seen before and questions a supposed new disease. The patient replies the instrument owner called it a fine bit of glass.
In Seaforth and Woodbury neighborhoods a local man installed electric lights on his lawn last summer and fashioned a baby sling for his lawn mower. He reportedly walks with the baby at midnight to push the mower and cut grass in one pass.
Dialogue questions Seymour about steady work while living in South America. Ashley quips that steady employment is impossible there due to frequent earthquakes, prompting a humorous exchange about reliability and natural disasters.
An observed exchange features two angels discussing a claim about a spirit fuse. The second angel notes that her hatpins extend beyond her halo, reflecting a playful, ornate spiritual whimsy drawn from Harper's Bazaar style.
A fragmentary exchange questions a missing man with quips about two women named Miss Elderly and Miss Sere, asking which of them snared him. The brief hints at a local intrigue or public curiosity about a disappearance.
In Dawson Georgia twelve year old Ilittie Laura Averitte appears to read unopened letters by mental power. She writes the exact contents with a pencil as family members watch, baffling all who seek a scientific explanation for the mysterious gift.
William Springer of Royersford was found near Reading railway claiming his foot had been cut off by a freight train. He arrived at Phoenixville hospital with a wooden foot intact and doctors amputated a stub, then fitted a block of wood to replace the missing foot before Springer returned home.
In Wooster Ohio Mrs. Swartz recalls stepping on a needle as a child and a steel fragment remained in her body for 40 years. Recently a pain in the left shoulder led to removal of a piece of steel over half an inch long, the former needle fragment continuing to travel inside.
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