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Newspaper
Marshfield Times
Location
Marshfield, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Nov 24, 1909
Page
10
A fire rescue saved nine men, transforming the community into a scene of renewed joy and hope as residents celebrate the successful effort and reflect on the danger faced. The incident spurs collective prayers and renewed attention to safety measures in the town.
Ill in Gheery May 22 report of the St Paul Mine disaster where 310 miners were trapped seven days. 21 men survived after a dramatic rescue as engineers battled fire and black damp. 40 bodies and 248 miners still unaccounted for. Rescuers formed a rough wall to block gas and kept faith, while townsfolk learned the survivors were alive and recovered.
James Elliott Defébaugh editor and publisher of the American Lumberman died in Chicago after an operation. He had resided in Chicago for 33 years.
In Saint Paul on November 22 1909 the United States circuit court declared the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey an illegal combination restraining trade and ordered its dissolution. The decree takes effect in 60 days unless stayed on appeal to the Supreme Court with injunction blocking further business under the present form. Thirty three subsidiaries are spared from dissolution. The ruling holds that a monopoly ends when the combination ceases to restrain trade and that future reorganizations must avoid any form that preserves monopoly. The decision rests on antitrust law measuring restraint on interstate trade and commerce rather than mere corporate growth.
I. E. Reader, longtime Vall. legislator from 1894 to 1898, arrested in Seattle for allegedly conducting a land lottery as secretary and manager of the Sound Pacific Land Company. The firm reportedly flooded the western half of Washington with circulars promoting a drawing to sell 1 500 acres in the Chehalia valley near Elma.
A string of seven fires in Indapendones Missouri and other incidents report extensive damage. The Coliseum in San Francisco destroyed by fire. Shaw Neetown elevator owned by Gale Gros destroyed. Pittsburg car show opened by the mayor with fifty thousand dollars in cars on display. Internal revenue receipts total 190 million for the year, North Dakota land sales yield 1.28 million with 1.19 million to the reclamation fund. Mrs Golden Prisdlander of Carmul Washington bitten by a dog five weeks earlier dies of hydrophobia after delayed treatment at Bellevue hospital.
Andrew Hell aged 27 of 1810 Sout Wood street was stabbed to death while trying to stop Charles Benfield from attacking an elderly man named George Krapp at the lake pier foot of Sixteenth street. Benfield, 28, was arrested as a mob of fishermen shouted meanwhile Hell was rushed toward a patrol wagon and narrowly escaped lynching. Witnesses report Benfield drew a knife and struck Hell in the heart after Hell ordered him to desist.
Chicago, November 22. Dr Haldane Cleminson was found guilty of murdering his wife Nora Tane Cleminson by a jury in Judge McSurely's court. He was sentenced to life imprisonment after a quick trial with four ballots and three hours of deliberation. The wife was found dead in their bed at the family residence on May 0.
Denver jury convicts Mrs. Allen P Read after an hour of deliberation. She faces from one to fourteen years in prison for attempted extortion against Mrs Genevieve Chandler Phipps by threatening dynamite to extract a $100,000 payment.
Minneapolis readers see a testimonial letter praising Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for curing female ailments. The letter from Mrs. Jom G. Mounsy claims “three months” to full recovery and urges publishing to show benefits. The notice mentions confidential advice from Mrs. Pinkham in Lynn, Massachusetts.
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