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Newspaper
Mooresville Times
Location
Mooresville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1907
Page
3
A Chicago special notes that across sixteen states 18 700 bills were introduced this year, only 5 831 passed, with many likely ignored. Minnesota leads in bills introduced, Utah has the fewest laws enacted, and rail passes help lawmakers miss sessions, though anti pass laws may curb this.
In Lansing a private remark by a Roosevelt alumnus fuels rumors that President Roosevelt will become head of Harvard after his term ends. The remark suggests he expects to join Harvard in about a year and eleven months, aligning with prior speculation he could succeed President Eliot.
Chicago special reports Milwaukee Mayor Sherburn M. Becker considers leaving office for the stage. Negotiations with New York manager W A Brady could place him in a leading role in a political play titled The Man of the Hour.
Ground was broken Saturday for the Alaskan Yukon-Pacific Exposition to be held in Seattle in 1909. Management expects two years of hard work on the $10,000,000 project to complete details by June 1, 1999, the opening day. The 250 acre site will host twelve large exhibit places arranged in a unique manner.
Spokane special reports Mrs. D C Corbin wife of a Spokane millionaire has married her twelve year housekeeper serving for the family. She began as a domestic while the first wife was alive and now becomes his bride.
Kansas City special reports James, son of the noted bandit, graduates from the Kansas City School of Law with the highest grade in a class of thirty eight. He states intent to practice in this city.
Mme Mele announces autograph requests are overwhelming and will be sold at 50 route apiece, with receipts donated to charity.
In Thermopolis Wyoming the unmarried men respond to a petition by jokingly urging a bachelor tax. The letters propose taxing single women who reject marriage offers, arguing the idea is unjust and humorous given the recent campaign by single women for taxation of bachelors.
Marvin Kuhn an infamous Indiana Ohio outlaw shot by Sheriff Hott near Cavett after a pursuit from St. Marys and Van Wert. Kuhn famed for a 1900 Warsaw robbery and a 1901 Green’s Hill capture, had been pardoned in 1905 and once terrorized Indiana Ohio before dying from gunshot wounds in Van Wert city prison.
Report says a large revolt grows in Fo Kien with about thirty thousand rebels. Kwang Tung forces are not suppressed and are gaining strength, threatening Swatow as well.
Sothebys last week featured an interesting sale with a first folio Shakespeare bringing twelve thousand dollars. A rare first edition Yorke and Lancaster, foundational to Henry IV, sold for nine thousand five hundred fifty dollars.
A Rome dispatch reports the Pope began a vegetarian regime in January to defeat his perpetual foe, the goat. He attributes his ongoing good health to the diet and has suffered no ill effects since adopting it.
Police report evidence of a brutal murder surfaced at the Ryan soap works on Spring Grove avenue. A mutilated and nearly consumed body was found in the factory furnace, shocking the community.
During a special visit, President Roosevelt shook hands with 100 or more residents in Rockwood Pennsylvania last Saturday. A bystander urged his candidacy again, to which the President replied that somebody else’s turn next time.
A horse owned by J. M. Shultz of Ohio Station near Sterling dropped dead five minutes after seeing its first automobile.
Washington reports Japan is greatly wrought up by the San Francisco restaurant stoning incident. Tokyo professors urge a harder line against perceived leniency toward Japanese in the city and seek a public apology from San Francisco officials. The State Department notes the trouble links to a wider strike and riots image while investigations continue.
B. H. Harriman announces that Union Pacific efforts to place a $50,000,000 loan in Europe failed due to anti railroad sentiment in the U S. He says success would have brought funds to America when money markets were urgently in need.
A Santa Fe paper accuses prison officials of barbaric treatment, recounting an inmate strung up by manacled wrists with chains anchored to a ceiling staple, his toes barely touching the floor, kept in that position for seventeen days.
The Savannah harbor fraud case involving Greene and Gaynor resulted in a four year sentence and a total fine of 575000, affirmed by the United States Circuit Court of Appeals. The men were found guilty of over half a million dollars in government contract fraud.
Washington Special reports that the two sisters of the late President McKinley will receive one third of his estate each while the niece, daughter of his brother Abner A McKinley, gets the remainder. The estate, initially $300,000 and now increased, was to belong to Mrs. McKinley for life under the will.
Negotiations underway between the United States and France over compliance with the American pure food law to be enacted. French exporters of canned goods face hardship from required label changes.
Special dispatch from Hong Kong reports Methodist missionary Mr Pollard at Chao Tung Fu beaten by Chinese with a chest wound. Missionaries are flocking into Hong Kong from Swatow and Pakhoi districts.
In Tokyo leading figures in politics feel uneasy about Japan’s future relations with the United States. They fear the federal government’s stance on state autonomy and labor groups opposition to treaty rights, highlighted by the second San Francisco incident.
The Washington Special reports that temperatures vary across regions with a broad rise in the Northwest and near term moderation in the middle Mississippi valley. Forecasters expect warmer conditions along the lower lake region and Atlantic coast north of the Carolinas by week’s end, with cooler spells in Missouri to northern Texas.
Richmond special reports William J. Bryan in an interview assessing Theodore Roosevelt. Bryan says the President sometimes acts Democratic on issues like income tax regulation of railroads and trust prosecutions but is too centralized and favors Hamiltonian rather than Jeffersonian constitutional views.
Telegram from Pekin via Nishi Shimbun reports 4000 crushed to death after quake at Hsing Kiang. Vast destruction of houses and widespread famine follow. Empress Dowager urges measures to relieve distress.
New York Special: Charles H. Parrow Jr. owner of an apartment house has asked the building superintendent for a permit to erect an iron fence seventy seven feet high in the rear yard. He says the fence will shield tenants from the rear of a six story stable recently completed nearby.
Lee Holder aged 17 was found guilty of murdering his father in Obion county. Judge Jones set July 12 for the hanging in Union City. Holder is the youngest person sentenced to death in this area.
The jury for William D. Haywood on the charge of killing former Governor Steunenberg was completed and sworn in Monday. Selection stretched over weeks with many talesmen examined.
St Louis predicts June will be one of the stormiest in years with extreme heat, violent thunderstorms, and widespread disturbances. Hicks, the local astronomer, and Andrew Jackson Devoe of Hackensack share alarmist calendars predicting multiple storm periods from the 9th to 27th with floods, winds, and heat waves.
Dublin Cable reports that Richard Croker denied plans to reenter politics after being linked to British Parliament ambitions as a Nationalist member. He declared he has no intention of ever entering politics again.
Chicago groups pledge a $100000 bonus as the Chicago Commercial Association and the Hamilton Club seek to secure the next national Republican convention for the city.
Special Chief Chemist Wiley of the U S Department of Agriculture urged Case School of Allied Science graduates to pursue extended schooling. He warned against dying before one reaches a hundred, arguing modern knowledge extends life and stresses diet hygiene and surgery.
South Norwalk report details a fraud where farmers collected $50 to $75 for each aged horse hit on country roads while paying only $2 to $3. The Norwalk Automobile Club exposed the scheme after warning that no more damages would be paid for loose horses.
The Supreme Court orders Lord Frederick Seymour Barring ton, jailed in Clayton Missouri, to be executed by hanging on July 25 for the murder of St. Louis horseman J. P. McCann.
Ely Minnesota special Swallow Hopkins blasting a channel through Fall Lake ice to move logs to their mill. After days of work they faced seventeen inches of solid ice and slow progress toward season startup.
The State Senate passes a resolution demanding that President Roosevelt be re elected for a second term in office.
Washington Special reports a Department of Agriculture statement on rat extermination. It calls the brown rat the worst mammalian pest and notes that if farmers fed every livestock animal with grain to support rats, cereal losses could total $100,000,000 yearly. It also cites an estimated $15,000,000 annual fire loss attributable to rats.
A severe engagement near Canton saw provincial troops defeat rebels. The rebels suffered over 100 killed while the government captured their leader along with flags and ammunition. An additional two thousand troops were sent to Chaochow where the malcontents remain active.
The Lokal Anzeiger reports the Kaiser has sanctioned a 37,500,000 project to widen Triedrichstrasse to 20 feet at its narrowest point and replace modest houses with palaces galleries and hotels, aiming to create one of the world’s grandest streets.
Caleb O'Dell a prominent Odon citizen is found on his front porch with a stone tied to it and a letter from A Friend warning of a plot to take his life and destroy his property. O'Dell has been active in temperance work aiding the suppression of saloons in Odon.
San Francisco reports the first major strike resolution after weeks of labor unrest. Ten thousand iron workers, who walked out to demand an eight hour day and higher wages, returned to work following settlement terms reached last week.
In Austin jury verdicts the State of Texas secures 1 623 900 dollars in penalties against Waters-Pierce Oil Company and wins cancelation of the company permit to operate in Texas.
Progressives in Tokyo plan a special meeting to discuss the American question and to formulate demands to the American authorities via the Tokyo government regarding the treatment of Japanese in the United States.
Mrs Edna Humelhagen aged 19 was shot and killed by Herbert E Springer aged 18 of Rockford Illinois. Springer chased Humelhagen through a crowd on Ninth street believing she was another woman.
Mrs. Howard Gould protests her husband’s accusation that her drinking ruined their marriage. She says she will speed her divorce suit to gain public vindication and will secure counsel to press the case.
Kenosha Wisconsin report says Louis Dallas of the Chicago Brass Company choked during lunch after a meat chunk lodged in his windpipe while he laughed at a funny story.
Chicago plans a new hotel touted as among the largest and most elegant in the world. It will be the tallest building in the city when completed in eighteen months at a cost of six million dollars.
Bud Lally, noted baseball figure, files for divorce alleging his wife’s heavy cigarette smoking is offensive to him in Richmond Indiana. The suit seeks termination of the marriage.
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