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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jan 27, 1910
Page
3
A 1909 feature preview lists lawmakers shown in moving pictures including Representatives George W. Norris of Nebraska and Evert A. Hayes of California, plus Henry Suson Graves of Yale and Avetis A. Hayes. The item notes their roles around Cannon’s influence, Taft’s presidency, and the Ballinger investigations amid insurgent tensions.
Rep Gilbert Hitchcock of Nebraska, son of a senator, leads Ballinger probes with amixed-party background. Ollie James of Kentucky also a Ballinger investigator amid rumors of a Washington power cabal. Taft opposes Rainey over Panama resolutions as Democrats press for truth. Roosevelt faction rumors persist but may be unfounded. A new state governors body forms to promote conservation with annual meetings, praised as a major forward step.
Paris reports a national calamity as floods engulf sections of France. More than 30,000 left homeless, $200 million in losses. Paris streets submerged, the Seine rising rapidly, bridges at risk, transit halted, and relief patrols active. Authorities evacuate offices and deploy military divisions for rescue.
The piece reviews the Ballinger-Pinchot controversy and its impact on national politics. It mentions Secretary Richard Achilles Hillinger, Professor Henry S. Graves, and Ollie James among others, with focus on conservation debates and the role of private interests in public duty. It notes George W. Norrie’s insurgent stance and Norris’s career, ending with a nod to ongoing congressional actions and amendments.
Alfred Weir was hanged at Moyamensing Prison for the 1907 murder of his sweetheart Emma Kurner who refused his marriage proposal. He killed her as she left a factory at Paul and Margaretta streets and attempted suicide after the crime. News applications for a pardon were filed.
Judge Hough quashed the indictment against the Press Publishing Co publishers of the New York World and Indianapolis News in a Panama canal libel case. The federal proceedings in Indianapolis last October were also dropped, with judges noting publishers should not be dragged to Washington. The ruling references lack of jurisdiction and signals a closing chapter in the long case involving Roosevelt Taft and their kin.
Port Deposit seeks aid after severe flooding and a damaging storm. Mayor Armstrong and relief committee members coordinate food and clothing donations with a $50,000 appropriation request to Maryland’s legislature. Investigations indict blocked channel from Watson Island and a temporary railway passenger station is set up at Tome Institute.
Richmond reports the legislature in joint session reelected John W Yaniel to the United States Senate for the sixth term. The piece notes other brief items from across the country including a miraculous fall saved by electrical wires in York Pennsylvania and a Bob sled accident near Tavernico. It also mentions Mrs Stonewall Jackson visiting the Senate with Mrs Lester and senators greeting the widow.
The piece traces Colonel John Lyon Gardiner a Civil War veteran and long time owner of Gardiner's Island in Long Island Sound Born at Easthampton New York he studied at Columbia Law School and rose from lieutenant colonel to colonel in the New York National Guard He is described as a descendant of Lion Gardiner the island's founder who bought the island from an Indian chief for a dog a gun powder and blankets The history covers the island's 3 300 acres nine miles long and one and a half miles wide its early grant as a separate plantation and its later annexation to New York in 1783 It notes pirate and British depredations and Gardiner family lineage through the centuries
East Hawpion Colonel Joke Laem Gardiner and associates raise a tomb for Loni Li net. The recumbent figure shows a worker clad in armor beside a large woolly black dog, set in Wyasdaech during the era of the atrach.
President wins first point in postal savings bank fight. Senate action expected after Penrose committee report with amendments. House prospects doubtful this session, but administration remains determined to enact the bill with party pledges backing it.
Marion Indiana residents report Mrs Ora C Ganions revived consciousness after an hour with an undertaker en route and private physician recalled. another item notes Mrs Quinons critical after recent surgery. multiple brief items cover a boy turning hair gray after a fall, a bullet incident in Sheridan Wyoming, jewels found in an ash barrel in Boston, a Yale law professor dying of pneumonia after a Toronto marriage, and a mine accident injuring Willam A Taft at Duquoin Illinois.
Northern California and southern Oregon agitation for a new state named Siskiyou prompts a March 15 convention in Yreka California. The piece also contains a medical advert touting Bloodine Rheumatic remedies amid claims of cures and health dangers from rheumatism and related conditions.
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