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Newspaper
Odon Journal
Location
Odon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1909
Page
2
In Motherwell Scotland a heated open air Protestant meeting turned anti Catholic with Catholics barricading homes. Police used clubs to restore order after an hour of fighting. Twenty rioters seriously injured and over a hundred slightly hurt. Renewed sectarian tension feared nationally.
In St Petersburg the best authority says the czar has dropped plans to include Italy in his European tour because of assassination fears. Russian secret service agents report Italian revolutionists have allied with Russian exiles to plot Nicholas's assassination, making the trip too dangerous amid recent harsh Duma debates and prison cruelties.
Gov. Willson received honorary membership in Moolah temple at Louisville led by John Lair with St. Louis shrine nobles. Delegates from St. Louis and bands joined a popular parade Tuesday night, followed by Raths Keller festivities. Moila temple from St. Joseph displayed its potentate and camels while the patrol featured young women in a London-inspired march.
Washington The senate adopted by 490 to 30 the Aldrich bill paragraph restoring Dingley rates on wool wastes. Nine Republican progressives voted with the Democrats. The Aldrich rate is 30 cents a pound, up 5 to 10 cents from the Payne rate.
Two men robbed the Buffalo hotel in Sapulpa Oklahoma on Tuesday night taking 1000 dollars in cash and valuables. Local police captured two suspects in West Tulsa who gave the names H. Conley and James Bothwell.
Thieves entered Mary Benson park in Jersey City’s Italian quarter and loaded the band stand onto a truck. Authorities took several hours to realize the theft.
Professor Ernest Fox Nicholas of Columbia University has been elected president of Dartmouth College to succeed Dr. William Tucker.
Washington announces former secretary of state Robert Bacon will become ambassador to France around January 1 succeeding Henry M. White.
Seismic shocks rocked the Riviera with two tremors causing destruction in Lambesc and En Guille, injuring or killing several, as troops searched for victims. Buildings fell in Aix as well as at Nice Cannes Perpignan and Beziers reported tremors and fear kept residents outside through the night.
Authorities refuse to reveal depositions in the death by own action of Marie Ruiz, friend of Alfred Gwynne Van derbilt. The coroner says the case is closed and no foul play is found. A reporter admits being paid to suppress the story, with an estimated $25,000 spent by the mysterious party to seal the affair.
Dallas reports 11 killed with many injured as a statewide storm causes heavy damage to livestock and property. A Kansas City Southern line train plunged from a trestle into the Brazos river at Sweetwater. Towns including Hamlin Merkel Knox City Lenders and Sweetwater suffer damage as villages are said to be carried away and people swept away in the gale.
Cincinnati report says Jimmy known as the king of the yegg men escaped from Williams town Kentucky jail with two weeks of prep. He was aided by Jules Jackson a fellow prisoner and taken out of town in a car after bars in his cell were sawed out by accomplices.
A blaze in Hobart Oklahoma destroyed most of Mountain Park facilities and alarms woke guests at the Park hotel. Four people jumped from second-story windows while A M Judson, a traveling salesman, suffered internal injuries.
A panic was averted when the steel passenger steamer Arundel with 300 excursionists aboard ran aground on a sand bar in Lake Erie ten miles off Ashtabula. Capt. George M. Jones of New York calmed passengers and directed efforts to safety.
St Petersburg reports the Russian torpedo boat Kambala was sunk in a Black Sea storm during trials. Twenty crew members are confirmed dead with the vessel lost.
Honolulu police and federal officers raided the Honolulu offices of the Jiji newspaper and the Japanese higher wage association, seizing reports and other papers. Authorities allege a coordinated effort by Hawaiʻi's Japanese community to control the sugar industry and influence island affairs. A writ of ...
Tremendous explosions rocked the Malt-Diatafe company factory at Bushwick Avenue and Garren Street Brooklyn injuring none reported but causing $200000 in damage. The blast scattered carboys and chemical parcels across floors three to five while nine hundred tenants fled in terror thinking an earthquake had struck. The shock was felt ten blocks away as the six story tenements trembled and dishes toppled in the aftermath.
In Beaufort North Carolina two revenue cutters patrol off the coast as a suspected filibustering expedition against Venezuela is investigated. The Nanticoke a suspected vessel was tracked near Edenton with arms shipments alleged from Belgium. Secret service reports note two suitable ships sold in New York and Norfolk but no arrest warrants or clear illegal activity yet.
A court refused the habeas corpus plea for Makino Negoro and Sogo, alleged leaders of Japanese sugar plantation strikers. Authorities say papers show a planned islandwide conspiracy to seize power from white residents, with letters from the higher wage association urging Japanese to aid the movement. A thousand Japanese supporters gathered peacefully outside the courthouse as the case proceeded.
A blaze rattled the floor and toppled beds as buildings shook. Firemen faced several narrow escapes while battling the flames and evacuating occupants.
Six boys have vanished within a week around a San Antonio railroad area. Police theorize abduction to railway construction camps where youths may be held. Julius Sampras disappeared Monday while en route to meet his sister. no messages have reached families. Camps across 150 miles are being searched as authorities pursue leads.
In Mobile Alabama Philip G Thompson and Miss Rivers Rush wed last Saturday. Police guard Rush residence to keep Thompson from abducting the bride, with rumors she was moved elsewhere. Thompson and his best man faced perjury charges over the bride’s age. charges dropped, threats from Rush and Thompson’s father followed.
Police link a 15 year old girl found in the Chicago and Michigan Canal to Mary Mayder, last seen June 5 after leaving Hart Shaffner and Marx factory. Body shows violence and a broken leg. time card and factory trouble fuel speculation of self harm or accidental injury by canal boats.
Boston reports that Harvard University will receive the first million dollar provision of Gordon McKay’s will at commencement this year for the advancement of technical education.
Violence erupts at Newcastle Pennsylvania amid the Baltimore and Ohio machinists strike marking the first outbreak since the strike began in Pittsburg and surrounding areas.
A tank of 100 gallons of gasoline exploded at the Pacific Coast Borax plant in Constable Hook near Bayonne New Jersey. Two men Joseph Hilldorf and Charles B Number died from injuries while many others were bruised or cut by flying glass as masonry and debris flew into the streets. The blast destroyed the laboratory and a thick concrete wall while windows across the area were shattered.
The French Aerial League outlines a Paris to Nanzy Lyons Pau and Rouen service with five dirigibles. They range 60 to 80 meters in length and carry 3 500 to 7 000 cubic meters. Speeds average 50 kmh. Ville Nancy line to start in September with Meaux and Rheims stops.
At Mare Island Navy Yard in Vallejo California the old gunboat Vicksburg was kept from leaving for Cape Horn after a boiler inspection showed serious defects. Commander Alexander Halstead refused to authorize the voyage pending repairs.
A fire in the Knight apartment house at Elm and Harwood streets Dallas ends in the death of Hershel Dannelly eight year old son of Mr and Mrs D C Dannelly. The blaze began in the kitchen and the child perished from burns.
Frederick C. Inbusch aged 27, son-in-law of Governor James O. Davidson, a prominent Milwaukee businessman and social figure, dies after a lingering illness.
E H Harriman the American railway wizard arrived with his party in Plymouth aboard the Kaiser Wilhelm II. Reporters attempted interviews but found him confined to his stateroom and unwilling to receive visitors.
The Imperial Press Conference opened its session in London with talks on cable news. Delegates from all British colonies attend the event.
After a night of horror 444 on board the stranded Antonio Lopez are being taken to shore. Lifesaving crews rescued 309. fears of bad weather linger as passengers are confined in the saloon. The Lopez rests on sand with cargo likely needing removal before refloating.
Testimony in a trial in Chicago describes ice boxes in dining cars on Pullman express trains as hiding spots for hundreds of smuggled Chinese. Defendants include Bob Leing Chinese merchant of El Paso and two Mexicans Jose Parra and Carlos Sevedra. Brakemen Clark and Stephenson pleaded guilty and face details of bribe payments.
A midnight explosion at the Wheeling Steel and Iron Co. blast furnace in Martin's Ferry released molten metal that killed seven workers, with another dying in hospital. Three others were fatally burned and about a dozen injured. rescuers faced great risk during the attempts.
John Fean, aged and despondent with lung trouble, won a pardon from a life sentence for a killing 33 years ago. He stays at Bridgewater state farm in Taunton with no friends or relatives to care for him and mentions three daughters, two believed in New York, while he continues to serve his sentence.
A man was held up and left unconscious in the doorway of the Sheffield avenue police station. An hour later another man was robbed while crossing the street in front of the same station.
In Zacatecas Mexico Alerto Arechaga son of Gen Jesus Arechaga was shot as he opened his front door after failing to hand over a large sum demanded in a Black Hand letter. The incident underscores extortion by the Black Hand group operating in the region.
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