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Newspaper
Orange County Observer
Location
Hillsborough, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 20, 1910
Page
8
The Bennet Sabath white slave measure, born from a National Immigration Commission inquiry into traffic in alien women, was approved by a viva voce vote. It targets deportation and exclusion of immoral aliens and their procurers, tightens immigration laws, and makes harboring aliens punishable.
Washington D C The Fourth Assistant Postmaster General P V De Graw reports rural free delivery expenses last year rose to 85 661 000 up 1 289 600 from 1998 with 40 028 to 40 499 routes. Average cost per route 72 17 monthly, revenue per route from stamps down 4 147 847 from 1908. more than 7 535 000 items returned or forwarded, 59 078 90 in cash and 2 100 656 38 in drafts and money orders. over 8 000 900 postal cards destroyed. He urges Congress to extend penalties for assault on letter carriers to rural carriers.
President Taft announced Henry S Graves director of Yale Forestry School will become United States Forester replacing Gifford Pinchot. Albert F Potter named Associate Forester and will assume office immediately. Graves previously served as Assistant Chief Forester 1898 to 1900 and studied at Yale. Seth Bullock declined the post to stay in South Dakota.
Belleville Illinois James Pullman confessed to killing his month old child by stomping its head with his heel. Judge A Corey sentenced him to life in the penitentiary saying it would be more terrible than death to hear the child’s cries daily. The crime followed a failed effort by the parents to find a home for the infant last July.
The National Model License League led by president T. M. Gilmore issued a statement disputing IRS reports on liquor use. It claims daily average increases in distilled and fermented liquor consumption for the first five months of the current fiscal year reached 286.837 gallons.
Judge John Calvin Reed of Atlanta died in Montgomery aged seventy three. Princeton graduate class of 1854 he served in the Civil War with the Eighth Georgia Volunteers and was active as a leader in the Ku Klux Klan.
In Boston the first non-partisan mayoral test elected John F Fitzgerald by 1415 votes as James J Storrow and Hibbard trailed. The reform effort backed by polling favored City Council and school posts, with turnout boosted by petitions and transport efforts.
Pittsburg meteorologist Henry Pennywitt warned that the air in Pittsburg is supercharged with pogonip, urging outdoors workers to cover mouths with cheesecloth. He explains pogonip means white death and forms from fog frozen into tiny ice particles, risk of pneumonia.
Washington observers say the Republican party is split between regulars in the Senate and House and insurgent progressives. The Taft Administration has not yet sided, but predictions say a declaration is coming and officials are expected to back the regulars.
In Atlanta Georgia a car carrying William W. Garner and brothers Frank and Harold George collided with a street car. W H George father of the victims was slightly injured and driver I S Gable was seriously hurt. Garner had recently been discharged from hospital after recovering from a railroad accident.
In St Louis Jeremiah Moynihan an aged ragman died in apparent poverty leaving a $60 000 fortune. The Public Administrator found a key to a safety deposit vault among his effects and the safe kept bonds worth $60 000 for his heirs.
Government reports secret evidence of brutal Night Rider attacks in Kentucky Ohio and Indiana. Federal action aims to dissolve the Burley Tobacco Society and curb one buyer one seller propaganda while prosecutions loom in federal courts. Union City Tenn notices warn fish docks and teamsters to vacate within days sparking regional unease.
Charles H Grasty, former Baltimore News proprietor, closed negotiations to purchase the Baltimore Sun from the Abell estate. The Sun has long been held by the Abell family for three generations and ranks as a leading U S newspaper property founded alongside the Public Ledger. Grasty will take over after Munsey acquisition two years ago left him as general manager of Munsey papers.
Yale University accepted a $100,000 gift from J Pierpont Morgan to establish the William M Laffan professorship of Assyriology and Babylonian literature. The memorial funds will be invested in seven percent securities with any surplus used to acquire archaeological material and related illustrations.
Henry Moulton, son of Raymond Moulton the American Consular Agent, was drowned when his boat capsized in a squall off Saint Malo France.
More than ten thousand dollars worth of opium was seized on the Pacific Coast in the last ten days. Four thousand dollars of opium was seized at San Francisco by customs inspectors aboard the Pacific Mail liner Siberia arriving from the Orient.
Leading financiers and Mills Hotel lodgers joined a New York City funeral for Darius O. Mills. The service gathered prominent figures and ordinary mourners, reflecting Mills’s influence across business and local lodging.
Sarah Breymer, 26, a governess, was bound and strangled in bed at the Compton summer home in Millbrook Dutches County. Frank Schermerhorn, a coachman, confessed after severing his throat. he claimed a Japanese servant killed her, but police doubt the accusation. The crime occurred with a three year old child nearby as servants searched the ransacked house.
Kansas City reports relatives of Thomas H. Swope and his nephew Christman Swope allege a deep plot to murder the Swope family. Typhoid germs were allegedly used to exterminate eight relatives while typhoid cultures were obtained by a bacteriologist before Christman’s death.
J C Lounsberry aged man is found dead in a ten dollar a month room in St Paul. Coroner calls him a beggar. Deeds and securities worth about 250000 are found among his trunk along with notes totaling about 30000. He came from Oswego New York twelve years ago and received 30000 from uncle Horace Lounsberry. His only living relative is a sister in an insane asylum in Binghamton New York.
Emperor William received the Hudson Fulton medal and accompanying letter from the commission and then decorated General Woodford who presented the award in Berlin.
Sperm oil sold at New Bedford Massachusetts for more than sixty four cents a gallon, higher than the prior market around fifty eight cents.
Reports from Ottawa indicate Canadian lobster supplies are well below the long term average for United States markets. Officials cite reduced catches and ongoing seasonal constraints impacting export levels and pricing.
Representatives from all walks of American life gathered at the Balasco theater for a two day conference to devise uniform laws on marriage and divorce child labor and pure food and drugs under the National Civic Federation auspices.
In Atlanta a two day Hookworm Conference drew over two hundred physicians life insurance officials and city and commercial representatives for the opening session of the first national conference for the study of hookworm A permanent organization named The Southern Health Conference was formed at the close of the gathering.
New York endured one of its worst storms as 14.5 inches of snow fell by Saturday morning. The event trailed the 1899 blizzard with 15.5 inches and the 1888 blizzard when 20.9 inches killed Senator Roscoe Conklin. Some 18,000 workers cleared streets, with removal costs expected to exceed $800,000.
The Baltimore Sun urges that football be made safe and humane in college and military academy play or be abolished. The piece notes the sport endangers players and calls for scientific, moderate training and open air exercise as beneficial, with a strong warning on current risks. Eben Cagle of Rockingham county, long pursued as a moonshine figure, pleads guilty in federal court and receives a 12 month sentence in Atlanta penitentiary.
A North Carolina firm Sternberg & Co shipped about 7000 worth of fur bearing animal pelts to northern markets last week highlighting a profitable business in Asheville. The report notes hunting for fur bearing animals in the state as a lucrative activity.
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