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Newspaper
Orange County Observer
Location
Hillsborough, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1909
Page
8
Seven year old daughter of Andrew Ingham was bitten by a rattlesnake hidden in a rat worn by her sister. The snake entered the house and slid into the rat on the closet floor. Other brief items include baptism cash, a will ruling, a fatal fall, and Taft at Howard library cornerstone.
Galician oil producers and Standard Oil representatives met in Hamburg to negotiate taking over Galicia oil stock. In San Juan Puerto Rico a quarantine was imposed on Red D Line steamers due to bubonic plague in Venezuela. A $10 million tax was collected in London from Charles Morrison estate. Vanderbilt valet jailed in London for pearls theft. Roosevelt group hunting in Nairobi before heading to Souk district. French military attache named in Washington Paris succession. Carnegie medal awarded for Curie scholarships. large French hero fund gift nearing completion. Cecil Sargent and wife sentenced in Paris for mistreatment of wards.
Miss Nora Freeman a Nebraska teacher and three pupils will receive 15000 dollars from Union Pacific for helping arrest four men involved in a bandit raid on a Chicago express. The boys found a cache of revolvers lanterns and masks while Miss Freeman uncovered seven stolen mail pouches in the school attic.
The will of Henry H. Rogers dated May 7, 1807 was filed for probate by James M. Beck. It leaves most of the estate to his four children with a widow’s annuity of 100000 dollars a year and four trusts for the children. A 100000 dollar bequest goes to Fairhaven Massachusetts for school purposes.
A moving freight train near Lithonia Ga was wrecked during a firemen's strike as stones were thrown and the crew boarded to derail the car. Engineer Downing suffered serious injuries while railroad officials blamed strike sympathizers though a county official called it an accident. The incident raised race tensions amid ongoing talks toward settlement in Atlanta.
After a brief deliberation the jury found William B. Darragh guilty of manslaughter in the first degree for running down Ingvaard Trimble thirteen in Kentucky and fleeing the scene with a sixty horsepower auto last March, then heading to Texas.
In Petersburg Virginia a local option vote ended wet by 578 in a total of 1792 with clashes at the polls as the Anti-Saloon League suffered a defeat while the Business Men's Association backed the wets. Indiana Laporte Floyd counties chose wet while Harrison went dry. The Presbyterian General Assembly in Louisville approved a temperance report urging ministers to seek federal action to halt liquor shipments and prohibit ads by mail.
United States Grand Jury charged Governor Charles N. Haskell and five others with fraud in Muskogee town lot schemes. Bonds set at 5000 dollars each. Haskell vows the full facts will prove no law violation.
Walter H Holcombe a Rabun County native aged 76 is jailed in Fulton County awaiting Prison Commission decision on whether he must serve the remaining nine years of a ten year sentence after escaping penitentiary thirty six years ago He fled justice lived in South Dakota where he amassed wealth and was arrested upon returning to his home region Convicted of simple larceny in 1873.
George W. Thompson of East Tenth street Indianapolis shot and killed his wife after she entered a dark room with a lit match. He awoke, mistook the light for a burglar, drew a revolver and fired twice. Thompson was detained at the police station as a precaution for his safety.
The Pennsylvania Sugar Refining Company again brings to trial its suit against the American Sugar Refining Company for 30 million dollars. A separate call seeks a $5,000 Berth for needy Senator Berry, with sixty six senators backing a petition to appoint Berry to the Mississippi River Commission at a $5,000 annual salary.
By court order receiver Putnam's detectives must stop annoying Mrs. Yerkes and confine themselves to the art gallery in New York City.
Illinois politics end a deadlock as William Lorimer wins the Senate seat on the 95th ballot with 108 votes. He pledges support for tariff protection and has a Chicago background rising from streetcar conductor to national figure, noted for backing Packers and Meats legislation.
Minoru ridden by Jones captured the Derby for King Edward, first time the royal colors won the classic. The King and Queen Alexandra watched from the King's box as Sir Martin, the American entry, crashed at Tottingham Corners on a slippery track, costing backers nearly 500000 dollars amid heavy American betting on the three year old.
The Supreme Court ordered attachment against J F Shipp Sheriff of Hamilton County Tennessee his deputy Gibson and four others for contempt. The case stems from the 1905 lynching of a Black man named Johnson who had been found guilty of assault and sentenced to death while in court custody.
Lima Ohio Mrs Maude Diltz a young widow formerly of Waynesfield was shot and killed at her house by John Beam a lawyer and real estate dealer who rented the property Beam fired upon answering the door then reloaded and shot a neighbor who pursued him He is under indictment for implicaton in a farm robbery near Lima last winter.
The Mexican Supreme Court ordered the release of Ole E. Finstand and Shorty Coughener, two American men convicted of the murder of Charles McMurray, Finstand's brother in law, and Robert Rutherford, a wealthy Philadelphia man, at Finstand's ranch in Chihuahua.
An advertisement extols Kodol Digestive Aid as essential for thorough digestion and strength, urging regular eating and rest of the stomach. The offer guarantees a refund if no benefits are felt after using a dollar bottle, with the druggist paid by the company and the product made by E. O. DeWitt & Co., Chicago.
Washington dispatch notes a swift House action on the Philippine tariff measure while sending the Porto Rico bill to the Ways and Means committee. Larrinaga opposed the Porto Rican changes as Taft and Congress clash over island governance through the upper house. Senate debates, tariff adjustments, and ministerial appointments fill the day as Georgia Railroad labor strife prompts swift federal involvement.
Admiral Evans calls for raising the Maine while Senator Borah urges an income tax. Czar Nicholas II, aged forty, is noted alongside E. H. Gary defending steel policy. Taft has not yet visited Porto Rico among U.S. possessions. Lopakine sentenced in St. Petersburg, and Rogers laid to rest in Riverside Cemetery. Jeremiah Jenks defends college instructors from protected interests. Theodore Roosevelt praised by Oscar S. Straus for boosting public conscience. Maximoff named Minister at Large to South America in exchange for Posel. Lewis Nixon pushes tariff reforms as U.S. gains influence in the Pacific. Ames and a Harvard botanist succession noted.
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