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Newspaper
Patoka Register
Location
Patoka, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1908
Page
10
The excerpt surveys diverse topics from labor and gender roles to inflation, politics, and public health. It cites opinions on smoking, women’s suffrage, German and British affairs, measles and tuberculosis, coin value, Berlin incomes, and social behavior, ending with lighter notes on Christmas trees and Santa Claus.
Congress begins a brief session Monday noon with a distinguished audience filling the galleries. The event marks a ceremonial start as lawmakers convene to address early agenda items and legislative priorities.
Insurgent leader Townsend announces he will not seek to succeed Cannon as Speaker. The opening of the Sixtieth Congress features river and harbor bills, census authorization, and navigation reforms. Diplomatic corps observers attend as doors open to crowded galleries in both chambers.
Congress convened in Washington with dignitaries present as the sixtieth Congress opened a brief session. The Senate adjourned quickly out of respect for Senator Allison, while House members heard eulogies. Speakers discussed plans for next Congress and a Taft Cannon peace basis. Rainey introduced a probe into $40 million paid to a French company. Additional wires report a $1,200 conscience gift to Treasury and a teen’s fatal belt accident in Enid Oklahoma.
Vienna reports deny war threats after the Hofburg military conference led by the emperor and officers. Archdukes Franz Ferdinand and Eugene and General Shoenaich attended as rumors of aggression circulated, but the emperor declared peace unlikely to be disturbed. Advices cite a more peaceful condition across the Near East.
Halifax reports the steamship Glencoe sighted wreckage bearing the name Soo City from a vessel overdue in Montreal. In Paducah an oil stove explosion burned Mrs Gregory and destroyed her home. A Centralia fire caused by a moving picture show burned out with no deaths. In Mt Sterling a 13 year old hunter, Robert Nelson, was shot in the face by a companion, while Cape Town professors Beattie and Morrison begin a magnetic survey across Africa. Stidham mourns Rolly McIntosh ex chief of the Creek Indians, age 76.
John D. Archbold, vice-president, testifies in the government's suit to dissolve Standard Oil. He cites the 1900 purchase of Pacific Coast Oil Co. for 761000, capital increases to 17000000 by 1906, and a name change to Standard Oil Co. of California. He notes lack of a Barnsdall loan contract, denies Texas Oil Co. ownership, and discusses refinery costs and early seaboard refineries.
The piece reports rumors that Congressman Burton of Ohio may be named treasury secretary if he fails to win a U S Senate seat, with claims the president-elect backs his candidacy and a cabinet appointment might occur to aid Charles P Taft. Also mentions a Mississippi murder suicide and Connecticut chauffeurs pleading guilty to manslaughter.
The last timber was removed from the Little Wabash river dam in Carmi revealing the oldest dam in Illinois built in 1812 by an itinerant miller. The structure served as a power source for over seventy years before its demolition.
Human bones, cooked to a mass, were found in a burned stump on Henry Wolford’s Otis area property in Laporte County. Prosecutor Smith told reporters the case is under investigation. In separate news Washington Secretary Root signed an arbitration treaty with Peru’s minister Mr. Pardo, the first with a South American nation. In Seattle a head on trolley collision in dense fog fatally injured motorman Gus Olsen and injured about thirty others.
United States budget requests total 824 million dollars for the coming fiscal year with allocations for the Legislative, Executive, State, Treasury, War, Navy, Interior, Post Office, Agriculture, Commerce and Labor, Justice, and other departments. Key line items include large increases for the navy, pensions, isthmian canal, fortifications, and rivers and harbors projects.
Huntsville Ohio notes the death of former judge H P Ingalls age 82 veteran showman linked to P T Barnum and early Siamese twins exploitation. He claimed ties to Queen Victoria and introduced notable performers including Captain Bates and Mrs Bates and the Nova Scotia giants.
In Chicago at 330 South Clark Street a large loft hosted the formal organization of the Chicago Brotherhood of the Unemployed. Robert M. Wilson, nicknamed the uncrowned king of the hoboes, presided with James Hads How of St. Louis assisting. Hull House will outline the group’s work at Tuesday’s meeting.
Dr Charles E Brown Jr a noted Springfield physician was killed when a revolver discharged during a basement burglary search Sunday. He woke to a noise, drew the weapon, dropped it and it fired striking him in the lower body.
The column riffs on shifting social norms from Halley’s Comet era to present, noting lighter views of the devil and Turks, and references to Sunday school and parent child dynamics. It comments on public punctuality and the optimism of repairs to mean streets driven by good intentions.
London reports another draft of England home regiments for service in India on Monday. Troops will be prepared to embark at once as a threatened Indian uprising is deemed imminent. The draft follows heavy reinforcements sent last Wednesday, leaving many home battalions skeletal and prompting another call for recruits.
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