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Newspaper
Patoka Register
Location
Patoka, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1908
Page
2
A collage of notes on gender, politics, health, and society. It riffs on women’s roles and ballots, labor and incomes, education reform, and international contrasts citing Mme Melba, Mme. Goodell, and Chinese housekeeping studies, ending with a humorous jab at American girls and ships.
The piece notes a crop failure and forest fires reducing Christmas tree availability. It urges Santa Claus to allow fulfilled wishes, suggesting children may hang more than one stocking to cope with the shortage.
Congress begins a brief session Monday at noon with a distinguished audience filling the galleries. The event marks a compact legislative gathering, highlighting limited business and formal proceedings as lawmakers convene under tight schedules.
Insurgent leader Townsend declares he will not seek the Speakership as the Sixtieth Congress opens its second session. Courts and diplomatic corps fill the galleries as doors open to crowded chambers.
Appropriation bills will include river and harbor work and census authorization. Senate schedules postal savings bank, Brownsville affair, commodity clause suspension, Japan treaty talks, inland water ways commission, monetary commission recommendations, ship subsidy discussion, navy reorganization, copyright law revision, Panama Canal legislation, and natural resources conservation.
Washington crowds fill galleries as both houses open the Sixtieth Congress for a brief session. The Senate adjourns after 15 minutes in memory of Senator Allison. the House holds eulogies before resuming. Rainey introduces a probe into the $40,000,000 paid to a French company. Taft and Cannon expected to meet with Sherman to seek cooperation.
The secretary of the treasury accepted a conscience contribution of twelve $100 pills, sent by express from an unknown person in Chicago, routed through the collector of customs at Georgetown, D. C. The anonymous donor provided the funds without stating identity or motive.
Enid Oklahoma youth Robert Overstreet aged 17 died while helping with a corn-shelling outfit. A belt flew off and hurled him against the engine flywheel breaking his neck in the fatal incident.
Reports spread that Austria Hungary planned aggression in the Near East after the jubilee, but Emperor in the Hofburg conference with Archdukes Franz Ferdinand and Eugene and General Shoenaich, secretary of war, stated peace was unlikely to be disturbed.
Milwaukee story reports Mrs. W Stein left $5 to the husband she barred from the house for 14 years and bequeathed nearly $20,000 to her son, now in prison. The husband earns a livelihood selling brooms while the wife built a fortune running a midwifery school.
New York reports Jay Gould's grandson announces himself an avid aeronautics student and plans to buy a practical airplane within days. He recently won a world tennis title and now pursues other worlds to conquer.
Halifax reports the steamship Glencoe passed the wreckage of a steamer named Soo City, presumed overdue in Montreal, feared to have been lost. The discovery occurred while Glencoe was en route from Port au Basque to North Sidney, Friday.
An explosion and house fire in Paducah Kentucky followed oil poured on kindling in a cook stove. Mrs Gregory sustained painful burns to the face arms and body while standing over the stove.
A fire in a moving picture show on Main Street of Centralia near Ashland burned sixty five houses before burning out due to lack of water supply. No fatalities reported.
During a hunting outing in Mt. Sterling Kentucky Robert Nelson aged 13 son of Emmet Y Nelson was accidentally shot in the face by a companion named Jones. The incident occurred while the boys were out hunting and the cause appears to be an accidental discharge.
Professors Beattie and Morrison, commissioned by the Carnegie Institute in Washington, have started a magnetic survey from Cape Town toward Cairo. The project aims to chart geomagnetic fields across the continent.
Rolly McIntosh, former Creek Indian chief and a Washington representative for the tribe the last decade, died at his home near Stidham Oklahoma. He was 76 years old.
In New York the Standard Oil dissolution hearing resumes with John D. Archbold testifying. He explains the Pacific Coast Oil Co acquisition in 1900 for 761000 and the 1906 capitalization rise to 17 million as Standard Oil of California. He notes the Barnsdall loan contract lack and discusses refinery cost figures and ownership of the Texas Company.
The text suggests President Taft will name Burton of Ohio as secretary of the treasury if he fails to win the United States Senate seat. The move would clear the path for Charles P Taft to pursue the Ohio senate seat. Friends say Taft and Burton endorse the candidacy and pledge a hands off pledge.
Neighbors rushed to the Gilmore home in Greenville Mississippi after gunfire Tuesday night and found Mrs. George Gilmore dead and boarder Sharley mortally wounded. Sharley claims the husband killed the woman. Gilmore is at large.
Martford and two chauffeurs W J Kibbe and W JH Phair pleaded guilty in superior court to manslaughter for reckless driving that caused two deaths. Phair received a three to four year prison term. Kibbe awaits sentencing scheduled for Thursday.
The last timber from the old mill dam on the Little Wabash River in Carmi has been removed. Built in 1812 by an itinerant miller, it was the state’s oldest dam and supplied power for over seventy years.
In Laporte Indiana bones cooked into a nearly indistinguishable mass were found in a burning stump on Henry Wolford’s property near Otis. Prosecutor Smith was notified and investigators continue the inquiry.
Secretary Root and Peru’s minister Mr. Pardo signed an arbitration treaty modeled on European agreements. It marks the first such pact with a South American nation. In Seattle a head on trolley collision in fog injures about thirty and fatally harms motorman Gus Olsen.
The Treasury estimates total appropriations of 824 million for the next fiscal year covering Legislative, Executive, State, Treasury, War, Navy, Interior, Post Office, Agriculture, Commerce and Labor, Justice. Major items include navy growth, pensions, Isthmian Canal, rivers and harbors, fortifications and defense works.
Huntsville Ohio reports the death of veteran showman H P Ingalls aged 82 a partner of P T Barnum first to promote Siamese twins and famed for introducing Captain and Mrs Bates and the Nova Scotia giant and giantess He was decorated by Queen Victoria and counted Tony Pastor and Dan Rice among his companions and day morning court Sie Shalt
In Chicago a new group named the Chicago Brotherhood of the Unemployed was formed in a loft at 330 South Clark Street. The organization plans its program at Hull House Tuesday evening with Robert M. Wilson presiding and James Hads How of St. Louis assisting.
Dr Charles H Brown Jr, prominent Springfield physician, accidentally shot and killed himself while searching for a burglar in his basement Sunday. While armed with a revolver he dropped the weapon and it discharged, the bullet striking him in the lower body.
Springfield Illinois Acting Gov Sherman issues a further reprieve for Herman Billik in the murder case after a brief hearing. The condemned man remains in jail over two years with execution date now set for January 29 1909, his sixth adjourned date.
Native anarchists at Dundum a military station six miles from here are believed to have blown up a magazine of ammunition. Eleven native soldiers were killed and twenty six injured. Detectives have been assigned to investigate.
War Office orders another draft for England's home regiments to prepare for India. Troops will sail as soon as possible due to the believed imminent Indian up rising. The draft follows last Wednesday's heavy reinforcement and will reduce many home battalions to skeletons with further recruit calls planned.
A vignette contrasts a father son exchange about courage with a note on evolving attitudes. It recalls Halley’s comet's historical attention and cites 450 years ago when fear framed views of the devil and the Turk, while noting modern reassessment and a more welcoming stance toward the comet.
A fragment suggests mothers urged to examine Castoria bottles as a safe remedy for children. It contrasts street contractors possibly repairing pavements made of good intentions with worry over value and money in public life.
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