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Newspaper
Patoka Register
Location
Patoka, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1907
Page
2
A collage reports on wealth and social mores with Vanderbilt heirs and Gladys Vanderbilt’s fortune, doctors and light therapy skepticism, Persia's evolving women’s committees, Wall Street swindling arrests, and a Pittsburgh financier’s odd ventures.
Washington church circles discuss a bride who wore a wedding ring on her fourth finger due to a too small third finger. The era notes oddities from legal rebukes, coal explorations, Abyssinia’s cabinet reforms, and New York University’s new night college. A Virginia girl finds a diamond in an apple seed cell, igniting tales of improbable discoveries.
Fifty-three bodies have been recovered from Fairmont Coal Company mines Nos. 6 and 8 near Monongah West Virginia after a catastrophic explosion. Rescue teams worked through 56 hours since the blast with many remains severely damaged, and officials fear total deaths may reach about four hundred as a company inquiry indicates many miners remained entombed.
Mrs Louise M Taft mother of Secretary of War William H Taft died at 12 20 Sunday morning after weeks of unconsciousness and weakness. She had stayed with her sister in Milbury where she spent her girlhood days and telegraph messages were sent to Bologna informing Taft of the death as he sailed back to America.
Shortly after noon a fire broke out at No 8 mine and rescuers were ordered to the surface. Thousands of sightseers gathered around the openings despite warnings of danger. Police and miners forced the crowds to safety as officials aimed to extinguish the blaze within hours and resume rescues. Rescue workers reported over a hundred bodies located in old mines, to be brought to the surface once ice is cleared, though the fire is not expected to reach them.
The National Committee will decide the time and place of the party's national convention. Members will gather to authorize dates and venue details and set the schedule for the event.
Col I Martin of Missouri and a city committee prepare for the Democratic convention to meet next summer. Chicago Kansas City Louisville Denver and Atlantic City are in contention for the site with June 2 favored. Many committee members prefer scheduling ahead of the Republican gathering.
King Oscar II of Sweden died at 9 10 Sunday morning in the royal apartment surrounded by family and ministers. Crowds outside the palace bowed in grief as the flag dipped to half mast and subjects cried for their beloved ruler and friend.
Chicago lawyers secured a postponement for E H Harriman until Thursday in Stuyvesant Fish’s bid for an injunction to stop Harriman and the Union Pacific from voting the Union Pacific shares of Illinois Central stock. Henry W. Leman accused Harriman of delaying to avoid a court issue.
Dennis Mack once a famed baseball player and active in sporting circles died in Providence at age 46. He was a recognized figure in local athletics and Confederate to the era archives.
A special train carrying Sousa's Band from Toledo to Ann Arbor derailed at the Wabash crossing in Milan Michigan. The baggage car and a coach overturned. engineer Stever suffered broken ribs, the fireman was bruised, and a band member was cut by flying glass.
In Fayette City near Pittsburg thirty two miners killed when the Naomi mine explosion occurred Sunday night have all been identified and brought to the surface.
Turbulent scenes unfold at Vienna frontier stations as Hungarian peasants return from America. Trains run short of capacity and makeshift barracks rise to shelter the influx awaiting housing and transport home.
Fire gutted the East Cam bridge machine shops and roundhouse of the Boston and Maine railroad on Thursday night. Officials estimate the loss at about $500,000.
The Republican National Committee calls a national convention in Chicago for June 16 1908 to nominate presidential and vice presidential candidates. It requires thirty days notice before delegate elections, makes Michigan and Alaska delegates irregular, and may trigger new district conventions to appoint regular delegates.
The excerpt details how congressional district delegates are chosen by conventions called by the Republican committee of each district. It specifies notice requirements in newspapers, a 30 day window for election relative to the next national convention, and that delegates and alternates must forward credentials to the Republican National Committee at least 20 days before the convention. Signed by Elmer Dover and Harry S. New.
Alfred H. Smith vice president and general manager of the New York Central was tried for manslaughter in the second degree before Justice Kellogg in the supreme court over the Brewster express wreck at Woodlawn last February. The indictment accuses gross negligence as the cause of 24 deaths and 67 injuries.
Robert Bacon assistant secretary of state is awarded the bronze Massachusetts Humane Society medal for saving two unknown Harvard men from drowning in the Charles River on October 11.
T. J. McComb state insurance commissioner has received applications from numerous companies seeking to operate in the new State.
Lieut. Frank P. Lahm of the U S Army is in Berlin on leave from the war department to study German aeronautics. He is among American officers inspecting German aviation as part of exchange observations with European military labs.
A Big Four passenger train carrying Gov. Deneen and party collided head on with a freight train two miles north of Harrisburg Wednesday afternoon. No serious injuries occurred, but the passengers suffered a severe shaking up.
New York reports the battleships Rhode Island and Virginia and the supply ship Yankton departed the Brooklyn navy yard to join the Pacific fleet rendezvous, signaling the move of a major naval force.
The newly formed House committee on banking and currency met two and a half hours to discuss the currency question. A five member sub committee was authorized to draft a currency bill and present it to the chairman for the Senate effort.
Virginia delegates present a measure offered by Mr Cale from Alaska to grant Alaska a territorial form of government. Representative Kipp of Pennsylvania introduces a bill to make national bank notes legal tender. Representative Hardy of Texas introduces a bill to prohibit railroads from higher short haul freight rates for the same commodities and quantities.
Nearly a thousand bills were introduced in the senate and all referred to committees for consideration after new committee assignments. Most are private pension bills and several measures cover railroad rates free delivery postal service agriculture teaching and prohibitions on gambling related telegraph returns. A few entries include a site for a new federal building and a monument to private soldiers.
A B Q freight train derailed after a switch misrouted the outbound track near Wanda ll Illinois. Fireman Richard Peek, 25, was killed when a cattle car crushed him after the engine left the rails. Engineer John Dean and Head Brakeman Wade Cooper were shaken but uninjured. The wreck occurred about 5 am Tuesday, with about fifty cattle killed and a passenger train due 20 minutes later avoided a collision.
Washington rumors claim a near settlement between United States and Japan on a new basis involving the Philippines. High authority says Baron Kaneko endorses the scheme, with informed circles expressing belief that a new Japanese ambassador will soon arrive and formalize the plan.
A terse excerpt discusses committees and the Philippines in relation to political annexation, mentioning few American statesmen and a measured cautioned stance. The text is fragmented and several names or details are unclear.
In Hannibal Missouri a dispute fueled by love jealousy and greed led to the deaths of Mrs Pearl Wilkerson and Frank Hansen and the suicide of Isaac C Wilcox at Louis Leitz home on Monday night Leitz is held as a witness pending the owner's inquest and has not given a full account of the killings.
A Berwick message reports the state bridge across the Susquehanna at Mifflinville undermined and collapsed. Thirty six men were on the structure, twenty five escaped, four bodies recovered, seven unaccounted for as river levels rise one foot per hour.
Muskogee Oklahoma Chief of Police John O Suggs and Night Policeman Lewis Woods of Fort Gibson are charged with robbing the Fort Gibson post office on November 22, taking 400 dollars. Mayor Rand Lee made the arrest after investigation and both men were bound over to the grand jury with bonds of 1000 dollars each.
Lima Peru President Pardo visited the American cruisers Washington and Tennessee anchored at Callao. He was greeted by Rear Admiral Sebree as the ships prepare to depart Thursday for San Francisco.
Washington Senator Hansbrough proposes increasing rural free delivery carrier maximum salary from 800 to 1200 dollars. He gave notice Tuesday of an amendment to the post office appropriation bill to implement the raise.
Jonathan LeRus, first cousin of John D. Rockefeller, died here Tuesday at age 82. A carpenter by trade until recently, he lived in Phillipsburg, New Jersey.
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