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Newspaper
Patoka Register
Location
Patoka, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1907
Page
2
A compact column from Patoka Register jokes about finance, crime, science, and society. It notes a hungry man eating words, a poor bank in jest, new coin debates, a Connecticut jackass’s death, and quips on antiquity, gold, and insomnia. It mentions peaches preserved in 1869, charity pies, Koch’s sleep microbe, Hurty on gold in air, and Findlay incense kerosene. Central Park’s weariness and a $3,000,000 restoration are touched on.
A playful meditation notes Mercury waylaying the sun, an insectivorous planet crossing its face with no reply from the solar giant. The episode serves as a moral for powerful figures teased by minor critics, as the sun’s appearance remains unchanged.
The text notes Austria, Brazilia, and Switzerland host thousands of snail farms. It highlights France as a huge consumer, with Paris alone using millions of snails from September to May, reflecting snail farming as a significant industry.
Columbia University abandons the honor system for examinations and reestablishes supervision by university officers to deter cheating. The author notes Princeton as nearly unique in maintaining honor exams successfully, praising President Woodrow Wilson and his students for their distinct achievement and hoping it endures.
The American battleship fleet is due in Rio de Janeiro around January 11 and will stay about ten days. Admiral Alencar orders a division including cruisers Barroso and Tamandaré and gunboats Tymbira Tamoyo and Tiradentes to meet the fleet at sea and escort it to the harbor. A royal but restrained welcome is planned with dances picnics and banquets.
The Brazilian government will host a grand banquet for American officers in Yaura's Grand Salon of the marine arsenal with 500 covers. Baron de Rio Branco, the Rio de Janeiro mayor, and Dr. Jose Carlos Rodriguez will join Rear Admiral Evans in a series of social events during the fleet visit, including posh dinners and park outings at Tijuca and Maceiacent views.
Pinkerton agents in New York confirm William F. Walker former treasurer of New Britain Savings Bank Conn was captured at Ensenada Lower California. He has consented to return to Connecticut without extradition proceedings.
The two day hearing before Special Examiner Marble of the Interstate Commerce Commission on Pullman Sleeping Car Co. rate fixing and relations with Minnesota railroads was adjourned Friday to a date to be announced later.
W L Houser of Madison Wisconsin arrived in Lincoln Nebraska to establish a permanent La Follette headquarters. He announced an aggressive canvass to secure Nebraska's delegation to the Chicago convention for the presidential candidate.
Miller, S D Gustave Kainmul a farmer was held by a coroner's jury for the murder of his wife. Poison in oatmeal caused the woman's death.
Memphis Tennessee editor Van Lee Polk, grand nephew of former President Polk, died suddenly of heart disease late Thursday. Polk was serving as an editor for the News-Scimitar in Memphis at the time of his death.
English writer Liscombe Searelle died on Wednesday in Mole Seyre near the Thames in London. The author led an adventurous career in South Africa and was known as a friend of Cecil Rhodes.
The unidentified man killed by a Northwestern elevated train at Wrightwood Avenue station on Saturday night was identified Sunday as R. H. Harris of Kansas City. Harris, a Missouri brokerage firm worker with a Chicago branch, likely fell from the platform edge and was struck by the train. Mrs. Harris was informed and left Kansas City Sunday.
Governor F M Warner of Michigan arrived in Chicago to investigate an alleged effort to bribe ten state senators to oppose a specific act. The disclosure follows recent political tensions and prior reports of the bribery attempt involving the I nation.
Governor Warner said he would probably leave for Michigan Thursday night as part of efforts to leave nothing undone to ascertain the truth. The remarks came amid ongoing inquiries and heightened scrutiny from state officials seeking clarity on the matter.
Secretary Taft arrives at quarantine aboard the President Grant for a transfer to Jersey City. He declines to discuss political questions, cites a 120 day absence from the United States, and says he will have his nose to the grindstone upon returning. Taft travels with his wife and son and is in splendid health.
The article details Speaker Cannon delaying committee lists until Wednesday night with John Sharp Williams shaping Democrat appointments. A fist fight between D A DeArmond and Williams erupts in the cloak room, six members separate them as Congress resumes work and committee chairmen press for immediate actions. The first money appropriation of the current session is set at fifty thousand dollars to replace destroyed seed warehouses in Washington. Richmond Pearson Hobson introduces a peace resolution in the House.
Chicago. E H Harriman wins a victory in the battle with Stuyvesant Fish for control of the Illinois Central railroad as Judge Ball delays the injunction suit to February postponing the stockholders election. Most ties held by both sides will be reconvened and reconvassed.
Senate debate centers on funding and appointments as Mayor McClellan refuses to bless removal of John F. Ahearn from Manhattan borough president seat. The body also weighs mining claim work funding and a request to use tribal funds to aid Ute Indians near the Cheyenne River agency in South Dakota.
Newton C. Dougherty, former superintendent of Peoria public schools, testified in his own defense as the school board seeks $400,000 allegedly taken from school funds. He denied knowledge of the January safe robbery and the accusation.
In a Searchlight Nevada meeting of the bank and trust company depositors a committee reported that the bank’s securities were hypothecated to McCormick and Co of Salt Lake for 15000 dollars and it is alleged that the funds were used by President Homer Tabor in private enterprises.
A Vladivostok dispatch refutes a four day Jewish expulsion order and says the status of legally resident Jews remains unchanged. The telegram notes the report was a misconception and confirms Vladivostok Jews retain lawful residence.
Twelve year old Pearl Burnell, a blind student from a Milwaukee district school, was abducted Tuesday by a woman from West Pullman Illinois. The Children's Home and Aid Society of Chicago recovered the child.
In York Pennsylvania a boy William F. Sharon aged 9 from Slate Hill died from lockjaw developing after a slight cut from glass. The tragedy underscores dangers of even minor wounds turning serious in early cases.
Seven men convicted of robbery were executed Sunday at Yekaterinoslav. Four soldiers were sentenced to death at Sevastopol in connection with the recent mutiny of the Brest regiment.
Thirteen bodies were recovered from the Yolande mine slope in Birmingham raising the death toll to 61 from Monday's explosion. Officials plan an official inspection of the mine Wednesday as rescue operations continue.
Indianapolis origin report notes the national board of arbitration meeting with newspaper publishers and the International Typographical Union. The board discusses the printers scale in large cities and on Wednesday considered the Chicago scale.
President Roosevelt signed a proclamation creating a national forest in west central Arkansas covering over 1,000,000 acres. It will be the easternmost government forest and spans Scott Polk Montgomery Yell Logan Perry Saline and Garland counties.
James R. Kirwin resigned as acting secretary treasurer of the Western Federation of Miners due to ill health. Ernest Mills, executive board member from British Columbia, assumes the duties immediately.
In Chicago after fruitless talks extending past midnight, attorneys for rival interests in the Illinois Central railroad fight said no basis for a compromise had been found. None of the conferees would discuss the proceedings.
The commission in charge of the Hudson-Fulton celebration decided Wednesday to invite foreign nations to send warships to participate in the naval rendezvous and the naval parade up the Hudson river.
A Sunday fire at the Globe dry goods store of Langfell Bros in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania left nine firefighters injured and caused about 250000 dollars in damage.
A large mob of armed men including mounted police pursues a Negro after he assaulted Mrs. W. B. C. Hersey wife of the Excelsior Shoe Co. president. He grabbed her in the cellar and gagged her with a rag. Neighbors found her.
Mrs W H Schroeder, 84, of Seward Nebraska, hanged herself Thursday night using binding twine and a cloth at the bed post. Authorities say no cause is known for the fatal act.
District Attorney General Edward T. Young opened court action in Hennepin County to revoke Standard Oil of Indiana's license in Minnesota. He alleges the company discriminates by charging Minneapolis and St Paul lower prices than elsewhere, citing a state law against price discrimination between cities.
Dispatches from Consul Hanna report 200 striking nitrate workers killed by government troops at Iquique after a 10 000 strong mob gathered in the plaza. The unrest, sparked by incendiary speeches, sent 20 000 strikers toward the coast, triggering a national panic with casualties among troops and locals.
French Lick Ind chairman Taggart of the Democratic National Committee issued a formal call for the national convention to meet at Denver Colorado on July 7 1908. He announced a special committee on arrangements for the convention with Beat Chicago James.
The La an Vngetehed ant-oe SPP er Austral, once on Argentine naval service and used by explorer M. Charcot in 1903 04, was totally wrecked in a fierce gale on the Uruguayan coast. The vessel carried 26 people including the Wadel island meteorological observatory team, all of whom were saved by the Messageries Maritimes steamship Amazone.
Washington D C Thomas G Hayes receiving teller of the American National Bank was arrested Saturday on a police warrant sworn by Robert N Harper president of the bank charging embezzlement of 500 Hayes had been with the bank about three years coming to the city from the west His parents live in Omaha Nebraska
White Plains New York Mary S Gehan sued the Westchester Electric Railway Co for ten thousand dollars but a jury awarded eleven thousand. By consent of counsel the court reduced the verdict to the sued for. Gehan was injured in a street collision.
Atlanta, Ga The Neal State bank was closed Monday as hundreds gathered outside to read the line This bank is in the hands of the state bank examiner. President Thornton expressed confidence all depositors will be paid in full. No other Atlanta banks were affected.
John W. Miller of Waverly Iowa an electrician at a sugar factory has learned through a letter that he is heir to 65 000 from the estate of his uncle Emil Miller who died recently at Helena Montana The news notes the unusual inheritance reaching a Midwest worker from a western death.
A six story Fort Smith office building the American National Bank building and two other structures were burned with a loss of 175000. J A McVitty cotton buyer and a man named Kauffman who slept in the Haglin building are missing and believed dead.
Velma Farris a 22 year old farm laborer in Central City Nebraska killed herself after a disappointment in a love affair. The incident underscores the emotional cost of a failed relationship in a rural community today.
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