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Newspaper
Patoka Register
Location
Patoka, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Feb 14, 1908
Page
2
A fragmentary 1907 miscellany surveys odd topics from Boni and biophotography to sugar trusts and rail travel. It notes a Denver bride joining a Pueblo chief, hats without plumage, and a Chinese disaster in Canton. It muses on aviation, inventors, and poetic unions amid current affairs.
Rural Willard Greene county Missouri endures a bank raid as five bandits blow the safe and flee with about $2000 after a dawn explosion. Sheriff Simms and hundreds of villagers respond with weapons, exchanges of fire erupting as the robbers escape toward the railroad.
Three masked bandits seized cash from a bank using nitroglycerin charges. They fled by handcar after firing at pursuing guard. Explosions wrecked the safe area and breached the inner door, revealing the bank’s cash but the raiders took only money and vanished into darkness.
London muttering grows in Lisbon as the Portuguese cabinet tightens its rule and weighs resuming political arrests of Republican leaders who had urged regicide against King Carlos and Prince Luiz. Advisers warn of grave consequences if agitation is ignored while the Republican press faces suppressions.
After the assassination of King Carlos and his son, the populace venerates the killers as heroes. Citizens rush to subscribe to the regicides' families and vie to adopt their children, elevating the slain regicides to martyrlike status.
A blaze at a west side eight family apartment house on West Seventieth Street and Columbus Avenue killed Margaret Landon, 21, who leaped from a sixth story window. Twenty residents were overcome by smoke. three in serious condition. Fire began in the basement and raced to the roof.
John Bailey owner of Baileytown saw mill three miles south of Millville receives a Black Hand letter demanding $50 left in the butt of an old tree on Spring Garden road. He has two weeks to comply or face death in a peculiar manner.
An architect forecasts future skyscrapers reaching one hundred stories, warning the nation may need tall stacks to combat smoke. The text notes science using the potato bag in useful stunts and recalls old times when boys paid for potatoes during good fishing seasons.
The article notes Germany’s government establishing a special department at the University of Berlin Medical College to cure speech defects and educate doctors. It adds a Baltimore paper quip suggesting a universal language would ease tongue work and mentions a bizarre Australian cure involving a whale blubber bath.
Ferdinand E. Clayton age 51 a former druggist and prominent resident of Elkhart Ind. was found dead after drowning in a cistern under a kitchen floor. He had been missing since Friday and crawled into a circular opening fifteen inches wide the lid was lifted and the cistern top torn away to recover the body swollen after four days in water.
A Pittsburg and Home stead Street Railway Co. car slid over a 15 foot embankment in West Homestead on Tuesday injuring seven, two possibly fatally. Slippery rails are blamed for the fall.
Dominador G. Gomez, a noted labor and anti- American agitator, was deprived of his Manila assembly seat by a 40 to 85 vote. Gomez himself moved the expulsion resolution, acknowledging the likely defeat.
Three sailors were scalded when boiler tubes on the cruiser St Louis blew near Sausalito, Vallejo. Cold water flooding hot pipes is suspected to trigger the explosion and an investigation will follow.
Juliet ll-Orasmus Page, claimed as the oldest newsboy in the United States, celebrated his 100th birthday here on Tuesday. He has sold papers for 15 years, continuing his long career in daily journalism.
John Probst war veteran confined a month for defending his home with a shotgun as Pennsylvania railroad threatened to seize part of his back yard at Wormleyburg. Judge Saddler discharged him under $500 bail to keep the peace.
Washington report says the house committee on naval affairs voted to report a bill authorizing only two battleships of 20 000 tons each of the Delaware class. President Roosevelt favored four battleships in his recommendation.
In Johannesburg General Smuts quotes Cecil Rhodes and Paul Kruger in a single speech, provoking irritation among Dutch South Africans in Cape Town who view the juxtaposition as unfortunate and unsettling.
Matteawan superintendent Dr Lamb said that after about 30 days if he believes Harry K. Thaw is sane the hospital can certify to the court and urge release. A lunacy commission would not be necessary. Thaw has not yet been fully observed due to excitement from the recent trial and is viewed as a model prisoner with certain privileges.
Executors of the Marshall Field estate agreed to pay one million dollars to settle back tax claims and assigned taxing bodies in Chicago will receive the funds this year. The offer of one million dollars in hand was accepted as the final settlement.
Official statistics show 34 steamships and 82 sailing vessels lost in January with 639 drownings. Minor mishaps affected 419 steamships and 217 sailing vessels. The data include non German vessels for which information was available.
Brodie L. Duke, son of a New York tobacco man, visited Pittsburg and reportedly spent $2000 in 15 hours. He tipped an orchestra leader $25 to change his program, handed out $5 to $25 tips, and paid a $1000 dinner check for friends.
Governor Deneen, at the Indiana state house Monday, conducted official business for the first time in over a month. Though not fully recovered, he carried out several routine engagements with visitors and aides.
City Marshal William Abney shot and killed Ambrose Grogan and Frank Blake after arrests failed at an early hour Sunday. A coroner's jury exonerated Abney, but he was later arrested and held on $5,000 bond.
In Constantinople the sultan, aged 66, has become a father to a princess named Samieh. He has now fourteen children, seven sons and six daughters previously.
A ten percent salary reduction has been ordered for officials and employees of the Mobile and Ohio Railroad Company in Mobile Alabama. The measure affects all levels within the railroad's workforce as cost cutting continues.
Burr McIntosh once an actor and now a photographer with a studio at 4 West Thirty-ninth Street has filed a voluntary bankruptcy petition. He also publishes the Burr McIntosh Monthly.
A House War Claims measure could net about 10 million dollars for southern claimants. The bill assigns the court of claims jurisdiction over seized and abandoned property sold during the Civil War and directs net proceeds to the U.S. treasury. It allows suits within two years after war end for loyal owners to recover funds, but many southerners were barred by the 1866 amnesty. The aim is to compensate original owners of confiscated property.
A House resolution offered by Mr Poll of North Carolina directs a five member committee to investigate corporate contributions to presidential campaigns in 1896 1900 and 1904. The panel must report in the current session to inform the people before the next campaign, and to cross check against corporations named as violators by the president.
Washington proceedings opened Tuesday with a Senate debate on the Aldrich currency bill. Bankers in the galleries, led by J Pierpont Morgan of New York, urged differing views on the measure especially the railroad bond provision as a basis for emergency circulation.
In the House an amendment by Mr Ferris Oklahoma to grant $100 per capita to Kiowa Comanche and Apache Indians of Oklahoma was adopted. The authors say the money would come from Indian funds not the treasury.
The senate agreed to consider the ocean mail subsidy bill next Monday. It authorizes the postmaster general to pay for ocean mail service in second class vessels on routes to South America the Philippines Japan China and Australia at four dollars per outward mile the same rate as first class mail contracts.
Senate opened debate on Aldrich's bill to provide emergency currency with broad Republican and Democrat attention. Notable attendee J Serpont Morgan watched as Foraker attacked the president on patronage claims and Depew backed the treasury secretary's handling of public funds in New York banks. The criminal code bill was discussed and the session adjourned at 4:20 p.m.
Freeland Pa. an aged citizen Peter Rosinko, gravely ill with pneumonia, refuses medicines or nourishment after believing a fortune teller that he would die in 1908. Local physician urges care as time nears.
Congressman Frank C. Lewden of Oregon sells four fifths of the Springfield Evening News to Charles H. May publisher of the Peoria Herald-Transcript with J. McCan Davis retaining one fifth. O P Bassett remains editor. no force changes for now. In Mount Vernon, 13-year-old John Rutherford who shot at a passenger train on the Chicago Burlington & Quincy line and struck Mrs. P H Huff is held on assault to kill. bond set at 300 and he is released.
Two Pontiac Reformatory inmates testified before a private Board of Trustees session, exonerating guards accused in the death of inmate William Hamlin. The witnesses said Hamlin warned he would kill himself at the first opportunity.
Hillsboro area reports a tragedy as 13 year old Hillsboro Solomon Carlock son of Gillam Carlock reportedly hanged himself in a barn while feeding stock. No cause is given by the father.
Springfield reports Governor Deneen honors Missouri Governor Folk's requisition for the return to Benton Scott county Mo. of Thomas Duvall wanted on a charge tied to Mrs. Cora Hinkle in the alleged poisoning of her husband dated January 26.
Fire destroyed the residence of W. D. Boyce publisher of a Chicago paper in Ottawa causing $100,000 damage. The house was said to be the finest in Illinois outside Chicago. Mr. Boyce was at home when the blaze started while Mrs. Boyce and daughters were on a Panama and West Indies cruise.
Vaio on Liha of the Cairo and Thebes Railroad Co. seeks crossing permission for a new bridge at Thebes. The matter was entered at the regular session and assigned for a March 9 hearing. The commission previously refused the application.
Mattoon mayor Lewis L. Lehman says he will resign if the spring election carries a local option. He cites the loss of about $20,000 yearly revenue for fire protection lights and a rise in police protection costs as untenable.
Waterloo news notes the death of John Helmer Sr aged 72 born in Germany who resided in the state since age 18. He served as school director for over twenty years and was active in educational work. He is survived by four sons and two daughters.
The Big Four railroad requires removal of all telephones from ticket and telegraph offices on the St Louis division west of Pana. The measure cuts rent and toll costs and saves time for employees.
Springfield doctor Austin A Drake in his eighty first year died claiming kinship to Sir Francis Drake and inheritance of English millions. He advertised a direct line to the famed navigator and heir status in life.
Three miners were badly burned in a gas explosion at the National mines here.
Centralia resident David Strickland died at his home from an overdose of laudanum. The death is under investigation by local authorities.
Moline-Frank W Gould, head of Union Malleable Iron Co and trustee leader at Western Illinois hospital for the insane in Watertown, shot himself in the mouth in his bedroom and died.
A widow, Mrs Jane Bowers, was murdered at her home in Pleasant Walk Frederick County. Her body was found mutilated with an ax, authorities report.
Washington aged 62 Rear Admiral Seth M Ackley United States Navy retired died here He once served as commandant of the naval stations at Olongapo and Cavite in the Philippines
Emma Dillard, aged 37, reportedly the world’s heaviest woman, weighing 653 pounds, died at her Fort Worth residence. Her death leaves questions about medical care and historical weight records.
The Rev. L. D. Bass, pastor of Calvary Baptist Church in Cairo, has accepted a call to lead the First Baptist Church in West St. Louis.
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