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Newspaper
Patoka Register
Location
Patoka, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Feb 28, 1908
Page
10
The Patoka Register prints a humorous miscellany critiquing laws, politics, and society. It jokes about pur food laws, arch humor about Russia and Mark Twain, and quips on figures like Lipton, Washington, and Bon de Castleane. The column riffs on theft, dry laws, and marriage license tests.
William Menzes a 54 year old Jacksonville patient alleged four assaults during a two day stay at the Central Insane Asylum. He communicated by thumb wiggles to investigators, claiming he was beaten and paralyzed by attendants after entering in good health. Separate report notes Vienna jubilee celebrations canceled by doctors and a fatal freight wreck near Bellaire Ohio with three crewmen injured.
Washington authorities press that unless a new defense is found the penalties remain due under the Elkins law as not repealed by the Hepburn rate act. Notable fines include Standard Oil 29.4 million, Great Northern 15 million, Chicago and Alton 40 thousand, with additional penalties on Chicago Burlington Quin cy Armour Swift Morris Cudahy and others totaling 29.55 million.
In Sausalito California the Japanese school question returns as the local trustees adopt a resolution that effectively bars all Orientals from the town’s schools. The board vows to persevere to the end.
James B. Duke, president of American Tobacco Co., could not appear Monday to testify in the federal inquiry due to illness. He asked the U S Commissioner Shields and defense counsel to visit his home to take his evidence, and the request was agreed to.
Judge M W Thompson of Coles county circuit court arraigned US circuit judge Peter Grosscup and six other directors officers and employees of the Central Illinois Traction Co on charges of criminal negligence and manslaughter.
Lieutenant General Stoessel petitions Emperor Nicholas for clemency after being condemned to death for surrendering Port Arthur to Japan. Court had urged commuting sentence to ten years in fortress and removal from service.
Kansas Democrats at the state convention in Hutchinson adopted a resolution instructing delegates to the Denver convention to cast a solid vote for William J. Bryan for President. Fourteen men died in a colliery explosion at Globe Colliery Washington area Newcastle on Tyne England.
Montana Governor Joseph K. Toole arrived in Los Angeles from Helena and announced that ill health will force his resignation, effective April 1. He stated the decision after his arrival, citing health as the reason for stepping down.
Nebraska Congressman E H Hinshaw, who fell ill while returning from Senator Latimer’s funeral and was taken to a local sanitarium, is somewhat better but cannot depart for Washington for several days.
Representatives of organized labor at the Central Federated Union meeting on Sunday opposed the parade of unemployed and the March 7 mass meeting in City Hall Park and refused to participate in the demonstration.
Miles City Montana the A B Clark ranch once one of the state’s largest totals about 20 700 acres has been sold to W H Dye of Indijananoils the buyer rumored to plan continued ranch operations and expansion plans in the region
It has just come to light that laborers at Port Arthur and Fort Williams plotted to blow up the Canadian Northern railway coal docks recently built at enormous cost.
A mortgage for 50,000,000 dollars from the Missouri Pacific to a New York trust company was filed in Wichita Kansas. The loan runs thirty years at six percent interest.
A compact Washington digest shows the Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee favorable to the Esch bill mandating monthly railroad accident reports to the ICC and allowing their publication. Other items note currency debate led by Owen and Aldrich, army pay and canteen issues, and Fowler currency progress. Also covered: criminal code revision, Rules Committee clashes, and an army bill debate. Local crime and tragedy reports mention bullion robbers killed in Chihuahua and a coal fall fatality in Shenandoah.
Lee Hart shot and killed his mother in law and wounded his wife and father in law then threw himself before a Frisco train. He had been converted at a church revival and the killing spree followed a quarrel over leaving his in laws to go home. Mrs Edwards died and Mr Edwards was mortally wounded. Mrs Hart survived with a minor head wound. Hart's body was found near the tracks the next morning.
New York lawyer Charles M. Sanford was shot twice in the head by a woman in his Garfield building office at 26 Court Street Brooklyn. The suspect Nellie Lyon later identified herself as Jennie V. Blunt thirty, single, claiming vengeance for a wrong. Sanford said bullets lodged in flesh at the back of his head, not skull. He refused her case, believing her grievance targeted her husband.
J L Munzer, heir of a wealthy New York family and dealer in Munzer Leather Goods, shot himself at the Audubon Hotel on Ellis Street. The ex actor and traveler left letters unopened in his room, with despondency blamed for the act.
A large blaze in Russellville Alta destroys the entire east side of the village business section. The bank building is the only structure left standing. Estimated loss runs to 340,000 dollars.
Centralia hosts the Southern Illinois Newspaper Correspondents Association semiannual meeting and banquet on March 28 in St Louis Invitations will go to Governor Deneen and several prominent officials including Rep. McKinley Rep. Rodenberg Belleville Mayor Kern and Edwardsville chair Boeschenstein.
State game commission in Sangamon county received 900 English ring-necked pheasants at $6 per pair. breeder Wallace Evans of Oak Park supplied the stock. Also reported: bank embezzler Ransom A. Youngblood sentenced to 1 to 14 years in the penitentiary. Rev. Robert Conover, long a Central Illinois Presbyterian leader, dies at 85. his wife died a day earlier. a beer car wreck at Elgin kills prize chickens. scarlet fever closes Chenoa schools and meetings. miner David Litton, 56, killed in Taylorville coal mine. grain elevator fire at Marva. mining board official David Christie dies in Murphysboro.
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