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Newspaper
Patoka Register
Location
Patoka, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 10, 1908
Page
10
Random quips and quotes ranging from social trends to science, noting lectures on generosity, smokeless tobacco dreams, gender brain differences, London’s 1950 population, Japan’s 1912 world fair, modesty as disease, and egg and poultry value. Fragmentary lines reference Carnegie, Indiana pipes, Tokyo fairs, and Zola reflections.
A miscellany notes open football form reforms and safety, Italian postal orders totaling over 600000 dollars, a 40 year English postman with 239686 miles. Observes Bank reforms, Glynn view of American men, and Queen Victoria letters showing sharp intellect and letter writing finesse.
Navy assigns medical officers to helm hospital ships, integrating physicians into command roles to oversee patient care, ship operations, and medical logistics aboard the afloat facilities. The move aims to strengthen medical coordination during deployments and aid urgent humanitarian missions.
The United States Supreme Court ruled the 1906 Employers' Liability Act unconstitutional. Justice White led the majority holding Congress could not regulate master servant relations in interstate commerce under the act as written. The decision, 5 to 4, limits federal accountability for workplace injuries across states.
Justice Moody dissented in Howard v Illinois Central and Brooks v Southern Pacific, urging respect for national government authority. Justices Harlan McKenna and Holmes also dissented in the decisions.
Hallettsville Texas reports that the March grand jury is expected to find no indictment against Mrs W R Beaumier mother of three who Thursday shot and killed her husband W R Beaumier editor of the Weekly Herald claiming he threatened to desert her and marry an 18 year old girl after a preliminary hearing she was released on a $2000 bond and went to relatives in Navasota
Claus Spreckles, son of the sugar magnate, shifts from conflict with the American Sugar Refining Company to opposing the sugar trust management. He aims to lift corporate secrecy once defended by former company president H. O. Havemeyer, challenging stockholder demands.
George L. Chase president of the Hartford Fire Insurance Co. died Tuesday in Hartford. Charles A. Young prominent American astronomer died of pneumonia in Hanover after resigning as Princeton astronomy professor about a year ago.
Judge Jacob Treiber of the federal court appointed Judge M L Stephenson of Helena as receiver for the Bluff City Lumber Co in response to creditor petition.
The body of Elizabeth Brown, 28, was found in a lonley Canton alley early Tuesday with a head wound described as sharp instrument inflicted. Pistol shots heard two hours earlier. police note a stranger seen with the woman in winerooms over two prior nights.
Partial readable lines describe cars and a broken backbone of meat with scattered references to early morning and imports. The legible content suggests a disrupted scene with unclear context and no identifiable people or organizations.
Chicago lawyer and Standard Car Truck Co secretary W. Barber was found dead on the South Side elevated at Twenty sixth Street. His pocketbook vanished, fueling robbery theories though other valuables remained. Police suggest he fell and was dragged by a train.
London reports that the perjury accusation against Herbert Druce was formally abandoned on Monday after human remains bearing T. C. Druce’s name could not prove identity. Prosecutors said there was nothing to prove the body was Druce’s and the prepary case would be pushed. The shift is seen as foreshadowing a drop in charges against the Duke of Portland estates.
Frigid weather grips Frankfurt am Main with many deaths from exposure and freezing. Record temperatures show a 16 degree below zero Celsius peak, about 1 degree above 0 Fahrenheit. Rivers canals froze and streets lie under snow and ice.
A large fire destroyed two frame ice houses of the W. J. Lemp Brewery on Potomac street near the Iron Mountain tracks in St. Louis just before midnight Sunday. Five thousand empty beer barrels and ten Iron Mountain freight cars loaded with lumber were burned. Loss estimated at $100,000.
Jerome Protovich withdrew his life savings from a Scranton bank and locked $1,675 in his trunk at his boarding house. The money vanished while Protovich was away at work.
A mule rolled on Isaac Hollenbach a driver for L C and N Coal Co in Tamaqua Pennsylvania killing him instantly in a mine accident authorities said the animal became fractious and attacked him at the work site.
Pettibone, once a Western Federation of Miners official, was acquitted by a Boise jury of complicity in the assassination of ex Governor Frank Steunenberg. The trial highlighted Orchard’s unreliable testimony and mirrored Haywood’s prior acquittal due to lack of corroborating evidence. The jury deliberated Friday night as Pettibone lay ill and the defense avoided argument.
London Times passes from the Walter family to C Walter Pearson with Pearson named managing editor Arthur F Walter remains chairman of the board of the new organization.
Fire leveled a Maplewood block bounded by Manchester Sutton Arthur and Lohmeyer early Sunday, causing $100000 in damage. ~20 people were left homeless and Louis-Four persons were slightly injured.
Four men attempted to rob passengers in the forward day coaches of the Katy Flyer near Kansas City. Conductor H W Drew and porter Dayid White fought the bandits, who fled. two men named Rube Walsh and John Coss were later arrested nearby for investigation.
A 12 year old Anna Jensik of Roby Illinois admits to arson theft and burglary in Lake County Indiana after setting fire to hay worth 1000. She says she lit the hay to see it burn and her tale is backed by South Chicago and Hammond police records. She remains jailed at Crown Point Indiana under parole to a priest.
Edwin M. Vandyck, a former chemist in the bureau of printing and engraving, and Victor Bloede, Baltimore manufacturer head, are named in a federal grand jury indictment alleging a graft worth about 75 000. Prosecution says Vandyck endorsed Bloede samples for ink materials and took a share of profits. Bonds of 10000 were secured for the indicted men. Government allegedly suffered no loss.
Through the death of the famed dancer known as Little Egypt a new fact emerges she was married to Frederick Hamlin a banker from Hast Bloomfield New Jersey The couple wed the year after she gained fame at Seeley dinner and again before Yale students but Hamlin’s father compelled him to choose between wife and family They never lived together afterward
Captain Grimes faces trial for the murder of John Haines as jury selection proceeds in Troy under Judge Barnett despite the captain's poor health.
About ten thousand workers returned to their jobs in Cleveland Ohio on Monday as commerce resumed across the city. The figure reflects a broad rebound in business activity following the previous slowdown.
In St. Louis Monday night and early Tuesday highwaymen and footpads battered victims and robbed them. One man was arrested and identified while others remained detained on suspicion as a crackdown began. In El Paso former Iowa governor Horace A Boies, ill with pneumonia, showed signs of improvement Monday.
In Chicago at St. Pauls Reformed Episcopal Church crowds seek Bishop Samuel Fallows for healing by laying on hands and Christian psychology. Reports note wide interest in his methods across the nation and petitions arriving by mail and in person.
An official inquiry into Rev. G A Gish sudden death at Pittsfield on December 4 continues. State's Attorney Bradburn has summoned Mrs. Gish from Chambersburg to assist the investigation.
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