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Newspaper
Patoka Register
Location
Patoka, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 10, 1908
Page
2
A collage of remarks and quips from the Patoka Register issue includes social satire on courtesy and generosity, notes on smokeless tobacco, aging, and fashion. It cites London population forecasts for 1950, a Tokio world fair in 1912, and observations on politics, crime, and industry, with reflections on egg and poultry production values and cultural trivia.
The piece notes Washington residents with limited means visit the grand Union Station and feel as if they have toured Niagara Falls. It comments on football rules reducing fatalities, calls for end to unfair play, and mentions Italy leading in foreign postal orders drawn in the U.S. with over $600,000 sent home in November.
Elinor Glynn declares the American man a hunter of dollars and suggests her analysis may reveal an even more startling underlying motive beyond his dominant traits.
Published volumes of Queen Victoria's letters reveal her as a keen thinker on men and literature and a talented letter writer. Her correspondence with Tennyson disproves the view she was merely a symbol, showing she possessed vigor in thought and a rare gift for writing.
The U S Supreme Court declared unconstitutional the 1906 Employers Liability Act sought to abolish the fellow employee doctrine. In a 5 to 4 decision Justice White delivered the majority opinion finding Congress could not regulate such relations across interstate commerce.
Elizabeth Brown aged 28 was found dead in a Canton alley with a head wound believed caused by a sharp instrument. Neighbors heard pistol shots two hours earlier but no bullet wounds were found. A stranger was seen with the woman in winerooms over the prior two nights as police investigate the case.
Justice Moody delivered a dissent opposing interstate commerce expansion as applied in the act, arguing for preserving national government authority. Justices Harlan McKenna and Holmes also dissented in the two cases.
Hallettsville Texas March grand jury expected to find no indictment against Mrs W R Beaumier mother of three who shot and killed her husband W R Beaumier editor of the Weekly Herald fearing desertion and remarriage to an 18 year old woman after a preliminary hearing she was released on $2000 bond and went to relatives in Navasota
New Yorkist Claus Spreckles, son of the sugar king, joins the fight against the sugar trust leadership. He challenges corporate secrecy long defended by the late H O Havemeyer as he presses stockholder demands and outlines his plan to lift the veil.
George L. Chase, president of the Hartford Fire Insurance Co., died here on Tuesday in Hartford Connecticut.
Hanover New Hampshire Charles A Young a leading American astronomer died of pneumonia He resigned as Princeton University professor of astronomy about a year ago and was widely regarded for his contributions to the field.
In Little Rock Arkansas Judge Jacob Treiber of the Federal court appointed Judge M L Stephenson of Helena as receiver for Bluff City Lumber Co in response to creditor petitions.
Partial readable text notes a strike affecting Muncie cars and workers. Mentions backbone of a movement and early morning activity. Details are fragmentary and unclear about exact groups or dates but imply labor disruption and vehicle lines impacted.
Chicago Lyman W Barber secretary of the Standard Car Truck Co found dead on the elevated railroad structure at Twenty sixth Street. Pocketbook missing leads some to fear robbery though other valuables remain. Police say he fell from the platform and was dragged by a train.
London reports perjury charges against Herbert Druce were formally abandoned after human remains found in a coffin bore T. C. Druce's name, with prosecutors saying there was no proof the body was Druce. The move signals likely drop of the Duke of Portland estates case.
Extreme cold grips Frankfort on the Main with a record 16 degrees below zero Celsius. Deaths from exposure rise as rivers freeze over and streets turn to snow and ice.
Fire destroyed two enormous ice houses of the W. J. Lemp Brewery at Potomac street and the Iron Mountain tracks near midnight Sunday. Five thousand empty beer barrels and ten freight cars loaded with lumber burned as part of the blaze. Loss estimated at 100000 dollars.
Jerome Protovich withdrew his savings from a city bank and locked $1,675 in his trunk at his boarding house. The money vanished while Protovich was at work.
In Tamaqua Pennsylvania Isaac Hollenbach a coal mine driver for the S C and N Company was killed instantly when a fractious mule rolled over him on the job. The accident occurred at one of the company mines and authorities investigated the incident.
Former Western Federation of Miners official George A. Pettibone is acquitted by a Boise jury of complicity in the assassination of ex Governor Frank Steunenberg. Pettibone is seriously ill as trial notes the Orchard testimony failed to link him to the conspiracy.
William J. yan, during a Nacogdoches appearance, practically announced his bid for the presidency. He closed his remarks by mockingly urging that some listeners had hoped to hear a real president and could now claim they once spoke with someone who believed he might become one.
Paducah detective William Baker traveled from Evans, California, to recover Rev. W. Meks and a suspect involved in passing worthless checks. The arrest stalled in Wyandotte when the suspect's friends allegedly took him from the officer.
A series of blazes caused extensive damage with losses estimated at $250,000. The lx Coal Company faced destruction of property, John cWeeney Company's dry goods store burned, and nearly twenty horses perished in the fires.
The London Times passes from the Iter family after generations to C Walter Pearson the young journalistic magnate who becomes managing editor. Arthur F Walter becomes chairman of the new board.
In Memphis Tennessee Albert Ferguson and James Sims, both farmers and old enemies, exchanged fire in a revolver duel near Hardy Arkansas. They met by accident while attending court and both began firing. Ferguson was fatally wounded.
Tennessee representative proposed a bill to ban rural mail carriers from delivering intoxicating liquor. Postmaster General Meyer issued a prohibitory order before any law passed, enforcing the restriction.
Reports from Fastnett confirm the Canadian liner Mount Royal is sailing for Queenstown under its own steam after a Christmas day boiler mishap. The vessel left London port with engines out of order and is now heading toward Ireland.
A Sunday morning fire in Maplewood destroyed property valued at $100,000. Four persons were slightly injured and nearly twenty people were made homeless. The block bounded by Manchester Sutton Arthur and Lohmeyer avenues was heavily damaged.
A 54 year old man from Green Boon, Indiana was waylaid on his way home in darkness, assaulted to the point of a concussion and skull fracture. He lies mortally wounded as police struggle to assemble a pursuing crew.
John Niederhoust of Mount Vernon was killed and seven injured when a passenger and a freight car collided near Evansville on the Mount Vernon traction line.
Conductor H. W. Drew and porter David White repelled four hold-up men aboard the Katy Flyer as the train left Kansas City. The robbers, said to have carried pistols, fled after being challenged. Police held two nearby suspects named Rube Walsh and John Coss for investigation.
A 12 year old girl from Roby Illinois named Anna Jensik confessed to incendiary acts and multiple crimes after arrest for setting fire to hay worth 1000 dollars. She described a pattern of shoplifting sneaking theft and burglary corroborated by Chicago area police records and held in Crown Point Indiana.
Federal grand jury charges Edwin M. Vandyck a former chemist and ink maker and Victor Bloede president of a Baltimore firm with a graft scheme involving about 75000 dollars. Vandyck allegedly endorsed Bloede samples and received a share of profits. bonds set at 10000 dollars each. The defense says the government incurred no loss.
Fame dancer Little Egypt is identified as the wife of Frederick Hamlin a banker from East Bloomfield New Jersey. They married the year after she rose to fame at the Seeley dinner and again before a Yale crowd but never lived together as Hamlin’s father compelled him to choose between wife and family.
Captain Grimes on trial for the murder of John Haines proceeds in Troy with Judge Barnett presiding. Jury selection is underway despite the captain's frail condition.
Cleveland workers resume activity as general commercial revival brings about an estimated ten thousand employees returning to jobs Monday. The figure reflects widespread reopening across industries in the city.
Highwaymen and footpads roamed St. Louis Monday night and Tuesday morning wounding several victims before robbing them. One man was arrested and identified. others held on suspicion.
El Paso Texas report notes former Iowa Governor Horace A Beies who is critically ill with pneumonia spent a restful day and was reported better Monday.
Illinois report notes Bishop Samuel Fallows attracting more than fifty petitioners at St. Pauls Reformed Episcopal Church Winchester and Adams streets. People seek cures for illnesses through his claimed laying on of hands and Christian psychology.
The January term in Coles county will feature a United States judge being tried before circuit judge. Judge Grosscup and other directors of the Mattoon and Charleston electric line were indicted after a wreck that killed several people. Judge Thompson, presiding in Charleston, will try the federal judge after travelling to Chicago for court.
Judge Peter S. Grosscup of Chicago and other directors and officers of the Central Illinois Traction Company face a new indictment for manslaughter and criminal negligence over the Aug. 30 collision near Mattoon that killed 18 and injured 40. The charges add criminal negligence to manslaughter.
An official inquiry in Pittsfield Pike county investigates the sudden death of Rev G A Gish during revival services on December 4. State's Attorney Bradburn conducts the probe and has summoned Mrs Gish widow of the minister from Chambersburg to testify.
Bloomington Helen Dixon former treasurer of the Second Christian church is named secretary for the Illinois poultry show and its annual exhibition. The role includes a small salary for one week’s work.
In Mount Vernon police halted street sales of St. Louis and Chicago pagers marking the first blue Sunday display. Officers stopped the boys after attempts to resume selling, and the youths refused to cry the vendors' names as authorities intervened.
Neighbors found Clarence Snider and his wife shot dead in their bedroom in Carbondale. Each victim was killed by a revolver shot. Police suspect Snider killed his wife and then himself after a recent quarrel.
Governor Deneen announced Dr. George W. Webster of Chicago as Illinois delegate to the fourth annual American Medical Association conference. The meeting will be held in Chicago.
Springfield governor issues requisition to Michigan City authorities for Arthur Love held on a March 1904 horse theft in Alton. Love is in Michigan City prison awaiting extradition to face alleged charges.
Fairfield pastor Rev Allan T Shaw of the Christian church resigns to accept the pastorate of the First Christian Church in Pontiac Illinois. The change takes effect April 1.
About three hundred coal miners in the region go on strike, threatening work at four mines owned by the Big Muddy River Consolidated Coal Company. The stoppage could halt production across the company’s operations in the area.
Shelbyville report states George Colbert and Elva Ford argued over a young woman both had courted. Ford slashed Colbert across the abdomen, and he may die from the wounds. Ford is at large, officers cannot locate her.
In a muddy cornfield a few miles east of here the body of Dave Darnell a coal miner living at Bush near this city was found. He was 27 years old and had a wife and child. He had been missing from his home since Christmas evening.
Bertha Schoenig wed Frank H. Gene in Nashville at the bride’s home with her father Rev. William Schoenig officiating. The ceremony united two local families in a simple home setting.
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