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Newspaper
Patoka Register
Location
Patoka, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 24, 1908
Page
10
A miscellany of wry observations and anecdotes touching industry prices and lackluster princes. Headlines poke fun at bankers bakers and politicians while noting oddities from New York to Odessa. The piece blends humor with social commentary on work aspiration and public figures.
President directs American ships bound for the Pacific to form a fighting unit. From Rio de Janeiro to Magdalena Bay six torpedo boat destroyers accompany the battleship force to repel attacks or strike if needed. Public sentiment remains tense, especially in the Far East, despite peaceful official signals.
In Clinton Illinois Colonel Thomas Snell’s will faces possible invalidation as a jury views his letters. The circuit court heard sensational epistles on Friday as crowds packed the courtroom, with lawyers deeming the language most depraved and obscene.
Judge Smith McPherson of the United States district court ruled Monday that the statute and its application are invalid, removing certain suits from state to federal courts under penalty of forfeiture of charters. The decision involves Sult Transfer Law in Kansas City Missouri and related parties.
Petitioners allege Judge Peter S. Grosscup of the Seventh Circuit acted with a personal interest in a Chicago street railway dispute, prompting Justice Day to refer the matter to the full bench. The move could lead to impeachment discussions in Washington. In San Francisco Henry B Russ sues the California Safe Deposit and Trust Co. boards for 16375 alleging favorable reports aided a $10000 deposit prior to bank closure.
Anna Ill Jesse Ware aged 77 a retired attorney and former state senator died at his home in this city early Sunday He was one of the wealthiest men in Union county It was through his efforts in the state senate that the Illinois Southern Hospital for the Insane was located at this place.
A work train on the Atlanta Birmingham and Atlantic railroad six miles east of Fairburn collided with a fallen telephone pole Monday morning. Two white men and six Black workers died, and 146 others were injured.
New York copper magnate F. Augustus Heinze the former Mercantile National Bank president facing overcertification of checks charges had his federal court trial postponed by Judge Chatfield until January 27.
The State Bank of St Paul and the Citizens' Savings Bank, joint institutions, closed Monday after the failure of two small private banks owned by A. Z. Drew near St Paul last Friday.
President Roosevelt transmitted via Gov. Sparks and the Nevada legislature ordered federal troops to stay at Goldfield until the state can organize a police force.
Londoners and the British public cheer possible further Lipton attempts to regain the America's Cup after the latest cable news. Sir Thomas Lipton may mount another campaign to win back the trophy, renewing national sporting enthusiasm.
Sulphur Oklahoma doctor BE Bakan is found not guilty of killing John Mitchell in Hickory on December J. The jury deliberated about ten minutes before returning the verdict.
Milwaukee captain Ronald Amundsen the discoverer of the Northwest Passage announced on Monday that he would lead an expedition starting in 1910 to attempt the North Pole discovery and reach.
Memphis detective Cornelius Lamb took into custody John Henry a Black man sought in St. Louis on a charge of operating a gambling house after being arrested here.
Mrs. Kate M. Bus of Wabash Indiana a prominent local figure elected director of the Wabash National Bank she will devote her personal attention to banking affairs though ill at present she is among the wealthiest women in the city
London shipping men predict a conference in this city will aim to settle the trans Atlantic rate war. Representatives of principal steamship companies are expected to attend to reach an agreement on rates.
Senators Bailey and Hansbrough prepare a substitute finance measure for the Aldrich bill. The draft, backed by most of the finance committee’s Democrats, would authorize government money issuance via bank deposits. Emergency securities would back deposits, with the government holding bonds and charging banks interest rates.
Washington committees discuss the Humphrey ocean mails bill raising mail carriage pay to the Orient and South America. Senate approves revenue cutter service pay raise and reorganization. Immigration naturalization funds eyed. Townsend compulsory arbitration debated. Navy dentists proposed. Memorial Bridge bill passes. Senate seeks postmaster info on mail trains. Treasury data awaited on Aldrich bill. Immigration station funding debated. Bangor lamp explosion burns woman. Former Governor Sawyer dies in Dover.
New York District Attorney Jerome advances cross-examination of Evelyn Thaw detailing her relations with Stanford White and Harry Thaw. He probes admissions about the drugged wine incident and visits to White's apartments. He notes she traveled with Thaw, yet wrote to White.
Three bombs exploded in Manhattan showing Black Hand gang activity. One blast at Home Garden Settlement House on 110th Street and First Avenue damaged doors and windows but caused no injuries. A second blast in a tenement hallway on East Thirteenth Street damaged the building while residents escaped unharmed after extortion letters demanding $5,000.
A blast at the Mohawk mine near Aurora on Tuesday split one side of the captain Thomas Nicholas’s house. He his wife and their four children were ousted from bed. a baby sleeping nearby was badly injured. No reason for the attack is known.
Federal agents seized a car of coffee shipped from Southern Coffee Mills New Orleans to Orr Jackson Co in Nashville under the national pure food law. The product was charged adulterated colored and stained with chemicals marking Tennessee's first seizure.
John Stiles, a peddler, shot sisters Bessie and Helen Small at their home north of Bethany on Monday night after they refused to accompany him to church. He then fatally wounded himself with a pocket knife and a shot to the head. The peddler is dead. the sisters are not believed to be fatally wounded.
The New York supreme court special grand jury calls for witnesses with knowledge of illegal acts by financial institutions and public service corporations to come forward. A special committee will be appointed to receive tips and evidence for possible indictments.
Police pursue incendiaries after a blaze at the Cleveland Steel Casting Company plant destroys the pattern shop and armature works. A watchman saw a forced window and flames erupted as he attempted to enter, while two men were seen fleeing the building moments earlier.
Governor Folk issues a proclamation offering a reward of 3260 for the apprehension and delivery to the sheriff of Mississippi county of Orval Ashby charged with embezzlement from the Mississippi county collector. Also notes a Hungarian couple’s 100th wedding anniversary in Paris Isonbogi.
After a heated city council session Cairo is granted a fifty year franchise to the Cairo Terminal Traction Co to build an Interurban line entering Cairo via Sycamore Street to Washington Avenue then Fourth Street. The line must reach Mound City and Mounds in three years and Villa Ridge in ten.
Insane Man shoots farmer William Hegenbaugh near Chestnut after escaping an asylum. Henry Konacke, 60, dies in Mason City from a premature blast while stump clearing. Fire at Havana Market injures several firefighters. A Bloomington man posed as a physician swindling four Italians for diplomas. Walker Bailey Butler travels 350 miles on foot to an Indianapolis miners convention. Will contest surprises Lydia Bradley estate. City Attorney slashed by ex inmate at Anna. Willow Diplo manual Institute fire. 30 patients escape unharmed. Ridgway man killed by accidental discharge during hunt. Vinita widow commits suicide in Quincy. Captain Charles Sebaugh, 84, oldest Mississippi valley steamboat man dies at Pekin. La Salle cage accident harms ten miners, two possibly dying.
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