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Newspaper
Patoka Register
Location
Patoka, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 03, 1908
Page
2
A garbled column of aphorisms from Illinois and other places mocks marriage as a failure when either spouse is flawed. It quips about careers, aviation, economics, royalty, suffrage, and demonstrations, interjecting satire on figures like Kaiser, czar, and Hetty Green.
Mrs. Grover Cleveland directed a highly simple funeral for her husband with no pomp. President Roosevelt attended with mounted troops and police guarding the procession through Princeton to an unmarked grave beside Ruth Cleveland.
The record notes London water consumption for the year ending March 31 1907 at 82 125 249 347 gallons and a daily per person supply of 23 gallons. It also mentions raising 1 400 000 for Liverpool Cathedral with about 825 000 unspent. Additional items include a Arkansas dynamiting fine 1500 dollars and general quips on happiness work and police heroism. Exports of UK iron and steel fall in the first quarter year. A Atlantic steamer sighted a water spout and porpoises and flying machines could have fished in the air.
The piece notes large shipments of American wheat to foreign markets from New York and mentions last year’s grain amid exceptional foreign demand. It concludes that the old world needs food supplies and the United States is the best source, with little risk of gold exports reaching harmful levels.
Police say evidence developed Friday leaves little doubt the woman found nude in a trunk floating in a Houston bayou was murdered, resolving questions from the discovery on Wednesday.
In Teheran the British legation demands the shah's Cossacks withdraw from legation grounds by 6 p.m. Constitutional leaders took refuge there after Tuesday's clash. Shah's soldiers monitor the premises to prevent escapes, a move London calls a grave insult with serious consequences anticipated if not complied.
Cleveland doctors report a comfortable night for Congressman Sherman at Lakeside hospital. He slept five hours, temperature 100, pulse 80, respiration 24, with marked improvement and no current need for operation. He will likely stay a week before returning to Utica, and Mrs. Sherman is also improving.
Tehran reports the shah may be in danger as rebels suppress the capital uprising. Provinces indicate a widespread revolution with reformers generally successful across the country.
The weather bureau records show 97 degrees at 4 pm and 102 degrees on the street as Washington marked its hottest day in 34 years. A wind storm later cut the mercury by 10 degrees and officials forecast cooler weather for the coming days.
Elaborate preparations are under way in Zeigler Illinois to greet Mr Joseph Leiter and Mrs Leiter of Washington on their bridal journey. A party of friends will travel by auto from Chicago. Leiter has thanked Zeigler by giving gifts to 300 local families.
Ida Grove Iowa reports Mrs August P Johnson drowned her four children aged one to six in the cistern at the family farm a mile south of town on Thursday. Her husband was working in the field. Afterward she attempted suicide but neighbors intervened and saved her.
Des Moines report notes Judge F Prouty refuses to concede defeat despite near final official tally showing Congressman J A T Hull leading by 46 votes in Iowa's Seventh District.
A trusted source reports the marriage of the Duke of Abruzzi to Miss Katherine Elkins will take place at the Royal Castle of Racconighi, four miles away, in October with attendance by the Savoy family members.
Jacob Cash, 16, was ordered to endure thirty days of baths with one bath daily after his father testified the boy refused to undress or bathe and had worn a shirt for six months, showing extreme laziness.
The body of Kasper Fromme a former prominent Evansville businessman was found in nearby woods and indications point to death by his own action.
Capt Ellis Harper was shot and killed in Lebanon Tennessee by William Suit. Harper, a Carmack man and Civil War Confederate raider, reportedly attacked Suit with a stick after Suit allegedly wrote an article in a Nashville newspaper. Suit, a Patterson man, is linked to the incident.
The schoolship Nautilias, first Spanish naval vessel to dock since relinquishment of sovereignty, arrived at Havana on Wednesday to a victory of enthusiastic public cheer. Thousands of Cubans joined the Spanish colony in the demonstration.
Frederick H. Matteson of Ames Agricultural College drowned in Salt Creek near Lincoln Wednesday evening. His body was recovered.
Seventy three saved off Corunna Spain as 111 were aboard the Laroche when it sank near Muros. All but 38 have been accounted for. The captain is among the victims, authorities report.
Tokyo General authorities finalize rules regulation and classification for the Japanese exposition of 1912 and plan to promulgate them within a few days.
Gov Haskell granted a pardon to W O Collins the fourteen year prisoner from Choctaw City pending release due to poor health officials say continued confinement would kill him. The 1902 murder of Nathan Marshall was the crime for which Collins was imprisoned.
Creelman Saskatchewan deputy minister of agriculture A P Ketchen died from sunstroke while judging a plowing match. The fatal incident occurred during the event, with Ketchen serving in an official capacity.
Williams Arizona reports six killed and fifteen injured when the west bound Overland Limited on the Santa Fe crashed into a burning bridge east of Gallup New Mexico. The engineer fireman and four other trainmen perished instantly and fifteen passengers sustained serious injuries.
A Saturday night tornado struck Pukwana Brule county about 50 miles west of Mitchell causing destruction to 12 to 15 stores and homes and wrecking two large elevators on the Milwaukee line. The town center and station suffered severe damage while a nearby ranch lost most buildings, with damages over 100000. A rain hail storm covered a three mile wide strip and ruined farming areas. A smaller tornado was reported east of Mitchell with minor damage.
A cloudburst near Wichita Kansas caused heavy flooding with five confirmed deaths and a missing person. Horses drowned, houses swept away, crops and machinery ruined, and several miles of railroad track washed out. Weather rain drove residents indoors leaving many details unclear.
Ambassador Enrique Creel is recalled to Washington amid rising unrest in northern Mexico. American mining interests face risk as agitators highlight pay gaps andworking conditions. Officials rush troops to the threatened districts. arrests of suspected plotters continue as Wednesday looms for a planned general uprising.
Twelve of the sixteen Atlantic fleet battleships are in San Francisco Harbor ahead of the July voyage to Hampton Roads. Four more are due next week. The ships include the Connecticut Vermont Georgia Wisconsin Illinois Missouri New Jersey Ohio Kentucky Louisiana Kansas and Minnesota.
Atlantic City cashier Robert Ohmeiss Jr of Marine Trust Co faces arrest after a $20,500 defalcation confession. He says he played the stock market and losses mounted. He is held on $11,000 bail for October trial.
Secretary of State Elihu Root visits William Muldoon’s health institution in White Plains for a yearly course of medicine ball throwing hard walking riding cold baths and plain cooking. He came on Saturday to renew the regimen after previous benefit and on his doctor’s advice.
Police raided a fashionable club under the anti gambling law in Ostend. One hundred fifty attendees were taken into custody, doors sealed, and $10,000 in stakes seized. A similar action occurred at another club.
Bloomington Illinois judge Solon Phill overruled the motion for a new trial in the Col Tom Snell will case after a lengthy argument by the executor's counsel. The dispute focused on alleged improper instructions and other technical points.
Gov John A Johnson of St Paul Minnesota is notified that Augustana College Rock Island Illinois has conferred upon him the degree of doctor of laws.
St Joseph Missouri report says town marshal Matthew Ford of Osborne shot and killed a robber in a hardware store after a nighttime encounter. A second bandit fled. Ford fired two shots after extinguishing his flashlight. The robber died minutes later. the partner escaped and the corpse remains unidentified. The pair had robbed several Osbornes stores. the loot was recovered.
Tokyo reports Governor General Marquis Ito is recalled from Korea and Gen Nos, noted as a Russian war hero, is appointed in his place. The shift aims to pacify Korea amid ongoing rebellion against Japanese rule due to Ito's harsh policies.
White Plains New York Harry K Thaw was granted a jury trial to determine his sanity. The hearing will take place during the October term. Thaw was moved from Poughkeepsie by two guards and traveled by train down the Hudson in high spirits with his new attorney Charles Morschauser.
R P Nevin founder of the Pittsburg Leader in 1872 and creator of the Pittsburg Times died Sunday aged 88. He owned the Leader until a few years ago and was father to Ethelbert Nevin the noted music composer.
Four Columbus men offered to have a finger surgically removed for 300 dollars to A. Balloux in Wheeling. Balloux, wounded in an ice cream freezer accident, lies in East Liverpool Hospital. His brother Joseph Balloux initiated the bid with the surgeons. The suitors include Robert B. Robbins, W. E. Thompson, C. E. Mansperger, and a man signing as D of Edward street.
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