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Newspaper
Patoka Register
Location
Patoka, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1908
Page
10
A collage of brief, dated quips and oddities from the era. Topics range from milk bottle norms and clean Cuban cities to tipping woes, royal pay rises, and political reform, with lines on Paris cars, English synonyms, and naval remarks. The item reads like a newspaper miscellany of opinions and anecdotes.
Francis M. McEndree a green motorman blamed lack of a headlight and unfamiliar line for overturning a Creve Coeur car on a sharp curve near Delmar Garden killing John Eastman of Kirkwood and injuring many of the 98 aboard. Passengers say 40 mph. McEndree claims 10 mph. He surrendered at the Twelfth District station after protesting the missing headlight on prior trips.
Washington announces that if Congress does not fund the inland waterways commission the work will continue by executive action. The president asks the same members as last year to stay, except Gen. Alexander Mackenzie who retires, with new appointees Senator William B. Allison Representative Joseph E. Ransdell and Prof. George F. P. Swain of MIT added.
After nine hours of lying in wait Sarah Konet a young Russian trained nurse shot and killed Dr. William Auspitz a physician in the vestibule of an apartment house Sunday night. She surrendered to police declaring the physician had wronged her.
Mrs. William H. Taft will join Chicago bound prominent society women including Mrs. Nicholas Longworth and Miss Helen Cannon daughter of Speaker Cannon along with Mrs. Truman H Newberry wife of the assistant secretary of the navy Mrs. Beveridge and Mrs. Chauncey M Depew among many others in Washington society.
Shipments of champagne dispatched from the champagne districts for the year ending March 31 amounted to 33,734,618 bottles, up from 33,171,305 bottles in 1906 7. London markets accounted for the bulk of the trade with steady demand noted across districts.
A tornado struck Charles City Iowa at 5 PM Sunday demolishing about 200 residences and barns. One man is dead and four children are missing in the disaster.
The grand jury indicts J. F. Laning Republican congressman from the 14th Ohio district James G Gibbs F W Christian and William Perrin amid the Ohio Trust Company collapse charges Indictments allege Laning persuaded deposits by false statements related to the lease of French property Cleveland to Bond Building Company and its loan arrangements Laning calls the inquiry partisan and vows to fight the charges while more indictments likely from the Norwalk Savings Bank probe emerge
In Springfield a United States district court convicted the Chicago Burlington and Quincy Railroad Co on two counts of violating the 28 hour law. The firm was fined 100 dollars and costs on each of three counts for carload shipments of cattle from Kansas City to Coatesville and Avon Illinois. The judge directed a not guilty verdict in the parallel sheep shipment case from Harlem Montana to Shelbina Alabama.
Portland detectives and police hunt a conspiratorial group after a monster dynamite bomb placed in Glendale Oregon opera house vestibule failed to explode due to a defective fuse. The device a five gallon oil can held 24 sticks of dynamite and could have caused heavy casualties.
Ira Oakley, arrested in Clarksville Virginia, is brought to Raleigh charged with murdering Mrs. J Underwood and her young son and burning their Fuquay Springs home on February 1 to conceal the crime.
An explosion at the Prest-O-Light Co plant on South Street in Indianapolis wounds eleven workers. No fatalities are reported.
The funeral of a man killed in the clash between strikers and gendarmes sparked violent labor demonstrations in Paris. Several thousand workers, inflamed by agitators from the Confederation of Labor, marched through multiple districts causing damage before authorities withdrew gendarmes. After a meeting where counsel spoke, the protesters returned to Paris.
United States Circuit Judge Sanborn granted a motion to quash an indictment against former officials of the defunct National Bank of Ladysmith Wisconsin. They were accused of deceiving the bank examiner by a false report to the comptroller. The ruling follows the contention that the comptroller is not a bank examiner and not an officer under the law to deceive the examiner.
Hope remains low for the German cargo steamer Europea from Hamburg bound for Norfolk with 27 crew aboard. The voyage, due in 21 days, has stretched to 45 days and no word has been received in 40 days. The vessel carried fertilizer and was reported missing from the Atlantic trade lanes.
A landslide at Whitefish in Flathead county stops nine Northern Pacific trains with several hundred passengers aboard. Reports say no passage is expected within 48 hours and Great Northern tracks are washed out both north and south of Helena.
Derailment of a Lackawanna train near Millington New Jersey injured several passengers when the locomotive tender and cars jumped the track at a switch. The incident disrupted service as crews responded to the derailment and medical staff treated the injured.
Union Springs Alabama postmaster A C Walter shot and killed his wife a clerk at the post office and then shot himself. Walter had been removed from the postmastership recently. The tragedy follows tensions over his recent removal and ends in a grim double tragedy at the workplace.
William Pollock, New York millionaire living at 182 Madison Avenue, faced a Black Hand threat after receiving a letter demanding $5,000 to be buried under an oak tree on his Pittsfield estate. Armed guards patrolled the property as two attackers fled when confronted. a third assailant used a rifle to deter pursuit. Authorities scour nearby woods for the gang.
Mu volcano in Samoa, first erupting in August 1905 on Savail Island, spews lava over seven square miles. Inhabitants of Matatautu flee, seeking refuge on nearby islands as lava nears Saleaula village.
Bottles dispatched show 33,734,618 in March 31, down from 33,171,395 in 1906 07 and up from 35,591,185 in 1905 06. District totals reflect year to date production and distribution across regions.
St. Petersburg reports the duma defeated the naval budget item by 194 to 78. The plan to spend 5.5 million dollars to lay the keels of four battleships this year was rejected.
Tevi P. Brockway of Anoka Minnesota says after five months in a hospital he was discharged as incurable and given six months to live. He suffered heart trouble smothering spells and unconsciousness with worn out arms vision and kidney issues. After using Dean's Kidney Pills he recovered and has felt well since. Sold by all dealers 50 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
An 1907 testimonial from Mrs. Louis Beck of San Antonio Texas describes severe infant eczema cured within two months after using Cutiura remedies. The brief note asserts the child slept better after the first treatment and has remained clear since.
A timid woman misuses a telephone for the first time and wonders about the mouthpiece holes. Willie the office boy nervously asks to speak with the boss on a ball game day. A husband and wife joke that experience teaches both sexes.
A testimonial letter from a New York reader claims Grape-Nuts restored energy after heavy night work. The author reports rapid strength gains and improved brain power, noting a 20 pound weight increase and ongoing use while traveling. Published by Postum Co. Battle Creek Michigan.
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