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Newspaper
Patoka Register
Location
Patoka, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1908
Page
2
A collage of 19th century gossip touches on Prince Helie de Sagan and American heiresses, English suffragettes, and nobility scandals. It notes figures like Alexander B. Orr and Rev D C Hughes, plus warnings about reform and luxury amid global tensions.
A harsh custom in parts of the Telugu country involves a decorated cart with stakes at its corners during a deity rite. Animals such as pigs, lambs, and fowls are impaled alive on the stakes, and the cart is dragged to the village boundary where the creatures perish en route before being removed.
President urges quick measures in Congress for temporary financial protections and new child labor limits. He notes recent progress on employers liability and calls for District of Columbia child labor law, waterways commission funding, tariff investigation, and further reforms to support public service workers.
The speaker urges temporary financial measures and a expert commission to study reform, including postal savings banks. They advocate revising contempt procedures, restricting injunctions in labor disputes, and strengthening national anti trust power to curb corporate wealth and prevent plutocratic dominance.
The widowhood follows the death of Dechaulnes a daughter of the Shonts on her honeymoon.
Paris Paris Rue Boccador Hotel Dangham where Duc de Clautnes was married last February to Miss Theodore Shonts died of embolism in his bed. His wife discovered him and wired her father Theodore P. Shonts in New York. Relatives in Chicago were notified and the Shonts plan to travel to Paris at once.
A fragment suggests a connection among the Shonts family, Mrs. Drake, and possibly Robert Rae or Drake's father. The wording is unclear but indicates kinship or familial ties within the cited names.
Governor Joseph W Folk launched his United States senate campaign at the Tootle opera house in St Joseph addressing a large audience. He outlined reforms including ending lobbyist influence and railroad passes and urged direct election of senators while pledging a clean race.
Defense asks for venue change in Abraham Ruef bribery trial citing 188 affidavits claiming local bias. Judge Doolin declines to rule on the request at this time.
Guthrie Oklahoma reports the death of Chief White Spoon's mother last week at her son's Geary area home. White Spoon is a notable Cheyenne figure in the tribe.
Lexington reports a fatal accident at the Indian oil refinery in Georgetown. David Johnson died after an oil bath. his father and numerous workers witnessed the incident and were unable to assist.
A powerful cyclone swept the Comora archipelago in the Mozambique channel causing tremendous loss of life and vast property damage. The dead are reported in the thousands. The six large islands and numerous islets lie 350 miles northwest of Madagascar and 200 miles east of the Indo-France coast. Population near 100,000, mostly Arabs, Negroes and Malagassies. Several islands are French possessions under protectorate. The islands are volcanic, fertile, and active in tropical fruit trade.
A solemn high mass was celebrated Monday at the Church of St Philippe du Roule for Duc de Chaulnes who died suddenly Thursday night in the Hotel Langham. The bier was banked with flowers and the canopy bore the Chaulnes insignia.
Gilles Omnes Marquis Horsefiel Drake and other relatives accompanied the widow, formerly Theodora Shonts of New York, to the church for a ceremonial event.
During a parade at the dedication of Our Lady of Mercy on Schenectady Avenue and Deane Street in Brooklyn, a thief slid into the church and stole the day’s collections amounting to several thousand dollars. Police were guarding the building but the thief escaped with the cash.
The Grant peace memorial window was formally dedicated Sunday at Metropolitan Temple in New York in honor of Ulysses Grant's love of peace. Representatives of Grand Army posts and Gen. Grant's family attended the ceremony. Dr. J Wesley Hill praised Grant for his advocacy of peace.
A second storm hit Mobile Alabama causing damaged telegraph lines and halted service. Southern railway tracks were torn up for 600 feet at Suggsville delaying through trains for days as water and rising streams threaten low-lying areas.
Naples prince Helie de Sagan and Madame Gould’s party with their tutor traveled by motor car to Pompeii on Monday. The group enjoyed splendid weather and inspected the ruins of the city destroyed by Vesuvius.
H McDonald a pugilist in Millville New Jersey has been sentenced by tax collector William Dowling to the county jail for life or until he pays the dollar poll tax overturning delinquency.
Hankow and Shanghai Hankow waterway sees another disaster as a typhoon sinks hundreds of junks and leaves several steamers ashore. Widespread suffering reported among river communities.
In Washington the Senate rejected Roosevelt's four battleship program by a wide margin mirroring the House vote. Senator Piles introduced the four ship measure led by Senator Beveridge, with 23 votes for the program and 50 for the House backed plan. The naval committee favored two ships. No action on the Kahn bill barring convict-made goods. labor committee moves to briefs and testimony, report postponed to next session.
The house moved quickly Friday with six roll calls by Democrats. Over 1,000 pension bills cleared in the session’s largest batch. A measure protects life on navigable waters during regattas and marine parades. The Burrleston resolution seeks the commissioner of corporations report on cotton price fluctuations.
Senator Piles of Washington led the debate urging a Pacific fleet to counter Asiatic tensions seen as a menace to the coast. Mr. Hale presented a statement detailing battleships and other naval program elements, arguing the plan supports a strong Pacific defense amid rising tensions with Japan.
During the session senators pressed for naval expansion with a push for four battleships aided by telegrams from a magazine threatening a presidential veto. Senator Bankhead urged national funding for good roads as the chamber approved a $100000 survey for an inland water route from Boston to Wilmington.
Washington delegate Andrews introduces a bill in Congress to establish in Dona Ana County an annex to all national homes for disabled volunteer soldiers. The annex would exclusively house married survivors.
The Washington house, meeting Wednesday, passed three bills under suspension and defeated one. Pending was a measure to authorize suits by the attorney general against the Oregon & California Railroad Co. for forfeiture of Oregon land grants. Passed were bills on oil land entry rights, alienation of five civilized tribal allotments, and easing foreign ship trade restrictions with the Philippines. The importation of foreign white laborers into Hawaii was decisively defeated.
Oliver Garrison killed his wife and George Allen after learning they planned to elope. He shot Allen in the abdomen, fatally wounding him, then fatally shot himself in Lordsburg New Mexico.
Former United States Senator Johnson N. Camden of West Virginia died at the Hotel Belvidere in Baltimore from kidney congestion after a two week illness.
columnist notes and advertisements include a testimonial from Mrs Rebecca Mack of Columbus Ohio praising Dean's Kidney Pills for kidney trouble back pain and energy after regular use with relief and cure. Also mentions Sloan's Liniment and other cures with anecdotes about horses and an editorial joke from Gelett Burgess.
Pat and Mike watch a big touring car streak by and comment on how much money the rich spend. Mike notes the speed and cost while Pat calls it tainted money and the scent of excess fills the air.
A teacher urges guidance on washing as a child returns with only part of his face clean. The boy explains he washed as high as his shirt would allow, leaving dirt on his cheeks and forehead while the rest of his face remains mud-hued. The children laugh at his appearance.
A joke pits an Englishman Scot and Pat against each other over train speeds. The Englishman boasts telegraph poles like a hedge, the Scot clocked milestones shrinking to tombstones, while Pat claims a rapid Irish ride making the landscape blur with rows of vegetables and a pond of water like broth.
A Wisconsin woman with long standing dyspepsia rose from 145 to 90 pounds after starting Grape-Nuts. She credits the cereal with building her strength, easing stomach distress, and restoring speech and stamina. She now enjoys regular meals and continues Grape-Nuts for breakfast and supper. There's a Reason claims Postum Co.
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