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Newspaper
Patoka Register
Location
Patoka, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 02, 1908
Page
2
A collage of satirical notes and social curiosities outlines politics fashion and misadventure across continents. It jokes about campaign poetry MoroccoSpain money embezzlement and elopements while imagining castaways bandits ships and mistaken places with playful skepticism toward modern norms.
Fires near Utica in the Adirondacks have caused damage estimated at $150,000. Fire officials report multiple blazes and swift containment efforts as crews battle the hotspots and protect nearby properties.
Relief trains with 100 men head toward Nehasne and nearby camps as winds drive a forest fire across Long Lake West and surrounding areas. Utica and Herkimer crews battle the blaze, with losses including a $150,000 village area and a $10,000 hardwood lumber pile. many cattle perished.
In Newman New York thirty six days with no rain endangers forests sparking multiple fires and a Saranac Lake blaze was quickly controlled. A dynamite and kerosene explosion caused panic. Thompsonville Michigan reports Homestead village destroyed along with charcoal kilns and lumber yards of Alex Immmerman Co. worth fifty thousand dollars.
Fire at the Excelsior Sanitarium Company in Excelsior Springs Missouri, formerly the Music Hall Bathhouse, began just before 8 30 am Friday. Nine patients four nurses and two bathing attendants were inside. all were evacuated with little saved. The cause remains unknown.
Governor C N Haskell of Oklahoma resigns as treasurer of the Democratic national committee after a decisive hour discussion with Josephus Daniels and R F Rose. The resignation comes as Bryan aides press for change. Bryan plans to answer Roosevelt and the executive committee may fill the vacancy. Gen Dupont resigns at York minutes into the report.
The Fall River ship Commonwealth collides in dense fog with the Norwegian steamer Voland off Face Rock and sinks. Captain and crew prevent panic as 17 are saved from sleeping passengers aboard the damaged liner, which will be taken out of service.
Senator Foraker charges Taft with insincerity and misrepresentation covering issues from the rate bill to Brownsville. He accuses Taft of accepting lavish hospitality from Standard Oil employees and ties to a railroad head, noting a recent trip from Hot Springs to Middle Bass, Ohio. He says he had no business links with Standard Oil since 1902 and explains Brownsville, rate, and statehood positions. Taft counters with a formal denial issued in Albert Lea, Minnesota.
A long standing feud among townsfolk in St James leads to Alfred Ambul beaten by five men. Charles Lee on a huckster wagon shot Charles Dunbar in the arm during the confrontation. Ten locals vowed to target Ambull and disable Lee when he returned.
Chicago hosted a Saturday parade intended as an annual show of liquor fees strength. Thousands marched through downtown with representation from many churches, the Salvation Army, Volunteers of America, Good Templars, and other groups. Prominent clergy acted as parade officials.
Three boys who fled the state school for the blind at Jacksonville rode a train as blind baggage to Decatur. Harry O'Neal and Russel Breckenridge of Chicago and Claud Monagy of Chaney were arrested here. One boy who can see slightly led the group. They said their aim was to “see” something of the world.
Joliet Leon McDonald, superintendent of the Illinois and Michigan canal, reports the dam at McHenry has been wrecked with dynamite and surrounding territory flooded. Detectives are set to work to capture the dynamiters. This is the second dynamiting in weeks, the first occurring nearby.
In Bloomington, the long mystery surrounding the elusive "Walter" named in passionate letters is resolved as the identity is finally clarified. TheFindings close a chapter on a case that had stirred local curiosity and speculation for weeks.
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