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Newspaper
Russiaville Observer
Location
Russiaville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 09, 1908
Page
3
The Atlantic battleship fleet rode out a fierce Manila Bay typhoon with 100 mph winds. Japanese hosts plan a grand Yokohama welcome for Admiral Sperry and his crew, with 16 Japanese battleships to salute and weeks of royal hospitality beginning October 17.
P E Honeywell of St Louis and Dr Frederick J Fielding of San Antonio plan the first balloon transatlantic flight. They aim to start next summer from New York and expect a four day journey aided by a twelve foot motor boat as crew cabin and a detachable propeller for water landing.
Bombay reports Hyderabad correspondent describes the flooded district as a vast grave with streets turned to mass of mud and bodies. Death toll unestimateable, some natives claim up to 50,000. Six hundred corpses recovered at one site as funeral pyres burn. Damage estimated at 200,000,000 roupes.
Special contract foreman W. C. Carl with 21 men built a modern four room dwelling on a vacant Maple and First streets lot in East Lansdowne. The house was complete by 6 pm and Howsie James Poort and bride moved in, with painters plumbers and plasterers finishing behind the carpenters. Spectators lined the lot as work progressed.
In Rock Island Illinois Theodore Roosevelt for president again in eight years was declared by Congressman Nicholas Longworth the President's son-in-law. He proposed that the Republican leader for the next eight years be W H Taft the nominee for President. Following Taft Longworth said Roosevelt should be returned to the chair for the next eight years.
A seventeen year old Osaka orphan, Fukumura Takaho, stabbed herself to death in a religious sacrifice linked to prolonging Marquis Inouye’s life ill at Okitsu. She sent a blood marked postcard to the Marquis declaring her intent to die in eternal sleep. The report likens similar self killings to czarevich era Russia.
South Dakota farmers report farms nearly paid for by this season’s crop profits. Examples include Robert Wilson near Cavour with 26 bushels wheat per acre and 13 bushels bearded wheat, Ole Jacob near Wentworth with 15 per acre profits from red clover, and John Brewer near Bridgewater thrashing 109000 bushels of grain that nearly pays for the land. Other farmers report 15 000 bushels from 900 acres for 15 000 dollars, plus yields of 2814 bushels per acre wheat on Han son’s land and 51 bushels per acre barley on McKee’s farm. A 200 acre macaroni wheat field near Newark averaged 30 bushels per acre for 24 dollars return.
Cypress camp of Kewanee with over 1000 members denounces head camp policy and declares war on admin affairs. Resolutions allege the official organ blocks criticism, salaries are excessive, and funds exceed death losses. They back injunction to halt raises and launch a new Woodmen paper.
New York special notes 11946 commercial failures in the United States during the nine months ending September 3. The total defaulted indebtedness reached 179,677,523 dollars. In the same months of 1907 the figures were 9009 failures and 116,036,348 dollars.
Henry F. McDonald was found guilty of manslaughter for the killing of Detective William E. Dwyer in the Terre Haute Circuit Court on April 5 and sentenced to Michigan City prison.
Princeton Indiana jury returns first degree murder verdict against John Allman for killing Conrad Kohlmeier father of his girlfriend. Life imprisonment handed down after two hours of deliberation.
Lima Ohio special suit entered against Governor Haskell and his wife Lillian to recover taxes on two city lots and seek foreclosure. The lots were obtained by Haskell when he built the Lima Northern railway from Lima to Detroit about ten years ago.
Campaign preparations speed ahead at Indiana Republican headquarters with plans for nationwide speakers bureaus. Roosevelt may stump in Indiana, Taft tour on a special train is hinted, with a schedule of county meetings led by Hayes Hendren and national figures.
A note from Los Angeles reports Countess de Meherene de St. Pierre sent $1,500 to Charles A. Montgomery to cover a Mexican hunting trip expenses. The banked funds await, while the Countess, last in California a year ago, is said to be lost in Africa after a foray with wild boars in the Colorado River delta.
Frank H. Hitch cock, Republican national chairman, laments the loss of a stolen file from his private room at headquarters in the Madison Square tower. Private detectives grilled the Republican staff as details of the robbery were made public.
In Milan, experts hail the completed three month restoration of Leonardo da Vinci's The Last Supper, housed in Santa Maria Della Grazie now used as a cavalry barracks, as the latest effort to halt its decay.
President Roosevelt will not reply to William J. Bryan's latest letter given at Rock Island Illinois. Secretary Loeb said the reply is unnecessary since Bryan's letter was a personal attack on the President.
A Turkish steam ship rammed the steam ferryboat Stambul outside Smyrna, sinking the vessel. One hundred forty persons were drowned in the catastrophe.
The Detroit and Mackinac Railway announces a continuous farm along its right of way for next season. Crops will be planted on both sides of the track to demonstrate soil use and reduce fire risk from locomotive sparks. A forty acre model farm will operate at Emery Junction.
Washington reports a new postage rate of two cents for letters weighing an ounce or less to England Ireland Scotland and Wales replacing the old five cent price. The rate will later extend to all British colonial possessions.
Mary Garrison, on the witness stand for her father J Henry Garrison, tearfully blocks identification of a letter offered by the prosecution after testifying Williamson made improper proposals. The defendant’s counsel argues unwritten law as motive. the trial paused as the girl shattered state evidence.
At the annual meeting in Boston a stockholder asked President Loring whether the firm sold rope in the South for hangings. The company replied that it had received a request from a Southern state for a large price discount for lynching use, arguing publicity would be valuable.
The legislative inquiry into bribery allegations against Governor Hanly and Senator Wickwire, initiated by Representative Knisely, found both men vindicated. Knisely said he would not accept any position if offered and claimed a scapegoat was created of Senator Wickwire by the House, while the Senate expressed confidence in Wickwire.
The trial of 19 year old John Allman for the July killing of Conrad Kohlmeier opened in Princeton Circuit Court last week with a jury seated. Allman reportedly attempted to elope with Kohlmeier’s daughter Dora but was deterred by the father. He is charged with firing the fatal shot and a second shot as Kohlmeier lay dying.
A proposal to build a belt line freight subway around Manhattan’s business shore and extend around almost the entire island. It would handle freight on a scale likely greater than any city has yet provided and has been filed with the public service commission.
The September 1908 monthly coinage report shows total mint output of 2,119,200 dollars. Gold coinage totaled 1,700,000 dollars while silver amounted to 631,000 dollars and minor coins 85,200 dollars. Peso pieces for the Philippine Islands, 2,412,000 in number, are reported separately.
Lazare Weiller a French financier and airplane promoter announced orders for fifty Wright model aeroplanes. The high profile industrial push signals ambitions to expand air travel and aviation manufacturing in France with a major fleet.
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