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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 06, 1911
Page
2
A collision between the Erie and Pittsburg passenger train and a Lake Shore freight train in Erie Pennsylvania caused a wreck that caught fire. Four people are dead and at least 40 injured as rescuers work through scorched debris. Engineer Jones is accused of disregarding a red light.
Springfield Illinois Governor Deneen was thrown from the running board when his car backing into a team of horses overturned. He broke both bones of the left leg just above the ankle and will be confined to bed for five to six weeks. The accident comes at an unfortunate time for the governor.
The governor was scheduled to deliver the main Central Illinois Labor Day address at Beardstown but, coming out from anesthesia, asked Judge L. Y. Sherman to substitute as speaker. Sherman, president of the state board of administration, agreed to fill the engagement.
Former United States Senator Roger Q. Mills dies in Corsicana Texas at age 79. Born in Todd county Kentucky he moved to Texas and became a drug clerk while studying law. He served as lieutenant colonel and later commander of the Tenth Texas infantry in the Civil War and was POW at Columbus Ohio before his 1892 election to the Senate.
New York reports a national religious revival to begin September 18 with plans for over 200 evangelists to travel coast to coast and into Canada. The “men and religion forward movement” aims to raise 1.265 million dollars, with 75 thousand already subscribed.
Three men drowned and five narrowly escaped death when a motor boat filled with pleasure seekers collided with a tug on the Delaware River near Florence New Jersey.
At the National Association of German veterans convention Cleveland Ohio was chosen as the meeting place for 1012 and John Heckler of Denver Colorado was elected president for the next biennial period.
The estate of the late John W. Gates is valued at about 34 million dollars. Under the will Charles Gates and the widow inherit the bulk, with executors named. Specific bequests include 250000 to Henry Baker upon college graduation, plus earlier gifts and trusts for relatives including Dolores Angell and a blind sister in law.
About 4 000 to 8 000 hoboes gather in Washington for the Brotherhood Welfare association convention chaired by James Eads How the group plans national employment bureaus free transport to work shorter hours and a minimum wage. They will report results to the House labor committee urging action to ease labor conditions.
Tokyo reports a newly formed Saionji cabinet approved by the emperor. Marquis Satonji becomes premier replacing Count Katsura. Viscount Uchida named foreign minister after arriving in Tokyo. The cabinet is entirely new besides Vice Admiral Saito who remains minister of marine.
Chesterfield Courthouse Virginia Sept 1 Henry Clay Beattie Jr sobbed as his father testified about domestic felicity and his relation to Louise Owen Beattie. The defense pressed doubts about Paul Beattie's gun purchase and custody linking to the fatal shooting amid rival testimonies and conflicting accounts.
Minneapolis on roads brought 715000 bushels of grain in the three days ending August 30 breaking eight year records. Last year in the same period 340 carloads arrived and 451 carloads were received during the corresponding days of 1909 boosting city totals.
A group of fifty farmers from Pennsylvania and New York state arrive in New York to launch a cooperative marketing plan. They claim to represent over 50,000 farmers and say direct selling to city retailers will end middlemen, reducing consumer prices by at least 40 percent from current levels.
The battleship Utah with a crew over 700 men is placed in commission at the Philadelphia navy yard. After loading supplies it will sail to New York and then join the Atlantic fleet.
In Joliet Illinois George Bush a Lockport machinist was killed at the sanitary district power house when his clothing was caught in a moving belt and he was hurled across the room his head crushed upon impact after a night shift.
New York jury convicts Paul Geidel seventeen year old bellboy of the Iroquois hotel murder of William H. Jackson on July 26. Locked up all night the verdict spares him the electric chair but sends him to a long term in Sing Sing or Auburn prison.
The Standard Oil Company of New Jersey ceases to function in its present form as the head of a global holdings network. Stock transfer books close, subsidiaries’ stock is redistributed among current stockholders, with full readjustment to take about three months and not complete before December 1.
Three occupants of a derelict elevator cage in the Mason temple fell eighteen stories to the pit. they survived thanks to an unwinding cable slowing the descent from the eighteenth to the fifth floor. The crash was heard throughout the building and outside, with onlookers rushing to the scene as the car crumpled and the cable lay across the roof.
Dr Walter Owen Ryan 54 and his wife 45 were found dead after an argument over a $3 cleaning bill. The couple, long residents of Springfield Illinois, had moved to California six months earlier. Ryan was a prominent Illinois physician and drug businessman.
Denver reports Jones B. Earl, Civil War veteran, finally collects $2.31 from the government after 46 years. He filed a claim for back pay dating to August 16, 1865, when discharged from the Union Army’s Fifth Iowa unit. The payout notes no interest. A short $1.60 salary and 71 cents clothing allowance were involved.
Wireless operator Scheetz a 16 year old on the Lexington kept a perilous call for help going as a storm battered the liner off Hunting Island. The revenue cutter Yamacraw hailed him and brought 12 passengers, a steward, and three black employees to safety while others perished and the ship sank. Fifteen dead in Charleston and a hurricane damage estimate tops a million dollars. A five cutter squadron searches the Atlantic for more distressed vessels.
Congressman Charles D. Carter of Oklahoma created a stir on F Street when he accused four clerks of insulting his daughter Miss Italy Carter. He fought one clerk with his fists and then routed the others with his cane before leaving with his daughter and surrendering at a station house. He was not detained.
Jacksonville Illinois reports the death of Gen Benjamin H Grierson of this city at his Mich summer home Omena. He was born July 8 1826 in Pittsburgh and became brigadier general in 1868 for gallant service in Griersons raid through Mississippi. He leaves a widow and four sons including Maj Charlee Grierson.
An advertisement touts Resinol Ointment and Resinol Soap as safe, effective treatments for facial eruptions and a range of skin problems. It features a testimonial from Miss Opal Lilley of Camp Creek West Virginia praising dramatic improvements after four to five years of trouble. The copy notes no lead or mercury in the products and promotes availability through druggists and fine toilet articles dealers.
In a clipped quip from Puck style whimsy, Bilter’s daughter elopes with his chauffeur. Bilter wires his forgiveness, hoping the scandal opens a path to use his car again.
Little Jean listens with quiet attention as two adults discuss a photographed portrait. A mother notes that mothers rarely love pictures of their children because others do not see them as they do. Jean interjects that children view others differently than they view their mothers.
A light exchange shows the couple quipping about idle curiosity. The husband defends it as the most active trait in the woman, turning the remark into affectionate humor.
Personal reminiscence recounts health decline from coffee began in 1890. After trying medicines and patent remedies, the author quits coffee, adopts Postum, and notes improved nerves heart function digestion and appetite within ten days.
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