Happenings of a Week Personal
Dr Frederick A Cook seeks rest near New York with secrecy guarding his location raising concern for his health. James M Green of Trenton N S elected president of the Association of Colleges and Preparatory Schools at its Washington convention. Mrs Theodore Roosevelt and children return from Europe. Duke of Roxburghe breaks right leg riding with Quorn hounds. duchess May Goelet at his bedside.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frederick A. Cook
New York
James M. -Green-of
Victoria
B. C
China
Irs
W. F. Goodspeed
Helen. Deshler
Columbus
Theodore Roosevelt
Bessie—Wood
Aspinwall
Newburg
N. Y
Hayden W. Wagner
U.S. A
Dekalb
James Davenport
Vespasian Warner
Taft
W. J. Mills
New Mexico Supreme Court
Baron Rosen
Roxburghe
May Goelet
Multiple Disasters Across North America Reported
News briefs recount a gas explosion at Harrisburg Southern mines near Eldora NL killing Nelson and Thomas Smith. Davenport Iowa endures a three hour fire destroying ten homes. A Roberts Company warehouse fire burns with $100,000 loss. US agriculture reports over 150 million pounds of cigar and tobacco grown in 1908. A Mint Hill NC planter David Simpson is shot dead by neighbor Will Harris. Dr Frederick Cook’s polar claim records travel to Copenhagen via Walter Lonsdale. English budget debate delayed as peers seek speech time. Cherry Mine shaft fires abandon rescue after 150 bodies found. mine sealed, deaths incinerated. France to house new Washington embassy. plans approved with $1,000,000 budget. Additional incidents include a major house fire in Fay, with injuries and a trainee among workers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Andrew ‘Nelson
Thomas Smith
Harrisburg Southern
Eldora
Davenport
A. N. Roberts Company
United States
Department of Agriculture
David Simpson
Mint Hill
N. C
Will Harris
Frederick A. Cook
University of Copenhagen
North Pole
Walter Lonsdale
Cook
New ‘York
France
Washington
Antti- Saloon League of America
Chicago
Wilson
Iowa Implement Dealers’ Association
Gomez
Ludlow
Mags
Verand
Paris
Fallieres
Manuel of
Portugal
Bluefields
Nicaragua
Zelaya
Congress
W. L. Park
Union Pacific Railroad Company
New York and New England Association of Railway Surgeons
Scott Shaft
Shamokin
Thomas C. Giddings
New York Customs House
Loeb
Taft
James H. Dobbs
Columbus
Ill
William Thompson
Emmeline Parkhurst
Philadelphia National Baseball Club
Horace S. Fogel
John Kling
Hatfield Conrad
Highland Cemetery
Great Falls
Mont
H. D. Bulkey
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company
Baltimore
Margaret Smith
Minnie Wright
Rochester
N. Y
Christian Church
Beaver
Oklo
R.—R.coffey
Annual meeting notes and global news from 1909 era
Chicago hosts the Antisaloon League conference with a five day superintendent gathering and a national convention. Secretary Wilson reports 1909 as the farm sector's strongest year with farm product value at 8.76 billion dollars.
Meyer Reform Plan Aims to Subordinate Navy Bureaus
Secretary Meyer unveils sweeping navy reforms to run the department on a business basis. Four advisers handle material personnel fleet operations and inspections. Bureaus split into material and personnel divisions. a fleet operations division created. cost keeping and inspections modernized. board of construction abolished. bureau of equipment dissolved. Rear Admirals Wainwright Potter Swift and Captain Aaron Ward named aids before Congress acts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D. C
Meyer
Navy Department
New England
Navy Yards
Navy
Richard Wainwright
Atlantic
W. P. Potter
Bureau of Navigation
William Swift
Boston Navy Yard
Aaron Ward
New York Harbor
Reginald F. Nicholson
Board of Inspection and Survey
Potter
Newberry
Board of Construction
General Board
Fatally Stabs Sweetheart in Jealous Attack at Home
In Vincennes Indiana Oscar Savage stabbed to death his girlfriend Etta Burba 20 at her home while trying to defend her father Jasper Burba a miller. The assailant briefly pursued Miss Nellie Hayes as she fled to summon police. he later surrendered as officers arrived finding Miss Burba dead on a bed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vincennes
Ind
Jasper Burba
Etta Burba
Oscar Savage
Savage
Burba
Nellie Hayes
Miss Hayes
Prohibition Amendment Rejected in Alabama Election
The proposed constitutional amendment for prohibition was defeated in Alabama by a substantial margin, with a tally reported at a minimum eighteen thousand votes, possibly twenty thousand in favor of the opposition. The outcome reflects strong statewide sentiment against constitutional prohibition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montgomery
Ala
Last Four Cronies Club Member Dies in Evanston
Captain George Johnson, age 77, long known as Capt. George, was the final surviving member of the Four Cronies, an era famous on the Great Lakes. He died at his Evanston home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Ill
Ballinger Praises Garfield and Urges Public Lands Reform
Washington reports reveal Secretary Ballinger lauding Garfield while criticizing lax land laws. He warns millions of acres were wrongfully obtained by land pirates and calls for renewed prosecutions, private enterprise under control, and remedial legislation for water power and reclamation programs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D. C
Richard A. Ballinger
Secretary of the Interior
James R. Garfield
Ballinger
Hitchcock
Garfield
Congress
Reclamation
Tragic Japanese Workers die in Great Northern wreck
Twenty Japanese laborers were killed and 15 seriously injured when a work train between Vancouver and Westminster, B C, struck a washed out culvert. The engine sagged and the crew escaped injury. The Japanese bank car with 35 men was crushed, leaving a mangled scene as flat cars piled and the caboose stayed on tracks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vancouver
B. C
Great Northern Railway
Westminster
Sumas
Kent
Beattiger
Deer Season Casualties Reported Across North Woods
Milwaukee notes 1909 hunting toll in the north woods shows 9 killed before season 1909, 20 killed during deer season, 18 wounded in first half and 9 in second half, 27 wounded total. Overall casualties reach 55.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Milwaukee
Wis
North Woods
Providence to End Gretna Green Practice in RI
Rhode Island officials plan to drop the Gretna Green appellation as the act delay from the last assembly takes effect. Providence marriage licenses will not become effective until five days after issuance, likely cutting Providence records by about 60 percent next year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Providence
Rhode Island
Gretna Green
County Bully on Murder Rampage
Clyde Weaver a local bully aged 34 killed his mother and wounded two others before a posse closed in at Gettysburg eight miles east of Greenville Ohio. He shot Sheriff Haber and Deputy Farra, then turned the gun on himself ending a brutal spree that left Levi Minnich and his wife wounded and their home in turmoil.
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Greenville
Gettysburg
Clyde Weaver
Harry Thaw
Stanford—White
Weaver
Haber
Farra
Fie Haad
Levi Minnich
Minnich
Alsbaugh
Ernest Bell
Mia
Telephone secret known in Columbus Ohio plan to trade local for long distance
A secret Ohio meeting of independent owners led by James S. Brailey outlines a Bell Telephone Co plan to give up local exchanges in exchange for a long distance monopoly. The agreement would dismantle Bell local services in smaller cities and abandon local business in Cleveland Columbus Toledo and Dayton. Experts assess Bell exchanges in three or more Ohio cities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
Ohio
Bell Telephone Co
Bell Company
James S. Brailey
Toledo
Bell
Cleveland
Dayton
Woman Jealousy Fire Misfire Destroys Building
Mrs Geneva McFairland, 60, tried to burn a building to spite a rival woman but lit the wrong structure in darkness at Quincy. The blaze was quickly discovered and caused little damage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bellefontaine
Geneva McFairland
Quincy
Catholic Instructor Is Dead at Immaculate Conception College
Sister Ligourt aged 51, long time instructor at the Immaculate Conception Catholic college, Reedurban, Canton, died suddenly at the institution. The news notes her years of service and the sudden death occurring on campus.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canton
Ligourt
College of ‘the Immaculate Conception
Benefit of Home Training Tale
A family learns of their son William swearing on the street. The father, angered, starts to discipline him but falls on the stairs. The mother intercedes, saying the lesson is enough for one day, highlighting the value of home training.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Willie
William
Robert
Scott
Cure for Severe Eruption with Cuticura Trio
A Chicago man describes a skin eruption starting on the hands with intense itching that tore the skin. After trying doctors and various remedies, he used Cuticura Soap Ointment and Pills, with itching stopping in days and eruption clearing in about three weeks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H.A. Kmniitskoff
Wabash Ave
Chicago
Potter Drug & Chem, Corp
Sole Trops
Bostom
Spohn elected mayor of Goshen Indiana
Dr. S. F. Spohn president of Spohn Medical Co proprietors of Spohn's Distemper Cure was elected mayor of Goshen Indiana by a wide margin. He had served as County Superintendent of Schools for years and earned broad support across political lines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
S. F. Spohn
Spohn Medical Co
Spohn
Goshen
Ind
Great Britain Buys More US Goods Than Any Other Nation
The July report from Canada's Department of Trade and Commerce states Great Britain purchased 620 million dollars of U S goods in 1908, ten million more than the combined exports to France, Germany, and Holland.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Great Britain
France
Germany
Holland
Department of Trade and Commerce of
Canada
Refrigerated Staterooms on New Ships for Fruit Service
Three new ships in the fruit service between New Orleans and Colon feature refrigerated staterooms. Each room houses a cooling radiator integrated with the shipboard refrigerating system designed to preserve fruit in transit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Orleans
Colon
Resinol Ointment Praised by London User
John B. Dain of London endorses Resinol as the best healing ointment found. He notes two years of use and states he would not be without it.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John B. Dain
London
Eng
Rheumatism Cured In a Day Claim Ad
Ad touts Detchpon’s Relef for Rheumatism and Neuralgia with radical cures in 1 to 3 days. It claims rapid action by removing the cause and says first dose benefits at 75 cents and one dollar at druggists.
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Detchpon
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