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Newspaper
The Dalton Gazette
Location
Dalton, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 30, 1908
Page
2
From across the civil world comes brief items. Thieves held up a U S mail wagon in New Orleans and reportedly obtained about $5 000. Courts in Kansas City fined George L Thomas 7000 and L B Taggart 4000 for conspiring to pay rebates to shippers.
Harrisburg Pa The first day of capitol prosecutions in Dauphin county court centered on an agreement to a separate trial for Architect Joseph M Huston as four co defendants pressed for severs. Jury selection ended and testimony is set to begin with the commonwealth alleging 19 308 40 defrauded from 49 417 in payments for sofas tables and clothes trees.
The Thaw trial was adjourned as Atlantic storm delays witnesses from Europe. Justice Dowling limited each side to three experts. Two defense trips addressed mental and physical exams of Harry Thaw at the Tombs. Comstock described letters from Thaw about Stanford White's apartments and Thaw's mother testified on insanity. Jerome's cross with Mrs Eve lyn Nesbit Thaw ended as defense evidence introduced a 1903 letter corroborating the wife story.
Bank in New York closed for liquidation with Charles Hanna named receiver amid suspected solvency issues. Argentine torpedo boats accompany American fleet near Buenos Aires. Mary Baker Eddy leaves New Hampshire for permanent residence in Brookline Mass. Goldfield mine owners abolish card system and declare open shop. Ouida dies at Florence aged about 70. Jewelers robbed in Kalamazoo of 10000. Fatal dynamite explosion kills 3, injures 5 at Homestead tunnel. Illinois Central sues Herrin over traffic interference. Herrin fines railroad for shipping alcohol after anti-saloon move. Empress mother Ichijo dies at 80. Clinton Iowa wagon works fire causes 150000 damage. Portland Maine wholesale district fire causes nearly one million. Chess master Tchigorin dies in St Petersburg born 1850. R H Rogers beaten by night riders near Hopkinsville. Taft reports optimism on Philippine future. Capuchin missionary returning from Addis Ababa with letters and two lions for the pope. Mary Frances Reiley dies at Sioux City aged 83.
The Earl of Carrick arrived from Shields with Capt Harper and eight crewmen of the abandoned schooner Helen G Mosley, waterlogged off Winter Quarter light. They departed in a lifeboat, were picked up after four hours by the Bierna, and later transferred to the Earl of Carrick off the New Jersey coast. The schooner had sailed from Savannah to Boston with timber when a violent wind storm drove her onto Fenwick Island, causing rapid flooding despite pumping efforts.
Judge Bethea schedules the trial of Standard Oil Company of Indiana for accepting concessions from the Chicago and Eastern Illinois railroad on oil shipments from Whiting to Evansville. The case has 2,124 counts with a maximum possible fine of 2,480,060, and follows a prior large judgment against Standard Oil in a related Chicago Alton matter.
Congress in Washington notes a charge against Secretary Taft alleging awareness of slavery conditions in the Philippine Islands. The Senate opens debates as the House concentrates on a street railway regulation bill for the District of Columbia and Mr. Fowler addresses the financial issue.
Japanese firms now make cement from volcanic ash mined from eruptions in the Japanese Alps near Hondo. The process yields quick setting cement. orders flow from Mitsubishi and Ka wasaki dockyards and Keelung harbor works. Exports reach north China Formosa and Korea, boosting Japanese industry and reducing American cement prominence.
Miss Dora-Papa asks if Jack can prove he has funds to support her. The father replies that he has shown it by the testimony of the rocks, a witty line from the Chicago Tribune.
A dialogue contrasts moralizing about wealth with practical counsel from Dustin Stax. The speaker argues wealth can aid good, while warning that paying for virtue undermines true value and suggests caution in using money for moral ends.
The Markets column lists grain and livestock prices in New York Cleveland Toledo Buffalo Pittsburg for January 28 1908. Details include flour wheat corn oats butter cheese eggs potatoes hay cattle calves sheep hogs with varied price ranges across each city.
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