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Newspaper
The Dalton Gazette
Location
Dalton, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1908
Page
2
A compact survey of global developments compiled for the busy reader. Highlights cover political shifts, economic trends, and notable events from various regions, framed in concise summaries suitable for quick consumption.
As state delegations arrive in Chicago the vice presidential pick dominates talk with Dolliver widely tipped while Sherman and Fairbanks gain traction. A heated platform fight looms as Taft allies resist changes to prepared resolutions. Cannon hurriedly meets in Chicago on anti injunction plank amid committee hearings. The Republican national committee awards 216 seats to Taft and three to Foraker.
A roundup of incidents spans Union Station theft in St Paul, Chicago’s Harvester death, Red Cross leadership appointment for Ernest P. Bicknell, and political moves by Govs Hughes Johnson and Willson. Also noted are criminal trials, flood impacts, and social controversies shaping 1914 public life.
The Atlantic fleet ships assemble in San Francisco harbor preparing for a long voyage. Locust plague hits Zulia Venezuela while multinational events unfold with ambassadors and royals in Europe. The Grand Prix victory, Missouri tragedies, and political results pepper a turbulent news day.
A chauffeur drove a six‑seat pleasure auto at high speed down West Fifty sixth Street to a dock and into the North River. The car submerged, four occupants drowned. John Bauer escaped, alerted relatives, and surrendered to police. Mrs Coleman and Miss Berdon were recovered, Mr Coleman found wedged under a seat. two rescuers failed to reach others.
Bertha Lebecke known as Fainting Bertha escaped from the tuberculosis tent colony at the Bartonville asylum and was recaptured masked as a drummer. She planned to reach her mother’s home in Council Bluffs Iowa and has a long record of escapes and robberies by feigning fainting.
In New York City a boy tossed peanuts and a box of parlor matches into an elephant cage at the Bronx zoo. An elephant caught the box in its trunk and the matches caught fire but keepers quickly extinguished the blaze as spectators watched a brief scare unfold.
A severe wind and rain storm swept Pine Plains, the federal soldiers and national guardsmen camp, damaging seven miles of area. Three thousand tents collapsed, mess shelters fell, and over a hundred horses stampeded and escaped. The paymaster was on duty when the storm struck, scattering currency into the air.
Monday reports indicate City Treasurer Harry A. Axtell is short about $60,000 in city accounts. Irregularities as secretary are linked to $40,910 from the Real Estate Building association, with treasury books allegedly $7,200 short.
An old promotional notice extols Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a standard remedy for female ailments. It cites testimonials from Mrs Will Young and Mrs Augustus Lyon praising relief from backaches, side pains, insomnia, and general misery after using the product. The text claims thirty years of use and cures for displacements, inflammation, ulcers, fibroids, irregularities, pains, and nervous symptoms.
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