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Newspaper
Troy Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1907
Page
6
Attorney General announces a road project benefit plan as officials propose funding and oversight. The measure aims to improve infrastructure and safety through grants and state support, with policymakers discussing potential routes and timelines.
A conference in Washington will involve Attorney General Bonaparte Special Attorney Morrison and Chicago officials over immunity promised to the Chicago and Alton for testifying against Standard Oil in the Elkins law case. The discussion centers on whether such immunity warrants prosecutions and how far it extends.
The naval transport Buffalo departs Puget Sound for the Pribylof Island to assist revenue cutters in patrolling sealing waters. The move signals heightened naval presence in Arctic waters as Washington dispatches the vessel for duty.
Appleton Wisconsin paper maker predicts a major merger with International Paper. He says mills in Wisconsin Minnesota and Michigan will join the combine with options on most plants. Within a year International Paper will dominate the U S print paper market. The company plans to spend 20 to 50 million dollars acquiring midwest mills. John G Hanrahan of New York is credited with engineering the western merger of 22 American Writing mills and 32 International Paper mills.
Marion W Guilford Batts, weighman at the Weat mines near Johnson City, met death by falling from the up house into a shaft about 300 feet deep. Discovered dead with serious injuries, the 30 year old man wed in Johnston City.
An explosion of gasoline followed by a fire cost the life of Miss Cora Midgett near Norfolk Virginia Friday night. Miss Midgett jumped into the water and the launch caught fire soon after. The remaining passengers and crew were rescued by a nearby sailboat manned by a Black sailor.
Fred Wadman, 20, was arrested in Kenosha Wis for setting a fire on the second floor where Mrs. Lou ie Puhlman was sleeping after a quarrel. He allegedly planned to burn her alive and refused to comment.
Hiram Parks Bell a prominent Georgia figure and last surviving member of the Second Confederates congress died at his son George L Bell's home in Inman Park Atlanta. He had served four years in the US Congress and was a presidential elector.
Ian Abraham Shim mer of Webster City Iowa, a noted philanthropist, says he still has 5,000,000 to give away. He is devoting all his time to traveling the state and giving money to the needy. He pledges to spend the rest of his fortune in this manner if his life lasts long enough.
Miss Zela Gibbs daughter of the late Senator Gibbs of South Carolina sister of the late Mrs John Jacob Astor and aunt of William Waldorf Astor died at her Newport home at 75. She was well known in New York and Newport society.
In Zanesville Ohio James N Ellis unmarried committed death by own action by filling a tub with boiling water and plunging head first into it. A rosary was found clutched in his lifeless hand. He had arrived from Ireland about a year ago.
William Jennings Bryan escaped injury when two coaches of a Chicago Northwest train derailed near Belvidere en route to Rockford for a Chautauqua. He walked a mile to Belvidere, rode an electric car to Rockford, and arrived hours late. In a Tuesday speech he avoided Taft remarks, saying he would discuss the Taft address in The Commoner.
A Chicago inquiry plan targets major telegraph companies through three Commercial Telegraphers union members in the next Congress J T McDermott A J Murray and William Carey The union president says half the strike fund will back the inquiry to curb business practices Women strikers send a manifesto to Mrs Clarence Makay wife of Postal Telegraph head seeking understanding of harsh working conditions and lack of respect in daily labor
The beef trust gained a controlling stake in the New York Butchers' Dressed Meat Co valued at about 16.06 million dollars with a takeover set for October 1. Minority holders opposed the sale though powerless. Reported purchase price around 6 million dollars plus the trust also took about 40 percent of Schwarzschild & Sulzberger Co stock, bought secretly. Ferdinand Sulzberger notes the trust cannot secure a controlling interest in independent firms.
Walter Kunda aged 10 is under arrest in Milwaukee charged as a vagrant and threat to the community. Doctors diagnose him as base ball crazy after a long fixation. He beat his mother and hid in a hallway, prompting a police battering of the door to reach him.
Harrisburg agents guard capitol room 402 where six months of graft investigation documents are held. Contracts plans and correspondence are in custody of the attorney general as the committee disbands. Three watchmen stay on duty until Todd and counsel decide disposition. Senator John E. Fox returns from Europe and notes he has not seen the report.
Magistrate William Haughey jailed his brother Thomas Haughey after arresting him with Albert Cronse and Gus Jolmenn for a jewelry and money robbery of Mrs. William M. Start. Police had John Doe warrants for all three. the magistrate learned the relation only after the trio appeared in court.
Daniel W. Lewis, who aided abolitionist John Brown by eluding federal troops and helped lead Brown to safety, died in Portland, Oregon after a paralytic stroke. Born 1853 in Huntington New York, he served in a Illinois Civil War company and later owned a timber business. He moved to Kansas, then to Portland in 1490.
Ogden Utah. James Chapman a famed Union Pacific passenger engineer was killed by a bear while camping near Evanston Wyoming. He wandered from his companions and his body lay in a thicket with bear tracks surrounding the area.
Berlin dispatches report a terrible Chinese mine disaster at the Fang Thi Mine in Ting Tau province. About 125 people are dead and two German engineers are among the dead. Details from private despatches indicate a severe explosion and widespread loss.
Three men were burned by a gasoline engine explosion at Vandegrift Pa while repairing the engine. Two were believed fatally burned as torches ignited the vapors.
The New Haven road will receive 12 million dollars of rolling stock over the next two years. The package includes 122 locomotives mainly of a larger new type, 7,500 freight and refrigerator cars, 100 passenger coaches, 40 Pullman parlor cars, and two palace stateroom sleeping cars.
Omaha report states three mail pouches carrying $250000 were stolen from the Burlington fast mail train Monday night. Authorities remain sparse on details, but several inspectors have been assigned to the case. The sacks vanished from the train between Denver and Oxford, Nebraska.
A violent storm struck Quincy early Tuesday morning causing heavy property damage with no known casualties. Chicago and surrounding areas reported limited information but responders noted active damage assessment.
Concord New Hampshire Gen Streeter for Mrs Mary Baker G Eddy announced that by agreement with ex Senator Chandler the suits by next friends to compel a conservatorship and to recover property have been withdrawn. The action, begun by Eddy’s son George W Glover and others alleging senility, ended as masters had begun hearings. Chandler said the case was impractical and not in Mrs Eddy’s interest. Streeter countered that the case failed on behalf of Mrs Eddy and the court should proceed with a hearing on her competency.
The note explains sending ten cents to the Pattern Department for pattern orders. It instructs to address orders to the Pattern Department, include pattern size and quantity, and to use the coupon provided for convenience.
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