29 Feb 1908
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Newspaper
Troy Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Feb 29, 1908
Page
1
The Troy Weekly Call editor riffs on politics literature and humor. Parodies on purefood law Socrates Lipton and Admiral Evans mix with musings on Spain's navy and a French army transport. A potpourri of quirky observations and imagined policy questions closes with a jab at a proposed health bureau.
Bibulous Georgians will now have to devise new methods of getting it when they want it. Bibulous neces sity knows no law, and is the mother of invention.
Sir Thomas Lipton projects a high stakes campaign as his prized boxing contenders face persistent pressure. The public profile and media attention mount while promotional efforts press toward securing a marquee bout.
A terse note questions the value of a potato bug, implying it took many years to create, uses too much and ends up useless. The remark contrasts science's promise with the frustration of impractical inventions.
A reader notes that cars appear vulnerable to theft when drivers resemble tramps. Observers judge such appearances may hint at millionaire ownership, prompting caution about security.
An analyst argues that Washington did not author his famed farewell address and contends that George Washington may be a myth. The claim shifts focus to the authorship and historicity of the founding figure and his final message.
A report claims Mark Twain possessed about 51 199 dollars in a New York tank that failed during a panic an anecdote promising a notable chapter in his audiography. Pure food experts in Pennsylvania tested 83 breakfast foods for safety and quality. Not all heroes prepared to die for their country serve in the army or navy.
King Oscar of Sweden left an estate of only six and a quarter millions. Some of his former subjects now in the United States must have beaten him 40 lengths.
Three or four American heiresses who bought titled husbands are still living with them though they are supposed to be exceptionally hardy.
An Alabama senator suggests the south adopts dry laws to bar liquor from Black residents. The piece questions whether a color line will be used to enforce the policy or if enforcement will cross racial lines.
A butler in the eastern city was arrested with diamonds valued at 17000 dollars in his possession. Investigators say he must establish a past role as head waiter to gain leniency, a defense that could ease the case if proven.
A New York juror caused a disruption during a trial and publicly criticized the lawyers involved. The incident marks an uncommon display of juror sentiment toward legal counsel in a New York courtroom.
The Prince dé Sagan says he would have challenged Count Boni de Castellane to a duel if struck with a glove but Boni knocked him down and kicked him into the gutter, leaving the prince as an unwor thy figure and the world’s leading unconscious humorist.
President Roosevelt submitted to Congress the inland waterways commission report urging rapid funding for waterway development, irrigation, forest preservation, and water regulation. He says rail competition crippled river commerce, calls for unified government regulation, and stresses rivers as vital national defense and energy resources.
William Menzes, 54, paralyzed and unable to talk, signs with thumb wiggles for a committee. He alleges four assaults over two days at Central Insane Asylum, with injuries including paralysis, neck marks, back wounds, and jaw bruises. His daughter disputes his insanity, citing physicians' examinations.
Mrs. Busey recounts a man saying he was taken to a bath tub at the hospital where three attendants handled him roughly. He was hurled into the tub and suffered flesh injuries, then struck behind the ears and later assaulted again over the following day, leading to paralysis.
Heavy snowstorms paralyze railroad traffic in Central Russia with many towns isolated. The Moscow Kazan line has not moved a train for five days, cutting communication across the region.
Fort Reno on the Canadian river forty miles west of Guthrie ceased to be a military post last night as the Third battalion of the Nineteenth Infantry moved to Fort McKenzie. The fort will be converted into a government remount station.
In Pueblo Colorado a man named Robert Munn confessed to a friend on Tuesday that he killed a man in a saloon fight in Litchfield Illinois on July 4, 1906. He claimed to not know the victim and was arrested with authorities notified.
The wholesale whisky house of Randolph Rose & Co at 819-821 Chestnut Street Chattanooga Tennessee was destroyed by fire last night. Loss estimated at 130000 with 75000 insurance.
Washington reports potential penalties totaling 29.55 million dollars against major firms. Standard Oil faces 29.4 million, Great Northern 15.06 million, Chicago and Alton 40 thousand, with executives named for several companies. The figures hinge on the Elkins law not being repealed by the Hepburn railroad rate act.
In Washington two speeches criticized the Aldrich currency measure in the Senate on Wednesday. Senator Culberson of Texas urged amendments to make it useful while Senator Nelson of Minnesota denounced it as unimportant in its current form. The bill was made unfinished business by motion of Mr. Aldrich.
The bill to codify and revise federal criminal laws was approved by the Senate. An amendment proposed by Senator Culberson of Texas, penalizing improper disclosure of information by government officials affecting soil product market values without proper authority, was incorporated into the measure.
The house committee on banking and currency completed the first reading of the Fowler currency bill on Wednesday. Amendments tentatively agreed to will be discussed next as a preliminary step before final revision and report.
The introduction in the House by Representative Acheson proposes a joint resolution asking state legislatures to decide if nationwide prohibition should continue and if manufacture importation and sale of intoxicants should cease.
The Sausalito school trustees pass a resolution effectively barring all Orientals from town schools. Directors vow to fight the policy to the end and refuse to visit Washington, insisting they will not be coerced into retreat.
Senate adopts Lodge resolution calling on the president for the correspondence between the United States and Venezuela in the dispute over alleged wrongs to American citizens and corporations.
James B. Duke, president of American Tobacco Co., sick and unable to appear Monday for federal inquiry testimony. Subpoenaed by the defense, he asked US Commissioner Shields and case counsel to visit his home to take his evidence, and the request was agreed to.
Judge Peter W. Grosscup of the United States circuit court was arraigned in Coles county on charges of criminal negligence and manslaughter. Six other directors officers and employees of the Central Illinois Traction Co. faced the same charges before Judge M W Thompson.
Lieutenant-General Stoessel, condemned to death on February 20 for the Port Arthur surrender, petitions Emperor Nicholas for a full pardon. The court recommended commuting the sentence to ten years in fortress imprisonment and exclusion from service.
Los Angeles dispatch reports Governor Joseph K. Toole of Montana arriving from Helena and announcing his intent to resign due to ill health. He said the resignation will take effect on April 1.
In Washington the house debated the army appropriation bill as Mr. Dalzell of Pennsylvania defended the protective tariff system and Republican policy, saying it made the U S a leading manufacturing nation. He warned revision might occur if Republicans win next election, while Mr. Houston of Tennessee urged tariff revision and blamed trusts. Other remarks supported Civil War pension and noted U S gold hitting 1 billion dollars. The bill was read for amendment.
The senate on Wednesday confirmed Louis A. Coolidge of Massachusetts as assistant secretary of the treasury and Charles P. Granfield of Missouri as first assistant postmaster general, marking official approval of key administration appointments.
New York labor representatives at the Central Federated Union meeting Sunday opposed the unemployed parade and the mass meeting planned in City Hall Park on March 7, and refused to participate in the demonstration.
Senator Robert L. Owen of Oklahoma spoke for nearly three hours on the Aldrich currency bill in the Senate Tuesday. He asserted that a 1900 proposal by former Senator Jones of Arkansas was similar but lacked key features that would have prevented the recent panic, and he faced close questioning and sharp debate from fellow senators.
At Centralia the executive committee of the Southern Illinois Newspaper Correspondents Association set plans for the semiannual meeting and banquet in East St. Louis on March 28. Invitations will go to Governor Deneen, Congressman McKinley, Congressman Rodenberg, Mayor Kern, and Charles Boeschenstein, Edwardsville Democratic state central chair.
Two Joliet burglars attempted to rob Anton Bozik a saloon keeper. They were attacked by a mastiff that fatally injured the dog and allowed Bozik to be found after the men fled. One burglar was wounded? The text is unclear. The dog was fatally injured and the burglars escaped.
William Jones also called William Birmingham and his wife Alzina Jones were found guilty by a jury in Judge Kerstein's court of abducting 12 year old Lillian Wulff from her Chicago home last December. Jones is sentenced to thirty years and his wife to twenty five years in the penitentiary.
Louis Cont of Winnebago County attempted to shoot a rabbit but the gun misfired when he threw it at the animal. The gun stock struck the ground and discharged, hitting Cont in the leg. He was conveyed to a hospital for treatment.
The Pastors' Association hires a private detective to watch over Reverend Billy Sunday as he leads a religious revival in Decatur ahead of the April local option campaign. The letters threatening Sunday prompted additional security for the event and its organizers.
Fairfield reports the death of Robert Hayward 80 a retired farmer and capitalist founder of Hayward College in this city He died of heart disease Hayward recently endowed a chair at Delaware College Delaware Ohio and donated a fortune to education.
Rock Island Ensign and Mrs. Robert Booth in charge of the Salvation Army post here were held after the coroner's investigation in the death of their two weeks old son found with a gash in the neck.
The State Game Commission acquired 900 pheasants for Sangamon county at six dollars per pair. Breeder Wallace Evans, a youth from Oak Park, supplied the birds.
Ransom A. Youngblood once president of Coal Belt National Bank of Salem Arkansas was sentenced to serve an indeterminate term of one to fourteen years in the state penitentiary and was taken to Chester penitentiary to begin serving.
Reverend Robert Conover long notable Presbyterian leader in Bloomington dies at 85 a day after his wife. In 1856 the couple founded the state’s first girls seminary in Bloomington.
A beer car derailed in the yards of the Chicago and Northwestern line in Elgin overturning a large barn and killing a dozen prize winning Plymouth Rock chickens. The accident occurred in a freak incident damaging nearby property and prompting an investigation by rail officials.
An epidemic of scarlet fever in Chenoa prompts authorities to shut all public meetings and close schools and churches in Bloomington area. Public gatherings banned and institutional activities paused to curb spread.
Taylorville resident David Litton aged 66 was killed when coal fell in the Christian County Coal Co mine. Authorities described it as a fatal mining incident with safety checks under review.
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