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Newspaper
Ackley World
Location
Ackley, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 12, 1906
Page
8
Property for sale comprising 160 acres adjoining Ackley to the east in Hand County South Dakota. Land is well improved. For details write to John A Wessels St Lawrence Hand County.
Philadelphia dispatch reports State Banking Commissioner Berkey appointing special examiners Vollum and Goldsmith to probe the Real Estate Trust company wreck. Receiver Earle hopes to reopen and protect depositors while creditors are urged to support rehabilitation. Preliminary hearings target promoter Segal treasurer North and assistant treasurer Collingwood amid evidence of overdrafts and large loans, with $7,000,000 on deposit and $5,409,200 lent to Segal.
A Wisconsin aeronaut, William Malleray, fell to the lake when a broken propeller shaft failed to allow control. He rose at a fair in Oconto and, after the shaft broke and a botched repair, drifted over Lake Michigan as thousands watched in horror.
Telegraphic briefs report about three thousand attendees at the Minnesota state fair on Friday, the lowest count of the week. Other items note Anfieos Kaid capturing Mogador Moroc co after defeating government troops, Secretary Shaw campaigning through several states, a gas explosion injuring C W Menelly and daughter Vera in Minneapolis, Mexican officials denying revolution risk, and the Futurity winner Electioneer selling for thirty thousand dollars in New York.
A 50 member detachment from Cienfuegos clashed with General Guzman’s insurgents near Camarones. Government troops were routed with many killed or wounded amid rising excitement in Cienfuegos. A Santa Clara province report says Colonel Valles’ troops pursued rebels near Palmira. after reinforcements, insurgents were repulsed at Tartabull with several killed or wounded. Rural guards had two wounded.
The fourteenth national Irrigation congress finished sessions in Boise Idaho and selected Sacramento California as the site for the next gathering. Governor George Chamberlain of Oregon was chosen president amid some dispute over a secretary candidate D H Anderson. A minority bid for a hundred million irrigation bond was defeated while speakers cited the reclamation act's passage as a Roosevelt achievement.
Anxious to return to Chicago, Stensland's camp reports he is willing to come back immediately. Assistant State's Attorneys Barbour and Olson seek Washington permission to release him without awaiting formal documents. telegrams indicate Roosevelt enabled a warrant and plans to transfer the prisoner aboard an American-bound ship via Tangier and Gibraltar.
Panama city Sept 7 The national assembly elected J D Obaldia first vice president Frederico Boyd second vice president and Rafael Aizpuru third vice president. Rumor centers on President Amadors retirement after Roosevelt visit if assembly picks please him.
Mrs Emma Schwab wife of steel magnate Charles M Schwab is seriously ill at her Riverside Drive residence. Schwab confirms she is in the hands of surgeons and has been ill since returning from a country place at Laureto Pa.
A dispatch from the American minister to Morocco reports Paul O. Stensland, president of the Milwaukee Avenue State Bank of Chicago, captured in Tangier by Chicago Tribune agent Keeley and Assistant State's Attorney Olson. He faces confinement at the American legation pending removal to the United States. Situations around his return and possible escape are under close watch.
At Libertyville Illinois Mary Keys of Chicago leaped from a balloon 600 feet up and survived with minor injuries after the parachute failed to open. She clung to the cordage and saved a negro attendant entangled in the rigging, who was carried forty feet head downward. In Boston Massachusetts Mrs David Sharretts, wife of a War Department cashier, shot herself at Homeopathic Hospital shortly after learning her husband had just died.
Four hundred neighbors and friends gathered Friday night at the Methodist Episcopal church of Normal near the Bryan home to honor Mr and Mrs William J Bryan. Mr Bryan spoke on religious matters of the old world in an engaging address.
Captain John Low, who served aboard the Confederate cruiser Alabama during the Civil War, died Thursday in Liverpool. His service on the Alabama linked him to its commerce-raiding actions against the United States during the war.
The state railroad and warehouse commission has cited all railroads to appear at 10 a m on Wednesday September 19 to examine the reasonableness of freight rates on all commodities. Merchandise rates were already reviewed and decided at last Saturdays hearing.
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