28 May 1909
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Newspaper
Albuquerque Morning Journal
Location
Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1909
Page
1
William G Tight Reado presides as president of the Twenty-Ninth Annual New Mexico Fair highlighting the event and leadership at the fairgrounds.
President Dr Willan G Tight Vice President Andrew B Strouj Treasurer Lt Ho Collier Secretary John Ko McManus elected unanimously at State National Bank meeting. Four officers pledge full effort, with work to begin within a week as community business leaders back the plan. Public school official Stroup active in prior fair work. Collier brings banking expertise. McManus oversees date management.
The text marks the fourth anniversary of the Sea of Japan battle with admiral names and fleets noted. It honors Admiral Ulei and staff along with cadets and marines for the victory over the Japanese fleet, referencing twenty Russian ships and five captured under various admirals.
Five head of C P Alexander instructor in history prevented a panic among the 1,000 pupils when a laboratory fire broke out during electrical experiments a blue flame shot from the apparatus and was quickly controlled by staff and students.
Boston on May 27 marks the eighty ninth birthday of Julia Ward Howe celebrated by her children and grandchildren. The famed writer remains mentally keen and engaged with public questions though age prevents a public observance. She received numerous congratulations letters telegrams and flowers from friends nationwide.
Nairobi reports Theodore Roosevelt, guest of Governor Jackson, will attend a public banquet on August 3. He has collected eighty six game specimens across twenty two varieties for the national museum in Washington, while naturalists gathered about 1600 birds mammals and snakes.
Wortminieter B C May 27 Word yearhed here today of the drowning of Bil Pierce and Lee King mate and tuck of the Haselton in the Skeena river North British Columbia Tuesday afternoon. The men were wrestling on the deck of the steamer and fell overboard. By the time a boat reached the spot the men had disappeared.
Judge Hardwell rules cities may compel telephone and telegraph firms to take out franchises for poles and wires. Pasadena victory over the Bunnet Telephone Company secures city authority against injunctions stopping local operations.
In Oakland on May 27 Dominick Carpmella, an Italian hawker, stabbed carpenter J Burliseva eleven times with a pocket knife after a dispute over drinks. Burliseva died within minutes from heart wounds. the motive arose from payment over beverages.
Henry A McEvoy, once legally dead in Decatur IL, lived in Dunsmuir ten years tending bar. He learned $5000 is held by an Illinois county treasurer awaiting him, while he seeks his share of a $100,000 estate. He previously left Decatur in 1899 and did not contact his family.
A G Gunther, a mining figure known in Los Angeles, shot himself in a Memphis hotel after a string of losses. He reportedly lost $200 000 in a Mexican mining deal and later in Mexican lands, draining his finances.
Robert F. Scott a former mining engineer from Alameda California was sentenced in Chicago to three years in Fort Leavenworth on the charge of making plates for the coining of money of the Argentine Republic May 27.
Counsel for Howard Gould and Mrs. Gould ask Justice Gerard to set June 7 as the divorce trial date in the separation suit.
Three Wool storehouses connected with the George Talbot and Sons mill at Norton Mass burned today. Loss is estimated at $100,000 with active efforts to contain the fire.
In a tense senate adjournment a clash erupted between Senator Bailey of Texas and New York Times writer W. S. Manning after a heated exchange over a critical article on Bailey’s stance on the income tax. The altercation ended with no injuries as Clapp and Larrinaga intervened and escorted Manning from the corridor.
Senate debate forecasts sharp conflict between cane and beet sugar interests. The tug over policy and prices pits cane producers against beet growers in a charged national dispute.
In Washington the Senate voted 560 to 38 to defer further debate on the Bailey income tax amendment until June 10 as part of tariff considerations. Earlier, two sugar schedule amendments were defeated. Louisiana Democrats Postep and McEnery sided with Republicans on the Dutch testing standard.
Dispatch to Hahuku in the northern Oahu district places police on the ground as communications with larger towns are uncertain. The precaution aims to maintain order in a remote area where access is limited.
Worcester, May 27 The National Armenia and Indian Relief association has assumed support for sixty orphans from the Adana massacres. Miss Emily Celers of Worcester sent a cable to Revo WW Peet in Constantinople. The goal is to support a child for 30 dollars a year, with aim to aid about one thousand children.
Edward Payson Weston plans a midnight departure from Denver to Brighton, aiming to reach the point before morning after spending the day resting and visiting with friends in Colorado capital.
Vancouver reports a fire on the coastwise freight steamer Coquillan as she passed through the Gulf of Georgia. One fireman died and four others were severely burned, with Second Engineer Black badly injured while attempting a rescue. Second Mate Watts and two Japanese firemen suffered serious burns.
South Omaha police arrest three men in connection with a Union Pacific train hold-up near Omaha. Each suspect carried cash from the offense and the trio were found with masks revolvers and other gear by children who alerted authorities. Suspects gave fictitious names and claimed Denver and Minneapolis ties while masking the true details of the case.
Fremont youth Frank Kent is dying after a desperate attempt to leap under a moving train. Deputy W. P. Condit lost his left leg in the ensuing struggle at the depot as Kent, adjudged insane, was being taken to Lincoln for state hospital care. Kent fell under the wheels while the deputy tried to avert the tragedy.
Japanese sugar plantation workers in Hawaii vow no wage concessions after a 8000 strong strike. The planters association, with 31 managers present, adopts a resolution in a morning meeting. police details assigned to the area as tensions rise.
The thirteenth annual conference of the railroad Y M C A began in St Louis with religious meetings planned in theaters depots and freight yards. A banquet tonight will feature W K Brown G W Stevens F A Delane W W Stone and Paw Morrissey as speakers.
Federal grand jury charges Oklahoma Governor Haskell and five associates with obtaining Muskogee town government titles by fraud. Co-defendants listed as W Turner A Z English W Eaton W T Hutchinson and F H Severes. Indictments involve four true bills with bonds set at five thousand dollars each.
Denver May 27 The general assembly approved resolutions urging temperance and tobacco abstinence for ministers and lay members, backing anti saloon measures and a study into modern theology and social economy to fit current conditions. Debate covered licensing for saloons and the role of judges in enforcement. The assembly also mourned Commissioner Samuel H. Young and heard public addresses from Governor Shafroth and Mayor Speer.
Winnipeg May 27 Wheat costs keep flour mills idle across western Canada with all mills shutting this week and larger plants reducing output. In Ontario most mills also closed as wheat remains costly while flour prices fall.
In downtown Denver at Glenarm and Sixteenth streets a lone robber entered a bar at 16:86 and forced the bartender into a locked telephone closet. The thief rifled the cash register, escaping with about $1600. The incident occurred in the heart of the business district tonight.
Representatives from the Dowie colony at Zion City near Chicago proceed to Edmonton to finalize a purchase from the Canadian Pacific Railroad of two townships of land in an irrigated district forty miles east of Calgary. The entire colony will migrate to the new land this summer.
Chicago May 27 B L Carey secretary of the Dowie colony at Zion City says there is no plan to leave Zion City. He notes possible land purchases near Calgary by former church members but insists not for the church.
Taft learns that the English grand lodge issues a dispensation for an American lodge to be formed in London England The Duke of Connaught grand master grants the dispensation The lodge will be instituted on June 3 with Taft named as one of the first honorary members
Governor Hadley signed a bill prohibiting the importation of cattle into Missouri that are affected with the Texas tick. The law takes effect immediately.
Denver May 27 The special committee on where to meet for the 1910 assembly chose Nashville Tenn as the next meeting site amid contests involving Chicago and Atlantic City New Jersey for the Presbyterian general assembly with Chicago and Atlantic City also in contention.
In Savannah on May 11 the Southern Presbyterian general assembly heard that strict Sabbath observance is obsolete. The committee on Sunday observance stated that worship of the Lord's day in the scriptural and forefatherly manner is largely a thing of the past.
Marcel Prevoet, French author, elected as member of the academy in succession to the late Viectorien Sardey. The move marks a continuation of French literary circles with a new academy member among notable writers.
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