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Newspaper
Atlantic Evening News
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1909
Page
3
Joe Matson, daring driver, takes the Indiana Trophy with a steady average speed of 51.2 miles per hour. Robertson, driving Loco, finishes second as the field carves a fast course with close competition throughout the event.
A damaged OCR segment lists the Indiana Trophy Race with distance 232.74 miles and laps unknown. It names entrants including the Renault foreign car and a Detroit built Chalmers winning driver Joe Matson. Other garbled data mention Secorid and Marion location context.
Crown Point June 19 Joe Matson drove a Chalmers-Detroit to victory in the Indiana trophy a 232.74 mile race despite rough roads and minor slips. His average speed was 51.2 mph finishing in 4 hours 31 minutes 21 seconds with Robertson second in a Locomobile and Monson third in a Marson. The field included Locomobile Buick Fal-Car and Stoddard-Dayton entries and the start was officiated by Fred Wagner with Asa Paine as agent.
London reports Britain has asked America not to press its claim for participation in the Hankow Sze-Chuan railroad loan of 27.5 million dollars. British, German, and French bankers are prepared to take it up.
Torrential rain in Presque Isle Maine halted a forest fire that had ravaged Maine and New Brunswick, abruptly quenching the danger and allowing crews to assess the damage and halt flare ups.
Crowds flooded the towns for a race event in Indiana with special trains, militiamen, and tents at the grand stand. Spectators suffered injuries as autos overturned and motorcycles crashed, including Adolph Magnus Florence Packard and Harriet Barnes from Chicago.
Former President Theodore Roosevelt faces a literary rival in Rev. Dr. William Rainsford former rector of St. George's Episcopal Church New York. Rainsford has just returned after four years abroad mostly hunting big game in Africa and will publish a voluminous hunting memoir in the fall predating Roosevelt's African writings.
A special committee of the Bayonne New Jersey school board corroborates Dr Henry A Abbott's charges that many public school pupils attend classes under the influence of liquor. The board appeals to parents teachers and pupils to curb intoxicants and enforces the cigarette sale ban to lads under 16. Cincinnati hosts a 10 day Turnfest with 5000 Turners camping in a tent city with 60 showers and ample kitchens ready for the national event.
Flandreau S D June 19 Mrs Emma Kaufmann accused of murder Amy FPolreis domestic charged found guilty of battery and sentenced to pay a 100 dollar fine or 50 days jail The fine was paid.
In Williamsport Pennsylvania on June 19 Albert Munro and his bride of a week were found dead in their apartment room. Police suspect the deaths resulted from a death by own action pact.
Dayton Ohio June 19 a national state and city tribute to Wilbur and Orville Wright includes gold and state medals presented by Gen James Allen Gov Judson Harmon and Mayor Edward Burkhart. Ambassadors Takahira and Velez attend as crowds watch a floats parade depicting locomotion progress and the Wrights prepare to depart for Washington and then Germany for government work.
In Bragg Oklahoma a battle between officers and three train robbers on St Louis Iron Mountain & Southern No 168 left Deputy Constable Johnson Kirk dead. Robber Paul Williams was wounded and captured while two others fled. a posse pursues them as pay envelopes for train crew had just been issued.
In Fairfield on June 19 a feud between local youths and the Harrington theater company led to the slaying of veterinary surgeon and Wayne County Fair official Charles F. Leininger and the shooting of two young men. Frank M. McCullough lies dying from a stomach wound. Richard Sloan is shot in the thigh and may be crippled. Pinnick, an actor from French Lick Indiana, involved in the confrontation, is in jail after aiding a companion home from the show.
A well dressed 18 year old youth named William McGregor arrived in Columbus Indiana and asked police for help locating his parents claiming he was kidnapped from Columbus when five. He says a Pennsylvania woman recently alerted him by letter and that he recall traveling in a wagon and begging after being beaten. His name may not be his real one and his parents may have moved away.
Stockholm reports that the British steamer Woodburn of Newcastle had four crew members wounded when a Russian squadron vessel fired on her near Pitkipas Bay. Fire from a torpedo boat followed three blank shots after the ship wandered into a prohibited zone. Captain may have misread regulations. injuries deemed slight and a hospital discharge expected in days.
De Queen Ark June 19 The enter town of Antimony in Howard County reverts to state after no bids when offered for sale for taxes Once a promising antimony center the mine was abandoned after little ore was taken and the town deserted Burned in launch explosion Detroit June 19 George Wineblehler severely burned and five others narrowly escaped death in a river launch explosion near Wyandotte
New York today notes Dr. Charles W. Eliot, president of Harvard, excludes the Bible and Shakespeare from his proposed twenty five books for liberal education. The omission triggers broad comment across literary and regional circles, as educators have long featured these works in liberal reading lists.
Washington in June 1919 Bishop Warren A Candler of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Georgia was named the third arbitrator in the dispute between the Georgia Railroad Company and its firemen.
Washington June 19 The Senate defeated Senator Brown's amendment to place print paper on the sea list of the tariff bill by 29 to 52. Senator Lorimer opposed the amendment.
William Lorimer of Illinois took the oath and became a United States senator after resigning his seat in the house to serve in the Senate. He is expected to align with the progressive bloc. Flooding in Salina Kansas surrounds fifty homes as the Smoky Hill river reaches flood stage.
Rev Ulysses Grant B Pierce D D pastor of All Souls Unitarian church of this city has been designated by a senate resolution to act as chaplain until otherwise ordered.
Macon Georgia June 19 a patrolman Oscar Abel after fatally shooting Emma Raymond in the red light district yesterday turned the revolver on himself and committed suicide.
A 17 year old Navajo boy Dan Tuc Ac pleaded guilty in federal court to murdering four relatives at Ancath in a remote area. Judge Marshall sentenced him to ten years in Leavenworth with a $100 fine for the murder.
New York police investigate the finding of a young woman's body, apparently murdered by strangulation, in a steamer trunk in a Chinese rooming house on West 59th Street. The victim is believed to be a missionary. leads point to Paul Sigel and Henry Barnell as key figures in identifying the suspect and confirming the victim as Bisle Sigel.
Mrs Minnie Douglass of Adel Iowa was convicted by an ecclesiastical Methodist court led by Rev A E Foutch of De Soto for playing whist before the church. She faces temporary suspension and a one week window to apologize or face permanent ouster. Fifty women church members seek release claiming whist is not a crime. The verdict sparked indignation over the foreign jury and lack of defense representation.
Ulysses Nebraska June 19. Bishop Banacum and Fathers O'Brien of Seward and Kline of Brainard were driven from the village by a large mob. They had come to take control of the local church led by Father Murphy. The mob size reportedly reached into the thousands. Adrift in Storm Bay City Michigan June 19. Morris Thurston Stock Company players were towed after spending the night on Saginaw Bay in a 50 foot launch amid gasoline fumes.
From Cornelli Bluffs, on June 19, physicians and nurses noted no real change in General Dodge’s condition. Some slight improvement was thought possible if a change occurred.
June 19 Fond du Lac Wisconsin reports engineer Thomas McDonald killed and fireman Burnton fatally injured when a Chicago and Northwestern passenger train derailed in North Fond du Lac yards. Mrs Run and her baby were probably fatally hurt. Also noted is the Slocum disaster fifth anniversary in New York with 1,200 lives lost.
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