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Newspaper
Atlantic Evening News
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 26, 1908
Page
1
An American car wins a historic long distance race with over 250000 spectators. Litle Finishes second as a vast crowd surges onto the course in a dramatic finish. The event drew a large crowd and featured intense competition among top drivers.
Synopsis of the fourth Vanderbilt Cup race reports driver Lytte in a Locomobile finishing at 4 hours 0 minutes 48 seconds with Isotta in second. Distance 258.06 miles, winner’s average 64.3 mph, best American record 64.25 mph by Lytte on the same course two weeks earlier. Attendance about 250,000, weather overcast with rain, course wet and treacherous.
George Robertson wins the fourth Vanderbilt automobile cup on Motor Parkway Long Island in a 120 horsepower Locomobile setting a new American distance record. Herbert Lytle finishes second in an Italian Isotta. A spectator is killed when a car clips the crowd and another spectator, David S. Schull, sustains a fractured leg. Crowd of at least a quarter million overruns the course as officials suspend the race after the second car crosses the line.
In Maple Creek district Saskatchewan Harry Martin of Martin Brothers' sheep ranch died from exposure after getting lost in a snowstorm while guiding a flock. The storm claimed thousands of sheep with Ivey Wilson losing 2500 and Thomas Kerr 500 losses. Martin Brothers also suffered several hundred.
On a New Orleans bound Texas & Pacific train a bridegroom is killed by his former suitor as the bride sits between them. The bride's uncle wrestles the weapon, jamming the hammer to save her. The former suitor, F. S. Beauve of Plaquemine, La., is in custody. the groom is Prof. Fred Van Ingen of Alexandria. The wedding occurred the prior day in Alexandria.
In Peoria on October 26 the Illinois State Federation of Labor re elected Edwin R Wright as president and chose F G Hopp of Chicago and F J Marx of Peru as Deneen men. Wright lauded Gov Deneen and labor legislation. The anti Cannon resolution passed amid opposition. Officers elected include Peter Fitzgerald J W Morton A Whitney James Morris and others. William Loose Chicago won the delegate seat to the American Federation of Labor convention on the fifth ballot with 112 votes over Frank Hayes Collinsville who had 59.
Denver hosts the thirty fifth annual WCTU convention with Saturday sessions focusing on union work and reports from state organizers and superintendents. Amended constitutional proposals were briefly read as ten minutes given. Mrs Minnie A Rutherford delivered the Juvenile Courts Industrial Education and Anti Child Labor address joined by Judge Benjamin B Lindsay Mrs Rose Woodallen Chapman and Mrs Zillah Foster Stevens.
Three masked men cut telephone wires outside the Perkins home in Morristown and entered the house on Friday. They knocked down one maid, attacked and choked Mrs H W Miller, sister of the Perkins sisters, and stole jewelry valued at $2,000.
Taft on a 15-town northern New York State circuit from Indianapolis to Gary praised labor policy and attacked Gompers as misrepresenting his injunctions. Bryan toured southern tier counties in New York, visiting Suffern Monroe Goshen Middletown Port Jervis Binghamton and Elmira. Debs spoke in St Louis declaring a socialist verdict on capitalism. Roosevelt is not scheduled to speak in Chicago or New York per White House advisories.
Washington reports say this season’s fires across the eastern region have devastated timber and water sheds supplying power, with extensive damage in the Adirondacks. Gifford Pinchot calls for preventive ranger patrols and wider public conservation to curb future losses. Rain later helped quell eastern fires in Kentucky, as residents returned home from tents near threatened areas.
Silas C. McFarland Iowa born editor and publisher former consul general at large for Europe shot himself on a Hamburg to Berlin train Saturday dying almost instantly. He had left the continent for Washington six weeks earlier and was returning to Berlin to rejoin his wife. Consul General Thackern began an investigation. McFarland served as consul at Nottingham and Reichenberg before becoming consul general at St Gall in 1907. He was born June 3 1859 at Mount Pleasant Iowa and educated at Cornell College and Wesleyan University. He married Marie Elboeck in Des Moines in 1886.
At Yokohama on October 26 aboard the battleship Mikasa American naval officers were celebrated as Japanese admirals and captains hoisted Ambassador O'Brien on their shoulders and paraded the deck with cheering. The display included Rear Admiral Sperry and other American admirals amid a festive reception. In Amoy preparations for October 30 to welcome the second division of the fleet are nearly complete as grounds and pavilions are rebuilt after typhoon damage with Chinese officials arriving to participate.
Dr CG Clark, formerly an interne at the University of Iowa hospital, is identified with contact details including house phone 461 Black and office 263 Black, Atlantis.
Wills drawn and probated with reports prepared for administrators and guardians. Appointments secured in probate practice as a specialty. General law business conducted by Atlantic.
St Louis reports National City a two year old village famed for packing houses and stockyards is bankrupt. Mayor Robert Monere floated a $1,000 loan Saturday to cover current expenses. Anticipation warrants will be issued against the loan and repayment expected from next year’s tax collection. Expenditures for improvements and levee protection exhausted funds.
Buffalo Oct 26 The international waterways commission will meet next Saturday to define and demarcate the boundary between the United States and Canada from the St Regis area along the St Lawrence River and through the Great Lakes to the Pigeon River at Lake Superior’s western end. Shortage of funds reported in San Francisco hints at further investigations and potential prosecutions. James C Tomally held in connection with treasury shortfalls. expert accountants tie the missing money to former City Treasurer Charles A Bantel.
Miss Katharine C. Harley of Fall River Mass defeated Mrs T H Polhemus of Richmond County Brooklyn N Y at Chevy Chase to win the national golf championship by 6 up and 5 to play.
The Zeppelin airship conducted a successful Saturday ascent over Friedrichshafen as pilots tested maneuvers. It is being tuned for a forthcoming launch led by Prince Henry of Prussia, brother of Emperor William, next Tuesday.
An incident described as a gas explosion damaged the royal palace at Oporto in Lisbon area on October 26. General Cibrao and three others were injured as the palace is readied for King Manuel's arrival on November 5.
Fred Huyck of Chicago set amateur world records at the Detroit state fairgrounds for ten miles with a time of 9 28 2 5 and for fifteen miles in 14 19 3 5. The marks announced today improve the prior records in both events.
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