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Newspaper
Atlantic News Telegraph
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1912
Page
3
A review of the Republican National Committee hearings shows 264 contests heard. Taft delegates seated 235, Roosevelt 19, with debates over temporary roll and nomination processes.
Roosevelt leaders adopt a procedure to challenge contest rulings and substitute a new temporary roll, aiming to seat 70 to 80 delegates loyal to Roosevelt. They plan a bloc vote tactic to take control, with Hadley as floor leader and Rosewater under scrutiny. A separate note reports Illinois Osteopathic convention denouncing vaccination and endorsing the Owen bill.
A devastating storm swept central west Missouri causing numerous deaths including nineteen between Merwin and Adrian, with two in Creighton and two in Leeton. Kansas City suffered two deaths and extensive damage while stateside, towns along Sedalia to Windsor faced downed wires, collapsed roofs, and hundreds left homeless. Relief trains were dispatched from Windsor and Sedalia as telegraph lines failed.
A circular from the National Consumers' League calls for the immediate dismissal of Secretary Wilson Solicitor McCabe and Dr. Dunlap. They urge Taft Gummins Roosevelt Wilson and Clark to state their views on Dr Wiley’s forced resignation as head of the bureau of chemistry. Alles Lakey signs as food commission chair. Russia must buy cotton here says minister Krivocheiie after Asia trip.
Mason City Iowa June 17 The proposed special session of the district court in Winnebago county for the Bowers murder trial has been abandoned and the case will be tried at the September term Burt J Thompson county attorney in charge of prosecution says Bowers is charged with shooting J W Brokke a neighbor three weeks after a chicken trespass quarrel His attorneys plan a self defense defense This is the second murder case in the county history.
Dr H R Cooley told the National Conference of Charities and Correction that Cleveland farm colony experiments show outdoor work for offenders broadens humane treatment. He acknowledged not all offenders suit such a plan and urged rethinking penitentiaries and state reformatories. He noted Warrensville meetings and city institutions as context.
Notice to owners of dogs that the agreence is past due and AML persons owning dogs should call and pay promptly to avoid further action. City Marshal H Bosley signs the notice in 2017.
A Chicago gathering reflects growing momentum for Justice Charles E. Hughes as a compromise presidential candidate. William H. Hotchkiss, urging unity, cites Hughes civic duty while denying the justice’s knowledge of the movement. In Washington, Beall questions $82,000 in fees paid to Secretary Stimson as sugar fraud inquiries proceed.
Baseball scores from Chicago Detroit Topeka Wichita Sioux City Denver and surrounding games. Notable lineups included Wood Cady Lange Block Plank Dubuc Stanage Schmidt Hall Johnson Rogge McGraw and Cadman Palmer Stratton Kenworthy Spahr with varying win loss tallies and runs across multiple cities.
Karluk Alaska June 17 The relief tug Redondo arrived from the mainland cruise to Katmai volcano coast and reported landing impossible due to heavy sand and ash deposits. No life signs were seen and crew could not identify the scattered fishing villages along the coast.
Nebraskan leader Bryan arrives at the convention scene amid cheers in Baltimore. He chats with Theodore Roosevelt after interviewing Taft campaign officials. Bryan jokes about watching the party steamroller and says Democrats will hold a model convention without it.
Harvey Garber, Democratic national committeeman from Ohio, arrived in Baltimore and said the Baltimore convention would oppose treating Ohio delegates as a unit. He noted Ohio’s delegates are elected under a new primary law, limiting the state convention’s binding authority. Walter K. Vick from Governor Wilson’s New York HQ arrived to set up Wilson headquarters. In Tecumseh Nebraska, two ministers received a threatening anonymous letter warning they will be shot if they continue fighting the ambon.
Washington reports two new yellow fever cases in Sandwar Bautista the capital of Telasco Mexico per an official state department memo.
Margaret Reber seventeen daughter of Peter Reber living sixteen miles west of Cedar Falls Iowa died after ten hours of agonies from burns sustained while attempting to start the kitchen fire with wood alcohol. She soaked two cobs in the alcohol placed them in the stove and struck a match while holding the bottle in her left hand. The flames enveloped her in an instant.
Fort Dodge Iowa June 17 Charles Davis was fatally stabbed on a downtown street by an unknown man. Davis in hospital said his attacker asked if he wanted a drink then struck him in the ribs.
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