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Newspaper
Baxter Springs News
Location
Baxter Springs, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 26, 1908
Page
3
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A report claims a plot existed to kill D W Steve Gan Francisco Hatch in Korea. Officials described the plan as a serious security concern involving unknown conspirators and potential diplomatic implications. Further details were not disclosed.
officials of a Korean body released a statement as documents arrived in San Francisco aboard the same vessel that brought Mr Stevens from the Orient. Dr F D Zumwalt reported a careful examination of the wounds on the American diplomat whose condition was described following Monday’s attempted usage.
Two Koreans described the radical assault on Durham W. Stevens, political adviser to the Korean council, as a conspiracy inspired by the Righteous Army manifesto. They cited gunshot injuries to Stevens and outlined risks of surgery while noting his stable condition and normal temperature. They named Koreans Yee Wan Wong and Seng Pung Chun as despised figures in Korea. The source mentions Revolutionary leagues with thousands of supporters, fleeing to Siberia and Russia, in a context of anti-Japanese sentiment and nationalist resolve.
The second trial of Epp Vanell, a shoemaker, charged with murdering his wife who died after eating rats rough, began in earnest in Lawrence on Tuesday. A jury was secured Monday night. The state contends Vanell killed his wife to marry another woman. A prior trial ended with a hung jury.
Mrs. A Hoff of Shickley Nebraska attempted rescue when a barn fire trapped her two daughters on Monday. She endured their screams as both children died in the flames. Authorities investigate cause and extent of the blaze.
An accord between the American Tobacco Company and the Society of Equity executive committee at Winchester Kentucky ends eight riding in Kentucky. The pact involves nearly 14 million dollars and crop purchases for 1906 1947 versus a 1908 crop allocation. In Hopkinsville night riders assaulted Thomas Weaver a tobacco company employee dragged him from bed and shot him as he fled. The motive is unknown.
Senator La Follette resumed his March 15 address in Washington defending against the Aldrich bill. He rejected claims that the system’s organs overreacted to his remarks and argued that far fewer than 100 men control all U S threats and trusts. He urged progressive senators to unite to defeat the measure.
Clifford Heckert, Delicatessen manager at Peebles Grocery, is indicted on embezzlement charges alleging he used $5 purchases and a car while earning $16 weekly. He allegedly skimmed cash receipts totaling at least $10,000 over three years, while reporting sales and denying the accusations.
Washington reports the cabinet decided to accept China’s invitation for the Atlantic battleship fleet to call at a Chinese port on its return voyage from the Pacific coast. No further invitations will be accepted. The world itinerary will be arranged accordingly with other calls limited to coaling stops.
Washington March 24. A presidential order to curb driving recklessness in the Canal Zone imposes speed limits. Drivers on straight roads must not exceed 15 miles per hour and 8 miles per hour on curves or intersections. Violations carry fines from 5 to 100 dollars or up to 30 days imprisonment or both.
Omaha reports John A Wishard a Stanton county stockman was arrested Tuesday in a local hotel on an indictment for violating federal banking laws. The indictment was returned by a federal grand jury at Marshall Texas. Also reported, James Clark died in Wellington Kansas after amputation following a leg wound from a sheriff’s murder case.
Four people died and several injured in a Queen and Crescent line wreck between Burgin and Highmriy on Tuesday. Wounded were transported to Hamptal Bere for treatment.
The Baxter Springs city council adopted resolutions urging the Board of Education to add proper exits to School District No. 6’s building to protect pupils from fire or panic. A civic group called the As You Like It club plans petitions urging precautionary measures at the schoolhouse. The notice notes council records and forwarding copies to the school board. Local social notes follow, listing residents and activities such as farm visits, fishing, and a doctor’s first trip in a new auto.
A ten dollar reward is announced for evidence that will convict the thieves who have taken large quantities of various paper stock. The notice laments several subscribers are delinquent and urges them to come forward and redeem their honor.
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