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Newspaper
Brimfield News
Location
Brimfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1908
Page
2
A jumbled OCR fragment reports varied items from war talk to local incidents, including potential conflict speculation involving Venezuela, shipyard work, train incidents near St Louis and Kansas City, a fatal home event in Manchester, a Denver boiler explosion, and a Pennsylvania law ruling. the text is incoherent with numerous names and places, lacking a single coherent story.
Eugene W. Chafin received formal notification as the Prohibition candidate for president at a Music Hall reception in Chicago. Speakers hailed the moment as a historic win, with attendees predicting a national tide for the Prohibition ticket and promising a fuller acceptance letter later.
Rear Admiral Rubley D Evans of the United States Navy dies at age 62 after nearly five decades of service. He is celebrated at Lake Mohonk with a birthday tribute and a reception attended by admirers from across the country. President Roosevelt sends a letter of esteem as details of his long career and dedication are recalled. The report also notes the New York to Paris auto race, where the German Protos wins by rail time allowances.
Chairman Flitchbock of the Republican national committee names Mrs Lloyd Osbourne to his executive committee as she files separate maintenance suit in San Francisco. Actress Alice Johnstone is granted a divorce from Dustin Farnam in New York. Thomas F. Gargan, Boston transit commissioner, dies in Berlin after recent stomach surgery.
Springfield faced three days of riot and bloodshed with five killed as National Guardsmen, about fifty five hundred strong, patrolled the streets. Troops quelled the mob, prevented lynching, and restored at least a temporary peace amid a city under military rule.
A mob hanged barber Scott Burton after a dispute with a white man. A house near his shop was fired on, and Burton fought the mob before a rope ended his life. an 80 year old man William Donnegan was beaten and hanged at his home. a Russian Jewish suspect Abraham Raymer confessed to being in the mob. The lynching reportedly arose from accusations of Donnegan’s marriage to a white woman. The mob gathered at Seventh and Washington.
Chicago added 1500 soldiers, 250 cavalry, swelling guard totals beyond 5000 in the capital to maintain order. A Chicago soldier bayoneted a boy trying to board the First Regiment train in Kankakee, authorities say. Lynchings and race riots have marred peace. 1530 lynchings reported in twelve years before 1908. A crowd of 200 went to Donnegan’s home amid fear of planned killings and a fleeing wife and children. Donnegan, aged and frail, could not accompany them.
Dun's Review of Trade reports steady improvement in commerce with fewer failures in the Chicago district this week. Banking conditions ease with discounts at 38 percent, boosting manufacturers as demand widens and output rises in steel, furnaces, and heavy hardware.
Trade shows fair volume and crops advancing with rains aiding corm. Buyers remain in large numbers but cautious. industrials hold similar recent strength, iron and steel inching up while pig iron slips. Southern lumber prices rise and mills may restart. failures trend lower in the United States for the week ending August 13, with Canadian failures rising from prior week.
Commodity and livestock prices across major markets including Chicago Indianapolis St Louis Cincinnati Detroit Milwaukee Buffalo New York and Toledo with cattle hogs sheep wheat corn oats rye butter eggs and hay values. Notable ranges: Chicago hogs 4.00 7.75, New York eggs 17 19c, Milwaukee wheat 1.16 1.18 per bushel.
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