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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1908
Page
2
A miscellaneous digest notes Mrs Duke convict in Chicago for passing a bad check, conferences at Hot Springs with Judge Tatt, and Taft speeches limited to Cincinnati. Reports cover a French ship explosion, mutinies of Chinese soldiers, rail rate disputes, storms, fires, and political moves across Missouri Kansas and beyond.
History recounts Old Franklin founded 1816 on the Missouri river opposite Boonville, first west of St Louis newspaper in 1819, Santa Fe trail shift, and river erosion erasing most of the town leaving an old slaveyard as remains. Also reports Ellis urging alfalfa farming to balance crops, plus multiple local incidents and oil well speculation near Phelps and Maries counties.
The Camden Point Hoo reports a Platte county farm can be bought on credit with the first year paid by planting potatoes. It notes a $30,000 YMCA building in Carthage with plans contracted to Kansas City architects. It also records the drowning of Elmer Bartee while frog hunting near Moberly.
Elizabeth Carver, 72, was found dead in a vacant house south of Chillicothe after days of a town and rural search. She died from exposure as hundreds searched night and day. In Bevier the last dramshop license expired under local option law, with legal action to test its enforceability as Bevier votes with the county. Y Trice Jr., 87, died in Kansas City after moving from Virginia to Missouri in 1834, settling in Cameron before his death.
Garland Greever, a 1904 Central College graduate from Fayette, Missouri, is appointed assistant professor of English at the University of Arkansas with a salary of 1500 dollars per year. He previously served two years as principal of the Durham High School in North Carolina.
A 30 hour search fails to locate Richard Smith seven year old son of Joplin city councilman Stephen A. Smith after he fell into an abandoned mine shaft. Water deep at 60 feet and 1,000 volunteers join the costly rescue effort with engines working to lower water levels.
Harry Hill of Galloways County was arrested in Montgomery City on forged checks from Rhineland Bank. Circuit Judge Barnett imposed a light sentence, fining $10 plus costs with release upon reimbursement to the bank. Drowned While Bathing In Shoal Creek near Chillicothe a 17 year old, single, named David Owens, was found drowned while bathing, suspected cramps. Knox died at his Springfield home after brief illness believed caused by ptomaine poisoning from buttermilk. A reward of $300 offered by Gov Folk for the arrest of the unknown shooter who killed C B Kennedy in Moniteau County on July 20, 1908. A fireman jumped from a moving engine near Webb City due to an imagined collision. J H Barton, a renowned Missouri cement maker, died at 64 at his Ash Grove home.
In St Charles Missouri the police and armed citizens scour the countryside after a Saturday night assault on Catherine Stucker, 38. She was dragged from bed to a distant location, severely beaten, found on Morgan Street, and remains in critical condition at the county hospital with concussion and serious injuries.
William Lush, a wealthy German resident of Lincoln, fired four times at his wife of 30 years after she refused to talk as often as he wanted. A bullet grazed her hair with no injury. Lush was wounded by a self-inflicted shot and hospitalized at St. Elizabeth's. doctors say he will live as the skull was only chipped by the bullet.
Sheriff Ed Thomas shot at merchant J M Crisp who mistook the sheriff for a robber during a raid scare. Crisp was wounded in the side by one of two shots but the injury is not believed fatal.
Victor Rosewater of the Republican party loses fight to prevent fusion in Nebraska. Secretary of State George C. Junkin rules that Sophias Noble of the Second congressional district may appear on the primary ballot for both the Populist and Democratic tickets as a candidate for election.
State Student Secretary Paul Smith announced that the U S C A will install branches in every Iowa high school this year. It is expected to challenge the influence of rival high school fraternities as school boards seek to banish them. Old Canal Company Liquidated in Paris after decades long bankruptcy. The Seine tribunal approved a final creditor payment of 1 percent and discharged the receivers.
William A. Hing, 21, of Milwaukee, Minnesota or Kansas source lists Milwaukee, drowned Thursday evening while swimming in the Smoky Hill River at Enterprise Kansas. Local authorities report a drowning with no further details available at press time.
In San Juan Puerto Rico Assistant Secretary of State Robert Bacon reports the disputes between the federal government and the Catholic church in Porto Rico have been settled regarding estates formerly owned by Dominican and Franciscan orders. He sailed for New York on the steamer San Juan after the settlement.
National convention resolutions condemn liquor traffic in New Haven Connecticut appeal for Sunday sanctification and exclusion from Catholic societies for those in the liquor trade highlighted the gathering.
Oklahoma City reported that Joh A. Kram bolz of Detroit Michigan died Thursday evening after an accidental shooting. Andrew Tarsney, aged 16, was involved. both youths were 16. The incident remains under investigation by local authorities.
John W. Riddle, the American ambassador, underwent a slight procedure in Kislovodsk, Russia, Thursday to remove fluid from a pleurisy attack. The operation followed the illness and aimed at relief and recovery.
Descriptive fragment shows crew in armored turrets with numbered units, each man limited to his own duty. The scene highlights tense readiness, concealment, and risk as operators acknowledge the deadly, interdependent balance of No 1 through No 6 guns while a station man faces potential fatal outcomes.
The report details crew actions in loading and firing a large coastal or shipborne gun. It covers roles, commands, powder charges, artillery mechanisms, and the sequence from stand by to firing, noting safety procedures and the magnitude of the recoil and blast.
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