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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1912
Page
2
A compact roundup cites Attorney General Wickersham urging legislation against the United States Shoe Machinery Company and the coffee trust. Navy Secretary Meyer calls for major fleet expansion, including four battleships and multiple cruisers, with broader shipbuilding plans.
Saloon hold up in Kansas City nets 1420 as three men flee near police HQ. Governor conference formed at Richmond linking states. Jack Johnson marriage sparks race marriage ban talk in Illinois. Idaho approves constitutional amendments. Los Angeles rejects commission government and end to free lunches. Oklahoma supreme court bans poolroom betting. Logansport bride shoots guest claiming insults. Roosevelt and Wilson split California electoral votes. International Live Stock Expo opens in Chicago with 7000 animals. Oklahoma conducts first electric chair execution in McAlester. St Louis woman confesses to multiple crimes as husband’s status noted.
A string of dispersed items notes opium shop closures in Wu Chang, an Anglo Russian treaty talks, and European peace efforts. Reports include Servian advances in Elbasan and Durazzo, Norway mobilization orders, a Canton anti graft campaign, and Chang Ki Ting’s execution. A London letter box guard signals suffragist mail attacks.
A Kansas news roundup reports figures such as Col Archibald Gracie of Washington dying in New York after leaving the Titanic, Rev R W Brewer of Peru having a suitcase theft in Wichita, and J Beal Sneed acquitted for shooting Capt Al G Boyce in Fort Worth. Other items note Orozco regaining health to resume fighting, Mrs Pardow claiming heiress to William C Rice, and motor bandit Richard Victor starting a 20 year sentence in Lansing. Additional briefs cover John Ogden's forgery arrest in Deepwater, Leonard of Fairview dying as he finished supper, Bruce M Priddy’s suicide in Kansas City, and Capt John J Halpin lured into cashing a bogus check in Chicago. Also noted is a political appointment to a Kansas board of regents and related Seattle/Scott Tribune items.
President Taft submits a comprehensive foreign policy message stressing why diplomacy, open markets, and stable Central American debt relief matter to U S prosperity. He highlights State Department reorganization, merit system expansion, arbitration efforts, and open door policy in China, plus tariff diplomacy and calls Congress to update measures.
Washington reports 1912 as the most productive year in U S history with total farm wealth value at 9.532 billion dollars including livestock. Prices for crops fell versus 1911 across barley corn oats rye wheat hay potatoes hops flaxseed beet sugar and cane sugar, while cotton tobacco butter milk eggs poultry rose.
Jefferson City governor elect Elliott W. Major announced several appointments including Coal Oil Inspector John M. Atkinson of Doniphan, Beer Inspector Speed Mosby of Jefferson City, Insurance Commissioner Charles G. Revelle of Farmington, Game and Fish Commissioner J B Jones of Frankfort Pike County, Pardon Attorney R B Noel of Lewis County, Warden of the Penitentiary D C McClung of Jefferson City, Prison Physician M R Noland of Monroe County, Secretary of State Board of Health Dr J A B Adcock of Warrensburg, Immigration Commissioner Dr W R McCue of Daviess County, and Deputy Warden Porter Gilven. He noted additional appointments are pending and will be withheld for now.
Attorney General Wickersham urges Congress to grant the Department of Justice authority to continue antitrust suits against the United States Shoe Machinery Company and the coffee trust. He also signals a second action against Lehigh Valley coal and railroad interests forthcoming soon.
Official audit figures show eleven Progressive and two Democratic electors chosen in California. Corrections from Los Angeles county returns do not materially alter totals. Roosevelt gains in the state as canvass finalizes.
Negotiations completed for the sale of the Central Baptist in St Louis since 1865. Word and Way managers will absorb the paper and publish it weekly in Kansas City.
Marshall Copeland, a theological student at Morrisville College in Morrisville, Mo., was charged with first degree murder in a warrant. He allegedly fatally stabbed Bryan Crane, another student.
Mrs. Virgil Davis returned to her Muskogee boarding house room to find rats had fatally attacked her three weeks old infant after a three hour absence.
Arthur Capper of Topeka won the presidency of the Kansas State Good Roads Association. The meeting was held in Newton with Capper as the Republican gubernatorial candidate from Topeka.
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