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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1910
Page
2
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National Capital report notes President Taft uses influence to push railroad legislation through Congress and secure adjournment by July 1. Western Trunk railroads restore old rates via ICC filings. stock prices rise as anti trust suits suspend. Senate charges Lorimer on seat purchase.
President Brown orders resumption of work on railroad rates with a 5 million dollar expenditure. United Commercial Travelers hold a Kansas City convention with 5 000 attendees. Oklahoma bills move to sell surface Indian coal lands for agricultural use and await presidential signature. Leavenworth opens June term with memorial for Justice Brewer and 200 lawyers present. Tulsa ends joints and gambling after statehood. Central Fuel Oil forms from oil firms with 15 million capital to build pipelines and refineries. Small Chicago baby weighs 18 ounces in incubators at Riverside. Oklahoma State Firemen hold annual convention in Tulsa. A soda tank explosion at Ashbury Park kills the proprietor. Eastern and Western railroads reach accord with the president.
The report notes aviation remains perilous and risks are hard to insure while municipal bets on aeroplane races push prize funds toward 100000 dollars. Chicago traders oppose indemnities. farmers report poor corn conditions in Missouri. J J Hill may shift rail interests. Ford county wheat yields expected 35 bushels per acre. a Jones Dry Goods receivership with 1.4 million liabilities. Kanapolis post office robbed of 600 dollars. China seeks 30 million loan from domestic and foreign sources.
The latest estimates put Italy’s death toll at 300 after another quake struck central and southern regions. The king visited the scene as Red Cross teams mobilize and the government allocates 100000 for relief. International news notes temperance convention in Glasgow and tensions abroad including threats to foreigners in Nanking and a Swedish church celebration in Rock Island.
E H Gary predicts improvement in 30 days as US Steel faces a possible revival. Missouri Attorney General Major moves to oust big packing firms for alleged anti trust violations. Haimer Swope files claim in Missouri court over J H Swope estate. J J Hill says railroads must handle rising traffic. Richard Parr notes sugar trust duty recovery could yield substantial back pay.
Fourth annual convention of the Missouri Laundry Owners association held in St Joseph. Mayor Clayton gave welcome, L H Fisher of Kansas City president and E W Glauber of St Louis spoke for the national body. E S Purdy of Jersey City urged general actions to meet patrons’ demands. A banquet occurred at the Robideaux hotel.
Drury College officials and Clarence Darrow held a conference after a sermon by Dr Briggs accusing Darrow of introducing Besant cult ideas to students learning Greek roots. Darrow defended himself and threatened legal action to enforce his contract if ousted, or to quit to spare the school embarrassment.
The attic tank system places a tank in the attic or outbuilding offering complete hot water options for about 130. Outdoor tanks on a solid foundation in steel wood or cone are described. The pneumatic system uses an air pressure tank located away from freezing with a ready to install package costing about 64 and total cost not exceeding 200.
A freak electrical storm hit near Webb City injuring Ed Haines and M Beckman. Haines was struck while lifting rock at Disbrow mine and stripped of clothing as lightning tore through the holster room. Beckman delivering groceries saw his wagon axle smashed. In Johnstown Carterville Summers and Ferguson felt the bolt travel along a bare line, sending them to a bed. Summers suffered a two inch blister and a torn carpet and floor hole. Ferguson escaped injury.
The group held its first Middleton monthly meeting with representatives from Olney Marling Mount Carmel and Middleton. Engineering work is underway around St Charles with further activity planned near Laddonia. The line is mapped from St Charles via St Peters Old Monroe Troy Olney Marling Middletown and Mount Carmel to Laddonia. This project is not connected to the St. Louis and Kansas City Electric.
Professor C F Marbut of geology and mineralogy with five assistants will survey Missouri Ozark soils under the agricultural experiment station. The trip covers the state and a first report is planned for this summer after they return. The project title upon completion will be Soils of the Ozarks Region.
Frank Hensley a pioneer citizen and Montgomery county s largest landowner died near Buell aged 84. Survived by children Mrs. G. R. McVey Mrs. W. W. Watts Buell Hensley of Buell John T. Hensley of Montgomery and W R Hensley of East St Louis.
The annual reunion of Johnson and Henry county settlers was held at Chilhowee. The meeting drew a large attendance and included the oldest settlers from both counties, with many attendees around 90 years old.
Two people drowned while a motor boat tried to rescue them on the Missouri River near St Louis county. The canvas canoe they rode in overturned just as shore seemed within reach.
The Baptist church in Chillicothe held a large rally to celebrate paying off its debt. Community members gathered at the church for the event and a program of praise and acknowledgment followed.
A Joplin circuit court jury awarded S M Walker of Chitwood 4500 dollars against Southwest Missouri Electric Railway. The verdict stemmed from a car whistle that frightened Walker's three year old mule triggering a runaway and injuring him. The motorman reportedly tooted the whistle near the track, unsettling the animal.
About one third of Missouri will supply the entire fruit crop this year. Apples in that region average 46 percent of a full crop and peaches 25 percent, according to W. L. Howard University of Missouri horticulture professor. The report gathers input from orchard owners statewide.
C K Francis of the University of Missouri agriculture chemistry department is offered a Prussian university post through the Carnegie foundation exchange of teachers between nations. If he accepts, a German university teacher will come to Missouri in his stead. Francis is a Brown University graduate.
Dan Ma guire and R. E. Miller students in journalism and sociology opened an Indian mound within a mile of Columbia city limits and found two skeletons. The mound held a stone chamber about four feet wide and ten feet long. The bones and relics will be placed in the sociological museum.
The Westminster College board of trustees at Fulton refused a $115,000 relocation offer from a Hannibal Commercial Club committee to move the college to Hannibal.
At a meeting of the Daniel Boone Memorial and Historical society in Montgomery a resolution proposed by Jetter and Representative Champ Clark called for a Daniel Boone monument. The group adopted the measure asking state residents to contribute at least $1,000 with minimum donations of $1.
The Frisco contracts J. T. Woodruff and associates for a ten year lease of a three story light buff brick fireproof office building to be erected in Springfield. The structure will feature Carthage cut stone trim and house general railroad offices.
Allen Stephens, inmate at Liberty County Jail, ends 22 days on water only and resumes full feeding. He awaits trial on burglary and aiding in a jail delivery charges.
Twenty five members will subscribe $6,000 to establish a cooperative garage in Carthage. Each member will pay a share for maintenance and hiring workers to service cars. Carthage already operates a cooperative kitchen and grocery.
Earl White, 31, died from injuries after an incident in a wheat stubble field. He was reportedly injured while working or near the harvest area, with authorities investigating the circumstances surrounding the accident.
The injunction bill will be allowed to sleep in committee as the president limits insistence. From now to adjournment the House will mark time while the Senate finishes its work and conferees reconcile disagreeing bills. Public buildings and deficiency appropriation bills can be moved rapidly, with broad approval expected for the public buildings bill late in the session.
A 12-year-old boy, John Smith of 433 North Felton Street, was discharged from West Philadelphia Homeopathy hospital after eight weeks. He recovered from a severe lockjaw using magnesium sulfate injections into the spinal column alongside antitoxin treatment, a method recently advocated by a German physician. Forty drops of magnesium sulfate were given per injection.
Milwaukee delegates at the Republican state convention approve the Taft tariff plan with its maximum and minimum schedules and future scientific revisions. Gov. Davidson's administration is also endorsed.
Guthrie Oklahoma women may win voting rights this year as suffrage workers push for a election. The courts have cleared the proposal and Governor Haskell must set the timing, with a special election or a November vote possible.
A fast mail train for Texas owned by St. Louis Iron Mountain and Southern left the tracks near the city limits and crashed through a Miller Manufacturing building wall. Three men were killed and eight injured, two perhaps fatally, in the wreck.
Leavenworth Kansas Mrs Katharine Schultz an elderly resident of 416 Seneca street was murdered at 3 AM The killer set the house afire to hide the crime and remove evidence Authorities believe a debtor or robber enticed to seize mortgaged assets may have committed the murder Her fortune is placed around 30000 with most funds in mortgages and real estate
Fred R. Blee, an automobile dealer, drove through an open draw on the Superior viaduct in Cleveland into the Cuyahoga river bank, plunging 90 feet and dying instantly. Police investigated the fatal accident.
Chicago Illinois Northwestern University awarded diplomas to a record 592 graduates in its largest class to date marking a milestone for the institution.
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