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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Sep 10, 1908
Page
2
A compact roundup titled News Of The Week offers brief interesting items from around the globe. It gathers notable developments, cultural notes, and brief summaries for quick reading by the newspaper’s audience.
Reports include the drowning of Miss Robbie Metcalf and Ward Cornelius in Tulsa and Me and a dirigible crash killing aeronaut Charles Oliver Jones in Waterville. Also noted are a court martial at Fort Wayne, a suicide attempt by Mrs. Minerva Chapman, and a series of political and labor events across the country with many fatalities and incidents.
Calaveras county forest fires threaten the grove of big trees while Wyoming coal mines close after a dispute affecting 8000 workers. A life convict escapes in Oklahoma gear, and U S Marshal Perry is removed for disobedience. The president denies attending a San Francisco congress.
Robert F. Hudspeth chosen vice chairman of the national Democratic committee and will manage the Bryan campaign in the east. Other items: Serena Payne nominated for Congress by Republicans in New York’s Thirty-first district. Missouri governor issues Labor Day proclamation. Noted surgeon Dr. Frederick F. Austin shot in Omaha. killer unknown. Chauncey I. Filley, 80, declares candidacy for U.S. senator from Missouri. Rev Clyde W. Gow convicted for improper conduct with M E church in Hannibal. Gen A P Stewart, Confederate lieutenant general, dead at 87 in Biloxi. Rabies patient Dr A Lagorio declared out of danger in Chicago. George P Rowell dies in Poland Spring. Appleton Griffin named chief assistant librarian of Congress. Thomas L Hisgen notified of Independent party presidential nomination. Taft party leaves Hot Springs for fishing at Middle Bass Island. farewell at Homestead. Littlefield appointed receiver for A O Brown & Co.
Engineers begin surveying a Springfield to Carthage electric road costing about 2 million dollars. Two routes are planned: parallel to the Frisco or a due west route via Mount Vernon Sarcoxie to Carthage. Financing from Springfield Traction stockholders with William B. McKinley as a likely booster.
David W. Hill of Poplar Bluff and Joseph E. Black of Richmond filed with the secretary of state as candidates for United States senator on the Republican ticket. They join Col. Richard C. Kerens of St. Louis, who declared ten days earlier. Gov. Folk and Senator W. J. Stone also sought the Democratic nomination, with declarations filed recently. John M. London of Salisbury entered the race for the People's party nomination.
Four yeggmen attempted to rob Rushville State Bank and blew the door in. Bank officials hired a safe expert who worked all day to open the door while farmers acted as temporary bankers. Farmers emptied home savings to keep the bank supplied during the day.
Betty Burbanks an elderly invalid widow and government pensioner told police in St. Joseph that a burglary story in which two men tortured her for an hour and stole 35 dollars was invented by herself and her 20 year old son who were behind on rent.
A 16 year old, Robert Shoemaker, died after an accident at a Campbell Park baseball game. He fell from a tree outside the fence while eager to watch the home team score a run and sustained fatal injuries.
Henry Q. Clark of Miller county was arrested by Deputy U S Marshal T H McKenna on bootlegging whisky. He was arraigned before Commissioner Geisburg in Jefferson City and held under a $500 bond for the federal grand jury.
A strong flow of natural gas was found on the Nick Nichols farm southeast of town. The local company decided to drill about 100 feet deeper to seek a larger and steadier yield. Indications point to a promising well.
Cole Younger attended a picnic at Blue Springs where he saw infant shoes made 39 years earlier from his boot tops. The boots had been left at W. S. Botts home where a three month old baby later wore the tops cut into shoes. The baby was Mrs. J. L. Quinn. her mother saved the first shoes.
Henry Ray fired at Macon carnival crowd striking Harry Davis who died after falling on a baby carriage. A bullet singed the eyelashes of a girl nearby as panic spread among attendees.
William J. Self aged 73 married Delia Drake aged 67 in Buffalo in a surprise ceremony. Both are described as grandparents and the wedding astonished their relatives.
Gov Folk ordered convict Thomas Johnson transferred from the penitentiary to the hospital for the insane at Fulton on the prison physician’s recommendation. Johnson, from Jasper County, was sentenced last April to ten years for safe blowing.
Ernest Dale sells the Rayville Enterprise to Gordon Booth a stranger on the county journalism scene in a local transaction.
During the municipal fiscal year 1907-08 Kansas City spent 1 337 000 on street and alley paving grading curbing sidewalks sewers and shade trees. The city has 182 miles asphalt paving 42 miles vitrified brick 17 miles macadam streets 15 miles macadam boulevards 3 miles stone blocks and a quarter mile creosoted blocks totaling 257 21 miles of paved streets and about 21 miles of alley pavements.
Roderick Emile Rombauer a 74 year old St. Louis jurist and author wandered 48 hours in the Estes Park mountains without food or shelter before stumbling into the Drake hotel. After two days of exposure he was taken in for careful nursing and is expected to recover.
The second annual Missouri Abstractors meeting in Jefferson City elected C. L. Lampkin Keytesville as president A. R. Easton Sedalia as vice president J. P. Cramp Kansas City as secretary and Oswald Hicks Macon as treasurer The next annual gathering will be in Carrollton on the last Wednesday in August 1909.
Black residents of Sedalia held a mass meeting addressed by prominent colored citizens who condemned the Sedalia Advocate editor. They adopted resolutions pledging to aid in suppressing criminals and to protect the community from violence.
The heaviest rain in years struck St Joseph with Asy lum creek overflowing its banks. About 600 Brookdale residents were made homeless as waters from miles of surrounding country flooded the creek bed and swept away several houses. Families in the valley abandoned homes without attempting to save possessions.
The body of Robert H. Putney an aged carpenter was found in a corn patch near his Springfield home. He had disappeared from his residence and police had been searching for him. The cause of death is not known.
Judge Walter W. Graves, recently renominated to the Missouri supreme court by a slim margin of 88,000 votes, has spent time since the primary on his Bates county farm. He lived in a tent and helped raise miles of wire fencing around his property.
James Ebenezer Hughes dies at his Osborn home. Born March 1821 in the region of now Howard County, he moved to Clinton County in 1837. An ordained Baptist minister since 1843, he served Clinton County in the Missouri Legislature in 1872 and 1874.
P. H. Pigg, 30, of Orrick died at Perry McAvoy’s home in Sugar Creek near Kansas City from ptomaine poisoning after eating oysters. He was visiting Sugar Creek when the illness struck.
A large S. C. Lemar milling plant at Rich Hill was wiped out by fire causing about $40,000 in losses. Two Frisco boxcars burned, and two large warerooms filled with grain were destroyed. Insurance coverage amounts to $15,000. This marks a second mill loss on the same site within seven years.
Natt Noll aged 75, one of Weston’s oldest residents, died at his Weston home recently.
Col Henry M Nevius of Red Bank New Jersey was elected commander in chief on the first ballot with 454 votes over 254 for Van Sant and 90 for Dickason. He will be joined by J Kent Hamilton C C Royce J F Spence G Lane Tannehill as top officers. The Women s Relief Corps also chose Mrs W L Gillman as president.
The Missouri Supreme Court ordered a temporary restraining order against Judge Taylor to stop the grand jury from opening ballot boxes from the recent primary. Chief Justice Gantt issued the order returnable October 13. Harry M. Walsh, counsel for Ernest Wanstead, led the writ against Judge Taylor.
Harry Bemus of Warren PA survived a severe fall at Riverside Junction after doctors replaced a broken neck vertebra with a dog vertebra. Surgeons call the operation entirely successful and say his head may be supported by the dog vertebra for life.
Oklahoma Farmers and Stockmen's association organized in Tulsa on Thursday. It succeeds the Oklahoma Cattlemen's association and aims to be a powerful group. P. I. Brown of Beggs was elected president and J. H. Fisher of Sapulpa secretary. The group seeks repeal of the graduated income tax on lands and leases from the last legislature.
Judge Vandeventer in the U.S. circuit court granted an injunction to St Louis Iron Mountain and three other railroads in Arkansas. The order bars the Arkansas state railway commission from enforcing the new two cent fare law and from hindering the railroads in raising interstate freight rates.
Fred Remage, 25, of Barnard, Kansas, was killed early Thursday when struck by a train near Strong City while en route to his home in Barnard.
Charles W. Bryan mailed a $2000 check to Oklahoma Governor C N Haskell. The payment covers receipts over expenditures in the Commoner office from July 2 to September 1.
Everett Washington Dr Charles M Buchanan superintendent of the Tulalip training school Tulalip reservation has been transferred to the Haskell Indian school Lawrence Kan where he will be assistant superintendent
Springfield grand jury adjourned Thursday night after returning 17 more indictments bringing total to 117 for this session.
Instructions for preserving foods including beets tomatoes corn and spinach. Steps cover cleaning peeling slicing and packing into jars with boiling water and proper sealing. Details include cooking times for beets and spinach and methods to fill jars and process to ensure preservation.
When taking curtains for summer storage avoid excessive handling. Fold heavy drapes lengthwise, place on a bed or lay between sheets, then cover with a second sheet. In a storeroom, drape between two chairs back to back and cover with a sheet to prevent creases and damage before rehanging.
A recipe instructs to wash stems from barberries and apples, cook together with molasses until tender, skim berries, pack into jars, boil syrup to thick, pour over fruit, and seal for storage.
Digest of a kitchen note guiding tomatoes a la creme. It describes deseeding ripe tomatoes, filling with bread crumbs chopped chicken and butter, seasoning with salt and pepper, baking for 30 minutes, basting with melted butter, and finishing with cream and more butter.
Fragmented recipe text describing adding crumbs and suet to cream then folding in chopped candied cherries, eggs, brandy and fruit. bake and serve with custard flavored sauce. The readable portion lists ingredients and steps but is garbled and incomplete.
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