Boyd and Pua Buffalo Center in Villaly Ganter Tribune
J. P. Boyd and Pua Buffalo Center are featured in a brief Villaly Ganter Tribune item. The note highlights local figures and the center's activities in a compact news brief.
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Newspaper
Buffalo Center Tribune
Location
Buffalo Center, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 10, 1908
Page
3
J. P. Boyd and Pua Buffalo Center are featured in a brief Villaly Ganter Tribune item. The note highlights local figures and the center's activities in a compact news brief.
Quiet town of Russellville contends with Friday night raid by masked riders that injured three, burned warehouses, and damaged buildings. State Fire Marshal Ayres travels to investigate. Officials plan a special court term to pursue justice and curb further violence. Burley growers and American Tobacco Company buyers failed to agree on 1907 crop sales, with prices set at 15 and 12 cents per pound respectively.
Judge Pritchard of the U S circuit court named receivers for the Seaboard Air Line Railroad system. R Lancaster Williams of Richmond and S Davies Warfield of Baltimore were appointed with $50 000 bonds. The decree gives immediate possession of property from Portsmouth Virginia to Tampa Florida and branches totaling 2882 miles.
Dr Nicholas Senn famed Chicago surgeon and “fighting doctor” died at his home. He rose to national prominence during the Spanish American War as surgeon general of the Sixth Army Corps with the rank of lieutenant colonel. He served in Cuba from May to September and wrote several books after returning. He was American delegate to the 1900 Berlin medical congress and to the 1901 St Petersburg Red Cross congress. Born October 31, 1844 in St Gall, Switzerland.
Lansing circuit Judge Wiest ruled that adding cereal and water to sausage adulterates the product and violates the Michigan pure food law. The decision places such mixtures under prohibited adulterations, reinforcing regulatory scope.
Charles Carroll Marsh aged 37 son of the late congressman Marsh committed death by his own hand at his home in Warsaw on Friday. Ill health and melancholia are said to have caused the act.
George Cunningham, a Lehigh farmer, trusted no banks during the recent financial panic. He hid about $4,100 in a satchel inside an old stove, which was burned when a fire was started. The ashes were sent to Washington for possible identification and partial redemption, but most money is likely lost.
The last rail on the Atlantic Northern and Southern connected Kimballton to Atlantic. On Jan 1 the first regular train ran over the new line, with officers, directors, and about 200 stockholders aboard. A New Year banquet honored visitors as Kimballton hosted the extensive stock-funded project worth around 300000, funded by about 700 local merchants and workers. Enthusiasm grows to extend the line toward Manning and Villisca.
Jefferson-Dr. C. H. Wachendorf, once of Lidderdale, shot himself to avoid arrest on a federal mail fraud charge. Marshals had pursued him six months. had he been captured, he would have been brought to Lidderdale to answer for sending a blackmail letter to Omaha liquor dealer Henry Quaid. Wachendorf had moved through Manning and Cornelia Bluffs before his death.
About 3 dozen Guthrie Center youths roamed Bear Creek area hunting rabbits when a mock battle erupted. Two sides fired shotguns from close range, wounding several youths with lead pellets though no serious injuries were reported.
Davenport marked its first dry New Year with few incidents. The service federation sent letters to all saloonkeepers urging immediate filing of the county auditor bond of 3000 dollars per law. Emil Berg, manager of Schuetzen park, said it likely won’t open as a public resort this year, a fate echoed by Suburban Island park which had aided breweries in selling much of their product.
Miss Nelile Tripp aged 25 left Elmer Hanks 61 an hour after their marriage at a west side restaurant and sought a divorce the next day. They appeared for a license at the clerk's office but she soon returned asking how to obtain a breakup, stating she had never loved him. Pastor George Knoche, deputy recorder, presided at the ceremony.
Residents in Burlington say Dr George Jones the missing Keokuk physician is wandering the country in a mentally unbalanced state. The Dukn lodge, of which he is a member, has organized a careful search of nearby hills and bottoms. A partial sewer inspection has begun but yielded no clues.
Four deputy sheriffs and constables of Bluff Creek township Monroe county including Buxton are arraigned for graft. Nelson Walker Ed Lee Andrew Blakely and Jim Smith facing charges after affidavits from local joint operators led the county attorney to file informations.
The board of supervisors halted a drainage project in the county’s northern lowlands amid strong landowner protests. The delay blocks $250,000 in expenditure and an expected $1,000,000 boost in land value, reflecting resistance to the costly improvement.
Unkempt patrons and halted grooming mark a citywide barber strike in Burlington as over 100 workers walk out demanding a fixed 12 dollar weekly salary plus 60 percent of earnings, up from a prior 10 dollar weekly rate. employers resist, promising no compromise as more join.
Dubuque report states Peter Scharff, a twenty year member of the police force, collapsed with paralysis while attempting to arrest a drunken man. He fell to the ground and showing little hope for recovery, the incident occurred as he stooped to confront the subject.
Two Davenport boys Davenport John Clancy and Willie Larkins broke through ice on the Mississippi River and drowned. Clancy’s body was recovered soon after.
President Roosevelt criticizes the resigning Rear Admiral Brownson and naval debate over hospital ships. Secretary Metcalf confirms Pillsbury as chief of navigation and urges obedience, unity, and accountability within the Navy to safeguard its efficiency and funding. An Isthmian Canal Commission note supports 100 foot canal width, with potential for 310 feet if approved by the Navy and President.
Gov. Hanly orders Battery A and twelve infantry companies to assist police in Muncie Indiana to quell rioting. Martial law not declared unless needed. troops to work with police. Over 50 arrests as cars were attacked and rioters injured. downtown peaceful.
An explosion from a lamp at the home of George Steger in Collinsville Illinois started a blaze that killed three children aged eight, four, and 18 days as they slept. Their mother Mary Steger was seriously burned while trying to save them.
Three thousand suburban tea workers along the Western railroad line riot at the St Lazare terminus in Paris after repeated delays cost them hours of pay and led to dismissals. Police are held at bay for an hour until the fire department drives them back with hose streams. Company cites cold weather as cause of delays.
Second officer Maexico City-Roman Portas arrived at Vera Cruz reporting the steamer Shero sank in a December storm on the night of December 2. All aboard were lost except three saved as the vessel went down.
Mrs John Ven Ness Roberts a New York society figure died Friday night at a Riverside Drive apartment from a drug prescribed for a weak heart. coroner to investigate if the death was intentional or accidental amid reports of financial losses. her husband died in Germany five years ago.
The Countess of Yarmouth Alice Thaw of Pittsburg daughter of Mrs. William Thaw and sister of Harry K. Thaw asks the divorce court to annulling her marriage to the Earl of Yarmouth. Proceedings will be in camera with sealed papers amid medical evidence concerns. Domestic troubles have long marked the couple as the Earl’s lavish spending and social mismatch strained the union while Thaw’s murder trial looms in New York.
President awards the railroad tie saving medal to Edward McGrath station agent at Stowell Milwaukee for rescuing six year old Emma Drummich from an approaching train when gates were closed. McGrath, who is disabled, risked his safety to lift her from danger.
An explosion in the finishing room of the Rochester Fireworks plant on Main Street East collapsed the roof and wrecked the building. Sadie Ernst was instantly killed. Mrs Lil O Connor died soon after at a hospital. A son, May Calligan, and May Calligan were seriously burned but expected to recover.
John D. Rockefeller made another princely gift to the University of Chicago on Thursday totaling $2,191,000. About $2,000,000 will be used for endowment in securities yielding $80,000 annually, increasing Rockefeller bene factions to over $28,000,000 for the university.
A counterfeit five dollar silver certificate from 1889 bearing the image known as Onepapa has been discovered. John B. Wilkie, chief of the Secret Service, notes the note’s distinctive Indian chief portrait as a key identifier.
John Browl was killed and G I Wstey fatally hurt while Roy ignor serious injuries occurred in an automobile crash on Friday. Browl and Wisher of Holstein attended a Walting convention of Hayles.
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