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Newspaper
Buffalo Center Tribune
Location
Buffalo Center, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1908
Page
3
The article surveys marriage law origins from canon and Roman civil law, noting religious views vary by church. civil marriage increasingly governs legality even in Catholic countries. It also anticipates future scientific advances reshaping society, predicting dramatic medical and mechanical transformations by next year.
Street names spelled out in bright colors or figures are a recent American city design. Kansas City plans on its large boulevards to avoid wall signs and lamp posts, with six to eight inch high letters formed from half inch square stones embedded in the cement sidewalk, akin to mosaic work in building vestibules.
Anna Gould faces pressure to hire a secretary to deny marriage rumors with the prince. She might arrange staged rumors on specific days to control publicity while leaving three days herself. Frank Vanderlip calls New York the US nerve center, noting emerging ganglia elsewhere. A New York cat saves two lives by alarming residents with caterwauling before a burning building. It would be ungrateful to throw things at yowling cats.
Washington January 26 Attorney General Honeparte filed a bill in equity to set aside the control of Union Pacific and its subsidiary lines the Southern Pacific and San Pedro Los Angeles Salt Lake road and to challenge stock holdings in Santa Fe Great Northern and Northern Pacific by Union Pacific and subsidiaries alleging Sherman act violations A public statement notes the case aims to reduce a nationwide railroad monopoly with defendants including Farmers Loan and Trust and prominent officials Harriman Schiff Kahn Friel Rogers and Clark among others.
The first annual Missouri river navigation congress calls for a 40 million dollar appropriation to deepen the Missouri river from Broux City to St Louis to 12 feet, aiming to make the river and Mississippi navigable. Governors Gummins Deneen Folk Johnson Sheldon Crawford Burke and Congressman Ellis lead the effort. Yankton to host next year.
An explosion involving forty boxes of dynamite devastated three businesses and twelve freight cars after a fire at Hocking Supply store. Two men were seriously injured, thirty-one people lightly hurt, and widespread damage damaged buildings and windows in the town and nearby Albia. Firefighters and bystanders escaped serious injury as trains and car loads were scattered by the blast.
Thirteen grocers in Council Bluffs face indictments for selling a substitute for butter, eleomargarine, amid claims the case is unjust. Dealers argue wholesalers supported lawful sale, contend coloring matter legality, and insist they did not deceive the public though signs labeled imitation butter were displayed.
In Centerville a prominent Wayne County stock raiser and farmer named Ivan Head of Imeville Iowa shot himself at Centerville public hospital after requesting his wife to fetch his suit case. He died soon after from a brain wound with his wife and nurses present. Despondency was given as the cause.
Clarence Holly suffered a grievous accident at a Northwestern foundhouse where he worked. Entangled in machinery, his right arm was torn from the shoulder and his wrist crushed as the shafting pulled him in. He screamed for help, but the machine could not be stopped in time. He is in dangerous condition and exhausted.
Des Moines Turnverein fills its club rooms for the first dance in years as the bar closes voluntarily. An Anti Saloon League raid yields only ginger pop with no beer sold. Officials and detectives stood by, while observers await whether the ban becomes permanent or temporary.
A mob of over two hundred gathered at Ottumwa county jail at 8:30 p m demanding Ray Edwards accused of assaulting Mrs. Clara Erwin. Sheriff Jackson spirited Edwards away to Albin, averting a potential lynching as guards secured doors and a riot call went to police.
In Dubuque County Judge Benson issues a perpetual injunction against James Seipple and his wife prohibiting liquor sales. The couple were ruled guilty of selling intoxicating liquor without paying the required tax under the illicit liquor law.
Public gambling halted by County Attorney J. J. Hess. The four big houses shut down after years of operation. Many gamblers moved to Omaha and other towns.
Controller of the Currency William B. Ridgely ordered the National Bank of North America closed for liquidation. Charles Hanna was appointed receiver following a bank appeal by W. S. Havemeyer. The bank, with a $2,000,000 capital, had deposits of about $19.8 million as of Aug. 22 and around $8 million today after withdrawals since the panic.
A division of Argentine torpedo boats greeted the American torpedo boat Mozilla after it left Rio de Janeiro January 21. The vessel arrived at Buenos Aires harbor at 8 30 yesterday with crowds watching. Commander Cons boarded the Argentine flagship and the flotilla saluted. The fleet will stay until Thursday before heading to Sandy Point in the Magellan Strait to join battleships.
Florence reports novelist Oulda Louise da la Ramee died in Reggio after a long illness. She passed away in distressing poverty with only an elderly sorceress as attendant.
A Washington rumor claims the Senate and cap itol would permit a New Mexico statehood bill to pass in the Sixtieth Congress short session. The talk centers on Governor Currey National Committeeman Solomon Luna and others, tied to New Mexico’s statehood agitation and timing around the presidential election.
A Portland blaze Friday caused $1,000,000 in property damage, destroying city hall and police buildings while endangering over 700 attendees at the Western Maine Knights of Pythias jubilee. The Greenleaf Law Library suffered $10,000 in losses. Chief Engineer Melville Eldridge directed firefighting efforts with two assistants and survived with minor injuries.
Lisbon reports an abortive attempt to overturn the monarchy and declare Portugal a republic was crushed Wednesday night by prompt government action. A small group of advanced republicans led the plot and were arrested. The plan aimed to assassinate the premier and trigger street risings with help from Fai ret republican and labor groups armed with bombs and revolvers.
Leslie M. Shaw resigns as president of the Carnegie Trust after treasury service in Washington. He cites “small differences” with Charles Dickinson and declines to outline future plans, hinting he may cast his lot in politics. A separate New York blast at an Elizabeth Street bank drawn attention as $40,000 in specie was displayed in windows. robbers, deterred by fear of capture, fled.
Judge Philips ruled the Amalgamated Glass Workers' union restrained trade and breached public policy, ordering its dissolution in Cleveland, Ohio.
Guns boomed and cheers rang as American ships, escorted by a pleasure craft, departed Rio de Janeiro on Wednesday afternoon bound for Punta Arenas, with crews and observers noting the voyage.
In Washington the house added an amendment to the penal code making it a crime for any government officer or employee to disclose advance crop statistics. The debate included clashes over senators or members working for public service corporations. The session closed amid praise for the measure and speculation on nominations for the Danvers and Chicago conventions.
A strong quake shook Reggio Calabria Thursday with no loss of life reported. Shocks hit Blanco Prancaloone Hrogzana and Ferruz zand, forcing residents from homes to outdoors. A later tremor proved more severe. many buildings were damaged and the Blanco Nuevo municipal building collapsed. Authorities set up tents as cold weather drove people to the fields and grotters.
Mrs George Stetson of Burlington Wisconsin allegedly administered a large dose of laudanum to her nine year old son Kenneth and drank the remainder in a suicide attempt The boy is dead and she remains hospitalized Officials note despondency over financial troubles and her husband’s absence as possible motives The story also covers New York fire hose testimony in the Parker building fire inquiry where Fire Commissioner Lantry says fear of bursting prevented hose testing and cites three firefighter deaths.
Nevada bill Wing passed the senate Friday without a dissenting vote and moved to the assembly where a test vote on union strength occurred. A regulation by Vaughan allowing contested factions at Goldfield to be heard on the floor failed 41 to 7 after debate.
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