Notable Happenings From Around The World This Week
A wide array of brief items: Standard Oil testimony on selling through seemingly independent southern affiliates. mob violence against a Japanese laundry in San Francisco. Emperor Franz Joseph’s health status. multiple train and wreck incidents with deaths and injuries. notable deaths and births including Capt. John L. Wells and Nelson Randall. political and labor developments. royal, diplomatic, and crime notes. scientific and cultural mentions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hampton G. Westcott
Standard Oil Company of
Kentucky
Oil Combine
Standard
Combine
San Francisco
Austria
Persens
Philadelphia & Reading
Pottstown
New Erie & Jersey
Stony Ford
N. Y
Jack Simpkins
Miners’ Federation
Spokane
Wash
Point Pleasant
W. Va
Kanaugam
John L. Wells
Madagascar
Yonkers Standard
Yonkers
Dixon
Henry Butters
Piedmont
Cal
Trousseau
Marie Butters
Victor H. Metcalf, Jr
Secretary of the Navy
Collector Strathon
Nelson A. Randall
The
Western Horseman
Indianapolis
London
J. Austen Chamberlain
Joseph Chamberlain
Mr. Chamberlain
Ivy M. Dundas
Datchet
Buckinghamshire
Erie
Sugar beet plant proposed for Charles City by Waverly parties
A proposal to build a $500000 sugar beet factory in Charles City is submitted to the local commercial club by parties from Waverly. The report notes this development alongside a string of Iowa incidents including severe injuries, fires, and legal actions across multiple counties.
Telegraphic Brevities Highlights Local Murders Robberies and Elopement
Five suspects arrested over dynamite at the Joplin News-Herald plant. A Philadelphia and Reading train fatally strikes an auto at a Pottstown grade crossing. Diamonds worth 1000 dollars stolen from Gambiner jewelry in Chicago. Lincoln J Carter robbed of 1004 dollars at College Inn Chicago. Adolph Combes killed falling downstairs at his son’s New York home. Philip Coon elopes after disappearing from a Paris hotel. Mrs Coon approves the match in news from Paris and New York
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joplin
News-Herald
Philadelphia
Reading
Pottstown
M. M. Gambiner
Chicago
Lincoln J. Carter
Sheridan Road
College Inn
Adolph Combes
Boston
Leon Rheim Millinery
New York
Paris
Philip Coon
Boy of 17 Kills His Mother in Kansas City Home
George Smiley aged 17 shot and killed his mother Lizzie Schoffer 42 in their home at 2943 Myrtle avenue on Tuesday. He told officers he acted to defend her against a burglar who fled after the fatal shot. Smiley said the intruder forced him to shoot as his mother grappled with the burglar.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles City
Dale Carrell
S. E. Carrell
Iowa City Press
Tom Murray
Ionia
M. H. Gahenegan
West Burlington
Roy Drake
Drake
Radcliffe
Greene
McCraven
Hubbeler
Dubuque
Charles Pierce
Northwestern
Sanborn
Minn
George Hoover
Plainfield
Nashua
Wattsburg Seminary
Frank B. Pesch
Clinton County Grand Jury
United States Express Company
Prudential Insurance Company
Pesch
Clinton
Clinton District Court
Max
Dion
Hartley
State Railroad Commission
Hartey
Rogers
Francis Seerey
Benton County
Frank Tuettle
Milwaukee
Mason City
Anna Marshall
Lee Marshall
Grinnell
Newton
Cartersville
Roy Lockwood
Lockwood
Dougherty
Herman Dollman
Muscatine
Maude Miles
Madison County
Miss Miles
Ethel Kegley
Winterset
Emma Winkler
Harriman
Monona
Barr
Love
Cotant
Comfort
Beulah Station
Leroy E. Gallagher
Methodist
Laurel
Pilgrim Hotel
Marshalltown
Green Mouiitain
Ida F. Keese
Yong
Gallagher
Elmer D. Gallagher
Wahpeton
N. D
Miss Reese
Elmer Gallagher
C. D. Marshall
Chicago
Nathan Merril
Marshall
Merriil
McMahon
Jacksonville
Merrill
Jacksonville Seminary
Kansas City
George Smiley
Lizzie Schoffer
Myrtle Avenue
Smiley
Boston man fined in lottery case in Mobile
Frank X. Fitzpatrick of Boston was fined $5,000 after a conference between U S Attorney William H. Ambrecht and Boston attorney John H. Casey. He was the last of several men indicted in lottery cases nationwide.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mobile
Ala
Frank X. Fitzpatrick
Boston
United States
William H. Ambrecht
John H. Casey
Fitzpatrick
Dr Cook Plans Polar Dash From Gloucester Harbor
In Gloucester Massachusetts on October 16 the former fishing schooner John R Bradley lies at anchor. Dr Frederick A Cook the Brooklyn explorer will sail with a small Eskimo party and dogs and relay them at stations along a Perry like route to the pole.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dr. Cook
Gloucester
Mass
John R. Bradley
Frederick A. Cook
Brooklyn
Etah
Cook
Perry
American Airship and Balloon Corp Incorporated in New York
The American Airship and Balloon corporation is incorporated under New York laws with a capital of 200000 to build airships and balloons.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Farm Airship Corporation
New York
American Airship and Balloon Corporation
Markets News Flour Reports Steady Prices Across Grains
The Chicago markets show flour firms with firm wheat prices for spring and winter patent grades. Corn and oats remain strong to quiet, rye quotes mixed, butter and eggs steady, and live poultry and potatoes listed with range prices for various grades.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Minnesota
Wheat prices rise on short-covering amid steady demand
New York activity shows wheat firm with no selling pressure as December advances to 1.174 and May to 1.18 1/6. Rye remains firm with No 2 western at 4 cents. Corn receipts reach 21,500 bushels nominal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Shorts
Western
F. Obe
Live Stock Market Prices Reported in Local Auction
Cattle prices range from good to prime steers at 6 to 7.40, fair to good 5.75 to 6.50, and lower grades 4.50 to 5.50. Texas steers bring 4.25 to 6.25, cows 3.50 to 5.00, yearlings 5.00 to 6.50, and heifers 3.75 to 5.50. Feeders 3.75 to 4.95, stockers 2.50 to 3.75, beef cows 2.50 to 3.76, calves 3.50 to 8.26. Hogs show heavy packing sows 6.25 to 6.40, shipping barrows 6.40 to 6.65, packers 6.20 to 6.45, barrow tops 6.45 to 6.70, sows 5.26 to 6.60, pigs 4.50 to 6.06.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Texas
Omaha cattle and hog prices on Oct 11 market report
Cattle market steady with native steers 4.75 to 7.00, cows and heifers 2.60 to 4.50, western and Texas steers 3.25 to 5.75. Hogs weak to lower with heavy 5.90 to 6.10, mixed 6.00 to 6.10, lights 6.10 to 6.25. Sheep steady with yearlings 5.50 to 5.80, wethers 4.80 to 5.25, ewes 4.50 to 6.00, lambs 6.75 to 7.20.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Omaha
Texas
Also Mentioned on This Page
Nelson Morris
Packer
Central Federated Union
Gompers
American Federation of Labor
Madrid
Santa Olalla
Casablanca
Drude
Albert Kirbyairfax
Family of Fairfax
Virginia
House of Lords
Baron Fairfax
Munro
Vancouver
Honolul U
Martha Tuftig
Seattle
Katalla
Porto Rico
Hubbard
John @. Milburn
John R. Hegeman
Metropolitan Insurance Company
Standard Oil
Hegeman
Allan Lefort
America
S. J. Small
National Union
Western Union
Norfolk & Western
Montvale
Arthur Onweller
Lyons
Morenci
Mich
Ed Barrett
Peoria
Ill
Solomon Frank
Gloversville
Campbell Slemp
Congress
Ninth
Cyprus
Lake Superior
Deer Park
John W. Moore
Queen City
Detroit River
Oceanic Steamship Company
Mariposa
Monterey
Dauntless
Relief
Chicago Nationals
Detroit
James M. Sutton, Jr
United States Marine Corps
Annapolis
Isenborgi
Iivro Rojan
Bravos
Juarez
Seminary of the Ladies of the Sacred Heart
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Countess Szechenyi
Madison
Webb Syck
Fairview
Pikeville, Ky
Karl Liebknecht
Reichstag
Germany
Anton Hupp
Carlsbad
New Hampshire State Board of Railway Commissioners
Canaan Trec
Heston & Maine Road
Fred Pabst
Lake Shore
St. Clair River
Bacon
Charles River
Cassie Chadwick
Cleveland
Herbert Fletcher de Bon
Prince Tveretelf
Tiflis
Claudia Bodey Money
Mississippi
H. D. Money
Beauvoir
Miss
St. Louis
Samuel A. Ballard
Boone
Lender
Wyo
T. L
J. F. Greenough
Francis Joseph
Los Angeles
Santa Fe Railway Company
Bonansinga
Quincy
Mattoon
Maxwell J. H. Walenta
German Reformed Church of
Louis A. Bauer
Walenta
Texas Guinan
Simon” Theatrical Company
Gallipolis
Roosevelt
Newellton
H. B. Howard
Hartwell
Cincinnati
Henri Rochefort
Interanssigeant
Patrie
Celebes
John D. Rockefeller
Harper Memorial Library
University of Chicago
Posse
Gotho Spira
Thomases
Clermont-Ferrand
France
Pennsylvania
Bourbon
Ind
Charles H. Nichols
Lillian A. Kinsella
Salem
Clifford W. Hartridge
Harry K. Thaw
Arthur Herbert Osborn
Helen Maloney
Samuel Clarkson
England
Montreal
David Todd
Chile
Mars
R. D. Evans
Southern Pipe Line Company
Trainor
Frank B. Kellogg
Standard Oil Company
John Mitchell
United States Mine Workers
Jola
Kan
Miss May Sapp
Mulai Hafid
Morocco
Fez
Abd-El-Aziz
United States Revenue
H. C. Moorman
Iowa News
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