10 Aug 1910
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Newspaper
Fayetteville Daily
Location
Fayetteville, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1910
Page
1
Investigative panels examine telegrams from Washington about instigation claims. Officials review correspondence and potential coordination between groups to determine influence on events. No charges announced as inquiries continue.
Congressional hearing in McMurray bribery case shows operator A L Watson produced telegrams from Kinta Oklahoma. Telegraph messages urged approval of McMurray contracts and a 80 million dollar sale of Indian lands. McMurray would receive 3 million commission if contracts approved.
John Milan of Cleveland says a stranger on a Detroit steamship offered to double his money in ten seconds. Milan handed over 65 dollars and closed his eyes for ten seconds. when he opened them the man had vanished.
Advertises Jake Poleys Honey and Tar as a quick relief for hay fever asthma and summer bronchitis. Claims to soothe inflamed air passages in head throat and bronchial tubes. States no opiates and no harmful drugs and urges to refuse substitutes.
Oshkosh August 10 Joseph L Bristow insurgent senator from Kansas campaigned for Senator La Follette urging Wisconsin voters to repudiates the Republican regulars over tariff pledges. He warned against party lines in primaries and accused Aldrich and Cannon of leading trust interests in the lead and rubber trust plots.
A Washington committee of black residents begins a drive to unite all African Americans to protest lynching and race riots, demand protection and equal rights nationwide. Texans and the South are criticized as federal officeholders and lawyers lead speakers at a crowded Metropolitan Baptist church meeting.
Mrs M G Donnelly of Los Angeles threatens to sue New York City for funeral expenses after a city clerk error led her to believe a man was her brother. She sent funds when notified of his death, then learned he had recovered in a later letter.
Gamatie Bradford II, descendant of a Massachusetts governor, killed himself at the Kendal hotel after Miss Mary Cochran refused his marriage proposal. In St Louis, a blaze at the St Louis Axle Company plant on Soulard street caused about 30000 in damage but was put out quickly the next day.
Cleveland police reexamine murder of William L. Rice a lawyer and millionaire chairman. They favor revenge by a prominent business figure over robbery as the motive after Dr Phillips did not hear shots. Reward raised to 10000 dollars as investigators pursue powerful suspects.
Washington reports the Payne Aldrich tariff’s first year ended last Saturday shows receipts exceeding expenditures by 20,214,026. Ordinary receipts for the year ending August 6, 1910, were 75,50,816. Excluding 1907, revenue under the new law exceeded any other year by about 75 million. Corporate taxes nearly reached the assessed total.
Wausau Wisconsin August 10 reports a wedding feast held in Edward near Wausau with no ceremony. Sylvester Hughes 66 and Esther Cotton 36 reportedly agreed to marry and Hughes obtained a license and special permit. Cotton failed to appear, but the minister and guests dined with Hughes.
Scores of fruit growers gathered at the Planters' hotel as President J W Stanton opened the seventh annual American Apple Growers congress. The program covers raising and marketing apples with experts such as Forbes Bennett Powers Green Dunlap and others. Governor Hadley and Henry Shaw’s heirs plan a Shaw dinner for Friday evening.
Aug 30 Chicago reports a bullet from Anton Herbiz’s death mirrors the empty shell at dentist Dr. William F. Michaelis’s murder scene. Police suspect a single highwayman behind both killings as area robberies rise, with strong indications of a linked crime spree.
President Eloy Alfaro formally opens a great exposition in Quito to mark the hundredth anniversary of Houma dors independence with foreign nation exhibits. The fair will run for two months as manufacturers from many nations display products. Ernest HH. Wands is noted as the completester of Lae United States.
A brief item from South Framingham Massachusetts dated August 10 notes a personal tragedy framed as a love related death. No further details are provided in the fragment.
New York city Mayor William J. Gaynor was shot on the Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse as he prepared to sail to Europe for a vacation. A man named Jules James Gallagher was arrested after a struggle on deck. Gaynor was unconscious but his condition later appeared serious.
News from Denison Texas describes the mayor shot on the right side of the neck with the bullet traveling downward and forward. He remains conscious and resting quietly with no immediate danger noted. In a separate case, Mrs Joseph Wolfe, 51, was found dead with her throat cut from ear to ear. authorities anticipate an arrest.
Canon Hensley Henson at Yale admits he erred in condemning an American habit. He recalls Banbury where six young Methodist ministers rode a third class carriage with a beer-smelling woman. A tense tunnel moment ends with a threat from the woman wielding a breadknife.
Berlin court life features strict etiquette with no cloak rooms and wraps kept in carriages. Imperial pair enjoy watching dances while nobles lavishly dress in jewels, avoiding black attire. Married women and girls are separated into different rooms before the festivities begin.
The article highlights Queen Olga, a Russian princess and wife of King George I, noted for fluency in several languages including Greek and Albanian. It praises her linguistic skills, philanthropy, and a rare honor as an admiral in Russia, reflecting her prominence amid European politics over the Crete crisis.
Miss Helen Frick daughter of Henry Clabrick hosted a luncheon at Stillwan farm in Bennett Woodbat Misses Frick and Selfer of Pittsburg led a reception for more than 100 working girls from Howton Lyon Lowell and Lawrence who visited the country estate during the summer Some spent two weeks at the farm while others stayed a day or afternoon.
A London medical view claims new clothing is a powerful mental and moral tonic and that well dressed men act with more confidence. The Ottawa Citizen notes most millionaires wear ill fitting clothes, while the Toronto Star recalls a man transformed by clean linen and a tweed suit who could borrow freely after his makeover.
During political agitation a man arrives in Magdeburg and secures a residence permit. A blue uniform detective shadows him for days, questioning the purpose of his stay and insisting the passport allows only pleasure visits, sparking a tense exchange about surveillance.
The article discusses wheat as a grass native to western Asia with origins older than recorded history. It notes early narratives crediting divine gifts, and debates a theory that wheat derived from wild plants, culminating in wheat remaining a cultivated grass rather than a distinct crop.
Claude Brown of Reynoldaville IML suffered months with kidney trouble baffling doctors. After trying Foley's Kidney Remedy he used three bottles and claims a complete cure. He praises the remedy as of inestimable value to him.
Advertisement offers a six room dwelling with bath and outbuildings in a fine neighborhood. Easy terms, affordable price, available for either rent or purchase. Phone 128.
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