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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Weekly Sentinel
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 25, 1908
Page
14
Washington lawmakers tabled a resolution by 148 to 115 calling on the president to release Bureau of Corporations data on corporations. The vote follows controversy over government secrecy and investigative scope.
In Washington on March 20 President Roosevelt faced criticism from Mr. Hardwick Georgia over the bureau of corporations data. Hardwick said $600000 was spent gathering the information yet Congress was kept in the dark and urged first hand access rather than selective disclosure.
In the senate Hale warns auxiliary ships are vital to naval strength and warns a war would leave the fleet useless without foreign colliers. La Follette tariff bill proposes a nine member commission with power to suspend schedules and place articles on the free list amid production and price controls. AFL grievance statement read into senate records and ordered printed as a senate document.
In Des Moines on March 19, friends of Senator Allison led the Republican gathering and pushed a Taft aligned platform. A 672 to 510 vote supported re election to the U S senate, the convention’s sole contest. Four delegates at large to the national convention were chosen with Taft instruction.
Major Lacey led the majority at the Iowa convention with a resolution backing Senator Allison for reelection, while Senator Cheshire opposed it as a repudiation of primary law. The platform praised Taft, reaffirmed tariff protection, and urged delegates to back Taft at the national convention. Attorney General Ellis predicted Taft’s nomination on a likely single ballot.
New York March 19. The annual report of President Vail of the American Telephone and Telegraph company shows profits of 23 479 000 compared with 17 857 000 last year. The document notes the national scope with millions of subscribers and 1 664 000 miles of wire and praises public control if independent and fair.
Chicago reports sensational letters to Mayor Busse Chief Shippy and Assistant Chief Schuettler claim a band of assassins will use a noiseless gun loaded with steel points dipped in poison. The letters describe a method to kill officials with instant fatal injection.
In Cleveland on March 19 a riot outside the American Steel and Wire Company gates injured many as workers pressed for jobs. A shot fired by a striker killed a participant. police intervened with clubs. Charles Wryder was among the wounded and may die.
San Francisco police say J Edward Burke a New York jewelry buyer wanted for 165000 dollars in pearls and diamonds is actually J H Boeck. Boeck had been in Nevada as a supposed mine owner and lived with Reno partner Seamans with missing jewelry traced to pawn tickets. East Goshen celery growers expect record crop as plants reach two inches.
George Willoughby, 50, manager of Jewett and Sherman coffee and spice mills in Milwaukee, killed his wife Florence after a quarrel at their Prospect avenue home. He confessed to planning the murder for years, then attempted suicide with two shots to the breast and hid the revolver. He had been involved with another woman and had supported her and her children.
About twenty citizens from Richmond Ridgeville Portland Lynn Fountain City and Winchester joined officials from the Fort Wayne and Springfield interurban line in Decatur to study extending the trolley southward. The group toured the line and held an afternoon meeting arranging to support the project. Members included G R Dicks O C Thomas Ed LeBrown W B Bennett C R Carter F P Hanna E S Jaqua John Hessemeier C H Hanes J C Gurylum S C Lay W L Thomas M M Lacy William Fitzmaurice and Cash Beall.
The Postmaster General orders subscribers to be up to date on daily weekly and periodical subscriptions to retain second class status. Publishers may be forced to stop papers for arrears, with a year overdue triggering suspension. The move targets advertising schemes and seeks bona fide subscribers, urging readers to settle dues and expect notices before one year behind.
The Rev. Charles H. Fowler bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church died at his New York home today. He had been critically ill only since Wednesday and his death followed heart failure from a complication of diseases. He had been in ill health for two years but remained active much of that time.
He served as pastor of several Chicago churches for seventeen years, became Northwestern University president in 1872 for four years, then edited the Christian Advocate in New York. In 1880 he was named general missionary secretary, and in 1884 he was elected bishop.
The Young Men's club hosted a church gathering Thursday evening to discuss The Men of the Church and the Men's Club The Men and the Sunday Schools and The Spiritual Life of the Church Rev W H Diefenbach spoke lunch was served and a club for all men of the church may be organized afterward The largest judgment ever returned.
Washington reports Japan has invited the Atlantic battleship fleet to stop at a Japanese port on its world voyage home. The invitation was sent to Secretary Root via Ambassador Takahira and awaits decision by the president and cabinet.
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