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Newspaper
Freeport Daily Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Feb 29, 1908
Page
7
The forecast calls for Illinois tonight and Sunday to be threatening with possible showers in the south. Iowa expects partly cloudy skies with possible snow flurries in the west tonight. Wisconsin remains partly cloudy tonight and Sunday with little temperature change.
Kentwood Louisiana is under state troop guard after local citizens warned many Italians to leave town to avoid dynamite violence. The Italian workers reportedly accepted wage cuts in the nearby lumber mill, fueling tensions and protests.
A massive fire at the K. Meyer Vinegar Works in Freeport caused extensive loss, with an estimated damage near 25,000 dollars partly insured. Firefighters and volunteers battled the blaze for hours as walls toppled and roofs burned, while workers saved records and other buildings nearby despite dangerous heat and limited water supply.
A Wisconsin commission endorses motor car service as a new epoch advancing transportation, likening opponents to those who resisted steam rails. It dismisses most complaints except Sunday service, scolding the Forty Thousand club and weighing public and financial interests in the Wider adoption of motor cars.
The American battleship fleet weighed anchor at Callao and began steaming north in a column formation. The departure drew a rousing send off from local residents as the ships cleared the harbor.
Henry W. Lemann as counsel for Stuyvesant Fish filed a bill in Chicago Superior Court seeking to enjoin Union Pacific Railroad and Railroad Securities from voting 281,281 shares of Illinois Central stock at the annual meeting on March 2. The action targets the upcoming vote related to the railroad company’s control.
Tokyo reports the Japanese government takes a firm stance over the seizure of the steamer Tatsu Maru. It demands a formal apology and compensation and warns force could be used if China does not concede within a reasonable time.
A mother and three children burned to death in Brereton Avenue foreign district when a lamp overturned at dawn caused a blaze. Several others were injured as rescuers battled flames in Pittsburg.
The Italian automobile and the first French machine, participants in the New York Paris race, arrived in Chicago and rested at 11 o'clock. The American car passed through Sterling at 10 20 this morning following yesterday's route.
Boston, Feb 29. The granite trade across New England is threatened with a major tie up that could suspend thousands of workers as a new wage scale is under dispute and being debated by employers and unions. The issue centers on the Beale of Wages.
Miss Helen Baker has returned from eastern markets with latest millinery styles and will open a Freeport shop at 157 Stephenson Street. License granted to Weil Ralph C. Brown, Independence. Also notes on Honey and War cures and a tailoring department offering new spring patterns.
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