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Newspaper
Freeport Daily Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1908
Page
1
Chicago dispatch reports Illinois will be generally fair tonight and Saturday with warmer conditions in the south tonight and colder in the north Saturday. Iowa also sees fair weather tonight and Saturday with colder conditions in the west tonight and in the east and central on Saturday.
The Thaw murder trial resumes with witnesses describing Harry Thaw as irrational. Miss Fletcher of the Smithsonian and Miss O Neill who nursed Thaw as a child testified to his instability. Mrs Evelyn Nesbit Thaw was briefly called then withdrawn. Mrs Thaw testified on his return home in 1903 after Nesbit’s Paris story.
The January 17 demonstration by women suffragists at Downing Street, aimed at the cabinet meeting before Parliament, saw police force and five arrests. The women refused bail and were jailed for three weeks for failing to provide sureties for good behavior.
Two girls died and seven others were seriously injured in a blaze at the Imperial Underwear company building in Scranton on January 17. About two hundred workers were inside when the fire alarm sounded causing a panic and multiple jumps from the fire escape resulting in broken bones and internal injuries.
A blaze gutted the Baltimore Masonic temple early today leaving the structure above the second floor a hollow shell. The total loss on building and contents is 250000 dollars, fully insured, with the grand lodge records and archives believed intact.
The Associated Press reports in Boyertown Pennsylvania that with 173 dead, authorities schedule night work to dig graves, as funeral services span today tomorrow and Sunday and laborers toil through the night.
Mrs. Herbert M. Sears wife of a Boston broker and a guest at the St. Regis hotel died by suicide today by leaping from the thirteenth story window. Friends report she suffered from melancholia.
Daniel C. Stover, Freeport's wealthiest citizen and head of the Stover Manufacturing Company, died after a nine month illness. A prominent inventor and builder of Freeport's industrial base, he owned major interests including windmills, barbed wire, and tractors, and had helped shape the city’s growth through extensive philanthropy and business leadership. Funeral services set for Sunday. his death prompts widespread mourning and reflections on his enterprises.
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