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Newspaper
Freeport Daily Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 21, 1908
Page
7
The Associated Press reports Chicago area conditions for January 21 with likely showers this afternoon, followed by generally fair skies tonight and Wednesday, with a slight drop in temperatures.
Evelyn Thaw faced District Attorney Jerome in a tense day of cross examination. The prosecutor pressed evidence from the former trial and confronted her with prior testimony while maintaining a firm but calm approach. Both sides exchanged sharp verbal exchanges as the pace and intensity appeared even.
The United Mine Workers of America begin their nineteenth annual convention in Tomlinson hall Indianapolis with about a thousand delegates from the anthracite and bituminous districts. The gathering is expected to run until after January 30 when miners and operators meet in the central competitive field to discuss the upcoming interstate wage agreement.
Kansas Republicans in Topeka push Taft for president with a unanimous house vote naming him the choice of the state. The Associated Press reports the move came in Topeka on January 21.
The Mississippi legislature selected John Sharpe Williams to the United States Senate. The decision was announced in Jackson on January 21 as part of the state’s political leadership changes.
Closing quotations show May wheat at 1 03 4. May corn 60 5 4. May oats 81 3 6. May pork 81 3 17. May lard 7.00 7.02. May riba 7.95. Union stockyards reports cattle and hogs soft with bids and ranges for beef, veal, steers, and feeders. hogs mixed with light and heavy lots trading weak. Also notes consumer health ad for Dr King’s New Life Pills and a clothing sale at $9.75 end date.
Important documents filed in Freeport outline Daniel C. and Mary C. Stover wills. Estate valued around 1 million dollars is placed in trust until twenty one years after the death of the surviving children May Winger and Porter Stover. Executors are John I. Smith Henry H. Antrim and Judge James H. Stearns with bonds totaling 150000 each for successors. The will provisions include trusts for heirs, payments to siblings, and linkage to the Stover Manufacturing and Engine companies with executor oversight and annual compensation. The codicil dated June 19 1907 adjusts distributive details and payments to relatives.
The will outlines powers to complete a monument if begun, and to use funds as needed, even beyond ten thousand dollars. It then disposes rest and remainder to executors in trust for Mary C. Stoyer, May S. Winger, and Porter S. Stover, with lifetime incomes and twenty one year accumulation for their heirs, divisions to follow with equalization of prior charges. It requires support payments to wife and children, grandchild education stipends, and restrictions on anticipatory or fractional ownership of the estate. It also notes removal of Porter S. Stover as executor to ensure impartiality and references a codicil planned.
In Washington Champ Clark declared the Democratic party will nominate William Jennings Bryan for president at the July convention. In Frankfort Kentucky the day featured Bryan delivering an address on corporations, with him blaming fictitious values for the recent panic and urging limits on corporate rights.
Yesterday afternoon Officer Kehler arrested Charles Smith near the Robinson Manufacturing plant on a drunken and dis orderly charge. He claimed West Indies origin and said he came from Savanna to Freeport. He hid money in his mouth and $5.25 was found on him, with a bicycle in his possession. He stated a brake man carried him and the bike from Savanna to Freeport. He faced a 3:30 pm trial today. A brief note on opera glasses and various ads fill the rest of the passage.
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