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Newspaper
Glenwood Opinion
Location
Glenwood, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1908
Page
1
A sweeping digest notes conferences on signal corps expansion at Fort Omaha, tariff revision, revenue questions, and Roosevelt's messages. It mentions Root joining foreign relations, Cuba troop withdrawal, Venezuela relations, Irish land acts abandoned, and ongoing canal and trade policy debates.
A vast earthquake struck Calabria and Sicily Saturday, damaging Messina and Catania, with many deaths. Telegraph and telephone outages hindered full casualty estimates as ships were sunk by a following tidal wave and officials reported heroic rescue efforts amid widespread destruction.
Montana Coke and Coal manager Helent Hilson of Eldrige reports a large coal deposit under Yellowstone Park. He says crops of coal extend several thousand feet, and that development may begin within twenty to forty years if opened for operation.
President Roosevelt's youngest daughter Miss Ethel Roosevelt debuted at a society function Monday night in the White House east room. Mrs Roosevelt and Miss Roosevelt greeted guests in the blue room as about four hundred attendees attended the event starting at 10 o'clock.
The sixteen battleships of the American Atlantic fleet under Rear Admiral Sperry are moving around the world and passed Aden, Arabia on Monday en route to Suez. The rest left Colombo, Ceylon on December 20.
President Taft will spend a single week in Panama staying as a guest of Colonel Gosthals. Mrs. Taft will accompany him and six civil engineers will join the trip.
Burlington and Great Northern to inaugurate through Chicago to Seattle Tacoma and Portland service before Alaska Yukon Pacific exposition. Announcement to be issued soon. Hard work locating statues of John Paul Jones and Commodore John Barry in Washington proves difficult.
Iowa lawmakers set to cut running expenses and tighten control of education funding. A plan to form a regents system for three colleges and broader department reorganizations aims at economy and streamlined management. Insurance department change may pass, while ballot reforms and speakership jockeying shape early session dynamics.
The Iowa agriculture department has secured steel grandstand plans for the state fair grounds with an appropriation hoped from the legislature. The building will be 100 feet back from the track, steel construction, and warted as free proof. Miss Nejc May Schlea, former Lincoln teacher, now critic teacher at Peru State Normal, has returned from England and Germany after inspecting schools for the National Civic Federation. The Nebraska Territorial Pioneers’ association winter meeting is set for January 12–13, aligned with the Nebraska State Historical Society annual meeting in Lincoln. Secretary Junkin has received a draft bill to guaranty bank deposits, proposing a $1,000,000 fund funded by participating banks, from Kansan Senator Quin cy. A Central City native, C. B. Huff, won one of four prizes by Miss Helen Gould for memorizing 600 Bible verses, currently affiliated with a Topeka college as a penmanship professor.
A jagged statewide miscellany reports James Dunvar dying after a horse attack in Page County, a new bullion plant at Lanning to start January with fifty workers, a Council Bluffs man injured by an auto, and Iowa City hunters bagging eighty rabbit hides. It notes a Waterloo widow fatally injured after a faint in an electric car, land divisions for the late George Wells, a Webster City youth’s court claim against his father, and a Mason City bear meat dinner for the Eagles. Also covers Crozier gaining a temporary assembly seat, a Bedford court ruling on official election tallies, a statewide legal department reorganization urged by the attorney general, indictments in Pottawattamie County, and civic notices from Cedar Falls and West Union. A Mills County horse thief case, a Felon’s arrest in Skidmore, Missouri, and a Minnesota attorney’s sudden collapse are included, alongside poultry magnate Henry Rhynsburger’s Europe-bound shipments and Armour scholarships at Ames.
In his annual report to Governor Garst, Attorney General Byers urges a major reorganization of the attorney general's department. Proposals include governor power to remove peace officers and prosecutors, closer county attorney coordination, enhanced inspection powers, and funds to hire capable staff. The note also mentions reforms to criminal procedure and support for state prosecutions.
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