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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1909
Page
2
Petey appears in a fragmented note referencing April and a list of terms unclear in meaning. The readable items include possible abbreviations and scattered words, with no cohesive event or named organizations clearly identifiable.
An immense crowd on the street saw over 100 seiden and 20 old soldiers taken to shade as victims recovered. About forty treated at emergency stations, fifteen Grand Army men and thirty children among them. No fatalities reported as the drag hours peaked in 85 degree heat. Thousands lined the route with 5,000 soldiers walking four abreast, Nebraska delegations present. Illinois supplied the largest turnout with other states also represented.
Eugene Schattner, brother of the Kansas City man who died recently leaving about 117000 to local charities and 36000 to black employees, files to break the will valued at 200000. He claims his brother was addicted to toxicants impeding his mind when the will was drawn and alleges undue influence by Mary J. Yates the housekeeper who received 10000 along with other black beneficiaries including a porter and a nurse.
Disaster strikes Monterey Mexico as the Santa Carita river rose washing away shanties in San Luisio district leaving 14 dead and many homes destroyed. Preliminary counts suggest up to 88 but final figures await district tally and official assessment.
Fragmentary OCR notes describe a Clyde liner voyage with a ship from the northeast. The text mentions an incident involving a ship and driving conditions, but many words are garbled and names unclear.
A fragment from a 19th or early 20th century report references a black defendant nicknamed Doctor Walton alias Williams accused in a murder case. The text is garbled but indicates a trial or guilty verdict mention involving a Negro individual named Walton or Williams.
A Vernon British Columbia hotel burned on Tuesday, destroying the Chatiagan hotel. Flames swept the building before water could reach it. Six guests, mostly Western Canadians, died. heroic rescues occurred as firemen later searched the ruins. Property loss set at $26,000 with several injured rushed to hospitals.
Mrs. Blenrath Nosker, wife of a Chicago businessman, lies unconscious in a New York hospital after a subway incident. William H. Lehlin, held on disorderly conduct charges, says he is her longtime friend. Police report a man tried to drag a woman from a cab near Twenty eighth street and Madison avenue. the woman cried for help and collapsed at the subway platform, with ambulance surgeons citing drug effect.
John Simpson, a well known farmer of Scottsville Kentucky, was killed Tuesday night when six masked men entered his cabin and shot him. Authorities say the killing stems from a custody suit filed by Mrs. Douglas to recover her child, in which Simpson reportedly played a prominent role.
The article notes Mrs Joseph Anderson, described as a poor washwoman of Des Moines, is notified she will receive sixty thousand dollars as her share of a twenty million dollar distribution to Choctaw Indians from Uncle Sam. It mentions a Crete island incident tied to a July evacuation and international protests by four powers.
A fragmentary report notes a cholera outbreak affecting guests at Summer Hotel in Burns, with dozens of colonists stricken and widespread panic as authorities contend with a fatal incident and street disturbances.
A Marshalslowe deathbed scene centers on Mrs. Watley Olson a 20 year old bride who dies after a dramatic return from apparent death Her husband and family surround the bed as she speaks of angels and golden gates then expires shortly after a final remark Susie Walley’s vivid bedside moment is recalled in local notes and rumor includes a long account of her near death experience and its emotional impact
McCoy of Corydon won the Grand Chancellor post in the Grand Lodge of Iowa at Sioux City by a 18 vote margin over Wobb of Vinton. The Salinger ticket was defeated as delegates packed the auditorium and corridors awaiting results from the long ballot count.
Lew Francis, a Black man, lay dying at Jennie Edmundson Memorial hospital in Council Bluffs after being shot by George Pride. Francis declined to kneel due to physicians, and minutes before death he told a physician Pride shot him following a quarrel over an accusation of intimacy with Mrs Pride. Pride, a white man, was held without charge of murder.
A 20 month old baby boy of Mr and Mrs Ed Pranschko drowned in a water jar near Charter Oak while mother did housework and other children played outside. The tragedy followed the child’s disappearance as the family searched and found him in the rasp water jar by the house slide.
A 10 year old girl, Helen Muttos of Muarvey Comaits Sulelde Poallowiue, shot herself in her bedroom after kneeling in white before a window. Found by stepfather W A Montgomery who faces suspicions of abuse. The mother walked ten miles to Knoxville before the news. the girl died from a heart wound.
A large crowd of about 16,000 gathered in the city square to welcome Senator Jd. Z. Dolliver. Festive lights on Central avenue and a nonpartisan spirit marked the reception as delegations from several districts attended the event.
John Werner, a 35 year old colored man, was shot dead at Des Moines Tuesday night just after his marriage to Miss Mary Saunders. Weaver, a bystander, fell dead as guests departed. Police seek James Watkins, a former admirer of Miss Bilanders, seen near the house that night.
Torn track pages reveal a heated battle between Fort Dodge and Port Dodge over Fourth Avenue streetcar lines. The Interurban company faces contempt talks as Judge Wright’s restraint remains in force while city and railway interests clash during the ongoing dispute.
Samuel Wranc¢ls Smith Wead, once mayor of Davenport and son of the man who wrote Amorden, dies in a Toronto hospital after a return journey from Newton Center Mass. His sentence had been suspended due to age. Elsewhere Rock Rapids Water Works sale ratified, new power house planned, and Guilty son drowns his mother in a cistern near Draver. Althauser, aged 16, drowns while bathing in Dubuque. Pollak dies in Lewis Blai locality after a long illness.
President Taft plans a sweeping national journey through the South and West beginning September 16. Accompanied by Secretary Fred W. Carpenter and others, he will ride in a private car with occasional special trains, visiting cities from Boston to Washington via a White House on wheels. The 13,000 mile tour will end in Washington with the signing of the annual message.
Inspector Oldfield reports Antonio Marinesi and Cologero Vicarlo of Dennison Ohio, awaiting grand jury action in Columbus, were in Sicily during Lieut Patrasino’s murder. They returned to the United States after the assassination and proposed police collaboration to link them with the Brackhanders. Nineteen money orders totaling 19,280 and one for 80 were traced to Italy to shield the slayers, sent by Camilla Nunzio Lima, linked to Salvatore head of the Marlon, Ohio organized society.
A large fire ripped through a block of frame houses on Superior and nearby avenues in South Chicago, Illinois, displacing as many as 100 families and destroying property valued at about 50,000 dollars. Firefighters and pelicans, amid panic, rescued women and children as residents fled the blaze, which started from an unknown source at a rear door of a building on Superior Avenue. Reports that all residents were safe were later found unfounded.
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