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Newspaper
Hull Index
Location
Hull, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 13, 1911
Page
3
D A. D. Neeley president of Wichita Pipe Line Co and head of oil interests was shot twice at the Palace hotel in Coney Kan by AL O Truskett a Caney businessman amid a pending lawsuit against the Pipe Line Co Truskett was taken to Independence jail. motive linked to litigation and alleged deceit by the corporation
Springfield reports Governor Deneen received a formal letter from Senator Holstian of Juka confessing to receiving a bribe from John A Broderick of Chicago in the Lorimer matter. The governor planned to present the letter to the senate Tuesday morning. note stated the letter was brief and direct.
Senator Elkins coffin was carried to Maplewood cemetery after a funeral at the Dadla Memorial Presbyterian church in Pit WW West Virginia. Officials and mourners from Washington and Elkins’s district attended the service and interment, with a Mason’s rite and a special train carrying the congressional delegation back to the capital.
Captain Sidney A. Loman the retiring American military attache and Mrs. Claman sailed from Liverpool aboard the Lualtanna for New York. A large embassy party including diplomats English officers and American residents bade them farewell at the station. Also note Crawford County Pennsylvania juror service halted for lack of sufficient cases.
State Superintendent Cheney ordered the Carnegie Trust Company closed after an examination found it in an unsound condition. Depositors gathered as officials prepared the notice of seizure, with stock markets slipping modestly and officials promising to pay depositors in full. The bank, once led by J. Dickinson and later by J. Reichmann and H. Howell, occupied prominent Broadway quarters in Manhattan.
Powerful tremors reported across Russian Turkestan caused collapses and fatalities. Vyerny in Semiryetchensk district suffered extensive destruction as ground fissures opened and communications failed. Observers in London and Cleveland noted distant shocks, with seismographs registering violent oscillations and collapsed needles.
In early January the Florida coast felt a deep freeze with Jacksonville at freezing and inland areas dropping to 14 to 15 degrees below. Officials warn the cold could ruin the orange crop in the extreme south and farther north along the state.
The article reports on a Kansas bank robbery wave with two gangs operating from Nebraska and Oklahoma, but confined to Kansas towns like Wichita and Hutchinson. Police and merchants plan a statewide meeting in Wichita to discuss prevention and capture methods as chiefs of police and merchants converge to discuss the issue.
In Kansas City a woman, Adeline Ehinter De Mare Somer, was granted a default divorce from Henry Somerset who called himself Love. She notes her first husband George S. De Mare, artist, died in a fire. Somerset claimed lineage from Baron Seymour but no such title exists in peerage records.
Prominent attorney Templeton of Tyrone Pa and former Senator Tampietan pleaded guilty in Blair County Court to forgery and embezzlement totaling 75408 dollars. Judge Baldridge sentenced him to a $500 fine and imprisonment in Pittsburgh's penitentiary for a term of three to twelve years.
Faris Jan 4 The court of appeals confirmed Rheims civil tribunal ruling that Cardinal Gudevie Tucen archbishop of Rheims must pay damages to the Pub association. He was convicted on February 15 1860 of attempting to injure the public schools by forbidding use of certain text books the church objected to.
Two youths robbed the Hotel McKay in Duluth Minnesota early today, shot a night porter, then fled with about 50 dollars. Police chased them across the Interstate bridge district toward Superior and a guard shot and killed a patrolman during the pursuit. The youths, about 15 years old, escaped on a streetcar toward Wisconsin, with a crowd joining the manhunt.
An early morning explosion at the Minneapolis General Electric power plant caused extensive fire damage and left the city briefly without electricity. Two workers were injured and taken to the city hospital as flames engulfed the building and interior devices failed. A witness reported a blast near the switchboard preceding the fire.
President Taft denied commutation for W. S. Harlan, manager of a large lumber and turpentine company in Florida and Alabama, convicted of conspiring to violate the peonage act. Harlan, once of Indianola, had Iowa supporters urging clemency while he remains in prison.
Announcement from Philadelphia states the Harriman railroad system awarded Talkiwin Locomotive Works a contract for 108 engines at a price between £500 and $460,000. Engines to be delivered in spring and summer, ensuring employment for the plant's workers through the fall.
Three bags of registered mail valued at up to 50000 were stolen over five days around San Francisco and on the return trip to Oakland. The sacks contained late Christmas seeds and money orders drafts checks and currency headed to banks in the east and northwest. Investigators suspect three to four robbers who followed cross bay routes for weeks before the haul.
Rio Janeiro January 9 according to today's Jornal de Comercio Joao Candide leader of the recent revolt in the navy and four other mutineers have met sudden deaths Candide succumbed to gangrene while a prisoner Twenty six of his associates died from a stroke while attempting to reach the fortress on Cobrar island and eighteen others suffocated in their cells in the prison on Villegainen island.
London reports an evening paper prints a text of a Franco Russian German pact said to follow the meeting of Kaiser Wilhelm and Czar Nicholas at Potsdam last November. The paper claims the agreement strengthens their entente and weakens France and Britain, signaling a potential shift in European power.
In Hamilton Ohio Mina Inevet Phelps 38 temporarily demented shot Henry Walker in the head and his wife in the shoulder after visiting at 41 and Mrs Leute Walker. She surrendered to Sheriff Frat claiming enemies pursue her and poison is in food. The husband likely will die.
Washington reports the Department of Justice will present the late Lloyd Wy Bowers brief to the Supreme Court defending an act of Congress shielding living rights. The brief, prepared by the late solicitor general, is presented with a tribute from Attorney General Wickard. Also reported, three members of the Horvath family died by gas asphyxiation in Chicago as investigators identify a faulty line connection.
Fire chief Croker and a squad of firefighters narrowly escaped a Wooster Street factory collapse as a worker lay pinned beneath debris. Fire caused estimated damage of 150 and disrupted traffic during the rescue.
The article notes Alfred Tennyson Dickens touring the United States and Britain to discuss Charles Dickens and his works. It cites his personal recollections of his father, his godfather August, his own shift to lecturing, and plans for a Twickenham testimonial honoring Dickens' centenary.
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