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Newspaper
Kansas City Star
Location
Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Apr 18, 1908
Page
4
American author E Lynor Glyn arrives in New York amid questions about staging her sensational work Three Weeks. She says she may not reproduce the tale on stage, seeks clarity, and plans to rest in California while noting difficulties finding a lead actress for the heroine.
In Jersey City, special master Mr. Cook recommends divorce for Mrs. Margaret J. Farrier from Horace Farrier. Agnes O'Connor, aka Agnes McSpirit, named as co respondent. Married 1898 with a 16 year old bride and 19 year old groom. Testimony described Easter Sunday party with beer, vivid pajamas, and a shattered bottle causing a gore of blood as Agnes McSpirit injured. Farrier offered no defense.
Mrs. John A. Drake discovered in a Waldorf apartment hunting coat pocket a bundle of stock certificates owed by her husband. The Montana gold mine, valued at about 2 million dollars by experts, had seen $6,000 spent developing it with Drake as principal owner. A sale to Amalgamated Copper and others stalled after the certificates vanished.
Bennie Postel nek died of a rare illness described as morbus maculosis werthoffe. Dark spots covered his body as veins leaked blood internally, ending after illness began last Saturday. Doctors at Harlem hospital and specialists could not initially determine the cause, a case not seen for decades. An investigation aimed to aid science and support the bereaved parents.
In New York on April 18 physicians at Bellevue hospital reported a relapse for Selig Silverstein, the man who improvised a bomb in Union Square during an unemployed mass meeting. One man was killed and Silverstein himself injured. doctors had previously deemed recovery unlikely amid worsening symptoms and ongoing complications.
Cuiiaco April 18 Mrs Charles T Yerkes linked to Leo Tecktonious a 24 year old, wealthy Racine and Chicago music figure. Gossips say she shows interest, hosting him at dinners, with an Easter reception in New York tomorrow where she may appear. Tecktonious, trained at Dana Institute, praised by Marcian Thalbert for destined virtuoso career.
On the Persian frontier near Belostivar marauding Kurds renew attacks as Russian artillery bombards brigand shelters. Russian commander ordered to disperse and wipe out bands with reinforcements from Baku and Lenkoran. Casualties include seven Russian soldiers. Tabriz reports Tehran ordering rapid Persian troop deployment to the disturbed area.
Lieutenant General Linevitch once commanded Russian forces in Manchuria and as aide to the Emperor is reported ill with pneumonia in St Petersburg. Age and frailty raise serious concern for his recovery. He led the Manchurian forces before and during the Russo Japanese war and fought to cover the retreat after defeats at Liao Yang Shah River and Mukden.
Prof Alexander Agassiz of Harvard and his son Mafi returned from Europe aboard the Cedric with valuable Africa maps photographs and specimens. They had spent time exploring large parts of Darkest Africa where little was known. A separate dialogue notes a jail question about arresting someone and its absence as the jail has become a roller skating rink.
A debate between junior and freshmen classes is set for tonight in the rooms of the Kansas City School of Law. The topic asks whether the commission form of government is preferable to the aldermanic system, with J. R. Ford E. J. Fleming and M. L. Driscoll for the juniors and William Jochems G. W. Miller and B. Bryant for the freshmen. Judges are Rev. Iles Moore Landry Harwood and FE Richardson.
Kansas City bakers will travel to St. Louis on Wednesday to organize a state association. Henry Matthaei of Kansas City serves on the executive committee. The group aims to meet semi regularly to discuss topics related to the industry and to keep members informed.
In Paris a 3 year old descendant of John Paul Jones's kin lives with his grandmother Madame Gombault in a sixth floor room at No 2 Rue de Calais. She labors from dawn to midnight to feed and clothe them after losing most of her relics and fortune. She recalls Jones’s armory lost to poverty and recalls her failed bid to reclaim American debt through Roosevelt and Congress.
Walter Gidinghagen of Adams school spoke to local principals about crime causes. He argued alcohol and defective physical condition drive crime, noting poverty does not determine criminality as Ireland shows. Ezra Meeker urged preserving the Oregon Trail memory at the meeting.
In Orreaco, April 18, the state board of pardons chaired by Governor Deneen met to consider Herman Billick, the fortune teller sentenced to be hanged April 24 for Veral family murders. Two key witnesses recanted earlier testimony, as police, trial witnesses, and attorneys filled the hearing, which may continue long.
Prof Calvin Thomas of Columbia University finished his Kansas engagement with lectures on spelling reform. He spoke on Faust and Fanaticism in recent sessions, lectured in German on Grillparzer, preached at chapel, and delivered a second Faust lecture to close the series.
A digest of historic gold finds across Ireland Scotland and Britain. It recounts an Arklow stream tale of a 22 ounce nugget in 1796 and a rush that yielded 2500 ounces worth about 50000, the government ending the diggings, and wider notes on earlier Danish and Scottish gold discoveries and famous Cornwall and Klondike links.
The Hutt wolf chase, announced for May 14 15 and 16 at Brancuaro Ox Oklahoma, aims to be the Wests largest hunt. It follows English chase tradition on a larger scale with 185 trained dogs already entered and about 100 more expected.
A dialogue depicts social snobbery as Mr Highmore refuses to be seen with Lumpkins. Pneuritch agrees, noting a stain on Lumpkins’s reputation and slovenly appearance that would make him reluctant to associate in public.
An Army and Navy club talk recounts Steunenberg who began as a navy coal passer, later serving as a first lieutenant in the Thirteenth Cavalry. His career spans Navy to Army, with followings of Wotherspoon, Roscoe, OConnor, Raymond, Langhorst, Krug, Stacey, and Sayer among others who started in naval ranks before earning army commissions.
Mrs. Mary Belle Campbell, widow of traveling salesman John A. Campbell, sues United Commercial Travelers of America in Independence to collect a $6300 accident life policy for her husband who died May 7 1907 after drinking carbolic acid by accident.
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