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Newspaper
Laredo Weekly Times
Location
Laredo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1908
Page
2
Paris reports Gregori, La Gaulis military editor, fired at Major Alfred Dreyfus during the transfer of Emile Zola to the Pantheon. The bullets struck his right arm. Fallieres and Dreyfus remained calm as guards subdued the assailant. The attack revives tensions over the Jewish question in France.
Charles von Milevich of Philadelphia is jailed in Lille on extradition from Tournai for allegedly robbing his father in law of 40000 francs during a May visit to Prasnas Belgium. Lille authorities barred contact with his wife and the American consular agent, while a confession from his sister in law was sent via the consular agent.
Havana reports that Governor Magoon issued a decree closing all Cuban ports to vessels from Venezuela in response to Castro regime sanitary violations and the prevailing plague at La Guaira.
William Brooks Mason a 138 year old man in Harlem asked police to locate his twenty year old wife who left his home after receiving $4.00 on May 12. Mason claimed he met her days before their three month old marriage and said he once held General Washingtons horse at the surrender of Lord Cornwallis.
Chicago June 4 Practically all Republican National Committeemen gather for contests that begin tomorrow Anti Taft factions hope to throw out Taft delegates to improve odds Roosevelt nomination talk circulates as a lever Secretary Cortelyou Hammond and Governor Deene of Illinois named as potential presidential and allied figures with Chester Long of Kansas among discussions
Mehemid Ali, leader of Paris Turkish community, housed medical student Rechid Mustapha. Early Sunday Mustapha killed Ali’s sister Princess Fatima and her son Prince Salah while they slept, then confessed. He cites hypnotic suggestion by a doctor who allegedly mesmerized him.
Treasury officials report a defect in the new currency law leaves clearing house certificates untaxed while emergency bills are heavily taxed. The result may prevent issuing the emergency currency and push banks toward the untaxed certificates during panic.
Midshipman Albert M. Penn will graduate from the U S Naval Academy as Ensign and enter active duty tomorrow. He may receive two months liberty but is likely to be ordered to duty soon due to naval global assignments. If granted leave he plans to visit family in Laredo before possible assignment to the battleship Georgia for a world cruise.
Chicago dispatch reports the famous May grain corner that enriched Patton Armour and others led to three deaths. Hermann Schnabble the inventor shot himself, Chris Walsh the broker died from overwork, and W H Roberts Pattons secretary drowned after the deal concluded.
Montreal June 4 Sir Robert Gillespie Reid railroad builder and capitalist died last night. A native of Scotland he built the Colorado river bridge at Austin Texas in 1880 and all iron and masonry bridges on the first 250 miles of the Southern Pacific Railroad west of San Antonio.
A laxative cough syrup popular with children is praised for its pleasant taste and gentle yet effective action. It claims to relieve colds without causing constipation and is sold at Reed's Drag Store.
The American Federation of Labor campaign committee in Chicago announces a pledge to raise fifty thousand dollars to back labor candidates. The fund will be used to field nominees who support the labor program in opposition to regular nominees who oppose it.
Miss Kate Jackley from Potosi Wisconsin visits Washington to seek a cure from President Roosevelt for a condition she calls meddlesome undercurrent. After a White House call she is referred to the Chief of Police who sent her to the House of Detention.
After 15 years of chronic indigestion and spending over two hundred dollars, B. F. Ayscue of Ingleside North Carolina declares Dr King’s New Life Pills the best pill ever sold. Sold under guarantee at all druggists.
Norwalk Ohio June 4 Republican Congressman J F P Laning and three others James Gibbs F W Christian and Wim Perrin are indicted in connection with the Ohio Trust company failure Laning says he was renominated and that enemies packed the grand jury
In Philadelphia on June 4 Frank Abbott a retired merchant and club member shot his wife to death after she fled from him at a fashionable boarding house He was drunk and fled before police could arrest him leaving a case of cold blooded murder with the killer at large
The supreme court refused a rehearing sought by the saloon interest, upholding the local option law as valid.
Dispatches from Australia report forty boats sunk by a typhoon and two hundred seventy persons drowned. London dated June 4. The Australian storm causes extensive loss at sea with confirmed fatalities and crew reports.
A posse chases three robbers who rode into Fairland on horseback and looted the vault, escaping with $10,000 from the Bank of Fairland near Tulsa.
The Children's Relief Society receives thousands in donations after reports that hundreds of East Side school pupils are inadequately fed. They will establish soup kitchens and free lunch stands to provide one square meal daily to every child.
Giddings Texas June 2 County Attorney K T Simmang and family out on Rabbs Creek when their baby was bitten by a copperhead. He sucked out poison and rushed to town where both received medical care. both are reported to be doing well.
Governor Johnson of Minnesota arrives at Chicago headquarters where managers say Maryland and Louisiana conventions refusing to endorse Bryan will prevent his nomination on the first ballot. They assert Johnson sentiment is growing while Bryan recedes.
DeWitt's Kidney and Bladder Pills are described as prompt and thorough, strengthening weakened kidneys and alleviating bladder inflammation. The pills are recommended widely and sold by Reed's Drug Store.
Personal notes show Fay Allison visiting in town after attending school in Austin before heading back to St Louis. Several residents travel for visits or work, including Mrs. A E McClendon and Attie visiting Austin, and Mr. Thomas Worsham Jr joining Wells Fargo Express Co in El Paso.
A note reading I shall not make my Father's house a place of merchandise was left by a thief who twice robbed the church collection box in Altus Oklahoma last night. Police investigated the incident and sought leads as the prayer room remained closed for services.
Chicago June 4 Dr. Bryant Cleveland's physician was recalled from a national medical meeting with reports that Cleveland's condition had deteriorated. Bryant refused to discuss the matter.
Tex rivers surged on June 3 causing rail damage and road blockages. Red River rose five to seven feet near Denison and Gainesville washing out tracks and threatening bridges. Storms damaged 50 houses in Amarillo area while Dallas braces for further Trinity flooding. A. E. Patton died as tracks washed out between Wichita Falls and Vernon.
Tom Moore of Rural Route 1 Cocoran Ga reports a bad sore on his instep healed by Bucklen's Arnica Salve. He says less than half of a 25 cent box cured it, with the product sold under guarantee at all druggists.
In Monterey on June 3 an 80 year old woman, Maria Francisca Garcia, was accidentally shot in the neck by an eight year old boy, Jose de la Luz Guerra, who handled a Smith and Wesson .44 revolver kept in a store drawer. She died hours later at Gonzalez hospital. The proprietor, Juan Guerra, left his children in charge. the boy was arrested and jailed pending investigation.
Minneapolis police label James Montague a demented youth who killed A P Camden. He claims he earns 150 dollars per victim and has masqueraded as a girl. Police pursue possible link to other mysterious crimes.
Fifty St Marys Hall girls and several faculty members narrowly escaped injury when electric car 145 collided with a westbound Southern Pacific freight at the South Presa street crossing in San Antonio at 7 55 this morning. Motorman B Gabitzsch was injured and several students were lightly hurt as the front of the car was demolished and the vehicle rolled about 30 feet. Discrepancies on cause: witnesses claim speed before crossing while officials cite whistle non sounding and a nearly stopped car. The freight train halted immediately.
In Calvert Texas on June 2 a shooting on the Barton farm six miles west left Will Majors dead after Jim Hayes shot him with a Colts 45 over a card game. Hayes is at large but likely to be captured. Both men were Black.
Eight men were seriously injured when a high price express train traveling at fifty miles an hour collided with a freight engine early this morning in New York.
S H Sims of Mexia Texas was found in his yard with a bullet wound to the forehead on Sunday morning June 2. Justice Kinchloe held an inquest and ruled death self inflicted, the weapon identified as a target rifle.
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