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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Apr 17, 1908
Page
1
Ober's Clothes advertises Easter outfits with prices from $2.00 to $30.00. The notice touts a wide selection of colors, patterns, and fabrics including tweeds serges and basket weave, highlighting Porto Ricat tan tobacco browns olive castor and London smoky grays. It promotes latest models ranging from $10 to $30.
Easter neckwear priced 25c to 1.50 and a broad boys section with new suits for ages 3 to 16. Highlights include high grade boys clothes from $8.50 to $2.50 and men’s underwear in two piece and Union Suits from mills, 50 styles in new weaves and colors.
Walling offers a small farm near Lawrence described as good neat and well improved with reasonable price and easy terms Also a suburban residence at bargain prices plus good farms in Greenwood and Comancheeum Files and both proven and unimproved Phoney at Residence Leroy N Walling Real Estate and General Broker office 1007 Mass St Lawrence Kas home phone 138
Thrilling rescue as two firefighters climb the Dargis tenement on Pinch Ave. to aid a man trapped in a hallway. They reach him as a crowd gathers, then haul him through a window to safety while others assist. Also notes Taft’s possible resignation and assorted local ads and notices.
Roy Jones, jailed with Frank Schneck and Mrs. Stewart, testified about conversations through a jail ventilator and notes passed between the suspects. Jones said Schneck preferred guilty verdicts and that a knife linked to the case may have come from a slaughterhouse. Several witnesses described sightings of Schneck and Mrs. Stewart together. The state plans to rest after 24 minor witnesses. Ed Stewart’s testimony and the disputed knife feature prominently.
In Woodbury New Jersey on April 17 Rev George W Thompson pastor of the Woodbury Presbyterian Church was found dead in a hotel with a bullet wound to the head, believed a suicide after publicly announcing engagement to Mrs Mannie Kenworthy, a wealthy church member. Details tie his attentions to another widow Elizabeth Dohnon, and the town reels over the scandal touching at least three women connected to the case. Thompson, 45, had disclosed engagement to Kenworthy about a week earlier. motive remains unknown and witnesses recount the tumult surrounding the church and community relations.
The Kansas rain is general and beneficial for crops and plowing conditions. In Chicago an elevated line accident at Thirty-ninth Street injured several passengers as the middle car derailed and blocked traffic for about thirty minutes. A separate Algerian daylight attack on Tal vaza hill left 28 French dead or wounded, while a Siberian court martial executed two soldiers for a prior attack. Roosevelt asked Congress for a $3750 appropriation to settle Samoa claims with Sweden.
Governor Stuart sends three state police troops to Chester to secure the car barn area and deter crowds as the street car strike continues. Quiet conditions noted this morning and authorities promise to search for firearms and prevent traffic resumption. Independent implement supplier ads interrupt report.
Kansas City markets report no grain activity due to Good Friday. Live stock totals include cattle receipts 4,000 with prices for native steers cows and heifers stockers and feeders calves and bulls. hogs receipts 6,000 with price ranges for heavy hogs packers and pigs. Also mentions various local ads for services and goods.
Oregon primary elections are held across the state with voters nominating full congressional, executive and county tickets by each party. The process continues today in Portland as citizens participate in the nominating phase across offices and party lines.
Bryan lands in Rochester amid speech making plans. He is guest of the Valley Club for a luncheon and expected receptions mark a hectic visit. In London, a bulletin reports Premier Kell-Bannerman near death. Washington notes Admiral Dewey declines Pacific coast fleet festivities invitations. A furniture store advertises mouldings beadings and rails.
In Riverside California on April seventeenth a fire from exploding oil tanks near the Seltz Fleto circus caused chaos as four elephants broke loose trampling a deaconess of the Hienalist church, killing Mrs Gibbs, and injuring hotel guests and bystanders. Panicked elephants raided streets, damaged a barber shop, and smashed storefronts before being corralled back to the circus grounds.
The April 17 inquiry into the insurance trust, focused on the Eldridge Rating Bureau, neared completion. Attorney Jackson expressed satisfaction with the results, noting evidence of a leasing rate and base rate disputes. Witnesses including E Makins and C C Wyandt testified on rates used and written at cut rates, urging a properly equipped bureau to publish a fair rate schedule. Abilene Kansas.
Citizens' State Bank of Chautauqua twenty five miles west of Coffeyville was looted of 3000 dollars this morning. Deed described as the most daring in that portion of the state. Posses are in pursuit.
Two men robbed the Citizens' State Bank in Chautauqua Kansas at 9:30 this morning locking Cashier Walterhouse and Del Easley in the vault and escaping with about 3000 dollars into Oklahoma. Four posses pursue across the state line as the fugitives head toward the Osage hills. A second item notes a Chicago engineer killed in a wreck near Tolwin and a minister's wife’s suicide in Kewanee. There is also a legal ruling from St Louis about federal injunctions over railroad rate changes.
On April 17 Washington notes pension attorneys writing to widows urging them to apply for a $12 per month increase under a new law. Senator Long issued a statement saying widows already on the pension roll or newly married to a soldier before June 27 1880 can obtain $12 monthly from the filing date of their application, if the bill passes as enacted. He introduced a bill mirroring Congress' provisions and backed its passage.
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