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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1908
Page
1
A collage of local business ads includes Fairfax Rooms and Restaurant and several livery stables. A Fountain Park Improvement Association memo outlines light hearted rules restricting public displays of affection, advocating modest spooning, quiet speech, and 110 degree shade temperature guidance to keep peace in the park.
Walter 5 a candidate for re election as chairman of the Republican state committee opens roomy headquarters in the Hololn building as organization work begins. In St Louis Dickey faces opposition from Jeptha D Howe and ex National Committeeman Thomas J Akins. State committee deposes Eleventh and Twelfth districts to control delegate selection for the national convention. Opposition cites Dickey backing Niedringhaus against Nagel but no direct frame up. Township committeemen and county chairmen hold pivotal votes. St Louis six members lean Howe. Dr J C Parrish Vandalia university curator suggested but not running.
Five killed and nearly forty injured when Western Ohio traction electric cars on the Limited collided at a curve near Piqua. Motorman Bailey was killed. many victims were thrown from cars and crushed by debris and splintered timbers. Names include William Staley and others from Piqua Dayton Sidney and Detroit areas. Several injured are not expected to survive.
Washington August 11 crop report board says U S aggregate crop conditions on August 1 were up one percent from a year earlier but one percent below the ten year average. Winter wheat hay gutten and tobacco cited above average while corn barley rye buckwheat apples flax fall short. Potatoes about five percent and oats nearly ten percent below average.
Aberdeen reports a massive hailstorm across nine counties from Campbell to Codington, with widths up to forty miles. Damage ranges from 25 percent to total losses where crops remain unharvested, though some grain has already been cut. Mound City notes twenty-five farms swept clean by hail.
J B Wilson files to contest C C Bowman’s nomination for superintendent after Bowman won by ten votes in the primaries. Wilson claims votes were illegally counted in the third ward and seeks to overturn the nomination. It is unclear which candidate benefited from those votes.
St Louis Aug 11 The sixth annual congress of American apple growers opened with 100 plus delegates from central and western states. Officials predict apples this year will sell at 50 to 3 a barrel on trees and by season end barrels of choice apples may fetch up to 10 a barrel.
Lawton Oklahoma reports a long dispute as Kell and Fehiti vie for control of a townsite. Oklahoma Supreme Court involvement in a Western district injunctive action against Kita Falls Northwest Railroad Company. Citizens meet to abandon Kell and Fehiti and consolidate with Bethel. Federal officers seek to protect rights amid a two year government sale and subsequent legal clashes.
Pittsburg Aug. 11 An alleged conspiracy of mercantile employees to rob their employers has surfaced with more than $30,000 in stolen goods from about six firms. Four arrests have been made and others are expected. E R Jenkins William Lindsay and two unnamed men are in custody with confessions indicating further arrests. Each man was a trusted employee at his firm.
Henry C. Cooke president of the Oregon ranch and timber company was held in 25000 bail for trial on a conspiracy to violate timber lands laws charge. He arrived from the northwest last night in custody as a deputy marshal and was committed to prison today in New York City.
Coffeyville Kansas August 11 The body of Simon Love a full blood Delaware Indian and wealthy land owner was found beside the railway tracks twenty two miles south of Coffeyville He was struck by a train while walking home in the dark
Three masked men invaded the country home of Miss Maria D Garmo and her niece Miss Lizzie Hartman. They bound gagged and robbed the women of jewelry and cash then tortured them when no large sum was found. Hartman freed them after fainting and bleeding. Police report details unavailable.
Lincoln Neb Aug 11 Public Wday food commissioner Johnson reports on sixty three Omaha bakeries inspected 17 clean 14 fairly clean and 32 dirty unsanitary making their products potentially unsaleable if the public knew the conditions under which they were produced.
A tornado hit Mandan on August 11 causing about 50000 dollars in damage. The Inter Ocean hotel roof collapsed into the dining room and the Demars hotel was unroofed. Homes were toppled and many windows shattered with no fatalities reported.
Chicago August 11 Mrs Mice J Webb former wife of a tobacco magnate sat in court as jurors were chosen to hear charges she defrauded the Great Northern hotel of 3200 with worthless checks The defense claims she did not know the checks were worthless.
Mr I W Briggs buys the O Hosford residence on Ohio street through the Slesford Investment Company and will move in soon. Mr O Hosford buys a lot in the Lesford Addition and will build a modern residence immediately.
Dallas Aug 11 The Republican state convention was well attended with a decline in colored delegates. Nearly all the Republican leaders in the state were present. Black Seal cigars have stood the test for six years proving satisfac tion.
National chairman Mack arrived in Lincoln and met with Bryan as the executive committee held a conference at Fairview to discuss campaign plans. Most notification committee members had already reached Lincoln and many callers were reported today.
A large bush fire roars near Sullivan Ontario with risk of burning Sullivan Mine company buildings. Another fire flares near Kimberly with danger to the town. In Ban Antonié Texas on August 11 the Democratic state convention met to announce the state ticket elected in the primaries.
Wheat receipts 170 cars with futures at 89 to 90 cents for nearby contracts and new crop options. Corn values show Sept at 78 3/4 cents, Dec 58 1/2, May 60 1/2, cash grades 72 to 73 cents. Oats mixed around 46 to 60 cents. Hay offerings include Timothy at 9.95 to 10.00 and Prairie at 7.00. Live stock quotes list natives and cows and feeders with prices from 2.00 to 3.50 per unit and bulls up to 3.50.
Samuel Griffin of Medicine Lodge arrives in Topeka with attorney general guidance to file test proceedings in Barber county against William Gesner for the Republican nomination to the house of representatives. Griffin claims twenty six votes were invalidated by blank markings or minor technical errors, while Gesner was renominated by two votes. Griffin backs Bristow for senator and Gesner backs mung.
A military dirigible balloon built for the signal corps by Captain Thomas idwin will be accepted as the army signals office eyes Baldwin’s machine for purchase. General James Allen, chief signal officer, asserts readiness to buy, saying the device is needed.
King Edward arrived at Cronberg and, meeting Emperor William, exchanged cordial embraces and kisses on both cheeks. They were then driven to Friedrichshof Castle in a show of royal goodwill.
Nearly 40 000 Democrats voted the Republican ticket in Illinois primaries causing cross party packing concerns. Statewide returns show Charles S. Deneen renominated by about 15 000 votes over Richard Yates while Adlai Stevenson leads the Democrats and plans a whirlwind campaign to win the state.
On Thursday Cleveland will return to a five cent cash fare with three cent tickets, while those buying at least fifteen cents worth of tickets ride at reduced fare. Sixteen Democratic councilmen approved Mayor Johnson's plan in a secret 15 minute caucus at Democratic headquarters in the Blackstone building. The change lasts until the prepay system spans the city. Municipal Traction reports July profits may be between two and ten thousand dollars. Conductor cash handling issues and limited prepay cars on the Payne bridge line drive the shift. Transfer remains free.
San Francisco August 11 Republicans and Democrats each run two tickets in today's primaries for delegates to the state convention choosing presidential electors.
The Gold Hill Copper Company at Old Hill in Salisbury North Carolina with a capitalization of five million dollars, reputed as one of the souths richest mines, was placed in receivership a day after news of its failure.
Aug 11 dispatches report Tipetown population 300 nine miles from Ely almost wiped out by a large fire. In Dallas delegates to the Independence party convention nominated EW Kirkpatrick, Texas Farmers congress president, for governor.
Gas escaping from a building housing Mrs. J. S. Gavin’s millinery shop in Wheeling causes a fatal blaze. Three Gavin women die aged 21 to 29, Mrs Gavin is among the injured, and six others leap from windows as rescuers battle the blaze.
Robert Kenney, 19, confessed to shooting his father Coleman B. Kenney near Lupus on July 20 after a quarrel over a mare and colt. Sheriff Jesse Hornbeck and prosecutor Key Kay report the admission, with details of the rifle discharge and subsequent arrest. A coroner's inquest yielded no findings, and a governor’s reward of 300 dollars was offered for the slayer.
Arthur I. Vorye Tafts Ohio manager and Gua I. Karder to lead publicity for Taft personally, reaching Hot Springs today with National chairman Hitchcock still off ice in Washington. They will tour and speak as part of campaign activity.
Auckland reports a high enthusiasm celebration for the visiting American warships. Lord Plunkett, governor of New Zealand, hosted a state ball tonight honoring Rear Admiral Sperry and the fleet officers. Alike, local butchers advertise a new meat market on 1023 Mase Street.
Pierre Aug 11 The secretary of state ruled that candidates named to vacancies on the incomplete democratic ticket nominated at the June primaries were not the candidates selected at the state level.
President Theodore Roosevelt has asked five experts to study farm life in America to improve social sanitary and economic conditions. The investigation will produce a report with recommendations and additional accommodations the president may want to include in a message to Congress early next year. The commission includes L H Bailey Henry Wallace Kenyon Butterfield Gifford Pinchot and Walter H Page.
The block of Hornsby property on West Warren street is for sale for the first time as a single lot. Also offered is a modern eight room house near the University with $3,500 on terms. Loans mortgages and chattels listed by Alfred Whitman & Co Boom 6 F A Building.
Colonel James Templer, former head of the British aero nautical division, visits Fort Myer Va and argues air ships will play a key role in future wars. He says the Civil War might have lasted nine months longer without balloon corps and urges the US government to secure Wright brothers and Thomas Baldwin services. He heads to Chattanooga to study Civil War battlefields for lessons on balloon use.
Winnipeg August 11 Thomas Robinson a famed Canadian barrister, while in delirium leaped from a train toward Montreal and was found dying beside the tracks.
An explosion of fire damp in the Dudweiler mine near Saarbrucken Germany on August n results in thirteen men dead and eight badly injured. Rescue and recovery operations are underway as authorities investigate the blast and safety failures.
The colonial government is making active preparations for possible trouble between the Netherlands and Venezuela. In Washington, the Turkish minister Mehmed Ali Bey was officially recalled at the Turkish legation.
Classified notices list peaches at forty cents per bushel at Plasket place one mile west of the university. A five roomed house with gas and light housekeeping offered for rent at $8 per month on 1319 Vermont street. Found items from Evans-Metcalf Imp. Co. include several old wagon parts. Also two new Fuller & Johnson sulky plows for sale along with a second hand top buggy road wagon and harness. The Queen Victoria note is a separate item about King Alfonso’s Paris visit in September en route to the Isle of Wight.
A severe hail and thunder storm tore through Evansville Indiana last night causing extensive damage to electrical wires and harming livestock and crops. The event marked the worst storm in the city’s history with widespread property losses reported.
Aug 11 reports from Henderson Kentucky describe a fierce storm causing over 100000 dollars in damage across Henderson County. The item mentions local commerce and advertisements including Evans Metcalf Imp Co offerings and Caldwell's barber shop pricing, plus notes about Mrs Prentiss at the Home Store and a Saturday event at Somnen & Co.
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