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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1908
Page
1
Dr C J Simmone listed as general practitioner with special duties in surgery and gynecology. City visits billed at 84.00 and country calls at 2.00 per mile. Indicates a poison incident noted in the record with no further details.
A varied Lawrence News brief notes Mrs. L B Hughes hosting a thimble party, a local student expulsion for kissing a nurse, a planned arts club for eminent creators, and a Topeka wedding. Pine Bluff Ark river flood efforts loom with barriers as Pine Mills faces destruction. University tea plans and charity hospital talks frame the page along with social notes and a Brewster theme.
A water level recorder using a clock driven drum and pencil traces water height over 24 hours. Other items include university visits, football coach travels, typhoid illness of Devil Fay, and campus lectures on electricity growth in New York City.
In Omaha, Judge Sears seats a large crowd as Charles E. Davis faces trial for the murder of Dr. Frederick Austin. County Attorney English outlines the events from the home invasion and the alleged plan to use Davis, detailing witnesses and the death by own action pact.
Madame Steinheil was examined for the first day by Magistrate Andrew at the palace of justice. The interrogation will continue for two days to decide if a reconstruction of the crime is necessary in her presence.
San Francisco December 1 Chief William J Biggy police chief of the city was drowned while returning from Belvidere in the police launch Patrol his body not yet recovered Engineer William Murphy aboard the craft tells of seeing no one fall overboard. Also reports from Leavenworth Kansas describe a child jointist pleading guilty to infraction and receiving a $100 fine and thirty days in jail in a case tied to open rebellion and injunction violations.
A J Whitney general manager of the Karuera Union Oil mill in Guthrie Oklahoma is believed drowned in the Cottonwood river flood. Last seen leaving the mill at 7 PM on a raft made from two oil barrels he warned of its danger but hoped to reach land. One barrel found lodged against a bridge downstream. Whitney, 30, left a wife and two children. He was once a University of Kansas student and confidant clerk for W K Stubbs, governor elect, in railway work. He organized and managed the Union Oil company, a cotton seed meal firm, last fall.
New York December 11 John D Archbold described the rise of Standard Oil tracing early oil firms and the trust era as the liquidation stage neared its end The count capital senior Archbold said direct testimony of the Undivided Profits vice president would wrap up today Government counsel Pratt Tucker and others were listed to continue the examination as Archbold’s narrative moved forward with witnesses including Maven and Sucker expected to testify
Weather Bureau at Topeka reports December opened with the coldest weather of the year in Kansas with a temperature of 15 degrees above zero at 8 am. Perkins Reunion spans Okeene Oklahoma to Greensboro North Carolina as family gathers for Sallie W. Perkins 80th birthday with nine siblings and many relatives expected to meet for the first time in twenty years.
Emporia Kan Dec 1 The secretary sign of Judge Meckel of the Fifth judicial district today declared that the foot and mouth disease among cattle prevalent in Michigan New York Pennsylvania and Maryland was now under control. It is estimated that 1000 animals which were suffering from the disease have been destroyed. The counties of the state have been taking an annual census whereas if the finding of the court is sustained the law only calls for a census every ten years.
Markets by wire report out of Guthrie Oklahoma notes a drowned man found in Black Creek near 1025. The brief item lists grain prices and commodities including wheat and cash quotes for No 2 hard red wheat and No 2 mixed. Names mentioned include John Sullivan and Ted Rock with Santa Fe section references.
Fragmentary ad page item showing mixed product listings and notices. Includes prices for cattle and stock, rental room offerings, a lost glasses notice, and a brief two minute tale teaser. Mentions place names and addresses obscured in OCR.
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