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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1908
Page
1
The New Santa Fe Hotel reports a 100 percent patronage increase in six months and pledges to surpass expectations with better meals and rooms. Day rates are 25 per day with boarding options at 4.50 and 5.00 dollars. T Sinclair promotes real estate loans and insurance, while local businesses list services from soda and tobacco to photography and meat market notices.
The article notes that this year’s graduates include many second generation students whose parents also graduated from the University. It lists several alumni families and mentions the newly prepared alumni catalog showing that thirty five percent of the women graduates are married and that a similar share are deceased.
The Aimécensl anti Tuberculosis league opens its first annual three day convention in St Louis on June 4. Composed of physicians and laymen from across the country, the group aims to devise best medical and legislative methods to eradicate tuberculosis.
Senator Long and Senator Hopkins of Illinois and Attorney General Wade Ellis of Ohio conferred with Secretary Taft on various Iowa platform points for the Chicago convention. Long will return home tonight and come back to Chicago Thursday.
June 4 in Birmingham is marked by a violent escape at the Alabama Manufacturing company plant north of the city. Nine convicts attempted liberty. guards shot five, two fatally wounded, two captured. Dogs were used to track the rest.
Official returns from all Iowa counties give Senator W B Allison 102159 votes to 92786 for Governor A B Cummins for the United States Senate nomination. Allison's statewide majority is 9373 with Carroll posting 25000 over Garst for governor. Beginning July 1, posting notes and partial figures follow.
A garbled Virginia dispatch reports ex judge William Loving, once tied to the Thomas Fo. Tryan case, has left Virginia for Florida amid rumors linking his flight to the Estes murder case. The scant lines note Loveday Lovings move to join the Seaboard Mindine rail line as assistant, while public sentiment links him to a broader political shift and social agitation following recent memorials.
Real estate transfers list warrants and quit claim deeds in Lawrence Kansas including Fred W Wall widower transferring to E W Kraus lot 7 block 145 Endora and others. Also notes public notices on graduations gifts and local society meetings with names and addresses in Lawrence daily. Local items mention Watch Wiedemans widow graduation combs Gustafson Looman Studio and Humane Society meeting at Y B C A building.
TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY, POR SALE I still have large plants of all kinds in my green house. Will close out at me and 10¢ each, while they last. Bell phone 1068 or 1023 NHL street Ednad Hop WANTED Buyers for a few good properties in city and country. veral choice exchanges. S. L. McKenzie, 733 Mass. Both phones. Wareab Parbhel house to care for tion 5 two, tet of elcome tague of 3 M. Neville, FA A. bldg. FOR RENT Large main house, Poms Bail poe 10k a FT room Belt seisse. read
Kansas City market notes show wheat prices for July at 62.5 to 62.3 cents, Sept around 60.3, cash No 2 hard near 94.00, No 2 red 93.70. Corn July 65.5, Sept 61.4, cash No 2 mixed 71.42, No 2 white 74. Averages on oats, rye and hay given. butter and eggs listed. livestock receipts 5,000 cattle with steer and cow ranges, hogs 21,000 with packer bids near 5.40 to 5.60, calves 3.75 to 5.75.
Noon reading shows water 116 feet above low water, bottom of gauge at dam. Topeka gauge 13.2 feet with estimates the river may rise by Saturday, possibly reaching around 20 feet at peak. Danger line set at 10 feet. prior flood in 1993 topped 20 feet.
The report notes rising water levels in Larose Wisconsin causing evacuations as the north LaCre ley area braces for ongoing floods. Weather bureau predicts continued rise amid shifting county divisions and damp, unsettled conditions across the region.
Cahokia creek near East St Louis rose due to high water. Levees hold relay depot but no protection exists toward the city. Officials prepare to build a sandbag levee if the river rises further. Michigan River and Macoupin creek also at twenty-five year highs. Many bottom residents flee to the hills.
A 20 year old maniac shot A P Cam Meu of Chito in Minneapolis late last night. Police found the prisoner’s effects hidden under the name James Muintague, a suspected pseudonym. The killer wore a complete feminine disguise including a wig and collar. Mr Camden was in town attending an operative officers convention.
Reported at Attending Emile Zola funeral in Paris a shooting by Gregori, wounding Dreyfus in the hand and capturing the assailant. A gunman fired five shots amid the Pantheon ceremony, triggering a panic as authorities pursued a gang of robbers linked to the protest. Major case highlights Dreyfus exposure, anti army sentiment, and post assassination arrests.
Three men robbed the Bank of Fair Tid at Fairland in the early hours, cracking the safe and escaping with $10 000. They fled on horseback, pursued by officers. The incident occurred about thirty miles east of Tulsa.
The warden of the state penitentiary offers fifty dollars for the arrest and return of Philip Wright who paroled November 18 1907. Wright was sentenced in Douglas County Kansas for assault with intent to kill to five years. He violated parole June 1 and is listed among escaped parole violators.
Crowded Hays chapel marks fifth annual commencement at the Western State Normal School despite poor weather. Speaker Cy S. Glee cannot attend due to Washington matters. chair of philosophy at Kansas L debates education’s value and the future role of educated citizens in solving complex problems and serving society.
At Baker University trustees meeting a student petition, signed by about five hundred, urged reinstating intercollegiate football with two supporting church conferences' approval. Trustees, after hours of discussion, favored reinstatement pending conference sanction at next March meeting.
Subscribers can save fifty cents per ticket for Chautauqua seats. Season tickets for Young Men cost 280 dollars. gate price is 250. Jubilee Convention notes in Junction City Kansas report talks and trips to Fort Riley. Phila agency showcase and local hardware repairs advertised.
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