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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1909
Page
1
More than 10 000 Confederate veterans marched in Mompux Tennessee for what may be their final major parade. Veterans wore homespun garb, carried rifles, and bands from across the South played Dixie and My Maryland as flags waved and tattered battle emblems floated.
A court proceeding rewrites the old soldiers preference for county appointments. Judge Smart delays final decision on the poor commissioner until June 29 after a board report, allowing any qualified old soldier to be appointed. Charley Rogers is sentenced to 12½ years for murder in a separate trial, with appeals filed.
The formal program for the quarter centennial celebration opened this evening with a crowded house. Local officials and notable guests attended as the event marked 25 years since the founding, highlighting speeches and commemorations.
Visitors arrive as Indian students stage Hiawatha to great acclaim at Haskell Institute. Friday public seating opens with tickets at Woodward's. commencement programs feature Mayor Bishop, Ti B Peairs, John Karl, and Meservey. Strong Arm play slated for guests and graduates.
Boston mourns Rev Edward Everett Hale 87 longtime U S Senate chaplain as reports confirm his death at home in Roxbury on June 10 His passing follows a career linked with Julia Ward Howe and notable reform movements. The page comments on Lawrence gossip and a Waterways plan setback in Washington with cost estimates and engineering cautions.
Rev Edward Everett Hale dies at his Roxbury home. University of Kansas summer school closes after a successful year. Judge Smart names county poor farm appraisers to evaluate the property and report, seeking improvements and a new or rebuilt facility. Large banquet honors Col Harvey with speeches by E D Adams and others.
In Kansas towns a KA youth ponders who is here as a refrain runs through his mind at night. Mrs J A Henley hosted a sewing club gathering this afternoon. The West Side Thimble club held a picnic at Mrs Ernest Lawrence home with fifteen ladies and several children attending.
Washington D C June 10 The progressives in the Senate pressed to continue the wool schedules fight despite yesterday s votes showing the finance committee can sustain a solid majority. The body voted 43 to 31 against Dolliver s demand that only woolinyarn be taxed, upholding the committee s recommendation with nine Republicans including Bristow Beveridge Cummins Dolliver and La Follette voting no.
A New York lawyer William Blau faces a curious disturbance when an unknown advertiser fills his doorstep with over fifty stenographers and twice as many carpenters who claim to have been drawn by his supposed ad. Police intervene to clear the crowd as Blau searches for the pamphleteer behind the mock recruitment, while local ads clutter the remainder of the page.
A Spanish steamer loaded with 521 passengers and 135 crew ran aground on a bar near Point O Woods on Long Island. Rockets called for help but high seas delayed rescue until daylight. Wrecking tugs reached the ship and women and children were moved to safety. The vessel appeared undamaged as the sea subsided.
J E Harms, after eighteen months as United States meat inspector in East St Louis packing houses, resigns and calls for a formal investigation of the National stock yards meat inspection system. He asserts inspectors are lenient with packers and cites wasteful practices costing about 100000 dollars annually, including lard spilled on floors entering sewers and approved for public markets.
June 10 Hanover N H Prof Ernest Fox Nichols D Sc elected president of Dartmouth College to succeed President Tucker. Born 1869 in Leavenworth Kansas he studied at Kansas Agricultural College then Cornell for advanced degrees. He held chairs at Colgate Dartmouth and Columbia and earned many honors including Rumford prize and membership in multiple scientific societies. He is married with one daughter and has a brother in Topeka engaged in journalism.
Topeka June 10 These are nervous days in official circles as Governor Stubbs orders investigations of all appointive state department heads starting with the Fish and Game Warden Del Travis The process will extend to the grain oil livestock sanitary penal institution and others with review of terms of past officeholders and new appointees whisperings of developments circulate in official circles A separate note reports a bakery worker Gus Spangler leaving with $0 and a theft of a riverboat weight with two pens sold locally
A party of prominent Coffeyville, Kansas men toured Lawrence to study its waterworks system. Attending were Mayor E A Rice Council president H W Dale city engineer F W Yale Coffeyville waterworks superintendent Dave Blair and F E Sellers. They arrived with plans to remodel Coffeyville’s waterworks after visiting Kansas City Topeka and Emporia. The group praised Lawrence’s plant and planned further visits before returning home.
DeSoto Kansas June 10 Major M Hadley father of Governor Herbert Hadley of Missouri and pioneer figure in the area is stricken with paralysis late yesterday and in dangerous condition. Governor Hadley and several family members are in attendance.
Washington June 10 Wilbur and Orville Wright of Dayton Ohio received their first public national recognition for the aircraft they built. In the White House East Room President Taft presented gold medals from the Aero Club of America. The Aero Club invited newspapers to publish editorials and states sent congratulatory messages and resolutions from scientific bodies were compiled for the Wrights.
Government secret service men and post office inspectors disclose how the Black Hand ring operated. A betrayed member led officers to a Marion plotters meeting with attendees from several cities. over twenty men were present and are under surveillance as arrests follow. In Toledo three alleged operators were arraigned, denying guilt. The article reports assassinations, frauds, and illegal voting across multiple states, with named individuals and locations involved.
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