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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Nov 03, 1908
Page
1
Nov 3 reports from St Paul and across the U.S. discuss heavy early voting, weather, and live returns via Journal telephones. A New York Farm Colony bill seeks indeterminate sentences for habitual vagrants, with work, reform, and possible compensation. Other items note Lawrence jewelry votes, Taft and Bryan mentions, and Roosevelt's departure.
Fires across several towns report extensive damage. In Dexter a Higgs Lumber yard blaze destroyed the shop and nearby buildings, with losses over 10000 dollars. Thayer suffered a devastating fire in its business district damaging four blocks and multiple shops. Fort Scott saw a severe barn fire at J. J. Crain farm, engulfing the barn and risking the house, with few possessions saved and five children affected. Insurance partially covers Dexter loss. weather aided containment in places.
Mrs. Schultz and John Kurka pleaded guilty to murdering Schultz, the husband and half brother of Kurka, in Hamtramck township. Confessions describe an illicit affair motive, details of the crime, and disposal of the body. The proceedings followed after police reports of the confession and arraignments before Justice Gerhard.
Lawrence and county reports show a large turnout and a blanket straight ticket. Early voting was larger than usual as both parties urged voters to come out, with polls closing at six. The Journal promises hourly county returns and telephones available for readers.
Union City Tenn Nov 3 Three hundred state warrants were issued for the arrest of one hundred alleged night riders based on affidavits from James S Deagon relative of Captain Quentin Rankin Millsman Taylor and J C Burdick owner of Samburg fish ducks The warrants include a murder in the first degree charge for Rankin the charge of assault with intent to commit murder while masked and a third set alleging masked assaults under grounds of another at night The maximum penalty is twenty one years and the minimum two years in the penitentiary
A garbled classified page fragment offers items and notices including a lost goldcuff link, requests for a man to work at Griesa Nurseries, realty interest from Mon Kenzie Realty Co., a cheap Round Oak stove for sale, a skin cure with guaranteed refund, and a vague note about farms in Douglas or Jefferson counties with limited hours.
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