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Newspaper
Logansport Daily Reporter
Location
Logansport, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1908
Page
2
New York March 11 Evelyn Nesbit Thaw filed for annulment from Harry K Thaw on grounds of insanity at the time of marriage. Thaw will defend. The couple to remain apart pending trial as rumors of divorce persist amid inquiries into family influence and alleged surveillance.
In Omaha on March 11 a man named L. L. Fee attempted to rob Merchants bank at Thirteenth and Farnam. He threatened Vice-President Luther Drake with a bottle said to hold nitro glycerin and demanded 5000 dollars. Police captured him after officials called for help. Tests showed the bottle’s contents were harmless.
Fire swept the Wollners Distilling feed house in Peoria Illinois on Tuesday afternoon causing near total destruction. A general alarm was sounded and fire crews gained control with losses estimated at ten thousand dollars.
The Secretary of the Treasury delivered a message on Tuesday urging an appropriation for the erection of a hall of records in Washington. The proposal aims to house official documents and records in a centralized facility.
Cold symptoms are identified as the most frequent headache cause. The ad promotes Laxative Bromo Quinine as a remedy and mentions E. W. Grove on bex with a 25 cent price point.
Amite Louisiana March 11 Democratic State senator elect D S Kemp was shot and killed Tuesday night by C F Hyde a local political and business leader. The quarrel over primary election fraud claims led to a duel and Kemp fell dead from a heart wound after Hyde fired. Hyde surrendered to the sheriff.
President Roosevelt hosted 200 delegates at the White House for the first international congress on child welfare. He declared the mother is a better citizen than the soldier, placing the society's needs ahead of veterans.
Belleville Newfoundland March 11 Joseph Geretti pleaded guilty to murdering Joseph Cologna by an infernal machine and received 30 years in prison. He already faced 15 years for killing August Genetti in a related case. An accomplice, Joseph Zadra, was jailed for life two weeks earlier. The Genettis had objected to Geretti’s attentions to Genetti’s sister.
Circuit Judge Gordon ruled against several insurers in a suit filed by Imperial Tobacco seeking payment on policies covering $40,000 of tobacco destroyed by night riders during the Princeton raid in Hopkinsville Kentucky.
Twenty five masked men known as White Caps rode into McCutchinville near Upper Sandusky Ohio on Tuesday and fired bullets into the home of Constable Peter D. Kiefer. The attackers objected to a black servant in the house.
Information from Cheyenne reports the American entry in the New York to Paris auto race is mired in a snowdrift near Hanna Wyoming about 100 miles west of Cheyenne. The delay could affect progress toward Paris.
The eight month old daughter of Mr and Mrs George Riley was killed when the nurse carrying her fell down stairs.
Assistant Chief of Navigation Capt. C McR Winslow and Commander A L Key testified on March 11 that American battleships were designed with too-low armor belts and unsafe ammunition hoists. They urged raising armor and increasing coal and stores while noting British ships outperform in gun handling. Key faced committee displeasure over testimony style.
A Swedish man named Johannes Gren fired a dozen shots at the royal castle in Christiania at noon Tuesday. Police disarmed him. Haakon and Queen Maud were away at Voxenkollern. Gren, a former blacksmith, argued the king’s salary was too large and said the king had no right to be in Norway. He reportedly spent years in a Danish asylum.
Tokyo envoy Takahira tells Japan Society of New York that U S Japan relations face no major questions. He cites Britain treaty, immigration stance, and peaceful aims, praising New York support and Japan's broad, steadfast policy for Asia.
In Van Cleave near Biloxi four Black men Dave Poe Tom Ranston and two Jenkins brothers were hanged by a mob of about 30 while in custody en route to jail Deputy Evans Jackson CountyOversaw the arrests incensed residents by a string of warehouse fires causing losses in charcoal and feedstuffs The four men reportedly confessed before the mob executed them along a roadside tree line
Warran McKay a Canada native shoots his wife and three children at their Tenino Washington home and then dies by self infliction. Two workers found his body along a trail toward town no visible wounds and poison suspected. Town marshal notified.
Houston Texas March 11 an ancillary bill was filed in the general court asking a receivership for the Merchants Trust Company of Houston against the International and Great Northern Railroad.
Mr and Mrs Henry Climers of Warsaw plan a March 1 anniversary celebration marking their sixty ninth wedding anniversary.
In Birmingham Alabama two police officers were attacked in the city late Tuesday night. Officer W A Smith was killed instantly and Officer J J Byars was wounded in the leg by an unknown white assailant.
A local column highlights the phrase Cooks who cook as a tag or recurring theme, noting its appearance in a Reporter sourced feature. The item emphasizes community writing and a steady thread in the paper's columns.
Eugene E. Schmitz was freed from jail Tuesday night after posting bonds totaling 150,000 dollars. Extortion charges he faced were dismissed, and in the superior court Judge Frank H. Dunne ordered dismissal from custody on the indictment tied to the supreme court decision.
King Alfonso began his Barcelona visit without incident as republicans and separatists refrained from protests and all classes of people appeared to acclaim the sovereign.
A blaze in Dodge's block in Central Square, Rochester, New York, burned through Tuesday night into Wednesday morning. Dover and Somersworth assisted as the flames caused about 150000 dollars in losses and threatened surrounding properties.
Louis Montabane a miner from Danville was severely burned when a cap exploded in his hand igniting his clothing while he prepared a blast.
A vendor argues maple flavor and digestibility justify Mapl Flake’s higher price. The six hour steam cook then process time makes it costly, claimed essential for solubility and digestion. Maple syrup boiled into wheat is stressed as improving child appeal and overall nutrition.
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