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Newspaper
Maurice Times
Location
Maurice, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1909
Page
2
Paris staged its first public execution in fifteen years as 23 year old butcher Duchemin was beheaded for parricide and robbery. Fans, police, and journalists witnessed the event after a long debate over capital punishment in France.
Ethel White a 25 year old nurse was found dead in a Boston lodging house under odd circumstances. William Smith reported the death saying he found her ill on the doorstep and allowed her to stay in his room before returning to find her dead with a fractured skull and a deep head wound. The room showed disorder and Smith was detained as police awaited the coroner's jury result.
Gen P P Johnston adjutant general for the Kentucky state Board was Wednesday held to the grand jury for an assault. Johnston resented a reference to him as a General Peac ock P Johnston in an editorial.
Confirmation of a large steel land deal where Jones & Laughlin Steel acquires over 5500 acres of coal lands from Pittsburg Buffalo Company of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Six bridges were washed away as Silver Creek rose suddenly near Rome Georgia due to five days of persistent rain. The disaster followed heavy rainfall across the region, causing flooding and damage to the infrastructure. Local authorities urged residents to stay away from flooded areas while crews assessed the damage and began preliminary repairs.
Wednesday quotations for Sioux City show top beeves at 625 dollars and top hogs at 750 dollars as the market closes for the day.
Announcement made in Chicago at a meeting of wholesale vehicle manufacturers states prices will increase by ten percent due to higher costs of materials and labor. The decision follows discussions on supply chain pressures and market demand.
Advices from Fort Worth Texas say cattle are dying by scores around Midland due to two peculiar epidemic outbreaks. The reports emphasize a rapid loss of cattle in the region and warn ranchers to monitor herds for signs of illness.
Mrs Mary A Castle 36 shoots William D Craig with a .22 revolver inside the Waldorf Astoria New York. The bullet hits only a coat pocket after striking a silver fountain pen. Castle, an insurance agent, claims Craig wronged her. Craig will press charges. Castle alleges ties to San Francisco and to Neville Castle.
The Navy Department outlines a plan for a sizeable submarine flotilla at Cavite Philippines with Moccasin and Adder leading. Grampus Pike and two San Francisco built boats to follow. Atlantic coast adds four large subs and seven new boats for a twelve craft fleet. Dixie serves as mother ship replacing the Yankton.
Police in St Louis investigated the kidnapping of Grace Viviano aged 3 and Alfonso Viviano aged 5. A special delivery letter demanding $25,000 ransom was received by the parents four hours after the children were taken from their home on Monday. A man named Samuel Turrisi was linked to the case and seen at Bocano’s home with the children. he was later not found after an all night search. Four roommates of Turrisi were detained and released.
The Russian Emperor Nicholas visits England aboard the Standart at Cowes with King Edward and the Prince of Wales. They dine with the British royals on the Victoria and Albert after a luncheon and fleet review as crowds greet the imperial party. Guards treat Nicholas like a state prisoner amid royal ceremony.
A white man, George Johnson, accused of murdering farmer John W Moore near Platte City, Mo, June 20, was lynched at Platte City at about 2 am Monday. Johnson had been moved to Kansas City for safety. he was returned Sunday after noon for trial. A mob overpowered the jail, took him to a tree opposite the jail, and hanged him, his body remaining there until 6 30 this morning. The report also notes a courtmartial plea in the slaying of Capt. J C Raymond.
A Big Four passenger train crashed through an open switch and demolished a Bellefontaine restaurant on Monday. Many passengers suffered severe shock but none were seriously injured. An Xpress messenger, Owen Meredith, was likely fatally injured.
Thomas Swope, retired real estate owner, announced a $50,000 gift to the Franklin Institute in Kansas City to establish a settlement home modeled after Hull House in Chicago. He said he wished to see the project come to fruition.
The Empire reservoir about twenty eight miles west of Fort Morgan breaks its retaining wall flooding surrounding countryside. The reservoir holds over 3 000 000 cubic feet of water and irrigates 40 000 acres of land raising fears for lives and property.
Jewelry valued at 3500 dollars found by police in Detroit in Frank Rosbach's home. Rosbach had been arrested recently in Cleveland for stealing 700 dollars worth of gems from W Sturgeon & Co.
The Carmichael bill for statewide prohibition passed the Alabama House by 75 to 19 as lawmakers enacted temperance measures. Adjt Gen P P Johnston of the Kentucky National Guard summoned Denny B Goode editor of a weekly socialist paper over an editorial jab, prompting a formal protest. The will of Don Carlos, the Spanish claimant, leaves art and money valued at 2.9 million dollars to the pope.
A Friday fire at a Chinese restaurant on Halleybury Road near Cobalt Ontario caused an estimated $100,000 loss. The blaze rendered about three thousand people homeless and destroyed the entire business section north of the square.
A fire on Monday night razed Marysville a hundred miles north of Fort Worth Texas. The settlement housed quar ry men employed by the Fort Worth and Denver railroad. Several workers barely escaped as bunk houses burned to ashes.
About 142000 acres in Wyoming near Gillette previously withdrawn for coal classification were returned to the public domain and opened for entry under general land laws. The action restores the land to public use according to its character and allows entry under established procedures.
Judge Lurton orders the Cincinnati Hamilton and Dayton Railway receivership lifted. Judson Harmon, the appointed receiver, is relieved of duty while a report notes a laborer robbed by a crowd of hoboes in Rochester, who assaulted John Gustafson and took a hat and 30 cents.
The Buffalo North Carolina banker Charles Brown reportedly killed himself by cutting his throat on the steamer Winderland as it neared Antwerp on Monday. George Lytle of Jackson posted a $5000 forfeit for a similar stake connected to a championship boxing match between Jeffries and the African American challenger.
Des Moines councilman and public safety head John L Hamery must answer in Justice Cope court to an assault and battery charge filed by liquor reformer John Hammond. A warrant is out. Hammond alleges Hamery grabbed his arm and pushed him from his private office.
United States Marshal J A Tracy reports Theodore Murdock, indicted in Sioux City for passing counterfeit $5 gold pieces, nabbed in Milwaukee by Chicago officials and sentenced to ten years at Fort Leavenworth. Murdock, a smooth counterfeiter, circulated coins locally before moving on.
I M Korstad of Sioux City obtained an arrest warrant on a disturbing the peace charge against his stepfather J Tott after alleging Tott slapped his mother for refusing to feed the family calf. Korstad says Tott has not worked in two years and lived off Mrs Mott’s washing earnings, and that the incident occurred as breakfast ended and his mother rushed to work.
Gov Carroll signs a conditional release for Mrs Anna Myers of Des Moines on the condition she withdraws her appeal to the supreme court and leaves Iowa. The parole follows evidence suggesting possible temporary aberration at the time of the crime. Also to be paroled is Samuel F Smith, a Davenport defaulter and former mayor.
Samuel Doren of Waterloo lies in the hospital with two bullet wounds in the left thigh suffered at 10 o'clock Monday night when two masked highwaymen attacked him on the park road on his way home.
Geo W Oldman of Burlington and his sister Mrs Ella Woods are named heirs to a $10,000 estate of their late uncle Patrick O Hara of Cincinnati. The notification confirms the inheritance and the uncle's death.
Police pursue George Williams a young man who forged twenty checks for various sums passing them on saloonkeepers The forgeries used represent about S200 in total
The Commercial Bank of Britt sues Western Union in a supreme court dispute over an unauthorized telegram. A false order supposedly from the Bank of Denison, where Leslie McShaw once presided, led to an $8 972 payment to ES Barnes. The Bank of Denison denied authorizing the telegram.
After seven days, Plymouth and United States Gypsum companies concede a 30 cent an hour wage increase. The Acme company will likely meet the demand and resume work Monday, with non striking miners at other mines also receiving the raise.
A 71 year old Mr Rider climbed his roof and stood on his head on their fiftieth wedding anniversary at Cantril to honor a prior vow. State officials in Iowa rejected a bath bill for the state parole board, setting a precedent. Emma Leach of Ackley, a skilled female carpenter, cabinet maker and wood carver, built a barn for her father.
Reports from Delaware county note a farmer killing 35 woodchucks on three acres as the bounty policy expands for young labor. In Dubuque a clothing store raid leads to McCarthy arrest. Mrs Kramer held on criminal charge after fleeing Wisconsin. Victor Bender teams with Charles May to publish the Herald Transcript at Peoria. The Overland Limited derailed near Cambridge with no fatalities.
James H Lees of the state geology department credits Woodbury county with the best clay formation for making common brick in the state.
Telegram from Marshall town reports Henry Stone former speaker of the Iowa house in the Twenty-fifth General Assembly died in Chicago. The notice confirms his former leadership role and death location.
The House of Representatives adopted the conference report on the tariff bill by 195 to 183 after a long session. A motion to recommit failed 186 to 191 with 20 Republicans voting against adoption. two Democrats supported recommit. Alleged jokers in the conference report on lumber and leather caused a sensational disclosure.
William N Marker former cashier of the First National Bank of Tipton Indiana and Noah R Marker assistant cashier resign amid defalcations reportedly exceeding 110000 with many bad notes surfacing during a bank examination by Miller Weir national bank examiner and bank directors.
A would be kidnapper of Frances McClurg 17 received a note threatening dynamite and kidnapping at the home of banker D. C. Moffat’s kin James A. McClurg in Denver. The culprit sought 10000 in a sealed package via a messenger. police tracked the courier and suspects but the man vanished before meeting the boy.
The mother of five, Mrs Beha Bailey, drowned her 2 year old son in a rain barrel and then hanged herself in Harrisburg Arkansas. Her death followed by the suicide of Rev Joseph Bennett in Hardin county Kentucky. A third drowning occurred as James Walker, 25, died saving Mrs Christian in the Little Tennessee River after assisting her to safety.
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