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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1909
Page
1
All plans are finalized for the Yale versus Harvard event with venue, schedule, and participants confirmed. Organizers expect a high turnout as teams prepare for competition and fans await kickoff.
New London prepares for the Yale Harvard boat races to be rowed on the Thames with four mile and four oared events and varsity contests at the bridge and navy yard. The Yale crew seeks revenge as both eights show strong form and the series stands Yale twenty three wins Harvard nineteen.
Baltimore marks Cardinal Gibbons ordination forty eight years ago and his cardinalate twenty three years ago. His seventy fifth birthday follows on the twenty third of next month. Officials hoped to celebrate grandly but plan to defer until next fall to respect the Cardinal’s wish for a quiet summer.
In Meridian Mississippi watchman Estelle Jones of the Mobile and Ohio yard is stabbed nine times by Eugene Mitchell whom Jones tried to arrest. Jones will likely die after shooting the assailant who also dies. Mitchell, sought for assaults and robberies, arrived by freight at 2 a.m. with silk stolen from a box car.
A special election will be held in Tallulah on July 6 1909 to decide if a five mill tax may be levied to issue 10000 in negotiable bonds for a waterworks and electric light plant. Bonds pay five percent interest and mature by 1920. Taxpayers show strong support and site terms for the pumping station and power plant have been agreed.
Executive of leading Southern commercial bodies to meet in Atlanta July 7 and 8. Notable speakers include John Marker of New Orleans Asa Candler of Atlanta and Obert Maddox of Atlanta with addresses on progress and government forms.
Detectives link a heavy trunk to Leon Ling in the Elsie Sigel murder case. Trunk moved through Newark and New York to a Wah Kee laundry after a warning telegram. Police, with many detectives, await arrests as details of body movement emerge. Lake Charles reports two deaths from charbon disease among cattle skinning incidents.
In Jackson Mississippi on June 30 an application was filed in the chancery court of Clay county to restrain Standard Oil Company from operating in Mississippi and to collect penalties for violations of the state anti trust law amounting to 11 million dollars.
Trenton June 30 real reform movement arrives from San Francisco. The Devil Fighters a seven member bicycle sect promise to purge vice from Chinatown and New York, starting in Trenton with a tent city and a threat to wipe the city clean if reform fails. Leader Brother James Crowell vows to mobilize 100 more brothers to attack vice and immorality in New York after securing Trenton.
Atlanta June 29 The committee began drafting a bill to exclude African Americans from employment as firemen and trainmen in Georgia. The measure aims to bar Negroes from certain state jobs and follows a movement to restrict civil service openings.
The Farmerville grand jury adjourned after a week of work on June 30. Six true bills were found and 107 reports reviewed as over two hundred witnesses testified. Judge Dawkins thanked the panel and scheduled the next session for July. H. E. Dawkins, a local graduate of State University law, has become partner to Attorney H. G. Fields.
Arcadia Louisiana June 30 Willow Park ready for formal opening on Thursday night. Benches swings weeded grass trimmed band stand painted and shrubbery neat. An attractive program prepared by the band boys promises a rare treat for the public.
Kansas City reports that Claude Brooks, a Black death row inmate charged with the murder of Sydney Heandon a wealthy real estate owner formerly of Tyler Texas, received a 30 day respite from Governor Hadley shortly before scheduled execution.
Lincoln Nebraska June 30 Federal Judges VanDeventer and Munger ordered an injunction to restrain the state banking board from proceeding with a certain action as details remain unclear in the fragmented report.
Washington June 30 The Senate spent much of the day on the income tax amendment to the tariff bill Senator Cummins concluded his remarks on the topic.
The Wright brothers repaired the Sparker to the aeroplane and a flight is planned for late this afternoon. President Taft Honored Guest at Yale commencement with 259 honorary degree candidates. Death of Mrs. Luther Beene announced in Homer Louisiana from typhoid fever. sister of R G Pleasant and cousin of A McCrainie. Sympathy extended to her husband and family.
Ten thousand skilled workers from the Amalgamated Association of Tron Steel and Tin Workers will quit tonight. They are spread across Pennsylvania Ohio West Virginia and Indiana in protest against the open shop. Memphis proclaims plans to become the world’s largest prohibition city after tonight.
Memphis observers expect the city to become the world’s largest prohibition center after midnight with a general closing of saloons. Rumors say a number may reopen for business tomorrow.
In Tifli Russia on June 30 Mare Baktadze a senior agent of the political police was fatally injured by a bomb concealed in a cherry basket. Authorities investigate the attack as a targeted assassination linked to political tension in Tifles.
Wrightsville Ga June 30 nothing doing at 12 30 am the sheriff has removed the Jenkins woman to Washington county jail tonight avoiding a lynching and keeping the peace in the county
John Barry and M A Heimann survived a life changing experience after being whipped helplessly in a sixty mile gale within a dense storm cloud ten thousand feet above the earth.
Sheriff Martin says he has Leon Ling in custody in Chandler Oklahoma on June 29. Ling refuses to talk and offers no statement to investigators.
A tense state horse race reaches its climax as contenders vie for the famous wagon ride. Voters, campaigns, and local organizers brace for results that could shape Tennessee politics today.
The Tennessee statewide ban on alcohol sells within four miles of schools goes into effect at midnight, closing most saloons in cities like Memphis Nashville and Chattanooga. Brewers and distillers face six months to wind down, with vast economic losses and about 12 000 workers displaced.
Baton Rouge June 30 Charles K Fuqua secretary of the committees executive calls a meeting July 1 at the Choctaw Club New Orleans to order a primary to nominate candidates for office in La Salle Parish.
At the bride’s parents home Rev. A G Shankle united in marriage Mr M A Morgan of Haynesville Louisiana and Miss Evelyn Allen. The couple’s friends wish them a happy life. Brick work on the new dormitory at the Louisiana Industrial campus is nearly complete and woodwork proceeds rapidly.
Columbia Louisiana June 30 The town looks brighter as new stores and buildings rise. Mrs Mary Gigelo finished a storehouse on the former Prince Hotel site and will move in. The Methodist church plans a move and new building. Masons buy Jarrell lot for a brick two story building. Brick kiln prepares to serve Pendola Douglass and others. M L Rutland Co nears completion of a large riverfront warehouse and will start moving goods soon.
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