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Newspaper
Mooresville Times
Location
Mooresville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 03, 1908
Page
3
Denver plans a meticulously organized welcome for the Democratic national convention with a decorated auditorium featuring fifty two star ceiling emblems and multiple shields. Special committees will oversee visitor welfare, with hotel price controls and rivalry among groups to showcase Western hospitality.
A Lancet report by a Westminster medical officer reveals that tuberculosis germs were transmitted via a public telephone mouthpiece in London. Swab tests inoculated two guinea pigs, both developing tuberculosis. one died after 23 days, the other after 27 days, prompting calls for regular disinfection of all telephones.
Alice Kendall, a Brooklyn girl with a theatrical career, bets she can tramp from New York to Chicago in forty five days or less. A $500 wager was made over dinner, but she postponed the walk to fall to honor a summer show contract.
Washington dispatch reports that if Secretary Taft delivers a series of addresses to colored people during the coming campaign, one may be given in Indianapolis under a proposal attributed to Booker T. Washington. The information was received here.
Munich bankers Klopfer brothers Max and Theodore die by suicide amid insolvency and inability to meet heavy obligations. The Klopfer firm, Klopfer Brothers, faced mounting debts and financial pressure.
Lincoln Neb Special reports William Jennings Bryan predicts at least 100 votes over the two-thirds needed on the first Denver ballot. He calls others misled by the situation, vows to maintain a debated stance with structured delegates as his camp keeps plans secret until action time.
Washington reports Americans in Mexico face peril from bandit uprisings not yet recognized as a revolutionary movement by Mexico. Governor Campbell assures Texas will aid neutrality enforcement as Mexican authorities seek extradition and U S authorities will assist in checking cross border raids. Ambassador Creel’s arrival is anticipated.
Special Gen. Jose Villar led a large force from San Antonio into Mexico for a land march on Las Vacas. In heavy fighting around the Las Vacas custom house Capt. Canales and Capt. Exncarnation Diaz were killed, and revolutionists retreated toward Torreon. Mexican authorities report casualties on both sides and the Las Vacas area under military control with pursuit continuing.
Paris plans a salt water canal to allow ocean liners to pass from Havre to Bougival via the Seine valley with trolley link to Paris. The project proposed by engineer Senac would be government controlled if approved by the chamber, and resembles historic but impractical 19th century ideas.
Washington officials state the government grade seal remains on oleomargarine after hearings with oleomargarine and dairy interests. The secretary of agriculture declares the current regulations are valid under the statute and allow only one construction.
Mishawaka hosts a special 400 mile homing pigeon race from Madisonville. Forty birds returned within twenty minutes. The winner covered 1600 yards per minute, the best time in ten years.
Fez Mulai Hafid the usurping Sultan has summoned the Caids to his palace and ordered them to raise an army of eighteen thousand men from neighboring tribes.
A wealthy Philadelphia husband sought revenge for his wife’s death after a doctor’s criminal operation. Police and the Coroner tie his motive to murdering Dr. William H. Wilson with poisoned ale. Evidence suggests a plotted crime aimed at protecting the wife’s reputation and family.
Washington reports the forthcoming Treasury statement for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1908, will show a large deficit and lower receipts than 1907. Expenditures are to exceed receipts by about 60 million dollars, a level surpassed only twice since the Civil War. Customs and internal revenue receipts decline by 46 million and 19 million respectively.
The article reports a full mobilization of British warships for annual naval maneuvers under Admiral Lord Charles Beresford commanding at least 301 ships with about 68 000 officers and men on active list. It notes presses compare this fleet with Germanys 62 ships in North Sea maneuvers while denying direct German link.
Miss Sherstnova confined in a political prison was shot and killed by a prison sentinel who spotted her signaling with a mirror to fellow inmates. The sentinel fired from outside a window as she stood at the cell window.
Herman Miller was found guilty in the murder of Marshal Columbus Croy last June in Woodburn and sentenced to life imprisonment after a trial in Fort Wayne.
New York reports plans filed by Chicago architects for the Equitable Life Assurance Society to build a 62 story structure on the current site bounded by Broadways Nassau Pine and Cedar streets. The 909 foot tower would surpass the Metropolitan by 209 feet and top the Eiffel Tower by 74 feet with a $10 million cost.
Oyster Bay special president Roosevelt aims to spend over 3000 miles in Africa with son Kermit starting from Cairo. The trip would cross British East Africa into Abyssinia and German East Africa toward the coast near Zanzibar, amid dangers from lions, elephants, wild tribes, and remote regions. Congressman W. W. Cook notes Nile base from Lake Victoria Nyanza for expeditions. Departure set for April 1.
At Palomas Chihuahua five revolutionists were killed and several wounded before gendarmes repulsed the attackers who fled to the mountains. Eight more insurgents at Las Veascas were surrounded and killed despite a white flag. Rangers shot down surrendering fighters and left their bodies. The incident is hailed abroad as an example for insurgents.
The St. Petersburg Douma adopted a War Ministry bill authorizing 46 million dollars to fund army supplies and material. Funds target Trans Baikalia needs fortifications at Vladivostok and large barracks with artillery equipment. The body has already approved over 500 million dollars for defense of Russia’s far eastern possessions.
Washington reports John McCalip drowned in the Potomac after cramps while bathing. He was engaged to Miss Julia Hanna of Crawfordsville and was to marry soon, with relatives taking his body to Crawfordsville for burial.
A philosophical remark notes that a pessimist sees man as weak, given his habit of scrutinizing scarecrows rather than trusting tangible things. The line comments on skepticism and human tendency to overanalyze simple signs.
A prophetic brochure titled Banzai envisions a Japanese American war with San Francisco seized by 100,000 troops, a sunken flagship, and a global financial panic. Admiral Sperry’s fleet fights a two-front Japanese attack as 750,000 American troops rally under Gen. McArthur to rout Japanese forces in Oregon.
Miss Montana Largey a 19 year old heiress wed Ray MacDonald 26 a $60 a month cab office clerk. Largey inherited nearly 1 million from Peter Largey and plans a unique honeymoon by car from Los Angeles to New York then Canada to visit her husband’s former home.
George Powell, 25, of Buffalo, swam the whirlpool rapids from Flat Rock to Lewiston landing in 35 minutes after entering at 6 20. Powell, missing an arm, performed a feat deemed without parallel and faced exhausting waves and perilous current.
A Vallejo special states the three pounder guns on Pacific and Atlantic fleet cruisers and battleships will be dismantled and sent to naval stations. Six pounders will be installed in their places across the fleets.
A special fire destroyed the Consolidated Elevator Company elevator D and No 1 dock and sheds of the Northern Pacific Railroad at Rice's Point in Duluth causing damages exceeding 1 million dollars.
In the Oise village of Froissey women hold all public offices and many private posts. The post service is run by women, the village crier is a woman, and the barber is a woman, with female officials overseeing proclamations and fairs.
In Des Moines a sensational notice mocks Carrie Nation announcing she will pull the sheath skirt from the first woman wearing a new directoire gown. The blunt stunt is depicted with bold humor and a numeric quip about "280 here" signaling a bold challenge to fashion norms.
Constantinople Sultan Abdul Hamid II confers the Order of Chehak at the women’s honor ceremony. Mrs Theodore Roosevelt and Miss Ethel Carrow Roosevelt receive the honor, the latter the youngest recipient yet, born August 10, 1891. The decoration has three classes, first and second in diamonds.
The steel bridge across the Columbia River at Vancouver is now fully complete. Built by the Spokane Portland and Seattle Railroad it cost 2,000,000 dollars. The bridge runs two miles with main spans totaling 2,866 feet and is the first Columbia crossing between Oregon and Washington.
The Sultan, a famed collector, purchased the blue diamond through an intermediary in Paris for 2,000,000 francs. While viewed as unlucky by some, he is noted for keen interest in precious stones and superstition does not deter his acquisitions.
Seattle Japanese residents decide to pull their children from public schools alleging unsatisfactory education. They plan to replace with Japanese schools and instructors following a meeting of the Japanese Association of the State of Washington.
Paris awakens to absinthe crisis with a government drive to curb the deadly liquor. Parliament launches a campaign to crush the trade by making its sale a penal offense.
A movement in Essex County New Jersey seeks funds for a national monument to Grover Cleveland. Prominent state citizens have already expressed willingness to subscribe to the project in memory of the former president born in Cleveland.
J A Tynan, a Fond du Lac Wisconsin Central engineer, was honored for rescuing an unknown person from drowning after saving a passenger during a locomotive accident on a ridge crossing.
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