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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 15, 1908
Page
1
Iowa sees generally fair conditions tonight and Thursday with freezing temperatures. East central areas turn colder and a warmer Thursday is expected. Illinois forecast calls for partly cloudy skies and much colder tonight and Thursday with generally fair and colder in the south. Sunrise is 5 11 and sunset 6 31 with Moonset at 5 10 am.
National leaders express confidence in the greatest national games context, with Tawney calling for restraint in appropriating funds for naval needs. He warns against spending too much now and suggests prudence compared with others.
San Diego welcomes the battle fleet with a shore parade by five thousand marines and blue jackets. A mile and a half march to the city park features speeches by Gov. Gillett and Mayor Orward, with Admiral Thomas to reply and receive a golden key.
New York April 15. The McCarren Murphy and Conners clash over Kings County seats delayed the Democratic state convention's opening. McCarren prepared a minority report as he seeks to seat his delegates while Bryan forces face an instructed delegation battle and Bryan sends a congratulatory telegram from Chicago.
William J. Bryan spent about an hour in Chicago on his Peoria to Grand Rapids journey. He held talks with Illinois politicians and reportedly disapproved sending a rival delegation to the Denver convention. Bryan leaders neither confirmed nor denied his remarks about trusting the regular Illinois delegation.
Mount Vernon Ohio reports tell of Clifford Vernon ten year old son of Thompson Vernon who hanged himself in a barn last night. The cause remains a mystery though the recent death by suicide of a young cousin a week earlier may have weighed on him.
A private telegram from Manila dated April 15 claims regular troops and constabulary clashed with Moro outlaws near Lake Lanao in Mindanao. Two constabulary and three soldiers were reported killed or wounded, though not officially confirmed.
Des Moines Iowa April 15. Sheriff Wilson and a Kanawha Kansas deputy chased Clarence E. Hart for wife desertion. Hart, warned by their approach, hanged himself in a Randall barn before capture, and the officers arrived just in time to find him dead.
Fifty additional special policemen were sworn in at Chester to protect operations as the Chester Traction company plans extended hours. Strikers and sympathizers gathered near the car barns all day, with guards and replacements brought in to maintain service.
La Crosse Wisconsin reports the lid order closing all houses of ill repute at midnight tonight. Gambling houses had already shut two weeks earlier under the same order.
In Rome on April 15 the Pope met privately with Prince Von Buelow the German chancellor and Princess Von Buelow. They discussed questions concerning the Vatican and Germany.
Seoul dispatch reports revolutionists active south of the city and two cabinet ministers resign. Anti-Japanese sentiment is said to be increasing as unrest grows in Korea with Tokyo noting the surge of anti-Japan sentiment and cabinet resignations.
The London county council bans games in county council schools that include kissing. Teachers must enforce discontinuation citing medical grounds as the reason for the ordinance.
Beaton Lincoln Neb April 15 Three express companies reduced express charges by 25 percent in line with the Sibley act as enforced by the supreme court last week.
Great Falls endures near destruction as river debris fills the countryside. Flood threat looms over Montana communities, prompting evacuations and emergency measures to protect residents and infrastructure.
The Black Eagle dam was blown to save the Boston and Montana Smelter causing the flood to surge through Great Falls Craig Cascade and Hauser Lake. A smelter worker drowned as debris and rising water devastate towns and cut telegraph lines. Loss projected at $300000 with extensive property damage and evacuation in early reports.
King Edward, who had been in Biarritz for five weeks, departed today for London.
The scale committee of operators and miners in Toledo begins talks with a possible temporary scale stance. Operators favor ninety cents for a two year contract while miners push for a one year term. miners oppose an immediate temporary scale. In Kansas City negotiations resume for southwestern coal miners dispute with joint committee sessions.
Marian Grey, a young woman convicted of using the mails to promote a fraud in a matrimonial agency at Elgin, Illinois, was sentenced in Chicago to one year in the house of correction.
Cassopolis Mich April 15 The coroner jury ruled Carlton W Morgan died from a bullet wound fired at the home of Mrs Mae Greene No mention of Mrs Geo Metzker who admitted firing the fatal shot Prosecutor Bresnahan The trial included a confession by Miss Lottie Graham that she had been courted by Morgan for a year and faced his renewed wooing after learning he was married
Joseph Sachsel a Chicago wholesale liquor dealer and his cousin Arthur Freund were drowned when the small boat they were rowing capsized in the lake early today. The accident was witnessed by Sachsel's wife and Freund's four sisters watching from shore.
Ira B. Smith a former Milwaukee wholesale grocer was sentenced to two years in the house of correction after pleading noto contendente to four counts of false pretenses. He allegedly borrowed 5000 on each note by misrepresenting security as head of Smith Thorndike Brown and former leader of the National Wholesale Grocers' association.
Davenport Iowa reports Rock Island authorities order Sunday closures from midnight Saturday to 5 a m Monday and require license applicants to remove stall or wine room features and enforce drama shop laws under license penalties and court action. Mayor H C Schaffer announced the edict.
Francisco Noccoloto, under arrest for the death of Mary Renda, confessed that he bought the poison and placed it in the flour used for bread, revealing the method that caused the fatal poisoning in Chicago.
In Janesville Wisconsin on April 15 the Sherer case testing the states pure food law ended in acquittal. W T Sherer had been arrested for selling camphor below state requirements.
Hobson amendment to build four battleships failed 190 to 79 as House members applauded. President warned he will veto public building bills unless four ships are funded, while Tawney cautioned about treasury strain from large naval spending and urged two ships only.
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