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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1909
Page
13
A Zelaya representative stated he has heard nothing from the president. A Nicaraguan diplomat told Berlin that Zelaya is a good man, reflecting ongoing diplomatic friction and unclear communication between leaders.
Colonel Guadamuz of the government army has defected with about a hundred men to the rebel forces at Rama. Zelaya’s nearby troops number around 1,400, with 200 sick from hunger.
In New York on December 3 1923 the reorganized Chicago and Eastern Illinois board and officers were chosen. B L Winchell became president B F Yoakum chair of the board and executive committee W J Jackson named vice president and general manager Winchell also to serve as president of the Evansville and Terre Haute system.
A gas tank exploded in the Southern Express office in Camden South Carolina causing a fire that destroyed more than half a block in the business district. The blast killed one Black man, injured two residents and five others lightly. The blast collapsed a wall and sent the office into an adjacent building. The cause remains unknown.
Night operator L Barnett at the Rock Island depot in Washington Iowa was confronted by a masked robber with two revolvers who took 43.15 in cash from the drawer and fled east along the tracks. Authorities, including deputies and police, traced possible getaway on train No. 12 and scanned nearby fields and towns for the suspect. The robbery occurred around 1 AM and the operator returned to report the crime.
Washington reactions to the Grace and Cannon case surprise Zelaya who defends his government’s actions. Zelaya delays any move until US intentions are clear while American Vice Consul Caldera, a naturalized U S citizen by birth, remains at duties. Caldera’s sympathy for the opposition is suspected and he is closely watched though not restrained.
Reports say a switchmen strike remains unsettled as traffic improves in some zones and worsens in others. Police monitor stations to prevent clashes while Governor Eberhart and officials discuss the importation of Chicago officers. Engineers will not join the strike, and a Don's Review dispatch notes mixed business impact in the Northwest and robust holiday trade elsewhere.
Final articles signed for the Jeffries Johnson bout. Fighters post $10,000 each to bind the match. Rickard says telegrams make Salt Lake City possible. 45 rounds or more planned in Utah or California before Rickard's club on July 4.
London reports Parliament officially prorogued today with the king's speech formally presented to lawmakers.
J Pierpont Morgan secures control of the Equitable Life Assurance Society from Thomas F Ryan with assets around 472 million. The move hints at a broader trust company merger plan that could involve Morgan controlled firms and total near 200 million in assets.
Senator Clapp of Minnesota spoke in Milwaukee opposing the tariff bill and defending Senator La Follette’s re election bid. He said the core issue is protecting American industry and consumers from undue foreign and domestic pressures, criticizing the corporation tax as an ill disguised income levy.
Milwaukee delegates from over twenty states attend the National Society for the Promotion of Industrial Education convention. Speakers advocate industrial technical schools as essential, with several delegates delivering addresses supporting the cause.
In Davenport Iowa on December 3 a man linked to a Thanksgiving Day shooting is free on $5,000 bond posted by his uncle Gus Netbert. He awaits action by the next grand jury. The case centers on a quarrel with his father-in-law over alleged abuses and relations with another daughter. The defendant’s wife vows to stand by him.
Harry Spencer a Rock Island Railway pump man was killed last night on the track near Morse Iowa City. He was returning from a Woodmen lodge meeting when a passenger train ran over him. His mangled body was found this morning by section men. he left a wife and two daughters and was 59.
Four men, arrested in Collinsville Illinois, face charges in a plan to kidnap the children of merchant L. F. Lamaghi. Lamaghi, a former Collinsville mayor, received Black Hand letters demanding 6000 dollars and threats to his family. Lamaghi set a trap, an Italian suspect confessed, naming three others now in custody.
Cambridge mass December 3 Prof Charles Gross of the Harvard history department has died at age fifty two.
London December 3 King Edward through the foreign office formally accepted the invitation to act as arbitrator in the Alsop claim dispute between the United States and Chile.
Cal Towers, veteran showman and treasurer of the John Robinson shows, wraps a successful season and will spend the winter with his family on West Front Street in Muscatine after the season closed November 26 in Mississippi. He is regarded as perhaps Iowa's most prominent and oldest circus man.
Washington official said Tafts first annual message, about fifteen to sixteen thousand words, was printed at the government printing office and delivered to press associations at 9 o clock this morning.
Washington officials report the cabinet spent five hours outlining President Taft's message. Department heads left the draft heavily revised and a large composing staff is preparing the final text for distribution tonight. It will not be released publicly until its congressional reading next week.
Fennimore Wis December 3 A fire destroyed the Habberman creamery but a plentiful supply of buttermilk saved Patchgrove. Citizens formed a bucket brigade and with five hundred buckets of buttermilk saved the adjoining house. If the fire spread to that house the town likely would have burned.
John R. Walsh, president of the Chicago National Bank, convicted of misapplying bank funds, is held in custody after his appeal to the federal circuit court was denied. Bail was refused but sentence start is deferred pending a Supreme Court application. Walsh remains under U.S. Marshal custody with a deputy accompanying him.
Representatives of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen announce 300000 eastern railroad workers will soon demand a 10 percent wage rise. Voting across districts has been completed and the demand will be presented to all eastern railways. Officials say every effort will be made to avoid a strike, though the switchmen’s union favors radical action.
Harry Adams known as F. C. Williams, a vaudeville performer, shot himself in the Ward hotel lobby after being denied permission to see a woman from his company. The incident occurred in Fort Dodge Iowa on a December day per report.
Fire began last night in a South Sharp street building and within hours destroyed or damaged major firms including C. J. Peeq Spear Bros shoe houses McCaddin and McElwee house furnishings and several upper-floor tenants in adjacent structures.
Eighteen mines owned by the Indiana Southern Coal company at Chicago were deeded yesterday to the Alliance Coal company. The properties span Vigo Clay Sullivan and Green counties and fetched a total of $1,500,000 in the deal.
The forecast calls for rain turning to snow in Iowa tonight and Saturday with colder temperatures. Illinois may see showers tonight and Saturday, likely turning to snow flurries in the north with colder conditions. Sunrise is 7:00, sunset 4:21, moonrise 10:45 p.m.
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