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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1909
Page
1
President Taft delivers first annual message from Washington announcing focus on economy in expenditures and revenue. He discusses tariff policy, Nicaraguan situation, sugar frauds, and white slavery concerns along with proposed anti trust and interstate commerce measures.
This item notes Woman's Club Day at the National Corn Exposition in Omaha Nebraska planned by the president of the state federations of Illinois Iowa Kansas Nebraska Minnesota with addresses by women from those states.
Charles W Morse has filed a motion for a new trial after a 15 year federal sentence for misappropriation of National Bank of North America funds. The motion follows denial of his writ of certiorari by the US Supreme Court. Ten days remain for further adjudication while Morse awaits at the Tombs prison.
Austin Texas December 7 The jury in the case of H Clay Pierce charged with false swearing returned a verdict of not guilty today.
Franklin MacVeagh's annual treasury report emphasizes retrenchment for the executive departments for fiscal year 1911. The total estimates reach 684 million dollars, with deficits projected once Panama Canal and debt payments are included, amid calls for reorganizing fiscal responsibility and reforming customs and pensions.
The actor John Drew fell from his horse while riding with his daughter in Central Park today and was seriously injured. The horse trampled him. he was taken to the hospital for treatment.
President Taft sent twelve hundred nominations to the Senate for approval, with Franklin Lane reappointed as interstate commerce commissioner. The cabinet discussed forthcoming special messages on interstate commerce, anti trust laws and natural resources. A House debate featured bills on customs house reform, postal savings banks and white slave traffic penalties amid a Democratic caucus shuffle.
Indignation meetings in Cairo protest Governor Deneen's decision to deny Frank H. Davis reinstatement as sheriff. Davis was removed after the November lynching of prisoners William James and Henry Salzner, with the governor citing insufficient protective action by the sheriff and reaffirming the law's demand to protect prisoners.
Grand jury in Wisconsin indicted a prominent citizen in connection with the Mineral Point bank collapse. U S Marshal Flint departed for Mineral Point with a warrant for the arrest based on the federal charge of frauds tied to the bank’s failure. Further details indicate only one other person besides Allen faced interstate commerce charges.
New York reports indicate Phenix Insurance of Brooklyn is under investigation for alleged irregularities that may have impaired surplus by as much as 1 million. President George P. Sheldon is accused of overdrawn salary and using company assets for personal speculation. Superintendent Hotchkiss cautions capital not impaired, but the inquiry continues.
Milwaukee, Wis. detectives arrested Karl Wojciechowski and Adam Pietzghak and brought them from Blany, Mich. as suspects in the Hattie Zinda murder case. The men vanished from Milwaukee around the time of the crime and were not located until now.
Independent telephone men from across the United States met in Chicago on December 7 to discuss matters of importance in the contests with the Bell company.
Washington December 7 The indicated condition of winter wheat is 96.8 percent with 84.1 percent for the seed area. The seeded area of winter wheat shows an increase of 2 449 000 acres compared with a year ago.
Geneva police confirm a mass exodus of Black Hand members seeking new operations in America. At least sixty individuals are en route, including forty expelled from Switzerland, traversing circuitous paths to reach the United States.
Nell Peirce a post office clerk was arrested by a post office inspector for rifling Christmas Mail and held to the federal grand jury under $500 bonds. Miss Arte Wren, a 37 year old teacher in Morningside, was asphyxiated in her room last night after moving from Potsville. The State board of control bought eleven acres from Dr. N E Mighell for Soldiers' Home grounds at a price of $10 000. The Central town wage schedules were signed, affecting 710 workers from Albert Lea to Peoria with raises and better shop conditions.
St Ignace Michigan December 7 William McDermott and two children died in a house fire that destroyed their Carp River residence. The mother rescued the remaining child while the father perished attempting to save the others.
Frigid statewide conditions grip Colorado and Wyoming with record lows. Chicago reports heavy snow and travel disruption as Missouri River ice jams hinder rivers. Three deaths linked to the storm include a laborer, a switchman, and a section hand.
West Liberty Iowa December 7 special John Kurz father of Ella Kurz now in Des Moines says a Des Moines report of Miss Anna Curtyz attempting suicide was misrepresented. He received a telegram from the boarding house landlady stating his daughter is all right and suffering only a violent headache.
In St Louis Dec 7 nine men and five women positively identified Mrs Doxey as the woman known there as the wife of William J Elder who is accused of killing him with arsenic The identification opened the coroner s inquest as witnesses were taken to the jail because doctors judged Mrs Doxey too ill to travel to the coroner s office
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