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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1908
Page
1
A corn show pageant featured speaker urges corn growers to pursue opportunities and seize market chances. The event showcased triumphs and prospects, with attendees listening as live demonstrations highlighted new varieties and farming methods.
Ottumwa Iowa raises funds to start a rescue home and close saloons as Mel Trotter visits. Open Door mission to continue local work amid Sunday rally and a petition nearing 2800 signatures to shutter saloons by January 1.
In Toledo Ohio on December 16 an unknown man was instantly killed after an encounter with five men in Greenwich Township railroad yards. Marshal F C Woods of Greenwich was seriously wounded as he questioned a stranger near the post office and escorted him toward the tracks. The four other men attacked from behind a railroad car as the shooting began. A posse hunts the assailants in the surrounding countryside.
Oskaloosa Iowa December 16 Leo Van Gorbin was arrested and sent to Pella on a charge of aiding in the torture of 16 year old Josephine Mullenberg held for 18 hours in a tent at the Pella fair. Charles Dean is indicted at Knoxville for the same offense.
Tama Jim Wilson secretary of agriculture will serve as president of Colorado Agricultural College for two years, the News reports in a des Moines dispatch. The move is confirmed by Iowa Evening Press.
The passage argues that business must avoid public rights violations and injury. It calls for lawful conduct by large corporations, urging obedience to law and respect for others, whether driven by competition or by cooperative combination.
Irvine Kentucky December 16 The trial of Beach Hargis charged with murdering his father Judge James Hargis last February began today Family members are on both sides of the case The wife uses her husband s money to defend the patricide Her brother W Floyd Byrd aids the prosecution
The New York World defies Roosevelt by defending Pulitzer and criticizing the Panama canal deal. It accuses the president of trying to muzzle the press and calls the chief executive a demagogue while pledging to champion free speech. Indianapolis News also urges a full congressional inquiry into Panama transactions.
Washington dispatch reports patronage fights in Iowa as Congressman Haugen may appoint a progressive for Ottumwa post office and seek to place allies in Des Moines pension and other offices. Kendall will pick a progressive, while Cammins presses for eighth district control after Hepburn.
Davenport Ia Dec 16 Mrs French wife of Colonel Geo Watson French prominent in republican politics and a friend of Senator Cummins died this morning following an appendicitis operation.
Mrs. W. H. Slaughter wife of the Hills mayor in Johnson County Iowa dies at age sixty eight.
In Flushing New York Special Prosecutor White outlined the state case against Thornton J Hains charged as an accessory to the murder of William E Annis A seven month lead in letters from Hains to Annis who ran the Recreation magazine advertising department is cited as evidence of deep seated animosity.
James Lally of Des Moines Iowa died aged 77. He was the sole survivor among townspeople of the Balakalawa battle and saw the charge of the Light Brigade. He earned a Victoria Cross for his service.
The Senate adopted Foraker's resolution asking the secretary of war for details on employing detectives in the Brownville affair. Lodge and Aldrich led further measures, while the House rejected an anti futures transmission amendment. The president nominated Leslie Owen to the Panama Isthmus supreme court.
Paris December 16 The counsel for Count Boni De Castellane cites a letter from the count renouncing his petition for sixty thousand dollars annually for the children’s maintenance in the custody suit with his former wife.
Marshalltown Iowa December 16 Frank Auld attempted to board a Great Western freight last night and was struck by the wheels, dying from his injuries.
The Muscatine Journal announces a special Prosperity Edition to be issued Thursday December 17. Readers are urged to order extra copies early and read the paper’s numerous stories highlighting Muscatine’s greatness and progress.
Caracas reports show mobs trashing Castro allies and symbols in Plaza Bolivar as martial law is declared to stop rioting. Dutch naval tensions accompany the unrest with no foreign harm. officials anticipate Castro's ouster but no act has been issued yet.
John H. McFarland testified for the prosecution in the Warfield and Cooper trial. He admitted defrauding Mrs. James A. Patten of 22700 through bogus De Luxe book editions and contracts, detailing Dickens Scott Thackeray Balzac sets sold and his attempt to seal a larger deal when exposed.
Fifteen people are dead and about thirty injured after a collision between a passenger train and a freight train in the Pouch tunnel, between Limoges and Limoges in France.
Three Michigan railroads the Michigan Central Chicago and Northwestern and the Pere Marquette have deposited 750000 in the hands of the State Attorney General Bird for taxes due in April. The move eases the empty state treasury as the funds await collection.
Mrs. Della Pratt William Emhill and 17 followers of religious fanatic James Sharp were rearrested late last night after being discharged by Justice Remley on charges of conspiracy in the December 8 murders near the city hall.
Weather sketch notes rain or snow and colder conditions tonight and Thursday. Illinois forecast shows rain in the south and rain or snow in the north tonight and Thursday with lower temperatures. Sunrise at 7 11, sunset at 4 20.
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