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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 26, 1908
Page
1
President Roosevelt sent a special message to Congress transmitting the Inland Waterways Commission report. He cited railroad inability to promptly handle national traffic and the previous fall crop surge as the basis for demanding improved waterways.
Missouri Governor Folk told a Carnegie Hall audience that legalized race track gambling breeds crime and must end. He urged wiping out watered stocks and inflated values and predicted vice would vanish nationwide in the era of conscience.
Washington hearings on the 1906 Brownsville Texas affray concluded that some negro soldiers from the 25th infantry fired the shots. The senate military affairs committee failed to identify the guilty parties as it delivered its findings. Four members opposed the decision with one not voting. The Lodge resolution declaring guilt of negroes was adopted after multiple substitute measures were rejected.
The Southern railway said it has appealed to the Interstate Commerce Commission to settle the wage dispute with its employees. President Finley expressed confidence in an amicable adjustment and regret that the workers would not accept the management scale. The move signals a broader campaign to seek mediation rather than direct negotiations.
Des Moines reports railroads in Iowa push to hire hundreds more telegraph operators to meet the March 4 enforcement of a new law limiting working hours. Smaller stations will be abandoned as companies scale up staffing to comply.
Albany February 26 The New York Senate again refuses to concur in Governor Hughes renewed recommendation to remove Otto Kelsey from the state superintendent of insurance on grounds of incompetency. The body instead passes an assembly bill allowing life insurance companies to enter into reorganization agreements to protect their interests. The measure now goes to the governor.
Marquette Michigan reports the fiercest blizzard in years sweeping the region. Snow blocks roads and disruptions reach wide areas as traffic halts and trains run hours late, impacting business and daily life.
Senator Robert L. Owen of Oklahoma delivered a three hour speech on the pending currency bill, stressing his emergency currency provisions and rails against using railroad bonds as its basis. Aldrich pressed for reasons behind limiting government bond circulation as Owen clashed on several points in a lively Senate exchange.
Paris police pursue Paul Roy on murder charges filed by his wife Gracia Calla for killing George A. Carkins in New Hampshire. French law allows trials for crimes committed abroad but not extradition of French citizens. Autopsy in Portsmouth confirms two bullets in Carkins back, shot from behind as he lay on the floor.
Mrs. Thomas Mason filed a warrant for her husband after he eloped with Edna Leek a 20 year old photography pupil. Leek and her mother arrived to learn the trade, Mason is a local photographer. They left Jefferson and are reportedly traveling to Colorado while Mrs. Mason seeks their return.
The funeral of Rev. Father Leo Heinrichs was held in Denver with thousands in attendance and the body sent to Paterson, N J for burial. Giuseppe Allo is charged with murder and brought to Denver for trial after the arrest and transfer from Colorado Springs. A Post report claims Allo mistook the victim for another priest tied to Sicilian anarchists.
Mrs. A. F. Mentzer of Cedar Rapids died by inhaling chloroform in Iowa City. Her will was made days before, notes showed smart bank instructions, and relatives said mental derangement stemmed from ill health. Funeral set for Marion, her former home, with coroner report of no fault with son-in-law.
Since yesterday afternoon a police guard has been stationed at the home of Dr. Julius F. Menestrino a prominent Italian physician in St. Louis. He received an unsigned blackhand note written in Italian demanding 500 and threatening decapitation if he does not comply.
Springfield, Ill. Feb 26. William C Graves and Joseph C Mason issued a report to Governor Deneen denying sensational charges that William Menezes, a patient at Jacksonville asylum, was brutalized by guards. The report is supported by physician examinations and testimony from asylum staff.
Pottawattamie county Republican convention in Council Bluffs endorsed Senator William B. Allison as his own successor and favored Taft for the presidential nomination. Delegates to the state convention were instructed to back Ernest E. Hart for national committeeman, with J. S. Dowell of Missouri Valley and L. F. Potter of Harlan named for district national convention delegates. All votes were unanimous under temporary chair Charles M. Hart.
Washington now reports that Rep Dalzell defended Republican policy in a long House speech replying to Cox, asserting GOP loyalty and achievement. In Senate, Carlson sought to amend the Aldrich bill to curb bank speculation, while Foraker proposed re enlisting certain dishonorably discharged negro soldiers. The Navy board deemed two Marine drownings accidental, and Ireland backed military education funding in colleges. Penal code reform moved forward in the Senate.
An effort to wreck the east bound Chicago Alton passenger train from Kansas City to St Louis was made at Higginsville Missouri late last night. A preceding freight train knocked the obstruction from the tracks, preventing disaster.
A dispatch from Columbus North Dakota reports Rival village eight miles west of Flaxton was completely wiped out by fire last night with damages around 30000 dollars. The fire left nothing standing in the town and prompted emergency measures for residents.
Secretary Hugh Jameson of the Muscatine Y M C A is due home tomorrow after spending today in Davenport arranging for a probable swimming pool at the association building. He will confer with architects and others on plans and estimates, though the board has not yet acted. Jameson had been en route from Alton Illinois where he was summoned by the death of his sister in law.
A Milwaukee Road freight wrecked near Conesville Iowa on the southwest branch. A rod broke under a box car, four cars left the track, blocking the line near the Iowa River bridge. No injuries, but trainmen and passengers were shaken. wreckage cleared by a morning construction crew. Milwaukee trains rerouted via Rock Island.
Rev. Frank W. Gunsaulus of Armour Institute of Technology praised Theodore Roosevelt as Gladstone’s equal in character and leadership. He argued history will place Roosevelt alongside Gladstone, noting times of trouble require such a man and predicting future recognition despite potential faults.
The army car from New York arrives in Chicago at 4 25 pm on the way to Fort Leavenworth with a Grant message. The American car trails closely, after dining with the pilot car crew near Hobart. Crowds line streets as rain-soaked spectators cheer early race progress.
President Roosevelt unexpectedly withdraws Daniel M. Sullivan from consideration for Cripple Creek Colorado postmaster. Sullivan once knocked down a man attempting to strike Roosevelt during a 1960 campaign stop amid a riot in Cripple Creek, with believed ties to Colorado factional conflict.
John A Linn former clerk of the circuit and superior courts and political leader was granted parole by the state board of pardons after 22 months at Joliet penitentiary. He is at home at 308 Division Street in Chicago and was deemed mentally incapacitated making transfer to Chester penitentiary for the criminal insane unlikely.
Front line naval leaders defended American battleship design before the Senate Committee on Naval Affairs. Rear Admiral Capps and Rear Admiral Converse rejected charges from Henry Reuterdahl that ships lack freeboard and armor effectiveness, calling the theory of armor deflection exploded and noting ongoing international testing. The hearing closed the first day with apologies due to the officers for their summons.
Willie Palmer ten died at home in Brazil Brazil after two weeks ill with pneumonia. Coroner Tilman conducted an inquest and the jury blamed the child's parents, urging county authorities to pursue further investigation to prevent similar deaths.
In St Louis on February 26 Daniel E Naughton an assistant clerk of the house of delegates was found guilty as an accessory after the fact to alleged bribery of Delegates Priesmeyer and Warner. He received a three month jail term and a $100 fine.
Gilt Edge 1st Mortgage Iowa farm mortgage loans at 6 percent are described as safe as government bonds and yield higher returns with no cost for collecting interest. Address: J E Stevenson 209 Iowa Ave.
Iowa forecast calls for fair weather tonight and Thursday with a drop in temperature tonight and a warmer trend in the west on Thursday. Illinois expected generally fair conditions tonight and Thursday with colder tonight. Sunrise 6 32 sunset 6 37 moonrise 2 20 am.
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