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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1908
Page
1
President Roosevelt calls Congress to enact laws to correct wrongs. He outlines a plan including liability law reform and preventing abuse of injunctions, plus regulation of stock market gambling as part of the program.
Washington January 31 The presidents special message to Congress on employers liability and labor rights was read in the Senate with copies distributed to lawmakers. Senators and representatives applauded as the address defended progressive measures including re enacted liabilities for employers, relief for government workers harmed on duty, anti stock gambling steps, and expanded Interstate Commerce Commission powers. The president framed these acts as a unified campaign against privilege and predatory wealth, while signaling future recommendations on federal labor law.
The President argues railroads should earn ample profits to meet public demand while remaining open to all on equal and reasonable terms. He warns against attacks on property and wealth, insisting responsible stockholders must seek honest management or be barred from complaining as government enforces lawful corporate conduct.
The message delivered to Congress today appears on page 6. It states that full consideration of the opinions filed is necessary before a definitive decision on how to call the matter to attention can be made.
Paul Kelly, motorman on the Ninth Avenue Elevated train wreck that killed 14 in September 1905, was sentenced in New York to not more than two years and six months in prison after a second degree manslaughter conviction.
Wm H Meutsch shot and killed five year old daughter and wounded two other children in a basement carriage shop at 419 Armitage Ave. The victimized children, 3 and 2, died or were expected to die at a hospital. Police say Meutsch, apparently of unsound mind, confessed intent to kill a second daughter who was away.
Miss Stella Taylor twenty, a law student with a Chicago firm, confessed to forging four checks of fifteen dollars and passing them in Evanston where she once lived. A Burlington native with deceased parents, she cites a wealthy Minneapolis uncle and bouts of melancholia. She was taken to Evanston after arrest yesterday.
George Hackenschmidt of Russia easily defeated Joe Rogers of the United States at Oxford Music Hall in London under catch-as-catch-can rules. The best two of three falls match included a ten minute rest between bouts with times 7:35 and 6:45 for the first two falls. Hackenschmidt retains the world championship.
In London on January 31 Marquis Londonderry, former Ireland viceroy, accused the government of cowardice for tolerating a reign of terrorism to keep nationalists friendly in the house of commons. Lord Langford broke years of silence to share cattle-driving stories as the Lords weighed the Ireland situation.
Washington dispatch reports Anne E. Hahn one of the first American teachers to go to the Philippines was murdered at Batangas on Luzon January 29. Telegram asks Mrs. Jackson of Crete Nebraska to contact the family and arrange for the body.
Louisville and Nashville railroad announced it will no longer receive shipments of liquor into Georgia and Alabama, the states that recently passed prohibition acts. The move comes as states tighten liquor control and affects interstate commerce through Louisville.
Milwaukee reports a raging blizzard across the Northwest with official forecasts predicting continued severe conditions through the day and into the night. Colder weather is expected to follow, ending the system.
Andrew Carnegie will donate about 800 to fund a pipe organ for the new Congregational church built on the site of a fire ruined structure. The decision was announced to Congressman Dawson, who supported the Iowa church’s application.
The two year old son of Mr and Mrs George Schrieber Jr died in a Dysart house fire after the mother briefly stepped away. Smoke filled the room and the child lay on the floor with burned clothing. investigators suspect the hair caught fire while playing near a stove lid left partly open.
The Thaw trial jury begins deliberations after Justice Dowling’s charge. They are instructed to judge solely by the evidence and to presume innocence until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Possible verdicts range from first degree murder to not guilty by insanity, with commitment to Matteawan as a likely outcome.
An official of Krupp Gun Works, unnamed in reports, was arrested in Essen on charges of betraying military secrets. He allegedly sold gun plans that Krupp is building for Italy.
Former President John T. Hamilton, testifying before a committee in Washington, denounced the Aldrich bill for emergency currency as impracticable and financially unsound. He allowed some merit in Fowler’s features but rejected the measure as too broad and destabilizing to the currency system.
In Shamokin Pennsylvania on January 23 John Blue found a quarter pound of smoking tobacco belonging to his father and ate it resulting in death.
Reports from Cape Virgin and Punta Arenas describe American battleships sighted near Cape Virgin on January 30 and 31 advancing toward the Magellan Strait. Dense smoke marked the fleet's vanguard while Japanese observers came ashore in Punta Arenas aboard the British steamer Orita, which sailed from Rio Janeiro in January.
Omaha reports Pacific Express Superintendent Patterson returned with two large bullion bricks, part of the Sidney heist loot from March 1880. Found buried in a saloon debris after a recent blaze, the haul valued at 177000 dollars, with one brick later sold to the Denver mint. Sheriff McCarthy, former saloon owner, suspected leader but not indicted.
Winfield Iowa will dedicate the new Methodist Episcopal church Sunday February 9. The building is described as one of the finest in the city and a red letter day in the congregation’s history. Services will be led by Rev. T C Iliff D D.
Ptomaine poisoning from tainted meat devastates the Pollie family of Laural Nebraska near Sioux City Iowa. William 16 died after illness began Monday. Mary 6 died as funeral plans formed. Father near death and mother critically ill.
A dispatch from Julfa reports Tabriz is in extremis with revolutionaries in control looting and terrorizing residents. Government grip is absent as European inhabitants barricade homes and seek aid from the Russian consul for Cossacks.
Edward Cromwell philanthropist and patriot aged 87 died at the Denver home of his daughter Mrs. Gertrude C Sampson He is described as the oldest direct descendant of Oliver Cromwell and British lineage noted in an obituary.
A Durban dispatch states that Standard Oil has absorbed the Shell Transport and Trading company’s South African trading interests, creating a monopoly in South Africa. The move centralizes petroleum trade under Standard Oil in the region.
Illinois foresees rain or snow tonight and Saturday with warmer air in the east tonight and a much colder period Saturday afternoon or night. Iowa expects heavy snow tonight and possibly Saturday with a colder air mass sweeping from west tonight to the east on Saturday. Sunrise is 7 06, sunset 6 03, moonrise 5 45 a.m.
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