Junken Case Proceeds With Jurors Tonight
Violence feared as court examines Junken fate before nightfall. If sentence falls short of death, an adjutant general in Centerville may direct soldiers if needed.
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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1909
Page
1
Jury Deliberates Death Sentence in Junken Case at Centerville
Adjutant General Logan arrives to command local militia as Ottumwa officials argue over capital punishment. Defense seeks to spare Junken amid testimony on drugs and degeneracy, while county and state attorneys present stark evidence. Large Swedish community tensions loom as verdict nears.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. M. Beck
Centerville
Guy E. Logan
Iowa National Guard
Junken
John R. Price
Albia
J. C. Mitchell
Ottuimmwa
Smoky Row
Cornell
Roll W. Smith
Senaca Cornell
Ottumwa
Rosen
J. C. Cox
Bomb Thrown Again Targets Chicago Whist Club
A known city bomb thrower resumed activity after a vacation last night. The blast severely damaged the street level front of a gas and electric fixture firm while targeting the Whist Club on the sixth floor, nearly wrecking a downtown building.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Airship Sails For Home After Damage Repaired
The Zeppelin airship, forced down at Coeppingen yesterday, lifted at 3:20 PM heading toward Friedrichshafen after temporary repairs were completed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Zeppelin
Coeppingen
Friedrichshafen
FEAR TROUBLE IN WESTERN STRIKE LOOMS
In McCloud California a striker party seized the power house of the McCloud River Lumber Co and took control of a ton or more of dynamite. Sheriff Howard leads 40 to 50 deputies facing 600 armed strikers as communication to McCloud is cut off. The situation is described as ugly with serious trouble feared.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sisson
Cal
McCloud
Here
McCloud River Lumber Company
Howard
Workman Slain by Fellow Laborer in Des Moines
Des Moines, June 1. Charles Leach engine wiper at the Minneapolis and St. Louis roundhouse was stabbed during a fight with fellow worker George Arrobbia, an Italian, dying half an hour later. Arrobbia fled. detectives pursue. The killing stemmed from an old quarrel and was witnessed by Harry Huggins.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Charles Leach
Minneapolis & St. Louis Roundhouse
George Arrobbia
Arrobbia
Harry Huggins
Parade Is a Feature of the Day Ad dress of Grand Master
Davenport Iowa June 1 Special The grand lodge of the A F and A M of Iowa convened here with 300 to 400 in attendance The opening session included the Grand Master P J Martin of Waterloo and reports from grand officers The feature of the morning was the parade.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Davenport
Grand Lodge
A. F. and
A. Mgof
Iowa
P. J. Martin
Waterloo
Supreme Court Rules Against Interstate Commission in Hay Reshipment Case
The Supreme Court decided against the Interstate Commerce Commission in the Southern Railroad company test case. The dispute concerned the commission’s authority to fix charges for the re consign ment of hay shipped through East St. Louis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D. C
Southern Railroad Company
Interstate Commerce Commission
East St. Louis
Supreme Court
Union Business Agent Indicted in Perjury Case
Francis E. Thoman, business agent of the Structural Iron Workers' Union, was indicted on perjury charges in Chicago Illinois on June 1 for his testimony in the defense in the Madden Pouchot and Boyle grafting trial.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago, Ill
Francis E. Thoman
Structural Iron Workers’ Union
Madden, Pouchot
Boyle
Stevens quits as EasternRoad official at New Haven
John F. Stevens, vice president in charge of operation, resigns from the New Haven Railroad to take another post. Officials in New Haven know nothing of his new role but expect it to be with James J. Hill properties in the West.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Haven
Conn
The
New Haven Railroad
John F. Stevens
Stevens
James J. Hill
Night Sessions Debated for Senate Tariff Move
Senate race over night sessions advances as Aldrich proposes daily 10 30 a m to 11 p m sessions with dinner break Culberson delays immediate action Cummins backs an income tax amendment to the tariff bill and tariff clashes unfold with Dolliver and Aldrich over cotton duties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D. C
Aldrich
Committee On Finance
Culbertson
Cummins
Dolliver
Senate
Rayner
Smith
South Carolina
Root
Bacon
Death in Cinder Chute at Burlington Plant
Howell N. Higbee aged 26 superintendent of track construction for the People's Gas and Electric Co. was smothered in the cinder chute at the light plant. A teamster later opened the chute and the body fell out head first. Higbee, son of Geo H Higbee president of the company, was likely dislodging cinders when he fell from about 40 feet. He was prominent socially.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Burlington
Howell N. Higbee
People’s Gas and Electric Co
Geo. H. Higbee
Murray Iron Works
Woman Robbed of $20 000 in Seattle Home
Mrs. George Shea of Duluth Minnesota visiting her sister at Alki Point Seattle reported to police that burglars stole $20 000 in currency hidden between bed sheets. She had planned to invest the money in local property after arriving the previous week and visiting Memorial Day decorations with her sister.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seattle
Wash
George Shea
Duluth
Minn
John English
Alki Point
Davenport Man Killed by Train in East Syracuse
A 22 year old Davenport, Iowa man Brownson Babbitt is killed instantly when struck by a fast train in East Syracuse New York. He was employed in Albion New York for the past year and his family will travel east this afternoon for his funeral.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Syracuse
N. Y
Brownson Babbitt
Davenport
New York
C. M. Babbitt
Albion
East
Egg inspectors strike in Chicago sparks potential price rise
Four hundred egg inspectors in Chicago began a Saturday half holiday strike. If extended, commission men say eggs may be inspected by shippers and shipped by express to ensure freshness, leading to higher prices for consumers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Iil
Commission
Express
Nine Hundred Escaped Fire At St Casimirs School
Detroit residents report nine hundred pupils at St Casimirs parochial school on 23rd and Myrtle streets escaped safely after a fire broke out on the second floor. Students rushed stairs and fire escapes with no injuries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit
Mich
St. Casimirs Parochial School
23Rd Street
Myrtle Street
Mrs Emma Kaufman On Trial Again For Servant’s Death
The second trial of Mrs Emma Kaufman wife of a Sioux Falls brewer opened in Flandreau South Dakota today charged with killing her servant Agnes Poireis about two years ago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Flandreau
S. D
Emma Kaufman
Sioux Falls
Agnes Poireis
Panama Libel Case Again to the Fore
Indianapolis June 1. Delavan Smith and Charles R Williams owners of the Indianapolis News face Judge Anderson resisting a bid to move their criminal libel case to the District of Columbia. The federal grand jury indicted them and the New York World in a Panama canal corruption probe.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis
Ind
Panama Canal
United States
Delavan Smith
Charles R. Williams
Indianapolis News
Anderson Today
District of Columbia
New York World
Congressman Lowden III to Return Home After Illness
Chicago June 1 Congressman Frank O Lowden III has been in Presbyterian hospital for two weeks. Preparations were made for his return to his Ogle county home within a day or two. The illness is not of a grave character.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago, Ill
Frank O. Lowden
Presbyterian Hospital
Ogle County
Philadelphia Strikers Push to Expand Transit Service
Philadelphia Rapid Transit motormen and conductors strike for higher wages and better conditions. By 1 pm 516 cars in operation, 100 more than yesterday, with former employees supplementing crews. Police maintain calm. two to four officers accompany each car. Many arrests yesterday with heavy bail. In Cleveland, Lake Carriers' Association and other labor groups seek talks on settling the Great Lakes marine strike with state arbitration boards meeting Seth Low.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company
Cleveland
Ohio
Lake Carriers’ Association
Great Lakes
Lake Marine
State
Permanent Lynching Bureau Proposed at National Conference
Ida Wells Barnett told a national Negro conference that about 3 204 people have been lynched in the last quarter century and urged a permanent investigative bureau with publicity to deter such acts. In Washington seven men from Tennessee began contempt proceedings in the U S Supreme Court for the two year old lynching case involving a colored man, as sentence was postponed for a rehearing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
N. Y
Ida Wells Barnett
Joseph F. Shipp
Hamilton County
Tennessee
Supreme Court of the United States
Supreme Tribunal
Law
Baseball Fatality Amid Detroit Suburb Game
Alfred Vollmer a 17 year old from Ecorse near Detroit died after a pitched ball struck him in the heart during a baseball game yesterday in Detroit Michigan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit, Mich
Alfred Vollmer
Ecorse
Detroit
Tornado at Zephyr Hurts Dozens and Kills
The Zephyr tornado injured more than twenty people and caused extensive destruction. Reports from Temple say 38 bodies have been recovered from the ruins with several more missing and feared dead.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Zephyr
Temple
Tex
Autos Start Race Across Continent
Five cars began at 3 p m from New York in a four thousand mile concours toward the Seattle Exposition. The race covers a continental trek with vehicles challenging the long distance event.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
N. Y
Hotel Fire in Chicago Narrows Escape at Stockholm Hotel
A Chicago fire on June 1 at the six story Stockholm hotel on Chicago Avenue sent several guests and staff into the street as smoke overpowered patrons. Firemen and police aided evacuees while property loss remained small.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Ill
Stockholm Hotel
Avnue
Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition Opens In Seattle
President Taft signals start of the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition as gates open at 8 30 and troops from U S Army Navy Japanese cruisers and state militia parade. James J Hill delivers a keynote urging Equality Simplicity Economy and Justice as buildings cluster around Pay Streak and Puget Plaza.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seattle
Wash
Taft
White House
Alaska
United States Army and Navy
Aso
Soya
T. C. Woodbury
Govrnors
Lake
Washington
J. O'Day
T. A. Nadean
J. F. Chilberg
James J. Hill
Episcopal
Frederick W. Keaton
Mr. Hill
Republic
Puget Plaza i
Fine Arts Palace
Olympic Place
Alaska Avenue
University of Washington
Women’s League
Weather Outlook for Iowa and Illinois Tonight
Iowa showers and thunderstorms tonight into Wednesday with cooler conditions in the west. Illinois sees generally fair weather with isolated storms tonight or Wednesday and higher temperatures tonight. Sunrise is 4 19, sunset 7 20, moonset 3 06 a m.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa
Illinois
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Masonig Gard Lodge
Martin
Quits Eastern Road
Western Line
Resolu
Insurgents
Measure—Culberson
Chute
Panama
Lowden III
Golden Key
Great Alaska Yukon Exposition
George Carmack
Carmack
Best Core
TLE
Hill
Pate
Ening
the Exposition Grounds
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