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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1903
Page
1
Whole districts are submerged as East St Louis suffers severe inundation. The city closes saloons and power outages hamper rescue. Thousands flee, trains halted, and boats search for stranded residents while Madison Venice Granite City suffer heavy damage and loss.
A Jewish refugee from Bialystok reports a Berlin anti-Semitic riot with mobs looting 150 houses and 84 shops. A rabbi was shaved, dressed as a clown, and paraded. a prominent Hebrew was forced to renounce Judaism or face death. Police allegedly asked about imitating Kishineff.
A Columbus Junction boy suffered an eye injury in an accident. Authorities report the incident is under investigation and no further details were released.
Robbie Rippey sixteen is shot in the left eye during a boating outing when a 22 caliber rifle fired at a mark misfired. Eye ball destroyed and ball likely lodged near the cheek bone. He is treated by Dr Morgridge and remains in uncertain condition as his mother recovers from illness.
Federal grand jury indicts Samuel and Diller Groff for conspiracy to defraud the government in connection with August Machen former superintendent of the Rural Free Delivery Service. Propriety of patent mailbox fasteners tied to a $20,000 profit from government sales. The suspects allegedly aided Machen in a boodling scheme and face government action.
Edwin K Hurley, a prominent Wapello resident, was fatally shot while cleaning a rifle at 8:30 this morning. The weapon misfired, entering his heart as he spoke with a female relative. he died instantly. He had planned a hunting trip and recently returned to Wapello with his wife visiting Mt. Pleasant.
Kansas Supreme Court refuses new trial for Jessie Morrison in the Clara Wiley Castle murder case. Eldorado dispatch says Morrison to be taken into custody immediately and sent to the penitentiary.
At the June 8 Republican county convention in Hampton Iowa the senatorial delegation was instructed for Senator F A Harriman.
The Tennessee Supreme Court in Jackson declared the state law enforcing separate white and Black streetcar compartments unconstitutional. The ruling follows the legislature's passage of the measure earlier in the session.
Oscar Flanigan, a colored man, was electrocuted this morning in Ossining New York for the murder of a keeper at a state prison.
A plot to assassinate the chief witness in the Tom White and Curtis Jett murder cases was uncovered in Jackson Kentucky. Two men disguised as women sought lodging at the witness’s hotel but were refused. The incident helped explain why about half the veniremen did not appear, delaying the trials until tomorrow.
St. Louis on June 8 reports all railroad connections to the city were severed at noon. The Alton terminus handled four lines this morning with trains assembled there for north and east runs. Boat traffic to Alton remains but sightseer crushes hinder service and river craft fear hazardous currents.
Vancouver dispatch reports floods raging across southern British Columbia with four deaths at Silverton. Sandon, a mining town carved into a canyon, suffers inundation as residents dynamite buildings and bridges to prevent dam formation. Kootenay valleys are submerged.
Iowa Democrats debate Judge Van Wagenen’s proposed government ownership plank at the state convention. His stance draws strong opposition from radicals even as he looms as a gubernatorial hopeful. Republicans show a quiet contest for state superintendent with J R Riggs challenging Barrett.
Miss Kate Stevig aged 47 of Pulaski hanged herself in the Shelton hospital at Bloomfield where she had been a patient for two months. She had been in ill health.
Des Moines, June 8. Governor Cummings issues a proclamation designating Sunday June 14 as flag day in Iowa and urging patriotic observances.
Generally fair tonight and Tuesday with possible showers in the west. Cooler tonight and in the east central portions on Tuesday. Sunrise 4 16, sunset 7 23, moon sets 3 27 a m.
Dubuque Iowa today reports the deaths of James Kelly a seventy year old bookseller and Henry Wunderlich a sixty seven year old prominent furniture manufacturer. Both men are described as well known figures in the community and their deaths are noted as sudden.
San Francisco firm Ep pinger & Company, a leading Pacific coast grain house, has failed for 1,350,000 dollars. Assets are placed at 760,000 dollars.
Grinnell Iowa June 8 William E Paul of Gilman Iowa won the Hyde prize for excellence in public speaking in a contest held at Grinnell College.
Two passenger steamers the Liban and the Insulaire collided near Marseilles as both boats entered the harbor. The Liban sank with about 187 dead and 53 saved, amid frantic rescue attempts and frantic scenes witnessed from nearby vessels.
Mason City report says Charles Vance sixteen was struck and killed by a Chicago Milwaukee St. Paul passenger train in Portland this morning.
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