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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1909
Page
1
Chinese communities join the hunt for Leon Ling as a new lead emerges while a suspect is questioned. The case grows with a campaign by Ling’s supporters and a brother of Elsie Sigel failing to identify a man, as authorities hold a suspect in Schenectady. Remains of a girl are reported buried, with the father and brothers attending.
New York reports Chung Sin, a friend of Leon Ling, gave a detailed statement to District Attorney Jerome, while Indianapolis notes the Chinese Masons organization began a hunt for Ling. Schenectady says Reginald Sigel states the arrested Chinaman is not William H. Leon. Ling remains at large as police press on. Elsie Sigel's body was buried privately at Woodlawn Cemetery. Vancouver reports a mistaken arrest claim in Revelstoke BC.
Roland Rich, accused of killing his grandmother Mrs. Christine Corgeon in Bay City Michigan, was bound over to the circuit court for trial after a preliminary examination. Rich was married shortly after the alleged murder and the judge found the evidence circumstantial.
Harrisburg Pa June 22 Governor Stuart approves the pardons board recommendation to pardon James B Gentry the actor who killed Madge Yorke of the Baggage Check company here in 1895.
After heavy rain Indian creek overflowed in Crescent Iowa causing stock losses and crop damage. In Iowa City four men injured when windstorm toppled scaffolding at Ayers block, falling 15 feet injuring George Alshine William Botts William Patterson and Benjamin Shay with broken ribs and possible internal injuries. Crescent was flooded by brief cloudburst flooding homes driving residents from their houses. The lower districts of western Iowa City reported about $10 000 in damage and a mile of mud on streets with cattle and horses drowned. City property losses totaled around $5 000.
News from Boone Iowa reports the dynamiting of W H Whalen residence in Tucson Arizona. Whalen formerly supervised the Iowa division for the Chicago and Northwestern line. He and his wife were in open air apartments on the second floor when a bomb struck the daughter's room below. A second daughter Miss Marie visiting Boone was saved from harm as her bed was blown into the yard. Labor trouble is suspected as the motive.
E. H. Hunter and prominent Iowa men organize a million-dollar venture to reclaim forty thousand acres of desert land near Denver through a ditch project. Articles of incorporation filed for the Iowa & Omaha Short Line railroad from Des Moines to Council Bluffs with plans to start work in the fall.
Davenport Iowa June 22 Special The body of Thomas Adams was found south of his home near the railroad tracks after a search party found his decomposed corpse It is believed he killed his wife Clara Adams and then died by suicide with the revolver found beside them Inquest testimony noted bitter quarrels and threats of killing each other and herself last night and this afternoon a nephew in the search party located Adams body near the homestead
LaCrosse Wisconsin June 22 employees of the LaCrosse City Railway faced a demand to drop out of the union or resign their positions. All conductors and motormen chose to remain in the union while strike-breakers from Chicago were used on only a few cars.
Chicago former city clerk and longtime Democratic figure William Loeffler died after a protracted illness. He was a prominent participant in local politics and public service in Chicago, Illinois.
Naivasha June 22 The Roosevelt expedition at Louta plains Sotik district reports all members in excellent health. Theodore Roosevelt has shot a large lion and his son Kermit killed a bigger tawny maned lion, the largest of the trip, plus two cheetahs. The party also took three giraffes two eland six tops and many antelopes. Skins sent to the Smithsonian Institute.
New York June 22 Counsel for both sides in the Howard Gould separation case prepare for a final trial week in the supreme court before Judge Dowling. Witnesses for Mrs Gould’s alleged indulgence and humiliations will be confronted with rebuttal witnesses. Mrs Gould will testify denying acts of intoxication and mistreatment of her husband.
Senate Finance Committee amendments fix duties on saltpetre zinc oxide Keenes cement and iron goods while defending a 15 percent duty on hides under the Dingley law. Debate pits farmers against leather manufacturers with Pages arguing free hides benefit industry and farmers, while others warn it harms protective policy.
Grand Junction Colorado June 22. The Denver Rio Grande tunnel at Tunnel Station twenty miles east of town was flooded by the Grand River this morning blocking traffic in both directions. Unprecedented mountain snow and hot weather have swollen river outlets causing damage to irrigation canals and ranch property along the Grand and Gunnison rivers.
Morning Sun Iowa June 22 The annual convention of the Y P C U of the United Presbyterian church Keokuk presbytery opened this afternoon in the United Presbyterian church. A notable program features speeches by Dr J A Burnett Monmouth Illinois Rev M G Mann Waterloo Rev W R Sawhill Washington and Rev A S Bai.
Stormy Chicago Baptist meeting ends with Prof George Burman Foster of the University of Chicago dropped from the Chicago Baptist ministers conference after hours of hisses and heated debate. Dispute centers on Foster denial of Christ’s divinity and Dixon Moody church leadership.
Wellington hosts the world sculling title defense as R. Arnst defeats W. Webb on the Wanganui river to retain the world championship.
Ainsworth and Prof W E Nicholl of Rawal Pindi in Punjab India are among the figures named in an ongoing inquiry alongside several others.
Attorney General Wickersham laid before the president and cabinet a rough draft of a tariff bill amendment imposing a two per cent tax on net earnings of corporations. The White House conference will include Republican Senate Finance Committee members, Wickersham, and Senator Root. The measure is expected to tax all net earnings above five thousand dollars.
In Columbus Junction Iowa on June 22 a horse with a wagon bolted after escaping steam frightened the animal. Fifteen year old Florence Bonnichsen sustained a broken collarbone after jumping from the wagon. Her father C Bonnichsen leaped to safety with no injuries. The wagon wrecked and the horse later captured.
Detroit on June 22 reports Dr. Frank C. Richardson of Boston warned before the Society of Neurology and Psychiatry that despite the prohibition wave the alcoholic habit among business men appears to be rising. He called for study of the trend and its impact on public health.
Partly cloudy conditions with local thunderstorms tonight or Wednesday. Cooler in the northwest portion tonight. Illinois shares similar trends with continued warm conditions and early evening sunset times. Sunrise is at 4 15 and sunset at 7 31 with onset after 11 17 p m.
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