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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 17, 1908
Page
1
William Slater testified Ray Lamphere confessed to intimacy with Mrs Belle Gunness and related actions involving Andrew Helgelein. The defense signaled it would argue Mrs Gunness took her own life in a note of implausible intention tied to marriage and secret society insurance schemes.
Baltimore November 17 delegates from nearly every Atlantic coast state attend the first annual convention of the Atlantic Deep Waterways association. The group aims to promote a national project constructing canals to connect natural waterways from Boston to Key West, creating continuous inner navigation routes.
Norman E. Mack, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, said a small deficit from the national campaign will be met personally. He noted plans to fund permanent Democratic headquarters in Washington and that offers have come from every state to contribute.
The Citizens' National Bank of Monticello Kentucky closed its doors due to a cashier shortage exceeding twenty thousand dollars. Judge Charles McConnaghy the bank’s cashier has been arrested on forgery and misappropriation charges.
A Temps dispatch from Saint Pierre Miquelon reports a large pro free schools demonstration by clerical supporters. Citizens assembled at the governor's residence and raised American flags as authorities warned of possible unrest amid insufficient police presence.
John A. Evans funeral services will be from the home of his son Fred Evans one mile east of West Liberty on Wednesday at two o'clock. Interment will follow in Oakridge cemetery.
John Briar, private secretary to Governor Cummins, will accompany him to Washington and become the new senator's secretary.
Baltimore reports actress Mabel Taliaferro operated on for appendicitis at the university hospital yesterday and said to be progressing well toward recovery.
Rev. J. N. Elliott attended the Home Missionary Committee meeting of the Iowa City Presbytery in West Liberty yesterday and returned home last evening.
C W Burton former cashier of the Tri City State bank Madison Illinois posted 1000 bond to answer an indictment for embezzlement totaling 3381 61. The grand jury named the sums and the affair ties to Joseph R Burton former U S senator from Kansas. The bank had closed briefly last February after an Illinois state audit.
In Denver on November 17 the American Federation of Labor held one session. Reports from committees dominated business with a plan for a January St Louis convention. President Gompers warned he would go to jail rather than pay any contempt fine or let the federation pay it. He defended labor decisions and pledged loyalty to trade unionists.
Washington November 17. A sweeping decision by the commissioner of patents holds that labels bearing Guaranteed under pure food and drugs act June 30 1906 will be refused registration when intended to imply government responsibility for purity. The ruling targets hundreds of packers and others who print such labels.
Arguments in the contempt case of Bucks Store and Range Company against Samuel Gompers Frank Morrison John Mitchell and the American Federation of Labor were concluded. A decision is not expected for several days.
Emile Stricker was killed and Leon Barrows injured when a car attempting to beat a 24 hour speed record at the Birmingham fair grounds track exploded a tire during a curve. The machine and wreckage wereTotaled.
Peter Van Vlissengen a longtime real estate dealer and club man confessed to forging documents to obtain more than 700000 dollars. He pleaded for a speedy sentence and was promptly sentenced to an indeterminate term of one to fourteen years in the penitentiary.
A ruby ring believed a gift from the Duke of the Abruzzi to Miss Katherine Elkins is held by the Pittsburg customs authorities awaiting inquiry over unpaid duties. Port Surveyor M. M. Garland leads the case, with Elkins, Virginia, referenced.
Strong posses led by Sheriff Campbell and prison guards scour Henry and Des Moines counties for Frank Valentine who escaped Fort Madison penitentiary Saturday. He reportedly stole a horse in New London last night but remains at large with no leads to his location.
Andrew Olson appeared in Ottumwa Iowa today after a 12 year absence to stop a lawsuit filed by his daughter over a Woodman of the World lodge insurance policy. The case hinged on his presumed death and sought to settle the policy.
In Peking on November 17 rumor spread that the dowager Yehonala and Yuan Shi-Kai had died by self-action. The panic triggered bank runs with 14 native banks closing and foreign banks largely spared. Police intervened as crowds grew, and authorities planned measures to curb the financial fear among the lower classes.
Chicago, November 17. The first American Catholic Missionary Congress opened with Archbishop Messmer presiding. Sessions stressed social uplift duties for church workers and a new momentum to extend Catholic influence to improve slum conditions in the United States and overseas.
An unknown man chased Elsie Grander an 18 year old country girl through several blocks in Iowa City. He seized her in a clench but she broke away crying out and bystanders intervened to rescue her. Police hunt the suspect as Darkness hid the assailant.
Chicago November 17 Herman Bil lek convicted of murdering five Uzral family members is sentenced by Judge Barnes to be hanged on December 11.
Ashtabula Ohio November 17 William S McKinnon state treasurer died here early today aged 56 after about a year of ill health.
Berlin today reports Kaiser Wilhelm II accepted Chancellor von Buelow’s proposals for future state conduct and will keep von Buelow in office. The Potsdam conference followed a controversial interview in which the emperor’s Britain policy was discussed. The move aims to ease a tense internal mood in Germany.
Bloomington officials report Rev. George Brown and his wife lost neglect charges over the Harriet Beecher Stowe Institute for dependent Negro children. Brown admitted drinking whisky but denied using donation funds. He said revival money partly supplied drink funds. A probation officer will oversee the inmates.
King and Queen of Sweden, guests of King Edward, arrived at Portsmouth yesterday afternoon and immediately boarded a train to Windsor.
Iowa fair tonight and Wednesday with warmer temperatures. Illinois fair tonight and Wednesday with rising temperatures. Sunrise 6 41, sunset 4 28, moonrise 12 03.
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