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Newspaper
Oshkosh Daily Northwestern
Location
Oshkosh, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1908
Page
7
New York and Milwaukee markets show higher early week prices with heavy trading. Analysts note easy money, improving business, and harvest hopes lifting stocks while bankers tighten credit and weak firms fail, signaling a broadened market reach but strained credit conditions.
Wheat market opens active with quiet weather and lower cables. September patterns show fluctuations with receipts noted in Minneapolis and Chicago. corn and hog markets follow with mixed firmness and local demand influencing prices.
Prices paid to farmers and quotations reported by local dealers cover dairy cattle beef lambs hogs veal and mixed feeds. Detailed items include butter dairy fat live cattle milk prices and assorted grains and produce with specific ranges and delivery terms listed by local creameries and merchants.
Superior Wis Aug 3 The Great Northern ore decks are shut down by a strike of ore pend a. Officials expected activity, but ore train crews were laid off with no dock disturbances noted as workers remained orderly.
The fifty fourth annual Inter national Typographical union convention opens in Boston with the seventh annual International Stereotypers and ElectroTypers Union gathering. President Norman E. McPhail notes reclamation work after the eight hour law impact. membership near 46,000 from 47,000. Secretary Treasurer Bramwood reports regular funds at $198.3 thousand and a $85,642 decrease for the year.
Harry K Thaw was moved from jail to the supervisors room for exam in proceedings by Ella Hayt and John Schlosser in Poughkeepsie. Hayt seeks to restrain payments for testifying while Wilson sues for 300 more dollars. Bankruptcy is seen as likely to affect both matters though hearings proceed. Thaw’s trip to Fishkill landing was canceled and adjournments were set for Friday.
Alexander Garland and wife Louise Garland were arrested Saturday in Los Angeles on a charge of disturbing the peace. Garland was released on bail provided by Antonio Lozano, Mexican consul, while Mrs Garland posted 50 dollars cash bail and declined to aid her husband. Garland claimed to have been secretary of the Peruvian legation in Washington and said he was suspended after an altercation in which he was stabbed.
Winnipeg on August 10 saw the first act of violence since the Canadian Pacific railway strike began. Stones smashed windows of passenger coaches near the St Boniface yards as trains moved, prompting arrests of three new workers and the departure of twelve new starters who quit. Strikers patrol yards while Japanese porters replace striking workers and Brandon and North Bay see additional strike breakers.
Special from Manasha Wis August 2 reports Lake Shore League plans amid league title chase with Manitowoc upcoming. Also notes a kitchen shower for Miga Mavine Welsch and Jiert Sith, a Menasha picnic at Waverly Beach, a farm trip by local residents, and visits from Detroit Milwaukee Green Bay and Madison figures.
Chairman Mack of the Democratic national committee conferred with National Committeemen Wade and Wood about allies and the middle west political situation. The campaign fund topic was discussed with Governor Haskell and Colonel Mohes C. Wetmore. J. Allood, chairman of the speakers bureau, attended. Mack will depart for Lincoln tonight for Bryan notification on Wednesday.
Kaukauna Wisconsin August first the Green Hay and Mississippi Canal company will proceed immediately with the construction of a water power dam on the lower rapids. The Mackworthy Construction company will move machinery to the prepared site to begin active building operations. The immense dam will have a head of seventy feet.
Fort Riley Kansas August 10 ten days of mimic warfare opened the annual maneuvers with five thousand soldiers from Iowa Nebraska Arkansas and Kansas taking part under Brigadier General Kerr commandant. By actual count there are about 4 600 enlisted men and officers in the drill.
A 2,500 foot dam proposed to cross the Fox River would become Wisconsin’s largest water power facility. It starts at Hewitt canal foot, runs across rapids, enters the Fox River 900 feet away, then follows the old south channel to near the Canal company office. The Mead and Edwards power canal mill site would be submerged, with new sites provided below the structure. Lindauer stone quarry areas would be submerged near the river bed by the baseball grounds. Stone piles from tailrace excavations would be reused in construction.
A dispatch from the American Consul in Tabris reports the United States consulate flag was shot down by loyalists. A man near the consular doorway was wounded. The incident is linked to ongoing disturbances in Tabriz, with authorities deeming the shots accidental in both reported cases.
In Fairview Nebraska on August 10 William J. Bryan began work on a speech about trusts for Indianapolis August 25 after sending his Des Moines message to print. Delegations and supporters visited, including Clayton of Alabama and Dr J F W McChine, as Bryan plans a trip to New York state.
A distorted dispatch claims the Republican party split over a New York gubernatorial nomination. It names Timothy Law and others as contenders and notes internal pressure shaping the party’s choice and possible merger options ahead of a state convention.
Frank Hitchcock, chairman of the Republican national committee, will reach Chicago next Saturday to be greeted by George Shaiden, Richard Qulalian, and Gen. T Coleman Wapont. The delegation departs New York Friday for Chicago HQ while Hitchcock plans trips to Hot Springs for talks with Taft and possible layovers over West Virginia concerns. James Williams Jr. accompanies Hitchcock as confidential secretary and J Van Vechten Gleart of New York discusses New York State Donies.
Cronenberg Aug 12 The emperor wine jam arrived at 115 oelock this morning for a meeting with King Edward who is expected to reach Maienbad tomorrow en route. London reports King Edward and his suite departed for Maienbad by Cronenberg after noon. His Majesty will meet the emperor tomorrow and on Wednesday he will receive Emperor Franz Joseph of Austria before continuing to Maienbad.
San Francisco Aug 10 General Frederick Funston will depart for Fort Leavenworth to turn over command of the Department of California to Col. M F May Twenty second Infantry His family will remain in this city during the transition and retirement proceedings are noted by the army staff
Edward Theverson of Superior completed a stroke laden swim from the White City to Canada’s pal a distance over two miles in one hour and twenty minutes. Thompson planned to swim back but was too chilled to attempt it.
Copenhagen reports all newspapers halted except Social Democratic papers as printers strike for an eight hour day. Book bindery and job printers are locked out, raising a broad stoppage across the industry.
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