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Newspaper
Oshkosh Daily Northwestern
Location
Oshkosh, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jul 24, 1908
Page
8
Police report few details on a Wednesday night safe break in the company office. A sum of money disappeared while the Messia Wa'l were absent and no loss report had been filed. Employees acknowledged a robbery but would not discuss without employers.
John Plett of Luther Davies & Co. collapsed from heat at the corner of School and Broad Streets shortly after one this afternoon. He was carried home by the city ambulance to 269 School Street. Dr C E Sargent attended, and his condition was reported favorable this afternoon.
Fred Sabin and F A Barnes reach the Daly Cup final after defeating other entrants in the golf competition. The final is set for Saturday afternoon at Algoma Country Club. A fixed foursome for the Chase Cup will also be contested, promising strong entries and an engaging event.
Oshkosh plans a July 25 game at Combination Park between the Fats and Leans. People urged to attend the local matchup highlighting community sport and city pride.
William B Rayner son of United States Senator Rayner was located at a Norfolk area farmhouse and returned to Baltimore with his father and medical staff. He had vanished last March while under care of physicians and nurses, eluding attendants before departing by car.
A Minnesota Supreme Court decision filed today upholds a hospital fund provision from the liquor license statute. The law requires percent of liquor license proceeds to go to the state treasury for the hospital farm for inebriates.
A month ago the new acne cure discovered by laboratories was opened to druggists for nationwide sale. The method centers on sterilization and rapid healing, with dramatic results claimed for pimples blackheads and rashes. Experimental samples of the paste are sent free by the Emergency Laboratories at 22 West Twenty-fifth Street New York City.
Regular quarterly session of the Wisconsin Millers association underway in Tirmah with about a dozen members present. Edward Gray Jr a drayman arrested for drunken and disorderly conduct after resisting arrest and biting Officer Halvorson. Gray caused disturbances inside the jail and yelled Fire Hurrah keeping neighbors awake. Also notices of a picnic invitation by the Equitable Fraternal Union lodges and a marriage in Walla Walla Washington. City sewer cleaning near Wisconsin Avenue and a series of summer band concerts at Neenah Hotel. Ella Jacobs and Otto Schwerm married at the bride's parents home in Neenah township.
Lt. Russell T. Hazzard, part of Funston’s expedition that captured Aguinaldo, travels to Washington to face the retiring board as his health fails after years of island service. He aided in the pursuit of a deserter believed to be connected to General Lawton’s death.
Auburn congressman Serena E. Payne pressed a button here to start Wachivers for collecting information in motion. The event occurred in Kingston on July 24 under the Associated Press report.
Companies B and F will arrive in Osh xXosh this evening at 729 over the Chicago Northwestern railroad from Camp Douglas. The soldiers have been in camp since last Saturday. Mrs. Christianna Hefty, an old woman who lived alone at 365 Mt Vernon street, was this afternoon committed to the county farm by Judge Goss upon advice of Michael Stopier overseer of the poor. The old woman lived in squalor and was claimed unable to take care of herself. This afternoon in municipal court the cases against Henry Zeinert and Jess Young were dismissed by Judge Goss upon application of Chief of Police H F Dowling. They were charged with disorderly conduct. In company with John Yost the two boys were arrested Sunday by Park Keeper Burr for fighting. It was shown Ost was the aggressor and he were fined when he pleaded guilty Tuesday. but was shown that Zepert fought to protect biceeeit and et set the machinery of the government in motion collecting information to be used by the ways and means committee, of which he is the chairman, in drafting new tariff bill. Should a Republican house be elected in November, of which Mr Payne is confident, hearings of manufacturers and others interested in the changes likely to be made will begin as soon as the members of the ways and means committees can be assembled in Washington. Meanwhile the state department, the department of commerce and labor and the census bureau will get to work upon the information which they have been asked to have ready to lay before the committee when it assembles.
Nicholas Morbier, described as a maniac, killed himself while confined in the county jail. The incident occurred on July 4 in Galesburg, Illinois, with authorities noting mental instability and self inflicted death.
A man traveling from Paterson New Jersey to San Francisco was found barefoot and hatless near Wataga with a scalp wound from a fall. He fled a doctor, hid in a potato patch, and used a potato fork to delay capture for hours. After multiple escapes to Galesburg, he eventually hanged himself with a cravat while attendants were away, in jail.
President Roosevelt declared the government will pursue the Standard Oil prosecution, stating the circuit court of appeals decision does not affect the merits. He intends to bring the action before the courts again to avoid technicalities and ensure a decision based on the core issue.
Thomas F. Walsh, father of Miss Evelyn Walsh, was en route to Cincinnati for Taft notification events when he learned his daughter had eloped. He expressed shock and said he was unaware of the plans and that the couple intended to wed quietly despite family concerns.
A listener recalls the day and notes the couple eloped to avoid a public wedding at the altar. The speaker mentions Mr. McLean as the eligible suitor and reflects on the difficulty of giving away his daughter in a traditional ceremony.
Chicago July 24 Dr Daniel Kimball Pearsons generous donor to colleges paid 25000 to Beloit and Pomona College in California. He plans no further gifts until the pledges reach the required amounts. He has given over 4100000 to thirty institutions in twenty states. Born in Bradford Vermont in 1490 he earned an MD from Dartmouth and practiced medicine after teaching school.
Dougisa Boxall, longtime Cincinnati Conservatory of Music faculty member and widely known soloist, died last evening of appendicitis after being hospitalized since July 2. He performed widely and contributed to the conservatory’s programs.
The piece depicts Paris at night with roving beggars and tramps, the tabac hustlers and cigar smokers, chased by patrols. It notes the riverbed refuges where vagrants shelter and the city’s crackdown, referencing Parisian streets, Faubourg Saint Antoine, and life under the Bastille era echoes.
The Tre In- Giana, who caused trouble at Thunder Butte last winter, start today overland with a cavalry escort for their Utah reservation. The Associated Press dispatch from Rapid City notes the journey follows earlier unrest and aims to secure the group's passage and safety.
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