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Newspaper
Oshkosh Daily Northwestern
Location
Oshkosh, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1908
Page
2
Lilley issues a lengthy defense amid Electric Boat scandal fallout. He asserts no personal stake in torpedo contracts, defends his investigation motive, and questions committee conclusions while urging a broader, impartial review.
The fragment cites counsel arguing that the speaker would have been properly censured for not acting if he had omitted to act, highlighting a legalistic discussion of responsibility and consequences. It reads as a clipped quotation reflecting hesitation and conditional critique.
Four years in San Quentin was imposed on David F. Wythe by Judge Ogden of Oakland after a dramatic plea for leniency failed. Wythe, a Columbia University graduate and former private secretary to Fay Mills, was convicted in connection with an apartment house asset case.
New York health officials, led by Health Commissioner Darlington, join physicians nurses and hospitals in a city wide plan to slash infant deaths. The drive divides boroughs into districts with delegated depots crews and a new mothers instruction card. Over eighty nurses will be deployed to home visits and education for new mothers beginning with April births and aiming to handle about 24 000 births monthly.
Aged prophecy by John Trowbridge in Darius Green and His Flying Machine is seen fulfilled as Wright brothers, A M Yeohing and others demonstrate aerial navigation no longer experimental. The author notes ongoing interest and historic anticipation from 1807 and reflects on the unforeseen yet timely realization of flying machines.
San Francisco June reports the Laing Yuet Chinese Merchants Steamship Company formed to boost China US trade. Capital stock stands at 10 million dollars with headquarters already opened in Canton, signaling strong ties and planned regular steamship service to facilitate bilateral commerce.
Friends of Joseph Simpson, lynched at Skidoo for shooting a man, seek to claim his rumored $25,000 estate. It is said his widow may receive the entire amount if she applies. The report notes a man who stays out late and indulges is harming his health.
Wy Associated Press report from Laporte Indiana notes Sheriff Smutzer’s return from Texas where he investigated Julius Truelson’s alleged confession of involvement with Mrs Gunness. Truelson later repudiated the confession claiming it was to escape charges, while New York reports his family doubts his sanity and truthfulness. Rochester claims Mrs Doyle says niece Mac Rely is alive in New York and plans a Rochester visit.
Associated Press report from Carson Nevada June 2 states the Democratic state convention after two late sessions adopted a platform instructing delegates to support William Jennings Bryan for the presidential nomination at Denver. It endorses Governor Sparks administration and denounces the Aldrich-Vreeland law. Theodore A Bell of California is endorsed for chairman of the national convention. Delegates to Denver were elected with names listed.
The Ninth Ohio district Democrats held two conventions amid a local factional fight. The regular delegates backed D Powers and Dr Waits for Denver, while bolters elected Frank Niles and Charles Gerding. Both delegations were pledged to Bryan in the national contest.
Miss Catherine German of Brooklyn suffered a drastic scalp injury when her hair was pulled from roots on May 15 at a department store. Surgeons plan a staged scalp graft using hair volunteered by store workers to cover the bare area and dye to match, a process expected to take about a year to complete.
New York financiers seeking gold bars for export found only small jewellers bars of about five pounds in gold available at the assay office. About $250,000 in these bars were sold. The assay office charge was five cents per $100, slightly higher than for large bars. Bankers seldom take the small bars for export.
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