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Newspaper
Prescott Daily News
Location
Prescott, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1908
Page
2
The Prescott Daily News lists second class matter from April 1, 1007 and details subscription rates. Per copy and monthly options are shown with prepaid and non prepaid price differences, including eight month and twelve month terms.
The notice states The News will gladly correct any erroneous reflection on a person, firm, or corporation appearing in its columns, with requests brought to the publishers. It emphasizes the willingness to address mistakes and maintain accuracy.
Thon Lot Sui remarks on Governor Johnson of St Paul and Minnesota as a popular, honest leader admired across parties. The piece portrays him as a reformist Democrat, unafraid to challenge party bosses for the right cause and a model governor in the eyes of his constituents.
The piece discusses Senator Davis and Jeff Davis aligned with Senator Lafollette against the Aldrich currency bill. It notes Wisconsin voters favored Lafollette over Aldrich due to suspicions of Aldrich’s Standard Oil ties and predatory interests.
Fire at Mrs. Mary Mooney boarding house on West Thirtieth Street traps 20 boarders. A young woman leaps from the roof to the street and dies. Several others, including Mary Haggerty, are severely burned. blaze begins in a coal bin in the cellar.
The U S Supreme Court holds that the Roman Catholic Church may exercise complete ownership of church buildings in Ponce Puerto Rico. The city had claimed ownership as it financed and held the structure as city property, but the parish kept repairs and the Porto Rico court sided with the church. Chief Justice Fuller wrote the opinion.
Five hundred enraged Italians gathered at Gaetano Liotta’s private bank on Orange Street in Cleveland. The doors were shut at the usual hour, a riot call was made, and police intervened to disperse the crowd. Liotta was later reported missing. Bank deposits total about $30,000.
Four men robbed the state bank of Cuba Kansas and fled with an estimated six to eight thousand dollars after a quick exchange with citizens. No injuries were reported as the bandits disappeared. Local authorities launched a search and questioned witnesses.
In St Louis Henry Clay Pierce, bound for Texas under a Supreme Court extradition ruling, faces uncertainty as to further steps. Attorney Henry B Priest, leading Pierce's extradition counsel, would not judge the grounds without the court’s full wording. He suggested Pierce may not be sent to Texas.
Memphis June 3 At a meeting of state presidents of the Farmers Educational and Cooperative union estimates show May 30 cotton acreage at 28 832 000 versus 31 311 000 and 21 311 000 in 1907 government reports indicate the crop is generally unsatisfactory due to overflow and humidity many bales lost to planters and replanting unlikely practical The season runs about fifteen days late with reduced chopping and slower growth weather conditions delay maturity for ginning into September and no reliable yield estimate is possible for thirty days
The Post Intelligencer reports from northern sources an estimated Alaska gold output for the coming season of 26,000,000 ounces.
Balzac warned temptation is resistless and this treat proves it with a delicate rich taste. The piece extols a dish of ice cream flavored with ripened juices and notes it always tastes like more.
The International Brotherhood of Boilermakers opens its biennial convention in St Paul Minnesota with about 500 delegates in attendance.
A large barge carrying Chinese prisoners capsized in the Amur river near Ashitie Russia. Ninety men were reported dead with eighty nine drowning, amid chaotic post disaster efforts.
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