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Newspaper
Prescott Daily News
Location
Prescott, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1908
Page
3
A call to renters and borrowers facing high interest and property costs to seek affordable home ownership solutions. The message targets those paying high monthly rents and interest, urging action to secure lower monthly housing costs.
A Rock Island westbound No. 41 Pullman car derailed near Fourche at 3 40 PM injuring twelve including Conductor J D Strange who was unconscious and J 8 Bell who suffered severe bruises. A relief train was sent from Little Rock to the scene.
General Luke E Wright will leave on Thursday for Washington to confer with Secretary Taft before starting as secretary of war. Roosevelt appointed him to the post and he plans to disturb War Department arrangements little, saying he will serve only until next March.
Hemphill Texas reports a mob of about 200 seized six African Americans from the Sabine County jail for the murder of Hugh Dean near Geneva. Five men were hanged on a dogwood tree and a sixth was shot while fleeing. Several other killings are rumored as authorities tally the violence in the two weeks following Dean's death.
Dr. W. E. B. Du Bois, prominent educator and professor at Atlanta University, plans to stump for William Jennings Bryan. He attacks Booker T. Washington’s influence, denounces Taft and Roosevelt over the Brownsville affair, and urges half a million Northern colored voters to back the Democratic candidate, predicting better gains under Bryan than under Republican rule.
Lieutenant B. B. Upham arrived in Natchez to study the Adams and Wilkinson county flood crisis. He reports about three thousand sufferers and urges immediate relief with five thousand rations for four weeks. He also surveyed Claremont and Elysian Fields plantations.
Six News correspondents report Texas cotton acreage 2.78 percent above 1907 and Oklahoma acreage 2.06 percent below. Texas crop condition is 7.96 percent better than 1907, while Oklahoma’s condition is 24.97 percent worse than the same date.
J D White of Galveston Harrisburg and San Antonio was killed instantly when he was crushed beneath a box car at El Paso on June 24. The accident left his head and feet severed and reported as a grim work incident on the railroad line.
A worker named White fell from a switching train and was cut to pieces across the tracks as the train backed up. He was thirty years old. The report also notes royal birth and marriage details from Madrid about Queen Victoria of Spain and King Alfonso.
James S Sherman Republican vice presidential candidate was seized by a severe chill and gall stones. He was moved to Lakeside Hospital after reporting pain and a 102 degree fever. Doctors expect possible operation and he rests as campaign duties continue.
Chicago June 24 The illness of Representative James Sherman the Republican vice presidential nominee prompted the national committee to say it would have full power to name a vice presidential candidate if he dies. Mr New stated the committee likewise holds power for the presidential nomination but could convene a convention to nominate in the regular way if time allows.
Washington reports no law prohibits the Republican national committee from filling a presidential or vice presidential vacancy before the first Tuesday in November. The committee would face party backlash if it acted. Utica meanwhile informs the Sherman family that vice presidential candidate James S. Sherman was hospitalized in Cleveland.
During an attack of the same trouble at Washington last year Mrs Sherman and one of her sons have gone to Cleveland. The news here is disquieting and it is said Mr Sherman is in a serious condition. Extensive arrangements were made for a great reception on his return trip with special trains from central and northern New York to bring people to this city.
Secretary Taft, despite heat and fatigue, says he feels well but voices deep concern over Representative Sherman’s condition after Tuesday morning breakfast briefing with an Associated Press representative.
Excessive heat continued on Tuesday in Chicago with eight deaths reported and many prostrations. Edwin Palmer, nephew of the late Potter Palmer and longtime secretary of the Chicago Hotel company, died after being overcome by heat days earlier.
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