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Newspaper
Rock Island Argus
Location
Rock Island, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Nov 11, 1908
Page
2
Berlin reports show the Reichstag resuming debate on the London Telegraph interview. Critics blame advisers for the emperor's missteps while parliament challenges the crown and questions the constitution and ministerial responsibility.
Nashville mourns former Senator Edward Ward Carmack killed in a Monday street duel with Robin J. Cooper. Mourners aboard a special car sang hymns as the body departed for Columbia for funeral services held with Masonic honors. Cooper, wounded in the incident, is under arrest in a local hospital. his condition is listed as serious.
Chicago November 11 Clarence O Burton yardmaster for the Wabash railroad was shot by an unknown assailant in the Kenzie Avenue yards early today and died later in hospital. Police attribute the murder to family troubles with variables undisturbed.
In New York on November 11 rumors of raised dividends for Harriman Pacific railroads fueled a rush by speculators who bought heavily yesterday. By mid-morning prices recovered as it became clear only regular dividends would be paid. Directors later announced the Southern Pacific quarterly dividend of 1.44 percent on common and 3.5 percent on preferred stock, while Union Pacific set a 2 percent quarterly dividend on common.
In Death Valley and surrounding country a three week series of earthquakes culminated Wednesday morning with shocks that alarmed miners and sent many fleeing their beds near San Bernardino California.
New York police chased a motor car carrying Wu Ting F ang and a staff member for over 30 blocks along Broadway to the Manhattan hotel. Chauffeur Romeo Oliver was arrested for speeding and fined five dollars by Magistrate Steinert, with Secret Service Agent Baldwin present.
Indianapolis scene reports Jenny Crews, a New York banker, urging tariff reductions as essential for manufacturing and foreign trade. She warns current protection has waned due to heavy competition and favors gradual, not radical, cuts over three to six months to allow importers to clear stocks.
A boiler on the Temiskaming steamer exploded as it neared Temiskaming Ontario causing the vessel to wreck and five deaths. Several passengers and crew were thrown into the water with many more injured. details remain scarce due to the remote location.
Rear Admiral James Miller, governor of the United States Naval Home at Philadelphia, died after a brief illness. He was 61, appointed to the navy from Missouri in 1863.
A rear-end train collision on the New Orleans & North Eastern near Lilie Wood station 12 miles from New Orleans left nine dead and about 20 injured. The Great Northern passenger rammed into the incoming North Eastern train, destroying two coaches and triggering a fire. Names of the dead include Canwcis Routh and William Martin among others. relief trains and medical staff were dispatched to the scene.
The Agriculture Department issued a preliminary US crop production estimate showing corn wheat oats and eight other crops amounting to about 70 percent of farm crop value this year up 9 percent from last year and 2.4 percent above the five year average. Widespread disaster reports follow of wrecks and injuries in separate incidents with heroic medical care and fatalities including six trainmen killed in a Union Pacific crash near Cheyenne.
Labor leaders at the American Federation convention announce they cannot attend President Roosevelt’s White House dinner citing timing of the federation’s sessions. Notable figures John Mitchell James Duncan and Daniel J Keefe decline, while Gompers loyalists view the move as division within union labor. Washington Central Labor Union telegrams congratulating Gompers fuel dissent against Roosevelt.
Samuel Lawrence, among the first to arrive, reports the Funeral range tremor toppled crags. Miners were thrown from bunks, camps scattered, livestock stampeded, and huge bowlders cascaded down slopes as fear spread among camp followers and prospectors fleeing the area.
New York November 11 The United States circuit court of appeals yesterday refused to admit Charles W Morse to bail pending an appeal from the circuit court decision convicting him of making false entries in the books and misapplying funds of the National Bank of North America.
Washington reports that arguments began in the U S supreme court on the express company case challenging the Hepburn act anti pass provision. All express firms are heavily invested and participate in the appeal. Turkey Orders Cartridges for Mauser rifles. Constantinople to Germany for 34 45 million rounds to be delivered within two years. Snow begins in New Richmond Wisconsin with the season's first real storm.
Government charges against Florida East Coast Railway employees for peonage slavery describe 3000 workers stranded in Florida with locked trains, guards, and starvation. Deputy AG Asted portrays harsh conditions, forced labor, and brutal beatings after travel from New Jersey to a desert wilderness. Defendants Stanchfield and Flagler seek dismissal of peonage indictments.
Washington voters learned that during the first Ways and Means meeting on tariff changes a group of manufacturing chemists urged keeping the current tariff on chemicals and chemical products. They argued some raw materials used in production not made domestically should be placed on the free list if the policy cannot be maintained.
At the National Association of Case Goods Manufacturers banquet in Chicago the 75 members heard that prosperity means higher prices and a tariff revision is needed to balance trade. Charles Miles of Racine led the tariff discussion urging a tariff favorable to foreign cooperation. An executive meeting preceded the fourth semi annual meet in the Auditorium hotel. Judge Hough noted the peonage charge could not rest.
Austin November 11 H Clay Pierce of Waters Pierce Oil Co posted a 20000 bond to appear in court on a false swearing charge. The case was continued by agreement to the January term. St Louis November 11 Pierce retires from St Louis San Francisco board due to ill health. George T Boggs succeeds him as Rock Island assistant secretary, with all other directors reelected.
In Calcutta on November 11, a Bengal detective active against revolutionaries was shot by three men on a crowded street amid fears of retaliatory violence. Police are powerless and locals fear informing authorities. Also noted: a native killer hanged for a separate murder, and unrelated reports from LaPorte and New York on a jury venire and Herbert Hale's death.
Burlington Kan Nov 11 Rev French E Oliver now holding revival meetings writes open letter to William J Bryan urging the Nebraskan to become an evangelist predicting he would be equal to the Apostle Paul. Oliver says Bryan’s defeats as presidential candidate keep him from public office but that he may serve Christ as an ambassador greater than ten presidents.
Chicago reports say J Edwin Stein a blackmail target arrested yesterday killed himself today. The son of Davis A Stein, he died amid a plot alleged by three men Charles Gerbaum Jacob Marooney and Joseph Rankin who planned to extort 50000 from Stein’s father by spreading scandal. A quarrel among the conspirators led to the confession.
Denver nov 11 the woman who tried to extort 100000 from Mrs Genevieve Chandler Phipps Monday was identified as Mrs Allen Reed wife of a rich retired druggist of Denver now at Buffalo Park near here She tried to swallow morphine but Chief Armstrong stopped her An estimated 60 tablets could kill six people scattered in the room Mrs Reed a church member had been highly respected and is one of two daughters of a Springfield ma woolen manufacturer Campbell who died leaving a large estate to his daughters Her share yields more than 12000 a month
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