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Newspaper
Scandia Journal
Location
Scandia, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Nov 06, 1908
Page
1
The New York state school for the blind in Batavia is praised as a standard institution. Eight classes teach physical culture from kindergarten to senior levels, using marching, dumbbells, rings, wands, barbells, and Indian clubs to build self reliance and bodily improvement. Additional work is offered after hours for those with greater needs.
The Louisville Courier-Journal notes the shift in tuberculosis care from distant isolation to home treatment. It emphasizes the medical advances proving curability and highlights the humane, mental, and sentimental benefits of treating patients at home, avoiding exile to western sanitariums.
Ilolland delays punishing Castro despite world permits and offers to intervene. Castro remains robust and defies threats of harsh retaliation, with vague methods that supposedly stave off war. Some speculate he guards a secret remedy to sell as universal peace medicine.
From Winnipeg comes news of the death of Louis Riel the only son of the Red River rebellion leader. He fled to the United States, later returned to Canada and served as a member of the House of Commons. At 36 he died while employed as an engineer on the Grand Trunk Pacific railway.
Modern brick ten and twelve story buildings on Broadway New York are slated for demolition and replacement by taller steel frame structures. Foundations of the originals are strong enough to support additions and the thinner walls promise space savings and profit.
The estimated cost of the Roosevelt dam, part of the Salt River Irrigation scheme, has been trimmed by one million dollars through the establishment of a government department on site.
In London suffragists caused a dramatic disruption during a licensing bill debate. Two women chained themselves to the grille in the ladies gallery as crowds shouted for votes for women. Attendants removed the grille portions, and a male protester was ejected after a struggle. Later, another man in the strangers gallery tossed bills and was removed. Fifteen suffragists were arrested outside.
The Spanish debt of 599,850 owed to U S citizens under the 1834 treaty has been fully liquidated. Spain has paid annual interest and this year the government sent 570,000 in liquidation. The principal has been settled across three interest payments.
Wilbur Wright Wednesday gave the first lesson in handling his aeroplane under his contract to Count de Lambert. Three flights were made lasting 12 8 and 15 minutes respectively and they proved very successful.
The British Aero Club awarded its gold medal to the Wright brothers of Dayton for their remarkable achievements in aviation.
The Benja min Harrison monument unveiling drew a city parade with 700 G A R members and 700 army and guard personnel. Speakers included Vice President Fairbanks Gen John W Noble and John L Griffiths. James Whitcomb Riley read a commemorative poem.
The Interstate Commerce Commission announced rulings allowing bonafide ex-employees of railroads to receive free passes for re entering railroad service. Passes may not extend to families of employees who died of natural causes in service, though families of those killed in service may receive passes.
Henry Behner convicted of murdering Tobias Sawyer over alleged ruin of his daughter was sentenced to life in prison. William Lipsey received a similar life term for accompanying Behner to Sawyers home during the shooting and Lipsey had previously served time in the Kansas penitentiary.
North Dakota legislature members are not required to honor pledges to vote for the successful primary candidate. The supreme court ruled the pledge feature unconstitutional while upholding the law for the actual vote in the senatorial primary.
The Washington burying ground at Wakefield in Westmoreland County Virginia has been completely restored. A concrete wall with iron gates now encloses the graveyard and a caretaker oversees its maintenance, per a Society of Colonial Dames of Virginia report.
Cablegram received in St. Louis announces the death of Dr J Ward Hall in Shanghai China due to hydrophobia. He was a noted Orient dentist, brother of Dr Willis Hall and son of Dr William Terry Hall of Piqua Ohio.
Rear Admiral Alfred M. Reynolds Cowden was placed on the retired list of the navy Friday, his sixty second birthday, in Washington D C. The retirement marks the end of a long naval career highlighted by service in key posts and leadership roles.
New York City officials tentatively set the 1909 budget at 157 million dollars by the board of estimates on Thursday. The move outlines anticipated expenditures and highlights fiscal planning for the coming year.
Leavenworth Kan Maj John Stone chief surgeon of the military prison at Fort Leavenworth has been sentenced by a court martial to a ten grade reduction six months confinement to post limits and a $50 monthly fine. Charges accused him of disobeying orders and conduct unbecoming an officer. Maj T H Slavens commandant charged Stone and was later acquitted on his own counter charges.
In Jefferson City Missouri the supreme court heard a mass of legal talent over whether the St Louis grand jury may open August primary ballots for fraud evidence. The case questions if the primary election law is an election law under the constitution. No opinion expected for two to three weeks.
Arguments opened Friday before Circuit Judges Grosscup Baker and Seaman on the Missouri River jobbers rate case. The petition seeks to overturn an Interstate Commerce Commission order effective November 10 granting a reduction of through rates from the Atlantic seaboard to the Missouri river.
Interstate Commerce Commissioner Uarlan Friday concluded the terminal situation hearing in St Louis and said the commission will receive briefs from any shipper before issuing a recommended decision on necessary changes.
In Cleveland Ohio two street cars collided Friday night near the Superior avenue viaduct sending 300 passengers into a panic. Five seriously hurt and over eighty injured with cuts and bruises as the Denison and Central avenue car struck a Payne and Bridge avenue car.
Seventeen insurance companies are named as defendants in a suit filed in the circuit court Friday by Attorney General Kirby seeking license cancellations and penalties totaling 1,190,000 dollars. The suit alleges a legislative act violation by forming a combine to fix and maintain rates or commissions for agents.
United States Secret Service agents arrested Joseph Hunt and W H Boyle on counterfeiting charges Friday night in Chicago. Police and agents recovered equipment used to manufacture counterfeit dollars and half dollars during a room search.
The treasury purchased 75,000 ounces of silver for New Orleans and 50,000 ounces for Denver at 60.624 per ounce. The move, announced in Washington, increases metal reserves and supports supply contracts.
In San Francisco E A S Blake testified that Abraham Ruef's lawyers A S Newburgh and Frank J Murphy hired him to bribe juror John M Kelly with 10000 to sway Ruefs bribery trial. Blake said Murphy planned 10000 to a third party after sentencing and his wife would receive 100 monthly while he served. He noted ruefs promissory notes indorsed by family were now held by a third party. Blake, convicted of bribery attempts, prepared to be sentenced when he spoke. The disclosures echoed rumors and tied Newburgh and Murphy to the ongoing Ruef prosecutions.
Herman Johnson pleaded guilty to first degree murder in Mt Vernon circuit court and was sentenced to life imprisonment. He killed James Evans of Neosho in a boxcar near Pierce City and shot George Ryan of Norwood, Evans' companion, who survived by feigning death. Robbery was the motive.
In Joplin Missouri on Wednesday morning Alexis Deevers age 36 died from injuries after an attack by unknown assailants. Bowerman who found Deevers and his wife Anna is detained with police recalling a personal confrontation between Deevers and Bowerman a year ago.
Erick Els was decapitated Wednesday at American Steel and Wire mills in Cleveland Ohio after a red hot wire broke free from tension and coiled around his neck burning through his neck in seconds.
The Municipal Traction Company operating Cleveland street railways on a three-cent fare was defeated by 879 in a referendum held Thursday. Voter turnout exceeded 75,000.
In Portland Oregon three defendants Dr J H Hedderly William H Smith and Richard D Hynes were convicted by a jury in the U S district court last Thursday evening in the Los Angeles land fraud case Lee R Myer and Jemiah Huntley were acquitted.
Indianapolis Indiana Thursday saw the organization of the Farmers Society of Equity by delegates from several states. The new body adopts a constitution reflecting the core principles of the American Society of Equity.
John W Hutchinson last of the Hutchinson family noted for temperance and abolition songs before and during the Civil War passed away in his home city Thursday at age 87.
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