Still Holding the Car Insists on Detention
An Extreme scene reports Mrs Berry has not surrendered or allowed officers to remove her, with authorities still attempting to resolve the standoff.
05 Dec 1905
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Newspaper
Sedalia Evening Sentinel
Location
Sedalia, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1905
Page
1
An Extreme scene reports Mrs Berry has not surrendered or allowed officers to remove her, with authorities still attempting to resolve the standoff.
Mrs. Berry remains in the Girard Kansas car as officers fail to force her out. The sheriff has issued an insanity warrant, to be served when she surrenders, while Mayor Burnett of Girard and city police observe the standoff.
Three girls will graduate from St Josephs parochial school this year. The exercises are set for around December 22 with a program of literary and musical numbers. The graduates are Misses Blanche Cashman Stella Murphy and Florence Moore.
A message from L. P. Andrews received late yesterday indicates the consolidation deal is close to completion. The telegram was sent from St. Louis where Mr. Andrews arrived yesterday and plans another trip to the East after addressing matters there.
Edna Moore an eight month old daughter of Mr and Mrs J W Moore died at their home near Forest Park at 1 o clock this morning from cholera infantum. Funeral arrangements set for Wednesday.
The fifty second annual meeting of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers begins in New York with an opening address by President John R Freeman at 44 West 27th Street. A social gathering follows with ladies admitted. The Hoboken session includes papers, a ship tour aboard the America and a visit to the Henry R Worthington Hydraulic works in Harrison New Jersey.
Jefferson City reports Superintendent of Insurance Vandiver will travel to New York on Saturday to renew his demands for reforms at Mutual Life by letter. He believes the company is delaying after receiving a prompting letter from the firm.
Arthur Fielder aged 30 from Sedalia Missouri has been missing since Saturday morning. Mrs Frank Taylor of 4174 Washington Place, his sister-in-law, reports him missing and asks police to locate him. Last seen at Sixth and Olive streets by F M Cheeley.
The Sentinel failed to establish the identity of the person mentioned and could not locate any relatives. The city directory lacks the name Arthur Fielder and inquiries about him were unsuccessful.
A letter to Otto Botz reports Will Behr once a Sedalia printer now living in Portland Oregon was a passenger in a street car collision with a gravel wagon on November 18. Behr sustained severe leg injuries with the flesh split to the bone from knee to ankle and remained hospitalized for three to four weeks.
Rev. J. A. Stemens of Viroqua Wisconsin has declined the pastorate offer from Sedalia First Congregational Church. His Wisconsin congregation voted to raise his salary and persuaded him to stay, prompting his decision to remain.
The funeral for Dr. S O Goodwin who died Monday morning at his West Main street apartment was held this afternoon at 1 30 at McLaughlin Bros funeral rooms. Rev A B Appleby of the Fifth Street M E church South officiated. Interment followed in the city cemetery.
The cases against Morgan Brown Horace Jackson and Buck Brown charged with gambling were continued this morning until Thursday in the court of Justice D Kinsey.
A marriage license was issued today to Arthur L. French of St. Joseph Missouri and Hixie Rena De Lapp of Lamont Missouri.
Horace H. Brockway testified that in 1898 he gave $6000 to Frederick A. Burnham, president of Mutual Reserve Life, to obtain a directorship. Brockway then drew $300 a week for eight weeks, later $200, for duties he says were minimal. The money allegedly funded favorable articles via Hilary Bell. Burnham is said to be too ill to appear.
A friend of Mr. Perkins said the move to name him chair of the finance committee was done at Mr. Morgan's suggestion and the decision would be formally announced very soon.
Akron on December 5 reports New York Life Insurance Co answered an ouster petition filed in Ohio. The company seeks to strike some sections deny others and asks for certain allegations to be made definite in the complaint.
Governor La Follette read his message to the Wisconsin special legislature session and offered to go to Washington to seek the Senate seat at the session’s end. He warned that unforeseen events could still alter his plan. The address covers ballot reforms railway taxation and insurance laws.
London reports state Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, Liberal leader, accepted the premiership after a kingly conference and will form a new cabinet. Arthur J. Balfour tendered resignation with his cabinet, king Edward to interview Campbell-Bannerman for the mission to form a new government within days.
New York on December 5 1900 Mr George Harvey of Harper s will host a dinner at Deamonico s in honor of Mark Twain s seventieth birthday. About 150 authors and literary figures will attend including Andrew Carnegie John Burroughs Richard Watson Gilder William Dean Howells Hamilton Mabie Brander Matthews H Hopkinson Smith Howard Pyle Irving Bacheller Henry Van Dyke Owen Wister Arthur Colton and many others of equal importance.
Court notices show cases against Missouri Pacific Railway Company with continuances and a default judgment for Watkins National Bank. A British political update describes Campbell-Bannerman’s resignation, cabinet formation, and potential Irish Labour alliance before parliament dissolution.
Washington December 5 the president's message begins to be read in the senate at 12 15 with Allison noting readiness. In the house Cannon calls to order at noon as McCleary says the president will send a written message and a ten minute recess precedes the reading. Nominations include David Robinson for Dallas postmaster Frank Frantz for Oklahoma governor and Franklin Lane for interstate commerce commissioner.
Washington reports Register Pettijohn of the Valentine Nebraska land office was summarily dismissed by order of the president for involvement in dubious land transactions. The resignation of Albert Towle, the local land office receiver, has been requested along with the dismissal.
President D M Shively of the Western Association says Nig Perine a former Sedalia second baseman will break into the majors next year. He is to marry in Denver soon and an aunt in Chicago left him 24000 dollars which he will receive next month.
The Evening Post reports George W. Perkins of J P Morgan & Co will retire from the vice presidency of the New York Life Insurance Company. The move signals leadership changes at the firm amid ongoing corporate realignments in New York finance.
W. E. Crow publisher of the St. Louis Weekly Review secured a controlling interest in the Jefferson City Republican after a closing deal reported last night. The move places Crow as a key figure in the Missouri capital’s Republican newspaper landscape.
Chicago reports the lake shipping season ends officially with insurance policies expiring. Coal demand exceeds supply due to a car shortage. A summer labor shortage left docks with insufficient workers, and August saw over 3 000 cars waiting to be unloaded at lakefronts.
Several hundred master plumbers from New Jersey Pennsylvania Delaware Maryland the District of Columbia Virginia North Carolina South Carolina and Georgia attend the fifth annual convention of the Association of Master Plumbers of the Atlantic coast in Wilmington Delaware. Clayton House serves as headquarters as locals prepare reception and entertainment for delegates.
The fourth tri annual convention of the National Council of Jewish Women of America opened in Chicago with many distinguished Jewish women from across the nation in attendance. The forenoon covered routine business and in the afternoon delegates would view the great Jewish memorial parade. The convention lasts one week.
Several hundred delegates from local grocers and butchers across Ohio attend the opening session at Music Hall in Akron as the Ohio Retail Grocers and Butchers Association begins its annual convention.
Report from St Petersburg describes the city under mounting distress as military forces tighten control. Citizens face uncertain security and governance amid ongoing conflict and upheaval.
In St Petersburg the central post office is guarded by troops as chaos grips the city. Military districts divide the capital while over 16,000 Cossacks and infantry with machine guns patrol. About 110,000 workers struck in St Petersburg, 78,000 in Moscow, and 30,000 elsewhere across the empire.
In Elriver Minnesota on December 5 a man using the alias C. D. Crawford was hanged for the murder of Heinrich Landing in a box car. He declined to reveal his true identity to the jail chaplain Rev Wilkinson, claiming his father was worth large sums and his mother held social prominence, and died with his secret unrevealed.
Stillwater Oklahoma December 5. Frank Hueston a farmer confessed to shooting Jesse James after an argument at James's home. James's body was found on his doorstep. Coroner's inquest finalized. Hueston, grand treasurer of Oklahoma Odd Fellows, is to be sent to the asylum.
The steamship Manchuria arrived with Governor Luke Wrignat of the Philippines en route to Memphis and Lloyd Griscom minister to Jappa heading to Philadelphia.
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