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Newspaper
Semi Weekly Herald
Location
Eldora, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1909
Page
2
A collage of short items covers fashion missteps in the Bronx, arctic study plans, labor unsettlements in Hawaii, and a Chicago census on wives. Mentions include Attica, Nansen, and a Paris aviation chair funded by a carist. The piece closes with railroad disbursement figures showing rising profits and optimism for future growth.
A western bank official convicted of swindling was sentenced to 35 years but was pardoned after serving a few years. He began anew amid sympathy for his reform, yet later accumulated thousands and disappeared. The piece muses that sympathy is comforting but costly when mercy tempers justice.
Beverly Mass Aug 10 President Taft faces policy work during vacation planning a southern approach for his congressional message. He aims to divide offices equitably among parties in the solid south while exploring interstate commerce and Sherman amendments. Nagel Durand to discuss census appointments. MacVeagh Hitchcock to visit for tariff notes. Quiet Sunday noted with church and seaside veranda reading.
In Cincinnati on August 10 a man half crazed and burning staggered through the streets. Michael Hoff died at City hospital at age 30 after being unconscious at the door. Edward Jacobs, 45, was fatally burned as both men fled a lamp-ignited blaze.
Harrisburg August 10 William C Farnsworth a prominent corporation lawyer and former state corporation clerk died suddenly at his home in Harrisburg of heart disease.
Washington Aug 10 Civil Engineer A J Menocal USN has been exonerated by the court of inquiry which met in Boston to investigate criticism of his administration while on duty at the Pensacola navy yard in Kentucky likely.
Outbound lumber and timber from Pensacola and Miami ports in the last week totaled about 18 million feet, the highest in two years, indicating a strong export movement for August. Ships and markets in the region showed robust activity despite postwar adjustments.
Rochester reports the disappearance and murder of Anna Schumacher 17. her grave site shows struggle marks and a stolen spade likely from a nearby farm. A St Bernard’s seminary worker missing. police hunt possible crew behind the crime as investigators probe farm thefts and tramp activity near the cemetery.
Safe breakers renewed their operations on the West side battering open a saloon safe owned by Mr. J. Connery at Fore tieth avenue and West Madison street. They escaped with $1500 mostly in currency.
Esperanto Association of North America opens its second congress at Chautauqua N Y August 10 and runs through the weekend with delegates from across the region attending gatherings and sessions.
John H. Sharp, financier and broker from Louisville, died at St. Mary's hospital in Detroit after a brief illness linked to Bright's disease. He had arrived the previous Monday en route to Mount Clemens for baths, grew suddenly ill at the Hotel Cadillac, and was moved to the hospital where he deteriorated until death. Dr. John Lee attributed the death to Bright's disease, noting the stress may have hastened the outcome.
Coeur d'Alene reservation drawing names Isadore Solig of Myrtle Creek Oregon first claim. Others listed include John Hedmark Spokane Charles G Cornwell Spokane Herman Neubauer South Tacoma Ella Maloney Spokane Wm Atkinson Troy Idaho Maude Sharpe Martinsville Ill Peter Weiderbach Butte Mont Paul Rising St Paul Minn James B H Westcott St Paul Minn Israel J Thompson Adena Ohio John C Underwood Wheaton Minnesota Henry Sherlock Sinclair Miann John F P Goldberg Fargo North Dakota Ray McCarthy Bemmersburg Iowa John Dinsinger Zeelienople Pa.
Eight members of the joint congressional commission on waterways left New York for Europe to inspect the Rhine and study European rivers. They will be abroad two months, delivering only a preliminary report to Congress in December due to the extra session. Several members did not sail, including Senators Burton Gallinger Simmons and Smith Mich and Representatives Stevens Sparkman Alexander and Wanger. Senators Lorimer and Pile may join later in September at Strasbourg.
August 10 Berlin reports Emperor William conferred the Crown order of the first class on Charles W. Eliot former president of Harvard and H Yamaoutchio of Japan. The Crown order of the second class went to Sir Caspar Purdon Clarke director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Hugo Reisinger of New York. The Red Eagle third class honored Edward Robinson of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Stockholm August 10 King Gustave II faces a widening labor conflict as printers quit and union badges become mandatory for drivers. The union blocks non badgeed wagons and threatens streetcar crews while 1000 plus telegraph workers prepare a Wednesday strike. Union funds backed by Nordic aid flow to strikers as leaders from both sides meet after a royal summons.
A 15 year old girl Helen Mattox died after locking herself in a bedroom, kneeling before a mirror and firing a rifle. Her stepfather W A Montgomery was accused of abusing his wife who walked ten miles to Knoxville. The mother, upon learning of the suicide, attempted self harm with a razor.
Prison officers hunt Charles Allery an escaped convict who fled during sprinkling duties on the prison lawn. He was from Carroll county and sentenced last November to two to four years for entering a house to commit a felony. Ohio Shooting Tourney Opens at Camp Perry in August with rifle and revolver events as part of the National Guard matches running until August 19.
Cleveland Aug 10 Train No 2 on the Toledo and Pittsburg division of the Wheeling and Lake Erie railroad derailed at Burbank Switch near Lodi Ohio. The six car east bound train plunged into the Hitch. One passenger sustained an injury.
Aug 10 Vienna reports the Austrian ambassador to Constantinople is actively intervening to prevent the Cretan origin from reaching a more acute phase. The move aims to stabilize the region amid growing tensions and potential wider conflict.
Col Theodore Roosevelt and Kermit Roosevelt depart Naivasha with zoologist Edmund Heller and naturalist E J Cuninghame for Nyeri to prepare for an ascent of Mount Kenya. Maj Edgar A Mearns and Alden Loring will join in Nairobi. A second shipment of expedition specimens sails August 16 on the Admiral. Nyer is a trade center near Masai lands. Mount Kenya rises about 17,200 feet with glaciers and timber line to 10,300 feet.
Foster Williard completed his sixteenth Curtiss aeroplane flight at Mineola on August 10. He flew close to the ground and attempted a circle about a mile and a half in circumference but could not finish the circuit due to unexpected ground and tree elevation. He nonetheless performed five long curved flights at high speed.
Tromsoe reports from Splitzbergen indicate Walter Wellman’s polar expedition prepares for a north pole dash. Airship shed repairs are finished, and a gas apparatus installed after last June storm. Wellman began inflating the balloon on July 31. New York experiences heat with temperatures in the nineties and a 93 degree official reading.
The Chicago markets report weak flour with varied grades and export bag pricing. Wheat and corn are unsettled for September and December contracts. Butter, eggs, and potatoes show mixed retail figures. live poultry prices list turkeys, chickens, and other fowl by weight and kind.
New York market reports a mixed grain session with wheat opening lower on weak cables and large receipts, then rallying on commission house support. September futures at 1.00 and December around 1.04 to 1.05. Rye, No. 2 western, offered around 0.83.
Live Stock markets report in Omaha and Chicago on August 9 show cattle and hog prices easing. Cattle range from calves to bulls with bulls and stags near 2.76 to 4.76, hogs down about 10 cents, sheep steady to slightly higher with yearlings near 4.76 to 5.40, and Chicago listings echo similar declines in steer and hog categories amidst broad price shifts.
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