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Newspaper
The Spanish American
Location
Roy, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1908
Page
4
A compact overview surveys international events across nations. It highlights political shifts, economic developments, and cultural moments shaping global affairs. No single dominant event. instead a mosaic of reports from multiple regions.
A concise recap of recent events and notable occurrences captured in late dispatches across the Age, highlighting comparisons, local turns, and brief updates from ongoing stories.
The account notes heavy rains raising corn prospects across Missouri Kansas Iowa and Nebraska. It also reports Pullman shops to be razed and rebuilt for steel palace car production. Union Pacific and Southern Pacific post a $10 532 788 operating loss. Governor Johnson renomination and Farwell death are also mentioned.
Washington Republicans report James Wickersham capturing a slender edge for the United States Senate. Crown Prince Frederick William makes his first balloon ascent in Berlin aboard a semi rigid dirigible. Prohibition candidate Eugene W. Chafin receives formal nomination and delivers acceptance speech in Chicago. Methodist church crusades to elect a Speaker who will back interstate liquor shipments bill. Two New York contracts total about 16 million dollars for Havana sewer system and city payment works. Lusitania arrives in New York after a record crossing of four days and fifteen hours, besting the prior mark by three hours and forty minutes.
Miss Annie Peck signals her arrival at 2000 feet on Mount Huascaran in Peru accompanied by two Alpine climbers. The Wright aeroplane flies seven circuits at Le Mans France before sustaining landing damage. Other items include arrests in Lisbon, a new German explosive tested at Munich, Lusitania sets a new speed record, a crime wave noted in Boston, and gifts to tuberculosis efforts from Emperor William and Carnegie.
Thomas A Ayres of Fort Collins Colo named scientific assistant in Agriculture Department. Rear Admiral Spark becomes head of active rear admirals. Goodrich to retire in January. Capt Baldwin receives contract to build airships for an Philadelphia New York passenger line via Glidden. Shoshone dam project advances with high pressure gates in the outlet tunnel, aiding irrigation and leading toward the world’s highest dam. Goethals plans Panama Canal review. visits Oyster Bay, to brief the President and travel to Panama for committee inspections.
Denver reports the American Life convention elected Samuel Smith of Chattanooga as president to succeed B H Robison and T W Blackburn of the Bankers Reserve of Nebraska as secretary. Thomas Daly was named Colorado vice president with Cincinnati chosen as the 1909 meeting site.
The Wisconsin delegation of United Spanish War Veterans will depart Chicago on Sunday afternoon August 30 for the fifth annual encampment in Boston. St Paul and Denver are the preferred sites for the 1909 convention to save travel costs, with western delegates urged to unite on one of these two cities.
The Belgian chamber of deputies approves the Congo annexation treaty by 83 to 55. The senate is poised to endorse the bill, signaling Leopold II's declining personal rule in Africa as Congo comes under Belgian administration and hopes rise for an end to maladministration.
Five million dollars in gold bullion moved through Denver from Union depot to the U S Mint on Saturday. The shipment from San Francisco was the largest bullion delivery Denver has seen, carried by six armed guards and a Treasury Department representative with Wells Fargo express.
Secretary of War Wright announced President Roosevelt approved penalties for eight West Point cadets suspended for hazing. The two first men under suspension are dismissed, while the six third class cadets are placed under suspension without pay and allowances for one year.
Denver at Littleton Wednesday District Judge Ashbaugh ordered the destruction of ten slot machines seized at Petersburg Rug, Ltd. The court ruled that the money should be removed from the machines and the devices destroyed, with Attorney Hilton granted fifteen days to appeal to the Supreme Court. The machines, valued at about $200 each, occupy a jail cell awaiting a bonfire.
Wyoming growers forecast a wool clip of no less than 34 million pounds this year with fleece averaging about eight pounds. The crop should top last year’s 33.64 million pounds. Last year’s wool brought $7.81 million. this year’s value is not likely to exceed $6.25 million due to price declines.
President Roosevelt released a August 6 report by James R. Reynolds Samuel B Donnelly and Henry Beach Needham on Panama Canal conditions. The commission inspected the canal line from La Boca to Cristobal and visited workshops plants warehouses ships yards and worker facilities. He will submit the report to Congress with recommendations noting health efficiency and model government at the Isthmus and urging continued welfare for workers.
The cornerstone of the Coliseum at the southwest corner of Washington and Jefferson avenues was laid Saturday. The three story Italian Renaissance building will be completed by mid October and will seat 14 000 with potential expansion to 20 000, becoming one of the nation’s largest public spaces.
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