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Newspaper
Tri City Star
Location
Davenport, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 18, 1904
Page
5
In Madison on Oct 18 the court signaled patience until after the election, with justices Marshall and Cassaday still undecided on the state ticket dispute. The decision, filed Oct 5, remains unsettled as the justices await the election outcome.
In New York on October 18 laborers from independent packing houses threaten to strike if Sunday work is not dropped. The action targets crews employed by those plants amid ongoing labor tensions.
New York report says Paul Godard and two others, three Frenchmen, jumped from an approach of the Williamsburg Bridge this morning. Godard fell 125 feet to the pavement and died. He was despondent over business failures in the United States.
The John P Leoney faction of the Democratic party failed at the Macomb contest hearing yesterday as judges of the Eleventh congressional district ruled their ticket illegal. Rock Island attendees noted the proceedings while a new town named Balfour appeared in Mills County.
Tokyo dispatch reports Oyama requests seventy thousand reinforcements for Italia unit S. Taire notes StoesSel at Port Arthur prepared to abandon town docks and fortifications except Liotishan with supplies for ten thousand men months. Reports from St Petersburg and London describe Japanese and Russian actions and shifting lines around Shalan Tala Putilofe Hill and Mukden as weather and terrain impede operations.
W B Stead, Republican candidate for attorney general, arrives in Rock Island this evening at 7 o clock. He will be greeted by a reception committee at Thirty street station and escorted to the Harper house for a reception. A parade and deni opattagon precede his speaking at the rink on Sixteenth wheel.
Nick Coin administrator of the estate of Elias Lambros sues John H Montgomery in district court. Jurors seated include Fred Blythe Thea B Brus James Graham John Henry Edwin James Henry Kroeger Phillip Frank Charles Mirfield Gus C Mohr Peter Plambeck Franz Schmidt C I Short Sharon Donegan Schmidt Vollmer attorneys for plaintiff Chamberlin Paterson for defendant Dixon county Nebraska businessman from Davenport on local duties
Former Davenport mayor S. F. Smith was sentenced to the Anamosa penitentiary for eleven years after pleading guilty to eleven indictments for embezzlement and perjury. Judge Waterman urged leniency but emphasized repeated theft over many years, leaving Mrs. Smith with nearly nothing. Smith, nearly 70, will begin his term soon, with an audience watching in somber silence.
Edward A. Kimball, bearing two national reputations, appears this evening at Illinois Theatre in Rock Island under First Christian Science Church auspices. Admission will be free and a large crowd is expected.
State leaders of the party will be present as Lawrence B. Stringer, the Democratic candidate for governor, is set to speak on ext Saturday evening. R. Springer, candidate for secretary of state, and Judge C. B. Thoms, candidate for state treasurer, will also attend.
Alois Hiegel a Davenport baker leaves for New York today to sail Thursday on La Lorraine for Alsute Lorcaing to visit his 90 year old father. Meta Lerch Emma Rolf Anna Meineke and Joachim Hein depart for Hamburg aboard Blecher Thursday. Hein has made his 11th ocean trip to visit his children.
Mrs Caroline Felger files a 5000 claim against Clerk Edward Collins alleging a Sept 21, 1903 fall on a defective and sloped Fillmore Street sidewalk between Clay and Marshall. She suffered permanent injuries including a broken right leg and systemic damage, requiring long term medical care. The petition contends loosened dirt under the sidewalk caused the fall and that the City of Dayengort was negligent.
Cynthia Larkin appeared in Judge Fingis's court charged with extortion. The case will receive a thorough investigation as questions about her separation from her husband and related conduct are explored.
Rock Island city council met in session last evening handling routine business. Bids for feeding city fuel from Nov 1 to May 4 were read and referred to the finance committee for report. Street grading requests and water works extension plans were noted, with paving on Third Avenue between 24th and 26th streets accepted after inspection.
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