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Newspaper
Tri City Star
Location
Davenport, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 30, 1904
Page
7
The report notes a girl who has allegedly eloped provoking anger within her family. Authorities reportedly issued a warrant over the incident as speculation centers on the sister eloping with her sweetheart and a feud within Wes Moles.
In Avon Des Moines reports Tha Hammon a young Avon girl faces assault with intent to kill charges after a confrontation with Bettie. Her sister Ina testified while Bettie vanished with her lover Hockstable prompting fears of elopement and town gossip. Relatives arrived seeking details as the case before Justice Duncan looms.
LaGrange resident P. A. Twpforth suffered six months from a severe leg sunning rate and reports Bucklen's Arnica Salve cured it in five days. Advert shows salve also for ulcers wounds and piles. guaranteed cure, 25 cents, Frank Nadler, druggist.
Katens City reports frauds tied to land claims in Indian territory may hinder statehood efforts. Sen Stewart of Nevada, chair of the Indian Affairs Committee, says settlers face schemers aided by wealthy mixed-bloods and intermarried whites, complicating any restoration of lands to Indians.
Ames, Sept 80 A special feature of the harvest excursions to the State college at Ames on Friday and Saturday will be good roads experiments conducted by the civil engineering department. Models of concrete and steel culverts will be built on campus and practical work in brick and tile testing will be shown. Professor Marsden will present stereopticon views with a six lecture series daily in Engineering Hall assembly room, largely drawn from New York New Jersey and Pennsylvania with one Iowa view.
Ot tumwe coal miner La maont Wilson reports discovering two large coal veins four miles south of Hedrick near the Muscatine cut of the C M St P railroad. The seven foot and five foot veins may yield paying quantities. Wilson secured land terms yesterday and will begin work this week hoping to supply coal to the region despite local doubts.
New York dispatch reports the Kaiser's liner landed at Hoboken with a high-profile passenger list. W. K. Vanderbilt Ogden Gadder family Walt Whitman? Vanderbilt doubletons and Adolphus Busch of St Louis joined to visit St Louis Exposition. Prince Colloredo-Mangelfeld and Princess Venna also aboard for a brief Amerten stop.
New York Bishop Henry C. Potter urged the Episcopal Church to oppose divorce and what he called godless license at the diocesan convention. He called for clergy to stand against the spread of what he termed barbarism and dissolution of vows. The convention opened in a hall beside Cathedral of St. John the Divine.
United States District Attorney J N Tinsley directed the United States Marshal to seize and hold the whiskey of Grigier and Crigier of Covington. The case awaits condemnation and a sale date set by the court.
Sioux City police chief John Dineen is slated to succeed Dr. W T L Allen as great sachem of the Improved Order of Red Men to preside at the grand council in Des Moines October 11 and 12. Des Moines hosts six tribes with Taimah No 2 Leota No 11 Onawa No 23 Keokuk No 13 Iroquois No 98 and Winona No 82. Delegates will discuss law revisions and council rules including attendee ratios. night sessions planned and liquor membership debates loom.
In Atlantic Tennessee on September 24 the jury ruled for plaintiff John Elmar against Aelia Schmeck, awarding one cent in damages for defamation of character. The suit alleged Schmeck circulated a story that Elmar stole chickens from the coop.
The International Congress of lawyers and jurists opened at the exposition festival hall with remarks by John W Foster advocating the Hague tribunal. Justice Brewer praised the lawyer’s work and the transfer of prestige to the profession. Officers of the American Bar Association were elected and actions adopted supporting legal dispute settlement and proposed federal studies.
Father Joseph Schell of Homer Nebraska, sent by Mother Drexel, defeated a long established graft gang that robbed Winnebago Indians of up to 280000 annually. He is recovering in St Joseph's hospital after a lengthy struggle. The scheme, totaling about 1200000 across twenty years, is broken. thirty grafters will be barred forever. Mother Drexel plans to fund Schell on the reservation in appreciation.
Yale University has taken about 40000 dollars from the British government for its foreign missionary association. The funds come from an indemnity paid by Carnegie to compensate for the murder of English missionaries during the Boxer uprising. English societies refused the money, and China’s government declined to take it back, with the British government holding it in trust for use at Changsha China.
John Scott of Sioux City sues Mrs Ella Bassett for breach of promise seeking 36000 damages after a three year courtship at Hornick. He claims love letters will prove she broke her vow. Bassett, recently married to a New Yorker, is 85. Her husband W Bassett is 50 and she is visiting a farm near Sioux City.
Boston reports Governor Bates apologizes to Secretary Hay over the Lee Monluy incident involving Hugh Gurney third secretary of the British embassy. Judge Phelps sentenced Gurney for speeding and contempt of court. Bates hints at recall of the diplomat while defending local law. Separate dispatches note London and St Louis reactions to the Gurney affair and to czar portraits damaged at the World’s Fair. A DeWitt’s Little Early Risers advertisement ends the page.
The state fair in Springfield opens for a ten day run starting today. Train cars unloaded on the fair grounds were quickly rearranged with loaded cars. Harness racing begins Monday with three races daily including two Sunday events on some days and three on others. Entries reach 240, the 2:20 race drawing 27 nominees.
An ad proclaims the stomach as the source of health and strength. It asserts that a weak stomach impairs digestion and vitality and promotes Kodo Dyspepsian Cure as a remedy that digests food, cleanses glands, and strengthens the stomach. Sold by all druggists.
Atlanta Sept 30 officers of the Statesburo company of the State guards were served with formal charges for failing to protect the negroes. Reed and Cute from a mob, Captain RH M Hitch and Lieutenant Morrison charged with gross neglect of duty and misbehavior. Lieutenants Griner and Cone charged with deserting the guard without leave. The court martial will convene Oct 10 in Savannah, as officers prepare their defense.
In St. Louis on September 30 the International Pure Food congress discussed dairy product adulteration. Dr. H. M. Wiley of the U S bureau of chemistry gave the main address, with Dr. Charles Hartington of Harvard and W W P Connell of Minnesota speaking on city food supply control. Participants included Joseph G Newman of the Illinois Dairymen's Association Dr. Richard Fischer Wisconsin state chemist Dr. Edward Guddeman Chicago and Dr. E N Eaton Illinois state chemist.
J J Louis holder of the conference record in the high jump is in the university hospital there for nervous prostration. His illness is attributed to overwork in his recent educational duties.
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