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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 27, 1908
Page
2
Washington reports a senate hearing on stricter Sunday observance with prominent Seventh Day Adventists opposing any favorable action. The piece covers the buffalo range bill and Roosevelt’s support, plans for Washington beautification, congressional gridlock on Brownsville, and local ads for Vinol.
Warning against mercury based catarrh remedies and praising Hall's Catarrh Cure by F. J. Cheney & Co Toledo Ohio. Claims internal action on blood and mucous surfaces, testimonials free, price 75 cents per bottle. Also recommends Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
Gov. Warner declares she will not drop out of the gubernatorial contest despite rumors and a suggested third party challenge. She asserts she will run in the primary, criticizing the proposition as untrue and noting no truth in the claim.
Decatur Ind April 27 Tenaae N Coltrin a veteran newspaper man of central Twinness one of four remaining charter members of the Grand Army of the Republic postmaster at Clinton by appointment of President Lincoln in 1862 and a friend of the martyred president is dead here He helped form the Republican party in Decatur and is said to have first suggested Lincoln as the party's candidate He helped organize the first post of the Grand Army of the Republic and printed its first ritual.
Francis Knight, farmer from Shiloh township, IRC, was sent to the Pasteur Institute in Chicago for preventive rabies treatment after his hand was exposed to saliva from a dog that had bitten several of Knight's hogs showing hydrophobia symptoms. He was rushed to the Pasteur Institute in Paris on April 27.
This week closes the eighth month of school with Commencement on May 22 and the baccalaureate sermon May 24. Robert Well was absent due to his father's illness and quit Friday. Eva Wolf of Washington visited the High school as guest of Nina Wooley. Jessie Carter was home Tuesday for her mother's illness. Frank McCoy left school Friday to work in the tire factory. In the tire drill the building was emptied with wraps and all in one minute.
Andrew Johnson shot and killed his wife as she fled with their four year old daughter, then shot himself through the heart. He left a letter saying he could not endure the unfaithfulness felt at home and blamed the discovery for the tragedy.
Mrs Louetuda McKenzie, 51, shot and killed her husband after he objected to a hat purchase and criticized the style. The shooting occurred in their Belleville home and McKenzie is jailed.
Review extols Chic Perkins and her company in The Little Prospector promising a good play with strong stage appointments. Audience urged to attend the performance at the opera house on Tuesday the 28th.
Eugene Mor sell, a West Seventy-second Street manufacturer, leapt from a seventy story window at the Van Dyke apartments, dying from the fall. Family reports say he faced serious financial troubles and insomnia and had been greatly worried.
Mase Robies Hot Springs California April 27 Rear Admiral Robley J Evans for first time in many days was allowed to stand and walk with a cane. He will gradually walk daily as strength returns under physician supervision.
The Misses Jenness and Eather Abbey left Friday evening for Muscatine for an over Sunday visit with relatives and friends.
In Buffalo on April 27 Ludovic Caminita, editor of the Paterson, New Jersey paper suppressed by the federal government, is under arrest on an open charge. He spoke here last Wednesday evening and was seized as he prepared to depart the city.
Port Huron Mich April 27 Her man H Weters aged sixty a heavy stockholder in the United Home Protectors Fraternity which failed here March 19 as a result of embezzlement of over 75000 by Supreme Secretary W L Wilson committed death by own action by taking carbolic acid
Wellston April 27 A big landslide on the Cincinnati Hamilton and Dayton railroad at tunnel No. escaped uninjured by cutting loose from the train. The entire freight train was buried in the earth.
Spartanburg April 27 The closing down of the cotton mills of North and South Carolina July 1, decided at a meeting of representatives of all mills here, will throw 30,000 or more people out of work.
A Miss Carrie Harden of Bowling Green Ky reports kidney and bladder relief from Foley’s Kidney Remedy, with one bottle easing pains and a second making her entirely well. In Ot tumwa a horse trampling injured Bunk Ward at a horse sale, bruising his foot and delaying him for days.
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