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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1906
Page
8
New York investigators report divorce decisions exist without final decrees as orders for judgment were not submitted. Many couples may have remarried while prior divorces remained unresolved, making marriages potentially void and needing legislative action to legalize.
Acting Secretary Murray of the department of commerce and labor received a telegram from Valdez Alaska via Walter J. Lembkey head of the Alaska seal fisheries. It states twelve Japanese poachers captured on St Pauls Island during seal rookery raids have been cited for violation of the U S fur seal protection law.
William J. Bryan and his party have boarded the North German Lloyd steamer in Gibraltar. Bryan expressed delight with the tour and said the visits to places of interest around the rock were enjoyable and concluding.
The forecast calls for showers and cooler conditions across Illinois and Indiana. Lower Michigan will see showers and cooler weather with fresh to brisk south to southwest winds turning northwest. Wisconsin will have showers and cooler conditions. Iowa should be fair in the west with showers in the east, cooler in the central and east regions.
Quotations from the Chicago Board of Trade show mixed moves in wheat corn and oats with various highs lows and closes. Cash sales list No 2 red No 2 hard No 2 white and other wheat and corn samples with figures for futures and cash markets. Livestock and hay prices and receipts are given for Hogs Cattle Sheep and Hay with regional East Buffalo quotes from Kuwnning Stevens.
After twenty eight hours the jury found Ernest G Stackpole guilty of murder in the first degree for killing Joel Scheck his mistress husband. The penalty was life imprisonment. Mrs Aristia Schreck Stackpole confessed accomplice will be tried next and implicated herself in the plot and murder. She said she expected to collect her husband life insurance and marry Stackpole.
John B. Roper, jailed in Lofkin for the Aug. 15 killings of two fellow prisoners Trawick and Crowder, beat to death with a bucket, hanged himself with a blanket strip. He confessed to Dalton gang ties at Longview and was linked to a 1802 Arkansas murder of Sheriff Boyd, with a $1,000 reward.
Cleveland man John D. Rockefeller, 21, recently confined to bed with stomach trouble, has recovered and went downtown to attend to business. He stated he was again enjoying his usual good health.
Terre Haute Indiana August 21 Mayor Buckingham declines to heed a Central Labor union request to remove J G Reading from the police board. He says the move involves city government and cannot be used for discrimination. Reading heads the American Car and Foundry plant and leads the Manufacturers' club, a group formed for united action on labor matters.
An Indianapolis report states an infant born in Jefferson county died of smallpox within three days. The mother had a mild attack prior to delivery after leaving the pesthouse, suggesting postnatal transmission.
In Larrimore Maryland two or three men died and thirty horses perished when a morning fire swept the Thomas Kelly livery stable. Two bodies were recovered from the ruins and search continued as three tramps slept in the hayloft. In Lacon Illinois a saloon brawl left John Parsons dead after Nick Smith struck him. The coroner’s jury exonerated Smith.
The week reports a Wyoming Democratic state convention set for Cheyenne on September 13. Watertown hotel owner John Cochran drowns at Lake Kampeska. An anarchist is jailed in Marsailles over a suspected assassination plot on President Fallieres. Cuba reefs with plots to topple Palma. Vincennes farmer Joseph Robinson dies by suicide. Russian officials suffer mass assassinations and many wounded. Forest fires sweep the Vermilion and Mesaba ranges.
Multiple brief items report illness at home, births, and travel. Mrs. Sam Swick is ill. a ten pound son was born to Mr. and Mrs. Wolfe. Joseph Wolfe rejoices in the new arrival. Several residents travel for visits, fairs, or business, including Elizabeth Littler visiting Des Moines connections, George Anderson to Iowa City, and Dr. Pratt returning from Chicago.
A lesson from farming urges households to prepare for sudden illness. Dysentery cholera morbus and diarrhoea can strike without warning. Cham berlain s Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy is advised as immediate treatment and may prove fatal if delayed. For sale by Cook Sherman and Stewart s pharmacy.
Iowa Central announces sale of round trip tickets to Los Angeles and San Francisco California from September 3 to October List at ONE FARE. Variable routes and liberal stop over privileges. For details contact agents or A B Cutts G P T Minneapolis Stinn Sept 14.
The Iowa Central will sell round excursion tickets every Tuesday to Minnesota Iowa the Dakotas Manitoba Saskatchewan and the Canadian Northwest and on the first and third Tuesdays monthly to the South Southeast West and Southwest. Fare is one fare plus 82.00 with liberal limits and stopover privileges. For rates contact agents or A B Cutts Minneapolis Minn. Dec 31.
Des Moines notes rising interest among Iowa farm boys in the state fair judging contests. A group of 20 to 30 boys will judge live stock and seed corn, with the winner receiving a free $200 scholarship to Iowa State College at Ames. Entries close Saturday. Half rates to Des Moines offered by Iowa Central for the Aug 25–31 fair, with excursion tickets at one fare round trip, return by Sept 1, 1906.
Commencing September 15 to October 31 Iowa Central offers reduced one way tickets to California Oregon Washington British Columbia Utah Montana and Idaho. Rates 15.00 below regular fare. Call agents for details or write A B Cutts G P T A Minneapolis Minn.
The article argues that combining beauty with utility yields the highest value in breeding animals and farm products. It cites a 2:10 trotter and a dairy cow valued for both appearance and performance, notes a sale price of 2500 dollars, and contrasts this with the limits of beauty alone. It closes with a Scots story about a moderator seeking divine guidance to be right in a church matter.
An old advertisement claims Foley's Kidney Cure cures all forms of kidney and bladder diseases and warns readers they are to blame for any poor outcome if they do not use it. The notice is directed to all druggists.
Tickets from Chicago to Canadian and New England points via Nickel Plate Road go on sale August 8 and 22. One fare plus 4.00 for round trip with a thirty day limit. one fare fee 2.00 for the round trip with a fifteen day limit. For sleeping car berth reservations and details contact Joan Y. Calahan General Agent 107 Adams St 2twaug 20.
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