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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1908
Page
4
Ossining N Y July 20 Special to The Evening Journal Charles H Rogers and Angelo Landiero were executed for murder at Sing Sing this morning. The electrocutions were successful.
The Ready Maids will be entertained this evening at Miss Wilma Row's residence on East Washington Street. Mrs. Earnest Johnson of Dubuque joined Miss Laura Rauch, Miss Kate Burris, Mrs. Kiburz, and two children for a picnic yesterday near Rubio.
The church youth group will host a social on Tuesday evening at the home of the Rev. and Mrs. W. R. Lawhill on West Washington street. All congregation members and friends are invited to attend.
Tuesday evening July 21 royal neighbors hold regular meeting in the hall initiatory work will be done all members urged to be present
Saturday evening eight present including S. W. Neal and J. J. Cocklin attended an ice cream social at Eureka church south of the city. Guests enjoyed Neal’s talk on his Holy Land trip and several songs by Cocklin Warner Brookhart and Kuhn. A neat sum was added to the church treasury.
Mrs Marbourg and Miss Katherine and Wyatt Marbourg were entertained at dinner today at Dr E T Wickham’s home on West Washington street to honor little Miss Dorothea Wickham’s tenth birthday.
Henry Wallace senior, a longtime city figure, was injured in a tumble from a moving car driven by his son Henry C. Wallace near the family home. Reports vary on how he alighted, with rumors suggesting a backward exit, though Henry C. Wallace declines to comment.
Word comes of the death of L. S. Blair at Aurora Nebraska. The body will be brought here for interment arriving tomorrow morning. Mr. Blair was a brother of the late Robert Blair. No further particulars regarding the death are available.
The ad proclaims Hall's Catarrh Cure as the sole positive cure for catarrh, a constitutional illness. It claims internal use affects blood and mucous surfaces to eradicate the disease and strengthen the constitution, offering $100 for any uncured case and urging readers to send for testimonials. Sold by druggists at 75 cents. Also promotes Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
In Sigourney Iowa Dr J P Doherty veterinary surgeon and Chicago veterinary college graduate dies while seining in Cat pond near Skunk river. He attempts to swim across and cramps or exhaustion lead to his sinking after regaining surface to grasp his hat. Body recovered after two hours fifteen minutes of search. Brother in law or cousin mention also noted in local notes.
Two men claiming to be from St Louis visited farmers north of Albia and offered vision restoration treatment. They obtained two $50 notes from each of the farmers by promising a free trial and later presented the agreements as payable notes. Police seek the two con men as the case unfolds.
Congress man R G Cousins is back from Washington where he lobbied for the Fifth district appointee to the Naval Academy who had been rejected for a medical defect and won a second examination in September. He praises William Dean, West Point cadet, as making good and likely to keep his place. If weather allows he will stay at home to handle matters and prepare for retirement from Congress. He notes uncertain plans after next March with several openings and may spend part of his time lecturing.
Des Moines reports a deathbed confession and a supporting affidavit exonerating W. N. H. Jones have existed for three years while he serves life for murder at Fort Madison. The new state board of parole questions why Warden Jones pigeon-holed the confession and made no mention of it.
The same program shown Saturday night at the airdome will be repeated tonight in every detail for the benefit of those who could not attend. It features up-to-date pictures and illustrated songs, with Miss Wanda Neiswanger singing and a fifteen minute musical act, prices as usual.
A large crowd attended church services at the Walnut school house yesterday afternoon to hear R. Frank Galloway deliver an interesting sermon. The speaker handled his subject well and the discourse was well received. Local residents and several visitors, including Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Simpson and Mrs. W. R. Sawhill, attended. Miss Thusa Allen also joined the congregation. Mary and Cora Reubsam of Crawfordsville and Mattie Brown of Haskins registered at the Rest Room today.
Rural carrier Ray Clinton of Indiana briefly slept in his wagon during an evening visit to a patron. His horse then traveled the mail route for 25 miles, stopping at every mailbox. The incident was reported under post office authority in Washington.
Special music is planned at the Star tonight with airdome programs. H E McCollum leaves this morning for Sigourney on business. Miss Birdie Rankin visits Brighton with friends yesterday. John Steen makes Davenport business trip today. Miss Violet Jones visits grandparents in Richland. Misses Dorothy Miller and Ruth Winter stay near Wayland at Eicher camp. Grace Smith of Monmouth calls on friends in the city.
Thomas McDonald, taken from Columbus to the Central Insane Hospital at Indianapolis, claimed he was sane and could prove it with medical texts. He sought a full investigation and cited the support of county physicians. He pursued Miss Marearet Jones, 25, for years, watching her home nightly, despite her refusals, until Jones testified against him in insanity proceedings.
The Western Maryland express from Elkins to Baltimore wrecked near Keister WV. Eleven passengers were severely injured, nearly all West Virginians. Two caskets with corpses were broken open in the river bed, and its survival is deemed remarkable.
A well dressed stranger robbed John Toomey, a messenger for Adams Express, at the First National Bank in Cincinnati on July 20, stealing checks and cash totaling about 2000 dollars. The thief fled, later the checks were found in a waste paper box on the sidewalk near the bank, with about two dollars still missing.
Mr and Mrs R S Cook and Margaret Row left this morning for a several weeks visit in Los Angeles California. The Misses Esther and Rose McGugin expect to leave Wednesday evening for visits at various points in Colorado.
The August Bohemian Magazine highlights Grover Cleveland's last years at Princeton with intimate photographs and a color frontispiece. It includes essays on photography, journalism, and women in the field, plus twelve stories by Kilbourne Cowles Aubrey Lanston Adele Marie Shaw James Francis Dwyer W Carey Wonderly Charlton Lawrence and others.
A rural comedy The Man in the Chute by James J. Carroll, a strong cotton mills tale The Price the Woman Paid by Catherine Carr, and The Palace of Pleasure by Clarissa Mackie headline a page of humorous features and a guide to new books, with about twenty pages of light reading.
Ralph D. Paine recounts early American contact with Japan, noting that ships Franklin and Margaret preceded Commodore Perry by over half a century. The 1799 Franklin, under Capt. James Devereux, and the 1801 Margaret, Capt. S. G. Derby, were among the first U S vessels to reach Japanese harbors, amid a world of distant, unfamiliar ports and ancient customs.
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