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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1907
Page
7
In Carmi Illinois on May 30 field mice plague the melon belt as acres shift to corn. Growers used arsenic soaked seed to curb mice. thousands were erased. They aim to boost chicken snake numbers again, noting snakes are mice natural enemies and urging not to destroy reptiles.
Terre Haute Indiana May 30. Mrs W J Cinte six miles south of Terre Haute telephoned the Vigo county sheriff claiming Harris and two women in his family had been murdered. Officers rushed to the scene then the caller admitted no murder occurred. She said her brother Jacob Freud would shoot her husband and waited with a shotgun. He was restrained before harming anyone.
Harbor Commissioner W Y Stafford reports about 40 000 idle in San Francisco due to labor troubles. He notes 900 musicians with 50 working, 6 000 clerks and salesmen with 2 000 unemployed, 12 000 other workers 2 000 carmen 500 telephone girls 1 500 laundry workers on strike. Building trades 10 000 out of work. Three hundred laundry wagon drivers idle.
Baltimore May 31 The 100th anniversary of the University of Maryland opened with a reception for representatives from many colleges and universities. Professor John C Hemmeter chaired the centennial commission and delivered the opening address while J Harry Tregoe led the alumni association welcome. Luncheon followed the exercises.
Admiral French F. Chadwick and Mrs. Chadwick attend the eighth international El Cross society conference in London. Mrs. Chadwick will display a carrier for removing disabled soldiers from the battlefield. It aims to reduce blood loss by moving wounds upright and weighs six pounds.
A tele phone message from Solway states that the missing B year old son of John Shepard has not yet been found as a large posse conducts a search in the area.
Delegation of Bemidji searchers traveled from Wilton to the Shepard farm to join the posse. Beltrami county authorities offered a reward for the child's recovery dead or alive. The disappearance remains a mysterious puzzle.
Washington reports the Department of Agriculture warns rats impose huge losses across farms. It cites the brown rat as the worst mammalian pest and estimates cereals suffer a $100 million annual toll. The piece notes rat prolificness, with rapid generation growth making extermination difficult.
Indianapolis May 31 The supreme court reverses a judgment allowing probate of the will of Mrs Albertsmeyer holding that spiritualism should not govern practical life. The estate was large but she left her orphaned children with only $1 each after claims her husband spoke through a seance. The court says a wife may heed a husband's wishes yet notes belief in spiritualism is not proof of mental unsoundness, though seances can unduly influence credulous minds.
Springfield, May 31. Cora Liederbrand, 17, is believed to have killed her deaf and mute sister Carrie, 7, then shot herself with a revolver found in a creek nine miles north. The father found the bodies. Dr. Duncan noted identical temple bullet wounds.
Columbus Ohio May 80 The Memorial Day pardon goes to Charles E Fowler an old soldier from Cuyahoga County sentenced for life in 1897 for assault on his daughter He has denied guilt and may be right He has served the equivalent of fifteen years Fowler has three sons and two daughters and will move to Sharpsville Pennsylvania to live with a son who is a locomotive engineer
The government presented to parliament a plan to distribute uncultivated state land among commune heads of families. Land would be granted for 25 percent of value with repayment of the full sum over fifty years to allow each family to maintain itself.
Southern Pacific passenger train No. 10 was ditched three miles east of Bradley California on May 30. Engineer James Bybee of San Francisco and a man stealing a ride were killed instantly while the fireman was badly scalded.
In Dubuque Iowa on May 80 union carpenters joined a sympathy strike with striking millmen. Building operations are at a standstill.
I Freedman reports three men sent from New York to organize the Central Roumanian Relief and Defense League in Roumania were seized and maltreated by authorities. Herman Mendelssohn lies seriously ill in Berlin hospital. Veishau of the Jewish Daily Forward was arrested and forced into the Roumanian army. Calman Mendell was also maltreated. The action follows killings during peasant uprisings.
Dr. James H. Reed of Battle Creek, who gave the Memory 4 Day address at Climax Michigan, has been made an honorary member of the Nineteenth Michigan regiment he once helped defeat. Reed, an ex Confederate, fought with the Fourteenth Mississippi at Thompson's Station Tennessee in the Civil War.
On the Dreamland pier at Coney Island a record euchre event drew about 7500 attendees. Rev. John L. Belford of the Church of the Nativity in Brooklyn led the charity game.
The Virginia's topmast toppled during drill in Norfolk on May 31 hitting a fighting top. Boatswain's Mate Griggin was fatally wounded, Seaman Kinley injured. The accident blamed on a broken fid pin that secured the topmast.
Madrid May 31. For the first time since the birth the prince of the Asturias, Queen Victoria walked a short stroll in the palace garden. King Alfonso carried the baby prince on a balcony as the guard stood at attention and soldiers saluted the royal party.
Instructions issued via the Russian consulate in London order Russian steamship lines to refuse passage to Social Democratic members of the lower house who have been holding a congress in London. The move targets members attending the gathering in the British capital.
An unnamed socialist agitator fired several shots at Bishop Yatshevsky of the Roman Catholic Church as he walked a street in Lublin. The attacker then stabbed at the prelate but was restrained by a priest who intervened. The bishop survived. the assailant was captured by police.
Ir I Jamison of Chicago shoots himself at the grave of his wife in Genesee's Roman Catholic cemetery. He and Miss Ethel Gibson of Waukesha had moved to Chicago two and a half years ago after a devoted relationship. Mrs Jamison died February 2, a great shock to him.
A class rivalry in Alton UL led to a ten boy brawl on the school roof sixty feet above ground. During the melee Farl Megoun was struck on the head with a baseball bat and knocked over the railing, but another student restrained him from plunging to the ground.
Severe storms flood Houston and surrounding areas. Water covers miles of country, rail traffic stalls, streetcar service hampered, and many homes wrecked or washed away by Buffalo Bayou, which exceeds all previous high marks and continues to rise.
Unconfirmed reports from Mexico City claim Guatemalans are building fortifications opposite Ocos. In Baden Baden Germany Chulalongkorn the first of Siam has arrived to take the waters.
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