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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 25, 1908
Page
8
Special report outlines hopes for quick adjournment amid roiling debate on key bills. It notes President Roosevelt’s push for strong measures, Aldrich’s financial bill prospects, and Senate clashes over Foraker and race-related military issues.
In New York on Fortieth Street near Fifth Avenue, John A. Cisco, a retired banker, lay dying of pneumonia when his wife, exhausted by caregiving and shocked by physicians’ prognosis, killed herself in an adjoining room by turning on the gas. Cisco is unaware of his wife's death as his condition remains critical. Miss Cisco was 70. they had been married nearly 50 years and traveled in recent years.
Wisconsin Senator La Follette charges that a handful of financiers and the Standard Oil Morgan combine control the nation’s industries. He lists fourteen powerful figures including Vanderbil t Belmont Frick Armour Harriman and Astor as the core operators driving this centralization. He argues the Aldrich bill strengthens this power and urges Senate unity to oppose it.
Dallas march 25 state health officer Braoby has filed suit against the Pullman Car company charging failure to properly disinfect cars operated on Texas railroads. The law passed a year ago protects travelers against tuberculosis and other contagions. Penalties range twenty to two hundred dollars per offense.
Frank J. Cheney sworn as senior partner of F. J. Cheney & Co. promises one hundred dollars for every catarrh case not cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Notarized December 6, 1886 by A. W. Gleason. Product marketed in Toledo Ohio with testimonials and parental warnings about pills for constipation.
The article notes two additional groups of influential men aligned with the cause. The second class includes wealthier figures labeled stars of lesser magnitude who influence policy through corporate ties, listing names such as Brayton Ives and Frederick Cromwell. A third group contains further directors and financiers like Paul Morton and J. J. Mitchell, with Labourette arguing their power is delegated.
Isaac Gay, nephew of Wesley T Braddock, tells Wayne county state attorney that James Haines an agent for United States Life Endowment smothered Braddock and with William his brother threw the body into an abandoned well. Gay says he insured Braddock life with himself as beneficiary after altering a medical certificate. Haines was indicted for conspiracy to defraud the insurance company.
London report states the Duke of Devonshire eighth of the title died in Cannes France from heart disease aged seventy four. He was a key Liberal and Unionist figure having left the Liberals over Irish home rule and later sided with the Unionists when Chamberlain pressed tariff protection.
In Aurora on March 25 the Eleventh Illinois district Republican convention recommended re election of Governor Deneen Senator Hopkins and Representative Snapp. Delegates chosen for the national convention support Speaker Joseph Cannon for president. Delegates include William Grote of Elgin Representative Snapp of Joliet and William E F Lynch of Kane county. S J Drew of Joliet tapped for lieutenant governor.
Boston firm C. J. Foley & Co. has closed its business in Boston and at Milford Marlboro South Framingham and Worcester. A statement of the firm's finances was not available.
The French Senate backed a chamber bill to automatically convert a separation decree into divorce after three years on demand of either party. Debates centered on the rise of divorce since 1816 and the provocative Bourget play A Divorce. Critics warned of a drift toward free union as public opinion split between freedom of union and traditional indissolubility.
Washington March 25 Scott Kan Kansas warned in the house about the brown tail moth destroying New England groves and forests while the Texas cattle tick threatens the quarantine line. He estimated national costs for maintaining the line at under half a million dollars and southern losses at least forty million annually.
Velix Curtis aged eighty and Parthine Young known as Madame Young, a fortuneteller, wed in Muncie Indiana on March 25. Both had prior marriages. Curtis said no man is too old to marry unless he thinks so. The new Mrs Curtis echoed, Age is a condition of the mind.
Alf Burris left for Cotter on business. Mr and Mrs Frank Stewart went to Muscatine for the day. Mrs M J Sproull heads to Des Moines for a few days visit. A son was born at the H B Downing home in Des Moines. Mrs B F Brown returned from Ft Dodge after visiting her daughter Mrs Seth Thomas.
East Raymond Maine pastor Rev F Starbird endorses Bucklen Arnica Salve for healing an old army wound and other obstinate sores. He notes success in his veterinary work and mentions it costs 25 cents at Lemmon's Pharmacy.
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