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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 30, 1908
Page
8
A concise primer outlines how election machinery operates for first time voters and longtime participants. It covers registration basics, polling procedures, ballot formats, and key dates to ensure informed participation while encouraging civic engagement.
The lead candidates were Theodore Roosevelt and Alton B Parker. Roosevelt won a clear majority of the popular vote by 1,736,264 with 7,623,486 to 5,077,971 for Parker. Four minor candidates Debs Swallow Watson Corrigan totaled 858,251 votes. Electoral results gave Roosevelt 336 to Parker 140.
Indianapolis reports from United Mine Workers HQ indicate an acute crisis between miners and operators. Indiana bituminous miners met at Terre Haute to present a joint conference scale, expected to be demanded. Danville Illinois district 12 may avoid April 1 shutdown, with hopes for an agreement. Operators warn of losses April 1 in the Twen First district covering Texas, Oklahoma, and Arkansas.
Adelard B. LaFond of Manchester New Hampshire claims Minneapolis police refused to intervene when he says a Canadian officer kidnapped him two weeks earlier. He traveled to Washington to appear before the state department, alleges he was jailed in Canada on a fake charge after being carried across the border with local police help. LaFond, a naturalized US citizen and founder of La Tribune of Woonsocket Rhode Island, says the trouble began in Ottawa Illinois and followed a claim of funds misappropriation at Travelers Life Insurance reported from Winnipeg.
Robert Kane aged 104 years eight months and three days died in Bushnell Illinois. Born in Ireland in 1804 he crossed the Atlantic at 22 locating in Canada later moving to Illinois and had lived in Bushnell for seventy years. His long life traced migration from Ireland to Canada and finally Illinois where he spent most of his years.
Washington March 30 little progress in the house over the agricultural bill as consideration was not concluded before adjournment.
Anugelina North of Port Huron Mich has been notified she inherits $46,000 in gold and mining stock from a childhood friend. She plans to travel soon to Spokane Weeb Pittsburg to tend the estate.
South Bend Indiana March 28 The common council acted by a committee of fifty prominent citizens ordering all questionable places closed immediately including gambling houses and alley saloons After a year the city has been the most wide open in Lodiana threatening business and order.
Sandusky Ohio March 30 E J Glendenning forty five traveling salesman for a Cleveland cloak and suit concern and Mrs Katheryne Hughes forty years old were found dead in an apartment. A bullet wound behind Glendenning s ear and a shot through Hughes eye show a double tragedy. A revolver with two empty chambers lay between them and a crumpled letter signed Will lay on the bed. Letters signed Jack and Glen suggest motives and denials. Police say Hughes shot Glendenning then killed herself.
A severe March storm sweep across Indiana wrecked roofs at Frankfort tearing off the flouring mill roof and damaging the Federal canning factory. Total property loss in Frankfort around $7,500 with windows broken and several buildings wrecked. Muncie and Montgomery Pike counties reported house destruction and livestock losses from lightning as the system moved through the region.
Fierd Persinger, principal of the ungraded or truant school in Minneapolis, was arrested and arraigned in police court for spanking a 15 year old pupil, Edward Galik. The case was continued.
Portland march 30 Charlies Coulson nineteen years old was killed at the Portland Foundry and Machine company plant when he grasped an incandescant light wire found to be crossed with the arc circuit.
In Chillicothe Ohio on March 28 a fire at Joseph McCoppin’s Paxton township home forced the family to flee. A fourteen year old daughter dashed back through flames to rescue the cradle and baby just as the roof gave way, leaving the house a total loss.
Chicago police report details a safe robbery that yielded 3500 dollars. The incident occurred in Chicago on March 28 as information reached authorities. The investigation continues with no arrests reported at this time.
A Lexington Til post office was robbed as three masked attackers blew open the safe and escaped with stamps and money totaling 3500 dollars. The telegram to Captain P D O'Brien of the detective bureau requested assignment of men to watch incoming trains.
Port Huron Michigan March 30 W N Wilson the embezzlement suspect and former secretary of the United Home Protectors declared he will issue a red hot statement after leaving jail to defend his side of the case.
Pierre South Dakota March 30 Articles have been filed with the secretary of state to form the Great American Railway with a capital of 150000000. The road is planned to run from Chicago to Winnipeg. A J Hyde of Lancaster Wisconsin is named as an incorporator.
The circuit court affirmed the lower court in Toledo in ruling the twenty lumbermen sentenced to six months in the workhouse under the Valentine anti trust law. Following the ice trust ruling, imprisonment must be in the county jail, so the case returns for resentence. The lumbermen are described as wealthy and prominent Toledo citizens.
Mrs Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt denies seeking divorce while signaling separation. She indicated plans to travel abroad and suggested she and her husband have chosen different paths, though she affirmed no divorce steps were taken or contemplated.
New York report says wholesale and retail ice dealers were told the price may rise 60 percent this Wednesday. Wesley M. Oler, president of the American Ice company, declined to confirm or deny after a directors meeting.
A narrator recalls a lively, good tempered father who served as a hearse driver ahead of bishops and princes. The piece moves through scenes in the churchyard and a critical family, noting a stingy widow and a quarrelsome clan who cling to their own beliefs, with a midnight yard crow as a quirk of fate.
A reflective narrator recalls an unhappy man of refined tastes who fretted at trivial stage details and public laughter, then died before his time. In contrast a born leader rests in high society, while the writer imagines burying absurd friends and chronicling life with a cheerful epitaph. The piece ends with a diary style summary of the author’s own tale.
An Exchange article describes Dyak courtship rituals in Borneo. A suitor delays response after initial kindness, then visits at night to wake the sleeping girl. If the parents approve the girl accepts, and betel and sweets seal betrothal before the lover leaves in silence.
A child asks to share her doctor prescribed medicine with a sicker girl on the next block. The mother reassures the child and contemplates helping others. The exchange highlights kindness and generosity in a family context.
Cows in Belgium must wear ear rings from age three months as part of a law requiring a metal tag with a number. The aim is to maintain exact records of the number of bovine animals raised each year.
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