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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1909
Page
2
Chicago report cites 1,932 fewer railway fatalities in 1908 than 1907 with a 43.4 percent decrease from 1906 figures. Passengers deaths fell from 570 to 92 and employee deaths from 4,430 to 2,535 as freight recession reduced strain on service rules.
W E Lewis dies at his Chariton home aged 63 after a 49 year grocery career. He served eight years as postmaster under Cleveland and was a longtime leader of Iowa Democrats, serving twenty years as treasurer of the state central committee. He leaves a wife and two children.
The Iowa Photographers' association met in Waterloo on May 14 and selected Des Moines as the next meeting site. Officers elected include President H. E. Veiland of Sioux City, Secretary F. A. Free of Davenport, Treasurer Guy N. Reid of Ottumwa, Vice Presidents J. C. Scores of Oskaloosa and P. A. Newberg of Iowa City.
Cedar Rapids Iowa will remain the headquarters of the grand division of the Order of Railway Conductors. Strong pleas for Indianapolis failed to move the convention to relocate the offices.
Washington May 15 Special After congress adjourns the waterways commission will plan trips to Europe and Canada to study river improvements on the Rhine Rhone and Seine and the Manchester ship canal system. Senator Burton will lead the party with five members traveling abroad. A preliminary December report will outline river and harbor bill recommendations with limited travel expenses for clerks.
Ex President Roosevelt attacks the Tolstoy claim that Bryan represented peace in 1908. He cites the Asiatic laborer exclusion plank and a defensive navy as the only menacing elements of the platforms. He also accuses Tolstoy of sway over passive folk and limited influence on decisive men.
Miss Julia Paycke Klotz of Columbus Junction, missing for a year, is believed held by two men in a lonely Cedar river lodge ten miles from Muscatine. A bottle note from her claims danger and a sister in Columbus Junction, with Sheriff Benham searching the Cedar bottoms. A second item notes the American cruiser North Carolina arriving at Mersina for American protection.
Bishop Charles P. Galloway of the Methodist Episcopal church died in Jackson Mississippi from pneumonia. He passed away in Jackson after serving as a prominent church leader in Birmingham and beyond.
European markets drove wheat prices in Chicago higher early and then closed mixed with slight gains for some contracts. Corn and oats eased while pork and lard remained firm. Cash bids showed No 2 hard wheat at 1.28 to 1.30 and No 2 corn at 76 to 70 cents. Cattle, hogs, and sheep receipts and prices are listed for the day.
South Omaha reports cattle receipts around 2100 with steady prices for natives and Westerns, hog receipts near 5500 with higher prices expected for heavies, and sheep receipts about 1300 with slight declines for yearlings and wethers, lambs reaching up to 9.10.
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