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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1908
Page
8
Washington reports clash over currency bills as Aldrich and Vreeland proposals split GOP and Democratic ranks. Roosevelt’s near-future Tokyo exposition appointments spark scramble. Taft faction claims win while opponents recall Cleveland era recess appointments and a chilly, crowded chamber as Representative Gaines laments too much hot air.
The Times Star reports that if Secretary Taft is nominated, he will set residence with Charles T. Taft on Pike Street as his home and use the Linton Hotel in Cincinnati for campaign headquarters. Arrangements likely place him in Cincinnati around September, with headquarters opening then.
In Evereux France on May 28 a White Star Line special bound for Cherbourg suffered a car fire in a tunnel. Two empty first class cars were destroyed while twenty four Teutonic passengers in the third car escaped unharmed. The burning cars were detached after exiting the tunnel.
Mrs Elizabeth Clark testified that she knew her hen’s distinctive cackle and could recognize its cluck when viewing the poultry house through a wire screen. She identified Harry Howard as a defendant in a charge of stealing her pet and other chickens.
From Raleigh a conservative estimate places the dry ticket ahead by about 30 000 votes with three quarters of counties reporting. Prohibition leaders predict a 40 000 majority statewide as returns come in. If passed the law would take effect January 1.
The Boston fishing schooner Fame commanded by Captain Thomas Fahye was run down and sunk on Chesap Bank by the Dominion Atlantic line steamer Boston near Yarmouth Nova Scotia on May 28. Seventeen of the Fame crew of nineteen were lost.
Cleveland remains in his room at the Lakewood hotel where he is resting and showed marked improvement after a day of steady progress. The hotel manager confirmed he spent the entire afternoon at the window and appeared much better.
May 28 report from Gallipolis Ohio states Christopher Karnes has died at Mansfield reformatory and three other prisoners are reported dying after drinking wood alcohol.
Official forecast through 8 oclock tonight calls for showers and thunderstorms in Illinois Indiana and Lower Michigan and Wisconsin with cooler air spreading in. Iowa is generally fair but showers and cooler conditions possible in the extreme east portion.
Wheat and corn prices quoted by sample and grade for No 2 and No 3 red and white wheats with spring wheat details. Hog receipts 22 000 with varied prices from 4.75 to 5.85 for different weights. cattle receipts 12 000 with prime steers at 6.80 to 7.30 and cows, heifers, calves and feeders priced across ranges. East Buffalo N Y May 27 Dunning Stevens reports market conditions cattle hogs lambs and calves with slow cattle and lower hogs and strong lambs and yearlings.
A Virginia manor once hid a perilous romance between a Union officer and a Confederate daughter's husband. Secret meetings, a midnight search, and a bed sheltering a critical witness allowed the couple to flee unseen as guards swept the house. The truth remains carefully kept by descendants.
Lieutenant Stradling recounts the lottery of death imposed by the Confederacy to execute two Union captains in Libby prison. Captain Sawyer and Captain Flynn drew the fatal beans but were reprieved after intervention by the bishop of Richmond and Jefferson Davis. Lincoln, warned of retaliation against General Lee, forced the cabinet to abandon the plan.
During the Trevilian Station engagement, Custer used a byroad to strike Hampton's rear and seize spare horses and wagon trains. He then faced two fires from opposing columns, losing his captured materiel and his own wagons, yet he reorganized, held his line, and endured until Merritt's brigade arrived to lift the defense.
General Cheatham recounts a near capture at Belmont Missouri. He rode toward a cavalry unit with only an orderly, asking the color and unit. The reply identified Illinois cavalry. He then told them to stay where you are and rode back to his own lines unmolested.
Forty three delegates attended the Illinois People's party state convention at Danville with J. Bullard presiding. Speakers included Samuel J. Williams J. Coxey and Col S F Felter. They named Ferriss Felter Edwards Coffeen Hopp Harbisson to select the state ticket and presidential electors, endorsing state control of textbooks labor arbitration and woman suffrage.
In Muncie Indiana May 28 James Lahey temperance speaker criticized glass worker Howard Brotherton saying there is a horrible example of what the saloons cause. Brotherton dragged him from a crowd onto a platform and beat him as onlookers cheered. Brotherton was fined by a justice of the peace after constables arrested him. Witnesses said Lahey's remarks were uncalled for.
Chicago reports that Amador Mining and Development Company a Montana based $10 000 000 corporation with HQ in the Teutonic building Washington Street and Fifth Avenue will shut its offices May 31 after exhausting cash. Chicago stockholders had subscribed about $650 000. Secretary and GM D F Mackinnon reportedly left for Boston last year and has since spent only one day in Chicago local holders cannot locate him.
Officials of the Jefferson bank will reward Eva Pavnowitzka for risking her life to save $43,000 carried by bank messengers from three highwaymen. Directors plan a trust fund to provide her a life annuity.
Cedar View Mississippi merchant B G Stewart touts Dr King s New Life Pills as worth their weight in gold for constipation malaria or biliousness Sold under guarantee at Lemmon s Pharmacy priced 25 cents Multipart ad style praise from local merchant highlights health claim and price.
Mrs. Mattie Copenhaver of Parsons Kansas writes that two years of severe feminine troubles left her nearly frantic. She states morhine failed to help but Lydia E Pinkham Vegetable Compound restored her health and happiness and urges all sick women to benefit from her experience.
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