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Newspaper
Alliance Herald
Location
Alliance, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Apr 02, 1908
Page
4
A fragment notes subscription cost of $1.90 yearly in advance, and an Alliance Nebraska post office stamp indicating second class mail. It remarks if you forgot April Fool Day you are growing old and jokes about timber in presidential preserves.
The fishing season opened yesterday with reports that suckers were biting throughout winter, signaling strong early activity. Anglers note persistent catches and hope for a productive season ahead.
Wanted is a bright young man educated enough to read an electric light meter. The notice seeks capable applicants for a local utility reading position with basic literacy and arithmetic requirements.
A local Omaha event centers on a corn show as residents consider state liquor policy changes next week. The article notes concerns about corn juice production and potential shortages if the law shifts.
Press dispatches report 35,000 coal miners plan to quit work this month amid labor action. The note ends with a quick exclamation about spring approaching.
Although push carts will be banned on Omaha streets, the water wagon may stay, giving hope to the average resident of Omaha.
Report says about 15,000 Democrats welcomed William Jennings Bryan Monday night in Kansas City, while the rural district remained silent and did not respond on this occasion.
The Denver Post declares Colorado the leading potato producing state while noting Nebraska may challenge for the title. The piece emphasizes bold contention and regional rivalry in agricultural headlines.
President Roosevelt calls a special session of Congress to revise the tariff. If it attracts little attention as did the regular session’s needed legislation, experts predict money will be wasted and the tariff will not be revised.
The republican press reports police in Omaha and Council Bluffs will escort Secretary Tait on his arrival next week. It quips at protecting W J Bryan from imagined danger and cites the line Conscience makes cowards of us all.
The Omaha Bee argues it is proper for Tom Watson to seek a second presidential bid alongside William Jennings Bryan's third attempt, urging readers not to worry but to focus on the venerable figure from their state ahead of the election.
Two hundred fifty thousand bituminous coal miners are out due to a wage disagreement. Vice-President Lewis, who will succeed President John Mitchell today, said yesterday no move would be made for several days. Differences are slight and a settlement is hoped soon.
The Lincoln Journal accuses the Omaha Bee of malicious intent to steal the proposed historical state building. It argues Lincoln deserves all antiquated property and condemns the sister city for discourtesy.
The Lincoln Journal reports that a recent Democratic city convention featured a speech by a young attorney from Illinois, identified as W. J. Bryan, whose address signaled he would become a city and possibly state party leader.
Chester Gillette, condemned for Grace Brown's 1906 death near Big Moose, New York, was electrocuted at Auburn Prison last Monday. He reportedly confessed, surrendering to guilt as escape ended and faced judgment, while questions linger over divine judgment for murderers who seek religion at the end.
The piece critiques Congress for inaction with a Republican two thirds majority, notes multiple Florida and Maryland senatorial deaths, and discusses Taft’s precarious position. It highlights anonymous political bureaus, labor movement appeals, and calls for majority rule over the two thirds rule in the Democratic convention, with reflections on public debate and leadership in Washington.
The Philadelphia Ledger notes a slander case in a New Jersey court where an impetuous old German woman spoke rapidly in broken English. The judge tried to stop her, shouting Stop, stop and There, Mr. Fenter you set her going Dow stop her as the torrent of words continued.
Two hundred fifty thousand coal miners stayed idle as the United Mine Workers and operators negotiate a new wage scale. Open winter and low demand keep stocks high and delays limited to local suspensions while the nationwide strike threat subsides.
A mine disaster in Union Pacific Coal Company No. 1 at Hanna Wyoming leaves fifty eight dead or missing after twin explosions. State Mine Inspector Elias and rescuers perish, with seventy coffins prepared and ongoing efforts to extinguish the tenth level fire and recover bodies.
James Elliott, president of the Southwestern Interstate Coal Operators' association, said a meeting with miners will be held to avert shut down of southwest coal mines. In Richmond 700 quit, Topeka reports 10,000 miners leaving, Bevier 4000 also stopped work.
William T. Carr was arrested in Newton Kansas on charges of murdering Oscar A. Bailey the ex express messenger killed in his car last Sunday and robbing the express car. Blood stained trousers found at a cleaner led to the arrest and an overcoat with jewelry pockets tied to the crime was recovered. Carr an express company employee for three years and a fellow worker of Bailey was jailed in Marion due to safety concerns.
Mourners armed heavily gather at the Wyckliffe home twenty miles east of Pryor Creek for the funeral of Charles Wyckliffe the notorious Indian outlaw shot and killed by his brother Thomas in a family quarrel. Thomas and John Wyckliffe attend along with many friends as Oklahoma officers had hunted the trio for three years for murders and other crimes. The funeral proceeds with no interference from authorities.
The Finnish senate will resign following a loss of confidence in Helsinki dated April 1. The vote by the diet stood 71 to 47 and the socialists initiated the action, criticizing the government for handing over Russian terrorists and political agitators to Russian authorities.
Representatives of twenty four breweries in St Louis and vicinity and brewery workers unions signed new contracts ending a three week strike involving five hundred workers. Strikers will be reinstated within a week.
The Record-Herald reports that within the next sixty days U S railroads must recruit 250000 to 300000 men to mend tracks and roadbeds and a large force to repair cars locomotives in their shops.
Flora Whiston, one of the witnesses in the Hitchcock case against the comedian Raymond Hitchcock, was indicted by a grand jury on a perjury charge alleged to have occurred during her testimony in the same proceedings.
Governor Droward appoints Hill Milton of Mariana to fill the late Senator Bryan's seat in the United States Senate in Florida.
Hon J L McBrien, Nebraska public instruction head, spoke at the Phelan Opera House urging Alliance to vote out saloons. He argued schools would gain funds via higher taxes and state aid while citing Aurora and York as examples of towns without saloons and improved schools. He urged Alliance to host a state normal and warned against remaining a saloon town.
J A Amour former Custer County judge writes from Broken Bow Neb say closing saloons improves business. He notes former opponents now favor dry towns after years of experience and cites rising votes against saloons as evidence of benefit to community commerce.
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