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Newspaper
Alliance Herald
Location
Alliance, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Apr 04, 1912
Page
4
The notice states that materials are entered at the Alliance Nebraska post office for transmission through the mails as second class matter.
Noted wireless promoter Lee de Forest was arrested in the western state on a federal indictment. The case concerns alleged violations of federal communications or patent statutes. De Forest has long been a prominent figure in radio and related scientific ventures.
San Francisco April 2 Lee De Forest the wireless promoter was arrested by Palo Alto on warrants issued on an indictment by a federal grand jury in New York. The indictment charges the use of the mails to defraud.
Terra Nova returned to Akaroa New Zealand without Captain Scott or his team. A message from Scott stated he would winter in Antarctica to continue his work. Scott’s latest report from McMurdo Sound said on January 3 he was 150 miles from the South Pole and still moving forward. Prosecutors in New York reported a jury disagreement in the Sherman antitrust case against American Sugar Refining directors Parsons Thomas Fraizer Donner.
Miss Bernice Lightner twenty was crushed to death by a fast train on the New York Chicago and St Louis line in Vermilion Ohio while walking a high trestle over the Vermilion river. Her fiancé Dr Russell A Jewilt of Cleveland suffered a broken leg and other injuries.
The senate enacted the Smoot general age and service pension law after rejecting the Sher wood dollar a day pension bill. It is estimated the new act will raise the pension roll by about 20 million dollars annually for the next five years.
The wool bill passed the house 195 to 62 with twenty progressive Republicans voting yes. Representatives Rucker and France split from their parties, Payne’s motion to recommit failed 109 to 108, while critics questioned tariff board accuracy and asserted savings of over 59 million dollars yearly for consumers.
A Polish immigrant, Charles Schomella, confessed at a county jail he aimed to attack Colonel Roosevelt and Senator Gore during Wilson era events in Wisconsin. He claimed devils spoke to him and that Roosevelt would pass through Waukesha. He blamed a head injury from sewer work for his mania.
Four hundred thousand miners quit work this week in the anthracite fields of Pennsylvania and the central competitive field of the bituminous industry. The action is labeled a suspension, contingent on union votes and employer meetings next week to decide if it becomes a strike. Pumpmen and other workers were left at mines to prevent flooding.
Washington reports the Bureau of Plant Industry finds a low national germination rate after a poor previous corn crop. Dr. B T Galloway urges farmers to plant the best seed possible and to test ear or shelled corn to ensure a good stand this spring.
Federal authorities plan to arrest John Looney Rock Island editor linked to an attack on Mayor Schriver and subsequent riots. Postoffice Inspector Harry Hadsel of Chicago is in Rock Island to pursue charges as Looney recovers from injuries inflicted by the mayor.
The Laffin Rand powder mills in Wayne N J exploded shattering three buildings. Two workers were killed and three injured with limited details available from company offices.
Claude Swan Allen, exhausted and hungry, walked out of the Blue Ridge Laurel thicket and surrendered to the posse that had pursued him for nearly two weeks in Hilleville Virginia on March 29.
General Cionidas Plaga has been elected president of Ecuador. This landmark victory marks a new era in Ecuadorian politics with Plaga pledging reforms and stability for the nation.
Robert Mc Crannahan aged twenty two was killed in the Northwestern yards at Saaborn Ja. He fell under a moving car while waking a coupling and eight wheels passed over his body.
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