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Newspaper
Alliance Herald
Location
Alliance, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1912
Page
5
At Union Stock Yards South Omaha July 29 the week opens with about 3 400 cattle receipts. Prices show steady to strong demand with 1 385 pound beeves at 9.20, hogs about steady, and 15 000 sheep and lambs fully steady. Idaho lambs brought 7.38 and yearlings up to 5.40, with overall quotes across cattle hogs and sheep at varied but firm levels.
Bubonic plague germs found on a rat at the city wharves with hundreds of rodents examined. Dr. White and Dr. O'Reilly assure no current cause for alarm while pledging vigorous extermination of rats. Health officers from Georgia to Texas meet to discuss prevention and quarantine should plague arrive.
The blast killed over sixty people and left hundreds homeless across Pennsylvania West Virginia and Ohio. Uniontown Pennsylvania suffered the hardest impact among affected towns.
The Senate approved a Republican sugar tariff bill, a compromise between the Lodge and Bristow plans. It would cut the duty from 1.90 to 1.60 a pound, end the Dutch standard, and remove the 714 cent refiners differential. Regulars and progressives formed an ironclad coalition to back Taft-signed measures.
Los Angeles July 29 Leota Seybold an old street beggar was sent to the county hospital after years of counting pennies and silver coins. Report says she is believed to be worth 300000 and will be sent to two Oklahoma sisters who own large land holdings. Dr Blendin cited coin clinking as the cause of her mental decline.
The senate approved the house excise tax bill 37 to 18 extending the corporation tax to individuals and co partnerships with incomes over 5000 dollars. The measure also repeals the Canadian reciprocity act and introduces a 2 dollar per ton rate on print paper. Senator Borah's income tax bill was defeated.
The Rev. Herman PF Williams pastor of the Broadway Church of Christ will be tried on charges of sending indecent matter through the U.S. mails. He edits a local religious paper called The Door Snobber which aims to rid the city of undesirable people, especially in the tenderloin district.
Uniontown July 29. John R Bolcher was imprisoned in Lemont mine No 1 by floods. A rescuing party was alerted by his cries and miners are digging through a thick coal wall to reach him. Bolcher and two others remain with hope fading for escape.
Immigration inspectors escort five Japanese nationals to San Diego after tracing their overland route from Mexico across El Cajon valley. Held in county jail, they face possible deportation to Mexico.
Ellen J. Ewald sues in Louisville claiming a common law wife is entitled to half of Louis P. Ewald's $2,000,000 estate. The suit argues Missouri law grants the widow half of personal property on the husband's death.
Canton Ohio reports the death of Thomas Helfield of Springfield Illinois after a parachute rope attachment snapped at 1,000 feet. He fell head first into a celery field and was buried to the knees upon impact.
Dr George W Heach assistant superintendent of the Iowa state sanitarium was named superintendent of the Minnesota sanitarium for consumptives at Walker Minnesota confirming a regional health leadership move.
A Paris dispatch reports ex-President Porfirio Diaz seriously ill in Paris with a fatal outcome probable. Officials in Mexico City and Paris monitor the situation as health concerns intensify.
Government closes its case against the Chicago butter and egg board in a suit to restrain price fixing. Last evidence comes from trade publishers quoting board prices. Board directors set to begin defense September 16.
Arthur P. Bittner Jr confessed to shooting his father from the rear of a pickup truck. The elder Bittner and another son Edward were aboard. The wounded man is hospitalized with two bullets in his brain. The motive claimed was robbery of about $80.
Detroit on July 26 reports all nine aldermen charged with accepting payments for votes in a street closing case will run for reelection. Aldermen Glinnan and Rosenthal, each out on $5,000 bail, filed their petitions.
Salt Lake July 26 The official call for the twentieth annual national irrigation congress was issued by Francis G. Newlands president of the organization. The meeting will be held in Salt Lake from September 20 to October 3 inclusive.
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