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Newspaper
Alliance Herald
Location
Alliance, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1908
Page
2
Notice states that on Tuesday, September 1, 1908, a primary election will be held in Box Hutte County Nebraska to nominate candidates for listed offices and districts. The document is an official election notice with dates and jurisdictions.
Two limited traction cars on the Western Ohio line nine miles north of Piqua collided head on amid high speed. Five killed and twenty five injured, many with broken bones and deep cuts from splinters. Names listed include William Halley and George A Hax among the dead. one survivor escaped injury. The wreck is blamed on a orders mistake and occurred near the Shelby County Infirmary with victims taken there.
General D K Wardwell and his leprous wife face uncertain fate in Arizona as officials debate deporting Mrs Wardwell to Molokai. Governor may grant pardon to permit husband to care for his sister while protecting the infirm woman. The case involves court queries, custody, and a chained patient under county care.
Receivers appointed by the federal court took control of the Pillsbury-Washburn Flour Mill Company with a $500 000 bond. Pillsbury A mill shut down for a weekly rest and will resume grinding. Henry C Little resigned as manager and a Minneapolis board now controls the majority of stock amid English and New Jersey indebtedness totaling about 9 5 million and 4 0 million secured by mortgages.
Chicago Great Western announces tariff changes setting equalized grain rates between Omaha Chicago and Omaha St. Paul from west of the Missouri river. New rates differ by 10 cents, replacing prior 11 and 12 cent charges. The move affects Missouri Pacific and Burlington through routes where combined local rates into Omaha exceed through rates. Great Western says it will bill eastbound for the balance of the rate. Other rail officials warn of a broader rate war.
Bradstreets notes favorable trade and crop developments with more merchant excursions expanding sales by jobbers and wholesalers. Industrial output rises in iron and steel hardware Western coal and lumber. railroads buy more rails cars and supplies. Weekly exports total 3,196,948 bushels of wheat and 114,622 bushels of corn. Marquis di Rudini dies in Rome at age sixty nine.
The Premier was destroyed by fire at Warren's Landing at the northern end of Lake Winnipeg. Six passengers and two crew members perished, with eight total deaths reported. Rescue efforts saved several others, and inquiries into the blaze followed.
The schooner Maggie and May, carrying nineteen men and owned by G. Dennis of Gloucester, was struck by the German schoolship Freya sixty miles off Halifax harbor. Eight crewmen died and Captain Brick McCatheran survived. four Freya crewmen also survived. The Freya radioed Halifax with survivors aboard and the collision left the Maggie and May nearly cut in two.
Eliner Dover resigns as secretary of the Republican National Committee to become secretary of an advisory committee working with George R. Shelder, national treasurer, and William Kaywary of Nebraska City, who has led the state GOP for years. He will head the western headquarters in Chicago in Mel Hitchcock’s absence amid reorganizations by Hitchcock.
Lower cables and favorable northwest crop conditions weighed on the Chicago market. September wheat closed lower while corn and oats rose modestly and provisions finished down. cash prices for No. 2 hard wheat and No. 2 corn noted.
Cable receipts 400 steady to strong native steers 4.25 to 7.25 cows and heifers 2.70 to 5.75 western steers 3.50 to 6.40 Texas steers 2.00 to 4.60 canners 2.00 to 2.75 stockers and feeders 2.75 to 4.50 calves 2.50 to 5.0 bulls and slings 2.25 to 4.25 hogs receipts 2400 higher about 4.40 to 8.45 mixed 6.97 to 6.45 tight 6.25 to 7.00 plus. hogs majority sellers. sheep receipts 8500 steady to lower yearlings 4.50 to 4.10 welders 3.25 to 5.0 ewes 2.00 to 2.75 lambs 5.50 to 5.75.
Chicago on Au 10 reports cattle prices with steers cows and heifers ranges. Calves hogs and sheep receipts listed with prices for hogs light weight fat sheep and lambs. Prices show mixed movement across cattle hogs and sheep with several high and low points recorded.
Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad admitted rebating under Elkins laws and was fined by Judge Bethea in federal court. The government showed a $50,000 bonus offered to Garden City Sugar and Land Co to locate on the line, paid as freight credits. $22,000 freight paid and $11,000 received as bonus were part of the scheme. The ruling does not bar legitimate incentives for new industries.
A telegram reports Danish explorer M Erichsen and two companions died after their July 24 1908 departure from Copenhagen on a Greenland expedition. The trio drifted on an ice floe in a snowstorm losing provisions and strength before failing to reach land and dying on shore. An Eskimo messenger also died soon after reporting the disaster.
Captain Baldwin piloted a United States army airship from Fort Meyer for a nearly five mile test flight. The craft lifted to 200 feet, traveled westward at twelve miles an hour, then returned leeward as Curtis opened the throttle to twenty miles an hour. No pitching occurred during the voyage.
A car plunged over an embankment near Sylvania Ohio killing Charles W Poplemann a Cleveland merchant tailor and Father George Vahey pastor of Columbkills church Cleveland instantly. Mrs Charles W Poplemann and her daughter Florence survived with F C Dietzel a Cleveland dentist unharmed.
Assistant attorney CW Trickett of Wrandoltto County was arrested in Kansas City Kansas on a warrant charging malfeasance in office for taking fees before defendants were arraigned. He had led anti liquor efforts in Kansas City Kansas, denying the charges and claiming liquor interests target him.
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