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Newspaper
Austin Daily Herald
Location
Austin, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1902
Page
4
News from Port of Spain Trinidad reports Barcelona in Bermudez being surrounded by about 800 revolutionaries under General Platero demanding surrender. Government garrison of 200 men is small and unlikely to resist.
President Castro of Venezuela departed Caracas with 3,100 troops to wage a second campaign against revolutionists led by General Iwiciano Mendoza and General Matos. He expects 3,500 reinforcements en route and more from the Andes and Trujillo, while rebels gather at San Casinmero and Orituco awaiting movements.
Steubenville reports Guinne Bill a Black gambler shot Henry Truesdale and two Italians among railroad laborers at Carman. One Italian died, others wounded. Sheriff Gilson and a posse head to the scene amid fears of further trouble.
Peace in Shenandoah Pennsylvania remains uneasy as brigadier general Gobin keeps troops ready amid rumors of trouble. In Girardville a worker was shot and slighty injured, while two wounded Lithuanians Antony Klimovitz and Stanislaus Zukowski were arrested and convicted after last week’s riot.
In Iowa City on August 6 a premature fireworks explosion at the Modern Woodmen district meeting caused a panic in the crowded grand stand. Four men were slightly burned and leapt to the ground suffering severe injuries.
In Iola Kansas on August 6 T F Kirby shot and killed his son in law J W Kirby during a quarrel. He says the shooting was in self defense after being attacked with a razor. A son who witnessed the event refuses to discuss it. The dead man had been drinking.
In Panama on Aug 6 a band of revolutionists refused to surrender to the government and General Perdome. Government troops surrounded them and after fierce fighting the revolutionists were carried away.
Paris reports ongoing expulsions of sisters from Catholic schools with scattered disorder. Gendarmes faced doors and walls as crowds resisted in Regny and Ravoire near Chambery, while soldiers were deployed from Brest to support police in Finistere. Abbe Gayraud urged nonviolent pressure to force expulsions.
In Galicia the peasant strike widens with new clashes against the military. A detachment of Uhlans attacked 500 peasants at Pothering with many wounded and 173 arrests. Prisoners suffered overcrowded confinement and were fed after twenty four hours. Reports recount multiple encounters with heavy casualties including 13 killed and 118 wounded in one case and 200 killed or wounded in another.
The Senate approved a measure to empower the executive to raise a $4,000,000 loan at 5 percent interest, repayable in thirty years, to aid sugar cane growers. The bill also authorizes a follow up loan of $35,000,000 within six months to fund the first loan and cover revolutionary army debts per the constitution.
Louis G. Tombs of Chicago, convicted of murdering a girl on a boat in Chicago, must be hanged on August 11 after Acting Governor Northcott declined to grant another reprieve following two prior delays by Governor Gates during appeals to the supreme court.
Turkish forces attacked a large band of Albanian brigands near Okhrida in European Turkey. The chief and thirteen brigands were killed and several others captured by the troops.
Waite Thorburn & Co and three other board of trade firms win court orders to halt settlements in the July oats deal. Judge Chytraus and Judge Chetlain issue thirty four injunctions to prevent margins from being paid out to firms that bought July outs from the complainant. The Bank of Montreal is barred from disbursing margins. The action follows a charge that leading bulls engineered a corner in July oats after a board committee had ordered settlements for shorts.
Des Moines report says Dr. William M. Beardshear president of Iowa State College died from nervous prostration. He collapsed while attending the National Education Association meeting in Minneapolis last month where he also served as president. He previously led Western College Tama and, ten years ago, the State Agricultural College then smaller in size due to his efforts.
Tabor Iowa August 6 Dr John Gordon D D has been elected professor at Tabor college. He has served as acting president for one year and was a college professor for a year before that.
Rome reports Mer Guidi, currently serving with Cardinal Rampolla papal secretary of state, is appointed apostolic delegate to Manila. This move places Guidi in a key diplomatic role for the Vatican in the Philippines.
The president appointed Edward M. Crane postmaster at Oshkosh Wisconsin. Captain W M Cumming veteran lake steamer master is dead at sixty one. Thirty five Washington Louisiana buildings burned in a major fire causing a 100000 loss. Archbishop Robert Machray remains seriously ill in London. Golfer William Holabird Jr is critically ill with typhoid at his Evanston home. NYSE to close next Saturday for King Edward’s coronation.
Baseball results list scores by city venues including Milwaukee Louisville St Paul Minneapolis Toledo Kansas City Indianapolis Detroit Boston Cleveland Washington St Louis Baltimore Chicago Philadelphia New York Pittsburg Boston St Louis Brooklyn Cincinnati Philadelphia Chicago.
Minneapolis August 5 report shows Wheat Sept at 66% and Dec at 65% with slight shifts. Track No 1 hard at 75 4, No 1 Northern at 75 14, No 2 Northern at 72 3.
Sioux City market report lists cattle Beeves 5.50 to 7.50 cows bulls and mixed 2.00 to 5.00 stockers and feeders 2.50 to 4.60 yearlings and calves 2.50 to 4.00. Hogs 7.15 to 7.40.
The Duluth market lists cash wheat with No. 1 hard at 75 5/8 cents and No. 1 Northern at 72 1/2 cents. No. 2 Northern 71 cents, No. 3 spring 68 cents. Futures show No. 1 hard 75 1/8, No. 1 Northern 72 1/2, Sept 68 1/8, Dec 66 1/2 cents. Flax cash at 1.48 dollars.
John Andreyski aged thirteen and Mary Andreyski aged ten died when they were swept away crossing a river in a boom in the northern part of Wausau Wisconsin. Their bodies were recovered.
St Paul cattle prices show choice butcher steers at 6.00 to 7.50, cows and heifers 4.00 to 6.00, veals 3.00 to 6.50. Hogs range 7.10 to 7.40, sheep 3.25 to 3.75, lambs 4.50 to 5.00.
Former President Kruger of the Transvaal republic was visited by General Lucas Meyer in The Hague. Kruger plans a call on former President Steyn of the Orange Free State later today.
Cattle Good to choice steers bring 8.00 to 8.85 dollars per hundredweight, middling to poor 4.75 to 7.70, stockers and feeders 2.50 to 5.25, cows and heifers 1.50 to 6.50, Texas steers 3.25 to 5.50. Hogs mixed and butcher 7.00 to 7.75, good to choice heavy 7.50 to 7.87, rough heavy 7.00 to 7.40, light 6.85 to 7.45, bulk 7.25 to 7.50. Sheep good to choice 3.50 to 4.00, lambs 5.75.
Mrs Sarah Messler of Denver, long blind and deemed incurable by eye doctors, reports regaining sight during a Holiness revival at the Pentecostal Union. She describes a white light guiding her vision, now nearly as sharp as before blindness.
Chicago market update lists wheat futures at August 6934c Sept 69 69%c Decc 68% 68%4c May 70% 70%ec. Corn futures show August 59c Sept 55%c Dec 42% 42%c May 40%c. Oats August 35c Sept 31% 82cc Dec 30% 30%c May 31%c. Pork bids Aug 16.70 Sept 16.85 Oct 16.95 Jan 16.77% May 15.65. Butter creamery and dairy quotes noted 15 19%c and 15 18c. Eggs 16e. Turkeys 124% 18%c thickens 114% 14ec. Flax cash prices Northwest ern 1.55 Southwestern 1.47.
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