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Newspaper
Austin Daily Herald
Location
Austin, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1906
Page
1
The government plans to push a peasant land policy as a temporary law to appease unrest and win broad support, including the division of communistic holdings. Officials caution on funding land purchases and note ongoing revolutionary activity and cabinet changes.
The famous Hartje divorce trial ends after a heated closing. Judge Fraser will resume deliberations in the fall, with decisions likely delayed until late autumn. A dispute over alleged letters and forgery marked the final moments of the proceedings.
In St. Joseph Michigan on August 8 Hiram B flehmick and his bride two weeks married were riding from Benton Harbor when their buggy was struck by an electric trolley. They were crushed beneath the trolley wheels and died.
Harry Baker of San Francisco, amateur featherweight champion, defeats Frankie Neil in twenty gruelling rounds at Pacific Athletic Club on Tuesday night. The bout took place at catch weights and Baker earned the decision.
Five Japanese fishermen were killed and twelve were captured on Attu Island in the western Aleutians. The prisoners were taken by the revenue cutter McCulloch under Captain J C Cantwell. The incident involved alleged trespassers in American waters while salt curing their catch. No blame attached to MacCulloch crew. Acting Secretary Bacon to inform the Japanese ambassador and express regret.
Theodore Stensland, vice president of Milwaukee Avenue State Bank, is jailed on Illinois banking law violations as the bank's finances unravel. Officials report embezzlement risks, tampered safety deposit boxes, and a receiver taking control while the missing president is sought amid intensifying investigations. Depositors may recover about 70 cents on the dollar.
Beloit college circles mourn Ruth MacCumber twenty five prominent in Beloit music circles and a former Oberlin conservatory student drowned during a lake outing at Camp Collie She lost control while bathing and Henry D. Smith Beloit graduate attempted rescue Both were pulled from the water with Smith unconscious and not expected to survive
Dispatches from San Angelo county report initial flood damage overestimated as the Colorado and Concho rivers subside. Ranchers lose cattle and sheep while Brookwood lowlands crops are ruined. Santa Fe Railway expects rapid bridge repairs. No lives lost.
Manitowoc Wis Aug 8 Failure of his attempts to win the love and the hand of a twenty year old girl plunged Alois Turkinsky the oldest resident of the village of Reedsville into a state of despondency during which he took his own life. Turkinsky was ninety five years old.
Cedar Rapids Iowa August 8 Wesley Shaffer a farmer near Viola is arrested and charged with the murder of his wife by beating her head with a hammer and choking her The coroner's jury holds him responsible after neighbors report she fell and Shaffer claims he carried her upstairs The couple had twelve children.
Edward Knight twelve years old drowned in the Wisconsin river after being swept into deep water by a steamer wake. The incident occurred in Janesville on August 8.
Daniel Winn, a Black man, shot and killed his wife at Lake Forest after a brief quarrel and then fatally shot himself. Police reported no further details. The incident occurred in a residence within the Lake Forest area with authorities examining the scene.
Delegates in Coeur D Alene place a ticket led by Fred T. Dubois and Rees Hattabaugh after a two day convention. The platform marks anti Mormonism as the keynote and pledges to enact a test oath potentially disfranchising loyal Mormons.
In New York the US circuit court hears Charles C. Browne formerly of the customs service who was extradited from Canada to Sing Sing for a two year term on a conspiracy to defraud the government. Browne fled after jumping a 12500 bail bond. extradition on the conspiracy charge was refused but he was sent back on an amended charge as a fugitive from justice.
Mrs Emma Le Doux, of Stockton California, was sentenced to be hanged October 19 for the murder of miner Albert H. McVicar with whom she had been living. The verdict and sentence will be appealed.
The Isthmian canal commission seeks 500 skilled mechanics for Panama service. Employment agent Henry A. Smith has arrived in Chicago to recruit boilermakers blacksmiths locomotive engineers conductors and brakemen for the project.
Minneapolis investigators report Frank Staffer died at St Mary's Hospital after a quarrel Saturday night. Police seek John Harris who allegedly thrust the umbrella sharpened tip into Staffer's right eye, causing fatal injuries.
New York reports a heavy thunderstorm and heavy rain ending a three day heat spell. Lightning struck in several areas but no serious damage. Ten deaths from heat occurred on Tuesday.
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