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Newspaper
Austin Daily Herald
Location
Austin, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1908
Page
1
Fire rages toward Sand Point after Kootenai is destroyed by forest flames blowing through the area. About 1,000 residents face evacuation as 500 volunteers battle the blaze and Spokane requests aid.
Paris reports a growing insurgency in French Indo China with native bands active at multiple points. French forces have suffered heavy losses including 100 native soldiers and several officers, prompting calls for heavy reinforcements as claims of a 36 000 strong revolt and 10000 Chinese bandits gathering on the frontier circulate.
The Northern Pacific North Coast limited wreck at Glendive Montana on August 12 has claimed five deaths. Express Messenger Wilson dies, rescuers recover an unidentified tramp, and dismembered body parts are found. Engineer C D Litch is recovering. other injures reported stable.
Lisbon August reports a surge in arms and bomb smuggling fueling fears of a rising revolutionary push. Security asserts thirty anarchists arrested in Portugal belong to a major secret society headquartered in New York with branches in major European cities.
A large passenger boat struck the Titania as it entered Charlotte harbor from the Thousand Islands and sank in ten to twelve feet of water. Twenty Titania passengers were thrown into the water but all were rescued.
An explosion of fire damp at the Dunweiler mine nearEntbracken Germany on August 12 killed fifteen miners and left six others hospitalized with serious injuries. Thirteen died at once and two succumbed to injuries later.
Hot Springs Virginia August 12 Arthur Vorys Taft manager Gus Karger and Frank Hitchcock national chairman travel to Virginia to focus campaign on the mountains. Vorys boosts Ohio vote potential while predicting state ticket success and shifts in congressional races. Hitchcock to shape advisory committee and financing with emphasis on commercial centers. Taft equals Rockefeller golf score tying Bourne at eighty eight.
Frank H. Hitchcock, Republican national committee chairman, discusses fundraising with Cornelius Bliss before departing New York for Hot Springs, Va. Bliss likely joins a nine member advisory committee to work with the chairman on fund-raising. Hitchcock will then go to Chicago to open Western headquarters on Aug. 15 for a bureau heads conference.
Boston August 12 The second business day of the national convention of the American Federation of Catholic Societies featured notable speeches by Bishop Hendricks of the Philippines and Professor J C Monaghan of the Washington agricultural department. The committee on resolutions worked diligently on the platform.
Jack Leyburn, owned by State Senator James P. McNichols, won the race at Belmont against Sweet Marie owned by William Bradley in straight heats. He set a new track record, 2:06½ for the first heat, and 2:06 for the second heat.
In Boston on August 12 the International Typographical Union approved appointing a committee to investigate tuberculosis impacts on members and defeated a proposal for a convention every five years instead of annually.
Colonel Major Jones battery fired a 41 gun salute at sunrise signaling the notification of William Jennings Bryan for the presidency. Lincoln hosted a nonpartisan celebration with speeches by Bryan John W Kern and H D Clayton, drawing officials from Nebraska and beyond.
Wilbur Wright of Dayton Ohio achieves the longest and most successful flight in the aeroplane trials at Le Mans France lasting 3 minutes and 40 seconds. His machine circled the field three times at about thirty six miles per hour and descended to a grandstand to a cheering crowd before continuing the flight and returning to the start point for a gentle landing.
Eighteen NYYC yachts completed a twenty mile run from Newport to Vineyard Haven Massachusetts. The Queen won the vice commodore's cup for schooners and Katrina placed second. Avenger Rosaline won the cups for sloops and Istalena Weetawmeec Rowe and Vancedora led the class gaves.
The official Speed trial of Captain Baldwin's airship was postponed again while a preliminary run with Mr. Curtis and Captain Baldwin aboard covered about 18.7 miles in a short session. Spectators included Secretary of War Luke E. Wright and chief signal officer James Allen as Wright brothers plans move toward Fort Meyer tests and a possible six-nation trial. The Baldwin airship stayed aloft twenty two minutes covering nearly five miles amid a light wind.
London reports Sir Thomas Lipton, buoyed by Shamrock's 24 wins in 27 regattas this year, seeks a new challenge for the America's Cup. He awaits a possible acceptance from the New York Yacht Club to race under universal American rules, hoping to build two boats with the faster crossing the Atlantic. Designer Fife backs a new challenger under these rules.
Washington Aug 12 Chief Wilkie of the secret service said an agent general's pouch containing nearly $2,000 in government pay checks was stolen in front of the building housing the department of commerce and labor. The pouch was recovered with the checks missing and two checks have been cashed. The robber's identity is not known.
The Minnesota state fair will run August 31 to September 5 with extensive lighting. Electric decorations from the Shriners clave will stay up and the fair grounds will be illuminated as never before, with each principal building outlined in light for the first time in forty nine years.
Electric lighting will outline the Exposition grandstand and other structures during state fair week. Work began last week on installing 20 000 six teen candle power lights to create a fairy night scene, with 1 080 feet of electric sign near the grandstand bearing the message Fort Ridgely in 62. Tonight at 7 30.
For sale houses on water bridge railway St Paul streets and Oakland avenue town lots and farms near Austin and in the northern part of the state call and see me.
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