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Newspaper
Austin Daily Herald
Location
Austin, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1909
Page
1
A fragmentary quotation contrasts a speaker’s role with a mother and a leader of the minority. A Dutch proverb about honesty during thunderstorms closes the snippet.
A gentleman wandered a strange golf course with a local caddie and asked about a hole beyond a high wall. The caddie dryly answered there is the cemetery over there and warned against getting into a hole there.
Riot clashes between striking freight handlers and Canadian Pacific Railway special police in Fort William Ont left seven or eight wounded, including five CPR constables. Chief Ball was shot and dying. Mayors barred firework sales and liquor vendors warned against serving. Royal Canadian Mounted Rifles dispatched with 300 rounds to Fort William.
Allegheny county sheriff refuses further evictions of strikers at Pressed Steel Car homes after court orders and company refusal to provide removal staff. Rioting in Schoenville zone leaves Steven Horavat dead, Major Smith held on murder. witnesses say Smith acted in self defense while others attack him.
Annapolis Aug 13 After over three weeks the naval court of inquiry into Lieutenant J N Suttons death finished testimony. Summing up to proceed with arguments today, then report to the navy department. Major Leonard withheld opening remarks. Commander Hood predicted a concise close. Dr E M Shaeffer testified gunshot wounds. under the given conditions Sutton could not have shot himself.
Denver reports a sweeping Alaska coal land fraud involving prominent financiers from New York to Seattle. Investigators say 75 percent of pre May 28 1908 coal claims are fraudulent and, backed by pressure on officials, aim to cancel about 500 entries covering 300000 acres. Hearings will spread coast to coast with Seattle as a starting point.
Washington reports Dr Wu Ting Fang, Chinese minister to the United States, has been recalled for a second time and directed to return home. Chang Yin Tang will be his successor, noted as a progressive with prior diplomatic service in India England Tibet and the United States. Wu is in Peru and plans to stay another month. He is famed for vegetarian advocacy and aims to live to 100 years.
Four mounted bandits robbed the State bank of Crandall of over $1,000 using dynamite to blow open the safe. The blast wrecked the building and drew nearby residents as the robbers escaped across the prairie in Crandall, South Dakota, on August 13.
Samuel R. Van Sant was elected commander in chief of the Grand Army of the Republic at Salt Lake City in a tight contest over William A. Ketcham with 583 votes to 156 from departments. Ketcham urged unanimity, Van Sant pledged full-year grand army work, and nominees were chosen for senior and junior vice commanders and surgeon general. Mrs. Jennie J. Berry was elected national president of the Women's Relief Corps, with encampment location debates continuing.
Pittsburg August 13 The third day featured Major General Frederick D Grant urging airships as decisive in future warfare and noting the war department watches aeroplane development. Delegates debated insignia and uniforms while officers were elected by acclamation including Commander Colonel C L Jewett and several vice commanders and staff officers from multiple states.
Spokane Aug 17 Former U S senator John Wilson and financier Farson defend Secretary Ballinger. Pardee questions water power openings. Farson denies insinuations. Ferrell of Idaho attacks Washington Power Co over damming and flood fears near Spokane. warns of valley devastation and calls for action to avert disaster.
In Coeur d Alene Idaho Aug 13 two thousand names were drawn for lands in the Flathead Indian reservation. Joseph Kuray of Warsaw Indiana won lucky number 1 as buff envelopes were opened on the platform. The tallying proceeded per functionary with cheering and a later winner noted as N D McPhee of Coeur d Alene. The first woman winner was Eleanor Meleaun of Missoula Montana who said she is seventy years old.
The poem ponders who is the greatest inventor with a playful jab at Shaggey Taied and Pat Pending, noting the pupil appears on more inventions than any other. The Chicago Tribune tone echoes in a light, satirical aside.
Washington August 13 China charges Japan has violated treaty stipulations in Manchurian railway matters. The Chinese legation memo accuses Japan of military and strategic aims behind reconstruction of the line, opposing sovereignty and demanding talks on railway guards and military presence. The note blames Japan for the impasse and calls for a reasonable negotiation path.
New York reporters note a fresh arrest in the Persch case. Donald Persch, a note broker, faces larceny charges for $110,000 in copper stocks used as collateral for a $50,000 Windsor Trust loan. W. L. Clark, also a Joyce broker, is charged with $10,000 tied to profits from curb stock sales.
The seven crew members of the Newfoundland fishing schooner Myrtle are believed lost after a gale battered the maritime provinces for two days. Boats reached the vessel driven on rocks at Linzan Head, but no trace of the crew was found.
The Finalist Lor Freddie Welsh has arranged a single live round glove contest with Battling Nelson to be staged in the United States in September for the world's lightweight championship.
Peru Indiana August 13 two young men Harry Wilson and Harry Hauk were struck and killed by lightning while driving into a barn at Wilsons house. The bolt started a fire in the barn but neighbors removed the bodies.
A severe electrical storm struck Chicago on August 13 darkening the downtown and West Side, destroying a street car and injuring several people as numerous houses were hit by lightning.
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