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Newspaper
Austin Daily Herald
Location
Austin, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1909
Page
1
report from Laredo claims no federal force movements to arrest General Bernardo Reyes governor of Nuevo Leon. Reyes remains in Galeana area and not active in Regista politics. authorities fear arrest could trigger riots and bloodshed.
New York Aug 24 District Attorney William Travers Jerome declares a bid for re election running independently. He will seek a petition nomination needing two thousand signatures while Meadville faces a tense aftermath from the Newman Pritchard feud and a gun shooting near Ernest Newman prompting martial law measures.
Meadville Mississippi reports martial law in effect with state troops encamped around the courthouse and in control of the situation as of August 24.
Weather bureau reports two tropical storms rising in the South Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico, 400 miles apart and moving in different directions toward Hatteras. Storm warnings were issued for mariners from New Orleans to Galveston and the east Gulf coast as the storms head toward U S shores.
In St Paul on August 24 Clarence Whiley eleven, living with his parents at 182 East Fairfield avenue, drowned off Raspberry Island while swimming. His eight year old brother Jesse Wiley narrowly escaped death trying to save him. The body was recovered.
An explosion in the purifying chamber between two gasometers at Geneva’s city gas works killed five people and seriously injured twelve. Dozens of doctors treated the wounded, who were moved to the city hospital. Spectators swarmed the scene as authorities closed nearby businesses and evacuated several houses after two more bodies were recovered.
In Goshen Indiana the funeral for Charles Crary was halted by undertaker C B Stiver and police who cite a six year old cremation contract with Silver in Chicago. The Dallas death led to his uncle Wesley Crary taking charge and a court dispute to decide the body’s disposition. Crary’s uncle claims mental irresponsibility at the time of the contract.
Washington report states Ormsby McHarg assistant secretary of commerce and labor will retire October 1. He will not return to North Dakota and has arranged to practice law in New York.
Five laborers were killed and one fatally wounded with ten others seriously hurt in a feud between farm workers from Jariquilla and Santa Rose, near El Paso, Texas, on August 24.
Milwaukee reports two youths, Joseph Bitz aged fifteen and Harry Weidner aged thirteen, drowned while bathing in the Menominee River. The bodies were recovered.
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