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Newspaper
Austin Daily Herald
Location
Austin, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1902
Page
1
In a brisk catalog of apparel, the store touts deep discounts on shirt waists and wool and cotton waists, promising notable savings. New cloaks arrive with surprising prices that may astonish shoppers, and a large sample line is offered.
About fifty dozen underwear samples were offered for sale with many duplicates of current stock. The notice notes the line was purchased, allows price comparison, and states goods remain available only while stock lasts.
A humorous ad invites readers to a Bug Sale promising carpetable home savings and low prices with a playful warning against inflated marks while urging shoppers to compare goods and avoid poor judgments in a cheeky sale pitch.
Washington dispatch notes the Fifty seventh congress faces a flood of trust bills as the House convenes for the final session. President Truman recommends on trusts are awaited, with debate over an appropriation to fund Sherman act prosecutions and possible DOJ action. Republican leaders seek quick passage of appropriation measures to free time for broader action.
The Chicago and Baltimore express eastbound on the Baltimore and Ohio railway collided with a freight at Carbon Pennsylvania after an open switch. One killed Howard Bradley engineer of the passenger train and three others injured two seriously. The locomotives wrecked and the express car telescoped. Passengers shaken but uninjured. The crash blamed on freight brakeman not throwing the switch.
The Austin store invites the public with ceaseless crowds drawn by low prices and exceptional offerings. A coming week marks another determ ined push to share these great values and attract shoppers, with many more to be found in the ongoing sale.
Chicago officials report thirteen dead and about a hundred injured after a boiler explosion at the Swift & Co plant in the Stockyards district. Rescue teams, doctors, and ambulances rushed to the scene as walls collapsed and debris blocked streets. The cause remains under investigation amid a chaotic, frightful disaster.
Two laborers Alfred Nelson and Robert Dempsey were killed when they rode a westbound freight near Missoula. They were buried under coal and iron, identified by local authorities.
Milwaukee reports the deer season closed in the Northern woods with fourteen men killed and at least eleven seriously wounded across Minnesota Wisconsin and Michigan. The rash of deaths marks an unusually deadly season for hunters in the region.
The December grand jury will convene to continue the municipal graft probe in St Louis. Circuit Attorney Folk, vowing to push the probe to completion, weighs the lighting bill indictments and possible prosecutions under the statute of limitations. Former House of Delegates speaker Charles F. Kelly, jailed in Philadelphia, is slated for trial December 15 in the Suburban case unless he seeks severance, with additional trials anticipated before then.
In Shamokin Pennsylvania four men were killed three fatally and five seriously injured when a gas explosion ripped through the Luke Fiddler colliery. Officials pursue causes, but suspect a miner opened a safety lamp, as the mine roared with gas and after-damp filled passages and toppled timbers and cars.
Elwood Indiana December 1 Mrs Charlies L Dubois recently married was found dead in her bed with a car bolic acid bottle and a note nearby. Autopsy found no poison. a blunt instrument wound was on her head. Coroner’s inquest led to husband Charles Dubois being arrested and charged with murder.
The Rt. Rev. William O'Brien Pardow urges national help for Catholic schools in the United States. He cites Catholics paying 25 million dollars annually in taxes and educating 1,000,000 children without country cost, and asks that Americans recognize their work. The lecture, on Saint de la Salle and Modern Education, was given to a large Catholic audience in Chicago.
President Castro has opened all Caracas prisons and those at Puerto Cabello and Maracaibo and released political offenders. Among the freed are Olavarria. Travieso, Volcan, and Nuex, linked to the Caracas traders. Reports say General J R Herendez and three other leaders may be freed soon.
Telegraph reports from London detail General Manning's flying column breaking the Bohotle garrison on November 19 in the Mad Mullah's country and British reverses at Erago. The Somali levies are described as cowardly and insubordinate, leaving British officers dismayed at the difficulty of disciplining them.
A Chicago, Duluth and Eastern capitalists syndicate closes a deal for 100000 acres of mineral and timber lands along the Eastern Kentucky border with options on 400000 more. Plans include extending three railways into the Big Sandy region: Cincinnati Hamilton and Dayton, Chesapeake and Ohio, and the Seaboard Air Line.
Wesley Reynolds sixteen year old bank clerk is killed when robbers break into the Westville bank. More than twenty shots fired, robbers escape in a stolen rig abandoned six miles south. Sheriff Small leads a posse. a $1000 reward is offered. Reynolds sustains three wounds including one to the heart.
In Greenville Illinois on December 1 Albert Ethridge eighteen shot and killed John Kestner proprietor of the Western hotel after a dispute over meat. Ethridge waited at the Springer drug store and fired when Kestner and three companions approached. A posse captured him and the coroner's jury sent him to the grand jury without bail on murder charges.
Washington reports the senate likely will take up statehood for Oklahoma New Mexico and Arizona as its top issue this session. The territories bill may be reported December 3 and become the main unfinished business unless defeated or halted by unanimous consent. Other agenda items include trusts tariff and Cuban reciprocity with possible delays on the latter.
Mrs Hattie J Whitten arrested on a charge of poisoning her nine year old daughter dies by hanging in custody in Dexter Maine The case also involves the death of an eleven year old daughter and an autopsy found arsenic and strychnine The husband died two years ago authorities describe a sensational inquiry in progress
Two men armed with revolvers robbed the Columbia saloon in Bemidji Minnesota shortly after 6 pm getting only the day’s receipts from the cash register. They escaped before an alarm and were pursued by officers as residents urged vigilance. The widely spoken hold up caused great city excitement. It is believed the robbers will not escape.
President Harriman orders pensioning of elder employes on the Southern Pacific in Texas. Managers will retire those aged seventy or older and pay 1 percent of the average salary over ten years before retirement, mirroring schemes used by the Pennsylvania Illinois Central and Chicago and Northwestern railways.
Scranton Pa December 1 A conference of the mine strike commissioners will be held Tuesday night before hearings resume Wednesday morning. Commissioners Clack Watkins and Parker are in town and teams will prepare a statement outlining the ten days recess and the commission stance on its results and purpose.
Snow fell steadily in El Paso and covered nearby hills with reports of a widespread storm across New Mexico and Old Mexico, indicating a large regional weather event today.
In Molt, Georgia, Thomas Johnson fatally shot Charles Moore at Cabottis Mill near Moltrie during the day after a dispute over twenty-five cents.
In Minneapolis a thirteen year old girl Inez Hollis drank carbolic acid at 1304 Twenty first avenue north after a sister's remark and died. Henry Ballhusen, recently without funds for a hotel bill, hanged himself from a door in his room at 236 Plymouth avenue north. The events occurred Sunday afternoon and morning respectively.
In Escanaba Michigan December 1 Pat Downey a 32 year old deck hand aboard the steamer Maryland died instantly after a scuffle with two fellow deckhands on the deck while unloading coal at the St Paul dock. Downey suffered a broken neck in the fall.
Kenton Ohio December 1 Three men were killed in a boiler explosion at a saw mill in Algeria near Kenton. The boiler rupture collapsed part of the building and workers at the mill were struck, hurled several yards.
In Elkhart Indiana Arthur Lynette eight and Charles Lynette six died from burns suffered when a kerosene fire exploded while their parents still slept. The brothers were found with burns and died about an hour after the blast.
The Chicago Inter Ocean notes top-tipping waiters display lasting patience and pleasant demeanor. They should avoid seeking tips or begging pity and let patrons decide. If tipped before serving, keep the tip on the table and earn the gratuity with good service.
An English visitor marvels at a rapidly rising skyscraper as a Westerner explains, joking that American construction grows like maize. The cousin from overseas reflects on the absurd image, noting sprinklers somehow make the iron plant mature in weeks.
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