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Newspaper
Austin Daily Herald
Location
Austin, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1909
Page
7
A promotional notice touts Arcadia in Colville Valley offering 10 acres of fruit land with $25 monthly income promising lifelong wealth and health. It highlights ideal climate, water, soil, and ozone air, urging readers to request a booklet from Cyril E. Dixen in Minneapolis for details.
William Goff a nineteen year old colored man shot and killed Georgia Bell a thirty year old woman with whom he had lived since last summer. After the murder he fled to the Grand Forks side where he bought carbolic acid and was found in bed with clothes on. He was arrested and to be taken to Crookston for jail.
Washington reports from December 3 that after a Panama visit by Representative Tawney and other congressmen, House leaders plan to abolish the Panama canal commission and create a director general with full control of construction. Representative Mann prepared the bill. administration support is expected.
St Paul reports State Labor Commissioner W E McEwen plans to arrest and prosecute men brought from Chicago and elsewhere serving as special officers in railroad yards and terminals if they act as police. Two agents were commissioned to investigate and report evidence to McEwen who will act under a state citizenship law.
At the nineteenth annual convention of the American Association of Fairs and Expositions in Chicago the need for staggered fair dates to aid exhibitor movement was set. Illinois Missouri and Oklahoma fairs were blamed for clashing in October. Governors Eberhart of Minnesota spoke at the banquet urging better farming and praising fairs.
Augusta Crisin i was acquitted of murder in New York after stabbing her husband with a shoemaker’s awl. Samuel Untermyer, acting as court assigned defense, received the $500 state fee from Crisin i. He reportedly spent about $1,000 on preparation from his own funds. The jury foreman thanked Untermyer personally as court adjourned.
New York December 3 Morgan & Co announces that J Pierpont Morgan now controls the Equitable Life Assurance society with 472 million dollars in assets. The transfer reverses the old order of insurer dominance by banks and trusts and follows Morgan purchasing a majority of Thomas F Ryan’s stock. The change is subject to a trust for policyholders held by Grover Cleveland Morgan J O’Brien and George Westinghouse. Details beyond that were not provided.
Milwaukee reports the start of the 10 month campaign for United States senator La Follette with a public address by Senator Clapp of Minnesota, now his chief supporter. A statewide La Follette conference followed to set the renomination slate as 300 trusted followers gathered.
Washington reports Taft's final message text completed after five hours of cabinet discussion. Cabinet members emerged to a pile of edited proofs with blue penciled changes. The president’s message rushed to the public printer as compositors work.
One of the worst storms of the season sweeps Eastern Montana and Northern Wyoming. Wyoming stockmen fear losses as 500 school children in Matinee and Sheridan Wyoming are escorted home by police and civilian volunteers to prevent them being lost in the blizzard.
Lena Kooen of Gary Wisconsin is jailed in Crookston charged with murdering her infant. The body was recovered from Red Lake river after evidence suggested strangulation before disposal. She was arrested at Grand Forks and has confessed fully.
In Rome on December 3 Premier Giolitti announced the resignation of the entire cabinet after the chamber of deputies failed to pass the government's fiscal reform bill. The move comes as the government seeks to resolve a political stalemate over finance.
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