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Newspaper
Austin Daily Herald
Location
Austin, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1902
Page
1
The Austin store touts constant crowd draw by offering exceptionally low prices. A coming week will feature notable special sales and continued great values from the past week, with more to come in the Great Sale.
The shop promotes deep discounts on shirt waists, wool and cotton waists, and a large sample line of underwear. Half price deals and offers to compare goods urge shoppers to visit and buy, with warnings against chasing a misdrawn bargain. A note on a political death reports Ex-Speaker Thomas B. Reed’s passing after illness and emergency treatment in Washington.
Havelock Ontario December report details James Rogers of Belmont driving across Canadian Pacific tracks when a train hit the sleigh. Mrs Rogers and a twelve year old son were killed. Mr Rogers and his nine year old daughter were fatally injured and another fourteen year old boy was badly hurt.
London reports the royal commission on South Africa urges that penal servitude even for life be wholly remitted or reduced to short imprisonment terms. More than seven hundred cases in Cape Colony involved treason, with many civilians affected and several sentences shortened. The commissioners, including high court judges and a former war office intelligence chief, argue for a pacifying outcome as hundreds are released or near release.
Six people die when the Canadian Pacific Express from Montreal plunges down an embankment at Belmont station seventy miles from Halifax. A score of others are injured as the locomotive postal express and baggage cars and several passenger coaches are wrecked. The pilot loosened and fell in front of the engine.
Mrs Stella Lawrence of Danville Illinois died four hours after drinking half an ounce of carbolic acid by mistake. Her husband J C Lawrence said he left the house briefly and returned to find her prostrate on the bedroom floor. He reported she drank half the bottle, mistaking it for cough syrup in the dark.
Judge John I. Mullins jailed Mayor R. R. Wright Jr and eleven aldermen for four months for contempt after disobeying a court injunction that blocked a Denver City Tramway company franchise ordinance. They will appeal and be released on bonds.
Alice McMahon, a hotel domestic, was found dead in her room in Springfield on December 8. William Pittman, a Frisco shops employee, was wounded in the room and claims the girl shot him in a jealous frenzy before killing herself. Police report she had a bullet wound in the back and Pittman is held for investigation.
Boston reports no reply yet to Acting Consul Clipperton’s cablegram to Britain seeking modification of the cattle quarantine. Steamshipmen and cattle ship pers urge Portland Maine shipments of Western and Canadian cattle. Woolen export trade stalls as officials consider a formal stance on foot and mouth disease and Portland loading.
The Gloucester schooner Veda McKeown under Captain McFarland arrived at North Sydney with her flag at half mast after three crew members were swept overboard and drowned in a Saturday storm near Halifax. The captain and rest of the crew were below decks.
In Wenachie Washington on December 8, W R Wander of Seattle H Coole and M Martin were drowned while surveying a site for a new power plant. Only Coole's body has been recovered. the boat apparently capsized in rapids after losing control.
Mrs James R Abernathy of St Louis remains in a deep sleep after dozing off while reading a newspaper aloud to her husband on Friday morning. An electric battery revived her briefly and she opened her eyes then slept again. Doctors attribute the condition to cerebral hemorrhage and report stable breathing and strong heart action.
In St Louis on December 8 Benjamin Wagner shot his nephew D W Bair and then killed himself. Six weeks earlier Bair married, fueling Wagner’s melancholy over their strained ties. Both men worked in nearby dry goods stores.
The remains of Thomas Brackett Reed, who died Saturday night, departed Washington in the afternoon for his former home in Portland, Maine. Interment is set for Tuesday afternoon. the body was placed on a special train at 4:50 as the second section of the Federal express.
Ypsilanti Michigan December 8 Professor August Lodeman longtime chair of modern languages at the state normal school died suddenly of acute indigestion. Born in Germany, he was aged about 42.
Miss Nelson, a housemaid for Mrs. Carr Anderson, tried to start a fire with gasoline. The flames engulfed her clothing, and she ran into the street as a living torch as the fire burned badly.
London dispatch reports Colonel Lamb, member of the English rifle team returning from Canada, killed himself with a rifle while the Cunard steamer Etruria ascended the Mersey Saturday morning. The incident occurred during the voyage as authorities investigate the death.
The Northwestern Telephone Exchange Company provides copper circuits with prompt reliable service. Rates include one two and three minute options with night rates from six p m to six a m. Try it at once.
Washington December 8 the immigration bill now in the senate has already passed the house and is likely to come to a vote this session. The bill consolidates prior immigration laws and adds key provisions including status for natives of Porto Rico and the Philippines and a literacy test for aliens over age fifteen. The restriction excludes Canadians Mexicans and Cubans.
Washington observers report the statehood bill will be taken up by the senate next Wednesday as part of unfinished business. Senator Beveridge will lead hearings with committee support and testimony from the subcommittee on territories. Immigration legislation will receive slow attention, with readings and amendments likely amid ongoing executive business and a possible Thursday to Monday adjournment.
Washington dispatch notes no fixed agenda this week beyond the London dock charge bill and the Wagner versus Butler election contest from Missouri. The lumber and export interests backings wavered, risking defeat, while Butler seeks to defend a contested seat amid tight deadlines before March. If the appropriation bill finishes, action may come late in the week. otherwise minor committee bills may fill the time.
Washington December 8 The house will adjourn soon after assembling as a mark of respect to the late Speaker Reed. After Journal approval Representative Sherman of New York will present a condolence resolution and the house will adjourn after its acceptance.
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