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Newspaper
Austin Daily Herald
Location
Austin, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1909
Page
1
Washington reports Congress finished the annual message and adjourned until Friday to allow committees to act on the topics. The House paused after a reading period while the Senate held an executive session. Republicans called the message satisfactory. Democrats favored economy but challenged the Monroe doctrine as obsolete.
In Hamburg on the Elbe front two gas tanks exploded due to a gasometer leak. A large fire followed, with at least ten dead and fourteen seriously injured. Dozens more were missing as flames reached the old gasometer, the world’s largest at 200,000 cubic meters, amid a citywide search for bodies.
Washington reports retrenchment as the keynote of fiscal 1911 expenditures in Franklin MacVeagh’s annual treasury report. Totals show 1911 estimates at 671 million, a decline from 1910 appropriations, with receipts near 648 million for the current year and 472 million for 1911, yielding a deficit then a projected surplus, plus canal and debt payments affecting overall totals. The secretary urges higher tax on bank circulation secured by bonds if interest exceeds 2 percent, while proposing continuation of the 0.5 percent rate for circulation based on 2 percent bonds.
President Hawley of the Switchmen's Union will travel to Cincinnati to confer with Samuel Gompers amid ongoing rail labor disputes. Union leaders say they control the strike, while Great Northern’s Hill offers to rehire affected workers, and some merchants report Northwest rail traffic recovering.
President Taft reaffirmed the Aldrich Payne act tariff board will collect cost of production data at home and abroad. Minnesota senators Nelson and Clapp welcomed the move as advancing tariff commission ideas, while Aldrich and Hale warned the board could widen beyond enforcement. The president urged ongoing appropriations to sustain the board, aiming for a permanent tariff information resource.
Traverse City reports Frank Moeller formerly of Milwaukee was killed while hunting in the woods near Newberry Luce County. He fell while standing on a les and was in the act when the accident occurred.
Thomas Nolan aged 63 was found in an exhausted condition in a Janesville schoolyard after getting lost in a severe snowstorm. He died several hours later, authorities reported.
Governor Haskell cancels Attorney General West authority to represent the state before the county grand jury. The move abruptly ends the probe into the Columbia Bank and Trust Company of Oklahoma City. He says further bank records will be turned over to a grand jury after the state banking board completes its accounting and court orders.
Francis J. Heney quits his post as special prosecutor in the San Francisco bribery graft cases. He was appointed by William H. Langdon and was defeated for district attorney by Charles M. Fickert at the recent election.
Louis Gros s ner aged fifty five fell from the bridge over the Iowa county creek and drowned. An employee of the Amana Society of Mennonites, he had no known relatives.
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