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Newspaper
Austin Daily Herald
Location
Austin, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1901
Page
1
Commencing Wednesday Morning With a Seven Inch Start
A fragmentary notice notes activities beginning Wednesday morning around the eleventh cc. observation of a seven inch measure. The text is incomplete but implies an early start and a scheduled action.
Tailored Suits Offer Vast Selection at Low Prices
The ad lists over 30 sample tailored suits with prices from 6.87 to 18.67, featuring lined jackets and flounced skirts. It markets blue, black, brown options, claiming suits in Austin are unmatched and priced far below 24.00 to 39.00.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
Weeklong Cloak Sale Discounts Across Ladies and Children
A grand week in all departments features heavy markdowns on ladies cloaks from 12 to 16.10 each in black caster or Oxford. Short lengths and last season styles offered at Choice prices ranging from 5.00 down to 1.00 on Monday. All children's cloaks half price. Twenty six discounted articles this week including a blue red and black wrap and a flounced galcon frilled wrap. Additional 25 percent off other wraps. a 2.60 wrap cut to 1.47.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oxford
All Our Elegant Shirt Waists Half Price This Week
This sale offers elegant shirt waists at half price, promising a harvest for buyers and a loss for sellers. Bargains never before equalled, urging shoppers to act quickly at the store.
New South Wales Labor Arbitration Law Passed
Sydney December 9 The final stage of industrial arbitration places a new law on the statute books authorizing a competent court with power to enforce orders and awards in employer–employee disputes. A strike or lockout before or during reference becomes a misdemeanor with fines or imprisonment. The supreme court judge will preside and may declare a standard wage and require preference for union labor. no appeal is allowed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sydney
Supreme Court
Prevent Labor Troubles In New York Session
The Nat Civic federation announces the first annual session of its industrial department will meet December 16 and 17 in New York City. Delegates from large employing corporations and major labor groups will discuss evacuation and arbitration to prevent strikes, with topics including Direct of Machinery Labor, the Shorter Hour Movement, and Joint Agreement methods. A permanent executive will be formed with participation from Americas On of Labor, the railway, and business leaders active in labor matters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Nat Civic Federation
Industrial Department
New York Board of Trade and Transportation
Americas
Miners Move to Amalgamate in Nanaimo Strike Threat
In Nanaimo on December 9, miners from Extension Alexandria and Nanaimo voted to amalgamate underground workers and confront Wellington Colliery chief James Dunsmuir. The executive committees will draft affiliation articles, and Extension men may strike in sympathy. Trouble is feared as the union push grows.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nanaimo
B. C
Extension
Alexandria
James Dunsmuir
Wellington
Dunsmuir
Scranton Deputies Attacked While Trying to Arrest Stone Throwers
In Scranton Pennsylvania on South Main avenue at 10 p m three deputies attempted to arrest nonunion youths stoning cars. A large crowd overpowered them and beat two deputies S F Cosgrove and B T Reilly sending them to hospital. At 6 o clock another attack targeted five deputies attempting arrests. after taking prisoners the mob retreated as officers returned with reinforcements and the crowd dispersed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scranton
South Main Avenue
S. F. Cosgrove
B. T. Reilly
New Year's Present At Armour Co Increases Salaries
Chicago December 9 More than 10000 Armour and Company employees will see a salary increase at the start of the year. Many veteran workers will also receive bonuses in addition to higher pay. Secretary F Langdon said the move is in line with the firm’s annual practice. Armour employs between 26000 and 36000 workers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Armour & Co
F. Langdon
Senate expects Hay-Pauncefote treaty ratification this week
Washington the outlook for the week is strong for ratification of the Hay Pauncefote treaty to abrogate the Clayton Bulwer treaty and allow the canal. Southern senators back the project but some criticism is anticipated. Reciproc ity efforts are deferred until January, with opposition noted to agreements with France and Britain on the West Indies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate
Friends
France
Great Britain
West Indies
Philippine Tariff Face Weighs Temporary or Permanent Plan
Washington December 9 The House plans to act this week to address the Philippine Supreme Court decision. Republican members of the Ways and Means Committee have not agreed on the form of the measure. Some favor a temporary Dingley rate, others advocate a full tariff scheme for the islands. Chairman Payne and Dalzell prefer the latter option. If temporary it could pass in a day. a full scheme would take longer to prepare and enact.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
House
Supreme Court
Ways and Means Committee
United States
Philippines
Payne
Dalzell
Cattlemen to be ejected from Choctaw grazing lands
Prominent Choctaw Nation cattlemen face ejectment as the tribal government, with backing from the Interior Department, orders removal to allot grazing land. Thousands of cattlemen are served notices, creating consternation among settlers who have long occupied the range.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ardmore
I. T
Intertion Department
Reconcentration Camps Proposal In South Africa Debate
London reports that when Parliament reassembles the British government plans a new proposal on reconcentration camps in South Africa. The plan is said to distinguish refugees in settled districts and may involve Dutch support for moving camp residents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Britth
South Africa
Brus-sers
Standard
Holland
Holiday sale on linens and apparel items
Advertises discounts on wash rags Turkish toweling and borders, table linens, skirts at special prices, golf gloves at reduced rates, infants shirts, pillow tops and walking skirts with limited quantities and two day only deals. Details include color options and restricted quantities per customer.
Native scouts kill American deserter in Philippines
Native scouts from Nueva Bejojo province decapitate the American deserter David Fagin, but the head is identified as Fagin. His Filipino forces and two years of leadership are noted. A military commission sentenced General Isidoro Torres to death for ordering a soldier's murder, a verdict later disapproved by General Chaffee who doubts sole responsibility. Patterson, English secretary to Sixto Lopez, remains unsettled before the supreme court as deportation questions linger.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manila
Benbagon
Nueva Beejo
David Fagin
Twenty-fourth Infantry
Colored
Fagin
Frederick van Alstaetter
Engineers
Chaffee
Torres
Patterson
Sixto Lopez
United States
Supreme Court
W. Morgan Schuster
Philippines
British trade data shows large November fall in imports and exports
The British board of trade reports November imports down 2 923 000 pounds and exports down 4 782 000 pounds. For the first 11 months of the year imports fell 1 769 000 pounds and exports fell 11 654 000 pounds versus the same period last year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Dec
British Board of Trade
Aged Couple in Fremont Die Within Half Hour
Aged residents Isaac H. Brown and his wife collapsed and died within thirty minutes of each other in Fremont Nebraska on December 9. Mrs. Brown died at 9 30 P M and her husband passed away less than half an hour later despite both being in good health at supper time.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fremont
Neb
Isaac H. Brown
Rizal Birthday Celebrations Ordered in Philippine Schools
Superintendent Atkinson has directed all Philippine schools to annually celebrate Jose Rizal's birthday. Rizal's life will be recited in classes. Pedrono calls for contributions from students parents and teachers for a Rizal memorial and quotes Paterno asserting Rizal would aid Filipino children's education if alive.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manila
Atkinson
Pedro Paterno
Jose Rizal
Rizal
Paterno
Washington
Wreck of Central of Georgia Train Near Macon
A Central of Georgia passenger train from Savannah derailed after jumping a switch near Macon at 4 a.m. with about 100 aboard. The engine and tender separated, cars piled, caught fire, and burned. One person, Julia Boynton of Columbia, Ga, was killed and twenty were injured. Walter Mains circus members were on board. the mail was saved in bad shape.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Macon
Central of Georgia Railroad
Savannah
Atlanta
Walter Mains
Julia Boynton
Columbia
Mai
Fire at St. Mary's Private Sanitarium Causes Panic
A fire at St Marys private sanitarium 318 Berry street near Milwaukee endangered 27 inmates. Firemen and patrol members carried out 24 patients with 10 elderly and helpless. Fire began in a rear barn from an overturned lamp. Property loss was small.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Milwaukee
St. Mary’s
Berry Street
McKinley Memorial Fund Starts in Chicago
A national trades union movement launches the President McKinley Trades Union Memorial Association of Illinois to raise funds for a McKinley memorial. Chicago letter carriers start with 206 dollars toward a monument and assign a committee to collect further donations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
McKinley Trades Union Memorial Association of
Ilinois
Our Week Store Clears Seasonal Goods at Low Prices
Our Week offers a crowded storefront of seasonable merchandise priced to move from Monday December 9 to Saturday December 14. The sale emphasizes money savings and urges customers to wire in for savings on items such as sie yd L-2e 19 1-2¢.
Trial of a New Pneumatic Dynamite Gun at Hilton Head
The test of a pneumatic dynamite gun off Port Royal harbor Hilton Head S C under Army officers was satisfactory. Major Ira McNutt led the board. The gun showed a 6000 yard range with eight projectiles, five dummies, and forty 1180 pound endurance dummies fired with no hitch.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Savannah
Hilton Head
S. C
Army
Ira McNutt
Ordnance Department
Port Royal Harbor
Russia’s Need for Steel and Coal Explained
In St. Petersburg on December 9 the telegraphic inquiry of Minister Witte is answered by The Kharakoff Cobernosti Vedomosti. It admits Russia’s industrial gaps such as limited knowledge science and funds along with a great appetite for imports. It notes land purchases fancy factories high officer pay stock exchange risk and dependence on government support. The piece says domestic markets cannot be held despite heavy import duties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Petersburg
Witte
Russia
Kharakoff Cobernosti Vedomosti
Killed the Preacher at Brookside Alabama
The Rev J W Bradford a Methodist minister at Brookside Alabama was shot Sunday afternoon by H D Coffman a justice of the peace and died about two hours later There were no witnesses Bradford had returned to serve another year and remarked that he hoped relations with his congregation would be pleasant It is alleged Coffman stopped lies about the church in the incident
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brookside
Ala
J. W. Bradford
H. D. Coffman
Olleged
Coffman
Coffman Surrenders On Murder Charge After Church Expulsion
Coffman, formerly part of Rev. Mr. Bradford's church, was expelled and surrendered to Deputy Sheriff Armstrong on a murder charge. A warrant has been sworn out against Coffman.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Coffman
Goebel murder suspect Berry Howard sent to jail
Frankfort Kentucky December 9 Sheriff Broughton of Bell county with three deputies arrives carrying Berry Howard who was indicted for complicity in the Goebel murder and had been a fugitive for over a year He is placed with Caleb Powers and James Howard in the county jail Howard protests his innocence and seeks an immediate hearing He served in the Kentucky General Assembly in 1891 92 and 93 representing Bell Harlan Perry and Leslie while Goebel represented Kenton county
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frankfort
Broughton
Bell County
Berry Howard
William Goebel
Lawrence
Howard
Caleb Powers
James Ho
Bell
Harlan, Pery
Leslie
General Assembly
Goebel
Kenton County
Prison Break At South Side Jail Thirty-Nine Escape
In Birmingham Alabama thirty nine prisoners serving minor sentence escaped from the South Side jail between 3 and 4 pm by digging through a 16 inch brick wall with pocket knives. Five escapees were recaptured.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Birmingham
Ala
Dee
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R. R. Murphy’s
New
Union la
Civic Federation
British Columbia
Bcaten
House of Representatives
Knox
Mobee Hive
Specialdale
Ruben
Native Scouts
Torres Sen
Tenced
Ochs Brothers
Islands
M’kinley
National Trades Union Movement
Melrose
Satires & Edwards
Nery Department
California
Michigan
Fish Bros
Austin, Minn
Minister Witte
Bradford
Eal Ha
Northwestern Telephone
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