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Newspaper
Austin Daily Herald
Location
Austin, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1906
Page
1
The president asserts Storer publicized private letters to defend his stance on church appointments. He denies authorizing any papal envoy request and says Storer’s statements misstate facts. The White House frames the Storer letters as confidential and not binding on official policy.
Washington reports former United States Senator Arthur Brown of Utah lies in a very critical state after being shot by Anna M. Bradley of Salt Lake City. Doctors fear peritonitis and possible blood poisoning as Brown’s condition worsens within hours. Brown’s daughter Alice and son Arthur Brown Jr. arrived. Bradley remains in custody without bail and lacks a preliminary hearing until the extent of Brown’s injuries is known.
Dec 16 President Roosevelt says no excerpt from Bellamy Storer pamphlet was released at the White House. Storer indicates he sent letters to cabinet members and lawmakers and had no wish to keep them secret. Storer declines to comment on Roosevelt’s statement, saying he has nothing to add.
Bend Kansas December 10 The man who held up the J OKMAN Company bank Saturday is identified as S Kearns whose home is in I where he lately worked as a barber His uncle Joseph G a South Bend lawyer is alleged to aid him Desires to See Her Son in Kilmer N D December 10 Mrs M Gillette mother of Chester Milette convicted of the murder of Own arrived here at night seeking admission to jail and asked if night 80 there. she retired when the jail appeared closed
In Jackson Ohio on December 106 Elmer McNeal a demented coal miner armed with two pistols opened fire on a crowded trolley bound for Wellston. He killed Harry White and mortally wounded J F Kinnison superintendent of the public schools. He was fatally shot by pursuers after being thrown from the car. McNeal had been a patient at Athens asylum twice.
In Scranton Pennsylvania on December 19 Mrs. Becker of Hawley shot herself in the cellar after being told her child was in a dying condition. The child died two hours later and Mrs. Becker died four hours afterward. Her husband, a prominent manufacturer, was en route to Chicago at the time.
Fire in Montreal's wholesale dry goods district destroys three buildings. Total damage reaches 400000 dollars with nine firms wiped out and several others suffering partial losses. The heaviest losses hit Canadian Underwear Co 75000 dollars Matthews Tower Co 95000 dollars Yorkshire Importing Co 89000 dollars.
In Lodz Russia Poland on December 10, 30000 people are left without food after factory closures. Lawless demonstrations rise and a renewed clash between Nationalist and Socialist laborers is reported. Laborers killed five Nationalists and wounded fifteen in the past two days.
Three boys about fifteen years old William Lauster Matthew Moss and George Brayton broke through the ice and were drowned while skating on the Hudson river near Albany New York on December 10 In Pittsburg Kansas another collision of a Missouri Pacific passenger train and a Frisco stock special at a crossing killed fireman Thomas F Freeman of Nevada and injured Engineer Albert J Page and Mrs Anna Steel of Erie Colorado on the same day.
December fire tragedy in Dowagiac Michigan where Henry Jonas’ son aged fourteen and daughter aged twelve perished in their beds as the family home burned. The blaze left no survivors among the children.
Congress plans most of the week to consider the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriations bill while the Senate weighs the Smoot eligibility in Utah. House discussions may wrap before holidays. Senate debate on Smoot starts Tuesday with speeches by Burrows and Bois plus allies. Adjournment for Christmas is likely around Dec 20 with a return in January.
Dr Benjamin Harris, shot in a corridor of the Stock Exchange building, died from his wounds Sunday night. Amasa C. Campbell, a milk dealer from Antigo Wisconsin, is in custody and will be arraigned in the morning.
A squall in Tokio on December 10 overturned several sam pans from the Japanese cruiser Chitase. Sixty men were drowned while returning from a trip.
The extreme revolutionists group plans to attempt the lives of exalted personages in St. Petersburg as of December 10. The warning signals rising danger to officials amid ongoing upheaval and threats to top leaders.
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