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Newspaper
Austin Daily Herald
Location
Austin, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1903
Page
1
Grand Rapids authorities report the morgue holds the twentieth victim of the Pere Marquette wreck near East Paris. Remains are severely charred and dismembered, possibly a tramp from the blind baggage car, with identity unlikely to be determined.
Railway officials and county officers report extensive vandalism at the wreck near East Paris Saturday night with bodies of the dead despoiled by thieves. The incident prompts renewed warnings and investigations into the desecration.
Jacob Meyers was fatally stabbed by Joseph Curry in a Duncannon hotel quarrel. A pursuing posse chased Curry, who fled by leaping into a river and drowned, Harrisburg reports.
Robert Mannheimer longtime head of the Mannheimer Brothers Dry Goods Company died at his St Paul home after an eighteen month illness of Bright's disease. He came to St Paul from Chicago in 1876 and was the last of the three Mannheimer brothers in the business.
Joseph Boyd, a track walker in the St. Clair tunnel, shot and killed his wife in their home in front of their three children and then killed himself. Instant deaths followed. motive unclear though jealousy is suspected. A domestic tragedy in Sarnia Ontario occurred on December 29.
Helena Mont Dec 29 Several defense witnesses testified on Monday in the Isaac Gravelle dynamite case on the Northern Pacific tracks. None gave testimony of importance. The case may go to the jury on Wednesday.
A stiff northwest wind reaching forty five miles per hour struck Omaha on Monday. The gust caused fatal injuries to a man and caused considerable property damage across the city.
Admiral Coghlan's flagship Olympia reaches Colon from Cartagena with United States minister A M Beaupre and Mrs Beaupre aboard. The ship proceeds to Colon while Cartagena shows friendly reception and no hostilities as Colombia braces for Titumati and Barranquilla troop movements. Minister Beaupre declines Colombia politics talk and heads to New York aboard the Yucatan.
Justice Leventritt rules Louis Quanchi and Charles Bailes okayed to seek injunctive relief against the New York Stereotypers Union. The Herald kept them suspended with pay after Freel’s discharge and the court notes their union ties mean the case should go to the parent union body before a court can intervene.
In San Domingo the provisional president is absent and the foreign affairs minister has resigned. The US gunboat Newport may not shield interests as Minister Powell calls a consular meeting. General Gelletier leads a rival provisional government marching on the city with Bahara supporters, creating dual revolutions.
In St Louis on December 29, Secretary George H. Morgan of the Merchants' Exchange received a $20 bill and a note from "Scrupulous Conscience" to square an old account. Last week, city treasury officials, railroad officials, and citizens received a total of $1,320 from the same donor, with Monday adding $700 more. Officials seek the donor's identity as public curiosity grows.
In Bridgeport on December 29 Joseph Eardley a plush weaver killed his mother in law Mrs Elizabeth Lawrence by forcing into her home. He did so believing she had caused his wife to separate from him and the act occurred before her son who was dying of consumption attempted to aid his mother.
C F Drew general manager of the Coal Belt Electric Railway with Chicago HQ was found dead in a Har sin hotel with a bullet hole in the left temple and a revolver nearby. Police weigh suicide versus possible murder.
A blaze at the Fast Buffalo stock yards on Monday night killed seven thousand sheep and burned their long sheds before any animals could be released. The loss is estimated at 300000.
A mob of up to 1900 men attacked the jail housing George Williams and Neely Zimmermann in Council Bluffs Iowa. They demanded the prisoners be turned over but were repelled after the sheriff defended the inmates and Congressman Smith urged calm. The courthouse crowd dispersed before militia arrived.
Paris reports reveal Dreyfus asserts a telegram from Colonel Schwarzskopf to Colonel Panizzardi bears wrong date. The forged date allegedly shows April 1894 though the event concerns March 1895, casting doubt on prior evidence and prompting a commission to consider revision of the case.
Duluth reports Frederick Weyerhauser led a group bidding on Chippewa pine at Cass Lake where the second sale reached 6.80 per unit, surpassing December's 5.84, with eleven bidders pushing the price. Weyerhauser and partners now control about three quarters of Minnesota pine stumpage, benefiting Indians through sales revenue.
In Sedalia Missouri Ada Taylor a 93 year old blind Black woman and James Turner a 85 year old Black man perished when the house they shared was destroyed by a Monday fire.
A. W. Uhl superintendent of schools Detroit Minn urged the formation of a teachers union at a Commercial club gathering in St Paul before Minnesota Educational association delegates. He spoke to boost teachers' interests.
A stubborn blaze in a Federal Court wholesale paper building in Boston broke out shortly after midnight, tying up two-thirds of the fire department. The structure and contents were totally destroyed with property losses estimated under $100,000.
In Cripple Creek Colorado Attorney John G Glover barricaded his office and fired on troops after denying a surrender order. He was wounded in the arm and captured after exchanges with Colonel Verdackberg's forces. Governor Peabody called him an anarchist while Glover claimed two guns were in his office.
Police had forbidden dynamite fireworks during Christmas but residents of Naples and Restaa still prepared bombs. Dynamite exploded as people gathered, killing twelve and injuring many others amid the crackdown on explosives.
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