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Newspaper
Austin Daily Herald
Location
Austin, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Feb 01, 1910
Page
1
Choice offerings describe a 160 acre Dodge County farm near Claremont with stock, a nine room house, barn, granary, wells, and outbuildings. Also listed is a 160 acre Mower County property near Austin with large house, barn, and subdivision options. Includes broker charges and insurance/live rental services.
Schedule lists departures from St Paul Minneapolis Lacrosse Calmar Mason City and Jackson with morning and afternoon times. Arrivals and departures shown for multiple routes including from Chicago and Milwaukee line.
North Bound departures to St Paul Minneapolis Dubuque Chicago Des Moines and Kansas City at 4 28 a m and 5 50 p m. South Bound runs to Fort Dodge Council Bluffs and Omaha at 12 26 p m and 11 47 p m. Mason City and Lyle Mantv link to Fort Dodge Mason City to Council Bluffs and Omaha at 5 50 p m and 4 28 a m.
An advertisement urges readers to use DeWitts Little Early Risers for liver relief and DeWitts Carbolized Witch Hazel Salve for wounds and piles. It notes availability from all druggists and presents the products as safe and pleasant.
Paris reports the worst flood has passed with the city’s mood lifting as waters fall. Street hawkers sell flood postcards and authorities push preventive measures such as a canal cut off or underground conduit around Paris. The Seine prefect orders clean up and disinfection within twenty four hours of subsidence, with cost borne by owners if unpaid. Public thanks and benevolence rise as theaters and racecourses plan benefits for the poor and pumping resumes in the subway.
The article traces the subway’s rising price from 35 million to 80 million, now forecast at 240 million total once completed. It notes a 26 mile strip with an average cost per mile around 923 thousand dollars. It highlights vast expenditures on tracks stations power houses and cars.
An Aurora attorney defends a burglar charged with robbery and learns the client robbed his home. He must decide whether to reveal the confession or refuse to defend on other robbery charges. The suspect, Charles Howard alias James Kelly, escaped Joliet jail Nov 11 1907 and was caught in Kane County. He confessed to robbing homes of County Treasurer George James and Prosecuting Attorney J. Charles James.
Washington reports that representatives from business groups urge the president to suspend the publicity feature of the corporation tax act. They warn small corporations face harm and say only presidential initiative can secure relief. Cabinet discussion and Supreme Court rulings on the act are noted as pivotal.
President William Howard Taft spoke to reporters in a casual tone at the National Press Club in Washington on February 1, presenting a relaxed personal image during the informal reception with newspaper men of the capital.
Lisbon reports the sailing vessel Fortuna wrecked in a two day storm off Portugal with the loss of its fifteen crew members. Messages received here confirm the tragedy in the storm path between Lisbon and the Azores.
In Dubuque Iowa on February 1 Ralph Garth ten years old lost control on a steep hill and drove his bobsled into a barbed wire fence. The throat was slit from ear to ear by the barbs and physicians gave ten stitches but the injury is believed fatal.
Peter Edwards of Chicago aged twenty six was killed while skiing at High Falls near Crivitz Michigan. He fell after losing balance on an incline breaking his neck during the descent.
Cincinnati report details Charles L. Warriner former Big Four treasurer admitting paying $84,000 to Mrs. Jeanette Stewart Ford for lasting silence. He gave $1,000 monthly for seven years to avoid exposure of his alleged shortcomings. Payments halted after new exposure emerged.
More than 100 students escaped in night clothes as the Danish college in Elkhorn Louisiana burned completely. The loss is estimated over 25000 dollars with about 10000 dollars covered by insurance and no injuries reported.
Washington February 1 The Ballinger Pinchot inquiry adjourned with Louis R Glavis still on the stand Democrats dominated cross examination highlighting Balminger connections. Senator Nelson complained the inquiry proceeds blindly as no one from the other side is present. Glavis said Balminger favored a bill validating Alaska coal claims while James Garfield’s removal related to opposition to coal claimants. Pinchot attended with papers and was expected to testify next, as Senator Paynter resigned due to illness.
Washington notes say the House passed a joint resolution to make Panama canal bond principal payable in gold and to exempt indebtedness certificates from taxation under the Payne-Aldrich tariff law. Representative Payne cited enactment mistakes as the reason for the change. The agricultural appropriation bill remained under consideration during the session. In the Senate Senator Carter defended the postal savings bank bill and forecast amendments before a vote.
Reports from Bloomfield Iowa say emotions run high over an alleged Saturday night assault on Mrs. Charles Huffman by George Wilson. Citizens discuss vigilante action amid tension and fear of violence.
From Peking an imperial edict approves the constitutional bureau’s plans to abolish the tariff on human beings. The announcement signals major policy change and state action on a contested issue.
Chicago report says strychnine was found in the viscera of Col. Thomas H. Swope, Kansas City millionaire, with possible presence in the liver of his nephew Chrisman Swope. Exam results to be weighed by estate executor John G. Paxton. Prosecution hinted after toxicology findings. Paxton refused to name suspects.
President Taft and Republican leaders favor a full inquiry into the high cost of living. The ways and means committee will draft a suitable resolution and authorize subcommittees to travel the country gathering testimony. Chairman Payne and Minority Leader Clark of Missouri are tasked with detailing the scope.
A Wahpeton man W. E. Purcell was said to head for Washington with a commission for the U S Senate and to resign Thompson. officials denied knowledge of any resignation or Purcell appointment. The rumor circulated in Bismarck but could not be verified by the governor's office.
Cincinnati Feb 1 Arbitrators to decide differences between telegraphers on the Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern railway and the road management will be appointed Both parties waive the Erdman act appeal and agree the arbitrators decision will be final.
A man about seventy years old lay exposed five days under the bridge near the St. Paul tracks at Vinton Waterloo. He is believed to be H. Masey of Milwaukee and may have fallen from a passenger train on January twenty fifth.
Ed Maloney aged 31 dies after a 30 foot fall from the Northern Pacific bridge to the ice in Crookston Minnesota He lived at Red Lake Falls and was single He worked on a bridge crew and was pulling bolts with a jack when a bolt broke sending him from the structure
Edward McCann, a former police inspector, was convicted of accepting bribes and sentenced by Judge Barnes to imprisonment for one to five years in the penitentiary.
Explosion in Colorado Fuel and Iron mine at Primero on February 1 leaves 149 men in the mine, 79 bodies found at the air shaft, with rescue efforts hampered by a wrecked main shaft. Victims are mostly Slavs and Hungarians. many missing including Pit Boss Wilhelm.
Washington reports to the interstate commerce commission show 852 persons killed and 19 241 injured on U S railroads during July August and September 1909. The figures cover passengers and employees on duty at the time of accidents.
A sleigh ride with fifteen youths near Faribault Minnesota ended when runaway horses sobered the sled. The crash threw all occupants. William Weben was struck by the sled box, rendered unconscious and in critical condition as the sled was demolished.
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