09 Feb 1905
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Newspaper
Austin Daily Herald
Location
Austin, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Feb 09, 1905
Page
1
Advertisement notes skirts with claim of no sagging seams and thorough sponging finishing as a $25 garment. It lists weekly prices though exact figures are unclear. The tone encourages shoppers to buy at this store offering durable fit and value.
At the North Kearsarge shaft Osceola Consolidated mine, a 10 000 pound dynamite magazine exploded. Several men were killed including William Pollitt Jr and Mathew Kaskala. others were seriously injured. Rescue attempts were hampered by gas and debris. four to five miners may still be underground.
A partial strike at the Putiloff Iron Works and a complete tie up of the St Petersburg car factory raise talk of a wider strike in the city. Employers discuss pay for time out and the eight hour day, with a possible nine hour day as a compromise. The case involves 130000 dollars in strike pay at Putiloff, and court questions loom as Maxim Gorky faces police interrogation. Mme Gorky remains calm amid the proceedings.
Miss Olive Templeton, eighteen, disappeared from Adventist college in Berrien Springs Michigan after chapel. Sheriff Tennant sent deputies to search while St Joseph river was dragged for miles. Daughter of a Sawyer Wisconsin businessman, she arrived last September to escape a suitor. Theories range from abduction or murder to voluntary exposure in zero weather.
In Cleveland on February 9 customs authorities tracked jewels valued at 80000 dollars brought by Mrs Chadwick with no duty paid. About 10000 dollars of the valuables were surrendered to officials by parties who retained them.
Washington February 9. The senate and house met in joint session to declare Theodore Roosevelt and Charles W. Fairbanks elected president and vice president for four years starting March 4 1905. Roosevelts 326 and Fairbanks 326 electoral votes. Parker and Davis 140. The event set a new record for counting the electoral vote in fifty minutes amid freight rate regulation debates.
The senate received a disclaimer from Kearns denying that he voted for separate statehood for New Mexico. He said clerks misunderstood him and that he voted against the provision. Several senators supported his claim while others recalled a vote for the amendment. The session also covered presidential vote discussions and executive business.
Dr Hagerup, Norway's premier, announced the failure of talks with Sweden over separate consular representation. He warned the union's conditions are indefensible and endanger neighboring relations. He urged the storthing to authorize Norway's sovereign stance and to consider freer cooperation if the union is to continue.
A political figure indicated willingness to resign if staying in office would hinder cooperation among parties. The statement signals a strategic move amid mounting party tensions and looming negotiations.
Chicago February 9 curare the most deadly poison known to modern science is believed by Dr Joseph Springer former coroner s physician to have caused the deaths of Johann Hoch s wives. He thinks the drug was applied via engagement rings by rubbing a rough edge of the ring to abrade the skin then placing the ring on the finger. A sixteenth of a grain is fatal.
In New York on February 9 Hoch was placed in the custody of a Chicago detective and began travel to Chicago aboard the Lackawanna train late Wednesday.
News from a farm twelve miles north of Sioux Falls reports Lars Olson, an elderly farmer, dead and his wife mortally wounded and dying. Authorities believe Olson shot his wife during a quarrel and then killed himself.
Captain Gorst, three passengers and ten crewmen from the Da mara endured twelve hours in an open lifeboat as a northern gale and 2 below zero temperatures battered the sea. They, soaked and frost bitten, were finally picked up and landed at Pleasant Point.
Portchester N Y Feb 9 A man believed to be BE C Allen general sales agent for the Appleton Car Mover company of Appleton Wisconsin was struck and killed Wednesday by an express train on the New Haven Hartford line as he crossed the tracks.
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