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Newspaper
Austin Daily Herald
Location
Austin, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1903
Page
1
The second week of the Great AlterAoon Sale targets clearance before July 1 to fund building changes. The campaign urges extra efforts and promises special prices during the week, even offering incentives to customers willing to drive 20 miles to purchase a single item.
Special sale promoting ladies misses and child dress skirts in silk and wool, wide suit selection, and a Monday Tuesday announcement of laces embroideries and dress trimmings. The ad touts grand opportunities with limited time offers and urges early attendance.
We must close down our stock to free space and will give customers the benefit instead of boxing and packing goods. If you plan to buy, keep the dates in mind and be on hand early for the best selection.
The Missouri River flood devastates Kansas City with widespread displacement. Up to fifty believed dead, twenty thousand forced from homes, and mass sheltering as water cuts power and transport. Rescue efforts save hundreds while uncertainty looms over ongoing risks and property damage.
Reports describe the Missouri flood tearing through Armourdale and West Bottoms, with hundreds rescued by boats. Lieutenant Adams directs evacuations as embankments fail, flooding Argentine and nearby towns. Dozens drowned, including a family from Oklahoma, while food and shelter lag demand.
Water in the Kansas River fell fourteen inches by Monday night as Topeka tastes relief. Many deaths are unconfirmed with reports of looting and a militia presence amid widespread flood damage. Public health fears rise from diphtheria and measles as relief supplies surge and prices spike. governor declines federal help while local groups coordinate aid.
A two week introductory sale offers high grade Story & Clark pianos at factory cost with a ten year warranty. A factory salesman aids introductions, cash or easy payments, fifteen day sale to build future trade.
Des Moines and Raccoon rivers fall below twenty feet with the East Des Moines business district drying. Relief funds reach 6000 dollars as sickness from floods rises. Ottumwa, Eldon, Eddyville report extensive inundation. Governor Cummins cancels plans to visit with Roosevelt to aid victims. widespread displacement and continuing rising water levels threaten further distress.
June 2. One hundred men battle to save the road between this city and La Crescent from floods. The rising water endangers a ten mile stretch from Onalaska to Brace's Prairie, forcing families to flee and submerging farms and property.
A garbled dispatch from Keokuk, Iowa Territory describes the Egyptian raven misprint and extensive flooding in Alexandria, Missouri. Water runs through streets as residents seek aid. a government troop detachment has been sent, with no loss of life reported.
At midnight, the gauge near Hadsbridge indicated the river within a fraction of an inch of danger as it rose more than two feet in the last day. The Mississippi flood at Hannibal is the worst in years, prompting alerts.
Milwaukee June 2 report says the first official test of wireless messages between Chicago and Milwaukee under the Marconi system succeeded Monday evening. Mayors of both cities and leading businessmen exchanged messages confirming the link.
Washington June 2 The United States supreme court refused a writ of habeas corpus in Whitaker Wright. The circuit court for the Southern district of New York held the alleged crime extraditable under the treaty with Great Britain. Wright remains in custody of Marshal Henkel under a warrant from United States Commissioner Alexander after the British consul general charged him with fraud in England as a director of an English corporation.
Chief Justice Fuller held the offense charged is criminal under a British statute and New York penal code, same essence in both. He ruled the U S commissioner who detained Wright for extradition had proper jurisdiction.
A private dispatch from Spokane reports the body of Benjemin P. F. Egan of the Great Northern railway was found Monday morning. Egan, superintendent of the Kalispell division, disappeared after setting out on a chest hunt near Belton, Montana last November. A long search, renewed this spring, ended with the discovery near Lake Five.
President Roosevelt speeds toward home after leaving Cheyenne Wyoming. A brief stop in North Platte drew a large crowd despite a rainstorm. He took a short city drive and gave a brief address. He plans to spend today in Iowa.
The American fishing schooner Helen F. Whittee from Gloucester arrived reporting the loss of four crew members in last week's gale near St. John’s Newfoundland.
Janesville. Henry Zimmerman, a teamster, lies dying after a skull fracture in a week old assault. He implicates two well known city figures in an antortem statement. Police pursue two suspects who have left the city.
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