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Newspaper
Austin Daily Herald
Location
Austin, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1900
Page
1
A local advert promotes a strictly cash business promising no bad debts and allowing returns for a full refund. The seller claims to meet any competition in the state and often beat catalogue houses with the lowest prices and honest goods.
Advert shows a large line of goods with low prices and fast styles. Highlights include 92 in Serge in many colors, 42 in Plaids in basket weave, 106 Novelty Skirting Worsted, 19¢ per yard all wool Cheviots, 40 in Jamestown Worsteds in large assortment, and 45 in all wool French Serge with full color range.
Display of fabrics includes Mohairs crepon skirting and silk finish Mohair per yard 49 cents to 54 cents. All wool serge and French Serge offered at varying per yard prices 42 to 69 cents. Henriettas in all wools range 35 to 119 cents. Silks for waste priced 25 to 81 cents. 36 inch Silk Black Satin noted as waist material needing two yards per dress.
Dress linings Kid Cambrics Gilbert Selica 36 in Taffeta skirt lining canvass about 5 Wake ao aon 10 15 Ze.
A shopping notice lists Standard Calicoes per yard Awoskeag prints and ginghams with patterns, Dimity and Scotch Lawns per yard, French Lawns in new styles, with several price notes and formatting garbled. The market appears for dress fabrics in assorted weaves and designs.
An OCR style advertisement lists various fabrics and prices including heavy sheeting at 5 cents per yard, heaving ticking, heavy hickory sheeting, black and white twill sheeting, and over 2000 yards of lace in 2 and 4 inch widths such as Torchons and Valenciennes.
The largest and most fashionable millinery line shown in Austin at prices about half the regular millinery establishments. Ladies' sailors and walking hats priced at 75 cents and up.
Manila dispatch reports Major Marsh and the Thirty third regiment engaging Aguinaldo's party near Lagat on May 19. An officer believed to be Aguinaldo was killed or wounded and his followers carried his body away. Aguinaldo had about 100 men with headquarters at Labuso since March 6.
White fine straw Knox style hats for 1.50 with chiffon ribbons and flowers. Other sellers 2.50 to 3.50. Sailors and trimed hats priced affordably. All kinds of flowers ribbons and millinery trimmings offered at low prices.
An old advert lists fabric deals including unbleached damask per yard at multiple prices and accompanying napkins per dozen, plus twisted cotton crash and crochet bed spreads with varied pricing. It references Steven’s crash at several yard prices.
The presence of guards has altered the Chinese toward foreigners. Christian refugees continue to flood the city while excitement in the adjacent country subsides. Boxers appear to be spreading, yet no Boxer leaders were arrested and the government only occupied disturbance sites with no real repression.
French consulate reports 30 foreigners including six women and a child fled Pao Ting Fu toward Tien Tsin and were attacked by over 700 Boxers with rifles and spears. Four killed and four wounded. ten miles from safety. An expedition moves to aid them.
Ladies tailored suits jackets lined with silk trimmed with applique priced at 9.50 and skirts from 1 upward. House wrappers from 69 to 98 cents. Novelty skirt patterns offered at large reductions. Shirt waists 25 cents. percale waists 5 cents. summer corsets 25 cents per pair. Corset waists 5 cents. Best line of corsets in the country for the money.
Advertises 26 inch Gloria Parasols and 58 inch Damask alongside baking powder premiums. Lists wide grocery items from sugar to coffee with low prices and free premiums like egg cases and glassware. notes canned goods and garden seeds at lower prices.
Readable catalog style listing featuring ladies seamless fast black hose at 3 for 25c and 10c children’s ribbed hose, double knee school hose, ribbed underwear from 5c to 10c, muslin undergarments, corset covers gowns and drawers, leather belts, kid gloves, silk mittens and handkerchiefs with price ranges and sale emphasis.
Major Marshs forces attacked near Lagat as 25 Filipinos in white fled toward bushes. An officer on a grey horse was shot, his body carried away, and a horse found saddled with blood and papers including Aguinaldos diary and a protest to civilized nations. The pursuit continued to Aparri where commissioners, led by Taft, met General MacArthur and expressed they would select dwellings on land aboard the Hancock.
The United States cruiser Hancock arrived in Manila from San Francisco on April 17 with the Philippine commission aboard. At noon the commissioners landed and were greeted by General MacArthur and his staff as they proceeded to the palace in a ceremonial escort.
Washington reports a new war department plan to dispatch several cavalry regiments to Manila this summer and launch mounted operations against insurgents after the rainy season ends. General MacArthur believes cavalry can yield excellent results as troops already subsist in the country and carry their supplies with them.
Robert A. Perkins longtime editor of the Rutland Herald dies of heart disease after a career with the Milwaukee Sentinel the Springfield Republican the Boston Advertiser and the United Press in Rutland Vermont June 4.
London reports Mrs Gladstone growing weaker in a semi conscious state as her strength steadily diminishes. In Plain, June 4, foreign guards including 349 American troops arrived during the dragon festival. streets filled and calm amid security measures.
The empress dowager has ordered Shan Si governor to arrest Lin the Pekin syndicate manager Kia head of the Shan Si commercial bureau and Fan a leading banker. Officials say the charges cite dangerous characters but the real reason is their connection to British enterprises.
During a June 4 protest in St Louis about transit strikes a crowd of about 2000 attacked Christine Thier 18 with fists tearing clothing and stealing a handbag as she tried to reach safety. Stella Roderick also faced an assault with jackets torn and attackers pelting a house. Mrs Foulke fired a revolver to disperse the mob.
General admiring tone reports Johannesburg quiet under Boer disarmament. Lord Roberts notes peaceful occupation of the town and a prevailing sense of relief across the area as tensions ease.
London reports from Orange Grove dated June 2 say Johannesburg is quiet with arms and ponies being surrendered. Creusot gun captured with stores, and Commandant Botha and 100 prisoners taken near Zouitpansburg. Proclamation annexing Orange Free State announced at Bloemfontein May 26. Royal salute and queen cheered as Orange River Colony welcomed.
Colonel Eli R. Sutton of Detroit, regent of the University of Michigan and GOP figure, is acquitted of complicity in state military clothing frauds. Jury reached verdict after 1 hour 40 minutes, causing tears from Sutton and his wife who kissed each juror. Sutton had advised sales of ga0 later re sold to the state amid the probe.
Milwaukee June 4 Judge Lud Wig in the superior court decided against the complainant Mrs Emmeline Luding ton widow of the late Governor Harris Ludington She had sued the executors to secure her legal share of an estate worth about one million dollars The decision held she failed to file her election to take under the legal statute
The Western Canadian Press association spent the day in Detroit Michigan on June 4. The group toured the city then departed at 10 o'clock for Buffalo and Niagara Falls.
June 4 noon dispatches report no fresh Pretoria news since Thursday evening. General French’s cavalry reached Irene eight miles south of Pretoria, firing heard there, while Lord Roberts conducts secondary operations elsewhere. Johannesburg near Orange Grove shows Roberts 26 miles from Pretoria on Saturday with no line of further communications.
Lord Roberts reports that French, operating May 28 to 31, faced opposition but drove enemies from strong positions with light losses and is now holding the target area north of Johannesburg. Two officers were wounded, two men killed, and twenty seven wounded.
Consul Winter at Hamburg reports to the state department that England holds 18.3 percent of global commerce, Germany 10.8 percent, and the United States 9.7 percent, among the world’s leading traders.
Eleven loaded stock cars wrecked west of the city. Trainmen Timothy Mahoney David Starkey and Ambrose Smith died in the crash. Two unidentified boys also believed killed. Loss estimated around 50000 dollars.
A national Democratic subcommittee meeting in Kansas City within days will hear data on hotel charges for the Virginia delegation. Local headquar ters chief J J Swofford says figures show rates are not exorbitant and cites a $1 25 daily European plan offer for headquarters. First class hotels report average American plan rates at zero dollars per day per four in a room.
Captain George Wellington Streeter of District of Lake Michigan fame is arrested at East Chicago Avenue station on a conspiracy to commit murder charge. He was taken from Tremont House lobby without resistance and says he had no involvement with Niles and his men on lake front property. He alleges any conspiracy sits between property owners and Lincoln Park officials.
Washington June 4 There is little doubt the senate will agree to adjourn the session Wednesday The last appropriation bill was completed Saturday leaving no obstacle to final adjournment except senate amendments House members see no threat to completing business by Wednesday despite possible differences over amendments
The Republican committee proposes inviting survivors of the 1856 Pittsburg and Philadelphia national conventions to this year’s gathering. Senator Hanna supports the plan and has sent invitation letters to each surviving delegate.
Mrs Crecenzia Arries and Miss Emma Nichols, two Christian Scientists, were found guilty of practicing medicine in violation of state medical law. Judge Neelen cited the U S Supreme Court Mormon case that religion is subordinate to state laws. An appeal was noted.
Colville at Heilbron northeast of Kroonstad in the Orange River Colony is announced after a meeting with strong opposition. General Colville arrives June 4 as authorities report the reception was hostile.
Louis Klopsch travels back to Bombay after a tour through famine districts where he witnessed widespread poverty and beggary. He reports vivid scenes of hardship and malnutrition observed during his travels.
Louis Klopsch reports from famine districts in Gujarat and Barolda describing cholera and smallpox ravaging camps. He cites 3,000 deaths at Godhera and 3,800 at Dorhad in five days, a hospital death rate around 90 percent, with vultures dogs and jackals seen feeding on corpses and widespread beggar misery.
Kansas officials estimate a record wheat crop with about 85 million bushels on 4.69 million winter acres. Secretary Coburn predicts yields could exceed 1892 levels if per acre output holds. Farmers plan to begin harvest next week in Torrica and surrounding areas.
The Herald reports a sweeping change in steel methods affecting American Steel and Wire. The plan eliminates shared billets and ore sourcing between National and Federal Steel, with the firm moving to its own mines and coke supply.
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