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Newspaper
Austin Daily Herald
Location
Austin, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1906
Page
1
An auction listing offers 10 inch wide extra fine India linens at 20c per yard and a millinery lot featuring children and misses hats trimmed with flowers and ribbons.
Lot 2 offers forty hats described as superb and perfect, with values up to 10.00, offering variety and choice to buyers.
Lot 1 offers ten rare quality rugs with 10 wave tapestry and floral or oriental patterns. Lot 2 features a size 9x12 prettier selection, warned they cannot be made at 26.50, and the sale will close them.
A local ad promotes Vel vets Axministers and Body Brussels Carpets with a choice of Ingrains 3 ply and Standard full wool 224 oz goods at 78 cents. The message invites buyers to inspect the special lot and pick their preferred carpet.
A crowded electric trolley derailed at Moore's Crossing East Providence after the motorman, unfamiliar with the curve, let the car coast down a hill. Eleven people died and about a score were seriously injured with many more lightly hurt. rescuers freed trapped passengers using levers and stones as the car toppled.
In Hibbing a Finlander shot and killed John Kevister a Hibbing bartender then fatally wounded Jack Beckals before shooting himself all three deaths reported as a possibly demented act with no known motive two victims unnamed authorities noted the incident on the Mesaba range near Duluth.
In Gibraltar on June 4 the Moors, deterred by a threatened British naval bombardment, ceased their assault on the Cardiff to Savona steamer Craighall which ran ashore near Point Ceres.
In Torrejon de Ardos Manuel Morales, chief suspect in the royal wedding bomb plot against King Alfonso and Queen Victoria, is captured and dies by self inflicted wound after shooting a guard. Villagers describe the pursuit and Morales’s disguise as a worker. The body is brought to Madrid amid public indignation.
A bomb exploded amid crowds causing twenty four deaths and over eighty injuries. Public anger grows as authorities seek the assassin. The American envoy Frederick W. Whitridge met King Alfonso who warned that such attacks may recur soon.
Renewed trouble erupts at Cananea between striking Mexican workers under Colonel Greene and rurales led by Colonel Kosterlitsky. Five rioters killed and thirteen wounded as 200 Mexican soldiers from Hermosillo arrive. American women and upper-class Mexican women sheltered at Colonel Greene's home under guard.
Lincoln Beachey, the San Francisco aeronaut, escaped death when the airship’s car frame collapsed during a trial at a Cleveland amusement resort. At 500 feet up the craft fell to within fifty feet of the ground before he steadied it and landed with only a few bruises. the airship was partly wrecked as spectators watched a near-fatal accident.
Without warning the bamboo poles at the car center snapped, folding the frame like a jackknife. The propeller ripped into the balloon’s forward end, creating a large opening and gusts of hydrogen gas poured over Beachey as the car swayed and he clung inside.
The Twilight Limited from Duluth to St Paul derailed at Superior Junction Wisconsin. Fireman Harry Meitje of Deer Park Wisconsin died. Engineer John Buckley suffered severe burns. Messenger Edward Pears of Duluth was slightly injured. Conductor Kelly led the train. The engine and a baggage and smoking car lay in the ditch. A split switch likely caused the accident.
Northwestern passenger train No. 76 bound for Minnesota collided head on with a freight engine at California Junction near Missouri Valley Iowa. Engineer John Murphy of Council Bluffs was killed, a mail clerk was badly bruised, the fireman jumped to safety, and none of the passengers were hurt. Two coaches and baggage cars were wrecked and both engines demolished. Responsibility not yet fixed.
Victor Thompson a 25 year old white man was arrested in Vincennes Indiana for attacking the daughter of Victor Dunne of Lawrence county. He escaped to the Wabash river with a posse of 100 men closing in. At the Main street bridge officers intervened and pulled Thompson from the mob who planned to shoot him or throw him into the river. He is jailed in Lawrenceville under guard.
Paris reports J Pierpont Morgan purchased the Rodolphe Kann art collection for $5,500,000. The sale includes eight Rembrandts, four Rubenses, six Van Dycks, and a substantial amount of fine eighteenth century furniture.
Ernest Schultz of Milwaukee fell from a boat onto a beer keg while fishing on Lake Monona in Madison. He was drowned and his body was not recovered.
Six miners employed at Sydney mines in North Sydney were drowned when a boat overturning while they went after lobsters. The tragedy occurred off the coast near Sydney as the men were returning from a lobster trip.
Milwaukee June 4 The Wisconsin Social Democrats in state convention nominated William Kaufmann of Kenosha for governor with Charles W. Schmidt of Milwaukee as state secretary Joseph Amman Thiel as attorney general and H W Bistorius of Milwaukee as insurance commissioner The platform calls for abolishing the United States Senate through a general referendum and electing U S judges by district voters for up to six years It also favors nationalization of trusts and public ownership of railroads telegraphs telephones express companies and steamships and opposes private monopoly.
In the Nkandhia area near Durban on June 4 colonial forces fought rebels. Four of their men were killed and seven wounded while sixty rebels reportedly died.
The Daily Telegraph reports from Tokyo that rebels at Hongju killed thirty members of a political society and carried out widespread looting.
In St. Petersburg on June 4 Baron Frisch, head of the department of legislation in the empire's council, has been appointed president of the council.
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