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Newspaper
Austin Daily Herald
Location
Austin, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1908
Page
4
President Roosevelt narrowly escaped serious injury when a saddle horse plunged backward into Rock Creek. The fall, reportedly more than ten feet, left him bruised and lame though he remounted and rode for about ninety minutes back to the White House. Mrs. Roosevelt stood nearby as the incident was described.
June 4 Butte reports rail lines on the Northern Pacific and St Paul routes near Deer Lodge washed out or submerged by floodwaters. The Missouri river rises nine feet above normal, causing a blackout after White's dam burning floods the power plant. Two lives lost in Northern Montana, a rancher and his wife drowned in a coulee. Stranded at Livingston as the flood progresses.
After washouts on Northern Pacific line, Governor Norris and twenty other passengers walked fifteen miles to Bozeman amid an unhappy spectacle. A special train then carried them to Helena. Emma Goldman was among notables stranded at Helena by the traffic interruption.
Dr Wilfred Grenfell, famed missionary physician, endured forty hours battling a pack of hungry dogs on an ice floe off Labrador in 10 below zero. Captain W Bartlett of the Strathcona, returning from the North, recounts Grenfell fending off the attack with a knife after being bitten, before rescue in Mare Bay.
Pittsburg June 4 The proposed union of the Presbyterian and United Presbyterian churches was abandoned for the present at the United Presbyterians general assembly. A report calling for a new centrally located committee was adopted but the plan was dropped after informal notice that the Presbyterian church would take no further steps. The Freedmen's Mission and Home Mission boards report was adopted and Rev Dr J Allison Reed elected Home Mission treasurer succeeding his father Rev Dr George M Reed.
In Columbus Ohio on June 4 the international convention of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers voted 2 to 1 to retain Cleveland as general headquarters for the 1910–1920 decennial period. Cleveland defeated Chicago 1 to 4 with the convention to decide location. Detroit will host the next biennial meeting. Delegates debate officer and delegate pay, with sub divisions seeking uniform seven dollar daily pay.
Mrs T Willadsen of Manning Iowa reports Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound saved her life after years of female ailments and costly medicines She credits the remedy with restoring her health and urges every suffering woman to try it Pinkham invites letters for advice Linden Lynn Mass
Market notes from Minneapolis Duluth and St Paul dated June 3 cover wheat standings with July and September futures, on track prices for No 1 hard and No 1 Northern, flax futures by month, with St Paul cattle hogs and sheep price ranges for good to choice, fair to good, and lambs. Includes bids for yeals and various grades of cattle and hogs. Industry data highlights prices across regions and commodities.
Chicago market report dated June 3 shows grain prices for wheat with June at 96c July 91%c and September 88%c. Corn July 69% 70c September 68c. Oats July 47c, September 38%c. Pork July 13.75 and September 14.02. Butter creamery 19c and 23c, dairies 17c and 2c. Eggs 14c. Poultry turkeys 14c, chickens 11c, broilers $2.57 per dozen.
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