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Newspaper
Austin Daily Herald
Location
Austin, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1909
Page
1
Secretary MacVeagh’s Chicago speech, approved by President Taft, frames a downward tariff revision as Senate leaders face a direct clash with Aldrich. The address, casting the president as party leader, appears to blast the old guard and threaten a party realignment.
Washington June 7 The senate aims to complete the cotton schedule by Tuesday and proceed to the woolen schedule, a re enactment of the Dingley rates. Night sessions are planned and leaders foresee a vote by June 19 with Congress adjournment before July 4 if quorum allows action on the Porto Rican bill.
Louis Cohen of Buffalo leaps into the Niagara River to save his wife after she jumps from near the islands 160 feet above the cataract. He pulls her toward shore but she drowns in his arms as rescue efforts finally recover her body. Cohen survives and mourns the loss of their child.
Disastrous floods in the Rocky Mountains halt main Canadian Pacific line. No through trains for days, trapping hundreds of passengers east and west. A log jam floods tracks between Sicamous and Revelstoke, with trains held and animals on a circus train at risk of escape. Passengers are housed and fed by the railway.
In Wheeling West Virginia on June 7 a collision between a traction car and an automobile threw the four occupants from the car. They were seriously injured.
St Louis reports Martha Glaesser and her two children Annette eight and John five found dead in bed with gas filling the room. Police theorize the mother turned on the gas after her husband, John Glaesser, was arrested on embezzlement charges. He was released. police say no prosecution for the company after his punishment.
In Evansville, Indiana, detectives report to Captain P. D. O'Brien on the Dr. John T. Binkley mystery. The theory holds an enemy followed him. Clarence Newton, held on weapons charges, is not a suspect, and Ohio authorities plan to extradite Newton for burglary and horse theft.
Adolph Topf a 28 year old contractor from Argenta was shot by Policeman George Carr after a dispute over a dog license. Topf died. The coroner's jury ruled the shooting unjustifiable and Carr remains in jail.
In Atlanta on June 7 Girard Williams six year old son of Mr and Mrs M G Williams is at the point of death after playmates attempted to re enact a hanging scene seen in a movie.
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