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Newspaper
Austin Daily Herald
Location
Austin, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1900
Page
1
The advertisement promotes a strictly cash business with no bad debts and price guarantees against competition. It highlights broad Dress Goods lines including Serge, Plaids, Worsted, Cheviots, Jamestown Worsted, and French Serge with low per yard prices and a liberal return policy.
A catalog-like list offers Mohiabs 36 inches wide and crepon skirting by the yard, silk finish Mohatr at 49¢, all wool serge, French Serge, Henriettas in all wools from 35¢ to 11, Silke for waists 2¢ to 1, Silk Black Satin at 1.50 per yard.
A fabric and lace inventory itemization shows heavy sheeting and ticking prices per yard, plus lace lengths over 2000 yards including Torchons and Valenciennes. The note cites various widths and prices in a compact listing from a historical catalog.
The largest and most fashionable line shown in Austin offers Ladies' Sailors and Walking Hats at 75 cents and up, prices about half those of the regular millinery establishments.
In St Louis on June 11 a violent day marked by clashes between strikers and authorities left four dead and many wounded. A striker conductor Edward Thomas was shot in the chest during a confrontation near the barracks as shots and bricks flew and deputies fired from repeaters.
White fine straw Knox style hats offered with chiffon ribbons flowers and trims. Other sellers ask 2.50 to 3.50 while our price is 1.50 for these handsome styles. We feature all kinds of flowers ribbons and millinery trimmings at low prices.
A condensed advert describes tailored ladies suits and jackets lined with silk with appliqué, skirts and wrappers offered at deep cut prices. It highlights novelty skirt patterns, percale shirt waists, and a range of summer corsets, promising durable fit and value.
Advertises unbleached damask per yard with assorted prices 25 29 35 39 and 490 napkins at 75c to $1.50 per dozen. Also lists twisted cotton crash per yard at various rates and crochet bed spreads from five cents upward, plus Steven’s crash at five seven eight ten per yard.
Lonpox June 11. Admirals at Taku reopen the Tien Tsin Pekin railway. Gangs of laborers, guarded by 1,500 men from the foreign fleet, repair the line with 100 Americans under Captain McCalla. Armored trains and guns available as repairs proceed. Three thousand troops of multiple nations are to be sent to Pekin to back ministers or to suppress the Boxers if needed.
A rustic grocery circular lists discounts and premiums with each purchase. Offers include egg cases, cut glass berry sets, and various household staples like baking powder, soap, spices, cereals, coffee, tea, vinegars, syrups, and canned goods. Numerous item prices and per unit details reflect a promotional catalog style.
Catalog listing for ladies hose gloves mittens underwear belts and handkerchiefs with prices from five to ninety eight cents and items like silk mittens and lace curtains. Includes children’s ribbed hose and double knee school hose and leather belts priced around ten cents. Promotional tone with multiple item prices.
A deputy sheriff fired on a crowd of strikers removing a car on the Bellefontaine line, killing Fred Boehm and injuring George Rine who died at the city hospital. Ed Burkhart, hit by buckshot, died later. Deputy forces under Colonel Cavender arrested 20 strikers, searched them, and placed them in the Four Courts pending investigation.
Daytime service increased with more street cars operating than since the strike began though incomplete. Many residents rely on wagons for work and several deputies were discharged for refusing street car orders. John Powers, a non union motorman from Philadelphia, is found in a mented state fighting imagined foes.
Admiral Dewey appeared on the Tashmoo in civil dress with a silk hat as Detroit honors him with a marine parade on June 11. A 17 gun salute from the Michigan greeted the flotilla while whistles and British flags marked the waterfront tribute. The parade crossed Lake St Clair and returned in formation amid cheers.
Eight men killed and fifty overcome by gas after the Rend collieries mine No 2 explosion in Gloucester Ohio. Rescue shifts operate from No 6 shaft as No 2 is sealed. Four hundred men lose work while the fate of missing is tied to check returns.
General Walker reports natives say Boers operate in three columns near Honig Spruit. 21 miles of Lord Roberts line between America Siding and Roodeval torn up. War aims to reopen line as Buller camps near Galenseil where Free State Transvaal and Natal converge.
Report describes foreign residents sheltering in Legation Street Pekin while mobs surround the area. A relief train reaches the front with British American Italian and Austrian troops. guns mounted along the cars. 31 foreign warships lie at Taku. The dowager empress entertains at the palace as rumors of arms shipments and boxer activity spread.
In Traverse City Michigan on June 11 a boiler explosion at Charles F Reed's sawmill five miles west of Fife Lake kills A J Cole M Smith and an unknown man and injures ten others. The blast occurs as workers prepare to start. The mill is wrecked and most employees are harmed.
General Pio del Pilar, a leading Filipino insurgent figure, was captured at Guadaloupe six miles east of Manila by Manila native police aided by a Twenty‑first Infantry detachment. He was brought to Manila and positively identified before the provost marshal.
London reports President Steyn at Bethlehem with a small band of followers while Northeast Orange River burghers show war weariness. Unexplained fate of Waterval prisoners looms as General French closes on Waterval. Rundle and Methuen actions remain unclear amid Tuesday reconnaissance and skirmishes.
Printers union Local No 7 officially ends the strike that began last December affecting most Pittsburg English daily papers. The executive board will meet to decide on repudiation. An attacker sympathetic to the strikers assaulted President Donnelly before police intervened.
Paris on June 11 reports Senator and surgeon M. Pozzi was wounded in the wrist in a duel with Dr. de Villiers, a close ally of Paul Deroulede, whom Pozzi voted against at the high court trial.
Washington reports no communication from China or Manila officials as of June 11. State and Navy Departments note Minister Conger has kept officials informed daily, suggesting affairs remain largely unchanged. Dispatches arriving do not include messages from Admiral Remant Manila or Kempff in charge of the Asiatic squadron.
Chicago report says Thomas ONeill alias Omaha Kid was arrested on suspicion of involvement in a Dover Minnesota bank burglary. John Fitzgerald alias Lefty and Thomas Flynn alias Dad Flynn were also arrested and handed to U S authorities for extradition. ONeill was turned over to Minnesota officers awaiting extradition.
A Forty-fifth Infantry detachment near Daet Camarinas del Norte on May 20 was ambushed. Captain Albert Steinhauser was wounded three times. Two privates were killed eight wounded and one private missing. Insurgents suffered heavy losses.
General Forestier Walker reports from Cape Town that Kelly Kenny at Bloemfontein says the telegraph was cut at Roodeval north of Kroonstad by about 2000 Boers with six field guns. He is sending strong reinforcements to Kroonstad and Cape Colony is reinforcing as well. The interruption is hoped to be temporary.
The Associated Press notes connections between Andrew D. White and the vice presidential nomination. White declines to comment, stating the nomination has not yet been offered to him.
In Monongahela Pennsylvania two men were killed and three injured in a gas explosion at the Ellsworth mine. The cause remains unknown as investigators assess the scene.
Admiral Remey reports the gunboat Nashville with marines aboard has departed Manila bound for Taku. The light-draft vessel is thought to substitute for the Helena, while the Monocacy at Shanghai is ordered to join Admiral Kempf at Taku.
The Spanish cannon sent to Kansas City as a Cuban war trophy was discovered to be loaded with powder and projectiles since it left Manila months ago.
British forces occupy Komatipoort following clashes. President Kruger reportedly carried a large quantity of personal valuables.
Akron report says Peter Ley who enlisted for the Philippine service deserted to join rebels, was recaptured and is awaiting court martial in Manila.
In St Petersburg on June 11 the government declares a firm resolve to take immediate military steps to suppress the anti foreign movement if the dangerous situation in Dina persists, while maintaining joint action with the powers.
Calumet and Hecla mine in Calumet Michigan begins reopening shafts after a recent fire. Nos 6 and 7 of the Hecla branch were opened during the day and additional shafts are expected to follow within the next day or two.
State Auditor Dunn oversaw the forenoon sale of school lands in Mora. More than 9,000 acres moved at $5 to $10.50 per acre, including the entire Ground House township, with sharp bidding throughout.
London dispatch reports rumors that Pekin may be burning as of Friday June 28 but notes there is no confirmation. The Daily Mail cites unverified reports from Tien Tsin. This story reflects circulating speculation without official corroboration.
London June 11. The latest bulletin says Mrs Gladstone's condition is more hopeful. She rallied after sinking Saturday and her doctors now think she may live several days.
FRANKFORT Ky June 11 Sheriff Suter returned from Hot Springs and officials will confer today on the prosecution to petition for a requisition for the extradition of former Governor Taylor.
Delegates from the eight National league teams formed the Protective Association of Professional Base Ball Players in New York. The move follows longstanding grievances over player farm outs and other practices affecting players’ control and mutual support.
Booker T. Washington of Tuskegee Alabama decides to aid in organizing a national negro business league after consultations with prominent colored men nationwide. The group aims to promote black participation in all business sectors with a central body and local chapters. The inaugural meeting is set for Boston on August 28.
The City of Seattle arrived from Alaska with 400000 dollars in gold dust and 260 passengers many from Dawson. Five boats have reached the lakes from Dawson and the rush to the states is on. up to May 28 cleanups reached 18000000. Many returning Dawsonites are women and children. A general exodus is reported for the Keokuk river where rich strikes have been found. Water in the lakes is very low making navigation difficult.
From Tien Tsin on June 11 an edict denounces General Nieh Si Chong for killing Boxers and shows the throne’s sympathy with the movement calling Boxers good citizens. Nieh is ordered to retreat with his troops to Loopai, about 80 miles away. Powers may take control of the Pekin railroad to protect foreign life and property.
Dispatches from Shanghai report Cossack reconnoitering outside Tien Tsin attacked by a large mob armed with spears and rifles. Several attackers killed, a Russian lieutenant wounded, Nanking reported as serious, mob attacks on the viceroy’s palace. Foreign ministers seek to reinforce Pekin, fueling fears of a China-wide crackdown.
The Times correspondent reports American mission buildings at Tung Chau twelve miles from Pekin were looted and burned by Chinese soldiers sent to protect them. In three days seventy five native Christians, long trained by American missionaries, were massacred near Tung Chau, with many burned alive. Induced by fear, Christians face growing intimidation as missions close and legation guards gather.
The Times editorial notes America will work with other powers to restore peace while preserving independence of action. It argues this stance is acceptable and backed by American sailors and marines, aiding immediate order sought by the powers. Hong Kong signals rapid reinforcement preparation.
Aerial dispatch from Tien Tsin dated June 8 reports about 600 troops to land there and notes Fung Chow has been buried while the missionaries are safe.
Washington June 11 high authority says Senator Hanna will again chair the Republican national committee and steer the next campaigns. The sole threat to this plan is a serious decline in the senator's health. Senator Hanna and Secretary Dick met the President to discuss political matters. Dick will go to Philadelphia. Hanna plans to reach there on the 18th. The President hosted many senators including Lodge Spooner and Cannon.
INDIANAPOLIS June 1 Baker of the United States ordered a foreclosure and Louisville Booneville and St. Louis road. The railroad has been placed in the hands of a receiver amid the financial dispute.
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