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Newspaper
Austin Daily Herald
Location
Austin, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1902
Page
2
The Daily Herald operates as second class mail matter from Austin Minnesota. It is issued each weekday afternoon with Sunday exceptions and lists subscription rates. The issue date shown is Tuesday June 17, 1902.
Mary Le Clair became Mrs John Malick in a 6:30 am ceremony at St Augustine’s church. The couple, escorted by Ed McManus, left for Minneapolis and then Milwaukee before returning to Lansing to start married life. The bride from Lansing is well known and the groom served as station agent. Best wishes flowed from friends.
Alvina Toeter of Teeterville and William Hartje of Elkton were married at the German Lutheran Church near Toeterville at 5 p m on Wednesday with about 200 guests. Rev Lindgreber officiated. Mary Quast and Louise Toeter were bridesmaids, Henry Hartje and George Teeter attended the groom. A Teeter home reception followed with a 17 piece Stacyville band providing music. The couple received best wishes for a long, prosperous life.
At Mrs Ada M Smiths Winona street home at noon Grace Smith and L N McWhorter wed in a ceremony by Rev Wheeler with about sixty relatives present. Ushers were Anna McBride and Isy Maxwell. Verna Smith carried the ring. The couple planned a brief honeymoon then residence in Minneapolis. The bride, a longtime Austin resident and K K club member, and the groom, an Austin native and former High School principal, receive warm praise from the community.
Guests from abroad Claude Haney of Minneapolis and Miss Cosgrove of Le Sueur attend a wedding eve gathering for the Latin teacher at Central High School Minneapolis where he is in charge of Latin. Friends hope the couple will have many blessings ahead.
J. M. Reynold travels to Minneapolis to wed a city woman and plans to return Thursday aboard the Great Western. Miss Jocie Hogan of Cedar City will wed Frank Champion of Osage Iowa at noon Wednesday at the bride’s parents’ home.
Dora Qualee attended the Commiement Exer cises of BMNO in Austin Thare day. Dr HL Knight visited friends at Austin Friday. Delia Cummings came from Austin Thursday to visit her parents. A daughter was born to Mr and Mrs John Krebrick on June 11. The Willing Workers society will be entertained by Mrs Jobo Carey Thursday in Carey's hall. Mrs Thos Keating of Austin visited relatives Wednesday. Mr and Mrs JH Keebsback traveled to Minneapolis Sunday for Commencement at St Toomas College. Mary Madden came from Austin Thursday to visit relatives. Frank Scanlon comments on perseverance and the Summit, traveling to Lyle Friday, Blooming Prairie Sunday, and Austin Thursday.
Special to the Herald from Minneapolis on June 17 reports Mayor Ames arrested for offering a bribe for a public office appointment. He received more time to plead. Detective Norbeck, on trial for taking a bribe, fled, causing the court to end proceedings and declare bail forfeited.
Mise Fannie Gies avieitic Thursday evening. Mr and Mrs QG Alles of Austin visit friends here. Giles Wilsie spent a few days at home. Mies Weeden returned home after weeks away. Mr Charlies Greening on vacation at home. Mies Elizabeth Orth of St Paul visited friends. Mrs H Pierson of Austin visited. Mr Jobo Schroeder on sick list. Mies Mabel Goodwell returned from Hamline. Prof GE Keenan returned from St Paul.
Early studies show electricity as a stimulant for practs and seeds. Experiments test methods from seed pre-stimulation to surrounding air fields, with the strongest results from passing current through the soil. The "Golden Grain Belt" is touted as similarly beneficial for the body. Order from your nearest dealer.
Wilkesbarre Pa June 17 sixth week of the anthracite coal miners strike opens without disturbance rain kept 150000 idle indoors. Reports say assaults on workers and policemen occurred but none seriously hurt. Neither side released figures and leaders offered no new statements.
Madrid reports the government will appoint a minister to Cuba. In Newfoundland, smallpox in Labrador worsens with the outbreak near St Johns prompting calls for the colonial government to curb travel between infected Labrador and the seaboard to prevent a wider epidemic.
Information from the coal fields says armed miners have disbanded and given up their arms. About 500 strikers were marching from Simmons Creek and Goodwill mines toward North Fork to force nonunion workers out. They claim control of Goodwill and Simmons Creek mines and vow to resist resumption of work.
The Toe Town Board convened with Tom Rice present on Wednesday. Peter Hanson plans to sell his farm and move to Denmark. Frad Rettig and Wm Taylor visited the Rettig home in Browns Dale. GD Frisbee made a business trip to Albert Lea. Frank Snyder stayed at home Sunday. Mike and Ed Smith attended events in Oakland Friday night. Mr McGollum misplaced a $20 watch while repairing a fence last week. Kicg is noted for wearing the bee hat recently.
Alma Christopherson died last Thursday at the home of her daughter Mrs Casper Sevneon from cancer of the stomach after a long illness. She leaves a mother, brothers and several children.
The Chicago Great Western Railway announces excursion tickets to Mankato from June 30 to July 2 at one fare round trip, valid to return July 7. Additional days July 3 to 5 offer tickets at one and one third fare, also returnable by July 7. For details contact a Great Western Agent or J P Elmer G P A Chicago.
Tickets to nearly all points at low rates on first and third Tuesday every month June through October. For details contact any Great Western Agent or J P Elmer G P A Chicago Ill.
Final settlement completed for the Simuel Nelson estate of Grend Meadow Wa H Myer has qualified as executor for Henry Myer estate of LeRoy Hearing on claims set for December 22
Minneapolis set to host a popular gathering July 7 to 11 with the Chicago Great Western Railway selling excursion tickets for round trip travel. Tickets from July 7 to 8 are good to return July 4 or September 1 with a 50 cent extra payment and a $200 membership fee. Inquiries to any Great Western Agent or J P Elmer G P A Chicago Tl.
The G. C. Dinsmoor strawberries are offered for gale at Fiester and Thomas with fresh stock twice daily.
Ten prominent citizens including Mayor Fitzgerald and Chief Rice declare tranquility restored after Governor Kimball orders militia withdrawal. Meeting at state armory with Brigadier General Tanner. three stone throwing incidents recorded. cars ran on all lines by day but were withdrawn at night in Pawtucket and Central Falls.
In Charleston on June 17 the Kanawha field strike tightens with the Winnifrede mine idling and no workers reporting in the morning. Three Kanaw ha and Hocking mines accepted concessions and operate, while other company mines on the north bank of the Kanawha river are ordered closed.
A severe wind and lightning storm near Richland Georgia killed J M Hurley, a noted peach merchant, and severely shocked his wife. The storm damaged stores, unroofed buildings including schools and churches, toppled trees, ruined crops, and devastated the peach crop in the area along the Seaboard Airline.
Duluth reports manager Wolvin of Pittsburg Steamship Co announces efforts to recover the nine lost sailors from the Thomas Wilson sunk after a collision with the G. G. Hadley off Duluth ten days ago. Divers will be sent to inspect the wreck and assess feasibility of raising it as work on the Hadley proceeds.
A heavy rainstorm in Scranton Pennsylvania caused severe flooding, filling cellars and raising the river to a level that may overflow its banks and threaten numerous mine openings if rain persists through the night.
Sixty machinists boilermakers and helpers at the Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul railroad shops in Sioux City Iowa walked out after the company refused a 20 cent per day wage increase.
Reports from Hawaii indicate Kilauea eruption continues drawing crowds to witness the spectacle. Observers note lava from Halemau mau's smaller crater with sheets of flame. The active crater sits in a basin seven to eight miles wide with steep surrounding walls.
O D Lambert of Red Rock lost a colt to lightning. R J Swenson of Marehaill reported a calf killed by a strike and Thomas Murphy of Lanskng had his house struck by lightning. All losses were insured with Mower County Mutual.
A Big Four freight train wrecked between Perth and Carbon in Brazil Indiana on June 17. Four men attempted to hitch a ride from Lena to Terre Haute. an axle broke on the steep grade causing eight cars to derail. Two men were killed instantly and two others injured. those dead were pinned under a car for hours.
Chicago June 17 United States Circuit Court Judge James C Jenkins urged abolishing elective judiciary in state courts. He spoke at John Marshall Law School commencement advocating appointment by the governor with tenure good behavior or until a set age and a salary matching private sector value, with pensions for retiring judges.
The New Jersey Court of Errors found St George Kempson in contempt of court, ruling it had jurisdiction over him and requiring him to address the North Dakota divorce obtained from his first wife. It allowed him to inform the North Dakota court that he misrepresented residency, or face continued contempt.
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