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Newspaper
Austin Daily Herald
Location
Austin, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1909
Page
1
Katherine Clemmons Gould.testifies in her alimony suit denying drinking to excess profanity or improper conduct with Dustin Farnum. She recounts meetings from 1904 to 1906 at charity events and St Regis apartments, insisting no intimate talks or favors occurred.
A blind traveling Negro preacher was seized Saturday by a white posse near Talbotton Georgia and later found dead in a creek. The man had urged Negroes not to work for whites and influenced them away from regular labor on white farms. Authorities say he was whipped and his death resulted from a fall, though the incident followed a fatal clash earlier when William Carreker killed William Leonard. The preacher had briefly visited Carreker before the violence.
New York reports a fourth day of extreme heat with hospitals crowded as 34 prostration cases and three personal crisis reports appeared by late afternoon. The official 3 pm temperature reached 92 degrees and a light southwest breeze offered little relief. At Coney Island thousands slept on the sand.
New York reports ongoing murder inquiry into Elsie Sigel with rumors and unease. Ching Sin rested after 34 hours of grilling as detectives seek reliable leads amid conflicting tips from Chinatown Newark and Pacific coast. Chu Gain explains a $260 loan to Leon Ling’s roommate came from a treasury fund of the Empire Reform association.
In Mill City on June 25 Louis Mauer a wealthy property owner died by self inflicted gunshot at his summer home near Medicine Lake after a two year paralytic stroke left him despondent. In Melby Adelph Johnson twenty three slashed his throat with a penknife in the Lawrence sanitarium for inebriates, police say due to prolonged debauchery.
A blaze starting in the Atlas Oil company storage plant in Omaha caused the oil firm to lose its facility and the Orchard Wilhelm Furniture warehouse. Losses are estimated between 125000 and 150000 dollars.
In Ruston Louisiana on June 25 a platform collapse near the summer normal school injured more than twenty people. About 200 teachers attending the school were precipitated to the ground from a height of around fifteen feet.
Senator Beveridge argued for an amendment on tobacco package sizes linking tax effects to the tobacco trust. Senator Bailey defended free law materials against free entry of iron ore lumber and hides. Senator Newlands focused on income tax and the 1908 gross receipts tax, warning against a corporation only tax violating uniformity.
On the eve of the fiscal year end the House authorized a 16 million emergency appropriation to cover Census Bureau costs for the thirteenth decennial census. Speaker Tawney stated that without funds the bureau would suspend operations next Wednesday. the bill faced opposition and passed after a roll call on a point of no quorum. A separate measure made Scranton Mississippi a sub port of entry. Adjournment was set for Monday.
Washington June 25. The attorney general orders dismissal of the government suit against the New York New Haven and Hartford and the Boston and Maine railways and others for violating the anti trust laws. Massachusetts legislature has expressly authorized consolidation of those roads.
Mereland records a deadly heat incident with one man dead and six others prostrated. The temperature hits a yearly high of 86 degrees, marking a new local record.
An early health advice feature links mental and physical illness to digestion. It promotes eating lightly and avoiding heavy morning meals, endorsing BC Corn Flakes and Egg-O-See Wheat Flakes with milk for all ages. It asserts improved health and productivity through the Kege-O-S8ee process.
A collision of two southbound trolley cars on the Wilmington and Chester line near Hillcrest Wilmington injures forty people all residents of Chester Pennsylvania. The first car lost its power when its trolley pole slipped from the feed wire causing the second car to crash into it. Victims were taken to Delaware and Homeopathic hospitals by trolley and ambulance.
Northwestern Norton county and southern Nebraska were hit by a half dozen tornadoes seen by residents after a sultry day. Rain and a heavy hail storm followed. Rural telephone lines are down and reports are meager as mail carriers report each tornado causing destruction.
New York terse trial report states Broughton Brandenburg testified for hours describing the Cleveland article's creation and sale to the New York Times. He claimed Grover Cleveland signed the clipping and contested its authenticity while executor Hastings approved the sale in 1908. Brandenburg said Hastings declined $500 bribe offer.
Berlin June 25 Reichstag rejected by 194 to 186 the ministry’s bill to extend inheritance taxes to direct heirs including widows and children. The president announced the bill would be dropped. Public galleries overflowed as excitement rose and Chancellor von Buelow, not speaking, left the chamber upon likely defeat.
A playful exchange from the Boston Transcript riffs on vessel terminology with a child asking if a vessel is a boat and a parent answering that a blood vessel is a lifeboat. The humor hinges on literal wording and bedtime bravado.
Baltimore, June 25. A telegram from St Michaels, Md announces the capture of Roberts, the man suspected in the murder of Mrs Edith May Woodill of Los Angeles. The body of the woman was found in Back Creek weighed with an iron pot and bricks. Roberts is alleged to have been last seen with Mrs Woodill and owned a small farm near Captain Thompson’s.
Corrato Minnelli a 60 year old street sweeper was murdered at 200 South Exchange Street by Lyle Macini who fired three times after the first shot felled Minnelli. Macini was captured on South Washington Street by John P. Kirk of the Star theater after a desperate escape attempt.
In Butler Pennsylvania on June 25 a tramp, denied bread and coffee, struck Mrs. John Sedorts, 30, farmer’s wife, unconscious with a head blow, bound and gagged her, and poured carbolic acid on her face burning and blinding her. Posses chase the assailant amid talk of possible lynching as the district rallies to the crime.
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