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Newspaper
Austin Daily Herald
Location
Austin, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Mar 06, 1908
Page
1
Cleveland reports detail the Lake View schoolhouse catastrophe killing 164, with 27 bodies mutilated beyond recognition. Investigations probe fire doors and exits while officials consider funerals and inferno cause, as Collinwood residents await answers.
Barron Wisconsin March 6 Frank Donnelly of Oak Grove died from blood poisoning after a boar bite four weeks earlier. He was sixty three years old and one of the county's earliest settlers.
Fred Hedde founder of the Grand Island Independent and the first white settler in Hall County, aged eighty nine, died in Grand Island Nebraska on March 6. He came to the area in 1852 and shaped local journalism.
Lazarus Averbuch, who tried to shoot Chicago’s chief of police, was buried at Dun ning county poor farm in a lantern lit grave. His sister Olga, after police custody, consented reluctantly to the burial and had a photo taken with the body. Police efforts to uncover a conspiracy yield little. Emma Goldman talks canceled and Miss Goliman remains at large.
In Moosup Connecticut on March 6 a dismembered body believed to be Dino Pietro of New York was found in the river. Salvatore Capagello, twenty, an Italian, is under arrest after his wife accused him of involvement and hinted at a Black Hand link. Authorities found a bloodstained axe and bindings at his home before locating the body. Capagello allegedly admitted throwing it into the water and said legs would be found at a mill dam.
Tokio reports negotiations with China over the Japanese steamer Tatsu had not reached an ultimatum. Hayashi in Peking is not instructed to threaten force. The cabinet postponed because Hayashi is away duck shooting.
Washington on March 6 marked by both houses adjourning in tribute to the late Senator Proctor of Vermont. No business of importance occurred as members paused, with the post office appropriation debate in the House extended to 8 p.m. Tuesday.
In Kirtland Ohio on March 6 Martin sixty years old shot and killed his wife after a quarrel. Mrs Martin had recently filed for divorce. He then died by his own hand, leaving the motive tied to marital strife and the divorce filing.
In Hawkinsville Georgia on March 6 two men Curry Robertson and John Henry were hanged from a tree and their bodies burned after being charged with killing Mr and Mrs Warren Hart near Frazier. One confessed the motive was robbery. Mrs Hart lay dying nearby. The suspects were removed from the county jail by a posse and executed without further disturbance. In Woonsocket Rhode Island a three year old boy Earle Hartnett was accidentally shot and killed by his twelve year old uncle Fred Tucker at his father’s home when a shotgun discharged while pretending to be a soldier.
Birmingham dispatch reports twenty one miners believed entombed at Hamstead colliery after repeated rescue attempts with oxygen apparatus fail. A rescuing party was overcome by fumes, another nearly suffocated, and work was abandoned. The fire continues with no prospect of rescue.
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