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Newspaper
Austin Daily Herald
Location
Austin, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Mar 16, 1908
Page
1
Two Annapolis graduates, George Lewey and a Dewey classmate, travel wandered rounds in London on leave. They dine at a top hotel with strawberries and cream, face a £1 bill, then order two more plates to preserve the honor of the American navy.
Mose the dorky cook in a Texas survey party grew annoyed by ravenous razorback hogs roaming the camp. A raid at the spring left the tent bare of edibles and even nonfood items, prompting Mose to exclaim that land surely knows its business when it named hawgs hawgs.
The Zambezi River blazes past a wide cataract with a dramatic drop of about 420 feet, while a secondary fall stands around 158 feet high and the river widens near the scene.
Panic from a blaze in the Barnard block housing apartments led to a chaotic stampede at the rear door. A police officer raised the alarm and firemen arrived to rescue occupants, with no injuries reported and only minor property loss. The building has seen ten fires in recent months.
Terrible mountain storms swollen streams and landslides have tied up the overland train service between Portland and East Pendleton. Pendleton city is cut off on both sides by slides, leaving only the Pendleton to Spokane line open.
The annual meeting of the American Press Humorists, previously set for May in Houston, is postponed indefinitely due to the illness of secretary treasurer Judd Mortimer Lewis of Houston who is a patient with appendicitis.
De Witt Fuller of Hancock New York, said to be a private telegraph operator for President Lincoln, was killed on the Erie tracks at Narrowsburg. He was about seventy and employed by the Erie as a telegraph repair man.
A blaze at Sopris five miles west of Trinidad leveled the coke washer tipple engine house and chemical laboratory of the Colorado Fuel and Iron company. The fire caused about 150000 dollars in damage and left 300 men unemployed.
Chattanooga reports James Johnson, prominent local capitalist and politician, committed suicide by cutting his throat aboard an Alabama Great Southern train between Chattanooga and Birmingham. He had been in failing health and rumored distress.
A farmer in northern England used a scarecrow that frightened crows into returning corn they had carried to their nest three days earlier. The legend appears in London Tit-Bits.
A talkative man in a concert crowd asks how one would cope alone in tough times, suggesting gratitude as a response. The remark frames a moment of social unease amid the event.
Australians welcome Washington’s plan for a U S battleship fleet to visit Australia in July or August. Premier Deakin and defense minister Ewing praise closer U S ties while Australians admire Americans amid debates on Asiatic immigration and Pacific territorial issues with Germany and France shaping policy.
Deputy Marshal Smith Childers was shot while arresting Jake McDowell in Providence Kentucky. Two traveling men P B Carter and J B Barry were wounded as whites mobbed the area. The mob pursued potential suspects, but no one was captured and lynching fears rose as the investigation continued.
Premier Alfred Deakin announces to a large Sydney audience that the American battleship fleet will visit Sydney and Melbourne. He calls for three cheers for the United States and urges higher defense spending, proposing 9 million dollars per year for 20 000 soldiers and 15 coast defense ships.
The American battleship fleet, anchored in Magdalena Bay, Lower California, will begin target practice for two to three weeks. Official wireless dispatches indicate the waters will be active with shot and shell as targets are set at the bay’s southern end near the islanded channel.
United States Senator William Pinckney Whyte is ill at his Baltimore home with erysipelas and bladder disorder. Doctors say the condition is serious but not critical. At eighty two, his age hinders rapid improvement after a recent illness in Washington. He was elected to fill the Gorman vacancy and has long served in Maryland offices.
Boise dispatch reports Harry Orchard, self confessed killer of former Governor Steunenberg, will face Judge Fremont Wood in Canyon county district court on his 42nd birthday for first degree murder. Orchard, who pled guilty, refuses interviews, expects the death penalty, and shows devotion to religious study while awaiting sentencing.
It is thought that he believes his own punishment in full for the crime he committed will tend to prove the truth of his confession.
William Hatey, sixty five, a wealthy farmer of Winona, left his guests and hanged himself from a tree near his house after inviting friends to an evening gathering. His body was found by dawn. ill health is listed as the cause.
Minneapolis reports Judge Lochren of the United States district court will resign at the end of March after twenty four years of service in state and federal courts. He is seventy six next month and has faced health issues in recent years prompting the decision.
A lone robber boarded the westbound Oriental Limited at Bonner's Ferry Idaho and held two mail clerks captive while rifling registered mail. He escaped at Spokane after nearly five hours, posing as a post office inspector and wearing a red sweater and overalls. The amount stolen remains unknown until registered mail is checked.
Gracio Elgueta a lumber handler opened fire in a bungalow wounding a seven year old twice and an aged man. eleven year old Margaret Manes was killed. He shot Mrs. A Manes and fled before a police officer killed him. The attack began when Elgueta burst through the doorway as the family sat in the front room.
A man identified as Elgueta shot a woman’s daughter in the left breast and Minnie Shackelford in the right arm before firing on Minnie’s grandfather and then wounding officers Inman and Logan. Police returned fire and Elgueta died of a heart shot after the confrontation. Jealousy over Mrs Manes reportedly sparked the attack.
Three Ochelata posse members encountered Tyre bank robbers by Candy creek eight miles southwest of Ochelata. The bandits ordered the posse to halt, disarmed them, and took one horse before allowing the men to depart unarmed. The robbers then fled into the Osage hills after dinner.
Stratford reports two men and a boy drowned after a rowboat overturned in a sudden squall. The victims are Peter LaCroix and Andrew LaCroix, a father and son, and Henry W. Ellison, all of Bridgeport.
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