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Newspaper
Austin Daily Herald
Location
Austin, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
May 07, 1907
Page
1
A vivid display promotes a three day sale on skirts with prices from 11.57 to 5.08 and a vast lace and trimming cut. Murphys also advertises millinery sales and a carpet room boasting all wool carpets priced to attract buyers, highlighting large lighted showrooms and color accuracy.
We secured a sample lot of shirt waists. some soiled, some worth a dollar or two, white and colored. Your choice tof 6445. Bank on this week as the greatest feast you have attended. Come early, it’s all here now. Never better, never so good elsewhere, than this week.
Diplomatic discussions in Washington focus on Mexico and Guatemala relations amid Mexican internal divisions. Officials seek peace and consider mediation by President Taft and President Roosevelt, with Cabrera's government figures and potential moves to settle disputes and prevent war.
Washington reports indicate Mexico may have severed relations with Guatemala over the Lima extradition demand. Guatemala denies surrender rights under treaty, while diplomats expect a settlement and Mexican interests to be managed by the American chargé.
Minneapolis May 7 A laborer named John Anderson trapped beneath cave in sand in a sewer trench survived two hours after rescuers sank a garden hose to him to supply air. Rescue followed extensive digging and treacherous conditions at the bottom of the trench.
News notes include the death of John I. Platt, long prominent editor of the Poughkeepsie Eagle in New York. An explosion at Modderfontein gold mine in the Transvaal killed three whites and fifteen natives. A Hamilton Ohio paper mill strike ended after a week. Benjamin Mead of St Paul survived a self inflicted gunshot wound and may recover.
Secretary of the Interior Garfield accepts the resignation of Tams Bixby of Minnesota, head of the civilized tribes at Muskogee Indian Territory, effective June 6th. Bixby, who had four resignations offered, seeks private business after allotting lands to Indians amid prior charges by Creek advocate Marshall Mott, later cleared.
The San Francisco labor dispute remains unresolved with streetcars halted and telephone service crippled. Thousands of ironworkers continue to demand an eight hour day as laundries stay idle and no public transit has resumed. The situation worsens as telephone networks suspend operations.
In Chicago the Indians beat the White Sox 5 to not specified. In Minneapolis the Toledo Mud Hens defeated the Minneapolis team 8 to 2. Milwaukee hosted Indianapolis with Milwaukee scoring 6 and Indianapolis 1.
Secretary Wil son reports weather has delayed seeding but predicts a normal crop of spring wheat in Minnesota Dakota states. He counters exaggerated reports of green bugs and Canadian Northwest damage noting favorable conditions and no widespread crop shortage.
A police raid led by Dorbin Van Vieck on Surf Avenue dismantled protruding building parts and signs. Twenty five officers and crews cut away courtyards overhangs and carry away twenty truckloads of material, threatening further removal by next Thursday.
The case of J. Jay Dunne Charles I Close and Frank L Emmett former Shelby Tube Steel employees from Greenville Pa charged with conspiracy to defraud the United States over alleged defective boiler tubes furnished to naval ships Pennsylvania Louisiana Maryland Charleston Nebraska Minnesota Vermont Washington and Tennessee opened before Judge Nathanial Ewing in Pittsburgh. Emmett pleaded guilty and waived a hearing becoming a state witness as prosecutors expect sensational testimony. Jury selection occupied the morning with over sixty witnesses subpoenaed and the trial set to continue through the week.
In a May 7 clash near Tunis and Algiers a group of Kabyles fought phosphate miners from the Methoula mine. Fifteen miners were killed and many wounded before troops restored order.
Warsaw report states that on May 7 a fire completely razed the town of Tyszowce, leaving three thousand residents homeless in the Lublin region.
Dr John Watson born Ian Maclaren in England died at Mount Pleasant Iowa at 11 15 am from blood poisoning stemming from tonsillitis. He was educated at Edinburgh and in Germany, ordained in 1875, and served as Lyman Beecher lecturer at Yale and minister at Sefton Park Liverpool until 1905.
William Parks a 47 year old inmate of the national soldiers home in Washington shot James Leslie a 30 year old Chicago inmate after being ordered from a ward. Parks wounded himself after Leslie intervened and died hours later at the soldiers home hospital. Leslie had served as a private in the One Hundred and Fiftieth coast artillery.
Jacksonville May 7 George W. Shephard described as likely the largest man in the Central states, weighing 675 pounds, died of paralysis. He was fifty one years old.
The Foreign Office seeks War Office explanation on the basis for Japanese protests over Russian troops in Korea and why forces remain if applicable. Officials claim no knowledge of troops there and expect postwar settlements to advance via negotiations on Sungari river navigation. Elevation of ambassadors in Tokio and St. Petersburg may follow.
In Madson Wisconsin on May 7 the Republican senatorial caucus adjourned after one ballot with Cooper 11 Esch 13 Hatten 8 Lenroot 9 Stephenson 9 and 5 scattering.
A May 7 storm across northern Texas caused at least three deaths and many injuries with widespread property damage. towns like Deport Antioch Birthwright Celina suffered major destruction. crops and livestock were ruined and several homes blown down. The death toll remained unusually small despite numerous tornadoes.
In Richmond on May 7 an explosion of dynamite wrecked the house of Robert Woodson, a Henry county black man. Woodson his mother father and three children slept inside but escaped without serious injury. No clue to the perpetrator. motive suspected but Woodson says he knows of no enemy.
An elder English origin traces kerse to a sour wild cherry with French and German links. The piece notes the expression not worth a curse is common but not truly profane though it can be intensified by a profane expletive.
Boise May 7 Judge Wood to decide if William D. Haywood may receive a bill of particulars naming overt acts in the Steunenberg murder case. Defense argued lack of indictment specificity. Borah opposed disclosure of state proof. Darrow and Richardson led the defense, Hawley present for the state.
Henry C. Keating signs over his potential $1.5 million share of the Keating estate to a Santa Monica syndicate of four men for $80,000. The risk hinges on Keating’s life as his younger heir reaches majority in two and a half years, potentially transferring the fortune to other heirs if he dies first.
About 350 laborers at the Havemeyer Sugar Refining plant in Brooklyn quit work demanding 18 cents an hour from 15. They gathered at the refinery doors at noon and attacked coworkers trying to leave. Police reserves were called from four stations to disperse the rioters.
Berlin reports ex-Governor Horn of Togoland colony was dismissed after a 1908 case in which a native, accused of stealing about $200, was sentenced to fifty whip strokes. The man died after being left on a whipping stake without food or water for a day. Several arrested in Durant and Colbert for allegedly leading the mob that lynched Jim Williams in Sterrett.
The article reports that about 70 million animals are killed annually for their fur, highlighting the scale of fur trade and animal welfare concerns.
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