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Newspaper
Austin Daily Herald
Location
Austin, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
May 29, 1908
Page
1
Chicago May 29 a gale of sixty eight miles an hour preceded an electrical storm that caused widespread damage. Debris from buildings injured several people while a column chimney at 119 La Salle street blew down crossing a court and breaking hotel windows. Telegraph and telephone lines were crippled briefly cutting outside communication.
May 29 Port Arthur Ontario reports a rush of flood waters from the Current River dam failure. The flood washed out railroad tracks and bridges, wrecked the power plant and park pavilion, and may have killed five to fifty people. Dead include Engineer Savard Fireman McBride and Brakeman Inmann, plus two hoboes.
A severe wind and rainstorm hit Southeastern Iowa on May 29 damaging barns and outbuildings, felling many trees, destroying chimneys, and injuring livestock. Burlington reports broken plate glass, downed lines, and a blocked railroad south of the city, with no fatalities announced.
A May 29 wind storm in Quincy damaged Wonderland Park principal buildings and many others, with a tornado effect south of the city. George Werner was killed by lightning, and about fifty dwellings and outbuildings were destroyed. No other fatalities were reported.
Floods in the Neemah valley wash out Burlington road and derail or stall trains near Rulo Nebraska. Water covered tracks and prompted service suspensions as authorities assess damage and reroute traffic.
High water reports came in from Falls City Auburn Table Rock Nebraska City and Brownville. The Nebraska City to Brownville line is described as in bad shape and potentially dangerous for transit.
Bandusky O May 29 report says six Italian fishermen and two boys are missing after the severest storm on Sandusky bay. The storm swept Prune and Ottawa counties causing heavy damage. in Sandusky a city block section was unroofed and interiors of four business houses flooded.
Tornadoes moving through counties near Hennessey and Carlon caused extensive crop and farm property damage. No lives reported lost so far, though details remain scarce.
The Arkansas River continues to rise as heavy rains fall across Oklahoma. Railways statewide remain demoralized due to the flooding and disrupted service.
A violent wind storm in southern Jewell county Kansas killed one man and injured twenty two people, seven fatally, as it traveled from the south in a 150 yard wide path. It destroyed houses barns and small buildings and caused extensive property and crop damage estimated in the thousands of dollars.
Reports from Maryville Tarkio and other Northwest Missouri towns say thousands of acres of lowlands flooded with corn crops devastated as the Missouri river rises. Government docks near Elwood under construction are threatened by the high waters.
An electrical storm with high winds and heavy rain hit central state areas near Peoria on May 29. The event damaged crops, uprooted trees, disrupted telephone and telegraph lines, and authorities fear one man may have died.
A cloudburst north of Tulsa, Oklahoma, caused severe damage to property and crops. The Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe railroad bridge over Bird Creek, fifteen miles north of Tulsa, was washed away severing all rail communication with Tulsa from the north.
In Clinton Illinois on May 29 the circuit court jury returned a unanimous verdict setting aside the will of Colonel Tom Snell, the millionaire. The jury found Colonel Snell to be of unsound mind, delivering the decision after ten days of trial and six hours of deliberation. The case marks the second effort to break the will, which left Snell’s son a $50 annuity.
Dispatches report M Ostrogradski, Russian financial agent in Teheran, was attacked at his residence by three unknowns. He was seriously wounded but repelled the intruders who fled before help arrived. Russia demands satisfaction from Persia as tensions rise after earlier frontier violence.
General S. D. Lee, commander in chief of the United Confederate Veterans and a late lieutenant general, died at the Vicksburg National Military Park residence. Camps, Confederate groups, and prominent figures including the U.S. president sent condolences.
Washington May 29 The trial of Gaston Philip charged with murder of cab driver Frank Macaboy at the Arlington hotel progressed rapidly in criminal court. Government witnesses described a stormy revelry the night before the shooting and the scene after the gunfire with statements by both principals including Macaboy saying he had been shot like a dog.
May saw fifty three engagements in Korea as Japanese forces battle insurgents. insurgents suffered five hundred forty nine killed many wounded and many captured. Japanese losses were thirty killed. Headquarters predicted the disturbance to be subdued within sixty days.
Simla May 29 reports the punitive expedition ending its campaign with Major General Willcocks to return to Indian territory and demobilize. In eighteen days the bases suffered 6 officers killed 72 men killed and 144 wounded with cholera responsible for nearly half the deaths.
In Northfield Minnesota on May 29 Boern Livingston eighteen and Alson Blodgett seventeen drowned when Blodgett’s gasoline launch went over Cannon River dam. A crowd of 150 to 200 watched but could not help as the engine failed and the swift current swept the craft over the dam. Blodgett’s mother was on the bridge as the boat sank and the boys were pulled ashore after a bystander helped.
In Washington on May 8 the senate discussed the conference report on the currency bill. Aldrich outlined the measure while Culberson and Bacon jabbed at reform bills. Teller Owen and Newlands opposed the currency bill. The session drifted to uncontroversial calendar items with few speakers left.
A 20 year old leaker helped seven prisoners overpower Sheriff D F Voorhees in Steubenville Ohio. The inmates fled the county jail with $100 from the sheriff’s pockets, setting out toward Pittsburg after a 15 minute head start, and remain at large.
Victor Shanley a New York lawyer received a prison term of not less than five nor more than ten years for forgery. He forged client Julia A Smith's name to a $26 000 mortgage, fled, was arrested in Philadelphia about a year ago, and has since repaid much of the money.
At Hutte Montana on May 29 Frank Tugh aged twenty was shot twice by his fourteen year old brother Dominick. The second bullet lodged in Frank's brain. Dominick has fled from officers as investigators pursue him.
Terre Haute Indiana May 29 United Mine Workers District No 11 vote to sign the scale with operators and a contract will be signed at once. More than 16000 men have been idle three weeks.
Governor John A. Johnson returns from Virginia and Alabama and praises Norfolk Atlanta and Birmingham as lively like Northern cities. He will speak at Armour Institute commencement June 4 in Chicago and at the University of Kansas June 10. He did not discuss the broader political scene.
A Bay statement notes 28 percent of Alabama Democratic votes in the primaries. Bay says he carried nine counties and was satisfied by the result though steel trust chatter and Bryan’s carry of those Iron district counties are mentioned.
Baltimore May 29 The Methodist Episcopal general conference blocked an unim portant motion to set a time for considering changes to paragraph 248 of the book of discipline which governs amusements. Delegates aim to bury the question and keep amusements off the conference floor if possible.
The general assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America reaffirmed priorities on church government temperance and marriage and divorce. A key vote bars any paid parent or member of church boards from serving on the executive commission except the moderator shifting governance to new officers and boards. Funds and policies will rely on biblical grounds for divorces.
Chicago on May 29 reports fear among 1700 pupils at the Dante school at Ewing and Desplaines streets after rumors of an Italian secret society plotting dynamite attack. About 600 students fled in panic. several were knocked down or bruised but no serious injuries occurred as shots were fired in a nearby alley.
In Washington on May 2 the House approved measures authorizing two or more fish cultural stations on Puget Sound, amending Hawaii US travel laws, easing entry of agricultural lands into forest reserves, allowing the Haltinone and Washington Transit Company of Maryland into DC, and incorporating groups led by the wives and daughters of senators and congressmen.
Washington May 29 Representative Stafford of Wisconsin member of the special committee probing the wood pulp print paper question introduced a joint resolution to suspend import duties on mechanically ground wood pulp for eighteen months. The measure exempts pulp from any country that restricts imports or imposes export duties or other charges on such wood pulp.
A verdict of accidental drowning was returned after an autopsy on Benjamin G. Steenerson, a U.S. Marine Corps private and son of Congressman Steenerson of Minnesota, who drowned on February. Medical Examiners Steel of Portsmouth and Stewart of Newport conducted the examination in Newport, R. I., on May 29.
In Tucson on May 29 the Arizona Democratic convention elected and instructed its delegates to vote solidly for the nomination of William J. Bryan for president.
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