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Newspaper
Austin Daily Herald
Location
Austin, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
May 29, 1908
Page
4
German law restricts fresh water fish sales to living specimens only. Restaurants display live tanks in windows and fish are hauled long distances by Prussian railways. Shipments arrive in Berlin from Lyons in France and from as far as Romania in the south.
In Poughkeepsie New York Charles Lempke 14 was struck by a pitched ball and killed. A man George M. Leatner is dead at his home Mrs Kirkpatrick at Hides Inn. Oldest man in Wapello county. An epidemic of suicides in St Petersburg lasts three months with eighty five deaths monthly. Senate passes bill raising customs inspectors to six dollars per day and setting treasurer salary at eight thousand dollars yearly. Bodies of R G Keith and Lizzie Ready found in Bangor Maine home. Keith is suspected of killing Ready and himself. Clarence F Norment elected president of Washington Railway and Electric Company effective June first. William Loeb Jr previously tipped for the post.
A fleet division escorted by the hospital ship Retief sailed from Tacoma on May 29 bound for San Francisco. The Georgia, New Jersey, Rhode Island and Virginia stay in Tacoma harbor until Sunday morning then proceed to Bremerton for drydock.
Governor Haskell signs a hotel inspection bill in Guthrie Oklahoma. The law requires the top bed sheet to extend nine feet so it can be turned back two and a half feet over the lower covers.
Washington May 29 Congress nears final adjournment with all appropriation bills except the general deficiency bill passed by both houses. Conference reports on the deficiency and building bills are pending action, with the currency bill a key Senate obstacle. The deficiency bill includes funds to carry the building measure into effect and is prepared for final presentation.
William Patterson kidnapped Mrs. Sargent at Ligonter Indiana on May 29. A posse pursued the abductor and shot him dead. The fatal shot was fired by V Patterson's brother in law after he himself had been wounded.
American Association games included Minneapolis 8 over Kansas City 2 Columbus 0 over Toledo 6 St Paul 6 over Milwaukee 5 Louisville 10 over Indianapolis 8. American League results Philadelphia 2 over Detroit 10 Washington 8 over Cleveland 2 Boston 1 over Chicago 2 New York 8 over St Louis 4. National League Pittsburg 1 over Boston 8 St Louis 2 over Chicago 8.
President Roosevelt signs a bill praised as radical to develop Alaska coal reserves. The measure limits private holdings to 2 660 acres per person or group and imposes forfeiture for excess. It reserves first claim on mined coal for the government to ensure navy fuel supply.
Wheat prices for May and July closed with May at 1.064 percent, July at 1.064 percent, Sept at 8 cents. Track prices show No 1 hard at 1.11 percent, No 1b Northern at 1.09, No 8 Northern at 1.07, No 3 Northern ranging 1.08 to 1.05.
St Paul stock yard report lists cattle prices for goats steers and cows with ranges from good to choice. Veals hogs sheep values provided with per head ranges and standard quotable figures. Includes figures per 100 pounds for some grades and lambs.
In Duluth on May 28 wheat futures show No 1 hard at 1.11 and No 1 Northern at 1.0744 1.09, No 2 Northern 1.044 1.04, May 1.06 July 1.0645 Sept 0.92. Plax arrives on track at 1.23 for May July Sept 1.22 Oct 4.21.
Chicago market notes list cattle categories with price ranges including Texas and western stockers and feeders. Prices cover cows, calves, mixed lots, heavies, and hogs with figures from 4.50 to 8.50, and sheep and yearlings priced from 3.60 to 6.70 per unit.
Wheat May 1.09 Jul 99 8c Sept 8c Dec 8c. Corn May 82c Jul 67c Sept 8c. Oats May 56c Jul 47c Sept 80c. Pork May 12.56 13.67 Jul 18.46. Butter dairy prices mixed. Poultry turkey prices and broiler figures listed.
Bridgeville Delaware on May 29 reports a new daily shipment record as seventy four carloads of strawberries were sent out. The prior one day record stood at fifty five cars from last summer. Berry prices have fallen with farmers selling as low as four cents a quart, a price considered not profitable.
Salem Oregon May 29 Judge Burnett in the circuit court sentenced J Thorburn Ross the Portland banker to five years imprisonment and to pay a fine of 576094 dollars Ross was recently convicted of wrongful conversion of state school funds in his role as president of the Title Guarantee and Trust company.
Philadelphia May 29 Checks for the regular semi annual dividend of the Pennsylvania Railroad company have been mailed to 69 415 shareholders the greatest number in the company’s history. The checks total 9 487 829 50 representing a percentage on capitalization of 314 594 800.
London May 29 Mrs Margaret Hamilton a principal witness in the alleged identity of the Duke of Portland with T C Druce was sentenced to eighteen months penal servitude for perjury after her appeal was disallowed.
Warren S. Stone and assistants F. A. Burgess and E. W. Hurley, all Cleveland, were re-elected Grand Chief and assistants in the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers. Ash Kennedy of Winnipeg was chosen assistant grand chief to fill a new office representing Canada.
The Columbian Historical Society reveals papers on Daniel Carroll aiding payment to Gilbert Stuart for the Washington portrait. Stuart sought 800 dollars in 1796. Congress refused but Carroll offered to back the claim. A promissory note at 8 percent extended twenty years to Carroll heirs, with the painting later restored and rehung in the White House blue room.
A Cleveland Leader snippet reports a courtroom scene featuring a southern judge and a character named Immanuel Baxter. The exchange humorously questions why a bacon theft was charged and notes a thirty day sentence. Officer Tucker and Regnald James are referenced in the mock dialogue.
Antonia Preber eighteen was shot by Joseph Krhournek twenty six who then killed himself in the temple his death following his failed attempt to win her hand Krhournek a Bohemian laborer had sent his savings to pay her passage to America arriving she refused to marry him and worked to repay the debt
A New York Sun excerpt recounts a visiting housekeeper who praises her sweeping laundry tasks. She claims to washed a cid woman in bed, dressed four children, scrubbed two floors, washed windows, and generally cleaned the house, noting no head of the family is mentioned.
A historical report claims criminal fanatics at Broadmoor and Perth enjoy a free supply of high quality pipe tobacco cigars and cigarettes. It alleges smugglers provide taxed tobacco to feed the "criminal insane," with government sources filling Perth and Broadmoor tobacco boxes from confiscated goods.
A Miatery lover laments small income and says it is cruel to take a woman from her father’s roof. She replies that she does not live on the roof, in a brief witty exchange.
A Chinese divorce case hinges on a wife's excessive talking as a reason under local law. The court references behavior deemed burdensome to marital harmony and seeks dissolution based on communication issues within the marriage.
A two block from Main Street residence offered at low price. Details read as a quick sale with potential buyers urged to inquire locally.
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