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Newspaper
Austin Daily Herald
Location
Austin, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Nov 14, 1908
Page
4
The Pinkham Compound is touted as highly successful for women with testimonials from many users. It claims to relieve distress related to feminine health, restore normal function, and avoid surgical operations.
China faces a fevered reaction after the death of Emperor Kwang Tsu and the dowager empress Tsi An. Prince Chun, Tsai Feng, is named regent with his son Pu Wei as heir presumptive. An aura of mystery surrounds edicts and court illness amid Western medical offers.
Mae Otis, jailed on charges of plotting to kill her mother with hired thugs, was declared sane by Dr L Baldin. Mrs Otis arrived from Manston Wisconsin and visited in a police station cell. the pair wept as a guard offered liberty and asked if the mother could be harmed.
The page lists merchants and products including Burlingame Bros notions and fancy articles, Austin Cement Stone and Tile Co cement works, George Hirsh clothing, W. D. Bassler Golden Eagle confections, Owatonna Fruit Co fruits and ice cream, and Austin Candy Co. products.
A dense billing of Austin merchants lists offerings from agricultural implements to drugs perfumes and books. It names Christie & Son J J Moreland Dairy Austin Dairy Co Ruggler Tollifson Pooler Malloy and many others with goods ranging from coal and lumber to furniture, groceries, hardware, legal services, photographers and more. The page highlights vendors and trades in a town economy.
A brief notice promotes nightly enjoyable entertainment with no admission charge. It invites the public to attend and suggests pleasant, light refreshments may be available during the event.
Mary Skeffingdon state librarian figures in the case as the indictment lists three men charged with murder and John D. Sharp as accessory before the fact. S. C. Carmack, brother of the slain man, is named as prosecutor. Physicians report Young Cooper wounded in the shoulder is as well as could be expected.
Richard Croker former head of Tammany Hall sailed from Queenstown Ireland to the United States. He said his New York visit had no political aims and he planned to renew old acquaintances and rest. He will be nearly sixty five on November 24 and looks well as he travels.
A mother declares she will spend all she has to prevent her daughter from prosecution after an interview interrupted by a young woman's sobs. Police say Miss Otis’s position leaves them in a quandary and Captain O'Brien suggests she may leave Chicago if she wishes.
Berlin dispatch says Chancellor von Buelow and allies shape pressure after Kiel audience with Emperor William. If he resigns, it would be because the emperor would not back the Reichstag declaration insisting the emperor be more restrained in his utterances.
A bold claim cites Prince Yon Die as spokesman for all the people on a crucial issue. He asserts his duty is to interpret the national will to the sovereign, risking support or rejection based on his decision.
Davidson county grand jury returns a true bill charging Colonel Duncan B. Cooper and his son Robin J. Cooper with the murder of ex-Senator E. W. Carmack. Ex-Sheriff John D. Sharp is indicted as an accessory before the fact. Sharp is also charged as an accessory before the fact. Six witnesses listed on the back include Mrs. Cody D. Carmack and Mrs. Charles Eastman.
In New York, Croker will stay with his son Richard who has a home at Port Chester. Democratic circles deny any political motive in the former Tammany chief’s coming visit. The Croker faction plans a large reception down the bay.
New York witnesses Horatia Tucker, former New York Central freight agent, and Fred Hollands, Chicago and Alton tariff clerk, testified in the government suit to dissolve Standard Oil of New Jersey. Their testimony centered on intrastate and interstate freight rates.
Four men were killed and four others severely injured in a boiler explosion at the Miller Lumber Company plant near Pound Gap in Sergent County Kentucky. The dead are John Hubbard Rollo Fleming Willie Tackett and John Mullins. Plant manager Elbert Miller is believed fatally injured.
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