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Newspaper
Austin Daily Herald
Location
Austin, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Sep 28, 1908
Page
1
For sale in the Third Ward two houses on one and a half lots each. Near Kenwood Avenue a house a barn and two lots are offered for sale.
Taft and Bryan could not arrange a meeting in Minneapolis though both wished to. Taft spoke at the Y M C A dedication in St Paul and Bryan, delaying a hoped visit, sent regrets while visiting Minnesota. Bryan greeted crowds at the depot and then moved on to Mitchell South Dakota.
The British ship Loch Finlas with 24 aboard wrecked off Foster Island near Tasmania during a gale. Twenty sailors perished, four were rescued by a passing steamer. Survivors report one crewman went insane and leapt overboard. Loch Finlas, 2062 tons, commanded by Captain Bean.
Widespread fires obliterate Homestead eight miles north of Thompsonville destroying Alexander Zimmerman & Co. charcoal kilns and lumber yards. Loss estimated over 60,000 dollars, twenty families homeless, women and children moved to Copemish. Firemen from Thompsonville aiding. Rach station on Michigan Central north of Vassar also burned. sawmills, yards and homes destroyed as blaze continued.
Four new cases and three deaths reported in twenty four hours as the bureau of sciences and medical schools mobilize staff to treat cholera. Senior medical students serve as nurses while disinfectant supplies run low and researchers test chlorine production from electricity and sea water.
The body of Thomas Cockrill, a famous Breathitt County feudist, was identified after being run over by a train in the Kentucky and Indiana railroad yards in Louisville. He was a brother of former Jackson marshal Jim Cockrill and had been involved in multiple feud battles and killings against the Hargis faction.
Milwaukee. Engineer Fred J. Good was killed and fireman Chris J. Hanson and brakeman B. N. Taylor seriously injured when a locomotive exploded on a northbound freight train at Portage yards. Cause unknown. Good was hurled fifty feet and died after rescue. Hanson and Taylor severely burned.
Manila reports Lieutenant Edward J. Bloom of the Fourth Infantry and Private Suttles of Company K were killed in a Camp Jessamine incident. Suttles shot Bloom then took his own life. Bloom died after hours. Military officers conduct an investigation into the affair.
German Americans in St. Paul gathered with eight thousand participants at the Auditorium to mark the two hundred twenty fifth anniversary of Germans settling on American soil. Dignitaries and Germanic leaders from across the country joined local attendees for the celebration.
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