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Newspaper
Austin Daily Herald
Location
Austin, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Sep 28, 1908
Page
4
In St. Petersburg from Sept 8 to Sept 28 cholera cases reached 4,931 with 1,875 deaths. Across Russia 15,683 cases and 7,102 deaths were reported since the outbreak began. Authorities note recent sanitary improvements under Stolypin but warn totals may still be undercounted. The current death rate fluctuates between 0.8 and 3.5 percent.
Pittsburg reports millions in fire and crop losses across Western Pennsylvania, Eastern Ohio, and West Virginia as drought persists. Health officials fear a serious disease epidemic from dust, smoke, and stagnant streams, urging people to boil drinking water to prevent typhoid and related illnesses.
Utica N Y Sept 28 forest fires in the Adirondacks driven by strong winds are beyond control. Large areas are swept by flames several small villages and camps are burning Long Lake West a village of 100 inhabitants has been burned Dr Webb’s Nehasane preserve threatened several camps and hamlets seriously endangered Fires rage through ground brush and up into the trees
Three men were killed when a freight train on the Toronto Hamilton and Buffalo line derailed as the wooden bridge burned beneath it at Mineral Springs. The victims are Engineer McFadden Fireman Brown and W Maloney Browns companion. The engine neared the far end before the bridge failed sending several cars into the dry stream bed.
President Roosevelt replies to William J. Bryan arguing the administration has pursued active trust enforcement and curbed capital centralization. He contrasts deeds with Bryan's promises, citing numerous anti trust cases and rail rebate prosecutions, and defends a steel industry transaction as lawful under federal oversight.
The president asserts he used all lawful government power to limit panic and damage. He says decisions are based on conduct, not wealth, and vows to prosecute steel industry leaders if they break the law. He rebuts charges of favoritism tied to campaign contributions and cites impartiality in Harriman and Hughes cases.
Five men—three Americans and two Italians—were killed by a dynamite explosion while tamping a hole containing eighteen inches of dynamite along the Delaware Lackawanna and Western railroad near Cross Keys Tobyhanna in Scranton.
Smoke and flames spread across hundreds of acres west of Cleveland threatening Rocky River seven miles away. Residents rush to control the blaze as firefighters struggle to contain the rapidly advancing fires.
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