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Newspaper
Dahlonega Nugget
Location
Dahlonega, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1908
Page
1
Wildfires devastate Fernie in British Columbia causing extensive property loss. Local authorities coordinate firefighting efforts while residents assess damages and await containment updates. News reports describe flames spreading through forested areas and threatening nearby communities.
Fernie British Columbia and surrounding towns including Michel Hosmer Olsen Sparwood and Crow's Nest Pass faced a massive bush fire covering about 100 square miles. Fire destroyed property rails and camps with thousands displaced. Fernie was especially hard hit with at least 74 hives lost and major mining activity center fires.
The Public Belt Railroad Commission of New Orleans challenges IC C authority over municipal railroads in interstate business. The new city line within New Orleans plans to handle traffic from all railroads, ignoring a telegram demanding adherence to the thirty days notice for rates. The belt’s formal operating notice was filed three days ago, and officials say they will pursue the matter in court.
A clash near the Rio Grande six miles south of Comstock sees a band of about 100 revolutionaries cornered on the Mexican side by Mexican authorities. A brief engagement leaves nine rebels dead and multiple wounded while five soldiers die. The rebels reportedly escape into Mexico, with doubt surrounding the exact cross-border outcome.
Seth Walsh of the United States walks from San Francisco to New York in three days and twenty three hours claiming a record. He cites failing to cross the Soh divide twice and notes losing fifty yards in weight during the trek.
The article describes a flurry of campaign antics and fundraising notes from the 1900s era. It mentions insurance policies on Taft and Roosevelt, speeches by party figures, fundraising figures from donors in Kansas and Texas, and a dramatic incident with Taft trapped in a postal booth. It also covers campaign logistics, such as invitations to Denver and rumor of Cortelyou for New York governor.
Georgia Court of Appeals rules that solicitation of liquor orders by letter from out of state is illegal when received in Georgia. The decision holds that mailing a solicitation for alcohol into Georgia constitutes a crime at the point of receipt. It upholds state regulation without infringing federal mail or interstate commerce powers.
Police say two 19 to 25 year old men robbed mail boxes and forged indorsements to cash checks, stealing between 7000 and 10000 dollars from over twenty banks near New York in six months. Six others were arrested. Cohen and Bradley confessed and led to the rest, ages 19 to 25. A stolen 14 dollar check grew to 204 dollars before being returned as worthless.
In New York Long Island districts including Great Neck and Fort Washington fires, deemed incendiary, strike daily over two weeks. Estates of William K. Vanderbilt Sr Clarence H. Mackay Bourke Cochran Howard Gould and Mrs Satterwhite reported affected as volunteer fire companies respond to multiple blazes.
In Trenton New Jersey William H Cake a linoleum printer is reported to shed his skin in a cycle about every two weeks. The 53 year history shows chills dry skin cracking then healing with no family cases or effective treatment from specialists.
Detectives in Brooklyn say three more arrests will follow after Alfred Wilfert John Cook and Alfred Moule were seized in a scheme using bogus tags and checks to steal trunks from Adams Express Company. Goods valued at over 100000 were robbed and many items traced to Brownsville.
London Lloyd's backs away from insuring the popularity of sheath gowns imported from Paris. A New York department store sought a policy to guarantee sales of the Paris fashions but insurers rejected the bid saying the trend may not take hold in the United States. Other firms echoed the decision.
Paris reports say six killed and sixty injured on day one of a general strike by the General Federation of Labor of Paris protesting the Vigneux killings. About fifty thousand in building trades halted work as Premier Clemenceau orders an investigation and prosecutions.
Arrangements for meeting the 8 million dollars of Wheeling and Lake Erie railroad notes were completed by Kuhn Lord and Blair bankers. No new security issue is required under the plan, but the consideration enabling Gould road to meet the notes was not disclosed. Parties declined to reveal whether any Gould railroad destinies are affected.
The Georgia Legislature adjourned several times as the Holder convict bill faced amendments. Key motions allowed the trial judge in misdemeanors to sentence defendants to the state farm and capped prison commission salaries at $1800. The house passed the bill July 29 amid debate, and the Senate debated Felder and other convict bills, enacting banking and charter measures and adjourning late in the week.
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