11 Jan 1907
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Newspaper
Dakota City County Herald
Location
Dakota City, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jan 11, 1907
Page
1
The coroner's jury finds James Cullen died by hanging from unknown perpetrators. Autopsy notes brain degeneration. judge orders grand jury inquiry into the mob killing at a Charles City jail and bridge. Judge Kelly charges the grand jury to pursue murder charges against all participants.
Gov J Frank Haney told the Indiana legislature that during his administration three state officers were ousted for funds misappropriation, $189 400 recovered, and $126 594 saltings activated again for alleged misappropriation Public measures urged include remedial insurance law private bank supervision a 2 cent fare law public funds depository stronger official accountability railroad commission powers inheritance tax and popular election of US senators.
Frisco faces a coal and fuel famine with only about fever days of stock in bunkers and retail outlets. No coal ships are en route to port, threatening serious shortages next week across the city and bay area as demand outpaces supply.
The sentence of William C. Ander son, the embezzling paying teller of First National Bank in Kansas City, Missouri, was reduced by Judge Wofford from four years to two years and nine months.
Actress Eleonora Duse, long hospitalized in Genoa with pneumonia, is reported by her physician as out of danger and improving. The news notes her condition has stabilized and her prognosis is cautiously hopeful.
Thursday quotations from the Sioux City live stock market show Butcher wteter at 6.35 5.50 and Top hog at 4.30.
The president approved a bill extending the time for homesteaders to establish residence on lands formerly part of the Crow Indian reservation in Montana. The measure grants a deadline extension for settlement and filing on the specified parcels.
Complaints about the car shortage and fuel scarcity in the west and northwest continue to arrive at the Interstate Commerce Commission office.
Helief of the army officers at Fort Reno Oklahoma alleges a conspiracy to murder every white officer at the post beginning with Capt Edgar A Macklin. Corporal Rid ward L Knowles is bound over to await grand jury action on a charge of assault with intent to kill Capt Macklin. Reports say most soldiers at the post are heavily armed and the investigation extends to several army posts with arrests anticipated as the Knowles hearing concludes. Information also mentions an arrest at La Junta Colorado and suspicion on soldiers at Fort Niobrara Neb and three other points.
Dr Philip Edwards Johnson, a New York arrival and bridegroom, was slain Monday night in Portland. He left after dinner to visit a board member for state practice approval, stopped at cousin WC Alvord’s house, then his mangled body was found on Jefferson Street with pockets inverted and watch missing amid signs of struggle. His wife feared highwaymen and awaited details.
Charles Peterson a Chicago laborer was arraigned and fined 25 dollars for cremating his child in the foundry where he worked after the child's death six days earlier. With no funds for a funeral he kept the body at home five days before taking it to the furnace. Neighbors alerted police as the body remained unburied.
In the extreme southwestern corner of Indiana where the Ohio and Wabash rivers join, lowlands are flooded and extensive damage is reported. Many acres of wheat have been destroyed and much livestock has been lost.
Mail service resumed Tuesday in parts of New Orleans previously cut off by order of the postmaster general over improper sidewalk facilities.
Government orders direct Cassie Chadwick to be moved from Hilo Penitentiary to the liaison at Moundeville West Virginia. The transfer originates with the government and specifies the destination and authority.
The committee on railroads and public service corporations reported Tuesday to the constitutional convention recommending a 2 cent railway fare and passage of a fellow servant law for Oklahoma.
A passenger train on the Georgia railroad was wrecked Tuesday morning near Barnet Georgia. Several cars turned over but only one person was injured.
James Cullen, a Charles City con artist, murdered his wife and stepson and was seized from jail by a furious mob. They hanged him from a bridge as the crowd watched, despite Sheriff Schermerhorn’s attempt to restore order. The crowd numbered women, children, and men with no clear leaders.
Coroner's Inquest in Washington DC into the Terra Cotta wreck of Sunday night December 30 was sent to the grand jury. The lineup includes Harry H Hillsdebrand engineer of Dead Train 2120 Frank F Hoffer conductor P J Dent night train dispatcher at Baltimore William BE McCauley division operator B L Vermillion engineer of local Train 66 George W Nagle conductor Train 66 J W Kelly Jr master of Baltimore and William Dutrow telegraph operator at Silver Springs The except Dent McCauley and Kelly were present but arrested.
A high ranking official known as Hangman Pavioff was shot dead Wednesday morning in the garden of the military court in St Petersburg. An assassin, disguised in uniform, was chased through crowded streets after firing about forty shots from two revolvers, killing a policeman and wounding a boy before capture.
After negotiations between the United Hypothetae of America executive committee and the International Printing Pregamen and Assistants' union council, a five year contract renewal is reached. A compromise on the eight hour day is agreed with San. 1, 1909 setting the new standard.
Henry Jackson, labeled the demented Woolly Man who terrorized Kokomo Indiana and disrupted a Sycamore church revival, was captured Monday by Sheriff Lindley. Jackson had escaped from the Allen County infirmary.
A thunderstorm shattered the Reichmidt home in Atrora ITIL when a bolt struck the house. Mrs Reichmidt, crippled, and another occupant narrowly escaped death and sustained injuries.
Miss Muattie Clemons aged 22 was killed and her brother aged 17 fatally injured when struck by an Omahs passenger train at a crossing in Union Wisconsin while driving a crown and grade crossing.
Ing Nour mile of Minneapolis closes temporarily for lack of transport to ship products. Three hundred workers lose their jobs as mills halt operations due to unavailable care for movement of goods.
Two steamers collided in Moy, Tennessee under a dense fog off the coast of Connecticut on Wednesday. Both vessels remained visible from shore as high seas threaten further damage or breakup.
High water in Illinois causes thousands in damage around Du Quoin and surrounding areas. Rail tracks are flooded for many miles and homes sit submerged as the flood spreads through the region.
The Alma crime report states I E Harkness was shot and killed by renter Eugene Marisfield after Harkness demanded eviction over unpaid rent. Marisfield claims self-defense after a chair lift led to him grabbing a rifle and firing, killing Harkness in the city edge. Sheriff moved the prisoner to Red Cloud for safe keeping amid public tension.
The Platte River overflow reached Fremont Thursday night flooding Jensen and South streets and backing water to the Burlington road. Cellars flooded along South Fremont and some homes saw water above floors. Families moved carpets and furniture to upper levels as residents sought help from neighbors. Livestock and poultry may be trapped below railroad tracks and bridge.
A new company forms to operate a packing plant in the old Norfolk sugar factory building. Capital stock set at 200000 dollars with 126000 subscribed. Luthart of Tilden Bank leads organizing efforts. northern Nebraska business leaders to join. Final machinery orders await turnover of the factory under Industrial company policy.
A blizzard hit Bayard from New Year’s Day evening to the next day with freezing temperatures. Citizens boarded a westbound freight and recovered ten tons of company coal. Conductor Spencer notified headquarters. the coal car was delivered to the agent for distribution. No violence occurred.
Red Cornell, 90, was injured at a press drill in Burlington shops Havelock when his coat sleeve was caught. The accident left his left arm broken his right leg broken his left leg in two places three ribs broken his ear badly damaged and many scalp and facial wounds.
Grand Island will mark a semi centennial next summer in observance of the 1867 settlement. Eight pioneers who wagoned from Davenport located there on July 3 and began work on July 4, the nation’s birthday, remaining residents to this day.
News reached the sheriff at Broken Bow of Henry Greatman a 46 year old farmer near Mildale being fatally shot by Jay Smith age 28 in a quarrel over rented land.
Post Office department order prompts Burlington to reconstruct twenty mall cars of the 60 foot class in the Plattsmouth yard to meet new specifications.
George Gebhardt, the horse thief released from Stanton County jail by accused fiends, was found hiding in a haystack south of Norfolk by John Dover’s son, a Madison County farmer.
The original plat of Fremont was filed in the county clerk's office fifty years ago on January 6. The county was not notified at that time, and the plat date is noted as four months earlier than the filing.
Fred Dubois, recently caught trying to rob WW. Frahin' store in the BAN gad, appeared before Judge Adame at Minden last week pleading guilty to the charge. He was sentenced to a year in the penitentiary.
The discovery of a 20 inch vein of coal on the Dr Gandy farm near Wymore has stirred interest among residents of the area.
The body of Dick White of Amherst was found west of the Allrace Bridge near Kearney on the Union Pacific line. He appeared struck by a westbound train, hurled across the bridge, with head injuries and a broken right arm, and blood traces noted at the scene. White had no relatives in Amherst, his family living in South Dakota.
Bank to serve primarily Winnebago Indians in the eastern reservation with a state institution. C K Horse of Council Bluffs plans the new depository in the old trader’s store building moved to Winnebago on the Burlington road.
Two Union Pacific passenger trains the Overland Limited and the Los Angeles Limited bound for Omaha wrecked in a blinding snowstorm at Brule station twenty miles west of North Platte. Actor K K Hastings of New York was killed instantly. Mall clerk Gilbert Worley of Omaha suffered a fractured skull and a passenger named Jennings was scalded.
W. H. Rodes fled Alliance pest house in a box car and reached Gov. Sheldon in Lincoln. He claimed his wife and children were confined without food or aid as other smallpox patients suffered neglect. Gov. Sheldon dispatched Dr. Brash and Sword to investigate.
Appraisers HB C Mahanna and W B Stoddard have submitted reports. Dodge County will receive about $800 for the permanent road fund. Nance and Howard counties will share about $3,000 in aggregate.
A Fremont youth Harry Lauriteen son of James Livriteen was wounded in the hip by a 42 caliber bullet fired by a careless hunter. No shooter seen. A farmer found him and he was taken home. it is described as a flesh wound with no serious injury.
Fond surveyors finish the survey for the proposed Union Pacific line running west of the river between Beat Rice and Maryville. Native work on the route to begin early in the spring with the line planned west of the river most of the way.
Solomon Pfeiffer, a farmer near Arington, was dislocated after a hog rushed its owner and struck him while he attempted to drive it. The 76 year old Mr Pelffer was involved as the animal’s owner and the accident will likely keep him out of work for some time.
Congressman elect Judge J. F. Boyd said in Norfolk he will resign as district judge on February 21 and depart for Washington soon after. No successor has been appointed by Gov. Seldon.
A 14 year old boy named Lakey Linken was arrested in Norfolk on four burglary counts filed by the county sheriff. The accused will be taken to trial by the Donen officer.
Behodl Principal Kesigns and Prof Malut tendered their resignations on Wednesday at the Whol at Aiveworth.
Mea Lille, also known as Lone Margaret Lille, was pardoned by Governor Mickey a few minutes before his term expired. She had been sentenced to life imprisonment for the alleged murder of her husband Harvey Mite.
After a little over two weeks of total darkness the electric lights were turned on at Pierce. The darkness was caused by the breaking of the big 5-Inch shaft of the electric light engine.
Several hundred Nebraska farmers will meet in Lincoln to attend statewide agricultural society sessions starting Monday Jan 14. Most sessions are at the state farm, with groups such as the Nebraska Corn Improvers and Nebraska Dairymen's Association among those listed. The legislature's occupation makeup favors farmers in the House and lawyers in the Senate, with details on who holds posts and public offices.
Across the West lawmakers prepare for sweeping changes in rail, banking, insurance, and taxation. Proposals include 2 cent passenger fares, direct primaries, graduated income tax, stronger railroad regulation, and local option liquor laws. Gov ernors back reform while opposition grows as states tally broad legislative agendas.
Capt Edward Dumaresque, recently deceased in Longford Tasmania, served as a pensioner captain for seventy nine years and formerly held the post of Ex-Secretary of State John W Peater will continue his private diplomatic duties by serving as a Chinese delegate at The Hague peace conference next year.
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