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Newspaper
Dakota City County Herald
Location
Dakota City, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Mar 13, 1908
Page
1
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The battleship fleet under Read Admiral Robley D Evans enters Magdalena Bay for target practice and drills before a 1100 mile voyage to San Francisco. Ordance officers finalize plans as two annual target practices begin with the Pacific fleet in spring.
Rev. F. Lloyd Swearer and Grace Henry wed in a ceremony at 2024 Armour Avenue Chicago. The newlyweds plan to honeymoon in Pittsburgh where Swearer serves as assistant rector. A man claiming to be Swearer appeared with a license, recounting a romance ending with the bride’s rescue from a Chicago resort.
John G Jenkins a Brooklyn banker and his three sons were indicted after a banking inquiry following the financial panic. He died at Sea Cliff Long Island on Thursday of paralysis.
Mrs. Carl Gunkle of Bingham Utah died after tightly lacing a corset crushing her heart and causing a swoon. Neighbors and medical personnel reported she collapsed and passed away before aid arrived.
A Winnipeg Minnesota grand jury returned a true bill against United States Customs Officer Foulke on the charge of kidnapping farmers in a federal case.
Sioux City quotations show top beeves at 5.40 and top hogs at 4.45 in Thursday trading. market activity and prices reflect current livestock demand at the Sioux City live stock market.
A suspect in the Wednesday night murder of Patrolman J F Harvey of Muskogee Oklahoma was held for murder in the first degree. He contends the shooting was justifiable.
Elijah Meyer, city treasurer of Michigan City Indiana, faced auditors who reported a shortfall of more than ten thousand dollars. He was acquitted on Thursday after the case proceeded through the court.
President Roosevelt assigns Herbert Knox Smith, commissioner of corporations, to investigate major stock exchanges to identify gambling methods in securities. The White House suggests possible legislation to ban futures trading and margin buying, with Hepburn hinting at a bill after talks with the president. The Smith report will determine if federal action is warranted.
Sarah Chamberlain Weed of Philadelphia shot Elizabeth Hardee of East Savannah then killed herself at Laurens School Boston an exclusive finishing institution for young women. Weed escaped from a sanitarium before the deadly night. Hardee and Weed lay dead with a revolver nearby. Forty pupils, daughters of wealthy parents, attended the school.
Olga Averbuch sister of the man killed by Chief Shippy in Chicago protests the exclusion of anarchists from ceremonies. The Jewish Free Burial association says anarchism opposes Jewish tenets and cannot be involved in the funeral arrangements for the body from the potters' hold to a cemetery. Anarchists planned the celebration but were told they would not be allowed to attend.
Tuesday night mobs issued warnings to Black residents in Gibson County Tennessee. They shot into a Negro tenant’s house narrowly missing three children and left notes under doors ordering residents to leave. Authorities describe the victims as peaceful tenants.
The Kansas conference of the Methodist Episcopal church exonerated Dr. J. T. McFarland of New York editor of the Methodist Sunday school publications from heretical charges brought by Dr. George B. Cooke of the Troy conference.
Six peasants were killed and several wounded when police detachment moved into the village of Kechetovks Russia to arrest two members of the peasant evolutionist organization.
The court opened Monday to choose a jury to try Giuseppe Allio a Syrian accused of murdering Father Leo Heinrichs in Denver Colorado District Attorney and defense attorneys questioned prospective jurors. One tale man Aliic refused to take any interest in the proceedings.
Joseph Sartine a St Louis cigar salesman cut his wife’s throat and then killed himself with carbolic acid on Wednesday afternoon leaving despondent circumstances after unemployment drove him to the act.
The Bavarian government orders the immediate expulsion of a number of American German missionaries, citing their presence as dangerous to public order. The move reflects rising concerns over foreign religious activity and political stability.
The White House hosted the opening of the first International congress on child welfare under the National Mother’s Congress with 200 delegates from states and territories. President Roosevelt praised mothers as better citizens than soldiers in his address and emphasized the congress as a supreme national cause. Almer EB. Brown spoke on Children in the United States at the Metropolian Methodist church in Marshall.
The royal commission report on the Quebec Bridge collapse which killed eight people attributes the failure to errors in design by P L S Lapke and Theodore Cooper. It states the engineers’ judgments were insufficient and not due to lack of knowledge or negligence, but a difficult clash of factors.
Dr Giovanni Preziosi, a Trullan sociologist and guest at the Catholic Church of Our Lady Good Counsel in Philadelphia, received a menacing Italian letter demanding $1000. The note, signed with sinister symbols, claims the sender is more powerful than police and warns Preziosi of danger.
The cruiser South Dakota arrived at Magdalen bay Sunday afternoon from San Francisco on her shake down trip at an average speed of 11 to 12 knots, owing eight boilers. The Albany steamed north Sunday evening, tying the cruiser trophy and breaking all previous records in rapidity of fire and accuracy. The Atlantic fleet is expected March 11, about 1,000 miles south.
Attorneys for John R. Walsh ex president of the Chicago National Bank filed Tuesday in the U S district court for a new trial. They presented 114 reasons supporting the request citing wrongful use of funds and errors in the trial proceedings.
An uprising at Port of Spain sent soldiers against their commander General Meea. The mutiny was quelled after several soldiers were shot, ending the disturbance and restoring order.
Eight firefighters were injured in a blaze in the Burinam section of Wilkinsburg a suburb of Pittsburgh. Damage was estimated at 125000 dollars. The fire occurred on Tuesday.
A Kansas City man named Charlie Pee attempted to extort $5,000 from Luther Drake at Merchants National Bank in Omaha. He flashed a nitroglycerin bottle, threatened death, but the note was a bluff. police arrested him after Drake invited him to breakfast and operatives moved in.
Rathburn who had come from Des Moines shot and killed his wife at the home of English consul SRB Hall on West Farnam Street and then killed himself. A note to his wife and letters to his parents and others were found. coroner and police notified. Rathburn, a printer by trade, had recently separated from his wife.
The Platte River hunt reports plentiful ducks and geese after a heavy snow storm. Birds crowded sheltered lee banks, easy for hunters, with one man bringing back 28 ducks by boat and a flock of sixteen herons seen near Plate Bridge five miles from Bignell.
Deputized Game Warder Gilbert caught Mike Murphy Hugh Stewart Gua Widick James Heges and Sam Schulte selling fish from Turkey Creek three miles south of Friend. They were brought to Fried and tried before Justice Mc Farlane and fined ten dollars each.
A jury in Fremont found Harry Good formerly of Sioux City not guilty of forging checks for Pit Pat Candy company. He was charged with obtaining about 400 dollars in Nebraska and Iowa claiming the funds paid expenses.
The sixth annual Northwest Nebraska Odd Fellows association convention for Cedar, Dixon, Dakota, Wayne and eastern Knox counties met in Wakefield on Tuesday to discuss society affairs and activities.
York contractors and lumber dealers report higher contracted and contemplated building activity than at the start of any year in years, signaling renewed activity in the local construction sector.
A jury in Judge Seara's court found Negro William Potse guilty of killing Soldier Joseph T. Bowles near Twelfth Street and Davenport. The verdict, returned Saturday at 6 pm after starting deliberations at 1 pm, sought the death penalty though some jurors favored life imprisonment. Bowles was beaten and found dying. Potse was arrested in South Omaha with Bowles' clothing torn from Bowles.
A public meeting in West Point discussed building an auditorium to boost community facilities. A committee was appointed to solicit subscriptions for a stock company with 1000 dollars capitalization, shares of 10 dollars each, and to report progress in fourteen days.
Judge Estelle ruled that social clubs in Omaha selling intoxicating liquor must secure a 1000 district edict license. Police commission had ordered licenses, affecting about forty clubs that previously used a board to cover expenses. The judge emphasized equality before the law, equating social clubs with saloons under liquor sale laws.
During a thunderstorm on Frid Huht a lightning bolt struck the barn and granary of Chris MikK Kelven about twenty miles north of St. Paul, consuming the structures and seven head of horses, horses and cows, 70 to 800 bushels of grain and seeds, wagons and machinery. Loss estimated around 2500 dollars with 2000 dollars insured.
Police officer Vern Smith was knocked unconscious during a midnight arrest attempt at a Kearney business. The two burglars fled the scene. the officer recovered without serious injury.
Citizens gathered at the Presbyterian church in Humboldt and organized The Good Citizens League to improve moral conditions in the city. The group plans a permanent Society.
Shortfall of about 400 dollars is blamed on manager Brown of the Surprise Telephone company who departed weeks ago without notice. Officials say he has not appeared and friends say he may return in a few days.
The funeral for the late Judge William H. McDonald was held Friday afternoon at the Methodist Episcopal church. The services were conducted by Rev. B. E. J. T. Connell y. McDonald was an early Pierce County settler arriving in 1884.
A Nebraska railcar famine persisted for the week ending March 4. Omaha division of Union Pacific requested 233 box cars and received 165. Norfolk division of Northwestern had demand for 262 cars but received 116. Fremont division saw demand for 149 cars met with 160 supplied.
William Jennings Bryan will deliver a speech in Chicago on March 17 and will appear in Peoria on March 14 before returning to Chicago on March 19 He is also listed as entertaining the populist and Democratic editor of Nebraska on March 4 indicating a sequence of appearances and engagements across Illinois and Nebraska by the noted speaker
The association will hold its annual meeting in Beatrice on April 3 and 4. The event opens with a debate featuring eight towns represented by delegates.
Nebraska officials urge strict fire safety enforcement after 200 schools lack proper exits. Plans call for outward swinging doors, escape ropes on every floor, regular drills, and immediate action to meet the law.
Senate considered Hepburns opposition to the Aldrich bill while Hopkink supported it. Discussion covered currency rates cotton futures and tariffs. The House passed an Archbishop Manila damages bill and adjourned for Senator Proctor's memory. The Senate debated canal supplies and ocean mail pay amid memorials and private claims votes.
Mr Cale of Alaska introduces a bill to establish a territorial government. James Speyer meets the president on business conditions but declines to discuss details. Thistlewood sworn into the House from Shinois Twenty fifth District. Naval officials report drownings at Newport were accidental. A House labor subcommittee hearings on a bill to fix daily service for federal laborers. Senate passes bill codifying federal criminal laws with Culberson amendment. Pittsburgh bridges stance set 47 feet clearance for future spans. Humphrey Alaska-Yukon-Pacific exhibit bill favorable with a $750000 appropriation.
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