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Newspaper
Dakota City County Herald
Location
Dakota City, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Sep 06, 1907
Page
1
A violent mob in a Washington state city attacked Indian workers, beating six Hindus who were hospitalized. About 760 Indian natives and 400 Sikhs were detained or fleeing toward Canada as police failed to halt the unrest amid widespread terror along the waterfront and at mills.
Ferdinand Penney Earle an artist who sent his wife to France to secure a divorce and marry another woman faced a hostile mob on his return to Monroe New York. He urged calm, then struck at the crowd with a carriage whip before officers intervened and escorted him home.
Wreckers at Scout Haven and Buterville near Pittsburg pa pulled spikes to derail the New York express on Wednesday night but were deceived. A following freight did derail when the engine struck the rails. The engine and twelve cars overturned and the tank fell into the Youghlogheny river. the fireman and engineer escaped injury by jumping.
A Shanghai report states the United States has taken a five year lease on Narvik bay south of Viadivostok and has leased for the next winter the floating dry dock at Viadivostok.
Sioux City livestock prices Thursday show top beeves at 6.05 and top hogs at 5.95 dollars. Prices reflect market demand and regional trading activity for beef cattle and swine.
W. T. Hardy and Burton Baldwin, dressmakers from New York, arrived from Europe on Wednesday and were arrested for smuggling several thousand dollars worth of lace.
President Roosevelt names Dadian as chief of the five Creek tribes to succeed the late Chief Pleasant Porter who died in Muskogee Oklahoma. The ceremony sets a new leadership line for the Creek Nation.
The dowager empress appoints Puan Shi Kai to the foreign affairs board and a fourth class grand councilor post, ranking him as third minister. Chang Chi Tung is named grand councilor, with Yuan Shi Kai consulting on anti Manchu sentiment. The reshuffle elevates senior officials and signals a fortified government. Sir Chentung Liang Cheng may join the foreign office after arriving.
Admiral Philibert reports Sunday engagement near Casablanca where French forces dispersed Moors from the Taddert and Mzab tribes. Gloire and Gueydon fired sixty shells. four French soldiers wounded. The Moors, led by Araba, retreated under French bombardment as Spahis and Algerian cavalry supported the action.
A Canadian Pacific special train carrying over 500 passengers bound for the Toronto exposition wrecked Tuesday near Horseshoe Falls nine miles north of Orangeville Ont. Six were killed and 450 injured as the engine left the track on the Horseshoe curve. Five cars piled on the locomotive. cars were crowded and jammed. The disaster likely resulted from the engineer racing to regain half an hour.
The body of Rev John Joseph Williams archbishop of Boston was placed in a crypt under Cathedral of the Holy Cross in Boston in a grand ceremony attended by Cardinal Gibbons and hundreds of Massachusetts dignitaries. The service featured pontifical mass and full ritual with masses sung across city parishes and a crowded cathedral. Ablutions were performed by senior bishops of New England after the eulogy led by Archbishop O Connell.
Acting Marshal Al Kopf was shot while trying to arrest tramp Charles Anderson in Pacific Missouri. Anderson shot Kopf and fled, while Dr A L McNay, summoned for aid, intercepted by Anderson shot Anderson as well. Anderson is believed mortally wounded and Kopf remains critically injured.
Explosion at the Stanley R. Graham store in Chicago caused by dynamiters wakes nearby residents and frightens guests at the Virginia hotel. Several occupants were thrown from beds but no injuries reported. Police link to vengeance against gamblers, motive unclear.
Over 175 machinists from five Evansville Indiana foundries struck on Wednesday after an order banned beer drinking on premises during the noon hour. The action centers on labor conditions tied to break times and workplace rules.
The San Francisco health board says one more plague death occurred and two new suspected cases since Saturday. The victim was a man who had contact with Berkley across the bay. Authorities warn Pacific coast ports in contact with trans Pacific trade are at risk. The rat control effort continues, with the city now divided into twelve districts.
A heavy wind and rain storm swept Fort Gaines Georgia late Tuesday night with widespread damage to crops reported though no loss of life. The storm affected a broad area and caused notable agricultural losses.
Violence among locked out Antwerp dock laborers and strike sympathizers escalates as at least twelve people including strike breakers and steamer crew are attacked and badly wounded on Tuesday.
Frank FP Van Horn former Jackson Michigan post office superintendent, under bond for stealing mail, died by hanging Wednesday.
Word from Albunquerque New Mexico reports Mrs. Louisa M. Carahbajai and seven children drowned in a flood triggered by heavy rains in Sierra county. The disaster caused damages estimated at sixty thousand dollars.
Seven babies were born aboard the Red Star steamer Kroonland during its voyage from Antwerp to New York. One child arrived each night for a week, marking an extraordinary sequence on the ship en route to America.
Prof Charles Woodbury former Lincoln High School teacher and recent Kansas University postgraduate student drowned in the Kaw river near Lawrence while rowing Monday night. He was 25 years old.
The twelfth triennial convention of the generis grand chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star opened a three days' meeting in the Masonic temple in Milwaukee, Wednesday.
Jacob Martin returning from the polls Tuesday evening found his wife dead under the bed with her head crushed to a pulp at their home about five miles south of Firth Nebraska.
Louie Glass of San Francisco and vice president of the Pacific States Telephone company was convicted of bribery and Wednesday sentenced to five years in prison.
Gen Pleasant Porter head of the Creek Nation died at Winkia Oklahoma Tuesday morning after a paralysis stroke. He was 66 years old.
Report says R. M. Shumway, accused of killing Mrs. Sarah Afartine Tecumseh, was pursued across Nebraska. He was grabbed near Seneca Kansas, boarded a Grand Island train, then narrowly captured on the platform as officers moved in. Villagers chased him into corn fields as the manhunt continued.
Attorneys for Burlington Union Pacific and Northwestern railroads appeared before the state railway commission in Lincoln seeking two months to prepare evidence for a hearing on grain rates promulgated two weeks earlier. They warned rates cut older schedules about 13 percent and would require extensive expert testimony. Edson Rich of Union Pacific said three months may be needed for commission to hear testimony after gathering data, and since two commissioners were away at a primary, no action would occur for several days.
Lincoln manager Holmes and Des Moines secretary Hughes appeared in justice court and secured a continuance until Sept 17 in a case against players from the two teams for playing baseball on Sunday. If convicted the matter likely goes to the supreme court with the Western league backing the movement.
The daughter of Hichard Daniels, five miles southeast of Papillion, was badly injured when thrown from a bogey after a traction engine confrontation. Jonas and Kelly arrived to assist. doctors expect she will survive despite serious bruising.
John Fragler obtained a temporary injunction in North Pointe restraining Union Pacific Railroad from constructing or continuing the stock yards at the Peanuts location about three miles east, halting the railroad’s building work.
The state board of public lands and buildings ruled that War Oh Beemer of the state penitentiary may not charge 10 cents for visitors to inspect the institution. The board states the public is entitled to access the property and records.
An unidentified Syrian man fell from a westbound Union Pacific freight train near Lexington around a stated hour. He suffered crushed legs and died after transport attempted by Union Pacific Surgeon Hoyenberg.
J. L. Smith of Laurel says his oats yield exceeds 30 bushels per acre with good quality while overall regional oats are lighter than in previous years.
Well known Randolph farmer Hans Pogwenaiee dies after a long illness at age fifteen. He was born in Holstein Germany and was widely known in local agricultural circles.
A. Jackson, head of Jackson Drug Co in Beatrice, died suddenly. He had run the business since 1874 and was 67 years old.
Severe rain and an electrical storm struck Beatrice causing lightning to ignite wheat stacks on a farm near Ellis and heavily damage several barns. A man’s grain and livestock were affected as the storm moved through the region.
About 2000 Germans parade Omaha streets after Labor Day march. Veterans from the Franco Prussian and Proeco Austrian wars gathered in town for a grand conclave and commemorative procession.
Al Kennedy, accused of stealing a $2,000 Michell car from the Berger garage, was brought back to Omaha and told a tale of misfortune and misadventure. He claimed Berger requested his release, described a flawed plan to move the car, and said two men paid him to drive to Iowa, with fallout at a village and a whipping incident after departure. He noted authorities and a logan, Ta. arrest, with several dubious statements about the night’s events.
Anna Gorman, patient at St Joseph's hospital in Omaha, killed herself by jumping from a third story window while unattended. She had been in the hospital three weeks for a nervous condition. A nurse saw no imminent danger before her disappearance. the body was found on the ground below an hour later and she did not regain consciousness.
Fremont city officials including Chief of Police Peterson and Street Commissioner Wietcher were arrested on warrants from the Union Pact alleging they used violence on laborers at Union and C streets. City Attorney Abbott, a prominent attorney and district judge candidate, and others allegedly tore up recently laid track while guards protected the contested streets.
Bank clearings in Omaha for August rose to 6,144,032.50 above 17 percent from August last year. Monthly totals reached 84,7004,729.75 versus 40,110,196.98 prior year. Weekly clearings jumped about 30 percent from the corresponding week a year earlier to 10,612,889.38 from 8,152,586.55.
Information received indicates James Payne owns a ranch about twelve miles east of North Platte near the Burlington railroad and is considering $12,560 for the property. The move suggests a plan to establish a town sale at the site.
Mrs Eliza HM Lennard of Tecumseh files to challenge the wills of her brothers Robert and John Pearton who died within weeks of each other leaving property to others She alleges both brothers were of unsound mind and contests the dispositions as invalid under their guardianship or lack of testamentary capacity.
Gov Celion received a letter from A L Steers of Chapman claiming that James M Mo filer a Creek laborer who was found dead near the hande July 16 went to tin end and was chub by him to death.
At a city council meeting in Palle City the electric plant will be turned over to a private operator who will run the plant and provide an all night system for 210 dollars per month.
Philip Perrant a passenger on Union Pacific no. 4 was killed when he alighted as the train stopped and was struck by another passenger train at Rogers. The incident left Perrant dead at the scene with no further injuries reported.
A three moon old infant left at the Barbee residence twelve miles west of Heatrice by a couple unknown to authorities. The couple promised to return but vanished and have not been seen since.
Local mining reports show coal prices advancing with Rock Boringe coal up to nine dollars per ton and general delivery costs increasing by one dollar per ton at the mines.
President Roosevelt plans a four day Mississippi river voyage in October to observe the river and meet residents along the banks. The Lakes to the Gulf Deep Waterway Association aims to impress him with the need for 14 feet of water through the valley. Keokuk to Memphis will host events with St Louis reception and river town decorations.
Eight hundred eighty six delegates from twenty five nations gathered at Stuttgart for the International Congress of Socialists. Germany sent 300, England 140, Austria 80, Russia 1, plus delegations from Switzerland Bohemia Hungary Italy Bulgaria Roumania Sweden Holland the United States Argentina South Africa Australia and Japan. Secretary Van der Velde presided as Bobel of Germany opened with praise for socialist gains in France and Britain. The week’s topics included immigration union relations and a plan to set maximum working hours by law in all parliaments.
A jangly column mixes global notes from San Francisco politics to Uncle Sam and Pacific affairs. It jokes about a mayoral bid, oil fortunes, telegraph rust, and summer frugality while spiking with anecdotes like a New York child surviving a fall and teething humor.
A sweeping survey shows widespread labor action with strikes and organizing efforts. The New Bedford Weavers join the United Textile Workers, steam fitters and garment workers plan conventions in Detroit and Boston, and many unions discuss labor temples and wage campaigns. Calgary and Caledonian areas report pay raises and eight hour days, while national strike activity dominates the 1905 scene with 221,086 workers affected in 8,202 establishments.
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