17 Jan 1907
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Newspaper
Emmons County Record
Location
Linton, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1907
Page
1
The message to the Senate cites Brown and Fort Brown incidents, accusing colored mobs of disturbances. It notes shells and casings from shootings, claims troops knew of the events, and asserts some discharged soldiers face lifelong barred service.
The Senate enacted Senator McCumber's service pension bill with amendments to cover Civil and Mexican War survivors and to bar pension attorneys from contingencies. Debates centered on the War of the Rebellion wording, with estimates placing annual cost increases between 6 and 15 million dollars depending on final assumptions.
A January 15 explosion at Mine No. 7 in Canton Indiana killed eight workers and seriously injured two others. Authorities suspect a spark from a lamp igniting keg powder caused the mine gas blast. The dead include Joe Joseph Edward Wold Merman Drehesnes Anton Hetarik Joe Poba 49 John Gregor Leopold Pajik Frand Debyovsky. Anton Ale and Charles Osborne among the injured. State mine authorities open an investigation.
By a party vote the state senate defeated a resolution for an investigation of the smelter trust. The preamble alleges Simon Ssenheim has violated U S laws on rebates and offers testimony to any court. WY Guggenheim has been endorsed by the Republican caucus as candidate of the United States senate.
Washington January 15 Sensational charges allege United States minister to Norway Herbert H D Peirce used his official role before The Hague in a piracy case to represent the vessel owners and sue for fees from the award in the J Hamilton Lewis matter. The accusation was aired before the House Ways and Means Committee.
James J. Hill, president of the Great Northern, asks Governor Johnson for relief amid a nationwide freight congestion. He cites rapid business growth outpacing rail facilities, notes reduced railway construction due to capital scarcity, and warns hostile politics threaten investment and future expansion.
Partial inquiry shows twelve bodies recovered from the Elizafurnace accident at Jones and Laughlin Steel. Fifteen to twenty men missing, ten in hospitals with severe burns, four likely to die. molten metal six feet deep trapped workers, many bodies mutilated beyond recognition.
A blaze at the Gelspolsheim bookbindery of Hubert & Co an English firm near Strasburg Germany killed twenty workers. A boiling celluloid vat exploded spreading fire that cut every exit. Some survivors suffered severe burns.
A tidal wave devastated southern Dutch East Indian islands near Achin. A fief official dispatch reports 300 killed on Tana and 40 drowned on Simalu, with the overall loss described as very great.
The overdue Ponce from Porto Rico, carrying seven passengers, fifty two crew and cargo of sugar and oranges, was towed into Hamilton Bermuda after a broken shaft left it adrift from Dec 20 to Jan 7. The Eliz Rickmers aided and rejoined towing after a gale split hawsers twice.
James Cullen, a wealthy Iowa contractor who killed his wife and stepson, was seized from Floyd county jail by a mob and hanged at Cedar River bridge in Charles City. The crowd, including ministers and women, held a prayer meeting before the execution amid claims his $50,000 estate would have funded legal appeals.
Congress spent most of the day debating rail way work hours with La Follette's bill setting a sixteen hour limit and ten hours rest. The Senate also passed McCumber's service pension measure while the House moved private pension bills and district appropriations amid the Brownsville affair debate.
The first of eleven rear admirals to retire this year will leave active service on Wednesday. Rear Admiral Charles D. Sigsbee will be placed on the retired list. Only Dewey and Evans remain active among Spanish War era higher officers. Sampson, Philip dead. Schley, Clark retired. McCalla retired last July. Hobson in politics.
Justice Leventritt ordered the ballot boxes, cast for the 1905 New York mayoral election, placed in the custody of the New York city board of elections during the day. He vacated Justice Hendricks order that had sent the boxes to Attorney General Jackson.
Colonel Patko Andrieff, head of the Lodz district gendarmes, was shot dead on Poludniowa street in Lodz Russian Poland. An infantry patrol fired on the assassin, injuring several bystanders. the shooter escaped.
In New York on January 14, actions for damages totaling 20 million dollars are filed against the sugar trust and top officers. The suit accuses a conspiracy that ruined a competitor, wrecked the Real Estate Trust of Philadelphia, and led its president Frank K. Hipple to take his own life. George H. Purle Jr. as Philadelphia reorganizer and receiver for Pennsylvania Sugar Refining is involved, with Earle presenting conspiracy evidence to Washington officials as Sherman anti trust actions are anticipated.
Wheat May at 78 1/4 to 78 3/4 cents, July at 79 1/2 to 79 3/4 cents. On track prices show No 1 hard at 81 1/2, No 1 Northern around 79 1/2, No 2 Northern near 77 3/4, and No 3 Northern about 74 to 75 cents.
Wheat and flax futures move on track with minor shifts in Duluth and St Paul prices for January 14. Chicago futures show May and July grain aids and livestock groups with cattle hogs and sheep price ranges at major yards.
Lansing Mich Jan 11 Congress man William Alden Smith of Grand Rapids has been nominated by the Republican legislative caucus to succeed United States Senator R A Alger With only a few Democrats in the state legislature the nomination is effectively an election in this state capital report
The North Dakota report highlights a severe coal shortage harming claimholders especially women. Senator Hansbrough calls for railroad relief as spring may reveal deaths from fuel scarcity. Al Campbell narrowly escapes a Minot fire after a candle ignites papers while he slept.
Wade Turner alias Hughes has been arrested on his sick bed at Ward County Hospital after four months of illness. He faces charges of murdering the Anadarko boarding house landlady and assaulting a young girl in Bridgeport in 1895. Letters to his father aided in locating him in Minot.
Bert Mellwain twenty died after an accidental rifle discharge while assisting in hog slaughter. He struck a hog with the gun's butt, the weapon exploded and he died within thirty minutes.
A work train of 100 men clearing snow in a deep cut near Petersburg fifteen miles east of La Kota was struck by a local freight. Two workers were killed and six injured as a blinding snow storm caused the accident.
The article recounts Sir Samuel Baker's claim that crocodile jaws are terrifically strong, bending large hooks and tearing through a seventy pound fish, with experiments by M. Paul Bert showing a 120 pound crocodile exerting 308 pounds closing force, and notes on the lion’s formidable bite when a gun butt was forced into its mouth.
A Baltimore judge extols the hog as the greatest animal with varied flavors while contrasting it with terrapin. He praises the boiled hen turkey for spring cooking, claiming it surpasses other meats and could justify wars over its taste.
The text describes a small skull cavity behind the bridge of the nose called the Sella turcica. It suggests it may be a relic of a sixth sense used by ancient ancestors, though its exact purpose remains unknown.
A brief exchange notes Mr. Tigg’s habit of giving no compliments to anyone. The speaker reflects on his consistent lack of praise from Tigg, highlighting a character trait of restraint or indifference.
A terse, somewhat cryptic note misattributes a quote about love to New Zealand Graphtc and comments on convincing a woman and lifelong commitment. The text reads oddly like OCR noise with misspellings and incomplete attribution.
A wide roll of brief notes reports Adolphus Busch improving slowly, Kaiser Wilhelm election chatter, a Detroit stove works fire causing 750000 in damage, and memorial day plans for Henry W. Lawton. Other items note deaths of Prof E T Cox and J Lizzee Snelling, floods near Duquoin and St Joseph, and a Venezuela fish tale with dangerous creature stories.
In reminiscences Lady Dorothy Nevill recalls her father a gentleman of the old school traveling by post chaise on the Continent. He curses in anger when the postboy loses his way and, after unfastening the traces, drives off with the horses leaving the driver to beg to stop the devil. He ends up alone in the woods that night.
In the September 8 1786 New York Gazetteer a column laments rising lawyer numbers, claiming the honest trade once sought by common men now hosts a genteel profession. The writer argues lawyers fill every post from congress to the commercial convention, outnumbering merchants.
An Atchison Globe note recalls a father disciplining his son by a soap suds mouth cleansing. The boy began a vocabulary list after his mother objected to foul words, but soon tired and abandoned the list.
The passage explains toads shed skin in stages with a new skin forming beneath the old. The old coat is not given away to others and no toad deals in second hand raiment. The creature consumes its over coat in one bite, turning the stomach into a portable container.
A London Chronicle excerpt notes a past aristocratic nose style with a high delicately modeled ridge and prominent tip, contrasting it with modern fashion where illustrated women rarely display notable noses. The remark reflects shifting beauty ideals and social commentary of the era.
A dialogue about favorite composers features Mr Comrox unable to recall or pronounce a name, as he glances at his wife. The Washington Star quotes this quip reflecting on musical memory and social circles.
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