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Newspaper
Emmons County Record
Location
Linton, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Mar 30, 1911
Page
2
A scrambled column notes color jokes about Helen pink and Alice blue, clothing trivia, hats surrounding faces, and notes on Chicago artists. It mentions Luther Burbank, French politics, hydrant water as anesthesia, a robbed Cleveland man, and concerns about detentions and marriage.
The War Department plans to mobilize ten militia front units totaling two hundred National Guard officers for deployment. Local authorities await confirmation as orders circulate.
The article describes a proposed U S mobilization with National Guard units to Fort San Houston and moves to San Antonio and San Diego for a 66 week training cycle. It cites Dr Carteristi urging coordinated action and Taft's aim to restore order in Mexico by May 2, with potential intervention if tranquility fails.
Milwaukee based Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance replies to March 2 suit alleging mismanagement of tontine funds. The company disputes claims of improper compensation or loans to agents and asserts no private loans or discriminatory dividend practices occurred. It explains policy accumulations were supervised and interest rates set by the executive committee under Wisconsin law.
Aviator Denis Breguet flew a monoplane two miles with fourteen passengers aboard in Dou, France. He also set a record by carrying 1268 pounds at 62 miles per hour. The flight maintained about 65 feet altitude.
The Times reports War Secretary Haldane will be elevated to the House of Lords within the next ten days to strengthen government representation in that chamber.
The senac house ratified the proposed amendment to the general coalition for an income tax and Governor Shafroth approved the resolution.
Strikers call off action after meeting with Adams Express Company officials. Mayor Gaynor had warned police would accompany wagons. The agency refused to treat with the men as a group, offering individual terms upon return to work.
A federal judge refused immunity, ruling that the defendants must stand trial on a conspiracy charge. The decision sets pretrial conditions and outlines next steps toward courtroom proceedings.
A U S district judge upholds indictments against Chicago Packers, ruling immunity granted earlier does not apply to post verdict acts. The decision states conspiracy continued after the Humphrey ruling and that preexisting immunity cannot shield ongoing unlawful acts.
Dr Edward F Ashley a Yale and College of Physicians and Surgeons graduate died on Swinburne Island New York harbor after aiding in guarding entry of cerebro spinal meningitis via infected Greek migrants. He inoculated himself while handling the case and died Sunday after serum treatment by Dr Simon Flexner, the disease’s discoverer. He aided port health officer Dr A L H Doty for about nine months and will be buried in Warner Connecticut as his parents watched.
London promoters of an arbitration treaty between England and the United States delayed a planned April 1 Albert Hall demonstration. A letter from Sir Edward Grey urged syncing actions with American voices to show mutual sympathy. The lord mayor was asked to form a national committee to organize supportive meetings across UK towns.
A blast at the American Gypsum Company plant in Gypsum, Ohio, shattered windows for miles, injuring four workers, two seriously, as 500 pounds of powder exploded. Sparks from a pipe or cigarette are suspected. Telegraph and telephone wires were down and residents were awakened by the shock.
Homer Davenport the cartoonist files for divorce from Daisy B Davenport in Balem Oregon alleging cruel treatment and other allegations The couple wed in Silverton Oregon and have four children A separation decree was previously granted in New Jersey Friends say Mrs Davenport will contest the suit
Prosecution attorney filed an affidavit charging Judges Peter Swing and S A Smith with bias and prejudice after they blocked Judge Frank M Garman from presiding over George B Cox perjury trial. Hearing before Chief Justice Frank H Taggart will decide if judges must vacate bench.
Premier Stolypin and interior minister resign in St Petersburg. Emperor Nicholas accepts Stolypin’s resignation. the cabinet pledges solidarity while awaiting formal replies. Rumors circulate of a Chinese minister's assassination. China’s reply to Russia’s ultimatum is delivered, meeting the core Russian demand for consulate openings and limited free trade in some districts.
Henry county grand jury indicts Nipateon Olja Michael Donnelly, Toledo presiding judge, in a probe into the wreck of the Citizens State Bank of Napoleon. He faces embezzlement charges of 2000 dollars from Anchor Insurance Company dec 15 1904. A separate Toledo grand jury returns a perjury indictment against Donnelly for false testimony to the state narcotics board.
Evansville Indiana bookkeeper and teller John W Blauth is charged with defalcation of about 1000 dollars after an initial announcement by the Evansville Trust Savings Company secretary Charley Brentuno cites a broader loss around 600 dollars in company funds. The case involves a trust institution deficit totaling thirty five thousand dollars.
Dewey Hitner, thirteen, is held for the death of Opie Brown, also thirteen, whom authorities say he shot. Authorities cite conflicting accounts from accident to a quarrel at school with threats to shoot. A separate item notes the United States Steel Corp annual report for the year ending December 1, 1919, showing a volume of business and related figures across subsidiaries.
Scores of youths attacked the mare of I Ikeda a Japanese merchant in Greeley Colorado breaking all windows in the shop during the incident.
In Pueblo Colorado a boiler blast at the Red Mill of the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company fatally injured three workers and left five others severely hurt.
The Dusseldorf IV balloon ascended in Krefeld Rhenish Prussia and drifted over the Zuyder Zee where loss of gun caused a descent. Pilot Paul Kayser was killed when the basket hit a breakwater. passenger Otto Schroeder was badly injured. In Winnipeg, six thousand Canadian Pacific machinists demand a 10 percent wage increase, seeking 46 cents an hour for an eight hour day, affecting blacksmiths, car repairers, and boilermakers.
A late night blaze in Des Moines Iowa gutted the Auditorium the first theater in the city next to the Coliseum leaving only a shell. The theater leased to the Shybert Theatrical Syndicate. Loss estimated around 40000 dollars.
New promoters reveal the New theater has chosen a plot west of Broadway from 44th to 45th streets as the site for its new home. The house will seat about 1000 and aims to be completed by September 1912.
Creel and Corrall report Diaz cabinet members tendered resignations to General Diaz after a Cabinet reshuffle plan. It is unclear which ministers will stay, with Jose Yves Limantour and Ramon Corral among those named. Rumors of a recall and a younger, reform minded panel circulate amid public opposition to aging leaders.
A disastrous blaze on a crowded urban street results in numerous deaths and injuries. Firefighting efforts are concentrated around a burning ten story building as workers, bystanders, and steamer crews are affected by the catastrophe. Authorities assess the cause and scope while survivors recount chaotic scenes of smoke and collapse.
Market notes for Minneapolis and Duluth dated March 25 show mixed wheat bids including May and July contracts, various durum and white varieties, and rye pricing. Cattle and sheep listings appear with steer and cow values, stockers, feeders, and calves. market activity described as slow with prices wavering on yesterday’s levels.
An OCR fragment presents unclear lines with names and phrases. The readable material hints at unnamed persons and scattered terms, lacking coherent event or location details to form a clear news item or outcome.
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