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Newspaper
Humboldt County Republican
Location
Humboldt, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1906
Page
1
A long snapshot of world news items includes Zion City politics with Judge Landis ordering a September election, Secretary Wilson’s strict new meat inspection rules, a will of Russell Sage detailing bequests, and Missouri granting a railroad charter. Reports cover crimes, labor, diplomacy, and natural events across Europe, Asia, and the Americas with vivid, though varied, detail.
Vaelli express No 37 of New York Central and Hudson River Railway derailed near Poughkeepsie after a landslide swept across the track from a heavy rainstorm. The locomotive plunged into the river. fireman Mills was killed and engineer Edward Wells fatally injured. Fifteen passengers seriously injured. many others lightly hurt. Injured taken to Highland hospital Matteawan. doctors summoned from nearby towns.
Ray Fuller filled in for his injured brother at Pine Tree Lumber where a misfit tool and a rushed instructor led to a fatal encounter with a running saw. A companion redirected a slender shovel across the blade as Fuller attempted to clear his work path, fatally injuring his left side and shoulder before the machine stopped.
In Biamaret North Dakota a knife attack near the Eminns border left newcomer A Stack dead. Tarael Cutler is named as the assailant. authorities say the two had a quarrel over a meadow, leading to the brutal slashing and decapitation. A neighbor discovered the remains.
An early 20th century report details a raid on a so called blind pig run by a Chinaman identified as Ye Wah wan. Authorities confiscated 63 quarts of bear and several gallons of whiskey. The raid closed all but one pig and notes a raft-based business named the American Flag.
Dago N D travels map flirtation with a waitress led to a fog shot incident. In the U S court verdict in the suit by D M O Connel against the Soo road and Manager Jones of the Enderlin Soo eating house, five thousand dollars were asked and three thousand awarded. A quarrel arose when Jones ended the flirtation between O Connel and the waitress.
A young farmer named Clark was killed when a passenger train struck his wagon near the depot area in Steele North Dakota. The train, moving about 35 miles per hour, hit the wagon in the middle, splitting it and throwing Clark against the engine boiler. He was found on the wagon seat with severe bleeding from the ears, nose, and mouth.
Secretary Wilson releases regulations under the new meat inspection law for interstate and foreign trade. Rules cover slaughtering, packing, canning, and selling establishments must maintain cleanliness sanitation lighting and separate facilities. Inspections require daily cleaning of utensils and proper worker clothing with weekly sanitation reports to federal inspectors.
In a cotton factory here about 10,000 workers demanded the removal of the Cossack guard and permission to join a militia. A meeting of the workmen was dispersed by Cossacks.
In Chattanooga Tennessee the biennial Kappa Sigma conclave wrapped up with the election of officers and a banquet Friday night. The 1908 meeting place was left to the executive council.
Alleged robber Lewis Halbert, accused of robbing Edward L. Walsh in May of last year, a millionaire from this city, with $10,000 in jewelry, was arrested in Chicago after two and a half months. Also, in Milwaukee Judge Quarles sent indictments for land fraud to Joseph Black John C Black and Ay Gust Anderson of Shawano Wisconsin from a grand jury in Portland Oregon.
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