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Newspaper
La Grande Evening Observer
Location
La Grande, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Oct 10, 1911
Page
8
A shooting occurred near Third and Adams as a white cartoonist Harry B. Lee was fired upon by a Japanese man in a suspected love-triangle case. Lee was wounded in the leg and hip area, hospitalized at Grande Ronde, with doctors noting non critical injuries and a quick recovery expected.
Washington Oct 10 So many important topics are slated for discussion at the 23rd annual meeting of the National Association of Railway Commissioners beginning today sessions will run five days The body includes interstate commerce commission members and state railway officials President is R Hudson Durr of Florida Key issues include states power to regulate intrastate rates per the Sanborn decision railway capitalization car service demurrage and communications and express rates and shipper claims on common carriers
Johnson City Tenn Oct 10 The East Tennessee State normal school opened its first term with a formal dedication program featuring speakers United States Commissioner of Education P P Claxton University of Tennessee President Brown Ayres Middle Tennessee State normal school President P L Jones and other noted educators.
A one hundred dollar bill and about two hundred dollars in lumber checks were found on James Williams whose body was found near Telocaset. The cash contradicts robbery as the motive and supports accidental train death as the probable verdict. The body was brought to La Grande and an inquest was delayed for witnesses.
In Portland on October 10 charges allege Feb and his wife Sacrey set an incendiary fire at the Sacrey hotel in South Portland endangering 20 sleeping occupants. The hotel, recently acquired and insured for 1500 dollars, had eight rooms damaged by fire set in bedclothes.
In Council Bluffs Iowa on October 10 a veterans gathering marked the fourth annual reunion. A memorial to Abraham Lincoln was unveiled with Gen Grenville M. Dodge presiding and speakers including Gen Frederick D. Grant Bishop Samuel Fallows and Miss Harriet Lake representing the Daughters of the American Revolution.
Gee, A. Bateson & Co., Inc of Portland seeks cash for Oregon session laws before 1866 and for senate journals 1862 and 1864. They also desire codes 1851 1854 1855 the Journal of Council 1851 statutes 1854 1855 code of civil procedure and general laws 1862 and archives 1843 1849.
Milwaukee marks the 101st convention of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions with about 500 prominent Congregationalists in attendance. Treasurer Frank H. Wiggin reports year ending August 31 receipts of 1,032,025 and expenditures of 1,030,604.
In Chicago the Lorimer inquiry reopened with 20 witnesses ready to testify and anticipated to stretch over a month. State Senator Frank Lande testified of promises of greater power in exchange for supporting Lorimer despite pledges to Hopkins. Ottawa reports Canada’s new conservative cabinet under Premier Borden was sworn in at noon.
New York reports Charles Heike a sugar magnate and former secretary of American Sugar Refining lost his appeal in the United States circuit court of appeals against an eight month jail term for weight customs frauds. If the supreme court does not intervene, he must report to jail immediately.
A six story building at Hanover and Battery streets in Boston collapsed at noon today, killing six people. Fire crews and investigators pressed to determine cause as emergency responders recovered victims and secured the scene.
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