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Newspaper
Lemmon The State Line Herald
Location
Lemmon, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1908
Page
2
A jumble of fragmentary reports includes deaths from accidents and violence, fires and derailments, notable figures and indictments, with scattered names and places. The text presents a chaotic aggregation of midwestern and eastern events, spanning people, investigations, disasters, and political mentions with few coherent links.
The article reports on a national independence party meeting in Cincinnati with William R Hearer as chairman and other leaders. It notes the death of Emil Iscobe and wife in Port Wayne from heart disease, and a widow’s death shortly after. It covers Canada seeking 25,960 harvest workers and pardon recommendations for early release of minor offenders, plus local actions on Sunday theater bans and a postponed boxing match in New York due to interference.
Photographers and crowds watched Henry Farman test his heavier than air craft at Brighton Beach showing a 25 foot rise and swift flight. The machine broke wind up to 15,000 revolutions per minute and created a wind gust strong enough to uproot willow trees as Farman piloted the craft over the track.
Minnesota man on Democratic Executive Committee. Norman E Mack, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, appointed committees to serve during the campaign. The Executive Committee includes members from many states and key figures such as FB Lynch of Minnesota and Edwin Wood of Michigan.
Louise Reinhardt, eleven, daughter of John Reinhardt a newspaper artist, died from injuries after an automobile crash near Roslyn L I yesterday and died at Nassau County Hospital.
Mrs Ralph Harris of Kansas City Missouri and her three year old child were drowned at Walloon lake yesterday. It is believed the woman jumped into the water to save the child who had fallen from the dock.
Iowa City report states Henry Willhauer's three months old son choked to death yesterday while his sister lay dead nearby in the nestful scene. Police investigate potential relation or accidental cause as family tragedy unfolds in Iowa.
Paris reports the death of G Winthrop Sand, son of W K Vanderbilt, in a wreck near Chateau St Louis de Poissy after his car struck a tree and burst into flames. The chauffeur survived with injuries while Sands suffered fatal burns and trauma, pleading for water as rescuers removed him. The machine reportedly traveled about seventy five miles per hour before impact.
Two men killed and six fatally wounded after a mob clashes with Sheriff forces at a Ponaneola park. Leander Shaw assaults Mrs. Lilian Davis, then is captured, lynched at the electric light pole as crowds from the city and countryside surge to the jail. The sheriff’s men suffer casualties. Davis’s husband survives, baby injured but to recover.
Des Moines August 1 The executive council awarded a certificate of nomination to J A T Hull making him the Republican nominee and completing the official nomination.
Minneapolis on July 31 reports Albert J Monaben drowned after striking his head on a wooden pile at the river bottom. Authorities note the accident occurred during a bathing incident and he did not survive.
A devastating forest blaze costs more than a hundred lives and cuts all communication. The fire endangers four neighboring towns, with their fate in jeopardy as lines of contact remain severed.
Doomed Fernie British Columbia faces total devastation from a colossal forest fire driven by a bolt gale. Over 2,000 refugees seek shelter three miles west in open prairie as Flames cut lines of escape. Bridges and railways burned, communication severed, casualties uncertain. Fire rages through Elk River valley threatening Sparwood and surrounding mines and prospectors.
A provincial disaster unfolds as fires threaten vast prairie areas and force mass evacuations. Aid arrives from Calgary Medicine Hat and Vancouver while Cranbrook holds a relief meeting. Estimates of losses run into millions with many towns left without shelter or essentials. Premier Laurier coordinates federal response as telegraph lines and transportation strain under the crisis.
A chaotic scene near Deadwood ends with George Corey of Terry escaping mob violence after an act of wife beating. He was arrested and jailed as a violent crowd surged, threatening lynching while warnings were issued to townspeople.
A large lumber yard fire in Menominee Michigan swept through wool, pine, and hemlock, destroying 12,000,000 feet of lumber. The blaze, aided by an 10 am wind, caused about 4000 dollars in damage and threatened nearby buildings in Marinette.
A two year old boy identified as Bry Mests Cente drowned after entering water at a local area pond near Webster City Iowa. Witnesses say the child wandered toward the water and disappeared beneath the surface. Rescue efforts followed, but he did not survive.
An elderly woman, about seventy, disappeared from Alma Wisconsin Tuesday. Her body was found Saturday in Slough near town, about five miles from home. She lived alone and left no trace of her plans before vanishing.
A partial OCR tale describes a university student from Minneapolis involved in a violent brawl. The fragment mentions a fall, a broken leg, a shooting, and a Black man in a Canton town holding a suspect, but details are unclear due to damaged text.
In Waterloo and surrounding areas a string of brief, incomplete notes describe a farmer gored by a bull near Gored by a ball incident and a death involving P. Johnson of Brisi reportedly linked to a boiling liquid sale machine. The text is fragmented with multiple names and places unclear.
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