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Newspaper
Lemmon The State Line Herald
Location
Lemmon, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Oct 30, 1908
Page
6
Washington dispatches report a department clerks pay policy for frame crates and postal duties. a Kansas City hotel chief clerk faces public note of hotel losses. fires devastate Chicago and New York tenements. a Brooklyn worker dies beside a carding machine. legal notices touch elections and acts. international items include opium licensing in China and Morocco tribal uprisings. casualty tallies and personal tragedies punctuate the week.
Arrest of three prominent men heightens crisis as Governor Patterson directs investigations into night-rider depredations. Troop reinforcements and posses increase with guards deployed in Dyer and Lake counties. The trio, T. C. Ward Knox Morgan and Elmer Tate, linked to the Jet Walnut Log incident, were seized amid threats aimed at the governor. Congress member Ree A Phere warned after a threatening note found at his Union City residence.
Five alleged leaders were charged with fomenting a Mexican revolutionary plot on U S soil. Trevino and Silva were convicted, while Benj amin Silva and Jose Maria Ranlroz were acquitted. Sentencing by Judge Maxey set for today with potential prison terms from one to five years. Evidence included immunonutory literature disguising calls to rise against President Maz.
Gowrie and Tawa report a wreck on the Newton Northwestern near Gowrie where a gasoline speeder carrying nine Hinard men collided with a box car. Two men were killed and five injured, one fatally. In Cleveland a hotel death records 8. Mayer, a Detroit hardware traveling man, was found dead in his room, shot through the head, at the Galley house.
The sixty first annual session of the grand lodge of Iowa Odd Fellows adjourned yesterday after L W White of Woodbine was installed as noble grand. the meeting occurred in Maryhalltown Iowa on October 5.
Yokohama October 25 report on the American fleet's reception in Japan. A banquet on the battleship Fuji for the ambassador and officers, a fine reception on Mikasa, and a funeral wreath at Count Modzu’s casket by Rear Admiral Sperry marked a string of lavish events. Admiral Sperry’s visit drew vast crowds and warm greeting, with Tokyo’s Ginza and Shimbashi alight. The voyage proceeds amid joyous demonstrations, schools singing, and a parade of admiration for American sailors and officers.
The duke of the Abruzzi has not applied for leave of absence nor decided when to depart for the United States. A meeting with the count of Turin yielded a letter to Queen Margherita about the marriage to Miss Katherine Elkins of Boston. Senator Elkins said he knows nothing about the matter.
A dynamite blast at Hartwell State Bank in Hartwell, Kearney County, Nebraska, on October 2 damaged the safe and netted about 2400 in currency and papers. Investigators have no clue to the robbers’ direction or identity.
Willa Montgomery, former cashier of Allegheny National Bank, faces a United States district court trial on an embezzlement charge alleging $469,000 of the vanished $1,260,000 in cash and securities missing when the bank closed last May.
Governors of tobacco and cotton growing states plan a conference after the elventh hour to devise measures against night riders who have been operating, aiming to stop the evil and safeguard crops and communities in Frankfort and surrounding areas.
During a murder trial in Rayville Louisiana Det 25 reports three men charged with murder sawed their way from the jail rear of the courtroom. Other escapees include two charged with burglary and one with criminal assault.
The Loyal Order of Moose national convention adjourned in Uniontown Pennsylvania after choosing St Paul Minnesota as the site for the next annual meeting.
In Chicago at Huron and Wood streets two highwaymen robbed a saloon killing Henry Kern who helped resist. A running gun battle with two policemen followed. one bandit was fatally shot and a policeman was wounded in the leg. The robbers fled, taking $500, watches, and a revolver. Police pursued through Woolstreet.
London dispatch reports Servian government calling out all the reserves and ordering Kalk for troops with 80 Maxim guns and 406 military automobiles. King Peter reportedly informed the Turkish sultan that an alliance may be forming between Servia and Montenegro, though interferences threaten friendship between Turkey and Montenegro. In Trinklad, Colo., a man charged with theft from the post office service fatally shot himself at his parents’ home after despondency.
Jamon Seale owner of a gin near Mount Vieasant along with two African American men were fatally injured when a boiler exploded at the gin. Four other Black workers were badly hurt in the blast, authorities said on October 27.
New York dispatch details a tangled case involving Mrs. Seidel and George Longhi with claims of four marriages within one family. The note lists divorces, remarriages, and connections spanning Mrs. Seidel, Longhi, and their relatives as a judge weighs alleged bigamy and lawful unions. Church elders and family members are drawn into the ensuing public discourse.
Fragments report a deadly blizzard and high casualties in Leist six men and others perishing near New Wey Kansas. Survivors describe freezing conditions, collapsed shelters, and widespread loss as communities reel from the storm's wrath. Names and exact locations are unclear due to the damaged text, but the event is marked by severe weather and multiple deaths.
Forty four prisoners were reported in a connection to a Lake murder camp near Reelfoot. The arrests included two women and occurred around October seven in Walnut Log vicinity. No charges announced yet against those held. Governor Patterson linked dates to campaign plans and commitment to actions.
Manila dispatch notes a slight increase in cholera for the day ending Sunday, attributed to Saturday feasts and open meetings. The report also mentions a duck boat accident near Washtenaw County with drownings, detailing two men, Brannum and Fitzgerald, among those lost.
Mobile Oct 27 Ma F E Robinson a well known speaker and political figure was found to have died after blowing out his brains in his jail cell yesterday. He was regarded as a leading orator of the si era and had been jailed on a political charge.
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