Lyon County Man Dies By Own Hand In South Dakota
George Barnes aged 21, with ties to George Iowa, reportedly formerly of that town, hanged himself in the loft of a Chester livery barn on the South Dakota Central railroad north of Sioux Falls. Poor health and unemployment are cited as likely causes. he had been living at the livery barn with local men offering support.
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Sioux Falls
S. D
George Barnes
George
Chester
South Dakota Central Railroad
Grandma Kenyon Injured by Accidental Gun Discharge
In Naples South Dakota on November 25 Grandma Kenyon, an elderly resident, was seated in the railway depot when a loaded hammerless gun left in a seat was discharged by a boy at play. The bullet struck her hip, causing a very bad wound but she narrowly survived.
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Naples
S. D
Grandma
Indian convicted of manslaughter on Standing Rock case
Louis Dog was found guilty of manslaughter in federal court for assaulting Jerome De Wolf on the Standing Rock reservation in June, fracturing his skull and causing death in August. He had been on bonds until indicted by the federal grand jury two weeks ago, marking the second and last Indian trial of the term.
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Aberdeen
S. D
Louis Dog
Jerome de Wolf
Standing Rock
Dog
Tragic Hunting Accident In Geddes Area
Joseph Wesley, farmer of GeddesSoutheast of Geddes near Lake Andes, was killed while goose hunting by his brother in law Mike Soulek. The accidental shooting occurred about a half mile from the deceased’s home. County Coroner Lamspauch and Dr Seapy left for the scene.
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Geddes
S. D
Joseph Weseley
Lake Andes
Mike Soulek
Lamspauch
Seapy
Family seeks pardon for 18-year-old murder inmate
Sioux Falls abd discovered. Mr and Mrs J W Moser of Strawberry Point Iowa press for clemency for their son William aged slightly over 18 serving a life term in Sioux Falls penitentiary for a Brown County murder. Parents say he is in poor health and risk of further confinement harming his mind.
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Sioux Falls
S. D
J. W. Moser
Strawberry Point
William
Sioux Falls Penitentiary
Brown County
Ravinia to Get Lake Front Booster Weekly Paper
Lake Andes South Dakota November 25 The new town of Ravinia on the Milwaukee railroad midway between Lake Andes and Wagner will have a weekly newspaper the Lake Front Booster Leroy Beemer editor and Frank Strohbehm owner both respected Charles Mix county figures
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Lake Andes
S. D
Ravinia
Milwaukee Railroad
Wagner
Leroy Beemer
Charles Mix County
Frank Strohbehm
Lake Front
Philip Elects First City Officers After Incorporation Vote
Philip South Dakota voters participate in a special election to choose the first city officers, following a prior vote that authorized incorporation of Philip as a city under state law.
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Philip, S. D
Philip
Electric lighting to be installed in Ramona
Arrangements are completed for installing an electric lighting system in Ramona South Dakota. The item appears among a series of brief notes from Northwest towns.
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Ramona
S. D
Cedar Rapids
Elmer I. Jones
Onida
Sully
Mason City
I A
Thomas Vanderasky
Pierre
D. M. Barnes
Miners Ready to Declare Strike in Homestake
In Deadwood South Dakota on November 24 unions at Homestake Mining plan a secret ballot to strike with a two thirds majority. A general strike is expected next Friday after miners seek Western Federation permission and a three day notice is set. Company officials refuse to recede and federal troops at Fort Meade reduce violence risk. Western Federations urge Sheridan and Monarch Wyoming coal miners to withhold supply.
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Deadwood
S. D
Homestake Mining Company
Western Federation
Grier
Fort Meade
Sheridan
Monarch
Wyo
Indians Confer Over Allotments In Yankton South Dakota
In Yankton Bennett county with 700000 acres, the Oglala tribe and Senator Gamble moved toward opening land to white settlement. A committee including Charles Turning Hawk Red Hawk Bates Dillon Means and Bailey met Gamble to discuss a bill. The plan allows non timbered allotment lands to be sold at 2.50 an acre for public school lands and offers time to complete allotments.
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Yankton
S. C
Bennett County
Oglala Tribe of Indians
R. J. Gamble
Charles Turning Hawk
Red Hawk
Oklala
Gamble
Congress
Divorce Is Shame of Nation Says Bishop
Bishop C P Fitzgerald of the Methodist Episcopal Church South in Nashville sends a telegram denouncing rising divorce in the nation. He says marriage sacredness marks civilization and notes higher life sectors show increased divorce sin and secrecy, urging public opinion and tougher laws and cleaner clerical and civil conduct.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
C. P. Fitzgerald
Methodist Episcopal Church South
Nashville
Tenn
Death of Baron George De Reuter Sudden
London reports the death of Baron George De Reuter, heir and younger son of the late Baron De Reuter. He founded the Reuter's Telegram company lineage and served as director. Born 1864, admitted to the bar in 1886, he promoted financial institutions and held the Royal Order of the Saviour of Greece command. He is survived by widow Maud Potter and two young sons.
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London
George de Reuter
Baron de Reuter
Reuter's Telegram Company
Maud
John Potter
Philadelphia
Baron George
Paris
Royal Order of the Saviour of
Greece
Sleeping Youth Thirsts for Blood
Walter Schoonover an 11 year old Kansas City boy alternates between kindness by day and homicidal urges at night witnesses say. The case drew Judge Van B Prather who ordered the youth sent to a sanitarium for treatment after multiple terrifying nighttime attacks on his father and stepmother.
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Kansas City
Walter Schoonover
Kan
van B. Prather
Bey
Tenneriff Volcano Eruptions Expand To Ten Craters
A tenth crater opens as five volcanoes pour lava. Explosions stop but residents remain anxious after days of fear.
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Tenneriff
Fawns Domesticated After Wolf Pursuit Near Hannan
S D Nov 23 reports Jack McCann of Hannan owns two pet fawns that ran into his house while being chased by wolves. He built a pen and wire yard they now inhabit and they show little fear of people. McCann handles them as tame animals, likening them to pups.
Death Claims Pioneer of Union County Elk Point
Alexander Bovee died at his Elk Point home of heart failure aged 74. Born November 20, 1835 in Genessee County New York he lived in Will County Illinois before moving to Elk Point in 1884. He leaves a wife and two children Charles Summer and Mrs George Hasson. Funeral services were held yesterday.
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Union County
Elk Point
S. D
Alexander Bovee
Bovee
Genessee County
New York
Will County
Illinois
Sallie Gray
Charles Summer
George Hasson
Congregational Church
Boyd
Robert Winters
Jas. A. Snyder
Denison
Bridgewater Grants 20 year Electric Light Franchise
Bridgewater South Dakota city council grants A M Weiden bach a twenty year franchise to build an electric light plant. A lot has been purchased and the construction contract for the power house has been let.
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Bridgewater
S. D
A. M. Weidenbach
Surgeons Perform Eight Operations at Local County Hospital
Dr Prince E Sawyer from Sioux City conducted eight operations at the newly opened Charles Mix County hospital in Geddes South Dakota. Assistants included Dr J A Seapy of Geddes and Dr Langley of Lake Andes with three trained nurses present for the procedures.
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Geddes
S. D
Prince E. Sawyer
Sioux City
Charles Mix County Hospital
F. E. Fyfe
J. A. Seapy
Langley
Lake Andes
Rebels Executed in Nicaragua Dynamiting Plot
Stillwater Minnesota reports that Leonard Groce and Leroy Cannon, Americans, were executed by court martial in Nicaragua after being caught with dynamite and a machine. They allegedly planned to blow up a government transport carrying 500 men. Both confessed and wrote letters to families. Official confirmation arrived at the State Department.
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Stillwater
Minn
Leonard Groce
Leroy Cannon
Tagua
Washington
Nicaragua
State Department
Long Island Tunnel Opens to Public Across the Rivers
New York Nov. 23 The Pennsylvania Railroad ran a train through the new tunnel beneath Manhattan Island and under the East River marking a practical completion of the route from New Jersey to Long Island. President McCrea and the railroad board inspected progress as the project nears an estimated 160 million dollars.
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New York
Hudson River
Manhattan Island
East River
Pennsylvania Railroad
New Jersey
Long Island
McCrea
Honduran Rebel General Bonilla Retires From Politics
New Orleans November 23 General Manuel Bonilla ex president of Honduras says he has retired to private life and will not go to Nicaragua to aid revolutionaries. He bought a Belize ticket and plans to return to British Honduras next Tuesday while not denying traveling to assist the revolters earlier.
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New Orleans
Manuel Bonilla
Honduras
Nicaragua
Belize
British Honduras
General Bonilla
Zelaya
Forty Men Trapped Alive After Mine Explosion
At Cherry Illinois on November 20 about forty men were found alive in a mine after an explosion last Saturday. Trapped within walls of rock they survived by sheltering themselves. The first rescuer found one survivor who spoke barely coherently, his face blackened and scorched by smoke.
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Cherry, Ill
Notice on Nonunion Hiring at Homestake Mining
The Homestake Mining Company will employ only nonunion men after January 1, 1910. The current wage scale and eight hour shift stay in effect. Employees wishing to stay must register at the general offices by December 15, 1909. T. J. Grier, Superintendent.
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Homestake Mining Company
T. J. Grier
Deadwood promoter acquitted by jury in Kansas City
Robert J. Meenan a mine promoter from Deadwood South Dakota was acquitted by a Kansas City jury on forgery charges. He was accused of increasing the Golden Placer Mining stock from 250 to 25000 shares to fund machinery for a new mine. His wife supported him during the trial.
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Kansas City
Robert J. Meenan
Deadwood
Meenan
Golden Placer Mining Company
Hearst mines to end union labor by 1910 at Homestake
Lead S. D. November 20 1910 union men to be barred from Homestake mines after January 1 1910 prompting a likely strike among about 3000 workers. The move marks a major clash between the Hearst controlled syndicate and its workforce after decades without labor disturbances. Mrs Phoebe Hearst funded a kindergarten library and a hospital for injured workers.
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Lead
S. D
Homestake
Hearsts
Phoebe Hearst
Nye Phillips Lands Another Appointment
Sioux Falls reports that "Uncle Nyrum" E. Phillips former warden and secretary to Senator Kittredge has been appointed state warehouse and scale inspector to succeed C. W. Henry. He will give the office his personal attention.
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Sioux Falls
S. D
Nyrum” E. Phillips
State Penitentiary
Senator Kittredge
C. W. Henry
Baker Veich Tries to Trace Italian Girl He Loved
Spearfish South Dakota November 20. Charles Veich a local baker hires a detective agency to locate a former lover named an Italian girl Beysiah who previously accepted his proposal but fled on the wedding day. He learned she went on a clothing shopping trip then vanished to Lead Arizona and the state attorney says no action can be taken.
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Spearfish
S. D
Charles Veich
Beysiah
Voich
Veich
Arizona
Mail carrier survives bullet strike in Hartford
Henry Borcherding a rural route mail carrier at Hartford near Sioux Falls was shot in the forehead by a discharged 32 calibre revolver. The bullet split into three parts but did not penetrate the skull and Borcherding recovered consciousness asking who hit him. He was expected to recover fully in a day or two.
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Sioux Falls
S. D
Henry Borcherding
Hartford
Borcherding
Hfe
Home Guardians Merged Into Illinois Firm
After two weeks of talks and official endorsements by Illinois and South Dakota insurance commissioners the Home Guardians of Mitchell and the Loyal Americans of Springfield merged yesterday. The Loyal Americans take over all business of the Guardians and move the headquarters from Mitchell to Springfield.
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Mitchell, S. D
Commissioners of Insurance of
Illinois
South Dakota
Republic of
Springfield
Ill
Value of crushed hand set at $1000 by Yankton court
In Yankton South Dakota a circuit court jury set the value of a crushed hand at 1000 dollars after amputation of a finger in a suit by Anton Pletterpaur against the Milwaukee railroad. The prior jury verdict of 1999.50 was overturned on technical grounds and retried before Judge F B Smith. A new damages suit against the Milwaukee road, by traveling man C F Billings for an alleged assault on a Milwaukee train, is now underway.
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Yankton
S. D
Yankton County
Anton Pletterpaur
Milwaukee Railroad
F. B. Smith
Mitchell
Fourth District
Tripp
Milwaukee Road
C. F. Billings
Snowstorm Paralyzes Central Dakota Towns
The heavy early season storm dumps six to ten inches across Huron, South Dakota, with zero temps and a northwest wind creating large drifts. Roads blockaded and rail traffic interrupted as building work stops and threshing crews are sent home. Farmers face delays as flax and corn remain unthreshed and fuel shortages tighten city supplies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Huron
South Dakota
Dog makes journey to Alaska and back
Following an eight week disappearance, Whitey a bull dog owned by T W McDonald of S D returned home with a collar bearing tags from along the route to Nome Alaska including cities and hotels. The dog appeared in Nome last month two tags certify. Neighbors ponder how the intelligent animal traveled by train and avoided theft on the Great Northern railroad and in Seattle and Portland hotels.
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S. D
Whitey
T. W. McDonald
Nome
Alaska
Great Northern Railroad
Seattle
Portland
Outside firm cannot collect whisky bill in South Dakota
In South Dakota the supreme court reversed the lower court in Saunders Jones et al. vs Yokum, finding the St Paul whisky house Jones & Co. had no standing to collect $450 on notes for whisky because they never complied with state liquor dealer laws. The ruling bars collection by the wholesale dealer in this case.
Murderer body sent to university for study in Centerville
The killer from the Nelson murder tragedy had his body taken to Vermillion for scientific study at the university. Mrs. Nelson will be buried Friday. Albert Nelson remains near death at his sister’s home after severe injuries. Authorities believe the attacker firebombed the scene to hide the crime, labeling him a degenerate fiend.
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Centerville
S. D
Albert B. Nelson
Nelson
Hadley Gutwick
Hunter Retains Duck While Near Drowning
Arlington South Dakota November 19 Deputy postmaster Fred Evarts plunged through ice while hunting on Lake Damsgaach. He clung to a dead duck as a rope rescued him from the icy water and he was revived at a nearby house.
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Arlington
S. D
Fred Evarts
Damsgaach
Sioux City Live Stock Market Report
Sioux City November 24 hogs sold at 7.70 to 7.95 for light to heavy grades with packers at 7.85 to 7.90. Dressed beef steers feeders 3.50 to 4.90. stockers 2.85 to 4.25. veals 3.00 to 6.25. fat cows and heifers 3.10 to 4.75. bulls 2.75 to 4.60. cows 2.25 to 3.25. canners and cutters included.
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Sioux City
Sionx City
Chicago Live Stock Market Summary
Chicago reports cattle receipts near 8 000 with a steady market. Beeves bring 3.89 to 9.00, Texas steers 3.70 to 4.70, western steers 4.00 to 7.25, stockers 2.16 to 3.60, cows and heifers 3.10 to 6.25, calves 6.00 to 8.50. Hogs receipts about 24 000 with prices from 7.55 to 8.15 for various grades, pigs 6.28 to 7.0, bulk 7.90 to 8.10. Sheep receipts 28 000, market steady. natives 2.75 to 4.90, westerns 2.90 to 4.90, yearlings 5.25 to 6.40, native lambs 4.75 to 7.40, western lambs 5.25 to 7.15.
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Chicago
Texas
Lambs
Western
Kansas City
Livestock Prices Dip at St Louis and Kansas City Markets
Cattle receipts reach 5 600 in St Louis with market ease of up to ten cents. Native beef steers bring 3.75 to 7.75 dollars, cows and heifers 3.25 to 5.50, Texans and Indian steers 3.50 to 5.50, hog receipts 13 500 with steadier tone and butchers up to 8.10, sheep 1 500 with steady demand. Kansas City reports cattle receipts 18 000 with prices 3.40 to 8.50 for native and southern steers, hogs 20 000, and sheep 10 000 with muttons 4.25 to 5.50 and lambs 5.75 to 7.40.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Louis
Omaha Live Stock Market Report November 24
Cattle receipts 7,000. market steady. Native steers 4.00 to 8.00. cows 3.00 to 5.00. western and Texas steers 5.00 to 6.25. Hogs receipts 6,000. market steady. Heavy 7.90 to 7.95. mixed 7.85 to 7.90. lights 7.80 to 9.21. pigs 6.50 to 7.50. Sheep receipts 8,000. market steady. Yearlings 5.25 to 6.25. wethers 4.40 to 5.40. ewes 4.00 to 4.75. lambs 6.75 to 7.50.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Omaha
South Omaha
Neb
Texas
Minneapolis Grain Renewals and Prices Report
Minneapolis market round up shows grain and flax prices and delivery terms. Listings include Minnavy grades N o 1 northern at about $1.00 plus basis, No 2 northern around $1.01, No 3 northern near $1.02, velvet chaff and durum figures, yellow corn near $0.60, and Duluth Flax futures for November $1.79, December $1.76 and May $1.77. Barley at $0.16, Rye around $0.68-0.69.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Minneapolis
Minn
Northern
Ats
Wave Duluth
Wheat and corn futures steady in Omaha Wheat market
Cash wheat holds firm with No 2 hard winter priced 1.01 to 1.05, corn mixed levels from 57 to 59 1/4 cents for various grades, oats steady around 37 to 38 cents. Receipts show 23 wheat cars, 13 corn cars, 24 oats cars. shipments total 21 wheat, 11 corn, 6 oats cars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Omaha
Neb
Sioux City Market Price List Headlines
Prices for hay straw poultry butter eggs and other farm goods listed with per unit amounts for No. 1 and No. 2 grades. Items include timothy oat and wheat straw peanuts linseed cake cheese potatoes onions nuts grapes oranges apples lemons bananas celery cabbage cranberries grapefruits chestnuts and more with per unit or per barrel pricing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sioux City
Upland
Timothy
Virginia
Wisconsin
California
New York
Malagas
Abbanes
Florida
New
Michigan
Akron Auto Scene Brings Boxing Headlines and Injury Report
AKRON OHIO A local automobile racer Fred Frank Work is linked with pugilist James J Jeffries and others in a racing scene. Lithia Rotzell was struck late at night breaking her wrist, police report notes. Physicians fear permanent crippling for Rotzell amid ongoing investigation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Akron
Ohio
James J. Jeffries
Fred Frank Work
Gotch
Lithia Rotzell
Omar
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Long Island Tunnel
Homestake Mines
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Nye Phillips
Baker
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Home Guardians
Illinois Company
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