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Newspaper
New Ulm Review
Location
New Ulm, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1913
Page
2
Senator Joseph F Johnston of Alabama dies of pneumonia at seventy in Birmingham. His death shortens the Democratic Senate majority and affects the administration tariff bill, though leaders say passage remains likely.
Lima Aug 9 news reports an earthquake destroying Caraveli and Quicacha in Arequipa state. Thousands homeless, relief measures needed. Caraveli has about 4000 residents, Quicacha smaller, Arequipa city also repeatedly ruined. nearby Misti volcano looms.
A policeman cut the sputtering fuse of a bomb in Nottingham near Suttin High School just before an address by David Lloyd George. Militant suffragettes are suspected of placing the device, likely averting a major blast and saving the school.
Duluth and Chicago markets report wheat on track with bids for No 1 hard and No 1 Northern. flax on track with Sept and Oct bids. South St Paul and Chicago also list cattle hogs sheep and butter prices, Minneapolis notes on track bids for wheats, corns, oats, barley, and flax futures with cash wheat details.
Leaders of the Workers of the World clashed with Oliver Mining policemen at the Duluth ore dock after an open air meeting dispute. An aid suffered a scalp wound while Cannon was beaten. Over 150 strikebreakers are at work loading 15,000 tons of ore. Great Northern and Missabe railroads reinforce with deputies, shacks, and guards as tensions persist.
Incendiaries and robbers attacked multiple sites across Virginia City including Mesburg and Lavick's furniture store with flats above, the State bank, the Duluth Massabe and Northern depot, and Andrew Grande's warehouse. Mesburg block gutted, three apartments evacuated in smoke. Intruders used windows, soaked clothing and paper, attempted safes. a small cash and stamp haul from the bank. One robber lit oiled clothing at the Grande warehouse. police received a false dispatch to mislead pursuit.
Clarence B. Miller of Duluth and Miss Gertrude W. Pattison, niece of former Surgeon General George Sternberg, married in a private Los Angeles ceremony. The couple, spending their honeymoon, kept the wedding intimate to avoid public notice after a romance formed in Washington.
Edward Gould a Bemidji post office employee was arrested by Deputy U S Marshal Tufts Crookston on embezzlement charges for allegedly opening a registered letter and taking money. He was arraigned before Marshal Simmons with bail set at 2500 dollars pending a preliminary hearing. Gould worked nights and is said to have opened letters using a decoy marked mail.
Representative Lindbergh of Minnesota introduces a new banking and currency measure in the lower house. The plan would use bank reserves to meet extraordinary demands and replace reserves with emergency currency during financial stress.
Gudmund F Johnson founder of Budstikken the leading Norwegian newspaper in Minneapolis during its early days has died at his family home in Spring Park Lake Minnetonka at seventy three. Born in Skien Norway he moved to Minneapolis forty five years ago and started Budstikken in 1873. He later sold it to the Minneapolis Daily Tidende and formed the Normalnos weekly which folded after a few years. He also worked in the United States customs service and was well known across the Middle West.
The state railroad and warehouse commission announced a 2 cent passenger rate for the Chicago Great Western after a conference with road officials and Attorney General L A Smith. No refunds for overcharges during the 3 cent era. Freight rates not settled. federal court will decide at a hearing on August 25. The new rate to take effect once schedules are filed within about ten days.
Attractive sale prospect offers 500 000 acres in Cloverland at 20 dollars per acre with twenty years to pay. Good rainfall, varied soils MUCK BEDS CLAY LOAMS BLACK PRAIRIE. Yields reported oats 109 bu per acre flax 28, clover three tons, timothy 2 3 tons, fall wheat 46 bu. Near Lake Superior and Lake Michigan with boat freight to big lake cities. Contact by phone 101.
Minnesota will receive a share of the 50 million dollars to be distributed by Secretary McAdoo to aid crop movement. The funds for Minnesota will be confined to the banks of St Paul Minneapolis and Duluth as disclosed by W B Geery of St Paul, a participant in a Western bankers conference with Assistant Secretary Williams. The exact bank allocation remains undetermined for now.
A switch engine struck an automobile on the Northwestern road crossing at Tracy. Mrs. Tom Conners of Seaforth was killed instantly as her body was cut in two. Mrs. Wallace Comstock of Minneapolis and her son were seriously or critically injured, with Charles Comstock, 16, unconscious.
John Lind of Minnesota and Wilson’s personal representative said in New Orleans he would not accept the ambassadorship to Mexico. He stated he plans to achieve his goals in the southern republic and then decline a permanent posting there.
The thirty first national convention elected James O Fiaherty of Philadelphia as supreme knight and Marston H Carmody of Grand Rapids as deputy supreme knight. St Paul was selected as the 1914 convention city, reported from the event in Boston.
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