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Newspaper
New Ulm Review
Location
New Ulm, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Feb 19, 1908
Page
2
Lorna Jin and Hall Life and Health sign an agreement securing insurance with Safe and Reliable. Office located in Strickler Block, contact phone 15.
An article claims Dr A James cured his only daughter of consumption using herbal remedies from Guytetey. It states the doctor now offers a free recipe with two 7 cent stamps for expenses. The ad promises swift relief from chills sweats and stomach upset and suppresses a fresh cold within hours. Address Grad, Ongk & Co, 1082 Race St, Philadelphia.
A damaged OCR fragment warns grocers in Wonderstown about stern Departmental rules on a powdered product called Creaw Powder. The text claims strict enforcement under a national care find law, promising protection for wholesalers and retailers handling the item, though details are unclear.
London reports a practical break up of the European concert on the Macedonian question shocks chancellories. Germany shifts from joint action on Turkish demands, causing renewed tensions among Russia Austria-Hungary and Turkey. A breakdown may reopen Near East issues, provoke rail concessions clashes, and delay reforms intended by ambassadors.
Jeremiah Kennedy surprised to find his burglar captive was Henry Schnelle, a well to do contractor and neighbor. Schnelle admits nightly thefts from nearby stores, saying he walked the streets at night to resist an insatiable urge but always lost. He faces charges of burglary.
Winnipeg police have prepared hundreds of summonses for alleged breaches of the Lord's Day Act. The campaign began two Sundays ago with first cases appearing in police court. About 500 summonses have been issued and more arrests are planned, amid opposition from local members.
Deputy Chief Charles W. Kruger of the New York Fire Department died on February 14 while directing his crew in a Canal Street blaze. He plunged into a smoke filled cellar through a trapdoor into a water filled sub basement and was dead on removal. More than twenty firefighters risked their lives attempting to rescue him in the minutes after his fall.
In Auburn New York on February 15 the three leading cars pass through. The American car arrives at 10:40 AM and is overhauled with a new tire fitted after a clogged mechanism. The Italian car arrives 11:40 AM, departs 11:58 AM after refueling. The French car passes Auburn at 12:48 PM without stopping.
Wisconsin delegates at the state convention closed by voting unanimously to instruct the Denver delegation to support William Jennings Bryan as the Democratic nominee. The platform praised Jeffersonian Democracy and denounced Republican administrations while extolling Bryan as the greatest living American statesman.
Olympia Washington February 15 Judge Hanford of the federal court handed down a decision in the wheat rate case between the railroad commission and the Oregon Railroad and Navigation Company. The ruling strips the commission of authority to fix traffic rates on any commodities, declaring that the power to set rates lies with the state legislature. The decision will be appealed immediately to the United States Supreme Court.
The New York to Paris race began from Times Square with thousands cheering as six cars led by 200 supporting motors launched up Broadway. Crews included three French, one German, one Italian, and one American car with two American drivers present. Race duration projected six to nine months, spanning from Albany to San Francisco and across Alaska and Siberia, with steamers ferrying wire reports.
By direction of the acting Secretary of War, a company of infantry trains to Fort Gibbon Alaska to preserve order during a mining strike. The move follows representations from Alaska authorities to the attorney general and president. General Bell and the military commander at Fort Gibbon supervise the dispatch.
In St Louis a melee at New Hope Colored Baptist Church involved razors and chairs, wounding Deacon Alfred Shannon and Pastor Rev. Prank Harris who was badly struck. Mrs. Sam Lewis was arrested as police intervened. Dispute stemmed from a disputed gas bill, according to Deacon Shannon.
The American coal laden steamer Only Reed, 113 days out from Newcastle Nova Scotia bound for Portland Oregon, went ashore at Nehalem river mouth and split in two. Ten crew members were lost while six were saved, including the captain and his wife.
In Columbus Ohio on February 12 Taft won all major primaries. Delegates at large and district delegates to Chicago were chosen unanimously, with 815 national delegates instruct ed for Taft. Missouri and Colorado also backed Taft, while legislative sessions in New Jersey and Maryland discussed the Aldrich currency bill and national banking policy.
Pittsburg reports Braneis-T. Lovey once allied with Andrew Carnegie formed Utilet Steel and banked a mortgage of 100000 on a 750000 home after a mysterious departure. The woman, labeled the “woman in Black,” earned wary national recognition for her bold career and ties to prominent judges and financiers.
Five heavily armed bandits dynamited the vault of a Farmers and Manufactures bank in Rich Hin. mo. wen. causing a massive blast that wrecked the two story building and sent citizens fleeing. No injuries reported as gunfire exchanged with a sheriff's posse during escape. Cashier J. W. Jamison says all available cash was taken.
Chicago verdict clears Dora McDonald of murder charge in the Webster Guerin case after six and a half hours of deliberation by the criminal court jury.
A Senate judiciary sub committee favored action on the Tillman resolution to instruct the attorney general to sue railroads in the Northwest to open land grants to settlement. The Justice Department will draft a new bill to cover all alleged grant violations. Milton D. Purdy and B D Townsend attended the hearing and were instructed to prepare the measure. J N Payson, former Illinois congressman now with Harrimas lines, opposed the resolution.
Karl Rapp, pursued for a decade by detectives in a worldwide dragnet tied to a 1898 arson in Rosswag, Germany, was found dead by hanging in Moyamensing prison Philadelphia. The captive had awaited a new hearing on charges of setting fire to a factory and dwelling.
Minneapolis Wheat quotes for May July and on track prices hinge around 1.075 to 1.02 varieties with No 1 Northern around 1.02 and 0.95 to store values. St Paul Union Stock Yards shows cattle grades good to choice with prices near 4.75 to 4.80 and sheep lambs around 0.62 to 0.66. Chicago grain closes with wheat May at 92 or 96 cents, corn May around 0.50, oats 0.38, pork futures about 11.27 to 11.30, butter 2.27 to 2.28, eggs 19 to 19.5, poultry 12 cents for turkeys.
Legal advertisements announce a sealed matter before the court of probate with GEO Ross named as judge. The notation indicates action by the court and the sealing of the record under probate jurisdiction.
DeWitt's Little Early Risers are promoted as pleasant easy to take pills. Sold by Eugene A Plefferté in the local market.
An illustrated Crosby Frisian Co. catalog from Rochester urges readers to learn the value of cow, steer, and horse hides when turned into coats, tubes, and rags. The ad notes freight terms and promotes the new publication as a revelation.
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