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Newspaper
New Ulm Review
Location
New Ulm, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1909
Page
2
In a compact notice the firm touts protection against fire bail and tornadoes and promotes services in real estate purchases and sales legal documents execution loans negotiation and steamship tickets.
Insurance notice touts life health and all risk coverage with emphasis on safety and reliability. Office Strickler Block contact phone 165 listed for policy inquiries.
An physician Dr H James reportedly cured his only child of consumption with a Calcutta herb preparation. The doctor claims the recipe can cure consumption permanently and offers it free for two 2-cent stamps. The ad also claims the herb cures rige might be nausea and breaks a fresh cold in 24 hours and directs letters to Grad Dock & Co Philadelphia.
An old advertisement promotes Mother Gray's Australian Leaf as a monthly regulator for women experiencing back pain urinary bladder or kidney trouble. The copy urges readers to obtain the product from druggists or by mail, offering a free package and listing The Mother Gray Co in LeRoy New York.
Federal agents prepare for a Toledo and Cleveland trial next week after roundups in Ohio. They rely on letters from Sant Lima’s Marion house and other prisoners to prove a Central West extortion scheme. The case centers on a planned conspiracy to extort from Columbus fruit dealer John Amicon and seeks up to 500 dollar fines and eighteen months per count.
Marseilles reports a severe earthquake across Herault and Bouches du Rhone with fifteen dead in Lambesc ten in St Cannat and twenty in Rognes. Officials fear total deaths may reach 100 as temperatures drop. Food relief is dispatched from Aix and two battalions are aiding rescue as towns like St Cannat and Rognes are destroyed and many homes collapse.
In Wheeling West Virginia June 10 a furnace accident at Wheeling Steel and Iron Co Martins Ferry plant burned six men to a crisp. Four were fatally injured and ten seriously hurt. About fifty workers were present when molten iron erupted, sweeping into the crowd and causing extensive injuries.
A devastating Central Texas storm killed eleven people and injured many as a Kansas City Mexico and Orient passenger train derailed after being blown from the Brazos River bridge near Sweetwater. Haskell and Lueders suffered extensive losses with multiple fatalities, homes wrecked, and crops destroyed. J E Bramford of Cromwell, Texas, died in the wreck. Conductor Alexander and Brakeman Van Zandt were among others injured.
Dr. Edward Everett Hale, chaplain of the United States Senate, died at his Roxbury home after a brief illness at age eighty seven. He attended Julia Ward Howe’s ninetieth birthday celebration a week earlier. symptoms included heart weakness, yet he remained active until the final hours. The long-time reform figure and contemporary of Howe was widely mourned in Boston.
J F Harms, after eighteen months as a United States meat inspector in St Louis packing houses, resigns and asks Secretary Wilson to probe the meat inspection system at the National stock yards. He charges inspectors are too lenient with packers and says personal motives did not prompt the letter. He has returned to Fremont.
In Washington on June 11 Republican Progressives clash with Aldrich led stalwarts over the wool tariff schedule. The senate voted 59 to 8 against recommitting the measure to the finance committee. La Follette lambasted Aldrich over constituent accountability amid sharp exchanges with Cummins, Clapp, and Gallinger conducting the rule with stern expectations.
In Colfax area, a spectacular lightning storm struck August Siler’s farm. His son escaped death by a narrow margin, while a team valued at $600 and a dog were instantly killed. The boy was driving six horses abreast when a blinding flash knocked him senseless and felled the outside horse on both sides, sparing the inner horses.
News from New York reports the Cunard liner Slavonia with 110 cabin passengers and 200 steerage passengers stranded near Floresland in the Azores. The ship, en route from New York to Naples on June 3, is nearly wrecked but nearby North German Lloyd and Hamburg American ships rendered aid and evacuated all aboard safely.
Twenty crew members die when the Russian torpedo boat Kambala sinks during trials in the Black Sea. The captain, first lieutenant, and chief engineer perish. Separate item notes Patton Pennsylvania mine owner Blais Durbin reportedly fell overboard from the Abs. Goodrich line steamer Indiana en route from Chicago to Grand Haven with remains recovered.
The Northwestern Newspaper Union, once operated by the Pioneer Press owner, has been sold to the Western Newspaper Union of Omaha. No formal statement yet, but it is expected that ready print papers on the Northwestern Union list will soon transfer to the Western list.
John Howard in his eighty seventh year was sentenced to nine months in the house of correction for house breaking. He was accused of breaking into Mrs. Albert Glende’s residence. The aged prisoner pleaded that it would kill him to go to the penitentiary. The court noted prior burglary arrests.
Paris June 12 William E B Corey president of United States Steel corporation was injured in an auto accident west Palageau. He sustained injuries to head and legs though not serious. Mrs Corey also injured with contusions.
London June 11 Alfred G. Vanderbilt appeared nervous at a horse show boxing with Bennetish friends after newspapers carried the story of Mme Mary O'Brien Rute’s suicide. The report did not identify Vanderbilt by name, and sources suggested a powerful figure kept details quiet.
New York reports the 526 passengers of the Antonio Lopez reached New York after the ship grounded off Fire Island. Cabin passengers numbered 102 went ashore at once. others were taken to Ellis Island. Among the last off were Americans returning from Spain including Judge Powell of Manila supreme court and several Manila government staffers. The steel ship measures 430 feet and 3591 tons.
Memphis June 11 A friendly demonstration of welcome by gray clad veterans marked the final scene of the nineteenth annual United Confederate Veterans reunion during a parade. General Frederick Dent Grant watched from the viewing stand as a cavalry division charged to shake hands with the son of the man who defeated them. Grant fought tears as he whispered God bless you all to the welcoming veterans.
Minneapolis and Duluth wheat prices listed for June 12 with No. 1 hard, No. 1 Northern, and No. 2 Northern bids. Flax prices shown for arriving and on track, with settlement around 1.81, 1.63, and 1.46 in various months. Prices include Indy and Sept figures.
On June 12 auction notes show cattle prices with good to choice steers from 5.00 to 6.50, cows and heifers 43.00 to 74.00, hogs 7.00 to 7.50, sheep wethers 5.50 to 6.00, yearlings near 8.75, plus grain quotes from Chicago Wheat around 1.17 to 1.25, corn July at 78, oats July at 5.24, pork futures near 20.01, butter and rice prices listed, and stockyard reports noting Texas and western steer values and stockers at 2.60 to 95.50 with cows and heifers 2.50 to 86.25.
In Brown County Minnesota the probate court orders examination of Adolph Husnen’s administration accounts in the Carl A Ragberg estate. A hearing is set for June 25 at 10:00 AM at the New Ulm Probate Office. Notice to interested parties to be published weekly for three weeks in the New Ulm Review. Judge George Rosh seals the order.
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