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Newspaper
New Ulm Review
Location
New Ulm, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Oct 21, 1908
Page
2
Farm reader W A Floyd of Empire Gu praises Busklen Arnica Salve for healing two worst sores on hand and leg. He says he would mortgage the farm for it. M. Olsen’s drug store sells it for 2 cents. Kodol digestives advertised as stomach aid with a guarantee, sold by Hugene A Pfefferle.
London reports Britain Russia and France agree on a eight point plan to guide a European conference on the Balkan situation. Proposals include redefining Bulgaria's status and debts, Crete's annexation to Greece, amendments to Armenia and Montenegro terms, a frontier adjustment involving Serbia and Novipazar, Danube traffic rights, and eventual curbs on foreign capitulations in Turkey once reforms proceed.
Naoum Pasha the Turkish ambassador to France criticized the conference plan as unacceptable for negotiations. He said Britain France and Russia refuse concerted action on breaches of the Berlin treaty and Bulgaria's independence while ignoring Turkey’s concerns. He urged redress over the recognition of new realities.
On a Union Pacific train, William Randolph Hearst was served with papers announcing a $600,000 slander and libel suit filed in Nebraska by Governor Charles W. Haskell of Oklahoma. Deputy Sheriff Stewart delivered the summons for Smyth & Smith of Omaha, Hearst's legal opponents in Smyth & Smith.
Dr Daniel Jeat Gilman of Baltimore, a former Johns Hopkins University president, died suddenly in Norwich Connecticut after dinner. He had been visiting his sisters and was born in Norwich on July 4, 1831.
New York October 16 Treasurer Herman Ridder released a detailed statement on Democratic national campaign fund contributions through October 9. It lists 343 donors giving $10 or more, many smaller sums, total receipts around $698,348.50 with $225,902.98 disbursed and a $22,604.67 balance. Charles J. Hughes donated $5,000, W. J. Bryan $4,046 from the Commoner profits.
London October 15 reports detail a writ served on William James Thorne Social-Democratic member for West Ham Southern division for inciting to breach the peace by urging the unemployed to rush baker shops rather than starve during demonstrations. A march from Nottingham to London is noted.
Mrs. William F. Tucker withdraws the abandonment charge against her husband Colonel William F. Tucker U S A through counsel. The legal representative says the case is dismissed as he is believed to be dying, with doctors predicting death.
The Chicago team of the Na fone] lewine retained its world championship by defeating Detroit in the fifth game of the series.
A Detroit and Mackinaw railway refugee train carrying Metz villagers to safety from forest fires derailed near Alpena Michigan after rails buckled from heat. Fifteen perished in the wreck and several others were burned or injured among about 100 aboard. Engineer William Foster and Conductor John Kinville escaped to report the disaster as fires raged and rescuers moved in.
Reports from forest fire districts raise the known dead to forty-one as fires sweep across northern Michigan, with Gaylord Dimita and Vanderbilt surrounded or threatened. Damages may exceed $1,000,000 as towns are wiped out and hundreds remain missing or injured amid the blaze from Alpena to Cheboygan.
Cadiz Ohio October 14 Judge Taft's train derailed again on a spur from the Pennsylvania railroad to Cadiz Junction. Two engines pulled the derailed tender along the track for two car lengths before stopping. An embankment twenty feet high loomed nearby and an engine was partly disabled, driving into Cadiz two miles away for repairs.
Reports from Changchow indicate more than 300 lives lost in Amoy after Thursday’s deadly typhoon. Officials and rescuers scramble to assess damage and aid survivors amid widespread destruction.
In Kantao Northern Korea Chinese and Japanese troops clashed with several dead or wounded. China refused to let a pursuing Japanese detachment cross the frontier, risking Japanese cross-border action to protect Korean residents. Japan filed protests as tensions rise and the situation grows serious.
In Lisbon on October 16 a riot between Monarchists and Republicans during municipal election primaries left twenty three dead or mortally wounded and forty seriously hurt. Authorities report clashes outside polling sites as factions clashed in the streets creating a chaotic scene with multiple injuries and arrests expected.
Minneapolis wheat bids range from 94 to 1.08 percent on various futures, with No 1 hard at 1.03 1/2 and No 1 Northern at 1.02. St Paul stock yards report cattle prices from 3.15 to 6.75 for steers, cows and yearlings, hogs around 5.10 to 5.40, sheep at 4.00 to 4.40, and lambs near 4.50 to 5.00. Duluth quotes show wheat and flax futures and mixed track prices, while Chicago markets list wheat, corn, and pork and dairy prices, including pork futures near 18.26 to 14.97 and butter and eggs ranges.
Balloon enthusiasts led by Dick Ferris plan a multi airship voyage beginning in Los Angeles in late October. His wife will accompany him aboard one craft as a dozen amateurs join the cross country race-like journey through Arizona New Mexico Texas toward the Great Lakes or Salt Lake Basin. The United States flagship and the America team ships compete in this continental ascent with Ferris aiming to carry a series of balloons eastward.
The Jeanne d Arc sails from the Tyne with sixty Norwegians and a cargo of huts and animals to colonize Kerguelen Land in the Tadian ocean. Nine calls will occur at Durban to load about thirty laborers. The voyage aims to whale and sea elephant hunting under a French two year lease.
Legal advertisement states that by judgment and decree dated September 1, 1908 in district court Brown County Minnesota, Sheriff will sell at public auction the southeast quarter of section 20 township 108 north range 45 west with one acre reserved, totaling 159 acres more or less, to satisfy the judgment. Sale at the main front entrance of the Brown County courthouse in New Ulm on October 11, 1908 at 10:00 a.m. Ambrose Tighe attorney for plaintiff. 8843 W. J. James Sheriff Brown County Minnesota.
Notice is given of sale under a 1908 district court partition judgment for Brinziska Koesch Olen Mayer and Fred Mueller against Lina Mueller. Referee will sell at New Ulm front courthouse Nov 16 1906 at 10 am the life estate and all interests in Lot 8 Black 105 North Center Street, New Ulm Minnesota. Sale by cash. Albert Bereman, Attorney. Kennedy's Laxative Cough Syrup advertised by Eugene A Piefferle.
An advertisement promotes a free mail cure for nervous debility and related male health issues, claiming a home remedy and offering to send details in a sealed envelope. It also endorses Kodol for indigestion and stomach health, urging readers to try it for minor to severe digestive attacks, with a local seller named Eugene A. Pfeferls.
A garbled 19th century style note cites a New York veteran of the Civil War who lost a foot at Gentey. He speaks of trying Electric Bitters to cure star trouble and claims the medicine keeps him strong, with a store reference appearing in the text.
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