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Newspaper
Norfolk Weekly News Journal
Location
Norfolk, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1908
Page
1
Des Moines reports that Governor Cummins arrived in the capital and formally designated Saturday as a day of mourning. The action follows unsettled statements about the senatorial vacancy and funeral services for Senator Allison.
R. A. Tawney, longtime Pierce resident and former Pierce County official, plans to move with his family to Grand Junction, Colorado. He was an early settler and well known in north Nebraska. served as county commissioner in 1883 and ten years as county clerk, later a sheep raiser.
Mrs. Warrick wife of Judge Warrick of Ainsworth Neb died yesterday morning at age seventy one. Funeral services were held today and were largely attended as she was an old settler with many friends.
Pine Ridge South Dakota August 6 Chief Spotted Elk of the White Clay district Pine Ridge Indian Reservation died at Loafer camp of heart failure. The end came suddenly after a hearty meal. Spotted Elk was widely known across South Dakota Wyoming and Montana for his trading trips selling goods of Indian manufacture.
A Sioux Falls meeting of sixty west coast brewery representatives discussed plans to oppose the upcoming county option vote. Brewers aim to enforce current liquor laws, pressure saloon keepers to comply, and win support by portraying improved saloon conduct as necessary to defeat the proposed law.
Complete returns show W W Stubbs leading for governor and J L Bristow favored for United States senator though certainty remains. Bristow leads 6441 statewide with 81 districts won and seven districts unsettled while incumbents Miller Reeder and Caldorheard appear renominated in congressional districts.
William F Downing a member of the Stiles Alvord gang in southern Arizona was shot and killed in a saloon by Arizona Ranger William Speed who was attempting to serve a warrant. Speed’s actions followed Downing drawing a gun as Speed entered the scene. John Allison travels from Burlington to Dubuque for his uncle’s funeral and is noted as chief dispatcher for the Chicago Burlington and Quincy railroad.
In Chicago the mutilated body of a seventeen year old boy was found in Mud lake and the Illinois and Michigan canal. Authorities have no missing person matches and suspect the slayer aimed to scatter remains to hinder identification. A laundry shirt mark initials D G was found on the torso. The victim is believed to be a stranger to Chicago.
Washington reports Captain Baldwin conducted another flight at Fort Myer aboard the dirigible balloon within a balloon. Curtiss again handled the planes and motor increasing speed but not to maximum. The craft pitched and banked in a seven mile breeze while Curtiss used the forward mounted planes to regain balance. The airship is described as America’s first fully mechanically controlled craft. It landed within 100 feet of the hangar after eight minutes of flight with speeds estimated from fifteen to twenty miles per hour depending on wind.
In Detroit on August 6 the International Brotherhood of Teamsters rejected the overtures of the United Teamsters of America to form a single union. Both sides maintain separate leadership as talks end without merger.
A rigid airship of Count Zeppelin crashes near Echterdingen after landing during a test flight. Several soldiers and engineers are injured, with Zeppelin distraught but planning a new craft as government funding and popular subscriptions rise.
Ne sudden earthquake tremors were felt in Constantine Algeria on August 6 causing pandemonium. Authorities began demolishing many damaged buildings to prevent further accidents.
In Butte a man named Daniel P. Mewniey Ryan surrendered after fatally shooting James W Ryan amid a family dispute between two prominent local clans. Authorities say James was the brother of John A. Styan, superintendent of the North Butte extension company, and the incident appears to stem from ongoing family tensions.
Reports from the South Platte area note very hot weather delaying corn growth. Harvard records a brief cool spell followed by rain. Fairbury reports an inch of rain. The TransMia freight bureau, Western railroads ratemaking body, meets in Denver with secret sessions to discuss possible freight rate changes.
Ten thousand Knights of Pythias members parade Boston in showers to witness the election of the new supreme lodge officers. Eight officers to be chosen and the vice chancellor selected with candidates including Sidney Woodworth Fitchburg and Henry P Brown Texas likely supreme chancellor. Milwaukee favored for next convention site.
Copenhagen reports Milus Erickson and two companions perished in a snow storm during a polar expedition begun a year earlier. News of the three arctic explorers' deaths was received here today.
Harry K. Thaw took a day trip to Fishkill Landing and back by river steamer, while court delays kept his habeas corpus case with Dr. John P. Wilson unsettled. He rode a trolley to Fishkill village with officers and journalists noting his pleasant day abroad.
Reports from New England and New York describe a brutal heat wave causing ten deaths and over twenty prostrations. Lightning struck Green Island and Jamestown areas, with churches in Rhode Island hit and Rev Edward Wallace Neil among the dead. Chicago also reported heat-related fatalities as humidity peaked before a winds shift. Infant mortality rose in tenements while water use increased and lumber yards were required to keep stock damp.
In Kingston on August 1, George Faulkner sixty two and Sarah Seymour sixty one both of Schuyler Nebraska married after a romance begun in Ulster county over forty years ago. They had been separated by marriage then reconnected on a Hudson River steamer and wed after moving east.
In Otoe Nebraska county, over 150 teachers attend the county teachers institute as County Superintendent King disputes a state claim of no shortage. He says Otoe faced teacher vacancies all last year and currently needs thirty teachers to fill openings.
Reports to Burlington headquarters detail tornadoes across Dunning and Anselmo in Custer county last evening. The Burlington depot at Dunning was partly wrecked and several houses damaged in both towns. No serious injuries reported. Light rain followed the winds.
The United States Weather Bureau Chicago station issues a Nebraska forecast for the next twenty four hours ending at 8 am today. Conditions include temperature expectations and general weather outlook for the period through Friday.
The American League and National League played yesterday with multiple city matchups. Scores show New York at St Louis Detroit Cleveland Chicago Boston and other results across the leagues with various inning counts and totals.
Vancouver August 6 a general strike of the mechanical department of the Canadian Pacific railway began system wide with over 200 Vancouver shop workers joining. The stoppage affects shops and roundhouses from St John to Vancouver as about 2,000 workers quit under a dispute over arbitration awards and company handling.
At Hot Springs Virginia Taft joined the Virginia Bar association morning session. William Lindsay of Kentucky praised state control of corporations arguing against federal interference. The meeting considered abolishing common law pleading in favor of English practice, with Taft watching the discussion. Hitchcock and Vorys expected in Hot Springs next week for campaign talks and decisions.
Frederick Dorr, a prominent broker who shut down on the New York Stock Exchange and in local offices last week, is wanted on embezzlement charges. A warrant was issued and he reportedly left by train for Los Angeles.
Des Moines reads that the Des Moines Commercial Club will form a committee under Sullivan to investigate the absorption of southwestern towns by Burlington and to consider merger dissolution in response to Southwest Iowa train service complaints aimed at Des Moines.
Captain Olsen of the Norwegian steamship Cap tain Hennett reports oil covering more than 10 miles of sea north of Cape Hatteras. The substance chilled the water surface within the oil patch. Elsewhere, Waterloo hosts the Elks state convention with thousands present and candidates Jerry Sullivan and Phil Mackey leading the presidential race discussions.
In Oyster Bay New York Aug 6 four suffragettes from the National Progressive Woman Suffrage union lectured in town after a rain delay. Led by Mrs Bb Berriman Wells of London companions included Miude Glasgow Margaret Coleman and Maury Coleman. They failed to attract local women to a planned meeting and concluded with a New York return promising to resume talks next week. Second divorce suit filed in Cornell Wllts case Nina Spaur seeks divorce from Marcellus A Spaur accusing him of cruelty and seeking custody of their 15 year old son.
William F English a private in Company 115 coast artillery awaiting desertion trial was shot and killed at the Presidio while attempting to escape. The incident occurred in San Francisco on August 6 with authorities investigating the event.
Fire sweeps Midway in Woodford county starting at J Greenbaum's distillery warehouse. Flames engulf the northern section as whisky barrels burst and flow into Elk Horn Creek turning the water into a fiery blaze.
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