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Newspaper
Prescott Daily News
Location
Prescott, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1908
Page
2
The Prescott Daily News notes its second class matter status dated April 15, 1907 and provides subscription pricing. Rates show three months for $1.00, six months for $2.00, with 50 cents per month when prepaid. Prices increase to 40 cents per month if not prepaid.
College Station June 11 Inquiry into Alumni association charges against President Harrington of the agricultural and mechanical college opened with Hatton W. Sumners of Dallas as counsel for the alumni. Judge Charles Rogan of Austin appeared as Harrington’s friend and adviser while awaiting counsel. F H Burmeister of McMullen County testified, his son graduating with honors, hostile to Harrington yet denying a personal grievance. The board said senior and junior classes would stay during the investigation.
June 11 reports describe a violent wind and rainstorm in the region with gusts up to fifty miles per hour. Fence and tree damage occurred across the city and nearby towns. Two cabins floated down Cross Bayou and lodged beneath a railway trestle while hailstones as large as hen eggs were seen in Haughton. Widespread property damage and blown down houses were noted in Bossier City, Vivian, and Sibley.
In Kansas City the Kaw flood neared the union station and stockyards as workers labored through the night to move goods to upper stories and away from rising water. Wholesale houses, Armourdale, Argentine, and Harlem areas flooded, rail service disrupted, stock pens submerged, and emergency boat use reported as the river advance continued.
In New Orleans Tuesday night and Wednesday more than 500 people are homeless, with one death and over 200000 dollars in property losses. The Berlin and Magazine street area saw a cluster of homes and stores burn, where John Jung died from burns. A second blaze at Delachaise Street and Louisiana Avenue destroyed twenty cottages in the new Broes neighborhood.
A freak wind storm Tuesday night destroyed about thirty buildings in the Magazine Milan Berlin street area. Fire spread across blocks, destroying small stores and residences. Loss estimated between 100000 and 150000 dollars. The Magazine Milan Berlin Camp and Magazine Milan Berlin Constance blocks suffered extensive damage.
McIntosh County Clerk Edward C Julian, jailed for the Gen. Dunlap killing in Eufaula, claims self defense and says Dunlap fired first. Tensions rise in Eufaula and Checotah as warrants for order are sought from Governor Haskell amid the county seat feud. City Marshal Wood dies after being shot by James Parmenter in Eufaula.
The Trinity river at Trinity Texas is overflowing its banks with lowlands submerged and crops underwater. The river continues to rise and officials expect this flood to be more damaging than the previous one.
Taft delegations secure victories in Chicago over contests from Mississippi for delegates at large from the Fourth through Seventh districts. Outcomes favor Taft in the Republican committee decisions.
Brief notes report Mulai Hafid entering Fez in Morocco. Sherman Texas notes 2592 school‑age children. Gore eyesight restoration questioned by Washington specialists. China vows punishment for French officer slaying by six privates. Emmet Rennels drowns in Ward's creek near DeKalb Texas. Texas purchasing agent to open bids June 29 for state institution supplies. Stamford Texas sees building boom including cottages and a union railway station. Edward McKinley accidentally shoots himself in Oklahoma City while handling a revolver. No valve found to hold a Caddo La. field at Lewis A. spouts 150 feet high. Hendrickson Missouri lightning cuts a bridge. four men injured. Noble Louisiana Tim Lynch dies after taking laudanum. Confederate veteran with Bright's disease.
Adjutant General Newton married Miss Annie Boswell Rumpel on Wednesday at the First Cumberland Presbyterian church in Austin. The ceremony united the couple in a formal wedding inside the historic church, with local officials and family in attendance.
Chihuahua on June 11 reports a huge blaze consuming the Sierra Madre Lumber Co yard. The fire destroyed the vast timber yard and caused about 60000 dollars in losses. Firefighters fought the blaze through the morning but could not prevent extensive damage to the lumber stock and facilities.
A Tuesday wind storm and cloudburst hit Guthrie causing at least $20,000 in property damage. The state house lone hotel Masonic temple and Central high school suffered partial roof loss while many houses were moved from foundations and some collapsed without serious injuries. No lives were reported lost.
Dykes built to protect farms from the Solomon and Smoky Hill rivers at Solomon, near Salina Kansas, broke in two places causing floods and ruining thousands of a crew of crops. Opening dealings of stock on Tuesday were very dull in New York.
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