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Newspaper
Semi Weekly Herald
Location
Eldora, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 01, 1908
Page
2
A column fragment discusses how unhappy wives blame marriage for lack of lasting romance, appetite for attention, and social ambitions. It then shifts to critique of anti Chinese laws, remarks on race discrimination, and anecdotes on Constantinople shoemakers, Ottoman wealth, czar’s gold, and Berlin gossip.
Reginald Vanderbilt hosts a high society wedding with prominent NYC families among guests outside the Vanderbilt residence. After the ceremony a breakfast is served at many tables as rooms display palms and orchids. Monday afternoon the Count and Countess Szecheny traveled to Newport to stay at Vanderbilt's home for a week.
Gov Magoon departed for Washington from Havana on Monday. He will travel with Haruey as far as Tampa, Florida, then take a northbound train and is expected to reach Washington Thursday.
A Chicago blaze at 163 Adams street started in the W. P. Dunn Company basement and raged through 163 Adams and adjoining properties. One firefighter, James Gallagher of Hook and Ladder No. 1, was killed and 30 injured as the fire caused about $500,000 in losses including the Florence hotel and several other businesses.
Frank R. O'Neill, vice-president of Pulitzer Publishing and assistant manager of the Post-Dispatch, died Monday in St Louis after a brief pneumonia illness. Born April 24, 1851 in Belleville, Illinois, he was a long-time figure in journalism and with ties to many city and state leaders. He is survived by his widow and a grown son and daughter.
A house collapse in Richmond Virginia January 28 after the death of a child left the Anthony Franklin family burned in the blaze. Franklin a Bedford City man and his wife and five children were inside the building when it fell and trapped them amid the corpse of the child.
J E Gage, prominent grain man and partner in Andrews & Gage, died Monday at his Minneapolis home after a week of illness. Heart disease caused the death. He had long served the Minneapolis chamber of commerce.
Reports to the Maritime Exchange indicate a gale last week caused barges to sink off the New Jersey coast with the probable drowning of 11 men. The storm disrupted shipping and prompted maritime inquiries into the losses and rescue efforts.
The Thaw trial moves toward a Wednesday jury verdict as alienista experts testify on mental condition and irrational acts from infancy through the homicide. London and Paris doctors describe Thaw as nervously distraught with episodes of mania and delusion, while defense counsel presents a long hypothetical question to the foreign witnesses. The fourth week opens with Dr. Bingaman detailing early nervousness and sleep disturbance in Harry Thaw.
The U.S. Supreme Court upholds a master's right to discharge an employee for labor union membership, overturning a lower ruling and dissenting Justice McKenna warns the decision narrows protections. The Coppage case arose from Adair of the Louisville & Nashville Railroad alleging unlawful discharge under the 1898 act.
In New Orleans on January 28 a heavily guarded United States mail wagon on the Queen & Crescent route was attacked by gunmen who rifled at least two mail sacks. The driver and mail clerk were uninjured, though police detained Barney Simmons and a driver named Smith as suspects. The robbers reportedly secured about five thousand dollars, but officials declined to confirm the amount. The wagon was moved to a dark area near a police section where the robbers forced employees into a box car and continued rifling the mail.
Excitement spreads in Buenos Ayres as an executive decree ends extraordinary sessions of congress and implements the 1907 budget for the current financial year. The measure follows senate obstruction and non attendance, leaving the government unable to pass further legislation or meet ordinary expenses. President Alcorta says the country remains tranquil and believes rebellion is unlikely, while affirming the government can enforce its decisions.
News from Sweetwater Tennessee reports a cyclone over Pond Creek Valley killed James M Cassidy of El Springs and fatally injured his wife. His residence was demolished. Edward Everett of Pond Creek lost his home with three children and a wife injured. Everett escaped unharmed. The disaster disrupted local homes and lives.
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