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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Sep 07, 1912
Page
6
Twelve persons including a woman and six children of S J Zarde are missing after the Ocean Park fire that wiped out the amusement section. H E Locke a restaurant cashier leaped to death from Frazier pier. Militia and police guard vast heaps of personal effects as martial law remains in effect.
Sept. 5 report from Jackson says the Michigan penitentiary riot is crushed and the warden asserts calm returned. Soldiers stand guard as convicts resumed work after a disruption sparked by leaders facing severe punishment.
Thomas Coupe former night clerk at the Elks Club New York and an eye witness to the Herman Resenthal murder says he will not return to the United States. He will depose before an American consul in England and notes he saw the killers flee in a grey automobile while police made no effort to pursue.
In Cleveland Municipal Court Judge Levine praises Paul Czolgosz father of the assassin of President McKinley for thrashing a taunter of his son. Czolgosz is found not guilty of assault and battery after taunts from five companions are noted. In Mineola a warrant is issued for aviator George W Beatty on assault charges filed by his bride who claims bruises and a confrontation over letters from other women found on him.
In a south side Chicago dye factory an explosion of a benzine tank killed three men. Fire followed and thirty girls in upper rooms leapt from windows to flee, but none of the workers suffered serious injuries.
Dr Warren H. Hunter chief coroner's physician dies in Chicago from blood poisoning contracted during post mortem examinations. He succumbed while performing official duties.
In Shelbyville Indiana on September 5 Louis Rhinehart wounded his wife who sought divorce counsel then shot at two lawyers and killed himself in a law office authorities reported.
Bernard Morfeld, brought from Potter unconscious a week ago, shows slow improvement after a week of illness thought at first to be ptomaine poisoning. The case suggests a nervous breakdown or seizure with head pain and paralysis-like symptoms following a year-old injury. Nearby family members join at his bedside as renovations proceed at Essig Store’s second floor for a new furniture stock. County Treasurer Fishman left for an eastern meeting as part of his duties.
Mrs Yaegle and her children are visiting their father in Amherst Nebraska.
Vermont totals indicate Allen M Fletcher led Republicans, Harlan B Howe trailed Democrats, and Rev Frazer Metzger headed the Progressive ticket though none secured a majority. With many towns still unreported the final outcome will send the governor to the legislature.
In San Francisco on September 5 the primary election confirmed the Progressive party’s new strength and ensured control of the state convention by Roosevelt Johnson forces. Republican electors pledged to Roosevelt will appear on the ballot while Taft faction electors must seek petition placement.
District Attorney Whitman moves to transfer the Liecker murder case to the criminal branch. Charles Liecker faces trial as Becker again refuses to plead. Justice Goff orders a not guilty plea, overrules delay motions, and sets trial for September 12.
Emperor William reviewed an army of over 60 000 in Berlin including guards and the Third army corps with U S ambassador John G A Leishman and naval attach Samuel G Shartle nearby. In Chicago street car workers press for binding arbitration or a joint board to settle dif ferences with the company and threaten to end negotiations if rejected.
In Charleston on September 4 martial law was proclaimed in the Vacant and Cabin creeks area after striking miners destroyed railroad property to halt coal shipments. The strikers, numbering more than 5,000, are reported as armed with rifles.
The death toll from floods in Pennsylvania West Virginia and Ohio rose to forty as John Demster his wife and two children were reported missing from their home on Charters Creek near Canonsburg Pennsylvania, after the disaster.
W M Wood president of the American Woolen Company appears in superior court and pleads not guilty to an indictment accusing him of conspiring to distribute dynamite in Lawrence during the textile strike last winter.
J C Livoni started Monday evening for Lincoln and after the fair will continue eastward.
Mothers of young children should watch for unusual looseness of the bowels during summer and seek prompt care. Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy is recommended and available from all dealers.
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