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Newspaper
Sioux County Herald
Location
Orange City, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 13, 1908
Page
3
Fragmentary text mentions a woman and a death timeline with unclear names and dates. The readable pieces reference a person named Le dren Gouness and a week before events involving several individuals. Entities and specifics remain uncertain due to damaged source.
The La Porte county case centers on Jennie Gunness and a series of deaths at her farm. Sheriff Sulzer and investigator Lampigher review victims including Jennie Olson Gunness, Myrtle Sorenson, Olaf Lindblom, and others amid burned remains. The motive and identity links emerge as searches and testimonies unfold across Chicago and Indiana, with rumors of an admirer and trunks reported.
An ice cream plant is set to soon operate at To de Artecioan. Panama plans a complete macadam road system pushed by the municipal engineering department. In the Panama vicinity, eight miles of macadam roads were laid under American occupation as part of canal area development. The port of La Guayra was ordered closed after three deaths and twelve suspected cases of disease.
After months of skirmishing the government and Whiskey makers near a ruling on what constitutes real whisky. The case centers on blending and naming rules, with the Attorney General finalizing that whisky is whisky, blends are mixtures of two whiskies, and whisky with neutral spirits becomes a compound. Labels must reveal these facts.
Technical World Magazine details Italian engineer Carminada's system of linked water tubes to transport freight from Genoa to Tasel. Parallel inclined tubes use mountain water flow with gates to shuttle boats uphill and downhill, aided by guide sheaves and springs. Six Long Island College Hospital internes resign over meal complaints.
The Atlantic fleet enters San Francisco Bay in a grand greeting as 46 ships, led by the New Jersey and other battleships, pass the Golden Gate. Admirals Evans and Dayton review the fleet while crowds pack the shores and a navy salute rings out over the harbor.
A collage of items reports an agricultural appropriation in Nebraska and a Lincoln government warrant for 97 for Nebraska regiment officers. It recalls Nora May French’s poem and a New York homicide by Rossele Peck. Other items note Wallace Ham’s prison sentence, Minnesota auto tax plans, a Chattanooga divorce suit, and 1907 sugar and crop figures in Michigan and North Dakota, with shifting crop patterns in wheat oats and barley.
R. G. Dan & Co survey shows money market strength improving and broader distribution in merchandise, grain, provisions and livestock, while iron and steel production remains steady and new contracts stay scarce. Pig iron weakens, ore stocks high, and factories plan output restraint. Receipts of raw materials rise for hides and wool but lag lumber and copper. prices show modest recovery. Outdoor work expands, more labor at western points, but payrolls below normal. Cement brick and quarry demand rises, planing mills and structural steel in demand, and hardware shipments improve. Wholesale trade remains solid with spring absorption and strong fall orders. Chicago disturber failures up.
New York reports unfavorable weather curbing distributive trade and a quiet week across the country. Jobbing activity is slow with small fill-in orders, and fall shipments show little change as collections lag and grainers seek extensions. Textile and iron sectors hold, while railway tonnage remains low and coal cars dominate.
The listing shows bid ranges for cattle hogs sheep and wheat across Indianapolis Milwaukee St Louis Detroit Buffalo New York and other centers. Prices include No 2 wheat around 99 cents to $1.10 and oats 53 to 61 cents. Multiple cities report cattle hogs and lambs in broad bands with varied quality grades.
News notes announce the resignations of Alexander F. Ore and Clarence H. Mackay as directors of the New York Life Insurance Company. A Washington dispatch reports President Roosevelt plans a world tour after his term. Daniel R. Noyes of St. Paul dies of heart disease. Rare autographs of political and literary figures are to be sold at Frayard Taylor auction in New York. A Montana metal battleship Montana silver set is on exhibit in New York and will ship to Dillon, Montana.
Fragmentary historical notes and local policy items list dates and events from 1101 to 1888, including legislative unions, expeditions, and riots. It mentions officials ordering sobriety enforcement, temperance actions, and a mayoral stance on drunkenness with police and saloon involvement. A contemporaneous fire in Colton, Ohio destroys town records and key buildings.
Lawmakers clash over Brownsville riot verdict and the Twenty-fifth Regiment. Senator Bulkeler defends black soldiers as outsiders and lawless locals stir debate on an Army appropriation bill. House fights over aid to Lone Star and Alabama relief while authorities discuss rail and forest issues.
Consul Van Sant in Kingston cites a surge in Canadian labor union activity with 252 new unions formed, 45 dissolved, and 174 net gains. New unions arise among railway workers, metal trades, and building trades, aligning with U.S. unions. Charlee G. Gates in Rawhide with eastern capitalists wins 290000 in under thirty minutes of fara.
A U S Spanish arbitration treaty signing is noted. A conference report on reorganizing the civil service is mentioned. The House passes bills authorizing drainage in Minnesota. Senator Lodze secures Senate committee action on Paris embassy purchase ideas. Each bill carries an $80,000 appropriation. Lawrence O'Murnty, former Commerce Department official, to become Comptroller of the Currency. William Be Itcsely named president of the National Bank of Commerce in Kansas City.
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