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Newspaper
Steele City Press
Location
Steele City, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Oct 24, 1908
Page
3
A garbled OCR item surveys scattered historical notes from Plymouth to Canada and the United States. It references explorers, colonial figures, battles, constitutional events, notable births and deaths, and a late correction about crime statistics, all in disjointed fragments with many garbled names and dates.
A balloon race near Schmargendorf, Berlin, ended in a dramatic crash as the American craft Conqueror carrying A. Holland Forbes and Augustus Post shattered at 4000 feet. The parachute-like envelope slowed the descent, baskets hit a house roof, yet both men escaped with minor injuries. The event drew spectators from multiple nations and prompted relief as both men landed safely.
A suffragette convention climax drew a huge crowd in London. For over three hours the mob surrounded Parliament, blocked streets to Westminster, jostled police, disrupted theatre-goers, broke windows, and caused general disorder in the center of the city.
A string of short notes covers residents and events in Banner Glen Rock O Neill Gage and Sterling. Fred Pickett buys a Banner farm. Lizzie Weals dies in California. John Liphart breaks an ankle. Myrtle Strable seeks a divorce citing cruelty non support and desertion. Mrs Travers Symons causes a scene at the House of Commons amid suffrage drama. police surround Parliament and suffragist protests continue. Also reported are a Fort Dodge brakeman’s injury an arrest for diamonds in St Louis, a tomato sale to a canning factory, and various local issues from Beatrice Plattsmouth Emerson and other Nebraska towns.
The president signed an order bringing 112 employees across five tribes and several federal agencies into the classified civil service. Positions include clerks, rangers, foresters, educators in Alaska, irrigation staff, and a Fort Leavenworth guard. Examinations will be required for most new hires, with limited transfers allowed. The measure aligns departments with civil service laws and outlines future exceptions.
Fire of unknown origin was discovered this morning in the left of the White House stables near Seventeenth and I Streets. Damage is reported, but the stable keeper and his assistant say several of the president's thoroughbreds could have been destroyed if firefighters had not contained the blaze.
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