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Newspaper
The Dakota Huronite
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Apr 11, 1907
Page
7
Washington April 10 Taft and Cummins are being touted as the Republican national ticket for next year with Governor La Follette possible in second place. Administration circles expect the West to supply the nominee through Roosevelt allies though doubt he would decline the proposed combination.
The piece outlines tariff revision as a chief party issue if the Roosevelt faction dominates the Republican convention. Taft and Cummins are portrayed as revisionists while La Follette emerges as a possible running mate option. Cummins may favor La Follette as president with Cummins as vice, though he could accept second honors under either Taft or La Follette if nominated.
A man in Milford Massachusetts confessed he killed his sweetheart and then shot himself in a house outside the town. The woman was taken to Milford Hospital in a dying condition.
The disaster reports half a million dollars in property losses across buildings crops and wires. Louis Knopp aboard the steamer Betsy Ann recalls the tornado's fury blowing away the smokestack and stage plank as the Betsy Ann pitched toward the levee with women passengers saved on the levee.
The lunacy commission ruled Harry K. Thaw is sane and able to understand charges and confer with counsel. District Attorney Jerome sought full minutes of the secret session and was refused, prompting an adjournment and a pending appeal could follow.
In Butte Montana on April 10 workers at the Great Falls smelters of the Boston and Montana company walked out after a denied pay raise. About five thousand men were thrown out of work as the mine and smelter operations were shut down.
A tornado swept across Laverne and surrounding areas April 4 killing seven white residents and two colored, damaging homes in Knowles and Petrey and injuring several others. Farrior, two children, and others were among the injured as families sought safety in Bradleyton and nearby communities.
A fire at a Windham Connecticut facility, April, cost the life of patient Mrs Laura Backus. Fire officials recovered her body in a burned section after evacuations. A nurse or attendant confusion follows as investigators search for missing residents.
A report notes the first whipping in twenty years at the city jail where Saylor Brooks a colored man received nine lashes on his bare back and others faced jail sentences for dating. The narrative mentions fog and sleighing conditions.
A Minneapolis theft report alleges Mrs John a prominent businesswoman stole jewelry worth $1,000 from a streetcar. Mrs Loudon claims the pieces are in her possession and suspects the theft.
A Brooklyn couple suffered a gas heater disconnection reportedly by accident causing a power loss and prompting a routine investigation by local authorities.
Wishington April 8 Civil bets RI E Peary U S N has applied for an extension of leave of absence to resume his effort to reach the pole. The attempt was started in the summer of prior year.
A Brooklyn man arrested on suspicion of murdering Mrs Gentry of Chicago says he is Constantine, the wanted suspect. He claims she killed herself in his presence and offers to return to Chicago to explain. Chicago reports say the murder occurred January 6, 1906, with no eyewitnesses and circumstantial evidence tying Constantine.
Bartholomew G Cayaga once a First National Bank teller in Cincinnati was indicted by a federal grand jury for embezzling 20482 dollars. He pleaded guilty and received a six year sentence in the Ohio penitentiary. The process from indictment to sentence took only three minutes.
In New Orleans on April 5 a review of Ferdinand H Da state tax collector accounts reveals a shortage, an audit error noted, and the matter referred to the district attorney for action.
In San Francisco the Seventeenth and t streets Potrero district hotel fire killed about twenty sleeping laborers and left twenty more seriously burned. Rescue teams saved several top floor occupants as flames spread rapidly from a kitchen start and walls collapsed trapping victims.
A water main burst in Sault Ste. Marie shut down the waterworks leaving 12,000 residents without fire protection and water, except what is hauled from the river.
Smathers will retain the cup with his horse Major Delmar after a Memphis Trotting Association lawsuit. The suit claimed a conspiracy to impair Lou Dillon by drugging, but no evidence showed drug administration. The verdict found no proof of tampering. Dillon quit the last heat and a trainer testified to an alleged bribery attempt.
The Minnesota lower house adopted a near unanimous resolution urging a third term for President Theodore Roosevelt. It praised his leadership in political social and business reform and asserted broad public confidence in his abilities and fidelity to trust.
Paris reports that the commanders of the Paris garrison were instructed to act under the orders of the police commissaries in case a general strike is declared.
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