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Newspaper
The Dakota Huronite
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Oct 17, 1907
Page
7
New York reports Mrs. Clifford W. Hartridge, wife of a noted legal figure, has been missing for a week since mid October. Police have found no definite cause or location, with letters suggesting illness and a possible self harm motive. Relations dispute rumors of a sanitarium and deny knowledge of her whereabouts by her mother.
Paris reports retired Commander John B. Briggs of the U S Navy showing signs of persecution mania. He created a hotel scene claiming 600 pursuers and may be sent to an asylum as Washington is notified. Briggs was acquitted by court martial in 1905 over the Baltimore incident near Malacca Strait.
United Gas Improvement shares fell to 75 on the exchange the lowest in years after testimony cited a New York deal in which a street railway franchise was sold to the Metropolitan Street Railway at an inflated price. Thomas Dolan, president of United Gas, denied any wrongdoing while other stocks also slipped.
Panama reports Professor David Todd, after four months in Chile with the U S Mars expedition, arrived en route home. Observers took over 7 000 photographs including twenty of the double canals. Todd notes it is reasonably certain Mars was inhabited in the past and is inhabited now.
Testimony links C. S. Carter and C. F. Hunter as former Wisconsin Coal Mining directors with N. Pereles & Sons, the firm drawing incorporation papers, in the Goff conspiracy case. Hunter says he was company secretary until 1903 and sold his stock in 1906 to Fred Mansfield. Goff’s stock also moved to Mansfield. The push to take coal lands in Colorado began in August 1902 after Benjamin visited Pereles & Sons to discuss forming a holding corporation.
The body of Nelson W. Clark, 57, a noted insurance man and Plymouth Congregational Church deacon, was found on the riverfront below the Marshall Avenue bridge at 10 a m. His coat overcoat and umbrella lay on the bridge above as the body struck a rock and rolled ten feet down the slope.
Vienna reports the health of Emperor Francis Joseph deteriorating to serious. Official bulletins note persistent coughing catarrhal inflammation and poor appetite, with the monarch showing indifference to surroundings and health. Archduke Francis Ferdinand faces accession if the emperor dies.
Berlin observers foresee a peaceful transition if Emperor Francis Joseph dies. Archduke Francis Ferdinand would ascend without major controversy between Hungary and the new sovereign. Hungarian and Austrian leaders note the heir’s growing public duties and his ability to work with them.
The appeal on October 14 in Leipsic challenged the July 23 death sentence against Professor Karl Hau, once of Washington, for murdering his mother-in-law Frau Molitor in Baden-Baden. The crowded court heard defenses by Dr Dietz and revision arguments by Dr Tinte on forty four grounds.
Admiral Se bree, commander of the special service squadron of armored cruisers Washington and Tennessee, reports from Norfolk that the squadron sails for Trinidad on October 14 and proceeds toward the Pacific coast via the straits of Magellan, with the Atlantic battleship fleet following.
In Janesville Wisconsin on October 14 the jury acquitted Florence Dugat of attempting to kill her rejected lover Jee Vee Schumaker and she was discharged.
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