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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Sep 20, 1907
Page
6
Mrs. Clarke holds a razor edge over Mr. Caldwell with a 303 vote advantage on final counts after returns from ninety counties. The state canvass shows Clarke leading Caldwell by a slim margin, and officials expect little change barring errors in figures amid prior delays in securing canvass data.
Final returns from outlying counties show Clarke with 19 210 votes and Caldwell with 18 907 as the last tally was counted, ending the uncertainty over the outcome.
Labor Commissioner Ryder served notice to Lincoln theater managers that no children may perform on Nebraska stages. Deputy commissioner John T. Ryder will enforce the child labor law and cut any child starring acts from bills. The action followed a visit to a Lincoln theater where a young child appeared in a popular skit.
A large blaze struck Grand Island Friday gutting the old Presbyterian church that had long housed stores in its building. Firemen arrived but the cupola and most of the structure could not be saved, though the elevator and other parts suffered damage.
Reported but unconfirmed by Insurance Deputy Pierce that the American Order of Protection based in Lincoln seeks a merger with the Fraternal Life of Hastings. Applications filed with the state auditor for the combination, as required by law, while the insurance department investigates the affairs before granting approval.
The Plattsmouth teachers honor Prof. E. L. Rouse for five years of service as principal with a token bearing his name and grade rank. The presentation marks appreciation from the school staff.
Miss Maed Johnson a Fremont domestic faced a would be thief who posed as a gas company reader. She chased him from the Hodges home after seizing a butcher knife and protecting the family silverware. The incident left the housekeeper undeterred and she resumed cooking, using the knife to trim potatoes.
Charlies B. Anderson of Crete was appointed by Governor Sheldon to replace the recently resigned E. C. Calkins of Kearney on the University Regent bench. Anderson was GOP nominated on September 3 and will serve until the November election, with a two month gap before beginning a full term.
The Hakodate blaze began in a soap factory near Higashegawa school and swept through the city with strong winds. About 300 lives lost and 13 000 houses burned as a powder magazine at Kishomachi exploded. Key buildings including foreign consulates and theatres were destroyed except for the American facilities. The Nanayo Maru sank after burning, and insurers face liabilities about three and a half million yen.
George Joiner of Morton printing company Nebraska City narrowly escaped electrocution after picking up a live wire in an alley. The wire, crossed with high voltage from the electric station, sparked as rain fell. Manager Eagan alerted the power house, current cut off, and Joiner revived after unconsciousness. His hands were badly burned and he will be unable to work for some time.
Chief Game Warden George L. Carter holds the Thorpe trophy a large solid silver smoking set with a horseshoe motif. Carter defeated W D Townsend 31 to 80 in Omaha and will face Dr M A Hausen of Arapahoe in Lincoln on September 28. The trophy becomes permanent after two years of victors competing.
In France crowds protest clemency shown to Soleillant amid public outrage over the murder of a twelve year old girl. Thousands gather in demonstrations, with many women participating, expressing fear that leniency will encourage further assaults on children.
A head on collision occurred four miles north of Canaan station Vermont between southbound Quebec express No 30 and northbound freight No 34 due to dispatcher's order error. Twenty four dead and dying and twenty seven seriously wounded were pulled from a demolished passenger coach. Most victims were returning from a Sherbrooke Quebec fair. Conductor Lawrence of the freight train believed he had time to reach the sidetrack at West Canaan before the express arrived.
The Union Pack Railroad company moved the injunction case to federal court from North Platte where John Frazier had secured a temporary restraining order. He alleged the stock yards refuse would pollute a stream feeding a lake that supplied his ice.
Albert McVey, a young farmer living on a Nebraska City area farm, tried to stop a horse attached to a buggy. His left leg became caught in the wheel and was dragged, broken in multiple places and protruding through the flesh as he was whirled around.
George H. Nabb, a Forest Lumber Company employee, was crushed beneath a wagon wheel after the team ran away in Alliance. He had delivered a coal order and, attempting to grab the horse by the bit, fell and was killed instantly.
Juan Espinosa, a Chilean expert marksman, attempted to shoot an apple atop a man's head at a circus in Jamerio. The shot missed and the man was killed, triggering a chaotic rush as the crowd threatened Espinosa who narrowly escaped lynching.
At Croweberg near Pittsburg Kansas, mine boss Charles Gardner and his sister Mrs. George Rexford were ambushed by Italians after dark. Gardner killed two attackers and both victims were fatally wounded. Gardner and his sister were taken to Mount Carmel hospital with no hope of recovery.
The Washington D C convention held a stormy session over the Brownsville case. Resolutions criticized Roosevelt and applauded Senator Foraker for defending soldiers, then softened to a milder statement after delegates consented. The body deplored the affair and urged uncovering the real perpetrators.
Cassie M Chadwick, infamous for posing as Andrew Carnegie's daughter and defrauding banks and capitalists, suffered a nervous collapse at the Ohio penitentiary and is now blind. Prison doctors fear she will not serve out her ten year sentence, having completed two years.
The fifth international convention of the Travelers' Goods and Leather Novelty Workers' union began in Chicago with delegates from many points attending. The agenda includes routine business to be handled over the several days of the session.
The Cunard liner Mauretania will leave Wallsend to begin her first speed trials on the Tyne before returning for final fittings. The 790 foot steamer is slightly longer than the Lusitania and has a gross tonnage of 33 200.
Five hundred miners at Westmoreland Coal company's mine in Claridge Pennsylvania strike after company refuses to discharge a weigh master accused of reporting weights incorrectly.
The Lusitania and sister Mauretania mark a milestone in turbine propulsion as they prove fast ocean passage is feasible. Officials say the five day voyage in the Lusitania nearly matches trans Atlantic records and validates turbine power for swift liners. Ernest Cunard notes no further improvements needed after observing the ship.
The director of census advised Senator Burkett that he will raise the issue with the census committee in the next session. Supporters advocate a state by state count of crippled and deformed children to inform legislators. Nebraska is among three states already exploring institutions for scientifically treating such children. They do not seek federal hospital building but endorse a federal enumeration to highlight the issue to states.
Four unknown perpetrators used six dynamite packages to wreck four linotype machines and presses of the News-Herald, the Missouri afternoon Republican paper, causing about $30,000 in damage.
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