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Newspaper
The Kadoka Press
Location
Kadoka, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1909
Page
3
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Rioting in Catalonia prompts Madrid to suspend constitutional guarantees. King Alfonso orders harsh measures and dispatches troops led by Prince Charles Bourbon to Barcelona to quell rebels. In Melilla a bloody battle against Moroccans costs twenty one officers and many Spaniards killed or wounded.
Twenty-one dead, fourteen missing, ten injured, and $750000 in losses result from a storm along the southern Texas coast on Wednesday. Three Kernathy brothers from High Island disappeared with their wives and seven children after planning to camp on the Sabine coast, with only partial equipment and drowned animals found. Velasco suffers heavy damage but reports one fatality.
A woman's cape stockings and petticoat were found on Truer’s pond bank fueling fears of foul play in the disappearance of a hotel guest from Burlington New Jersey. The missing woman and a man described as a New York broker registered as Mr and Mrs Wilkins at the Metropolitan Inn the prior evening. The man left for New York on Thursday and a horse and carriage hired by the woman was later found abandoned on Ranocacas creek. Letters in the suitcase were addressed to Miss A M Wilson Manhattan Hotel New York.
Six torpedo boat destroyers based in Puget Sound and at Seattle for about a month began a long cruise to Alaska. The ships Whipple Truxton Hull Paul Jones Perry and Hopkins will train officers and men in northern waters and conduct maneuvers.
Harry C. Pulliam, president of the National League of professional baseball clubs, shot himself in the right temple in his New York Athletic Club room. The bullet passed through his head, blinding both eyes, with little chance of recovery.
Col Leopold Markbreit longtime Cincinnati mayor and journalist dies after an illness lasting most of his 19 month tenure. Vice Mayor John Galvin to assume the office.
Orville Wright and Lieut. Frank Lahm set a new world two man record in Washington D C by flying 1 hour 12 minutes 40 seconds over fifty miles at about forty mph. The flight exceeded Wilbur Wright and Prof Painleve's Le Mans record and fulfilled the endurance test demanded by the United States government. President Taft led cheers and congratulated the aviators after the successful flight.
The First National Bank of Tipton Indiana is closed and assistant cashier Noah R Marker has disappeared after amassing about 50 to 60 thousand dollars from the vaults. He set a time lock to 9 am Monday and left town leaving a note claiming he took money to cover expenses. Marker, 35, long with the bank nineteen years, was a former Republican mayoral candidate and is married with two children.
Washington issues sharp rebuke to immigration inspectors over hasty arrests of aliens. Officers are told to abandon superficial inquiries and refrain from recommending arrests based on uninvestigated accusations, citing failures to properly investigate alleged alien contract labor law violations.
Senate tariff debate stirs oil politics as La Follette shares Aldrich bill analysis. He estimates 146 million dollars in higher imports under the insurgent view and 93 million dollars in lower imports under the Senate bill using 1907 as baseline. American suffragists plan novel summer campaigning in New York while facing a hostile reception on Wall Street.
A Hartford Connecticut based General Biscuit Company with 6 million dollars in capital was organized to rival National Biscuit Company. Officers include President John B. Summerfield of 71 Wall Street note brokers, Vice President Arthur N. Taylor of Brooklyn, and Henry M. Haviland of Brooklyn as secretary and treasurer. Summerfield holds positions at City National Bank and other firms.
A Long Island Railroad brakeman William Robelin returned a bag of jewels worth about $30,000 left on a train by Mrs. H Schwab of New York. Mrs Schwab and relatives rewarded him with $100 cash two suits of clothes and a two week vacation then offered a lifelong $100 a month position at Maiden Lane office of Mr Schwab.
Madarial Dhinagir, the Indian student who killed Lieutenant Colonel Sir William Hutt Curzon Wyllie and Dr Lalaca in London, is sentenced to death after a trial lasting less than an hour. He refused to plead, called the sentence illegal, and vowed vengeance when India gains power. Publisher A F Hossley of the Indian Sociologist is jailed four months for incendiary articles.
James Gordon Bennett posts a $2500 cash prize for the championship cup in the international balloon races to be held in Zurich next October. Mrs. H. C. Schneiter of St. Louis begins a 1500 mile pedestrian journey to Boston, coupled with her husband, traveling about 35 miles a day for forty five days.
Six dead and more than fifty hurt after Wabash passenger No. 4 bound for St. Louis wrecks near Orrick Missouri as the river current undermines the track. Engine and cars plunge into the Missouri River, with many injured in the chair car and several badly hurt or killed.
Nathaniel Parker Willis of Indianapolis, owner of a liquor cure, is shot in the Chancery Court room in Little Rock. W. Y. Ellis of Pine Bluff Ark shoots Willis over a custody dispute with his divorced wife who later married Ellis. Willis dies in his mother’s arms shortly after the shot.
Elizabeth Taylor Dandridge, age 86, daughter of Zachary Taylor and longtime White House mistress, died in Winchester Virginia. She was sister to the first wife of Jefferson Davis and to the wife of Army Surgeon General Wood. Betty Taylor served as mistress during her father’s presidency.
Progress of pennant race with teams Pittsburg Philadelphia Chicago St Louis New York Brooklyn Cincinnati Boston and their wins and losses. Top teams Pittsburgh 62 24 Philadelphia 39 46 Chicago 55 29 St Louis 35 49 New York 50 34 Brooklyn 33 55 Cincinnati 44 44 Boston 25 61.
Moors attacked the Spanish advance line at Melilla Morocco before dawn. A Spanish sortie with six companies and a light battery repelled the assault, but later the Moors renewed the attack defeating the Spaniards. A Spanish colonel and three officers were killed with thirteen wounded.
Eight soldiers from the Tenth United States Cavalry who returned on the Kilpatrick with their Filipino wives will escort them to Fort Ethan Allen Vermont. The War Department enforces a strict rule that any service member who marries a Filipino woman must bring her with him when returning to the United States.
Columbus police hold four Italian suspects in the dynamiting of Pasquella Spino’s house west of the city. Spino and his four months newlywed wife were killed and their home wrecked. Tony Andrania is named among the suspects. his wife reportedly quarreled with Mrs Spino and Andrania once courted the deceased. He told the dead girl’s mother last week he would soon wear mourning.
Captain Quatrevaux of the French ship Thiers arriving at San Francisco from New Caledonia Australia reports a new islet rising near the Gambier group in the Pacific. He notes an uncanny swell drawing the vessel toward rocks despite calm winds, with the island at about 24.25 degrees south, 128.90 degrees west and mainly volcanic rock.
Dun's Weekly Review of Trade notes improved business sentiment with high solvent bank payments and strong crop prospects. Consumption rises as seasonable weather brings buyers for general merchandise and machinery. Bank clearings reach 259.7 million, up 18.9 percent from 1908. Chicago district failures total 87 with 10 above 5,000 dollars.
Improvement in crops and better cereals outlook support easing bread prices and stronger retail sales. Higher industrial output, more cash for crop movement, and growing friction between employers and workers accompany a broad uptrend in manufactured goods and rubber costs. Bradstreet’s notes U S failures up to July 22 and Canada’s weekly totals.
The report consolidates current market bids from multiple cities including HEP West Chicago Indianapolis St Louis Detroit Milwaukee Cincinnati New York with cattle hogs and sheep prices and grain quotes for wheat corn oats rye and barley across 1900s era regional exchanges. Notable figures include cattle $4.00 to $7.50 in Chicago and $4.00 to $7.00 in St Louis, hogs up to $8.45 in New York, wheat around $1.10 to $1.25, corn 66¢ to 78¢, and butter 22¢ to 27¢ per pound.
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