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Newspaper
The Kadoka Press
Location
Kadoka, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1909
Page
6
The Kadoka Press in Kadoka, South Dakota, announces new publishers Durkee and Nellor. The note highlights leadership changes and continued local coverage for the community.
A badly mutilated body of a woman about 35 was found in underbrush at Hamtrack near Detroit. The victim, unidentified, shows signs of a fierce struggle with skull crushed and clothing disordered. Handkerchief and purse nearby. ground torn up for several yards. Police investigate connections to Italian landowner Serriera Marke and recent disturbances by his guests.
Police officer F C Watkins shot two men in a Gladstone hotel room at Black Mountain North Carolina, killing John Hill Bunting and wounding Paul Cameron Collins. Watkins says he was called to stop a disturbance and fired in self defense after being attacked. Collins survives at Mission Hospital Asheville and Bunting dies from abdominal wounds.
J B Alvord of the Continental Trust and Savings Bank, Toledo Ohio reports 4000 dollars missing and a trusted book keeper missing since July 28. Money altered by replacing large denomination bundles with smaller bills and time lock involved. Bonds cover the loss. books in good shape.
Saturday quotations from the Sioux City live stock market show Top Deeves at 6.25 and Top Hogs at 7.65 dollars.
Grant Siers of Kansas City Missouri aged 54 shot and killed his sister in law Mrs Mary Siers at her home late Saturday and then killed himself after a jealous quarrel.
Edwin B. Atwood, aged 63, former Brigadier General, died after a long illness. He served in the early 1900s and was associated with the rearmament era military circles. Funeral arrangements were not disclosed in the brief notice.
Tokyo informs powers that Japan will proceed with reconstruction and improvement of the Antung Mukden line without Chinese consent after failing to resolve disputes over policing and interpretation of the 1905 convention. China accuses Japan of obstruction and postponement seeking to nullify treaty rights.
President Taft departs Washington for a coast to coast tour that will span about 18 000 miles. He will travel by private car attached to trains with Secretary Carpenter and Capt Butt, visiting Seattle Yosemite Grand Canyon and the Gulf coast. The trip includes a crossing of the Rio Grande at El Paso and a stay on his brother's Texas ranch near Corpus Christi.
A Pennsylvania suburban train struck a Chicago electric streetcar at the One Hundred and Third street grade crossing injuring thirty four including eight women and five children. Motorman O P Rest died later in hospital after stating brakes failed at a critical moment. The train, traveling forty miles an hour, hit the car center and overturned it into a ditch.
A laborer in Chester was attacked by a group of hoboes, beaten, and robbed of a hat and 30 cents. The assault is described as the first serious incident in the area.
Federal and state officers report the first bubonic plague case in California, found in Alameda County involving a 13 year old boy named Joseph Mondta. The incident marks a rare urban outbreak with authorities investigating exposure and enforcing health measures.
A Canadian Pacific Railway eastbound passenger train bound for Toronto wrecked, injuring multiple passengers. No fatalities reported. Emergency crews responded to the scene and investigators began assessing the cause.
The Payne tariff bill is signed by President Taft at 5:05 p.m. after adjournment of congress sine die. The extraordinary session ended with the Senate approving the conference report by 47 to 31 and both houses adopting leather schedule changes as Taft arrived at the Capitol.
Both houses pass a bill repealing the colonial era blue laws governing Sunday activities. The measure dissolves penalties for concerts and entertainment on the Lord's Day, defining Sunday and allowing essential and community welfare activities, with Sunday baseball likely permitted.
Eugene Schattner files suit to break Charles Schattner's will, claiming impaired mind from intemperance and undue influence by Mary E. Yates, a black housekeeper who stood to gain $10,000, with other black employees named as beneficiaries. The estate totaled about $200000 with $117000 to charities and $25000 to black employees.
Glenn B. Kimball, who vanished from the Black Hills of South Dakota in September 1895, reappeared at his wife’s home in Larimore North Dakota after fourteen years. A buried supposed body for Kimball was exhumed and reinterred in Prosper Minnesota, while his wife’s estate pursued a life insurance claim and a monument was erected on the casket.
The state land department filed on 19 000 acres in the Belle Fourche district. Selections were made in Butte and Southern Harding counties as indemnity for state school lands on Crow Creek and Lower Brule reservations where allotments have left the school fund short. Reservations in the state are also in need of selections in the future.
The old state building, donated after the temporary capital move, was auctioned Saturday with State Secretary Polley as auctioneer. A. D. Hengel bid $1,000 for the city of Pierre, the only bid, as the legislature tabled donation and the city held a preference right to buy.
The people of Onida Sully County decide to incorporate after 25 years as a township. A special election is called to vote on the incorporation, spurred by the promise of a railroad to haul coal this year.
W. J. Bowen, a Brookings conductor, suffered a severe head wound after an alley attack in Redfield. Bowen says an unknown man struck him with a revolver during the assault.
A steam threshing rig being moved near Lake Andes exploded its boiler tearing the machine apart and hurling parts 200 yards. Engineer Charles Johnson and fireman Frank Boar were knocked down. both expected to recover. A child, Joe Talmento, fractured his right arm when a frightened team struck a pole. The thresher belonged to J. H. Macylin of Lake Andes.
Arrivals from Salem report partial destruction of a baggage and express car on the Omaha railroad Thursday night after a passenger poured gasoline from a motorcycle onto the car floor instead of removing it. The gasoline ignited by lamps in the car, burning the motorcycle and interior, with several trunks and contents burned.
Prof Henry of the weather bureau releases a bulletin urging cheap protection from lightning. He notes 500 to 600 people are killed annually and much property is destroyed. He lists inexpensive materials for a home rod: galvanized iron wire, staples, tees, and aluminum paint. He favors tram as a conductor for safety and energy dissipation, noting it is less dangerous than copper.
Louis Dvorak of Gregory loses his home when a midday sun reflects off a mirror ignites a gasoline stove tank, sparking a fire and explosion that destroys the dwelling.
James Ringrose proprietor of the Sherman house at Aberdeen and his wife Loretta Ringrose, a niece, along with L. C. Trow, a St. Paul traveling man, were thrown from a carriage. Mrs Ringrose is seriously hurt while Trow sustains a leg injury believed to be paralyzing.
A coroner's jury rules the death of William Warwick of Athol, aged 3, resulted from heart failure triggered by shock after a bottle of carbolic acid broke in his pocket. The incident was attributed to accidental exposure and concluded as such by the jury.
Governor Vessey and his wife traveled to Spokane Washington on Saturday to attend the National Irrigation Congress and planned a brief stop at the Seattle exposition during their western trip.
The Yankton city council accepts the Navy offer to loan the Penelope figurehead from the United States yacht Yankton for an indefinite period, with the city covering transportation costs.
Three governors visit Victoria led by New York's Charles E. Hughes and Minnesota's John & Johnson with their staffs accompanying them to the official visit.
A lighted gasoline stove explosion injured Mrs A Y Smith in Sandwich Street and caused fatal burns. The blast scattered flames and smoke, with bystanders aiding evacuation until paramedics arrived. Police and investigators examined the scene and identified the device as a stove fuel source involved in the accident.
After a hearing on the state's extradition plea for W. M. Morgan or George Pranklin of Sioux Falls, Governor Vessey died, terminating the writ.
A binder accident near Aberdeen fatally injures Tamaway worker aged 21. Simon Luckens, operating the binder, was thrown onto the cutter bar and sustained severe injuries. He died three hours after the incident.
Freeman Knowles editor of a radical socialist daily in Deadwood faces jail after refusing to pay a fine levied by Judge Carland in the U S district court.
The state of Kansas asked the governor for custody of W. M. Morgan also known as George Franklin, a Sioux Falls colored man charged with violating parole from the Kansas penitentiary.
Mrs. August Zamow of a Grover area farm near Codington county dislocated her jaw during an unusually strong yawn. The incident highlights a rare medical mishap in a rural household.
Bridgewater Mayor Tschetter leads a campaign to curb public gambling. John P. Meier, previously fined $50 for the charge, faces another fine of unknown amount plus costs in a renewed case.
Eureka voters approved a $6,000 bond in a special election to fund a new public school building.
Cleveland voters defeated the Schmidt street railway grant by 34 785 to 31 022 in a bitter campaign. The result ends the line for a 3 cent fare on Payne avenue and leaves the Taylor plan as the alternative, with Mayor Johnson promising continued action despite the defeat.
The Jeanie left St. Johns at 11 Tuesday en route to Etah on Saith’s Sound north of Greenland with cod and provisions for Robert E Peary Harry Whitney and Dr Frederick Coos. Captain Bartlett expects return to St Johns by Oct 1 with ample provisions and game to last through next spring.
Stephen Eiser of Steelton Pennsylvania shot and killed Georg Goritz 32 and Katherine Goritz 28 as they entered their rooming house at 11504 Front Street South Chicago. He then killed himself. Eiser, 42, was angry Goritz sheltered his wife after she left her husband. The two men had married sisters and lived in Steelton until two months ago.
Acting Interior Secretary Pierce ordered the temporary withdrawal of about 42000 acres of land set aside for water power sites in Colorado Montana and Utah. The move aims to block alleged combinations seeking control of national water power resources and to support conservation policies.
Queen Dowager Margaret of Savoy widow of King Humbert of Italy lies between life and death at the Quirinal in Rome as court specialists attend. Her condition is described as incurable despite prognostications.
A blind negro man enraged by a shopkeeper’s refusal draws two revolvers in a crowded Paterson saloon. He shoots dead two men and wounds a third before police arrest WS Ham F. Sasson on two murder charges.
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