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Newspaper
The Kadoka Press
Location
Kadoka, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1909
Page
3
A derailment near York Fifth Street caused a deadly train strike at night. Investigators report workers responded quickly but two fatalities occurred as rescue teams worked into the early hours.
The Bessemer and Marquette No. 2 ferry left Conneaut Ohio with 32 men and likely foundered in Lake Erie. The Commodore Perry recovered nine frozen bodies from a drifting yawl, sighted near noon Sunday, while searches continued along the lake for more wreckage and clues. Albert J. Weis of Erie was aboard as a passenger. his body had not been found.
A Sunday fire destroyed the Racine Manufacturing company's big plant in Racine Wisconsin along with the Danish Brotherhood hall the Mitchell Wagon works and several residences. The loss is about 650000 with 60000 uninsured. The factory carried 250000 insurance and about 1200 workers will lose jobs until rebuilding. Fire origin is under investigation.
The Panama Supreme Court ruled that President Obaldo’s decree expelling W. Spiller was illegal, allowing him to stay. Spiller faced charges of inducing canal laborers to leave the isthmus, and Lt. Col. Coethals urged deportation before Obaldo’s decree redefined the act as a misdemeanor punishable by expulsion.
French aviator M Bleriot collided with a house during a Constantinople exhibition drawing a vast crowd. His aeroplane overturned and he fell to the ground suffering injuries feared to be internal and serious.
A northbound passenger train and a southbound freight train on the Illinois Central collided head on near Pana Sunday. Both engines were demolished and over 1600 bushels of corn dumped into the ditch. Rolling stock damage totaled about 30000 dollars.
Fire on Main Street in Salem Missouri Sunday destroyed multiple buildings and caused about 100000 dollars in damage. Citizens organized a bucket brigade to fight the blaze.
Sioux City Saturday quotations show top beeves at 6.50 and top hogs at 8.40, reflecting market demand and price levels for the livestock sector.
King Leopold, long ill for two weeks, suffered a sudden Sunday relapse. Doctors report his condition as very grave and continuing to demand close monitoring.
Patrick F. Sheedy, longtime prominent sportsman and later an art dealer, died at his New York home Sunday night from heart disease.
President Zelaya denounces U S actions as hostile and seeks an investigation chosen by Secretary Knox. He claims he did not initiate the Grace and Cannon shooting and criticizes U S interference in Nicaraguan affairs. He cites alleged American propaganda and a French loan objection as part of his grievance.
The Cody Wyoming case shows S A Ash was killed by a deliberate trap. Sheriff Cusack reports the room entry used an ax and a pistol set to fire at three feet from Ash’s chest. Ash died after walking to a hospital with a grievous abdominal wound, uttering the line Some dirty cur shot me.
In Savannah Georgia on Friday Mrs Eliza Gribble aged 70 and her daughter Mrs Carrie Ohlander were found dead at home. Mrs Maggie Hunter 32 lies dying at Savannah hospital after a criminal assault on Ohlander. Police hold 150 black prisoners for questioning as a $1000 reward is offered for the assailant. The slayer is believed to have used an ax to kill Gribble and strike down Hunter after assaulting Ohlander.
Red Cloud the famous Sioux chief has died at age century. He spent the last twenty five years residing at the Pine Ridge agency and the report reached Superintendent Brennan during a Washington conference on Indian education.
Betah Smith, once a regular army lieutenant who served in the Philippines, was arrested in Denver Colorado on charges of passing several worthless checks. He has been dismissed from the army.
President Taft has accepted an invitation to attend a conservation convention in Indianapolis in February. He will also make brief visits to Louisville Cincinnati and Nashville during that period.
Gilbert J. Creek of Bloomington Indiana surrendered to St. Louis police on Friday and told authorities he is under indictment there for forgery.
The status of Episcopal Bishop Stringer is clarified after an extended absence on a mission tour that began last January. Anxiety over his safety had been reported while he completed travel and duties away from home.
President Taft assured about 300 Ohio Valley representatives in the White House that he would use influence with Congress to back a year round 9 foot channel from Pittsburg to Cairo. Alexander Dempster of Pittsburgh led the delegation and reported the president said he was encouraged and would aid the Lakes to Gulf Deep Waterway effort. The remarks followed Taft’s earlier rivers and harbors talk, which he said cast a wet blanket but would help by outlining practical steps. The visit aimed to enlist executive support for the waterways project despite prior congressional coldness.
A fire aboard the 1700 ton steamer Clarion near Point Pelee Lake Erie early Thursday killed two sailors and left thirteen missing. Six crew members were rescued by the steamer L C Hanna and taken to Cleveland then Buffalo, Anchor Line headquarters. Capt E J Bell of Ogdensburg and twelve crew abandoned to a lifeboat. the mate froze to death and another sailor drowned attempting to launch a lifeboat. The Clarion, en route from Detroit to Erie to lay up, could not be saved.
It was announced at the war department on Thursday that former Senator J. C. Blackburn resigned from the Isthmian canal commission and that President Taft accepted the resignation effective December 4.
The Oklahoma Corporation Commission ordered a January first reduction in Pullman sleeping car rates. Berth rate falls from two dollars to one fifty per night and seat rate drops about forty percent. The Pullman Company agreed to adopt the new schedule.
Chicago police were asked Monday to search for Graham C Stevens 23 a general superintendent of a Republic Iron and Steel branch at Maine NL who left his office November 3 saying he was going to Chicago.
Alvin K. Hoskins of Alton Illinois is notified by the U S government that it has purchased his patent range finder and distance appraiser for 300000. The invention simplifies firing of big guns in the navy.
The eleventh annual convention of the Retail Implement Dealers association of South Dakota southwestern Minnesota and northwestern Iowa ended in Sioux Falls with a plan for next year. Officers elected include President L G Wattson Chamberlain Vice President J S Farley Milbank Secretary treasurer E C Bartin Vermillion re elected and directors H C Meyer Lake Park Ia and J E McDougall Britton. The group opposes parcels post law and branch stores by jobbers or manufacturers and calls for elimination of such houses to ensure fair competition. Other matters of interest to the retail implement and vehicle trade were discussed in a resolutions report.
West of the Missouri River business leaders and clubs plan a new petition to the Commerce Commission urging Milwaukee Road to build a Chamberlain crossing. They cite repeated closures of the current bridge since freeze up and say other side commerce suffers.
Senate consideration of a Gamble bill would open 1,000,000 acres of the Cheyenne River reservation near Le Beau and designate Le Beau as the site for a new land office. The interior department favors easy filings for homesteaders and those filing on land in the newly opened territory, making Le Beau a central, convenient location.
A head on collision between two freights west of Volga killed Engineer Orrin R. Colgren and left a wife and four children in Huron. The Dakota division wreck was heavy with two engines demolished and track torn up, and officials had not placed blame by Tuesday afternoon.
Henry Hackett of Wakonda fired at Leonard Steeter during a land dispute over a lease that runs to March 1. Steeter was hit in the leg by a shotgun blast but faces no serious injury. Steeter had recently bought the land and begun winter wheat. Hackett denied the transfer and tensions rose as fencing was removed. Steeter threatened with an ax. No arrests reported.
A herd of cattle crossing the Missouri river from the reservation to LeBeau fell through ice. Forty head and four cowboys went under but stayed with ponies and saved 190 cattle. The animals reached the bank frozen, then a trainload of cattle was attached to a Milwaukee and St. Louis passenger train for shipment east.
Baron George De Reuter of London dies on Monday. Youngest son of the late Baron De Reuter founder of Reuter's Telegram Company and brother of the current baron. Widow Maud Potter of Philadelphia.
The French battleship Iena, hit by an explosion in 1907 that killed eighty and injured hundreds, sank Friday during towing into port.
Burke an owner of the Denver franchise in the Western Baseball league has given a twenty day option on his half of the stock to James McGill of Denver.
The Chicago subway has defaulted on the interest due Wednesday on its $17,000,000 bond issue. Authorities cited payment delays and bond covenant concerns.
A one million dollar reduction in coal supply appropriations for the navy was recommended to the new naval affairs committee on Thursday as part of a general policy to reduce all government expenditures.
The death is announced of Her n Kaulbach, a German artist, born in that cif in.
Townspeople fear the cold, but farmers cheer the weather as thawed fields allow corn removal after a mud bound week. Strong early winter conditions ease field access and speed up harvest operations for rural crews.
In Brown County a shortage of school teachers exists due to the rigorous state examination. Thirty three teachers sat the latest test before State Superintendent Astrud and assistants, and sixteen failed to pass.
Aberdeen authorities ban boxing contests. A planned match between Kid Funkey of Aberdeen and Jack Bennett of Fargo was stopped when two police officers dispersed the crowd at the opera house. Spectators demanded refunds and a fight nearly broke out, ending the promoter’s carnival plans.
Marcus Mackey, a Yankton county farmer, was dragged beneath a freight train leaving his wagon smashed and his team killed. He was pulled free and pronounced uninjured by a doctor aside from a slight cut over one eye. He admits drinking and recalls nothing of the incident or why his team was on the tracks.
The Bonesteel mayor Thursday removed city marshal Jack Biggins and appointed Vernon Baldwin as the new marshal. The reform faction led by the mayor claims Baldwin supports the reform, while Biggins is described as a vigilant officer removed amid surprise and controversy.
Mourning among clerks and deputies at the internal revenue office for the North and South Dakota district in Aberdeen as Collector Ellerman is told to enforce overtime for corporation tax record work without additional pay. The Treasury Department requires completion of schedules for the new federal tax.
The Yankton college trustees held a special session and approved a two fold plan for the next two or three years. This year they will focus on raising over $30,000 to retire debts from prior years and cover a large deficit for the current school year.
A petition by large Aberdeen employers pledges not to hire members of local unions formed after January 1, 1910 and to avoid patronizing firms employing such labor.
J. M. Long, an elevator manager at Waubay, was found dead beside the railroad near town. Authorities report he was struck by a Milwaukee train in a fatal incident.
Executive committee members met in Brookings Tuesday evening and accepted plans for a new building costing 35 000 dollars with construction slated to begin early in the spring.
The Bonesteel State bank, the oldest banking institution in the city, was sold a few days ago to R. A. Ormiston formerly of Gouverneur New York and the Crilly Brothers of Bonesteel.
The 1907 South Dakota antidiscrimination act aimed at preventing price inequality across communities was upheld in a case against Central Lumber Co. The suit, initiated by William Mitchell of Leola, could reach the U S Supreme Court, with Nebraska already backing similar laws. The article also reviews state finances, bee inspection funding, prison contracts, and rising bank deposits across several towns.
An unclear OCR passage references Britain Canada and the United States shaping policies and agreements. It hints at joint conferences on governance, territorial access, and international cooperation amid changing nations and proposed reforms.
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