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Newspaper
The Kadoka Press
Location
Kadoka, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1908
Page
9
In Hyde Park on Sunday a massive suffragette demonstration drew about 500000 participants. White dressed marchers with green white and purple sashes filled routes and platforms as twenty speakers urged votes for women and force in Parliament.
Marriage bans for Mme Anna Gould and Prince Helle de Sagan were posted Sunday in Paris city offices. Ages listed are 33 and 49. Wedding planned within two weeks in a quiet Protestant ceremony attended by few relatives including George J. Gould.
The British cruiser Gladiator is found exclusively to blame for a collision with the liner St. Paul off the Isle of Wight last April in a snow storm. More than twenty Gladiator crew members died. Judge Sir John Gorrell Barnes ruled the fault lay solely with the Gladiator, with no proven fault by anyone on the St. Paul. After repairs, the St. Paul resumed voyage to New York.
Saturday quotations show top beeves at 7.25 and top hogs at 5.70 in the Sioux City live stock market report.
The Republican convention nominated James S. Sherman of New York for vice president amid riotous applause and a Sherman dominated crowd. Speaker Cannon appeared as a key supporter and delegates crowded to greet Sherman with waves of songs and handshakes.
Nearly 5 000 players from across the United States will attend the eleventh annual North American Skat league congress at Grand Central Palace New York beginning Sunday morning with registration and a welcome address by Judge Lorenzo Zeller. The first round starts at 6 30 p m with at least 1 000 tables in play. meetings continue Monday at Terrace Garden with officer elections and a second round that evening. Tuesday features amusements and a Coney Island excursion, ending with a German style kammer smoker at 5 p m.
The central dwelling of the Fountain Grove colony in Santa Rosa California, known as the Manor House and built by Thomas Lake Harris at about 40 000 dollars, was burned in a fire caused by a kerosene lamp explosion. Harris founded the colony in the 1870s and attracted followers including Lawrence Oliphant and relatives of Col. George F. Waring. Dr F B Webley occupied the manor after Harris moved headquarters to New York.
War Department awards contract to J. C. Carlin of New York for three government transport docks and tide slate reclamation near Fort Manson. Bid stands at $1,197,000, lowest of seven bids received.
Framed as a summer outing at Sag Harbor New York, Mrs. Russell Sage hosted a Friday afternoon picnic for all local children and officers. The event featured outdoor games and an outdoor supper for every attendee.
Chicago erupts in wild celebration as William H. Taft of Ohio wins the Republican presidential nomination on the first ballot by 702 votes. Theodore Burton nominates Ohio, triggering ecstatic demonstrations across the convention after hours of tense deliberation.
The Rev G M Dickinson of Second Baptist Ho boken New Jersey writes to Hudson county papers condemning sheath gowns and other fashions as immodest. He argues low necklines and peekaboo waists have escalated, and calls for self restraint in the name of morality and purity.
Thomas Hagen a 28 year old marine stationed at League Island navy yard Philadelphia died from a heart blow in a six round exhibition bout with Johnny Hogan of the battleship Mississippi. The match was part of a smoker held by the Mississippi crew. Hogan disappeared after Hagen collapsed and was not found by late hours.
Associate Justice David A Brewer urged at Clark College in Worcester Massachusetts that the power of the court of equity should be enlarged not diminished He termed restricting this power a step backward toward barbarism and urged courts to strengthen equitable authority.
Capt. Henry Dickmann son of former Chicago mayor is held in quarantine at Astoria Oregon due to smallpox aboard a ship from the Philippines en route to San Antonio where he planned to marry. the wedding is postponed.
Frank Holland of St. Paris Ohio faced a sanity inquest after paying outlawed debts and property damage from his youth. Probate judge J M Owen ruled Holland no more insane than the average man but considerably more honest.
Maj. Foote reports 4400 known flood sufferers in Louisiana as he investigates Avoyelles and Rapides parishes. He found about 2000 people along the Red River in destitution of necessities.
In early flood incidents near Mobridge, three men disappeared after cloudbursts. H. W. Walden of Cour d Alene Idaho and A. V. Becker of Bowden along with Conrad Becker of Mobridge died after boats and wagons were swept away in Indian creek and the Missouri river. Searchers pressed on for the missing, with efforts aimed at identifying strangers who also vanished.
Dakota Wesleyan University directors at Mitchell consider about twenty five candidates for president after Dr Thomas Nicholson resignation. Six leading names emerged Dr E M Mills Dr G W Isham Dr F J Kerfoot Dr P H Swift F E Lesseman and Prof F E B Stevens with Mills Isham and Kerfoot as favorites. Dr Mills well known in Mitchell and connected with Freedman's aid of the Methodist church. Isham vice president at Lincoln Methodist college. Appointment unlikely within thirty days. Vice President Samuel Weir to act as president meantime.
FE H Baldwin and Edward Graham of Camp Creek clashed in the road over a long running feud. Baldwin was killed after Graham fired first, with Graham wounded twice and unfit for immediate care. Graham surrendered to a farmer and was taken to Sturgis for aid as deputies pursued Baldwin’s body.
John McDonald, claim agent for the Milwaukee railroad, predicts 1908 will yield the state’s largest crop. He says heavy rains caused little damage, with 80 percent of lands unaffected or helped, and farmers are in high spirits about a brilliant outlook.
Rt. Rev. Father Clemons head of the Alaska church based in Fairbanks visited Father Nolan in Sioux Falls and then Sioux City to recruit sisters willing to go to Alaska to staff Catholic hospitals.
At a Pierre meeting of the state board of control of firemen the association chose officers for the coming year Will Kolb of Vermillion as president William Moeller of Parkston as first vice president W A Ritschling of Huron as second vice president R L Clisby of Parker as secretary and F L Lillibridge of Pierre as an officer.
Mitchell Power Company buys three acres just outside the residential district in the eastern town area for a new gas light and a new electric light plant. Construction to start within weeks.
The Milwaukee road extension to the Black Hills has spurred a thriving timber industry along the Cheyenne River with several sawmills now in active operation.
Twenty six head of cattle driven off the Mike Meier ranch in Sanborn county remain unrecovered after about two months. Pursuit by parties continues as they hope to capture the thieves soon.
The South Dakota Board of Pharmacy will hold a regular meeting in Mitchell on July 9 to examine candidates for registration. The session will review credentials and determine eligibility for pharmacist licensure.
Harry Hurley of Tripp county borrowed a team to drive to Springview Neb but went to Dallas drank heavily and sold a borrowed horse to Chet Slaughter. The owner Ramus recovered his horse and Hurley was bound over on $500 bond for the Gregory county circuit court.
Wessington Springs plans a unique municipal water works fed by a pure natural spring. Town purchased the land and spring for 5850 dollars and will pump water to a hilltop concrete reservoir to provide pressure for fire protection. Construction contract has been awarded and work has begun to finish before mid summer.
Freeman Knowles convicted in U S court for sending indecent matter through the mails seeks a rehearing. Attorney R C Hays of Deadwood traveled to Sioux Falls to argue the motion for a new hearing.
Concrete foundation work for the government building in Mitchell began Tuesday after a several week delay caused by heavy rains. Contractors started laying the base as part of the Mitchell project.
The Home for Odd Fellows and Rebekahs celebrate paying off a four dollar mortgage on lots bought long ago. They plan to erect a fine and costly Odd Fellows club and lodge hall on the site in a desirable location.
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