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Newspaper
The Kadoka Press
Location
Kadoka, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1908
Page
6
About 15 000 sightseers gather at the Gunness farm in Laporte Indiana as authorities close streets and railroads to manage crowds. Hotels fill and vendors operate roadside stands while investigators watch, and missing person inquiries surface among the throng.
Norman White, 15, of Niagara Falls New York, says he defended his mother against years of abuse by his father. After buying a revolver with savings, he claims four earlier shots failed and the final shot struck the father in the right lung as he menaced his wife. The boy was arrested.
Federal grand jury in Kansas City returned indictments against J. C. Wilson A. F. Brooker H. J. Egan and H. H. Ready officers and representatives of the Interstate Fiscal Agency. The charge alleges a scheme to unload about 100000 worth of company stock on small banks in Kansas Nebraska and Oklahoma. The firm was placed in the hands of a receiver in November 1907.
Isaac Williams, a New York cotton broker, shot and killed himself at his residence on Saturday, authorities report. The death underscores the tragic end of a prominent businessman in the city.
Saturday quotations from the Sioux City live stock market show beeves priced at 6.00 to 6.90 and top hogs at 5.45. Intricate price ranges indicate cattle and hog markets steady for the period.
The House accepted the conference report on the army appropriation bill authorizing 7 million dollars for pay, 5 million to enlisted men and 942 retired officers. The measure also permanently employs the Porto Rican infantry regiment and funds lighthouse navigation aids, totaling 95.38 million with a 3.27 million increase over prior authorizations. Opposition warned costs could rise to 25 million in five years.
The confession by Lewis Ferris, a young Italian, describes dynamiting a Burlington train near Bird Montana on Friday night, killing two men. He details breaking a powder-house lock with a rock, stealing fifty five sticks of dynamite, placing the charges on the tracks, and aiding the conductor after the blast. Ferris says he acted alone and was drunk, and he guided officers to the scene on Thursday.
A major blaze ripped through two solid business blocks in Atlanta on Friday, threatening the heart of the business district. Officials estimate losses at 1.5 million dollars with no casualties. Principal losers include Terminal Hotel Marion annex Childs hotel Schlessinger Mayer Baking Georgia Vehicle Piedmont Hat McClure Ten Cent store Liquid Carbonic Inman building and postoffice substation.
Four Jamestown Exposition firemen and two Powhattan guards were held to the grand jury on arson charges. Two men confessed writing statements claim they started the blaze that destroyed the Philippine village and adjacent buildings ten days ago.
The Russian duma adopted a budget of 30,000,000 dollars and approved a resolution for a joint committee of the duma, the council of empire and the ministry to investigate the chaotic condition blamed for much of the country’s economic and agricultural distress.
Encouraging reports came from the hotel in Lakewood New Jersey where former President Cleveland remains confined by illness. Mrs. Cleveland said Friday night that her husband was doing well.
The Russian duma adopted a timing innovation to curb long speeches. A red lamp lights in front of the speaker and automatically extinguishes after ten minutes.
A gasoline launch carrying nine young men on the Ohio River near East Liverpool Ohio became disabled early Friday morning and sank with five men drowning. The remaining four were rescued, and one boatman survived. Names of the deceased and further details were not released in the report.
William Montgomery, cashier of Allegheny National Bank in Pittsburg, Pa., is charged with embezzling $429,000. He was arraigned before United States Commissioner Lindsay and held for the grand jury on $50,000 bond. Bank remains financially sound. Montgomery, long active in politics and a friend of the late Senator Quay, is said to have used funds to aid friends in distress. acquaintances doubt personal profit.
Wisconsin paper manufacturers propose printing newspapers with white ink on black paper. They claim forests would be saved and print costs cut by about half. White ink could be made from recycled paper, while white paper needs spruce or hemlock. The plan awaits congressional investigation in Washington.
Robbers boarded the Den and Rio Grande train No 4 at Castle Rock Colorado early Thursday morning and murdered express messenger Charles H Wright age 60 of the Globe express company. They stole a small safe key and contents worth under 100 dollars from the baggage car and damaged a large safe without entering it. They entered through a side window and killed Wright who lay with his gun in hand.
Two foreign men jammed a switch with old iron near Nicetown Philadelphia, narrowly derailing the Reading Railroad Blue Express. A tower man and police arrested Weneys Koowl, a Pole, who was identified as one of the trespassers. Motive remains unknown.
Maj. O P Chaffee, Confederate Army officer and brother of Lieut Gen Adna R Chaffee US Army, retired in Los Angeles, died at his Kansas City home Thursday from kidney trouble. He was 79.
Final session of the sixteenth annual conference of Episcopal church clubs met in St. Louis Missouri on Thursday. Social settlements were favored as the assembly condemned divorce and remarriage as the curse of the country.
Speaker Joseph G. Cannon was 72 years old Thursday as a congressman reminded him of his natal day. He replied with a shrug saying, By Jove, I hadn’t thought anything about it.
Decatur Illinois adopts local option law turning the town dry. Fifty eight saloons shut at midnight Thursday and the brewing company plans to switch to soft drinks only.
Four persons were killed and twelve injured in a New York fire on Thursday that officials believed to be incendiary in origin. The blaze gutted a five story tenement on Orshard Street, leaving several residents homeless.
John Dettmann was found not guilty of murder in the killing of George M. Taylor at Fairfax on January 8, 1908. The jury verdict followed a trial at Gregory County Circuit Court with self defense as Dettmann’s plea. Dettmann, a former Crawford County Iowa sheriff, and Taylor were involved in a gambling business dispute.
Tod McPherson a well known farmer from Bonhomme county near Sioux Falls vanished after leaving to cross the Missouri to Niobrara Nebraska. Searchers failed to find a trace along the rail line east and west of Niobrara as neighbors fear foul play and possible murder.
Sioux Falls reports the arrest of Dr Ferdinand Lewis a New York dentist on charge of wife abandonment. An officer from New York took him back for trial as Lewis protests his innocence and plans to accompany the officer without a requisition. The charge stems from allegedly abandoning his wife and children to seek a divorce.
Dr. Leroy F. Straight of De Smet wed Miss Hanna Berger of Portage Wisconsin in St Josephs hospital Iroquois. The patient recovering from a severe illness woke to find his sweetheart at his bedside as a clergyman joined them in marriage with intimate friends and hospital staff present.
Jacob Tschetter, a farmer seven miles south of Bridgewater, reports two valuable young horses missing from his premises. A young man who once lived in the area is suspected. A reward of twenty five dollars is offered for the thief’s capture.
Prominent farmers in southwestern Hutchinson county met recently and organized the Hutchinson County Agricultural Fair Association with a $5,000 capital, divided into 600 shares at $10 each.
Mrs Julia Ann O Grady, once charged with killing her husband near Sioux Falls, has been found insane and placed in an Oklahoma insane hospital. Guard W L Baker reported the action after the case was dismissed for lack of sufficient evidence. O Grady had earlier conveyed possessions to an attorney in Sioux Falls.
Mrs Paul Pitan of Watertown recounts a rapid sequence in divorce and remarriage. In four oclock Tuesday a decree restored Leah Edwards, her maiden name, then a license to wed Paul Pitan was issued and the ceremony carried out immediately. Halver Halverson is the divorced husband, alleged to have deserted in 1902 and never heard from since.
In Charles Mix county thousands of pelicans arrive at Lake Andes and fish by wading in the shallow water, risking the lake’s fish supply. Residents may wage a campaign against the birds to protect fishing, as the pelicans linger through June before heading to northern nesting grounds.
The Free Methodist church plans to rebuild its seminary at Wessington Springs after a winter fire. Funds are secured and a $20,000 contract is let for the seminary construction. The town also awards a $22,000 contract for a new high school building due to crowded facilities.
A proposed bank will be organized at Lamro in Tripp county on land within an Indian allotment outside any organized county. The venture seeks to establish a banking presence on reservation grounds.
The government will this month allocate to Cheyenne River Indians 8000 young heifers and 200 bulls to improve the herds. Distribution targets Indians engaged in ranching operations.
A prairie fire near Fort Meade cemetery prompted a full garrison alarm on Thursday. Soldiers fought the blaze for hours, burning surrounding fields and the graveyard before bringing it under control.
South central volunteer fire departments plan a three day district picnic and tournament at Platte Charles Mix county on May 27 28 and 29. The event aims to foster camaraderie and showcase firefighting skills among member departments.
A. E. Hitchcock, newly installed mayor of Mitchell, begins a reform focused agenda. For the coming year after July 1, the town will be closed to saloons gambling and houses of ill repute to restore order and decorum.
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