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Newspaper
The Kadoka Press
Location
Kadoka, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Nov 20, 1908
Page
2
The dowager empress Tsze Hsi An, autocratic head since 1861, died Sunday afternoon. Kuang Hsu, emperor, followed her death by a day. Pu Yi, 3, named heir and throne successor by edict. Foreign legations informed. China orders mourning and provincial precautions for stability.
Official returns from 1,369 of 1,498 polling places show Gen. Jose Miguel Gomez with 183,823 votes to Gen. Mario Menocal's 118,329. Liberals win Havana by 25,000 and the island in all provinces, with strong majorities in Orient Santa Clara Camaguey Pinar del Rio Matanzas. Liberals gain control of the senate and expect a two to one majority in the house.
Corrine McCowen a 20 year old confectionery clerk shot Newell Powell in a Kansas City store after he attacked her during a cigar purchase. Powell died half an hour later. He had visited the store multiple times that day.
Edward D. Hayden vice president and secretary of the Boston and Albany Railroad and a member of the Forty-ninth and Fiftieth Congresses died of apoplexy in his pew at the Wo rben Unitarian church in Worcester Massachusetts on Sunday. Born December 27 1833 in Cambridge.
Saturday quotations show top beeves at 5.00 and top hogs at 5.70 in the Sioux City live stock market report.
Frank McLeod and Ralph Hynes both aged 12 drowned while skating on the Great Northern Power Company artificial lake in Duluth Minnesota. Authorities found the boys in the ice and lack of safety devices noted.
The British bark Falls of Halladale traveling from New York to Melbourne and Sydney went ashore at Curdies Inlet near Melbourne. It is expected to be a total wreck with possible loss of the vessel.
Francis J. Heney, famed prosecutor of San Francisco municipal graft, was shot and seriously wounded in Judge Lawler's courtroom during a recess in Abraham Ruef's bribery trial. Morris Haas, a juror-then-ex-convict, fired a pistol against Heney's right cheek. Heney survived, stating he would live to prosecute Ruef.
Ignatius Spira’s boarding house in Philadelphia’s Italian quarters was wrecked by a bomb on the front doorstep. Gegoria Delando and his seven relatives resided on the first floor. Delando and three children were badly hurt. A Black Hand threat had warned Giuseppe Rocco to place $1,000 elsewhere, and an aunt arriving from Italy reportedly carried cash before fleeing to the dynamited house.
Prof. Mark W. Harrington once a thief from the United States weather bureau has been found in Morris Plains New Jersey asylum for the insane. He was ill and had wandered before his identity was confirmed by his wife after a year as a patient.
Walter Amon a prominent Jersey City dairy dealer banker and club man was shot three times by Andrew McGrath in a Pennsylvania depot incident. McGrath confessed to years of disputes over a margarine business downturn and stated motive. Amon died en route to hospital.
A visitor to the Montpelier Vermont state capitol is found to have smallpox prompting officials and lawmakers to seek doctors for vaccination to prevent spread.
The home of J. N. Wampiler a dairy man at East Alliance Ohio burned early Friday destroying the residence and cremating four children. Wampiler sustained severe burns.
Oklahoma experiences its coldest November on record with a Friday low of 17 degrees above zero as weather chills the territory.
Benjamin Fish, 75, brother in law of the late P. T. Barnum, died of heart disease. He resided in the town and leaves a widow and several children. Funeral arrangements were not announced.
Jackson Smith 41 longtime Missouri Court of Appeals judge died in Kansas City Friday after sixteen years on the bench. Funeral arrangements pending.
Friday's quotations on the Sioux ity live stock market report top beeves at 6.20 and top hogs at 5.75.
Former Cincinnati mayor Gustav Tafel died Thursday night from complications of diseases. He was elected on the fusion ticket in 1897 and served two years.
An eastbound Wabash freight struck a switch engine at Springfield Junction Illinois on Friday killing D. W. Williams fireman and Homer B. Wolfe brakeman from Brazil Indiana.
Explosion of fire damp at the Radbod mine in Hamm Westphalia Germany on Thursday morning killed and trapped hundreds. About 300 men were below ground. 70 rescued, many injured. 35 bodies brought to surface. Rescue work halted as flames and smoke raged. engineers ordered flooding of the mine. A special rescue corps from Courrières France arrived but could not enter.
Three cars of the New York Central Twentieth Century Limited derailed east of Rochester New York after a broken rail. The six-car consist, six Pullman coaches, hurled sleeping passengers from berths as the train, traveling about 25 mph, left the tracks but no serious injuries were reported. Passengers escaped through doors and windows in night clothing amid bruises and jolts.
Madison Square Garden, famed New York venue for horse shows and major entertainments, is to be placed on the market by the controlling company. Stockholders say the garden block is unlikely to remain profitable in its current form and will be offered for sale.
The Iver Johnson company plant in Fitchburg Massachusetts will operate six days a week starting Saturday. The factory currently runs five days a week and about six hundred workers will be affected by the change.
Charles J. Magness husband of Ada Gorman daughter of the late Senator Gorman of Maryland faces a court martial in Philadelphia for naval desertion. The proceeding began Thursday before a tribunal.
Rear Admiral Casper F. Goodrich of the United States Navy arrived in New York Friday from Genoa. He is the commandant of the Brooklyn Navy Yard and will retire on January 8 when he reaches the age limit.
Secretary Wright sent the War Department’s next fiscal year estimates to the Treasury in Washington. The total was withheld. The aerial machine purchase request asks for 500000 dollars.
It is reported from Pe kin that the Chinese emperor is very ill and still sinking. He will not accept foreign medical attendance.
The Society of the Army of the Tennessee concluded its sessions in St. Louis with Maj. Gen. Grenville M. Dodge re-elected as president.
Two smooth swindles target farmers near Huron. A well dressed impostor poses as a livestock inspector, inspects cattle and sheep, then bills from 2 50 to 5. He lacks government authority. A second scam involves an alleged inspector claiming tuberculosis in a herd and advises immediate disposal. Later a buyer purchases the cattle below market, revealing the fraud.
In the Canton wine bankruptcy hearing at Armour Referee H A Miller concluded testimony before William Moore trustee of the Canton wine estate and creditors will decide further action Mrs Cantonwine admitted a net worth around 30000 and still carried 4000 in cash with 1000 in her handbag she asserted the remaining 3000 was on her person and offered to show it in her bustle.
Nearly complete results show Butte county voters affirm division into Perkins and Harding with Belle Fourche to host the remaining seat. Perkins likely uses Lemmon as county seat and Camp Crook would host Harding. New counties rapidly attract settlers and planning a new county building proceeds.
Col John Emmie and Albert Jones longtime landlords surrender the Cataract hotel management to W C Keeley formerly of the Hotel Julian Dubuque Iowa. The lease and all expensive furnishings transfer with the deal.
Miss Ira Wyant vanished from her Huron home on Wednesday night. A woman who said she was Mrs. Elizabeth Grey, a Maccabee order representative, was seen with her and is part of the inquiry. authorities seek leads and advise witnesses to come forward.
Rev. T. H. Dahl of Minneapolis delivered the principal address at the dedication of a new Norwegian Lutheran church. The building stands three miles east of Kidder in northern Marshall county.
Barney Neth, about 80, drops dead from heart failure in Huron. He had lived in the city for many years.
Estimates show state operation costs for the year ending January 3 1908. Country schools cost 0.234 cents per day for each pupil. Independent school districts cost 0.201 cents per day.
Ernest B. Randall’s trial for the alleged murder of Marion Dragoo in Rapid City was postponed from last week to next Monday.
The first civil suit in Aberdeen involves Al fred Day suing Northwestern railroad for 20000 dollars claiming a work accident injured his right foot at Sioux Junction. Day borrowed 100 from his attorneys Case and Shurtless and vanished. the court directed a verdict for the railroad after no response.
A Deadwood divorce suit reveals the wife in Chicago learned the whereabouts of Charles M. Schoen and this led to a missing husband warrant. Mrs Schoen cites desertion and support failure for herself and infant. Gov Deneen grants extr ation papers but Gov Crawford refuses to honor them.
Mrs. J A Jones wife of a prominent Lyman County rancher lost a $300 pearl that slipped from a can into a dish during oyster prep. She heated the oysters on a stove and the pearl cracked, rendering it of no value though a jeweler said it would have been worth $300 before heating.
Dakota jurist Judge Howard G. Fuller of the supreme court died at his Pierre home after a lingering illness. Born 1854 in Glen Falls New York he moved to Iowa then to Dakota territory in 1886. He served in the Sixth district and later on the supreme bench being elected twice most recently in 1964.
An 8-year-old boy reports his mother started a fire in a homestead ten miles south of Fort Pierre. He saw her clothes burning and sought help from a neighbor, but the woman died before aid arrived.
William Stolls of Deadwood is jailed on assault with intent to kill charges after allegedly seizing a lathing tool and stabbing Will iam Erby behind the right ear. Erby lies in St. Joseph's Hospital in Deadwood in critical condition with a deep ear wound.
Education regents who met in Aberdeen for several days adjourn and urge the governor to press the next legislature to establish a sub experimental station at Cottonwood near the west end of Stanley County.
Milwaukee officials report a new cutoff west of Aberdeen that puts Java in Walworth County on a sidetrack. The cut improves through traffic by at least one hour and speeds up service as work at coast terminals nears completion.
In Walworth County Bangor yielded to Selby with little contest as county seat issues shifted with past rivalries fading. Hutchinson County saw Parkston lose by a narrow margin blamed on local jealousies. Wheeler will keep the county seat next four years on the river. In Charles Mix County Wheeler’s victory preserves county control. Gregory County results were not yet known. Lyman County rejected removal to Presho and voted down division, keeping four-year status quo. private reports say Butte County may have carried the division measure, potentially placing Stanley as the state’s largest county. The Capitol Commission seeks roughly 200000 more for marble interiors and grounds parking, boosting total to about 200000. Vessey plans to move to the capital and settle his family before December. Governors Crawford and allied delegates named to mining and riversHarbors conventions. Elijah Sears voting record spans from 1828 to 1908, aged 104. Stanley Bullock named game warden for Butte County.
A German American criticizes Americans for ignorance of native songs. He notes Americans learn German French and Italian music yet cannot sing Old Kentucky Home. He urges giving every child a book of the best American songs to teach them. The remark appeared in the New York Press.
The referendum practice began in the sixteenth century in some cantons and was adopted in St. Galles in 1820. By 1848 it joined the federal constitution and was extended in 1874. Except for Frieburg, the referendum is now established in all cantons.
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