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Newspaper
The Kadoka Press
Location
Kadoka, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Oct 02, 1908
Page
6
Kadoka Press notes the involvement of Durkee and Nellor in the local paper scene. The entry highlights names linked to the Kadoka publication group and related editorial activity.
The Indiana legislature passed the county local option bill 55 to 45 amid dramatic scenes in the hall of representatives. About 500 temperance workers packed the chamber as six Democrats backed the bill and four Republicans opposed it, triggering tears and political risk for supporters and cheers for opponents. Speaker Branch received congratulations as ministers and workers celebrated for over an hour.
Seven of eight men aboard the pleasure launch Lemon drowned when it struck a railroad bridge support and sank on the Calumet River at One Hundred and Twenty-sixth Street South Chicago Sunday night. The owner survived by swimming ashore and was later taken into custody. Albert Westfrend, the sole survivor, named John Frick his brother in law among the deceased after dredging was abandoned due to a storm and swift current.
Fires sweeping the Adirondacks, driven by strong winds, overwhelm hundreds of fighters. Utica reports several small villages and camps wiped out, Long Lake West scorched with thousands in damages from about a dozen buildings, station, and storehouse. Nehassene preserve threatened. Utica asked to help.
In St. Petersburg a mass meeting of 5,000 students approved a resolution calling for a nationwide student strike protesting the education minister M. Schwartz and what a disorderly session described as repressive measures by the new government.
Several vessels of the American Pacific fleet have arrived at Apia, Samoa. The cruiser Tennessee, flagship of the second division under Rear Admiral Sebree, sails for station with the Washington Whipple and Hopkins in company.
Saturday quotations in Sioux City show Beeves at 5.50 to 5.75 and Top hogs at 6.80.
Muskogee county Oklahoma commissioners decline to extend the Prairie Oil and Gas pipeline and telegraph line right of way. They say they will study their authority and may approve the extension later if justified.
The Manila reception for the fleet, reined by cholera fears and Metcalf’s shore leave ban, faces postponement. Officials count on a four month long plan by 250 committee members with arches and electric lights, while 42 suspected cases and 6 deaths are reported but many are not cholera.
A major fire in Fond du Lac Wisconsin Friday night destroyed St. Joseph church and ten dwellings and threatened the east side of the city at midnight. Weak water supply and high winds hindered firefighting as Congregational Presbyterian and St. Peter's Lutheran churches burned. The garage with fifteen autos burned in under an hour. St. Joseph's church a $40 000 building lay ruined. Total losses estimated at about $250 000.
Louise Lonsdale a New York actress sues Blaine Elkins youngest son of Senator Stephen B. Elkins for 100000 damages in a breach of promise to marry claim filed at Phillippi West Virginia. A summons was served and Elkins appeared to answer the charges. Senator Elkins denies the allegation calling it false.
An eastbound Northern Pacific passenger train from Helena Montana collided with a freight at Youngs Point. Snow hindered visibility and 25 to 40 lives are reported lost with the passenger engineer and fireman among the dead.
A large forest blaze in northeastern Humboldt County California is under control. Estimates indicate about 20 000 acres burned with losses likely over two million dollars. Two men are reported to have perished in the flames.
Frank De Haas Robison owner of the St. Louis National baseball club was a theatrical promoter and capitalist. He died suddenly at his home in Cleveland Ohio according to reports.
The Manila cholera outbreak appears to be waning with daily cases averaging under thirty and a low death rate, suggesting the epidemic has reached its height and is decreasing.
Mrs Eliza Bragg widow of Confederate Maj Gen Braxton Bragg died in New Orleans Louisiana on Friday.
The 10 month old daughter of R O Middlemas a farmer near Springfield Missouri fell head first into a milk bucket and was drowned before her parents could rescue her.
The comptroller of the currency in Washington issued a call for a statement of each national bank's condition at the close of business September 22. Financial institutions must report assets liabilities and capital as of that date.
Tang Shao Yi leaves Pekin on a world tour to thank the United States for Boxer indemnity remission and to recruit American help for northern China development. He is accompanied by Chung Men Yew who will succeed Wu Ting-fang as minister in Washington, with a December transition probable. The group plans to visit Britain France Germany Russia and Siberia after the United States.
A show at the Hanover Pennsylvania fair used a colored man, William White, as a target for baseball players. They hurled heavy balls from a gallery injuring him severely and he was taken to York hospital with possible fatal internal injuries.
Sherman W. Morris alias Frank Shercliffe, freshly convicted of murdering John Walsh a Leadville saloonkeeper fifteen years ago escaped custody while being moved to Canyon City Colorado to begin a twenty year sentence. He leaped from a car window as the train neared Canyon City. Morris has a bold criminal record including a train diamond heist near Missouri Valley Iowa on November 4 1892 worth 15000 diamonds for which he served time in the Iowa penitentiary.
Aged planter Bud Mortime was seized by U S marshals near Winona Mississippi on a charge of mailing night rider notices to a cotton gin owner. Mortime says he was coerced by armed men who threatened death if he refused.
A conflict between sophomore and freshman students at Worcester Polytechnic Institute left Emil Gran of West Wareham, Massachusetts, with a broken back and paralysis from the chest down. He was hospitalized in critical condition following the incident.
Speaker Joseph G. Cannon of the House spoke on labor to a large Indianapolis crowd in Tomlinson Hall, opening the Republican national campaign in Indiana Thursday night.
Sixty white pupils at Lincoln ward school in Topeka Kansas walked out in protest declaring they would not return until black pupils are excluded. The incident reflects racial tensions and school integration issues in the city.
Snow along the Canadian Pacific region and heavy rains with high winds stretch from San Francisco to the Canadian boundary. Telegraph service in the area is reported badly demoralized Thursday, with Chicago noting disruption across the network.
A typhoon of terrific velocity swept the central Philippine group and vanished in the China Sea. Wires were prostrated and scarce details show a serious disaster following the sudden storm.
A. O. Brown and Lewis Ginter Young of the New York stock exchange are expelled from the firm A. O. Brown & Co. after suspension by the exchange authorities.
Dr. F. W. Eply former mayor of New Richmond Wisconsin and former Wisconsin Medical Society president was found dead in a cistern Thursday authorities think an accidental fall led to the death.
Federal Agent Witten cautions that many maps claiming to show Indian allotments and townsite locations in Tripp County are not government approved. He states the interior secretary has made no townsite reservations and the land office has not recognized any proposed sites.
Three masked burglars blew the Colton bank safe early Saturday. They took $227 in silver coins and $55,000 in notes, plus a leather case with $4,000. The postmaster fired on a robber in the street as the trio fled near the South Dakota Central tracks.
A cyclone struck just west and northwest of Parker Saturday evening. The Jacob Pratt and Wilbur Halls farms suffered wrecked barns and outbuildings and some livestock damage. Lesser damage occurred at the Frank Merrill Joseph Edelberry and Clyde Costain farms. Windmills were razed and green hay stacks scattered. A gentle rain followed, ending six weeks of drought and spreading across the area.
Early C Witt leads a statewide effort to appraise railroad property in South Dakota. At a Sioux Falls meeting the South Dakota board of railroad commissioners appointed Witt as expert engineer to collect data for a true and correct valuation in their records.
The Citizens' Telephone company of Sioux Falls was sold for 94700 dollars at auction. Purchasers were the New State Telephone company of Iowa. Five bidders started the auction: Northwestern Dakota Central New State Harry Westcott of Linden Ta and Joe Kirby.
The Brookings county fair closed Saturday evening as the most successful exhibit in the region. Over 4 000 people attended the second and third days, with strong turnout for numerous exhibits and displays.
Mrs Chandler-Wilcox of Pasadena California proposes to donate an entire city block with all buildings to Vermillion for park purposes and arrangements are being made to take over the property.
Gregory becomes the first town on the Rosebud reservation to illuminate its streets with electric lights. The completed system ensures a well lighted street for travelers, including during the forthcoming land opening.
Thomas Griffin struck Anton Jenson with a club during a dispute at Griffin's home near Irene. Jenson is in serious condition but expected to recover.
Elwood W. Holcomb of the U S Weather Bureau in Huron has been transferred to Evansville Indiana and begun duties as assistant in the Evansville weather observatory.
Edmund Sykes a Minneapolis contracting engineer met with Yankton city council and local leaders to present proposals for a modern waterworks system sought for years. He outlined plans for establishing the new water system in the city.
A threshing engine fire spread to Jesse Johnson’s oat field about fifteen miles northwest of Beresford, causing an estimated loss of 309.
Dallas readies for the Tripp county land opening on October 16 and 17. Maj Edward P. Kelly Indian agent and Col J H Scrivens have finalised five government townsites in Tripp county and hundreds of settlers travel by car to view purchasable tracts in Gregory and Tripp counties.
Superintendent Sherrard of the Sioux Falls Children’s Home appeals for families to foster or adopt. The home now shelters forty two children aged 2 to 6, the largest number ever under its roof, and to proceed with care the staff asks immediate inspection by prospective adoptive parents.
Stockmen in Butte County appeal to state authorities for aid as anthrax devastates large cattle herds north of Belle Fourche. In ten days 20 to 50 cattle died on several ranches. Authorities order burning of animals that died and separate diseased stock to prevent spread. The effort will cost thousands and require extensive work.
In Watertown circuit court Judge George H. Marquis hears E M Barker editor of the Saturday News against Eastwoods publishers of the Herald. Demurrer overruled finding the article libelous per se. Trial set for next term. Damages sought amount to 5000 for forgery in disposing of a county warrant.
The State Board of Pardons met on Thursday and recommended a pardon for John H. Laskin who was sentenced from Butte county on a forgery charge. Applications of John Nevins of Lawrence county and Ed Lynch of Hutchinson county, both serving robbery sentences, were reviewed. Charles Wilmer of Turner county saw his statutory charge denial considered.
Gregory is preparing for the Rose bud rush. HE. O. Culp, manager of the Gregory opera house, is in Omaha and Sioux City buying beds and bedding to fill the house for public accommodation. The house will hold about 200 beds.
Jerry Saunders living north of Philip was seriously injured when his horse fell with him. In the struggle to rise the horse kicked him, fracturing his skull into twenty one pieces. The county fair at Miller closed after a three day exhibit of farm products and some good racing.
Kermit Roosevelt and Seth Bullock arrived in Pierre on Thursday from a hunting expedition west of the river and began return travel east Friday afternoon.
The cornerstone of a new Christian Science church in Watertown has been laid. The edifice is expected to cost about 20 thousand dollars.
Codington county superintendent B. C. Tankesley warns of school vacancies next year as the supply of teachers falls short of demand across public schools.
Miss Mary Feister, a young girl, claimed the baby girl found nude but alive in a corn field near Gayville is hers. The case had unsettled locals until her assertion identified the infant and linked the mystery to a single caretaker.
A compact chronology listing events from 1435 Arras treaty to 1907 naval and political developments. Key items include Henry IV’s 1589 victory at Arques, Hudson’s 1609 Albany site, Quebec surrender in 1759, 1776 Harlem Heights attack, 1788 Oneida lands, 1863 Lincoln’s habeas corpus suspension, Garfield’s death 1881, and the 1907 Franco Canadian treaty.
A fire damaged the Phelps granite bank building in Binghamton NY with estimated losses of seventy five thousand dollars. The report notes a petition from minority stockholders asking the state to appoint a receiver for the bank. Also mentions real estate values and local Italian community mourning the death of Father Joseph Bradley at Coney Island.
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