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Newspaper
The Potter Review
Location
Potter, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1914
Page
2
Deputies discharged their weapons into a crowd gathered outside a hall triggering chaos and injuries. Details on motive or arrests were not immediately available and the incident prompted a police investigation.
A meeting called by President Moyer to present a peace plan to miners in Butte, Montana, ended in gunfire from sheriff deputies. One bystander Ernest Noy was killed, two others wounded, and a spectator injured as three dynamite charges wrecked the union hall while shots rang from surrounding buildings.
A tornado struck Watertown Tuesday at 7 pm injuring several people and wrecking about fifty homes. The cyclone caused $100000 in damage, cut power and telephone lines, and blew out windows on an approaching Rock Island train. One injured man, Jack Ryan, was treated after taking refuge in a ditch.
Nicaraguan Minister Chammorro told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that German interests urged that the United States offer of 3 million dollars for canal rights and concessions was insufficient. Some senators doubted any official German approach while others suspected bankers involvement or a bluff by Nicaragua.
Davenport Iowa July 1 to 3 the International Sheriffs association announces its annual convention will be held in Lincoln Nebraska with Lin coln hosting officials and members from across the United States expected to attend.
In McAlester Oklahoma the United States court orders sale of the Oklahoma Central railroad trackage and rolling stock to satisfy debts totaling 4.1 million dollars. The auction is set for July 1 in Purcell Oklahoma.
President Wilson expressed a wish to forget the Mason and Dixon line in a letter to H B Joy of the Lincoln Highway Association. The note suggests a desire to erase a historic boundary in favor of a unified national road initiative.
Hillcrest Alberta June 22 reports from Canadian Pacific show 185 men still inside the burning Hillcrest mine after Friday’s blast. Twenty rescued alive and 23 bodies recovered. rescue teams and doctors arrived, with some workers entombed for a week-long search likely.
In a dramatic June tragedy near Fischamend and Koenigsberg a military airship the Koerting and a pursuing biplane collide after a risky display. The envelope tears and a massive explosion follows leaving nine crew and two aviators dead amid wreckage and scattered debris far from earth.
President Wilson announced the appointment of Rivers McNeil to succeed J. C. Ames as Chicago customs collector. In Marshfield Massachusetts memorial services were held to dedicate a tablet honoring Daniel Webster for his residence there during the final two decades of his life.
In Niagara Falls Ontario on June 24 the U S government invited representatives of General Carranza and General Huerta to meet for informal talks to pacify Mexico. Huerta delegates signaled willingness to deal with the constitutionalists through mediators as part of the plan. The approach aims to continue outside formal mediation with American counsel, after efforts for an armistice by mediators failed.
Storm on Lake Michigan imperiled hundreds and triggered dramatic rescues. About thirty yachts were caught six miles off Jackson Park harbor after returning from Michigan City races. Twelve boats reported missing. lifeboats, motor craft, and life-savers searched the choppy waters as ten men were rescued from a drifting float near Indiana Street led by Captain Carland.
Emerson Dietrich, twenty four and a Cornell graduate, was torn to pieces by five half starved lions in a Santa Fe railroad animal car at Clark and Sixteenth streets. Dietrich, manager of an animal act, entered the cage to inspect a year old cub injured in an accident. The incident occurred Sunday in Chicago.
In Springfield Illinois on June 23 Harry Forbes, thirty-two, shot dead his older brother Marion Forbes after being ordered out of a buggy for using profane language in the presence of his wife.
Frederick Joseph Teale a longtime friend of President Garfield and aide to abolitionist John Brown is dead at his home in Los Angeles. He was 77 born in England November 29 1836 and came to America at age six.
Italian authorities seek anarchists involved in riots during a general strike report several have departed for the United States.
Madison Wisconsin June 23 Miss Margaret Wilson daughter of President Wilson accepts editorship of the music department for the Social Center monthly magazine to start in August.
The Missouri Idaho and Illinois battleships, forming the practice squadron for Annapolis midshipmen, arrived at Gibraltar on June 23 to participate in naval exercises and drills.
In Muncie Indiana June 23 a brief snow shower occurred with temperatures near 100 degrees. The snow fell steadily for about half an hour and blew in open office windows on higher floors before melting before reaching the ground.
George W. Smith an instructor in psychology at the University of Chicago and Harvard 1903 graduate was found dead in bed in his brother Edwin's Philadelphia apartment on June 23.
Jesse R. Grant, son of former President Ulysses S. Grant, is named as defendant in a suit filed by his wife Elizabeth to compel a trust company to pay her a sum sufficient for her support.
A high court ruling affirmed petroleum as a mineral, invalidating a grant clause. The decision values grant properties at over 700 million dollars, affecting ownership and future development rights.
Supreme Court voided patent clauses giving railroads oil lands but allowed challenge by direct action. It upheld long and short haul freight reductions for Spokane and Intermountain cities, limited interstate regulation, and ruled on Kentucky Harvester and Cuban sugar cases with mixed outcomes for government and industry.
Ottaway Illinois June 24 The grand jury report names 121 indictments against four bank officials of the Tonica Exchange bank insolvent last November The bank's liabilities reach 500000 and it will pay only 20 cents on the dollar Trustee Frank Richey says the defendants were released on bonds.
Tecumseh Chieftain report on new drugs. Shubert forms large tennis club. C F Gordon candidate for sheriff in Otoe. West Point brick yard activities. Stella meat market stake sale. Hastings carnival manager fined for domestic case. Geneva wheat outlook. Walter Henry dies by suicide near West Point. Kearney council bonds awarded. Table Rock farmers uneasy over army norms. Hastings burglary yields gold and cocaine. Auburn rider injured. Bridgeport horseman injured. Shubert district bank summer staff. Fremont play production by Beatrice Alderman. Meadow Grove will probate will. Verdigre sale to Papik. Irene Maricich exonerated in gun death case. Bradshaw Monitor changes in ownership. Rev Sey farewell. Guide Rock pool hall fire. David Stark saves child. Alma to Republican City editor Shaffer. Kalley appointed postmaster. People’s Independent Party Hastings convention July 28. Sutton bank case dismissed. Antelope and Richardson bank valuation declines. Rolla Gilbert injured. Nebraska swine industry upbeat per FE Russell. pens filling fast.
Washington June 24 Supreme court affirmed counts in a ruling against lumber dealers associations in Eastern states for blacklisting retail dealers. The decision holds their conduct as a conspiracy in restraint of trade and requires cessation.
Robert Collier faces the electric chair at Michigan City prison for the killing of John Cain. His execution is scheduled for October 16. Collier reportedly laughed when the death sentence was imposed.
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