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Newspaper
Williston Graphic
Location
Williston, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jan 16, 1908
Page
7
In the game opinion, the writer recalls a man once engaged to a woman as having seen better days, reflecting on past events and changes in fortune.
A tank in a moving picture scene exploded during a performance at the Rhoades opera house. A rush to exit caused a deadly stampede down crowded stairways and from windows. Dozens are killed and many more injured, with families wiped out and bystanders rushing to rescue.
In a dramatic dialogue a bride asks Henry if he still loves her as the ocean liner pitches the ship. He proclaims love, but she blurts that the assurance does not comfort her.
Clin ton Maine resident E E Chamberlain says Bucklen's Arnica Salve “does the business” by curing piles and healing an old sore without a scar. Available for 25 cents at Browne ll's drug store.
In Lake Crystal Minnesota January 14 a Lasalle bank on the Minneapolis and St. Louis line was blown but the robbers abandoned the plan after alarm. They stole a horse and buggy, fled toward Omaha tracks, and were captured about five miles from town with no weapons found. They refuse to name themselves and claim innocence. now jailed.
Four masked men robbed James O'Leary's saloon in Inver Grove Dakota County at about 10 50 p m as saloons were closing. O'Leary and four others were playing cards when the bandits demanded the loot and fled with a gold watch valued at five and twenty dollars and sixty five dollars from the players. The incident occurred just before closing time and the saloon’s 11 p m curfew.
Ottawa reports postmaster general H. Lemieux declares his Japan mission and part of the Canadian government a total success. He praises cordial Japanese relations, notes immigration as a key issue, and emphasizes Canada’s status in the British empire alongside remarks on the Vancouver affair.
Danville Illinois January 11 Danville reports Willam J Bryan predicts Speaker Joseph G Cannon of Illinois will be Republican presidential candidate and will oppose him He criticizes administration actions and calls for financial reforms including curbing eastern banks Wall Street and wealth centralization in his Illinois campaign banquet speech.
New York dispatch reports eighty eviction actions on Thursday as Monroe Street filled with displaced furnishings. Both sides claim progress with near-even honors as tenants paid withheld rents or secured monthly concessions of one to two dollars.
Mason City Iowa January 11 three long known Iowa pioneers died within minutes of each other at midnight G B Rockwell aged 80 founder of the City of Rockwell Elton A Tuttle aged 85 of Clear Lake who built the first frame house in Lake township and W J Bowie aged 70 a boatman at Clear Lake for 35 years The deaths occur in a brief local obituary style noting their age and contributions.
Minneapolis and South St Paul markets report prices for wheat barley rye and flax seed with values for No 1 northern and No 2 mer teya, butter creamery extras and firsts, poultry prices for turkeys and chickens, and cattle hogs and sheep with steer cows and muttons prices as of January 13.
Austin C. Sexton once active in Chicago politics died at his daughter’s home in Hammond Indiana after a weeklong illness. Born August 15 1852 he was a Chicago pioneer and lived in a house his father built at Michigan Street and La Salle Avenue.
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