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Newspaper
Algona Advance
Location
Algona, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 29, 1906
Page
6
Captain of the mail steamer Ofincao accuses the Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse crew of causing a fatal collision. Thirteen persons dead as liners crash head on. Officials and rescuers work through wreckage and sea fog to recover victims.
The report states the Orinoco did not cause the disaster. It signalled a starboard move while the WIL helm held course, crossing bows and forcing the Orinoco to part. A collision then occurred with the German vessel, creating a twelve foot breach in its starboard bow.
At Southampton on November 24 thirteen people were killed in a collision between the Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse and the Royal Mail steamer Orinoco. The Wilhelm carried 1160 passengers. the Orinoco was en route to New York. Four German crew and nine others died. many emigrants were among the injured. Both ships backed away and headed to Southampton for repairs, with passengers to be reassigned to the SS Paul and the Lorraine.
Filmt Michigan November 24 a Saginaw division freight nears when a girl on the track waves a red flannel petticoat and forces a stop. She boards the cab and hands a note to the fireman asking if he wants her as a wife or if he is fooling. Responses say the act stemmed from a flirtation with the engine crew member.
Nov 4 Chicago reports Budnitzky, a worker, who faced ridicule for his surname. He proposed marriage to a young woman, she refused to change hers, and he sought a legal name change. Judge Windes granted permission, making him Simon Vaney.
New York reports the French woman claiming Baroness Anas tagie Louise De Massy faces police charges in the murder of Gus Simon, a wealthy shirtwaist manufacturer. The case centers on identity allegations and criminal proceedings as details emerge.
Cigago Nov 24 the supreme court may decide if a rail line can issue transportation in exchange for advertising in newspapers as part of the new rate law. Monon railroad officials contend contracts were made in good faith and seek clarity on whether payments must be money only while continuing contracts with publishers and awaiting Interstate Commerce Commission guidance.
Chicago dispatch reports railroads intend a broad economy to fund higher employes wages. Freight rates to rise to recover payroll costs, with a projected $100,000,000 cut in expenditures over twelve months. Officials warn dividends may fall as carriers face high wages and equipment costs. Also noted: Lake Superior company to issue stock to Great Northern holders, with Hill family trustees managing the transfer amid ore land leasing to the steel trust.
In New York on November 24 Alexander Petchnikoff the renowned violinist, husband of a wealthy Chicago woman, is preparing for a Carnegie Hall recital. His mother, living in a cold tenement at 1577 Madison Avenue, recalls years of hardship in Moscow selling wood to feed him and laments his refusal to help her as she says, “He refuses to heed his mother.”
A woman died after a spate of six incendiary fires struck a town area. Police and fire crews responded to multiple blazes, with investigators tracing the incidents to determine whether they are linked and identify suspects.
James J. Hill, head of the Great Northern railroad, testifies at Interstate Commerce Commission hearings in Minneapolis on railroad grain service. He denies stock ownership by railroad men on rival lines, discusses elevator siting, new non transferable contracts, and freight-rate reductions while noting congestion from western traffic and farmers not getting full value for some grain classes.
George Dillon, 18, an $8 a week clerk with Fruit and Produce Trade, Mesochation, was arrested in New York on charges of unusual fraud. He waived examination at Tombs police court and is held on $2,600 bond. Ward W. Smith, manager of the Fruit and Produce Trade association and American Copper and Gold company, identified Dillon as the culprit. Assistant district attorney says Dillon used Ventration letterheads to urge investments in Eastern Trust at $100 a share and collected over $19,000 from victims.
In San Francisco Judge Dunn postponed the mayor Schmitz and Ruef cases to December 3 on defense counsel Henry Act's request. The state promotion committee denied theft charges against earthquake relief funds, stating that out of more than $6,000,000 contributed, only about $1,500 in two packages went into transit.
Federal Judge Holt fined the New York Central $18,000 for rebating freight charges to American Sugar Refining. The sugar company had been found guilty of taking rebates totaling $26,000. Two counts were in the indictments against the Central, with $168,000 already imposed on the first count.
In Council Bluffs on November 24 Hugh Silcott of Omaha wed Grace Woodford, after Omaha employers required married managers. Silcott had pursued promotion to a second branch office, and the marriage followed his move to Council Bluffs where he and Grace were married at her parents' home.
In the building where 130 years earlier he signed the nation’s charter, the body of James Wilson was brought from North Carolina for interment and lay in state hours before burial in the tomb of the great signers. Tributes were offered by Samuel Dickson, Governor Pennypacker, Wm. Draper, Judge Parker, Andrew Carnegie, Dr S Weir Mitchell, Supreme Justice White, and Attorneys General Moody and Carson.
New Orleans, November 24. William Hogar, 48, with a large family, killed himself rather than witness his brother Raymond be hanged for a murder he had recently been convicted of. After a long family discussion he asked his wife for a dime to buy poison. She refused, but he later obtained her purse, bought carbolic acid with a remaining dime, and swallowed it before help arrived.
Helen Rosend thal niece of motor car magnate Alexander Winton was arraigned for vagrancy in Cleveland police court after being found wandering in the Ellington apartments basement nearly clothed. Police suspect she was drugged and robbed. she had no jewels or money. Mrs. Esterbrook identification ties the girl to the Winton family.
Six Oberlin College students were expelled after a young woman threatened breach of promise suits. The girl's attorneys approached a prominent student to pay her money to avoid suit, targeting five others who allegedly wooed her. Three students chose to fight, while the faculty confronted the matter and moved to remove all six from the college.
Washington D C November 24 The recruiting regulations were amended to require at least four serviceable teeth for applicants two upper and two lower. If an applicant lacks this dental standard he shall be rejected to protect mastication and enlistment quality.
In a Chicago era telegraph report several drownings are listed as boats and crews suffered during the late November storm. The Athens barge, towed by the Pratt, sank with Captain Mackey of Milwaukee and six crewmen lost. Nearby near Peola two engineers from the Great Western corps died when a boat capsized after striking a sunken rock. The Lurline and Cascade collided in the Portland river, but all aboard escaped. A British gunboat Robin stranded near Kumebull with no fatalities. Four men missing after Holland harbor storm were drowned.
Charlie McMullen and Garey Gammite are named in Des Mane Hotel death by own action. The report notes the deaths occurred in a single incident described as self-inflicted. Local authorities investigated. no evidence of foul play was reported.
Fragmentary text from Brand Rapids Michigan appears to mention a wife and a kites event or item with unclear context and names unreadable. Readers should refer to original page for full detail.
Chicago officials investigate mysterious infant abandonment on North Halsted Street. A one month old girl found on a front porch at 102 Clifton Avenue wrapped in a basket with a milk bottle and Milwaukee newspaper clippings. A note pinned to the child's clothing pleaded with John J. Garrity to care for the baby, suggesting the mother intended suicide. Detectives search for the mother and potential links to an earlier arrival in Chicago.
Muncie Ind Nov 23 After two years of complaints and four trials a divorce was granted Walter D B Petty to Mrs Maude Petty of Denver Colo The husband alleged his wife tickled his feet with a feather while he was bedridden by illness The couple ran away to Newport Ky and wed when they were both 17 despite parental objections
In Frankfort Indiana on November 28 a prisoner William Dukes serving a year for a horse shooting wed Miss Dora Wharry daughter of the jail matron. Dukes, angered by a rival suitor, gained extra liberties and joined the jail inmate company for the ceremony in a rare county jail romance.
Alpheus Peter Hawes, a wealthy Berkeley mining man, remarried his divorced wife Hannah Eleanor Hawes at Burke's sanitorium Altruria in Oakland. He died within a week, comforted by the reunion in his final days.
Pittsburg Pa Nov 23 Nearly twenty years after James Wadsworth death his widow buried the cremation ashes from the urn once kept on the mantelpiece of their Allegheny home. The husband had wished cremation and the wife had kept the urn as a prominent memento until arranging burial with Undertaker Lowrey.
Grace Gallatin Seton, wife of Ernest Thompson Seton, protests a New Haven Railroad route from Greenwich through Cos Cab valley toward Ridgenfels claiming the line would spoil grounds used as summer camps for Bay Indian tribes from New York New Jersey and Connecticut.
Sterling Tl reports the state pure food commission has launched a crusade after Benjamin Lefever fell seriously ill from eaten Wienerwurst. The event signals heightened scrutiny of processed meats and calls for stricter standards in food safety and labeling.
President Roosevelt arrived in Ponce at dawn aboard the battleship Louisiana, greeted by Governor Winthrop and Mayor Oppenheimer. Crowds packed the pier and streets, flowers fell from arches, and the president spoke on citizenship for Porto Rico and self government. He toured Roosevelt High School and then moved to San Juan, where officials welcomed him at the governor’s palace amid elaborate decorations.
Washington Nov 23 The War Department issued a statement confirming that the discharge proceedings for the enlisted men of three companies of the Twenty fifth Infantry at Fort Reno will continue without delay. The secretary of war delayed to seek the president’s direction but upon return felt justified in proceeding after considering rehearing arguments.
Wabash Indiana November 23. City officials plan to test a drug company cure for alcoholism on Mrs Tish Higgins a well known local character who has been arrested about sixty times. Mayor Joseph W Murphy approved the plan contingent on Higgins agreeing to participate while she is confined for intoxication.
New York November 23 Count Bont de Castellane may command high status by dining under personal supervision in a Broadway restaurant if he accepts a brokered offer. J B Martin proprietor of Cafe Martin wired a possible contract offering 50 000 francs a year to become major domo and oversee restaurant privileges with immediate effect.
A local court issued an injunction halting a marriage. The order, filed by parties including A Noy and Rogers, halts the wedding proceedings pending further legal action. Details remain limited in the readable fragment.
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