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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 20, 1909
Page
2
A derailed locomotive wreck left one engineer battered but alive, crying over a lost new cap. A passenger conductor aided during the crisis, then frantically checked a stopped watch via a matchbox, before the wreck-master briskly roused him.
Des Moines Jan 19 millers of Iowa urged support for the national federation in its bid to retain milling in transit rates before the Interstate Commerce Commission The talks stressed that abolition of milling in transit would ruin many milling men and affect lumber interests Officials elected to lead the Iowa Millers Association for 1910 include E McDonald as president Ira Shambaugh vice president and E F Consigny secretary treasurer Don Stearns to chair the legislative committee E A Wells spoke on government and state crop reports.
Governors from thirty states met in Washington for a three day conference on state and national issues. Governor Willson of Kentucky opened the session as presiding officer and delivered the opening address. The president greeted the group with a playful nod toward trying the English system of government.
Iowa City reports Scott county cannot care for twelve year old Harold Cole an incurable tuberculosis patient. The Davenport board of supervisors cannot find a facility as there is no TB hospital in Davenport no county home bed no juvenile home willing to admit consumptives and no private institution nearby to take him.
Word from Toledo Iowa reports the same forger who recently netted 75 dollars in Marshalltown now used the name George Sinclair. He passed a worthless check on Landlord Ross of Hotel Toledo claiming it was drawn by the Glidden Varnish Company of Cleveland.
The Iowa State Association of Master Plumbers opened a three day convention in Cedar Rapids on January 19 with strong attendance. Officer reports showed gains in both membership and finances for the year, bringing total membership to 206.
Will Milton, a rail worker from Creston who had only recently begun railroading, was killed in Hastings when he fell from the top of a car while assisting in switching in the Hastings yards and was run over by a train.
Sherman Fraley, former councilman, and former Fire Marshal Louis Siegel were run down and seriously injured by a runaway team on West Second Street. A fire plug was torn loose and streets flooded with water.
A Northern Pacific westbound passenger train numbered 7 derailed one mile west of Bluegrass North Dakota while trying to regain lost time. Eight cars and two engines left the track. Of 190 passengers aboard, none were killed but many sustained injuries, varying in severity.
In New York 300 girl strikers gather as Inez Milholland a would be Harvard coed and defender of shirtwaist workers is arraigned charged with refusing to disperse after a demonstration near an east side factory. She denies inciting a riot and is paroled until Monday with Lieutenant Torney U S A corroborating her account.
The House adopted the conference report on the Ballinger-Pinchot resolution unanimously. Six House members will form the investigation committee with Democratic minority picks James of Kentucky and Rainey of Illinois provoking GOP opposition. The inquiry begins after Hitchcock testimony and precedes a possible joint committee probe.
Chicago report states Judge Chetlain ordered setting aside the decree separating broker Willis Counselman from Lulu Counselman which annuls his recent marriage to Clara French.
Chicago police report that the Black Hand is suspected in the kidnapping of seventeen year old Maria Maroccio. She was bundled into a cab as she left home for work. Local authorities pursue leads and warn the public.
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