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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 20, 1910
Page
2
A derailed locomotive and twisted steel leave an engine driver in tears over a missing cap while a passenger conductor helps and then struggles to check his stopped watch. The wreck-master intervenes as rescuers sort the scene.
A. L. Goetzman urged Iowa millers to support the national federation’s campaign before the Interstate Commerce Commission to retain milling in transit rates. The gathering at Des Moines Chamberlain heard talks by E. McDonald and George A. Wells on crop reports, with officers re-elected for 1910 and Don Stearns named legislative chair to lead next year’s rate campaign.
Governors from thirty states met in Washington for a three day convention with Governor Willson of Kentucky presiding and delivering the opening address. The president welcomed the gatherers and jokingly urged a trial of the English system of government.
Scott county faces a dilemma with Harold Cole a twelve year old deemed incurable with tuberculosis. Davenport lacks a TB hospital and available facilities, forcing the juvenile and county boards to seek a placement without a suitable institution.
Word from Toledo Iowa details a repeat forger using the name George Sinclair after previously using George Marshall. He passed a bogus check on Landlord Ross at Hotel Toledo.
The Town State Association of Master Plumbers opened a three day convention in Cedar Rapids Iowa with strong attendance. Officers reported gains in membership and finances and the total membership rose to 206.
Will Milton a Creston youth with limited railroading experience died in Hastings while assisting with car switching. He fell from a top of a car to the track and was run over.
Sherman Fra ley former councilman and Louis Siegel former Fire Marshal were run down and seriously injured on West Second Street as a runaway team tore loose a fire plug flooding the street with water in Des Moines.
In North Dakota on January 19 an NP westbound passenger train derailed one mile west of Bluegrass. Eight cars and two engines went into a ditch after the train ran off the track while trying to regain time. No fatalities occurred though many passengers sustained injuries.
In New York 300 girl strikers gathered as Inez Milholland, famed defender of shirtwaist workers, was arraigned for refusing to disperse after a demonstration. She denied inciting a riot, saying she was visiting the strike district with Lieutenant Torney and did not provoke unrest. The magistrate paroled her until Monday.
Washington reports the House adopted the conference report on the Ballinger-Pinchot resolution. Six House members will form the Ballinger-Pinchot investigation committee, with minority picks James of Kentucky and Rainey of Illinois facing Republican insurgent criticism. The caucus and party factions will decide further appointments, while Hitchcock’s testimony prompts an independent probe alongside a joint congressional committee.
Judge Chetlain ordered the decree separating broker Willis Counselman from his former wife Lulu Counselman be set aside. The decision annuls Counselman and Clara French’s recent marriage.
Police report that the Black Hand society is linked to the kidnapping of Maria Maroccio a seventeen year old Italian girl who was seized in the street and bundled into a cab as she left home for work.
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