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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 05, 1923
Page
3
Secretary of the Interior and Indian Commissioner Burke prepare a Washington departure for Oklahoma to study tribal problems. Senate balance shifts with Senator Nicholson’s death and Colorado party change. Crec hical debt and US grant issues loom. stories cover accidents, fires, rail derailments, and notable deaths including Bernhardt and Nicholson.
A chaotic bulletin lists a Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul train crash near Faye neti with several injured and a fire killing mechanic Edwani Paley. It notes riots, arrests of Irish and Bulgarian suspects, Pan American talks, and rising tensions from China to Brazil, with rail and transport notes across ports, rivers, and cities.
In the fortieth general assembly, hundreds of bills faced disposal as 1,600 remained and Governor Kendall signed seventy new laws with ninety code revision bills awaiting action. A looming special session could force new laws and complicate code revision to meet the needs of counties and cities, while Meantime Meade and Caldwell tax bills moved through committees. Washington movings include Henry M. Dawes poised for Comptroller of the Currency and related Senate banking friction over McNary confirmation.
A 16 year old girl shot and mortally wounded Frederick W. Burnham sixty six at his Grand Central terminal office. After a second shot she killed herself. Police say motive linked to Burnham’s declared single status and prior talk of marriage. Burnham died at a Bellevue hospital.
An explosion at the Freeport home of William Wernecke near Leng destroyed the residence and killed Mrs. Wernecke and her daughter Lore while seriously injuring her husband and son Robert. John Stabenow, a farm hand, also affected. Wernecke was inspecting a carbide tank and held a lantern at the opening.
John D. Rockefeller Jr. holds 7,638,800 shares across nine major Standard Oil companies with a market value of 410.7 million dollars and annual dividends of about 11.0 million, per a Dow Jones & Co. compilation.
A Tokyo cable reports General Chang Tso Lin ordering mobilization of all troops to check Bolshevik forces advancing south into Manchuria amid a clash reported in Honolulu. The Japanese newspaper Nippu Jips relays the developing border tension and troop movements.
General William V. Judson, former Northwestern division army engineer based in Chicago, died in Winter Park Florida while seeking to regain his health. Fifty seven rebels killed in Paraguay fighting near Villarice as government forces forced their evacuation.
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