Elgin Echo World Summary of 1909 Events
A collage of dramatic reports: Ruth Wheeler found burningly missing in New York. Manila reports eight men wounded or killed by a Charleston gun explosion. Hungary dance tragedy claims hundreds. Justice Brewer dies after stroke. Roosevelts Cairo visit stirs mobs. Menelik II reportedly dead. Tariff, strikes, and legal cases ripple across the U.S. and Canada. mergers, airship plans, stock rules, and a cosily broad news panorama from Geneva to Chicago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ruth Wheeler
New York
Manila
United States
Charleston
Wisconsin
Severn
Hungary
Justice Brewer
United States Supreme Court
Bessie Mitchell
Chicago
Lorain
Theodore Roosevelt
University of Cairo
Menelik II
Abyssinia
Canada
Albert Walter
Admiral Fournier
Japan
Gaynor
Salt Lake City
New York Stock Exchange
Lava floods Sicily as Etna erupts uprooting villages
Official report from Mount Huna district cites a grave eruption with four new craters near Mount Castellozzo four miles from Mount Hina. Lava streams join to form a river of molten rock, destroying vineyards, orchards, and homes up to fifteen miles from source. Peasants flee with possessions as rains of ash fall and cisterns explode under heat.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mount Huna
Mount Castellazzo
Mount Hina
Jaya
Aro
Mount Etna
Harrelo
Senator Allds Found Guilty of Bribery in New York Senate
After a seven week inquiry the New York Senate convicted Senator Jotham P Allds of Norwich of taking a $1,000 bribe to influence bridge legislation. The 40 to 9 vote led to his resignation and a push for broader bribery probes, with ex Senator Allds planning civil action for damages.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West
Col. Roosevelt
Cairo
Alexander Agassiz
Calumet-Hecla Mining Company
Dunes J, Hin
Harriman
Oregon
New York
Allds
New York Senate
Jotham P. Allds
Norwich
Altds
Senate
Washington
Benn Conger
Conger
Drag Houses To Hills As Missouri River Rages
The Missouri River has displaced Barney Nebraska residents moving homes to higher ground. The town has lost farms and infrastructure including an eighty foot bridge, the schoolhouse, the grain elevator, and railroad tracks. A new town will be built on higher ground beyond the river.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Barney
Neb
Missouri
Burlington
Dry petitions thrown out in Chicago aldermanic vote
Chicago will not vote on banning licensed saloons and moving to prohibition at spring aldermanic elections. The Board of Election Commissioners struck down the Anti Saloon League petition, finding only 19,283 of 63,511 names valid. They flagged 20,128 as non voters and 3,620 as doubtful, with about 2,200 obviously fictitious names and thousands of others questioned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Board of Election Commissioners
Anti-Saloon League
Weta
Miners' Fight Emerges From Coal Field Plans
President T L Lewis warns in Cincinnati that despite a framework avoiding a country wide strike, Pennsylvania and Illinois will be tied up with about 190,000 miners affected. Ohio employs 60,000 miners, with 35 million tons produced. Pittsburgh district holds 120,000 affected in Pennsylvania. Canadian mines would delay any strike due to thirty day notice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Coal Miners’ International Convention
T. L. Lewis
Miners’ Union
Cincinnati
Pennsylvania
Illinois
United States
Ohio
Lewis
Pittsburg
Fanny Crosby, 90, Still Writing Hymns in Bridgeport
The blind hymn writer Fanny Crosby turned ninety at her niece Mrs. H. D. Booth’s Bridgeport home. Born March 24, 1820 in Southeast New York, she says she has written thousands of hymns and remains active, noting her blindness sharpened other faculties and brought blessing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bridgeport
Fanny Crosby
H. D. Booth
Suffrage Protests Spur Female College Pact and Tax Picketing
Radical suffrage activism draws attention as women at Wellesley Smith Bryn Mawr and other colleges vow not to marry until 500 men join the cause. Chicago activists form a No Vote No Tax league picketing a city office and urging tax nonpayment under the banner of enforcing voting rights.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wellesley
Smith
Vascar
Bryn Mawr
Radelitte
James T. McCleary
Minnesota
Committee On the Judiciary
Congress
Sama
Chicago
Tanton
League
Gun bursts on U S Cruiser Charleston
Unofficial report from Manila claims a great gun aboard the U S protected cruiser Charleston exploded during target practice near Olongapo. Eight men reported dead or wounded as the ship heads toward Manila to take victims to the marine hospital. Rear Admiral John Hubbard commands the Asiatic fleet, with Commander John H. Gibbons in charge of the Charleston.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charleston
Manila
United States
Qlongapo
Marine Hospital
John Hubbard
Assatic
John H. Gibbons
Million Dollar Kansas City River Freight Fund
Kansas City raised a public subscription totaling one million dollars to maintain a freight boat line on the Missouri River to St Louis. Merchants had pressed river transport as a cheaper alternative to rail. A demonstration at the boat line headquarters celebrated full funding and a telegram reminded Senator Burton of a 1906 promise for federal Missouri River aid.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
St. Louis
Missouri
Missouri River
Boat Ine
United States
Burton
National Rivers and Harbors Committee
Trapped killer shot dead after long siege in Pullman car
J H Bethea a South Carolina man killed a porter and conductor then barricaded himself in a Wilmington Delaware Pullman parlor car. He fired over 100 shots at officers, wounded two, and evaded police for 80 minutes before being drenched from a water hose and fatally shot on the station platform.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilmington
Del
J. H. Bethea
South Carolina
Traln
Baltimore and Ohio
Total cotton supply shown in six month period
Census figures for the six months ending February 28 show total cotton at 11,652,361 bales with 2,526,983 consumed, 4,699,682 exported, 1,874,331 held in mills, 1,932,621 in independent warehouses, and 818,844 in other stocks. As of September 1, 1909 holdings were 1,483,585 with gains during the period and net imports at 1,974,998 and 90,778.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cemany Muregu
Killer ends life after dynamite attack on girl’s home
Martin Kloone detonated dynamites at Northport Washington home of girl Jelligon after his infatuation and fled from capture by town marshal Kiting. When a crowd closed in he shot himself, abandoning all hope of escape.
Ruth Wheeler Case: Coroner Links Fireplace Death to Murder
Dr O Hanlon, coroner s physician, says Ruth Amos Wheeler was smothered while alive and burned in a fireplace at 224 East 76th Street New York. Walter Walters held in Tombs denies involvement while Katten Muller near relation is in custody amid police doubts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ruth Wheeler
Ruth Amos’ Wheeler
East 76Th Street
New York
O'Hanlon
Wheeler Girl
Captain Carey
Wolters
Bla
FIX UP TARIFF TROUBLES United States Canada agree peace terms
Peace terms have been agreed to avert a tariff war with Canada and will be proclaimed from Ottawa and Washington the day before the U S maximum tariff would take effect automatically. Canada will grant intermediate rates on a small list of articles not seriously competing with Canadian manufacture. Details are guarded, known only to Taft Knox Fielding Graham Laurier.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Etna
United States
Canada
Stewart
Pittsboro
Wickersham
Philippines
Ottawa
Eid Washington
Taft
Knox
Finance
W. S. Fielding
Railways
George P. Graham
Wilfrid Laurier
Dominion
Lectures by Dr Edward Meyer at Wisconsin Campus
Professor Edward Meyer of the University of Berlin lectures to University of Wisconsin students on ancient history. A Japan jury system debate runs lively with legal pros divided but leaning toward reform. Lieutenant Filchner plans a German South Polar expedition fronted by the army general staff and the geographical society, aiming to launch in October if funding is secured.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward Meyer
University of Berlin
University of Wisconsin
Fisehner
Army
Geographical Society
Filchner
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Helped Woman Recover
A Knoxville Iowa woman describes relief after a year of pain and weakness following use of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and Liver Pills. The ad extols Pinkham remedies for female ills and offers free advice from Mrs. Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts. It also includes a satirical note on American girls and European titles, contrasting perceptions of rank and nobility.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Knoxville
Iowan
Mra. Pinkham
Lydia E. Pinkham
Pinkham
Clara Fraxxs
BR. F.D
No.8
Knotville
Iowa
Lydia I. Pinkham
Reese Lydia B. Pinkham
Postum Beverages Boosts Health In Community Letter
A reader praises Postum, noting relief from coffee related discomfort after switching to the beverage. The letter describes improved appetite, energy, and color in a pale friend, and mentions a claim that Postum helps “make red blood.” The writer endorses the product and cites letter readers as genuine interest sources.
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Postum
Wellville
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