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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 07, 1910
Page
6
County Superintendent Joseph of Delaware launches a contest inviting eighty participants to plant one-half bushel of Swedish oats on an eighth acre plot. Entries must report monthly progress, with a prize for the greatest yield. Seeds imported from Canadian growers urged for comparison with each participant’s father’s crop.
John Vernon, a 55-year-old farmer near Pleasantville, was found dead hanging by a rope in his corn crib driveway. Family members discovered him. he appeared to have died over an hour earlier. He suffered spinal injuries in a 5-year-old runaway accident. authorities note possible brain involvement from spinal complications.
Changes to schedule the Iowa G A R encampment shift the convention to June 8 through June 10 in Des Moines. The move coincides with the national Ladies of the G A R and state W R C and 0 Y conventions, affecting thousands of attendees.
Harry Schultz, a young Lenox Township farmer in Iowa County, became violently insane after chasing his mother and brother from home. He shot August Schlogman three times, injuring him, then was taken to Marengo and declared insane by insanity commissioners. Sheriff Owen seized Schultz’s revolver and razor during the incident while he attempted to sign a Republican sheriff nomination paper.
About 270000 coal workers halted work amid disputed terms, with unions and operators calling it a suspension rather than a strike. Output declines nationwide, though nonunion and nonaffected regions may offset losses as wage talks continue. internal UMW tensions could prolong the stoppage beyond initial expectations.
Eddie Fay, famed as a master burglar once dubbed the trickiest criminal, is under arrest in New York for the Richmond Virginia post office robbery worth 85,000 dollars. Chicago postoffice inspectors had searched for him six years and linked him to earlier cases including a 75,000 dollar Chicago post office robbery in 1901 and a 1902 Superior Wisconsin case. He escaped from a Janesville Wisconsin jail in 1904 while awaiting trial and had eluded inspectors since.
The young Tsarevich Alexei, nearly six, vanished from the imperial court and palace grounds causing panic in Russia. Soldiers searched the region, a bystander led to him three miles from the palace, and the Empress rewarded the woman with a bracelet after his safe return.
Evangelist Pat Crowe, famed for kidnapped Eddie Cudahy years ago, was driven out of Omaha after a night of disturbances. Police detained him but opted to banish him, giving two hours to leave the city. He crossed the river into Iowa promptly.
Twenty five women and children perished in a deadly blaze that gutted a slate cotton warehouse in Bhilwara district Rajputana India. Fire brigade battled flames as investigators probed the cause of the large, deadly incident.
George Scott of Kansas City Missouri was killed and J Wilson of Manhattan Kansas was seriously injured in an automobile accident near Topeka Kansas. The report notes the two men as the principal occupants of the vehicle involved in the crash. Authorities investigated at the scene and fatalities and injuries were confirmed.
Experiments at Tragg Orchard Rockford Indiana compare two plots in an orchard of 2900 trees. Sprayed trees yielded two bushels per tree versus under one fifth bushel per tree in unsprayed plots. Overall orchard gain estimated around 5000 bushels with modest extra expense.
Practical farm notes discuss turning feed into marketable pork, alfalfa use for cows with a high fat yield, oil meal supplementation, and disease remedies for poultry. Emphasis on cost efficiency, seed corn quality, cowpeas soil benefits, and strict hygiene in poultry houses.
A major blaze at L Fish & Co furniture store in Chicago claimed twelve lives. Eleven victims perished on the sixth floor while a 19 year old girl died after leaping from a glass awning. Firemen failed to reach victims as flames surged, with no front fire escape noted. Estimated loss about 250000 dollars.
Justice David Josiah Brewer of the U S Supreme Court collapsed and died at his Washington home just after 11 PM from heart disease. He was 73, serving on the court since 1889, born in Smyrna, Asia Minor, with liberal judicial leanings that could affect pending tobacco and Standard Oil decisions.
Catherine Manz, 10, charged with murdering her sister by strychnine, pleads not guilty and waives preliminary examination. She is jailed in Canton awaiting grand jury action likely in May. She claims a mysterious man named Murray gave two quinine tablets. Police doubt the man exists. Relatives hire attorneys. lunacy inquiry possible. Auto accident in Sterling kills two and injures three.
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