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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 21, 1910
Page
4
In a Sunday summary items note the rapid rise of the Louisiana rice crop as a major Southern staple. Other items reference a New York church pledge of 168000 dollars, injuries in a Baltimore and Ohio streetcar collision, and various political and legal developments across the United States.
Dr William Miller and Mrs Lucy Sayler Yoth were convicted of manslaughter in Watseka Illinois for the Sayler murder. Miller jailed twelve years and Mrs Sayler three. John Grunden acquitted. Jury had twelve ballots. defense may appeal.
Mrs. Jeannette Florence Stern a former Chicago stenographer now in Indianapolis stated to police the details of a large coal graft scheme. Six men were arrested after a year of investigation in the Eclipse Coal Company network and related hotels and city interests. The case targets Henry Lawrence Claypool Hotel W B English and several coal firms.
A tornado tore through southeast of Pine Bluff causing extensive destruction. Homes stores and cottages were demolished and trees uprooted. A woman was blown from her home but unharmed after being lowered by rope from telephone wires. The storm uprooted fifty cottages and caused heavy rain flood damage.
The Interstate Commerce Commission orders lower rates on Pullman cars especially Chicago to the Northwest. Upper berths fall to three fourths of lower berth prices, with Chicago to Seattle dropping from 14 to 12 for lower and 10 for upper. Other routes like Chicago to St. Paul, Superior, Fargo, and Seattle see similar reductions, including a St. Paul to Seattle through rate cut from 12 to 10 for lower and 8.5 for upper berths.
Colorado mine owner Thomas F Walsh dies at his Washington home after more than six months illness from heart disease following pneumonia. His bedside circle included Mrs Walsh and Edward McLean. Walsh had traveled from San Antonio to see his infant grandson, the millennial baby, before death. His wealth was estimated up to forty million dollars and he had suffered two family tragedies, his son Vincent killed in an auto crash and daughter Evelyn severely injured.
Baltimore and Ohio railroad to replace women with men in stenography clerk and telegraph operator roles. Auditors and statisticians find male workers perform 30 percent more efficiently and accurately on average. Existing female staff will remain until leaving, then be replaced by men.
Four armed desperadoes with rifles held off a crowd of about thirty at a Lane city hotel for an hour as they blasted the Citizens State bank vault. After two initial explosions, they fled toward Virgil eight miles away having stolen a preacher’s rig and alarmed local residents.
Ten switchmen employed by the Kansas City Southern Railroad were arrested in a scheme to steal goods in transit. An estimated 60 000 to 100 000 dollars of merchandise has been taken over two years, with a 3 000 dollar shortage reported last month. Accused include Joseph Fitzgerald Frank Jones C Culver B R Stafford H A Bagwell M Allen J P Murphy C C Hiatt G C Brewer and L C Parlin. In one case a carload of potatoes was sidetracked near Sheffield Kansas City after ten brushings of tubers were removed and the rest abandoned.
Six firemen were burned to death when a back draft trapped them behind barred doors and metal shutters during a jail blaze in New Haven Connecticut. Three colleagues were saved as other firefighters fought the blaze and others suffered burn injuries.
Readable fragments show whimsical notes on spring cleaning in Etna and Dr. Cook visiting many places, plus stray jokes about hats, New York murder artistry, Uncle Sam exporting goods, and pork chop headlines. Contains mixed era newspaper tone and nonsensical phrasing.
The House passed the naval appropriation bill by 162 to 110, authorizing two battleships at 6 million each and funding two fleet colliers and four submarines. The measure, totaling 128 million plus, mandates eight hour law compliance for the two battleships and two colliers. Amendments sought one or three ships but failed.
Two masked robbers tried to halt the Pioneer Limited from Chicago on the Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul line, near the Dalles region in Wisconsin. Conductor A. P. Shumway fought one attacker with a lantern and escaped into the sleeping car after the robbers cut the air hose. The pair fled. two colored men were detained in LaCrosse hours later on suspicion.
Champaign resident Charles Dukes of Champaign is charged after police find $200 in counterfeit currency in Winona Minnesota. The notes are single sided counterfeit bills, mostly $10, with a paste box to join halves. Dukes allegedly received the money in Chippewa Falls Wisconsin via a Chicago letter.
A Pittsburg woman identified her missing brother from a moving picture of a baseball game shown in a cinema. She traced the clip to Detroit, then traveled there and located him.
Engineer Edward Mahaney of Cleveland was instantly killed when Big Four passenger train No. 41 plowed into a freight engine at Gallon Ohio due to a mis reading of orders. Several passengers were shaken up and bruised but no serious injuries reported.
A testimonial style notice touts Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as curing female ailments after years of suffering. It cites Mrs Ep from Park Rapids Minnesota and Mrs Koriso from Brookville Ohio, praising improved health, regularity, and nerves. The ad claims many cures and invites readers to write for free advice to Mrs Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts.
In Chicago Tribune excerpts, Mrs. Shanklin seeks medical advice from a doctor after her husband asks for a discreet approach to stopping her corset use. The physician recommends deep breathing for lung and chest muscle relief, while Mrs. Shanklin insists her decision to quit corsets is voluntary.
A visitor tours a sandy soil town around the Pullman area. The host, a company stockholder, touts the area as producing the juiciest melons in the world despite sparse vegetation.
A Brooklyn man details how his eleven month old baby, once pale and hungry, thrived after his mother fed him Grape-Nuts soaked in milk with sugar. The letter praises Grape-Nuts as a nourishing, easily digested food for babies and adults, and mentions the book The Road to Wellville.
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