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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1908
Page
3
Orange judge Ivay of Ne Jy ruled a man may swear in his own home despite a wife’s complaint about profanity. Mrs Wright sought action to curb bad language around her children but the judge dismissed the case, saying it did not warrant intervention to improve home atmosphere.
Railway workers are implicated in a broad theft scandal across the Lokaida line. Investigations revealed systematic pilfering by porters and staff at Mlabava station with twenty porters arrested and others examined. Home searches uncovered goods valued at about 2,000 yen.
Mrs. N Pettit of Hot Springs Arkansas was assaulted by an unidentified assailant who beat her nearly unconscious, gagged her with a liquor-soaked rag, bound her to a bed with wire, and placed matches in her mouth to ignite if she moved. Her husband returned home two hours later and freed her. she fainted and remains in danger from nervous exhaustion.
A well known Democratic politician, intoxicated, entered Mayor Rose of Milwatdes office with a drawn revolver declaring intent to kill. Disarmed by the mayor's bodyguard, no arrest was made. The man, lifelong friend of the mayor, felt he did not receive expected political rewards from the mayor's election last spring.
A multi state legal action led by the Attorneys General of four states seeks to dissolve a suspected price fixing trust in Jamber with suits in Missouri Texas Oklahoma and a concurrent case in Lyon County. Also reports a Chicago pathologist links toxins to deaths in Aberdeen South Dakota and Gunness cases. Two women drown in Lake Minnewaska after a rowboat capsizes. Lila Vane Cook is freed in a Wheeling murder trial. Pogle Savings and Loan executives in New York indicted for grand larceny.
In Cincinnati, William Howard Taft accepted the Republican nomination amid a large demonstration. Taft pledged to uphold Roosevelt policies, praising party standards and addressing the crowd from the colonial portico near his brother Charles P Taft’s residence, once a city outlying area now surrounded by business districts.
The peach becomes dominant in the fruit world with Georgia leading as the top peach growing state. 8,000,000 bearing trees could yield about 3,000,000 baskets of eighteen quarts, with sixty percent sold at orchards. Canaries resume buying peaches from Delaware and Maryland orchards to ship by water due to high rail rates for perishables. Meanwhile, child labor studies in DC show 75 of 1,600 boys under 16 rejected for health concerns. women’s health generally better, though death rates rise with female labor parity in some countries. George Republic founder William R. George plans a new republic location in Pittsburg. UW President Van Hine named by Roosevelt to the Committee of Conservation. Heat wave worsens baby mortality citywide.
We are anxious to prevent even an appearance of injustice to Iahot in issuing injunctions, not in the spirit of favoritism, to any set of our followers, but in the interest of justice to all.
The piece reports Taft outlining a progressive yet restrained federal role to combat unlawful trusts, with Roosevelt’s policies cited as guiding the Republican platform. It notes calls for stronger supervision of large corporations and harsher action against violators, reflecting early 20th century reform debates. Additional items touch on crop reports from Georgia and South Jersey, and education plans for New York City youths.
At Chicago a contentious Independence party convention nominated Thoms L Hisgen of Massachusetts for president and John Temple Graves of Georgia for vice president. A scene nearly turned violent when Jones I Shepard of Kansas urged Bryan candidacy, was escorted out, and expelled by the party. The platform calls for recall, public ownership of utilities, government currency, postal savings, roads, eight hour federal work, anti child labor, anti bucket shops, railroad valuation, larger navy, anti Asiatic immigration, inmate labor reform, anti trust actions, and a national health bureau.
Coroner Mack received Dr Walter Haines Rush Medical College Chicago analysis of the stomachs of Mrs Belle Gunness and two children. The report finds strychnine and arsphenamine in fatal amounts in all three stomachs. The sensational finding strengthens theories of Mrs Gunness murder and Ray Lamphere’s alleged role in the killings.
The Minnesota state treasury holds 3 013 274 dollars in the strong box the largest on record. Insurance statistics over fourteen years show total premiums paid of about 872 04H 000 and losses around 87 000 000. For two and a half months Ste Lake county commissioners paid a ten cent bounty on crows, killing 2 800 birds.
The Weekly Review of Chicago radion notes money in investment and buoyant securities reflect an improving business climate. Crop reports are encouraging, returns profitably rising, and demand for finished goods grows. Bank payments steady, construction plans advance, and factory activity nears capacity, especially in rails and metal goods. Weather aids retail, and lumber demand rises with more building. Bank clearings dip slightly versus 1987.
Bradstreet's report notes moderate expansion in future buying at large centers, especially in the West and Southwest, with ra vivat seen in demand but persistent curtailment of industry and small immediate orders. Retail trade remains fair with price sales, while stocks move slowly and collections show little improvement. Best signals come from central West Northwest Southwest and cotton outlook strengthens South. US weekly failures total 263, Canada 24.
The report lists current price ranges for cattle hogs sheep and grains across Chicago Indianapolis St Louis Cincinnati Detroit Milwaukee Buffalo New York Toledo and Nome while noting spring gold output in Nome totaling 3 500 000 dollars The data captures bid ranges for cattle hogs sheep wheat corn oats rye butter eggs and carrots with regional variations and a final line indicating Nome gold production estimates.
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