Elgin Echo World News Roundup from 1909 Era
A sweeping Elgin Echo summary lists international diplomatic shifts with Taft reforms on merit, Finland’s ruler shift to Grand Duke Nicholas, and a German gas reservoir blast. It notes Chicago crime probes, Boston banking scandals, and the era’s labor unrest including rail strike threats and wage demands nationwide.
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Grand Duke
Nicholas
Finland
John Drew
Phenix Fire Insurance Company
Brooklyn
United States
Chicago
Hamburg
Germany
Ionnesca
New York
Charlotta Willner
St. Paul
Hfé
Congress Opens Sixty-First Session in Washington
Congress begins its Sixty-first session with full chambers and a flood of bills. Vice President Sherman and Speaker Cannon ready gavels as adjournments honor deceased members. Notable early actions include a Sulzer resolution urging U S force to restore order in Nicaragua and punish Zelaya.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Sixty-first Congress
Sherman
Senate
Cannon
Congress
Johnson
North Dakota
Lasalter
Virginia
DeArmond
Missouri
Fountain L. Thompson
W. W. McCredie
W. J. Moxley
Illinois
Postol
Sulzer
New York
House
Nicaragua
United States
Zelaya
Ruef Granted Bail After Health Review in San Francisco
Judge Cabaniss ordered the release of Abraham Ruef on $300,000 bail after three court appointed physicians reported on his health. Ruef, confined since November 18, had bail previously forfeited the day Prosecutor Francis J. Heney was shot in court. He also faces a fourteen year sentence for bribery involving a trolley franchise for the United Railroads.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ban Francisco
Cabaniss
San Francisco
Abraham Ruef
Ruef
Francis J. Heney
United Railroads
Cairo lynching case ends without indictments
State's Attorney Alexander Wilson says Arthur Alexander the Black man linked to Anna Pelley murder will not be brought from Urbana for trial this term due to local sentiment. No indictments are expected against those who helped plan or carry out the double lynching.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alexander Wilson
Arthur Alexander
Anna Pelley
Cairo
Urbana
Circuit Court
Deputy Sheriff Shot During Steel Strike Fallout
A Pennsylvania deputy sheriff Conway Crowley was shot and likely fatally wounded after pulling down a black flag raised by striking workers near the Colonial Steel Company plant at Monaca near Pittsburgh. The mob of foreigners had defied authorities and attacked, with strikers displaying the flag and challenging police to intervene.
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Pennsylvania
Colonial Steel Company
Monaco
Pittsburg
Sheri Conway Crowley
Flng
Cherry Miners Disaster Inquest Focused On Rescue Efforts
Testimony from the coroner's inquest into the Cherry mine disaster centered on whether mine officers failed to promptly rescue trapped miners and if proper protections for miners at work were supplied and maintained by the mining company.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cherry
Cherry Mine
Auto Victim Found in River After Fatal Rescue Attempt
The body of Max Cohen was recovered from the Chicago River near Loomis street bridge confirming the fatal crash on November 7 at Jackson Boulevard bridge with chauffeur Ernest Camp. Cohen reportedly died trying to free his fiancé Beatrice Shapiro, whose body has not been found.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles W. Morse
Jair
Brownsville
Texas
Congress
Managua
Zelaya
Nicaragua
Ole O. Fugleski
Spooner, Minn
Walter Lonsdale
Frederick A. Cook
Copenhagen
Captain Loose
Bert EB. Wendler
Detroit
Minx Cohen
Max Cohen
Chicago
Loomis Street
Ernest Camp
Jackson Boulevard
Cohen
Beatrice Shapiro
Miss Shapiro
Woman Receives Vitriol Attack in Disfiguring Assault
Mrs George Mann answered a door bell to a masked woman who hurled vitriol in her face shouting I'll burn your eyes out. The victim escaped with saved eyes but deep burns will disfigure her. Her husband Melfontaine 0 says he has received threats by letter predicting his wife’s death.
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Melfontaine
Presbyterian Synod votes to consolidate Bellevue and Hastings colleges
The Presbyterian Synod of Nebraska votes to merge the Bellevue campus near Kearney with Hastings College. The consolidated Bellevue College will be endowed with $500,000 and operate as a single institution in the region.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Church
Presbyterian Synod of Nebraskao
Bellevue
Kearney
Hastings
Bellevue College
Two Killed in Philadelphia Factory Explosion
George A Fowler and his brother Robert Fowler died when an acetylene tank exploded at the Stiffel Free man safe factory located at Second Street and Lehigh Avenue in Philadelphia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George A. Fowler
Robert Fowler
Stiffel & Freeman
Second Street
Lehigh Avenue
Philadelphia
Chicago capitalists plan 260000 dollar motor speedway
Trade and industry notes report Chicago capitalists backing a company to build a 260000 dollar motor speedway in Chicago. Kentucky tobacco crops set a record near 400000000 pounds for 1909. Louisvilles banks compile county figures on west grown tobacco and corn prospects hit by heavy snow in South Dakota. James Wilson says US corn output reached 2707916000 bushels, with 8 percent in farmers hands by Nov 1, and last year 2008651000 bushels.
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Chicago
Kentucky
Bankas of
Louisville
Huron
James Wilson
United States
Calhoun Named Minister to China by State Department
The State Department in Washington D C announced the appointment of William J Calhoun of Chicago as minister to China. Calhoun has accepted the post and will represent the United States in Peking where he will lead diplomatic relations and manage consular affairs under the new assignment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
China
William J. Calhoun
Chicago
Peking
Taft
Northwest
United States
Nicaragua
Brotherhoods
United Labor Organizations
New York
Equitable
New York Life
Mutual Life
J. Pierpont Morgan
Calhoun
State Department
Washington
Washington, D. C
Calhoun a lifelong Illinois political figure
Born 1848 in Pittsburg, Calhoun rose to national prominence through Illinois politics. He backed McKinley in 1890, shaped the state delegation, and could have won a Republican governor nomination in 1900. A Danville bar admission in 1875 led to ICC service, Chicago move in 1900, a 1903 Venezuela commission, and a report shaping Monroe Doctrine policy.
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Pittsburg
Calhoun
Ilinoie
McKinley
Illinois
Danville
Iil
Chicago
Interstate Commerce Commission
Venezuela
America
Wite Dends Accuse Husband
Mrs Frank M Dickerson 49 was found stabbed to death in a Detroit doorway of a store and flat building. Her husband is charged with her death and is said to be suffering from probably fatal self inflicted wounds. Four months earlier Mrs Dickerson left him over alleged cruelty.
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Wite Dends
Frank M. Dickerson
Detroit
Dickerson
Prisoner Sentenced to Death Hangs Self in Jail
A convict in Columbus, Ohio, who faced execution in the electric chair on March 27, committed suicide in his county jail cell. The man, identified as Frank Grimes, hanged himself after receiving a death sentence. A Black woman, Blanche McKnight, was mentioned in connection with the case.
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Self
Frank Grimes
Negro
K Flad Blanche McKnight
Columbus
Woman Charged With Murder in Poisoning Death
Mrs Dora E Doxey is charged in St Louis with first degree murder in the death of William J Erder. A Washington University medical dean analyzed Erder's exhumed organs supporting the charge. Doxey, under guard in Columbus Nebraska, plans extradition fight while facing bigamy allegations and life insurance claims by rivals.
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W. J.erder
William J. Erder
St. Louis
Dora E. Doxey
William H. Warren
Medical Department of Washington University
Erder
Kate Erder
Doxey
Elizabeth
Columbus
Neb
Islegally
Erdar
Loren Basco Doxey
Conscience Stricken Thief Pays Off 28 Year Chicken Theft
A Kenton man settles with a conscience stricken thief for $2 in cash after the thief admitted stealing chickens twenty eight years ago. The long-ago case is linked with a broader note on ethics and a future evangelical path. The rest of the column cites William Jennings Bryan, a visit to Arizona, a trip to Texas, plans for Panama, South America, and a Scottish engagement next June, alongside a Supreme Court Justice Brewer essay on women’s suffrage and education.
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W. B. Taylor
Kenton
Taylor
Mr. Taylor
Wiliam J. Bryan
Arizona
Texas
Gulf Coast
Panama
South America
Scotland
Justice. Brewer
The
Supreme Court
Ladies’ World
Land boom proof from Central Canada wheat lands near Regina
A Canadian press feature details James Bailey near Grand Coulee turning 640 acres into a wheat oats crop bonanza. Wheat yield 32.12 bushels per acre, oats 118.7, selling grain nets 17 650 dollars with land value rise 10 880 dollars, total earnings 28 540. Officials offer rates and guidance.
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Central
Canada
Kony Wihont Ani Stiches
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Alberta
Grand Trunk Pacific
Canadian West
James Bailey
Regina
Bailey
Grand Coulee
Telepathic experiment ends with apparition at stairs
The Rev Clarence Godfrey tried to telepathically project a image of himself to a woman in another city. After about ten minutes he slept, and four hours later she awoke unsettled then saw his figure on her staircase before he vanished.
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Clarence Godfrey
H. Addington Bruce
Success Magazine
Mr. Godfrey
An Annual Luxury Visit With Scotch Cousins
An English boy visits his two Scotch cousins during summer vacation. His mornings start with plain oatmeal and he grows tired of it. He asks Jack why there is no milk with porridge. Jack replies that his lad thinks it’s Christmas.
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Jack
Tom
Iad
Success Magazine
Coffee to Postum: a town woman's health turnabout
A Indiana reader shares a personal tale of coffee-induced dyspepsia and how switching to Postum cured her stomach troubles. She explains coffee cravings persisted until she followed directions for Postum and now drinks it with breakfast, noting improved health and no coffee dependence. The letter promotes The Road to Wellville as a referenced guide.
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Indiana
Wellville
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