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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1903
Page
6
Iowa board of agriculture appoints a four member committee to draft a food adulteration bill aimed at tightening state law. Eight deaths and numerous injuries from two train wrecks near Adel and west of Atha shock the state as investigators probe causes and safety lapses.
A new report on fraud in the U S Post Office Department names Perry Heath and Charles Emory Smith among others and links them to George W Beavers and W H Tulloch. It alleges grave abuses from 1898 to 1900, criticizes management failures, and urges a thorough investigation of the Washington post office.
Assistant Secretary of State Strank B. Loomis told the Quill Club in New York that U S recognition of the Panama Republic averted a possible war between France and Colombia. He cited Bogota's belief the U S could not build a canal except via Panama and warned of a costly, dangerous chain of consequences if the treaty were rejected or delayed.
Five passengers were killed and ten injured when a Chicago Burlington and Quincy train derailed near Albia Iowa. The Cedar Creek bridge failure caused cars to burn. includes victims Mildred Mitchell and a three year old child among the dead. Rescue attempts described amid extensive fire and wreckage.
Edward Everett Hale is selected as chaplain of the Senate. A renowned author and preacher born in Boston on April 3, 1892, he has led Unitarian ministry in Boston and Worcester and Hartford since 1856, with fluency in Chautauqua circles and literary work.
Prohibition National Committee selects Kansas City as the venue for the next convention on June 20 with about 2,500 delegates. Four delegates at large from each state plus one for every 200 votes cast for John G Woolley in 1900 will attend. Budget estimates range from 1,000 to 1,500 for hall, rooms, headquarters, music and decorations. Final ballot results placed Kangana City first with 21 votes, Buffalo 15, Indianapolis 4 after earlier ballots included Columbus Ohio Milwaukee Baltimore Los Angeles Boston and Minneapolis. Treasurer Samuel J Dickey reports 7,475 on hand for the next campaign and 69,000 expended since the last accounting.
An agreement with Gov Taft would have the United States pay 7.25 million dollars for 408000 acres of friar lands in the Philippines. The deal, approved by the Pope, mostly settles years of questions over church properties. Excluded are 12000 acres near Manila and a large sugar plantation sold to a railway firm.
The piece cites chartering of Ry mee Ry mee the Vexas in New Mexico and Western tax in Texas, a proposed Albany to New York rail link, and the Rogebud Indian reservation in Gregory County South Dakota. It notes an interchangeable mileage bureau aided by Trunk Line Association, Texas Railroad Commission freight classifications, and the Southwest lines' failed joint colonization agency. It details railroad earnings and transit activity, annual mail movement, and a major NYC Central Railroad plan to spend 20 million by moving locomotives from Grand Central, with third rail and overhead trolley integration.
The Senate approved the Cuban reciprocity measure by 67 to 18 with one Republican joining Democrats in opposition. The vote followed party caucuses and a warning that tariff debate would resume later, as Cuba would receive reduced duties on imports while U.S. products face favorable terms. The convention with Cuba takes effect in ten days.
Plans of foreign gunboats in Washington to aid an American navy are recounted. Postmaster data shows 1 150 post prices opened nationwide with many in New York and Virginia. A strong black youth was advertised for sale in New York. The twelfth amendment was submitted for ratification. Kentucky grants 160 acres to officers and privates who descend the Mississippi for New Orleans defense. State Department costs listed at 150 000. Potomac bridge collapse in a cattle drive incident. Lyman is jailed for Sherman Daniel Webster. Sugar from watermelons attempted in South Carolina. A 20 000 signature Congress protest opposed selling imported goods at auction.
The House naval affairs committee proposed a $4,000,000 appropriation to build six frigates. A plan to end the slave trade in the Virgin Islands was discussed in Washington. Senator Stephen A. Douglas sent two commissioners to President Pierce. Robert M. McLane sailed as the new U. S. commissioner to China to secure trade privileges.
Forty years ago reports state twenty U S war vessels chased the Cromwell line steamer Chesapeate captured by rebels boarding at Portland Maine General Halleck absolved Grant from disobeying orders in his initial report Mernania Wood’s resolution to appoint commission to visit Richmond and seek peace failed in House with fifty nine votes all Democratic The first committee to plan Southern Reconstruction was appointed by the House from the notion of Walter Davie
A national negro convention in Washington urged Congress for equal privileges with white hotels and sleeping cars. Rev. Charles Edward Cheney was consecrated Chicago bishop. Senate failed to confirm Willems as chief justice and sent the nomination back to the judiciary committee. Destitution spread among new settlers in northwestern Iona blamed on land speculators and railroads amid Cuba’s crisis as Jovellar warns surrender of the Virginiug to the United States or risk war and Spain’s nonintervention.
A dated reminiscence notes the first bill to create an interstate commerce commission introduced in Washington by Rep Ebenezer Hoar of Massachusetts. It mentions Dinus Spreckele dominance of 80 million pounds of Hawaiian sugar and the arrest and bail of Krank James in Kansas City, linked to a train robbery case and a murder at Gallatin. It also references U S officers seeking tin for other bank robberies and President Chester A Arthur criticizing Arctic exploration as useless and insane, with a hope that Adter Greely is rescued.
Ltivnsil Croker repudiates taovoong leadership amid a vice expose by Learkhurst in New York. A deadly bridge collapse between Louisville and Jeffersonville kills several and injures many. Patrick Eugene Preader's murder trial for Mayor Carter W. Trecksoy begins in Chicago.
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