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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1908
Page
1
Sunday report lists the murder trial of T Jenkins Hains in New York. It notes other items from the era including deaths, political moves, and international incidents, with brief mentions of Taft Roosevelt and world events. The compilation reflects a busy national news day with varied topics.
A London traveler estimates President Roosevelt’s Africa hunting expedition will cost 28 050 dollars. California fruit growers shipped 12 017 cars of fruit in the just closed season. Rear Admiral Robley D Evang has declined a proposal to receive a home in Los Angeles. Mrs Elizabeth Johnson Mariani, daughter of Cleveland mayor Tom L Johnson, has been granted a divorce in a Cleveland court.
The House adopted by a unanimous vote a resolution urging the President to provide evidence supporting his charges about Congressional attitudes toward government secret service appropriations. The special committee, led by Mr. Perkins, will study any submitted proof, with Williams of Mississippi and Mr. Bennett (New York) opposing only the preamble’s interpretation. The panel will remain in session over Christmas to receive and consider evidence promptly.
A car bounded through the open Oneida street bridge draw into the Milwaukee River at 1 am, burying two men, Oxcar Z. Bartlett and Albert King, beneath the water. A third passenger was rescued and hospitalized, while A. F. Salliday of Salliday Motor Company survived with difficulty. The drowning occurred as the driver Kuna failed to notice the open draw until seconds before impact. The steamer Iowa assisted, and the car was recovered with Bartlett and Solliday dead.
Citizens State Bank in Napoleon faces an assignment after a bank collapse tied to loans by Cashier Groll to Judge Michael Donnelly. President Heller hospitalized in Minnesota. Bank assets include 71 000 planned agreement to raise 21 000 surplus and 835 000 deposits. Directors order assignment to protect creditors. examiner opposed extending Donnelly credit.
A snowslide at the Tom Moore mine in Eureka Colorado killed foreman William Mondell, aged 65, and destroyed the large mine boarding house. Reports indicate slides also damaged the Precious Metals property in Chattanooga and the Shenandoah at Howardville, with many slides running toward the San Juan country.
A collision between a freight and a passenger train near Limoges, France, killed fifteen people and injured thirty. Fire broke out after the crash and most victims, including the passengers train’s engineer, died from burns.
O P Birdsell confessed in Oakland to embezzling about 500 dollars while a Missouri Pacific station agent at McPherson Kansas. He surrendered to Oakland police and said his conscience troubled him. An officer will extradite him to McPherson for trial.
A Chicago three year old, Andrew Salatus, burned himself fatally while the mother was away at a store. He died at the county hospital after being found with his clothing on fire. A separate report states Gisla poisoned his father, with Dr. William Kranes diagnosing death by poison from stomach analyses of Ona and Mudith McBroom, daughters of William McBroom of Marked Vree, Arkansas. The father of the girls is detained in Jonesboro, Arkansas.
Ed Newcomer a prominent young man from Wauseon Ohio was fatally shot during a quail hunting party by one of his companions. He died within minutes.
President Roosevelt asks government to prosecute Joseph Pulitzer for libel over charges related to the Panama Canal purchase. He condemns sensational reporting as blackening the American people and defends official scrutiny, while Pulitzer retorts that Roosevelt is a reckless demagogue and vows response from the New York World.
A premature dynamite explosion at Bas Obispo on the Panama Canal killed eleven men and injured fifty. Most victims were Spaniards. relief trains were dispatched to the scene. Officials say the blast occurred during loading when the remaining twenty two tons detonated by concussion.
The Missouri Supreme Court affirmed life sentences for John Wooley and Robert Sassman in the state penitentiary. Wooley killed his eight year old stepdaughter Pearl Smith. Sassman murdered a traveling companion Carl Miller and took his wagon and horses. The crime was not discovered for years due to an accomplice.
The Dutch battleship Jacob van Heemskerk arrived at Willemstad towing the captured Venezuelan coastguard ship 23 de Mayo. The Dutch hoisted their flag atop the prize and accompanied it with Venezuelan colors. The capture occurred north of Cumana on the Gulf of Carataca.
Commissioner Capers reports a sharp drop in revenue and distillation during the last fiscal year. Distilled spirits production fell to 120,089,740 tax gallons, down more than 40 million from the prior year. Revenue declined by 17,908,062 compared with the year before due to prohibition, high grain prices, and a distiller agreement to curtail output.
There are over 100 priests of the Passionist order at work in the country. In Fairfax Minnesota a Northern German Mission conference resolution condemned the notion that Germans oppose temperance legislation. Canon Moynihan, the oldest Catholic priest, died at 100 in Chicago. William B Chandler advocates a future life doctrine involving new bodies after death. Minneapolis Civic Federation vows war on saloons owned by brewing firms. World Protestant 180 million, Catholics 250 million, Greek and Oriental churches 110 million. Congregational church of Charles City Iowa marks its fiftieth anniversary with member addresses and greetings.
Donald Grant Mitchell, known as JK Marvel, dies at his Hdgewood home in New Haven Conn after a lingering illness. Attended by sons Harold and Walter and daughters Mya and Elizabeth, funeral and distant relatives noted. Renowned for Dream Life and Reveries of Bachelor and admired as a leading New England writer with English stock heritage.
A widow claim by Mary Ryland Hay contests Adelbert Hay Jr. as the former secretary John Hay's grandson. The case cites elopement in August 1900 with her daughter in Atlantic City and obstructed recognition by the Hay family amid poverty. A marriage certificate is claimed but not produced. Theodore Roosevelt Jr. is named in a separate brief appointment note. Also reported: Paton Iowa burned, eleven structures destroyed, loss about $25,000 with no fire protection.
President Roosevelt sent a Senate message transmitting the War Department investigators report on the Browns ville Texas shooting on August 13, 1906. It finds negro soldiers led the raid and names some leaders. All raiders were discharged without honor. others shielded the real orders may be restored if they aid in identifying responsibilities.
The annual report of the third Assistant Postmaster General states the government spent 42,544,047 dollars in the fiscal year ending June 30 1908 on free transmission via the mails for departmental penalty and congressional franked matter. Including undetermined handling and transport costs, the total rises with an additional 57,000,000 dollars for second class matter carried for publishers of newspapers and periodicals.
A defalcation of eighty five thousand dollars was discovered at the First National Bank of Someraworth New Hampshire. The cashier has been arrested and the directors have asked the bank examiner to take possession of the institution with a view to voluntary liquidation.
A collection of biting aphorisms and satirical lines critiques wealth power and war. It mentions Rockefeller oil, a port card system, marine heroes, bank wreckers facing prison, the German Emperor and a 12-year-old Indiana author. The tone is wry and reflective on governance industry and society.
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