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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 12, 1903
Page
1
In a dramatic Indianapolis grave robbery trial a man named Rufus Cantril breaks before the grand jury. He reveals the gang’s secrets after discovering his sweetheart Stella Midleton’s body in a medical college. His partial confession exposes a wider grave desecration scandal.
T. B. Shoemaker, a Marine, reports a diphtheria outbreak on the receiving ship Franklin. Of sixty-seven sailors taken to the hospital ship, sixty-two died, leaving five survivors. Shoemaker recalls daily death spikes and the desperate appeals to be saved from the disease.
Morgans and the Pennsylvania Syndicate form a company to control Great Lakes package freight lines, excluding starting ports in Canada, aiming to handle grain and trunk shipments from Chicago to Duluth. Rail interests are not eager to participate.
Texas Court of Criminal Appeals ruled a district judge cannot restrain open testimony in court. Houston reporters faced contempt for publishing Williams murder case testimony against injunction. Newspapers long faced threats of jail for publishing evidence. the ban is now removed.
The court held that a 43 000 residue from the late Scott must be divided among heirs rather than destroyed by the executor. The Supreme Court affirmed that the beneficiary to Rice County was revoked, and the county intent could not legally prevail.
A group including Charles Chishotu J. N. Tolman and others in North Dakota and Montana met in Glendive Sunday to push a plan for a new state named Montague spanning eastern Montana and western North Dakota with Glendive as capital.
The Missouri House by an almost unanimous vote orders two joint concurrent resolutions for the upcoming general election to relocate the capital from Jefferson City citing gambling immorality and inadequate railroad facilities. Williams of Scott County proposes St Louis as site with a $1,000,000 capitol building subscription, and consideration of a Missouri world’s fair building for a permanent capital structure.
William Taylor a Preston teacher who wed Misa Celia Lund of Mabel had his wedding delayed after being abducted by friends. He left Whalan at dawn, was ambushed three miles east, bound to his buggy, walked five miles into town, and held in a village residence until 8:30 PM. The captors reportedly treated the incident as a joke.
A springlike spell in Wilmington Delaware ended with a cyclone causing about 10000 dollars in damage. In the southern city area fifty houses lost roofs and German Hall and other buildings suffered. Two men were injured and four horses killed by downed wires. Trolley service was halted briefly.
News from Tacgon Arizona claims the Twelfth battalion of Mexican regulars nearly annihilated in a Yaqui battle after a San Mareial clash. Six hundred soldiers were in the unit and survivors report heavy losses though figures remain uncertain. The battalion had been stationed at Potam Rio Yaqui and trained for bush fighting in Sonora.
William Bruner, a farmer near Edwardsville, Illinois, sank in mud while returning home from a neighbor's house. Found sunken to the neck in a wheat field after heavy rains and thawing, he perished. Persistent mire and floods have halted rural traffic and mail service across southern Illinois.
Mrs Adem Reichnart of Hazleton Pennsylvania seized a pistol and shot her husband through a door after he sheltered behind it. The first shot missed but the door blocked access. a subsequent shot hit him fatally. She was captured at the scene and later begged to nurse him in his last moments. He died in hospital while she awaited the outcome of the wound.
A work train traveling at forty miles an hour on the Baltimore and Ohio collided with caboose cars from a freight train near Easton Ohio. Conductor William Miles of Newcastle was killed and Brakeman A. R. Cooney of Newcastle fatally injured. Miles was pinned and roasted by fire. Also reported: John Tilman dies by apparent suicide in St Paul. Justin H. K. Whiting, former congressman from Michigan, dies at St Clair.
The Weekly Trade Review notes improved transport efficiency and mild weather boosting distribution and domestic trade in New York plus a shift in coal freight. Iron and steel plants face shortages, with many closing or operating part time while rail equipment demand remains high and new bridge construction contracts appear. Grain markets show mixed signals with export totals up. wheat prices rise briefly then retreat as Argentine shipments loom and Australian demand adds counterbalance.
Regional price listings show cattle at 4.00 to 5.50 with hogs 3.00 to 6.90, sheep 3.00 to 4.56, wheat No 2 red 57 to 60 cents, corn No 2 white 43 to 57 cents, oats No 2 white 35 to 44 cents, butter creamery and eggs 2 run. plus New York and Chicago market ranges for cattle hogs sheep and grains.
Granton resident H Gosney says after ten years of suffering kidney trouble he found a cure with Dodd's Kidney Pills. He reports rapid improvement and declares he is entirely cured, praising the remedy highly.
A garbled exchange mocks wealth accumulation and jokes about a law of nature preventing people from growing rich as they joke about wealth and illness, reflecting satirical wage debates in a historical newspaper fragment.
An obscure dialogue hints at a discreet method for formaldehyde gas generation amid imperfect combustion of wood alcohol. The fragment touches on legal or personal advice, insinuating questions of money and guidance in a tense exchange.
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