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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 28, 1901
Page
6
A teamster and companions were robbed at a logging camp four miles south of the city by two masked men who fled with a substantial sum, reportedly about 75 dollars. The sheriff and a posse pursued the bandits along the tracks, but details remain unclear.
Snow blankets North Dakota and parts of Manitoba and Canada, closing rail lines from Carrington to Jamestown and the Cooperstown branch. Authorities report abandoned routes and rising fear of severe crop and property losses as crews struggle to clear blocked lines and manage worsening conditions.
In Duluth Minnesota on February 26, the 22 year old Metropolitan Life Insurance agent Robert Perleberg vanished after leaving home on a bicycle two weeks earlier. Relatives report he was last seen downtown and has not been heard from since.
In Fargo North Dakota on February 20 Little Joe Hodigan fell through a burning strawhatk and was roasted to death in Peterson southwest county. Rescue attempts failed as he plunged into a furnace. Black Hills mica industry in Deadwood and surrounding counties resumes significance with new mining activity and a Chicago Mica Company purchase of old dumps for about forty dollars per ton. The company operates three mines near Valparaiso, Indiana, shipping several carloads monthly. Largest mica blocks removed from the Daly mine two miles northeast of Custer. Mica from Black Hills is iron free and valued for electrical use.
A group of six to eight gentlemen from Alton Iowa arrive in Settlers From town Huron M C on February 21 to purchase 6000 acres for cattle ranches. Two partners have already bought 300 head of cattle feeding in the county's northwest, with several land tracts secured. If full acreage isn’t available in one block they will cluster parcels nearby. They aim to finalize contracts in ten days, return to Iowa for settlers, then return to build houses and stock buildings.
William Beyer, a farmer from Faribault Minnesota, was missing for several days. He was found a few miles from home intoxicated. his horses toppled the wagon over a steep bank, pinning him down. He died of exposure as the team wandered weak from hunger, tangled in a wire fence. The Chicago Vehicle Company branch in Faribault reports preparing for new financial arrangements to enlarge its business. ten vehicles in hand completed. plans to expand automobile manufacturing.
Reports from Ottumwa Iowa announce District 1% miners convention plans with resolutions backing a strike fund and adjustments at mines. Operators arrive as 260 miners gather to discuss wages and working conditions amid ongoing labor tensions. Also noted are smallpox in Cumberland Wisconsin a mild case, a fatal clothing fire in Litchfield Minnesota, and Champlin home destroyed by fire in Wadson Wisconsin with $2,500 loss and $1,200 insurance.
Minneapolis February 24 Frank Hamilton was yesterday sentenced to seven years imprisonment for the killing of Leonard Ti Day. The final act occurred in Judge Brook's court with about 200 spectators present. Hamilton, known for poor health, showed courage and philosophy in receiving the verdict and penitent sentence.
A mine accident at the Elka mine six miles from Mwanlle Elwablk Minn on Feb 27 killed three boys aged 8, 10, and 12. The car descended after a switch was mishandled, six miles from town, killing all instantly as two brothers were among the victims. One boy saved his brother from the car before the crash.
The first convention of superintendents and trustees of Wisconsin county insane asylums was called after a preliminary Appleton conference. It will assemble in Chippewa Falls on March 20 at 10 a m to discuss county asylum administration.
Waukesha county records reveal Sarah Moore was granted a divorce from Patrick Moore of New Berlin on desertion grounds. Patrick, aged over eighty, and Sarah, seventy eight, had long marriages. InElkhorn viewing the New Line observatory at Williams Bay, astronomers recorded a new star in Perseus, rivaling Capella in brightness as verified by Prof. Hale and Mgr. Ellerman.
The Mennonites in Hutchinson county plan an upcoming election to elect officers who divide the colony. Some members will move to land recently purchased elsewhere, giving elected officers broad prerogatives in managing colony affairs.
Warden Boucher at the state penitentiary is sending out samples of the twine for sale and promoting the convict product. Editors criticize rivals in the profession for bias and argue the state should fund its own advertising alongside large twine plants.
Mes. G. W. Irvin contracts smallpox after attending a Royal Neighbors meeting in Fargo and stopping in Enderlin. The Euendale city board of health imposes strict quarantine to prevent spread.
Fargo North Dakota has indignant reaction to reports that a Durbin area farmer whipped his seventeen year old daughter with a horsewhip then locked her out of the house on a cold night. Officials are said to be investigating the incident.
Two Harbors Minnesota February 27 weather remains cold with heavy snow in the woods and lumbermen expect one of the best seasons on record as logging work accelerates and will not last more than a month. Cumberland Wisconsin February 27 a 3 000 000 000 foot tract of plug timber west of town sold for 1 000 000 to Town lumberman with logging to the Et Croix and Mississippi rivers toward Davenport mills.
In Yellowstone Park a geyser named Spenter erupts creating a water column reported at 500 feet high. The event draws visitors to the park on Web 27. Local authorities caution visitors to stay clear of the spray zone while the geyser vents.
The speaker recalls moments with a guiding presence, first in morning breeze and blossoms, then at noontime when ambition beckoned, finally at evening under moonlight where memories and dreams mingle. The progression shows internal conflict between pursuit and recollection as the figure arrives and departs.
Gen Joseph Geurko, a leading Russian imperial commander and veteran of the Crimean and Russo-Turkish wars, died on Tuesday. Born 1828, he rose from imperial bodyguard to major general by 1867, famed for bold Baltic campaigns in 1877 and key actions at Shipka Pass and Pleven.
General Gourko, renowned for victory in the Turkish War, rose to field marshal and Poland command. His tenure in Poland was stern, commanding during unrest and ordering harsh measures that left hundreds dead. He became marshal in 1894, then retired to his estate until death.
The future king, then the Prince of Wales, fell for a photographed beauty after a German officer mixed up portraits. He learned the likeness was to Denmark's second daughter and later declared he would marry only the original pictured, a Duchess at Cambridge’s drawing room presentment.
In a discussion drawn from J. P. Mowbray’s article The Making of a Country Home, a wife argues that homes are produced by wives, not men seeking a wife. The exchange highlights the idea that marriage and family shape home life, with examples of how men and women differ in their views on preparing a home prior to wedlock. A rural quip notes that many men know how to cure hams yet cannot obtain them.
Washington February 20 21 23 1920 summaries of senate and house actions on military academy anti hazing provisions sundry civil and deficiency appropriation bills and postal and diplomatic funding noting debates over hazing naval academy criticisms and disputes over house employee salaries and investigations leading to continued committee referrals and stalled anti trust deliberations.
Washington reports detail Senate action on a 5 million dollar Louisiana Purchase Exposition appropriation with a 280 thousand dollar government exhibit for Charleston. House moves strike naval authorizations, while conference talks seed debates on insular legislation and Cuban amendments amid end‑of‑session activity.
Manila reports 697 residents taking the oath of allegiance during a ceremony with Major Ballance and other officers. In Vigan 2,000 joined on Washington birthday services. Observers note cooperation of native priests with American forces and calls to abandon insurgents. La Guna de Gay pursued boats at Pangarinan. 2 rebels killed, 14 captured. Col Hlanco leads the Conservative party, drawing mainly Catholics who favor American sovereignty and oppose non-Catholic Federalists.
Siberign Reludece, San Francisco, Feb 27. The revenue cutter Gear will be repaired at Puget Sound in preparation for departure to far northern Alaska points. Lieutenant Berthoise, with special authorization from the Russian government, travels from St Petersburg and plans to meet the cutter Leneapout May 16 with a herd of reindeer for transport.
In Chicusa on February 27, Mrs. P. O. Gray wife of Perry QO Gray Liberia attorney general, embittered by neglect from farmer friends and husband, reportedly took a fatal dose. She died at Provident Hospital on Sunday morning, her identity revealed only yesterday.
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