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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1909
Page
3
A roundup of international and U.S. events includes Emma Goldman barred from speaking by New York police, a Tennessee lynching contempt ruling, Taft addressing Petersburg and census notes, a Georgia railroad strike, a Mongolian steamer incident near Newfoundland, and Oscar Hammerstein planning a Brooklyn opera house.
The Senate rejected McCumber's free lumber amendment 25 to 66 as tariff debate dominated the day. Root Weyburn Borah Dolliver argued for protection while Clapp Burkett pushed free admission from Canada. Dolliver surprised by opposing radical free lumber demand. Borah argued protection is a system, not exceptions.
President Taft issues a proclamation to open about 440000 acres in the Flathead Montana 200000 in Coeur d Alene Idaho and between 66000 and 100000 in the Spokane Washington reservations for settlement and entry Registration runs July 15 to August 5 sworn to at Kalispell or Missoula for Flathead lands Spokane for Spokane lands and Coeur d Alene for Coeur d Alene lands Applications must be mailed to the superintendent of the opening at Coeur d Alene where the drawing will be held The drawing begins at 10 o clock on August 0 and continues until completed.
Wallace A. Cobb, son of banker Georges W. Coneslyea, killed himself in Kansas City after a bartender refused to cash a forged check. He had adopted his mother’s maiden name after a quarrel with his father and squandered the fortune left by his mother. His share of his father’s estate was placed in a spendthrift trust.
The Dora arrived in Seward with 194 survivors from the Columbia wreck off Unimaka Pass on April 80. The voyage, amid a harsh surf and calm seas, included Italians resisting panic and two lifeline men establishing shore contact. The ship burned on May 28 after the final abandonment.
A shepherd dog saved Rev. Asay Ferry of Bethany Presbyterian Church Philadelphia and his brother Rev. Ebenezer Ferry of Morrisville Presbyterian Church from drowning in the Delaware River. Both ministers struggled in the water before the dog swam to them, seized the pastor’s collar, and dragged him to shallow water. The dog then returned to rescue the second preacher, pulling him to safety.
West Virginia liquor interests react as Charleston city council adopts prohibition. The report also notes Secretary MacVeagh's remarks on a new government study of economic expenditures and revenues. Senator McCumber attacks the census bill conference report, claiming officials’ wives populate Washington’s official family.
Heavy rain and hail sweep Northeastern Oklahoma flooding Grand River and tributaries. Afton submerges portions of the town while Catale trestle bridge sustains damage and rail service suffers. Muskogee streets flood as four day downpour drives rivers up. six inches of rain falls in a 15 mile stretch from South Haven Kansas to Oklahoma.
Mrs Helen Longstreet widow of a Confederate general and Gainesville postmistress woke to a noise. She seized a pistol and fired as a burglar tried to open a silver closet. The robber fled after firing back. Longstreet fired until empty, believing she hit him as he staggered. A City quarter alarmed by the night incident drew a crowd.
Five children at Mrs B C Boyds school in Central City Kentucky were badly burned when candles lit during a circle drill set their white muslin dresses aflame. Dorothy Clay, the inadvertent spark, dropped her candle and caused the blaze as mothers and bystanders fought to save the children. The audience shifted from applause to a chaotic bid to help soon after flames erupted.
Cedar Rapids police investigated a wave of burglaries when Mayor John T. Carmody was shot and wounded in his home while grappling with an intruder who had earlier robbed Father J. J. Toomey. The mayor was hospitalized after the assault.
Lovett Davis, a Black man charged with attempting to assault a 16 year old white girl, was seized from Pine Bluff jail by a mob of about 800 men. He died after a telegraph pole rope broke and the body hung on a principal street before being removed. Deputies hidden in the jail were overwhelmed as the mob stormed the jail with sledge hammers. Several prominent men spoke against the mob but failed to deter them.
Hawthorne Nav Nevada laid the cornerstone of a new Methodist church on Wednesday. The 1,500 resident town, once the county seat, had no place of worship until now, previously relying on a nearly abandoned Chinese rose house. Goldfield’s county seat move cited Hawthorne lacking a church as a factor.
Reports detail casualties in Persian Nationalist sorties near Tabriz, an American teacher killed in Royalton, Minn. and Albanian garrison actions at Uskup north of Saloniki. Constantinople suspects a new uprising under Abdul Hamid’s son, while Yildiz palace holdings reveal bank notes totaling 2.25 million dollars and rich jewelry including a 376 thousand rosary. The Young Turks refuse to surrender the cagh.
A humorous tale claims Kate and Duplicate twins were considered by an Arkansas mother who wished to name the daughter Kate and the son Lubricate. The story, said to be a fiction, was framed as a playful spoof about naming twins and parental moonshine jokes.
An applicant recounts suffering kidney trouble and a claimed cure with Dean’s Kidney Pills after nearly three months in bed. The piece shifts to Hoquiam Washington where officials report a high rate of crippling injuries among loggers and sawmill workers, detailing extensive maiming and accidents in the industry.
A humorous exchange imagines a group of "She-We" girls forming a society to abolish slang. One replies that if members devote all their time to the cause, they will be kept from minor mischief for life.
A clipped exchange quotes Plod ding Pete asking why a home could not be kept for his family and answering that he had done so by letting JT leave, reflecting a somber line on personal loss reported in the Washington Star.
A Baird Texas resident recounts quitting coffee after a neighbor advised Postum. He reports rapid health gains, regular bowels, and freedom from stomach pains after switching. He notes his son improved too and the family now prefers Postum over coffee. The letter ends with the familiar ad slogan There a Reason.
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