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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1903
Page
5
A telegram from Dawson indicates banks in Yukon region show unprecedented heavy purchases of poll and gold. Output projections for the Yukon mining season are expected to top last year by millions, with deposits held for safekeeping reaching about 1.25 million dollars.
Prof Porvival Lowell of the Lowell Observatory in Mhagstaff Arizona reports a possible signal from the Mara system, suggesting a bearing toward inhabited notes and a forthcoming announcement. Awland of Jaseir Weld Temeadtciephere may confirm plans to study the projection and assess feasibility of interstellar contact.
Federal probe targets peonage in Montgomery area as Robert N Franklin indicted for keeping a man in servitude to work off a debt. The case alleges officials exploited debt bondage by using a labor contract to compel prolonged cruel servitude.
The German wheat crop is among the worst on record. Officials estimate Germany will need about 1,160,000 tons of wheat from the United States. Over 20 percent of fields must be replowed and yields will be poor, with quality degraded. The market reacted as if the news were already priced in, with hopes for better conditions before harvest.
A secret society with 600 members plans to depopulate the South and Southwest by relocating Black people to Boston and distributing them to Western agricultural and mining communities. The first group, about 5,000 migrants, is said to land in Boston around July 1, with Southern chapters based in Georgia and a concealed main office to evade mob pressure.
Six male professors object to Columbia University in Washington awarding a Doctor of Civil Law to Mrs. Minnd Reba Bailey a first woman to reach such a legal milestone. They accuse her of seeking fame and threaten to skip commencement if she is honored, while university leadership vows the degree will be conferred at the regular exercises.
Rumor from Pahua claims three small islands near Piteaien were taken by England. British official Simona in Tahiti valued them and a note suggests the Breach government may claim them. McCoy, English resident on Plevalen Island, sent to take over the three islets for Britain.
The Malay states imposed a prohibitive export duty on ore unless smelted within the colony to block a Standard Oil Company United States Steel Corporation and American Tin Plate Company plan to import ore to the U S area and re export smelted bars. A broad rundown of other news items follows including an aged postmaster fined for detaining letters, a record 114 minute Toledo to Wikhart run, a revolver plant shutdown, a large fire at Lakeport in New Hampshire, a Santa Fe railroad death by suicide, a locomotive boiler explosion near Kane Pennsylvania, a watch company buyout to dodge duties, multiple fatalities in a New York fire, a German officer's court punishment, A W Machen arrested for bribe dealings, a major fire at Panama market, and Mrs Hadley fleeing Indianapolis amid threats.
Authorities probe a mysterious explosion at a Gloversville New York leather plant linked to Mills Brothers rivals Kennedy family. John Kennedy died from injuries after entering a building with dangerous explosive contents while seeking to learn a patent leather formula. Daniel Kennedy was reportedly hurt, then denied by the family.
Joseph Becker, a Swiss anarchist, is jailed in Walla Walla on suspicion of intending to threaten President Roosevelt. He allegedly said he had one bullet for Roosevelt and another for Kaiser Wilhelm, and was found near a rifle cache in a barn along the river while working at butcher shops. Partner Pat Ixine alerted police.
Col Albert Brewer, 48, millionaire and founder of the Brewer Pottery Company, died of heart disease at Yiffin on the anniversary of Luther A. Hershey's death. He had been indicted for manslaughter in Hershey's saloon-row killing, with trial set for June 15. Rumors of self-inflicted death circulated but denied by the attending physician. Brewer was a prominent manufacturer and served on the State fish and game commission and on Gov. Bushnell's stalk.
Weather and New York conditions dominate the Austresa World trade picture. Unseasonably high temperatures boost apparel sales while dampening vegetation orders, delaying planting and prompting cautious dealer behavior. Manufacturing remains active, with footwear, iron and steel steady. May rail and shipping figures show gains over last year, while wheat and corn exports for the fiscal year rise sharply.
Regional price listings show cattle and hog quotes in Chicago Indianapolis St Louis Cincinnati Detroit Milwaukee and Buffalo with grains including wheat corn oats rye and hay. Prices vary by grade from No 2 red wheat at 68 to 72 cents to corn No 2 white 44 to 46 cents per bushel and creamery butter at 20 to 22 cents.
A fragmented exchange aboard a train references pigeons found with grain in their stomachs from far away. One traveler recalls a prior odd experience with a tall road sandwich, while another questions the story with dyspeptic humor.
Adrian Minnesota June 1 Philp Doyle reports long ailment from Kidney Trouble cured by Dodd’s Kidney Pills after about ten boxes. He testifies the medicine is wonderful the best he has taken and fully recommends it to others suffering kidney issues. Oil from Coon river near Grant City sent to Ames College for analysis found not pure. Piso’s Cure for Consumption praised by W T Wood Marmersburg Indiana for asthma relief. Wheat grants at Ameka of Deyot and Nineveh date to ancient times. The Wenn Kool Kitchen stove trademark noted for cooking in comfort.
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