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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1909
Page
3
Elgin and Chicago items span international politics to Wall Street boosts and local politics. Mentions of Col Alexander K McClure, Mrs Eddy, Taft, Roosevelt, and Jim Crow era issues frame a week of political shifts, finance moves, and social developments from New York to London.
Fire Commissioner Hayes revises earlier ban and plans to issue 150 permits for fireworks sales. Governor Johnson of Minnesota, Mayor Haynes of Minneapolis, and a large delegation will travel to Seattle on August 12 to observe Minnesota and Twin City Day at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition.
Federal inspectors report the Marion based Black Hand gang run by Sam Lima as its chief, with operations stretching to Columbus Dennison and other cities. The group sent money orders to Italy, extorted thousands, and linked murders in Marion and elsewhere. arrests include Antonio Vicario in Columbus and A Maris in Dennison.
Federal authorities detained Lillian Stephenson na Wlineas Jack Shelton Allan Jack Gordon and Stephenson arrived in Omaha charged with roles in the Overland Limited robbery. Shelton faces allegation as one of the robbers and Stephenson will testify. she says she knew nothing of the holdup until arrest. Prosecution proceeds against four men, with a fifth man dropped.
A fierce northeast wind swept through Preaque Sals Maine destroying 100 houses the Congregational Church the Masonic Hall and several other structures. The Canadian Pacific Rail road station and two large potato warehouses also burned. Total losses estimated at 300000 dollars.
Heavy rains, cloudbursts, and melting snow trigger widespread floods across Colorado. Four people die as swollen streams inundate towns and damage property. Train service halts in all directions. Water systems near Grand Junction and Gunnison face threats while Englewood suffers lower-area damage from a dam burst. Cache la Poudre swells near Greeley, and the Big Sandy rivers flood farms near Limon as Rock Island and Union Pacific lines meet.
In this league table Detroit 28 14 leads alongside Cleveland 22 16 and New York 22 16. Chicago 17 22 Phildelphia 23 18 St Louis 17 24 Boston 24 19 Washington 12 27 show continued pursuit of pennant glory.
Herman Sielcken of Grossman and Siecken, New York coffee importers, has bought the Woolson Spice Company from the Havemeyer estate and others. He plans a greatly enlarged plant. The deal may cause the sugar trust to abandon the coffee branch. Sielcken is a stockholder in American Sugar Refining Company.
In Philadelphia a six round clash between Jack O'Brien and Jack Johnson ended with no damage taken and a potential draw if a decision had been rendered. Edward Payson Weston covers sixty three miles daily from New York toward the Pacific in Western Kansas and Eastern Colorado, roughly a mile per year of his age. In Louisville a sprint finish between Gypsy King and Hyperion II in the third race was one of the closest ever seen, with edges indistinguishable.
Rev Dr Edward Everett Hale born 1822 in Boston and a son of famed New England stock died at his Roxbury home. A lifelong pacifist and humanitarian, he led South Church Boston from 1866 to 1900 and edited the Peace Crusade. He attended Harvard, supported The Hague tribunal, and was chaplain of the U S Senate.
The post office department in Washington has 69,741 petitions for rural free delivery, with 16,884 denied. Fourty thousand six hundred thirty seven rural routes were in operation. One thousand five hundred sixty three petitions remain unacted upon. Florida House passes Senate bill to separate races on trains and street cars, now heading to the Governor for signature.
Figures from Canadian official publications show U S goods increasing share of Canada imports while Britain’s role falls. From 1869 to 1909 U S imports rose from 34.03 to 60.4 percent, Britain from 56.2 to 23.69 percent. In 2007 two thirds of imports were manufactured, with U S at 39 million dollars and Britain 13 million. The article notes lower tariffs for British goods.
A $650000 blaze levelled the Decatur Cereal Company mill on Eldorado and Vandyke streets and its 100000 bushel elevator after an electrical fault on the sixth floor. 80,000 bushels of corn were lost. Fireman John Sheehy was killed by falling timber amid the efforts to rescue office effects. Local department battled but water pressure failed to halt the fire. The plant, a major starch and corn products producer, employed many workers.
Walter B. Clark, a Washington newspaper man, was appointed governor of Alaska. William B. Washburn of New York was named civil service commissioner to replace James T. Williams who resigned. In Wisconsin, seven assemblymen defied Senate subpoenas over the Stephenson re election probe, with the assembly approving the action and planning to press on until January to question those using legislative privilege.
Washington sees first step in major negotiations with Japan as ambassador Takahira seeks termination of the 1804 treaty of friendship navigation and commerce and a new accord to reflect post Boxer Rebellion power shifts. Tokyo presses to remove U S laborer admission clauses while Britain’s replies may steer terms.
Carl Fisher and G L Bambaugh of Indianapolis landed Indiana six miles north of Dixon Tennessee at 6 p m Monday, the last balloon to touch ground after stops at Ashland City for water and a restart. The Indianapolis crew claimed non ground contact would avoid disqualification, while Dr Gosthe Link and J R Irvin of balloon Indianapolis learned they had won the first prize in the handicap race upon reaching Louisville.
A 15-year-old boy Willie Osborne of near Griffith Indiana confessed to attempting to derail a Grand Trunk train two months earlier seeking revenge for his father William Osborne after a hay stack was burned and unpaid by the company. The plan nearly caused a catastrophe on a Chicago bound flyer but was foiled when a railway worker spotted a tied link on the westbound track and alerted officials. Police detained several tramps tied to the plot while investigators pieced through the motive and timing.
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