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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 10, 1910
Page
1
In Elgin, a fearless tramp saved the daughter of Colonel Jennings of Texas from certain death and was promised a large reward of 500000 dollars by the grateful father. The item ties to a dramatic rescue and its lofty compensation offer.
An immense avalanche roared down the Cascade mountains near Wellington Washington sweeping two Great Northern passenger trains and a town section 200 feet into a canyon. Twenty three lives are known lost with twenty five missing and many injured. Rescue efforts face deep snow as four transcontinental lines are blocked and only Salt Lake City rail access remains open.
A drifting man named Frank Strome, hailed as a hero for pulling a seven year old Jennings girl from an oncoming train, is later traced to a Texas cattle range and made owner of a half interest in the Valvedera spread worth near a million. The Jennings family owns 30,000 cattle across Jeff Davis and Pecos counties.
A westbound Twentieth Century Limited on the Lake Shore railroad derailed at Olmsted Falls near Cleveland. Seven cars left the tracks while the locomotives stayed on. About eighty passengers were aboard. two to three passengers were slightly injured. A second Cleveland train moved passengers to their destination.
Ohio floods sweep towns leaving about six thousand residents homeless and thousands more on upper floors. Defiance bridge washed away while Mechanicsburg remains submerged. Warren and Mahoning River areas flood with boats needed. Napoleon business district under water. Cuyahoga floods Clinton and Warwick. Zanesville and Fremont report major displacement and danger from rising rivers as rain continues.
A Pennsylvanian Linesville passenger train derailed at Rock Point Park in Newcastle Pennsylvania, plunging fifteen feet into the ice filled Beaver River. Two people were killed and one missing is believed dead while nearly twenty others escaped unharmed. The engineer and fireman were rescued from the river with a long hose.
Leo Radtke, a 30 year old bachelor, was jailed by Meeker County Sheriff Bertelson on a charge of attempting to poison Miss Minnie Luthens, his 20 year old former sweetheart who is about to marry Frank Wardell. A box of bonbons given as a wedding present allegedly contained strychnine. A dog died after eating part of the candy, and tests reportedly showed quantities of the poison.
Police report details five youths George Lenko Stephen Yoski Edward Gydovski Andrew Milken and Arthur Gydovski aged 10 to 19 confessing to plotting to wreck an New Haven Railroad train leaving New York after noon to mutilate corpses and injure victims. They opened a switch near Port Chester freight yard but a switchman intervened and shut it before disaster. The youths say they were regulars at moving picture shows in Port Chester and adopted outlawry ideas from melodrama.
Reports indicate the German emperor plans to attach a flying corps to every regiment as the War Ministry considers introducing aeroplanes into regular army equipment. The emperor may cruise the Mediterranean after the season ends, while Greece seems unlikely to be visited this year. The empress may accompany her daughter to Abbazia for a brief stay. In Des Moines a police station courtroom hosted a church service led by evangelist J. Caffee with one conversion reported. Berlin and other cities saw clashes as Socialists protested a proposed franchise bill, police and troops dispersing rioters with sabers and stones."
Pierre 8 D voters approve the commission form by 215 to 0. The plan wins in Dell Rapids by a large majority. Mitchell voters reject the commission form by 236, with every ward voting against the proposition.
The jury in Boise Idaho found William F Kettenbach George H Kester and William Dwyer not guilty of conspiracy to defraud the government of timber lands after their trial concluded in Boise Idaho.
Hudson County grand jury indicts 21 officials of major meat packing firms led by Armour Swift and Morris for conspiring to fix prices and restrict supply. Indictments name executives from Armour Co, Swift & Co, G H Hammond, Morrie Co, and more. Witnesses testified to a coordinated method limiting shipments to the East and elevating profits.
Hogs in Chicago sold at ten dollars per hundred pounds, a new high in the market, with Indianapolis at 10.05 and St. Louis at 9.85. The advance equals the 1870 record, with only 1865 wartime price of 12.25 remaining higher. Industry faces a winter packing shortage of about 2.7 million hogs versus last year.
Munyon’s medicines claim to energize digestion and nourishment without calomel, toutting ian ing and stimulating effects. Available in 10¢ and 25¢ sizes from druggists, with free medical advice from Munyon’s Doctors in Philadelphia. Also promoting Cold Remedy and Rheumatic Remedy with prices.
The British Navy plans to promote Captain David Beatty to rear admiral at thirty eight, despite missing the six year peace time service rule. An Order in Council notes his wartime wounds and shortened captain’s list, enabling rank advancement when his turn arrives. Beatty is Irish, married to a daughter of Marshall Field. Nelson rose to rear admiral at thirty nine.
A doctor questions a religious brother about dying. The brother Hardesty replies he would feel curiosity to test whether the afterlife stories are accurate. The exchange centers on belief, mortality, and verification beyond this world.
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