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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1913
Page
1
A sweeping digest reports President Wilson shelving currency legislation at a special session while preparing groundwork from Pujo findings. Other items warn of the pink bollworm threat to U.S. cotton, a 2 percent interest plan for federal deposits, and varied international incidents from Europe, Asia, and the Americas.
Washington May 6 Contempt of court judgments against Samuel Gompers Frank Morrison and John Mitchell officials of the American Federation of Labor were sustained by the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia It revived the sentences giving Gompers 30 days imprisonment and fines of 600 each to Mitchell and Morrison with no jail term The chief justice dissented and would reverse the entire judgment The case stems from the boycott list published in the AFL magazine and related to the Bucks Stove and Range company An appeal to the US Supreme Court will be sought by AFL lawyers. Mitchell expressed disappointment at the decision and said an appeal to the Supreme Court may follow once counsel are consulted.
The obituary notes former Wisconsin assemblyman and once mayor of Hall Clare, David L. Douglas, died at age sixty eight. A second item mentions Annis Aun eighteen, daughter of Dr Sun Yat Sun, former provisional president of the Chinese republic, a student at Snell's Seminary in Berkeley and soon to sail on the Mongolia to Shanghai, her home.
Washington May 6 Senator Works scored congressional efforts to set up a $100,000,000 Rockefeller foundation as a plan to farm out to John D Rockefeller and his associates the right and power to educate the people with money he claimed was accumulated by criminal means. He spoke in the senate on trusts and combinations, blaming the high protective tariff policy for their existence.
Testimony in the government suit to dissolve the International Harvester Company under the Sherman act is resumed in St Paul before a federal court. The hearing follows prior sessions in New York Chicago St Louis Wichita Kansas City Omaha and Sioux Falls.
Washington May 6 Senate Pomerene calls for civil service investigation while Hughes backs Paterson silk strike inquiry. Democrats hold conference as appointments go to the Senate and sundry civil bill advances. A Colorado land grant bill for road maintenance is among measures. In the House tariff debate continues. Slemp seeks funds for a Civil War memorial shaft at Cloyds Creek site. Sabath moves pure food law reform targeting patent medicines with licensed practitioners required.
Mexico City May 6 a grand Cinco de Mayo parade passed peacefully but a sudden panic broke out as marchers passed San Juan de Latran. Hundreds fled screaming amid nervous tension in the capital while President Huerta reviewed the troops in the finest parade since the Centennial.
In New York on May, Katharine Weld and others seek $3,341,000 from the Delaware Hudson Company under an alleged 1861 contract. They claim the firm failed to pay twelve cents per ton of coal mined under the agreement made with Henry Rockwell, now successors in ownership of coal lands.
New York May 6 Magistrate Kernochan refused Ralph Pulitzer counsel's bid for a warrant to arrest Mayor Gaynor on a charge of criminal libel arising from a February 14 Brooklyn speech. The decision curtails an attempted arrest linked to the contested speech.
Washington May 6 The Underwood tariff bill debate shapes the House and Senate panels consider amendments and briefs. Republicans push free admission on various articles while claiming industry ruin risk. Underwood rebuts the claim as inconsistent. Policy questions include wage impact, income tax treatment, mutual insurance exemptions, and Philippine cigar imports limits.
Reports from the City of Mexico estimate 1200 to 1500 lives lost in engagements outside Sonora during the last week. The blast of a Zapata camp train killed 150 at Nepantla. Federal forces claim Zapata driven from Cananea as Americans are advised to leave. Fighting near Nogales and Ortiz continues with telegraph lines cut and two American railway men reported killed.
London May 6 The House of Lords, sitting as the highest court of appeals, reversed a divorce court ruling finding Mrs. Scott in contempt for discussing a case heard in camera. The judgment ends secret proceedings in divorce and related suits in the United Kingdom.
Francia DuPont, millionaire powder maker, receives Progressive convention nomination for mayor of Wilmington Del on May 6.
A Washington luncheon features Chairman Underwood linking tariff revision to public duty. He cites a fable of a wet plate photographer who returned to a blurred image after the sitter moved briefly to check a drunken man outside. The joke underscores the need for steadfastness in national policy.
A sick woman reports improved kidney function and steadier nerves after giving up coffee for Postum. She notes enhanced brain power and physical strength, enabling harder mental work with less fatigue. She cites a testimonial from Poagga Co Battle Creek Michigan and mentions instant Postum preparation and a book titled The Road to Wellville.
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