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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 08, 1923
Page
3
A compilation of global notes reports the U.S. agricultural rise, grain exports up, and government reorganizations in Washington. It notes a drop in silver demand, tuberculosis efforts in cattle, and industrial disputes in Pennsylvania collieries. Also cited are a submarine accident in Panama, a boiler blast in Greenville, and a speed air race winner in Missouri.
Jose Luis Blasio, longtime secretary to the former Emperor Maximilian and the last survivor of the emperor’s entourage, has died in Mexico City in poverty. In London, former British prime minister Andrew Bonar Law also passed away.
Senator James Couzens pledges 110000 to a Detroit community fund while Henry Ford adds 60000 and Edsel Ford 55000. The report also notes cloudbursts in San Bernardino foothills flooding streets and a fatal auto crash near Broomington. Other items include resignations, estate news, wage talks, and a Roosevelt sanctuary gift.
A London dispatch reports Great Britain accepts the appointment of former Senator Frank B Kellogg as Ambassador to the Court at St Jamon. Other items include Balkan insurgent leader Sakelricu sentenced to death by court martial. assassinations and wounds in Sofia. Ambassador Herrick returning to Paris. cotton industry developments in Australia. a jail mob attack in Mexico. harbor deepening at Gothenburg. violence in Telupan state. a Bolivian decree on medical certificates. Belgium protesting treatment of a Berlin envoy. Bavarian reinforcement movements. Princess Llertaine injured at Doorn. and Manitoba Saskatchewan Alberta wheat crop totals.
Edward W. Pickard reports that a reparations commission plan may form a panel of experts with U S involvement. Poincare accepts advisory limits on findings, insists on no price reductions or guarantees, while Britain accepts French reservations. Allies press a cooperative approach as German politics show royalist pressure and regional separatism unfolds across Rhineland and Berlin.
Chicago Board of Trade faces push from prominent members to end wheat futures trading. They favor a cooperative marketing plan using grade based contracts and restricted to receivers, shippers, and millers, rather than speculative trading. George Marcy, BE Lewis, and George A. Roberts traveled to Washington for Farm Bureau talks.
Henry N. Hullison, 68, was at the throttle of a Chicago Great Western passenger train leaving the city for Kansas City when he collapsed. The engine slowed near a crossing, Hullison collapsed, and his body was moved to a track foreman. Another engineer then took the throttle at Forty-alfth avenue yards.
Premier Poincare’s Nevers speech halts American plans for the inquiry into German finances. He insists experts only assess Germany’s present capacity to pay, dampening the administration’s project and signaling possible U S withdrawal from the conference if France maintains this stance.
A radio signal from the Radio Corporation of America in New York made twenty round trips to Warsaw, Poland, in 25 seconds at a speed of 4,500,000 miles, without an operator at either end, signaling a leap in radio telegraphy development and potential commercial impact.
Mrs Minta Arbuckle of Providence files suit against Roscoe Fatty Arbuckle on grounds of desertion and neglect to provide. The case centers on marriage stability after Arbuckle’s film fame and vaudeville work.
A general treaty near completion sees Herr Krupp von Bohlen signing and accepting terms to restart Krupp mines in the Ruhr under defined conditions. The pact sets the framework for resumed operations and future cooperation between involved powers.
Representative Anderson of Minnesota, Republican and president of the wheat council, filed a formal application with the tariff commission seeking a duty increase on wheat.
B D McCormick vice president of the Southern Pacific railway died here of heart disease. He had long been connected with the Southern Pacific system and was born in California.
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