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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 19, 1903
Page
3
The Bureau of Labor Investigations finds that average annual expenditures for working families rose to about 708.54 dollars, with average family size around six. Food costs exceed four tenths of all expenditures, and a decade analysis shows prices peaked in 1802 with a national rise noted since the low year.
A Leesville Ohio tragedy ties Dr Belweeter and his wife and their 10 year old daughter Marguerite to sudden deaths under eerie circumstances. A 1 year old child Mele reportedly died rapidly, a caregiver Schwoeler convulsed, and a nurse died after lights out. Initial notes point to possible poison though heart trouble and apoplexy are cited. investigators weigh the sequence of events and medical findings as the family faces a troubling set of near-simultaneous fatalities.
Letters from Cape Verde report a severe famine with 600 deaths on Handago island since last March and 30 to 35 deaths daily now. Relief efforts by Cortinzacye government aim to mobilize Breps for aid, with outside assistance directed through Lisbon's board of trade.
Reported clash near Mariabou between Moros and the Twenty-Eighth Infantry left three soldiers dead and one wounded as Major General Wool led departure for Julo. Elsewhere a deadly collision near Kentwood killed thirty-four. fires, robberies, and various notices fill a chaotic early 20th century scene.
Acting Adjutant General Hall releases the annual report on the army for the year ended June 30 1908 showing 20 279 enlisted men with 287 killed or died of wounds or disease and 118 officers including 25 killed or died. It notes militia including National Guard totaled 116 042 and criticizes militia responsiveness as a long standing obligation and not a guaranteed fact.
Professor C A Elwood of the University of Missouri, newly elected president of the Missouri conference of charities and corrections, denounces county asylum conditions as nearly unbelievable. He cites a State Board of Charities report noting patients confined long terms with minimal clothing, one man chained to a tree stump, and a woman strapped to a bed for six years after a fifty two patient inspection by Professor Wood King.
Government land office at Crookston Minnesota opened for entries on Red Lake lands. About 250 filings were made by Tuesday close. Many seekers had camped overnight and traveled long distances. Officials reported smooth operation with no confusion among applicants.
A derailed gossip of the Hubbard expedition reports presumed perishment of the interior explorers led by Leontias Hubbard, with a Montignais tribe suppressing details. Separately, Winslow banking interests in Worcester face a 600000 debt, and a Portsmouth divorce suit cites four-year bath neglect. Fire at Climax Minn destroys business district. Grant letter found. and other brief items include a Seattle steamer loss and a Mormon admission of polygamy.
Teton Pil returns from northwest Alaska bound for Cincinnati after three years venturing along Axebuck Lunnehuck and Colville railways. He asserts three major rivers and countless tributaries hold rich gold deposits, predicting output rivaling Nome or the Klondike within years. Discovery follows a grant era as gold bearing streams extend across Alaska.
A blaze at the Nelson Morris Packing Company plant in St Louis, Missouri, engulfed the fort ilising area and spread to the killing plant and smokehouse. Firemen from St Louis fought the flames with help from local departments, the loss pegged around 100000 dollars. Several workers fainted from smoke but were revived.
Fragmentary report recounts Dr Leopold Hircchmann of New York City and Martin Loew, a medical student in Baltimore safety hospital lore. Loew allegedly attended a fraternity initiation, was attacked by about 25 peers, carried to a balcony, dropped 25 feet, beaten, revived then died the next morning. Roommate kept vigil through the night as the incident sparked a deadly outcome and a fellow student earned his first degree the following morning.
General Kabbe reports the Wyoming Indian troubles arose largely from a sheriff's actions. Major Cheever dispatches say sheriff and deputy fired first. Five Indians killed and five wounded, including a woman. Prisoners at Newcastle to be released. War Department notes no further agent needed.
George Williams, a Chicago burglar with an unfinished term, confessed at Bethel Mission in Duluth after hearing a sermon by Superintendent Moody. He wished to be jailed and sent back to prison. Convicted in 1898, paroled 1900, he fled to the Lake Superior region, fearing old associates would force him back into crime.
A guard fired on two men near the head gates of the water power canal at the American Soo after they acted suspiciously. Three sticks of dynamite were found near the gates that night and three more the next morning. Blasting the gates would flood the town and cause enormous damage.
The Fifty-eighth Congress convened in extraordinary session at noon Monday to align with President Roosevelt’s call for passage of legislation to implement the Cuban policy. The day saw the largest House membership in history, with crowds filling the capitol corridors and galleries as officials and spectators gathered to witness the opening.
Galleries overflow as the 58th Congress begins in extraordinary session. Senate pro tem Fry calls the body to order after lavish floral designs honor Senators Hanna and Gorman. House opens with Speaker race, seat drawings, and a crowded public and diplomatic attendance.
A garbled late 19th century wire of scattered items reports arrests in New York for burglary, a Kansas lodge lien on a Franklin County home, labor unrest among Boston messengers, a St Petersburg trial tied to a rail incident, a fatal mining cage accident in Montana, and a sea rescue near New Caledonia. It also references a railway project in China, a preacher accused of seduction, a South Dakota work comp case, and an English estate tied to a murder-suicide in New Jersey.
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