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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 02, 1913
Page
1
A sweeping summary of diverse early 20th century items includes an impeachment petition against Justice Van Devanter filed in Washington, labor and tariff discussions, naval training reforms, transportation rules, and a mix of legal, political, and crime reports with notable figures like Wilson, Gompers, and Thaw.
Reports from Sabtings and Bar roteran Mexico say the constitutionalist army is defeated and retreating toward the border with 1600 federals in pursuit. The pope in Rome has not received audiences for three days and remained bedbound. A telegram notes four scientists in German New Guinea are safe on Murray Island off Australia. Frederick Penfield becomes US ambassador to Austria and Ulster leaders fall ill awaiting talks. A mutiny erupts in a Spanish Royal guard battalion at Algeciras en route to Morocco. one standard bearer is killed and several injured. D. J. Campau is badly hurt in a Detroit auto crash. Captain J. R. Eggleston dies at Sewanee. Logan Waller Page opens the third annual American Road congress in Detroit. Dr. James B. Angell battles heart trouble in Ann Arbor. Representative James M. Curley suffers acute appendicitis in Boston.
Washington October 1 treasury officials begin general guidance on the income tax with blanks to be distributed through post offices and internal revenue officers. Representative Cordell Hull explains two phase tax with at source withholding for corporations and a final personal return due in 1914, detailing deductions, abroad reach, and deadlines. The bill shifts to the tariff reform ongoing in Congress with estimates showing federal revenues and expenditures under the new system.
In Rostov on September 30 brigands tore up rails causing a passenger train wreck between Baku and Batum. Forty people were killed and about 100 injured as six cars were destroyed along the line.
Chicago secret service agents seized molds presses and retorts for counterfeit coins in a portrait studio at 2426 West Madison street behind canvases. Charles F. Kenlman posed as a painter and confessed to two years of coin production in Chicago and a prior Louisville arrest under the alias Robert Ives.
Reports say detectives thwarted an attempted robbery of a Louisville and Nashville passenger train between New Orleans and Bay St. Louis. Two men were arrested after police had prior information of the plans before the train departed New Orleans.
Ann Arbor Sept 30 nearly all hope for the recovery of J B Angell emeritus of the University of Michigan has been abandoned. He was stricken with heart failure and double pneumonia and is unconscious part of the time.
Calcutta on Sept 30 reports the head constable of the city shot dead by three Bengal youths who vanished into a dense crowd. Police seek motives citing possible political aims.
Alfred Anderson of Hartford a wrestler and sport promoter was drowned in Poquonnock while on a fishing trip on September 20.
Two consular reports describe the 400 year old French fisheries on Newfoundland banks. The metropolitan fleet of 240 ships and 6,838 men sails from France in spring, with simple navigation and no chronometers. A separate St Pierre and Miquelon contingent adds about 7,500 fishers. earnings are modest, advances deducted from shares, and reforms led by naval officials and shipowners.
A London royal commission sits to decide if British India should have a gold mint. The issue revolves around India's historic hoarding instinct and the potential unlimited gold supply if a mint is established, as most Indians earn very little and vast sums vanish into precious metals.
Clayton B Kellam an eccentric farmer told his brother Henry that on his farm he buried large sums. Henry Kellam uncovered 9000 in gold and 1000 in bills after the death bed confession.
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