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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 15, 1908
Page
1
The Waterbury Waterbury incident left four dead and six unconscious in an Italian boarding house. A barber, alerted by cries around 2 am, searched the building with companions and found victims in beds and near a window as the house was filled with gas. All victims are reported to be Italian.
Morrill Kansas editor J H W Smucker was shot by city marshal Harry Roger following a hostile encounter sparked by Smucker's article. Roger then returned home and killed his wife before taking his own life. The fatal sequence followed a long-running feud and a stone and punch exchange prior to the shooting.
Harry Augustus Garfield, son of President James A. Garfield, was inducted as president of Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts. The ceremony awarded honorary degrees to James Bryce, British ambassador to the United States, and Charles R. Van Hise, president of the University of Wisconsin.
Early returns from Wednesday's Georgia state election show Joseph M. Brown leading the gubernatorial race for the Democrats by a margin of more than a stated amount. A majority of counties also indicate ratification of a constitutional amendment tying property ownership to voter qualifications. Other items note bear attack in Virginia, rattlesnake incident in Oklahoma, a Wayne Eddy enlistment, New York building height limits, drought idleing factories in Richmond, and Chicago's third straight NL pennant win.
The Navy Department weighs converting the Washington monument into a wireless telegraph station. The plan, supported by Secretary Metcalf and Rear Admiral Cowles, envisions a temporary use atop the 555 foot monument with a future 500 foot steel tower. Messages could reach Europe and Atlantic vessels, transforming government communications and wartime reach if approved.
Idle docks in Liverpool and sailors seek berths while Lord Dunraven donates to Limerick for two industrial training scholarships. The Scotland Miners Federation backs wage concessions. New York clerks push for a system agreement. Scottish trades unions favor old age pensions and compulsory dispute intervention. Portland garment workers reach a forty eight hour week. Brooklyn office workers see organizing drives by Bookkeepers and Stenographers Union 12646. Glasgow relief foresees $50,000 emergency aid for thousands out of work. San Francisco plans 3,000 municipal jobs. Chicago debuts Hebrew labor press. Alaskan fisheries employ over 5,000 organized fishermen. Canadian textile workers raise weekly dues and press for enforcement of 55 hour law. Brewery Workers of America delegates total 40,000 in 378 locals at NY convention. International Union of Brewery Workers formed in 1886 in Baltimore. French Miners Federation of 80,000 to ally with General Federation of Labor. Shoe workers union dues 25 cents weekly to deter strikes.
Europe peers into a tense Balkans landscape as Ferdinand flees, Bulgaria plots, and Austria moves to seize Bosnia and Herzegovina. Russia and others push for a Berlin treaty revision while signs point to possible war only if Turks or Bulgarians escalate. Diplomatic chatter in Paris and London hints at a cautious, peaceful drift rather than full conflict.
At a San Francisco Trans Mississ iarri Congress meeting J C Stubbs director of traffic for Harriman railroads praised railroads for developing the West. Speakers included Dr Benjamin Ide Wheeler Col Fred W Fleming Gov Cutler and Gov Pardee on topics from transportation to conservation of natural resources and mineral resources.
The Manufactur ers' Record of Baltimore reports steady stone roadmaking progress and continual contract activity across the South. It notes large investments in industries such as oil and cotton. In Edinburgh Andrew Carnegie announced a $1,250,000 foundation for a hero fund in Scotland.
Shipyards on the Mersey and Tyne employ 20 000 fewer workers than last year. In Davenport Iowa on Labor Day editor Hearst and candidate Hisgen addressed unions. Minnesota Governor Johnson sent 1300 farmers as delegates to a Madison Wisconsin Farmers Congress. In Minnesota campaign opening Speaker Cannon replied to Harvan and Gompers.
The Lakes to the Gulf Deep Waterway Association held its greatest deep waterway convention in Chicago's Auditorium with Taft Bryan and Graves as guests. Secretary Saunders outlined the movement history, aims, and benefits, highlighting a Chicago to New Orleans trunk waterway and expanded Mississippi tributaries to steady freight flows and unite rail and river transport.
Dr. W. A. Moore of Cornell told the American Veterinary Association convention that to check the rapid increase of tuberculosis in America the only hopeful path is to segregate healthy cattle and enact laws to regulate cattle sales.
Notes of current events report Frank A. Day was re-elected chair man of the Minnesota Democratic State central committee. The item notes a horse race at Sheepshead Bay where Priscillian carrying top weight won the Occidental handicap at one and one-eighty miles in the last time of 1952. It also mentions a Labor Day address from Samuel Gompers reviewing recent events since the previous Labor Day.
Mrs Helen Sanerbler from St Joseph writes in September 1901 that a sudden cold caused tarry coryza and loss of appetite, but after taking Peruna as directed she recovered in nine days with restored appetite and energy, praising Peruna as an old and reliable remedy for colds.
An Electrical World report describes a telegraphing typewriter that attaches to ordinary machines to send and receive messages with exact replication. It records capitalization and lowercase writing, functions like a carbon copy, and eliminates mishearing errors common with Morse systems. The device, tested by one operator, promises accurate transmission across both sending and receiving units.
A Baltimore American quip puns on driving during wartime, asking what to call a man who drives an automobile. The reply labels him an autocrat, framing traffic as a contested road during the era.
A reader recounts indigestion prior to using Grapen-Nuta with cream and Postum, noting rapid improvement after a week and full recovery by the second week. The letter credits Grape-Nuts as the reason for renewed appetite and health, endorsing the product as genuine and interesting.
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