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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 29, 1908
Page
8
Des Moines business and professional leaders fear police department management troubles will threaten the commission plan. A temporary chief is named amid a deadlock in final adjustments, while visitors from other cities watch Des Moines as a model.
The so called millionare tramp Suader or Snider alias B W Sader vanished last year and faced a District Court suit in Town City for over 174000 dollars from Lone Tree Savings Bank. He had funds there until his disappearance and a band he formed drew money from his accounts. The Lone Tree Savings Bank first uncovered an overdraft prompting the suit.
Miss Ruth Lamson of State Center will wed Count Giovanni Cardelli, linking Iowa to Italian aristocracy. Lamson, daughter of Warren Lamson, a former businessman now with Chicago’s Board of Trade, meets the count after touring Europe with her parents. He hails from a prominent Italian family with Pope Leo XIII connections and works as the Moroyean representative for a Cleveland metal casting company.
A major blaze in Davenport destroyed elevators and a warehouse tied to Rothschild Grain and Glucose companies in the western area. Insurance covers about 75 000 for the elevator and grain loss while the syrup warehouse suffered about 15 000 in damage. Mueller Lumber Co. reported 10 000 loss for a quarter million feet of lumber. Total damage to the three firms exceeds 100 000 with origin in a neighboring winter shed.
Clinton police report Misk Breda Bahnson, about 17, vanished after leaving two note explaining she wed. She left home with an unnamed man, last seen with him in Davenport as authorities seek his identity and location.
Bright Anartey, 24, and Esther Cook, 15, found in Bright home after neighbors heard shots. Bright had a bullet in his temple. Cook was fatally wounded. Investigators report a barricaded rear room and two empty shells. Police treat as murder and self-inflicted death in the Shenandoah case.
Howard W. Taylor aged 62 farmer of Dallas Center was killed when his team ran away near the King corner by the county farm. He was driving from Dallas Center toward Minburn when thrown from the buggy after the team frightened by an automobile. He lived there many years leaving a family of grown children.
Brief state happenings include fourteen business district fires in Shellrock with $25,000 loss. Iowa City pioneer Mrs. Ellen Schneider dies at 72 after 50 years there. Other items note railroad, park plans, typhoid survivor's death, and various local incidents across Iowa in this era.
Refugees from Metz in the upper peninsula are trapped by forest fires that have destroyed seven towns and caused millions in losses. A relief train wreck on Friday killed about twenty people and left fifteen skeletons found among the charred remains. The Detroit and Mackinac Railroad area near Alpena saw fires threaten towns as rains failed to hold back the blaze.
A Belgian vice consul reports a planned mass emigration from Belgium to the United States seen as likely to rival Italian arrivals. Officials eye suitable farming settlements as Belgium, densely populated and hard hit by hardship, considers sending workers abroad. Immigrants would be hardy citizens, with March visits planned to survey potential locations.
A relief train loaded with household goods and Mercantile stocks departed Metz at midnight while flames raged along tracks to Hawk's station. The engine derailed after striking a culvert, with Engineer Foster and Wireman Tee taking refuge in a water tank before fleeing. Conductor Kinville attempted to reach Posen, crawling along tracks as fires roared on both sides. Kinville reportedly blinded by burns, others escaped or perished as the wreck burned.
A Tokyo based agent named Shimanuld operates the Ryokkokai to match 90,000 Japanese bachelors in the United States with prospective brides. About 100,000 men abroad, 10 percent wireless, send photos to Tokyo for evaluation. The agency trains brides to be suitable for settlers, aiming to create families and eventual citizenship to ease anti Japanese sentiment. In Ohio, Rose local option drives go after saloons with many counties already dry and more elections planned before the presidential vote.
Washington coal miners and operators signed a two year wage scale agreement after recent talks. President Roosevelt hosted playwright Israel Zangwill at lunch and discussed Melting Pot and its criticisms of American life. In West Virginia, Pp Lt Beker and S Decker received four year sentences for manufacturing counterfeit nickels used in slot machines. Grand Duchess Elizabeth, widow of Grand Duke Sergei, retired to a Russian convent near Moscow. In New York Lyric Theater reception under United Irish League honored John Redmond and Joseph Devlin with a large crowd turnout.
A dense chronicle lists varied historical milestones across nations and regions. Events include battles, treaties, constitutional acts, inaugurations, religious and educational milestones, legislative actions, and key visits or openings in North America, Europe, and the Caribbean. The listing names places such as Boston Yorktown Springfield and Brockville with dates and outcomes, reflecting a broad historical sampler.
The American Smelting and Refining Company reports no earnings decline for the year ending April 20, with a surplus of 13,408,210. President Daniel Guggenheim notes the surplus remains intact despite business downturns. The piece also mentions a Chicago trader profit, Dun's industrial failures, and agricultural losses from frozen tomatoes in Muscatine, along with related market observations.
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