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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 07, 1905
Page
3
Deranged farmer Belge Moore aged 60 missing from near Kenton Ohio for four weeks was found dead under a barn floor by his brother. He crawled under the building and starved to death after becoming wedged and unable to cry out. Evidence shows he scraped dirt around him while attempting to escape.
Incendiary fires devastate Geary & Tanner meat market Lumber Co and Schwab Bros stores. Valley hotel damaged. Citizens form vigilance committee to catch arsonist amid third blaze in four weeks. Also reports on Kansas manufacturing growth, a Chicago embezzlement arrest in Seattle, and pension totals.
Work on the Detroit River tunnel between Windsor and Detroit starts with sinking the American shaft. A Canadian shaft will follow as surveying continues. The tunnel runs two and a half miles underground with three miles from surface to surface, and construction may take two to three years. The Detroit River Tunnel Company formed from two merger groups. John Mitchell threatens an eight hour day and union recognition if wages don’t meet demand.
A cloudburst down Delagua canyon Orlo at 9 on Thursday night washed out the Colorado and Southern branch line and swept away about fifty small Greek Italian laborer dwellings. Several Italian mine laborers and families are dead or missing as floodwaters inundate the camp and bridge damage blocks rail service.
A 88 year old named John Williams died 1,200 feet above Red House Park near Cahokia Illinois after grasping a trapeze bar as a parachute opened. He fell to the ground, suffering fatal injuries. The balloon ascension was performed by an amateur aeronaut, while Williams died in the accident. The other aeronaut remained uninjured.
An official probe linked two dynamite plot attempts near the Sig reservoir in Marte Oy last year. Farmers Riley Colton of Celina and Parker Wright were arrested in Wapikoneta, while other locals face arson and related charges.
A couple registered as John W. Rogers and wife of Ben Francisco abandoned a 6 year old boy and a 6 month old baby at the Tor Eyck Hotel Albany. Police suspect death by own action after a California bank check Rogers cashed there. Children sent to a charitable institution. Rogers linked to Congressional Correspondence Company and California Oil Fields Company.
A Pennsylvania railroad collision in Logansport south yards injures multiple and kills Fireman Walter Eversole of Richmond. Engineer Geady among the injured. freight No. 72 cleared the main track as the excursion train entered at high speed. Ten cars on the excursion, four derailed.
Abraham Lincoln birthplace farm in Hodgenville Hardin County Kentucky sold at auction by Commissioner Handley for 3600 dollars to BR Jollier of New York. The 110 acre tract, bought by Thomas Lincoln in 1808, has long been debated as a national park site and remains taxable property. The buyer takes possession in December, with plans unspecified.
Prominent report from Washington weather bureau notes exceptionally favorable conditions for corn development in central valleys. Cutting underway in Oklahoma Indian territories southern Missouri and Kansas. Most early corn likely safe from frost by Sept 15. Spring wheat harvest finished with good yields. Tobacco harmed by wet weather in Kentucky Virginia Maryland but Maryland shows progress. Apple outlook favorable in Maryland Virginia but poor elsewhere. Potatoes outlook very unfavorable.
Chicago typographers gird for a general strike across large cities from Ohio to Minnesota. Union officers demand eight hour day guarantees and threaten instant action. plan to block nonunion printers from Minneapolis and St Paul to leverage sales, with about ten firms expected to join war of open shop policies.
Thirty five cases of yellow fever were found in Jefferson Parish by Dr. C Milo Brady during inspections under state health board directions. Most cases are along Bayou Barataria, with deaths reported. patients are mainly Portuguese and Spaniards. The state will send physicians nurses medicines and provisions. The local outlook is hopeful and officials expect the disease to fade before frost. A New York organization is fundraising to rescue mutineers from the Potemkin in Roumania and Lute.
A Bohemian hunting story follows a count tracking a bear and a daw ied. He shoots a cub for his sleigh journey home fifty miles away. Upon arrival, the gamekeeper reports a huge bear scaling the park wall. The count pursues and kills the dam of the cub, and the loyal mother arrives after the long journey to share fate with her cub and a monument is erected where she fell.
In Monticello Mississippi on September 4 a special report touts Dodd's Kidney Pills as a universal kidney cure. Mrs L B Baggett credits the remedy with curing dropsy and restoring health, claiming purified blood and energy. Teddy's lesson about not rushing bosses is recounted as a domestic aside.
An advertisement touts Mullin Anti Belch Wafers as a safe drug free cure for stomach issues. It promises absorption without drugs and offers two boxes for 50 cents or a free sample via coupon. Claims medical science supports the cure and attacks rival preparations.
The excerpt notes a treasury deficit for the Ascat year approaching 24 million dollars. It questions whether this amount is substantial for a prosperous nation and discusses per capita impact, suggesting a large share of the deficit could be due to mismanagement and careless spending.
A railroad man bought two lots in a boomed Texas Panhandle Rock Island line area for 16 dollars, then sold them for 5000 after a church site was set, before reinvesting in neighboring plots and profiting by quadrupling their price. A buyer sold on the same day for 100 percent profit as an opera house rises. The piece notes rapid, money-making land turnover across the Southwest and mentions sensational price jumps, plus assorted adverts and tips.
Business generally shows sustained volume and growing strength in manufacturing and distribution. Interior reports support an encouraging trade zone with rising purchasing power and expected fall and winter demand. In Chicago, primary markets stay active with good transactions, rail trade strong, and lake carrying above prior records. Totals include grain handling at 11,121,400 bushels and lumber receipts at 57,796,000 feet. bank clearings exceed last year by 30.1 percent. Failures in Chicago district total 15 for the period.
A scattered report lists cattle hogs sheep and wheat prices by city including Chicago Indianapolis St Louis Cincinnati Detroit Milwaukee Toledo and New York with bid ranges for cattle hogs and sheep and grain quotes for wheat corn oats rye and barley across markets. It notes labor notes about windfalls and notes a high percentage of women in stenography and typing in the United States.
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