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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 17, 1908
Page
6
In Dubuque the widow Barbara Morster cried out that she was to have been married to William Hintrager, whose death prompted a legal fight over a fortune. Hintrager, 82, left no will, $200 in gold found, and relatives dispute the romance claim while the case heads to court.
Mrs. George Chapman sues her husband for alienation of affection in Des Moines. The complaint names Mrs. Ida Clapp Smith as co defendant, filed by Judge Cole at the Town Supreme Beach home of justice. Divorce likely, amid prominent social families and a large estate left by Edwin Clapp.
A farmer near Burehinal devises a blunt method to keep a bull from crossing a pasture fence. After failed verbal efforts, he uses a loaded loafer filled with soot and Dupont powder to pepper the animal when it breaches the boundary, a technique he then applies to his own wife.
Miss Lizzie Agen, three, guest of George Mathias, confronted by a Black intruder who entered her bedroom and muffled cries by thrusting a fist into her mouth. After a struggle he fled, leaped from a window, and hid in a vacant house cellar until neighbors and officers captured him. He claimed the name Marl Niezert also Jack Canter. Letters in his pockets suggest a wife and several children in Jacksonville Indiana.
Two Waterloo men were killed by a moving train near Waterloo. T O'Conner of Waterloo reported that Dobbinn Perish Ender Whepta, age 20, was found along the Chicago Great Western tracks and was single. The other man, aged 30, was identified as O'Connar D, who fell under the wheels while boarding a moving train.
Fire destroyed about $2,000 in bins and a moving picture machine as a broken film sparked the blaze at Anamoine theater amid a crowd of about 200. All escaped safely, though an elderly woman in a living room overrun by smoke required removal. Building damage around $100. a Carnegie medal was awarded to 11-year-old Marjorie Coast for saving another child from drowning in the Iowa River.
A string of suicides unfolds in Davenport as residents die at friends’ homes. Mrs Hivaeh died after closing a room and turning on a keyhole light amid family sorrow from a Chicago daughter’s death. Other incidents include Mes Paul Ttingeh’s widowhood and Mrs Max Deubner’s overdose while visiting neighbors.
Brigadier Scott Ghavil head of the State anti death by own action bureau of the Volunteers of America reportedly attempted suicide in Des Moines by swallowing fifty strychnine pellets and turning on gas. A wedding party found him two hours later and he was rushed to a hospital with little hope of recovery.
Articles of Incorporation filed for the Des Moines Conneil Bluffs and Western railway. Nevada headquar ters at Pierre South Dakota with a Des Moines business office. Capitalization set at 100000. Planned line from Cornell Cliffs to Des Moines with an eastern extension to Muscatine. Directors include Robert Pilmery Norwalk N W Wansen Has lith BR C Wallace J S Carlock NR S Bannister Des Moines and A L P Sawyer of Pierre as state agent.
A Davenport boy of eleven who left home for a week and was presumed dead by parents and police returned with forty dollars after traveling to Clinton Sioux City Chicago Omaha and back to Clinton. The Arlington hotel burned entirely at Town City with damages near three thousand dollars and one thousand insured. landlord Bowers and guests narrowly escaped. Rev J A Verger of Des Moines collapsed and died during a Mount Zion church sermon in Loring.
Mrs. Arthur Cunningham a newlywed of four weeks in Des Moines died from severe burns when a gas stove exploded at noon. Gasoline and flames enveloped her as she was readying the meal and she succumbed while being transported to Methodist hospital.
The Republican space convention named W. JD. Evans of Manston among nine candidates for supreme judge. He currently serves as a district judge. A series of robberies alarms Burlington residents as Alfred Siegler’s home is held up by an unknown footpad.
Forty-two Republican lawmakers and all but three standpatters refuse to elect Gov. Cummins to the U S Senate, aiming to block the election and push primary reform. The joint session adjourns as factions vow to force a primary law and delay statewide voting.
A humorous dialogue fragment presents misheard names and social missteps as characters miss appointments and ponder marriage. Miscommunication centers on a waiter and a bank position mix up, while a widow presses for a favorable impression and a playful banter about engagements and a new play promises a hair-raising effect.
The Boston Globe notes that while recent weeks feel intensely hot or cold, climate records show no long term shift in New England. Historical recollections describe 1810 as an unusually cold year with frosts in every month, crops damaged, and mass emigration, contrasting with modern variability that aligns with normal seasonal averages since weather bureau records began.
The piece portrays the American girl as an enigma who refuses titled suitors yet accepts Western fortunes. English matrons debate her restraint while a Wellsley graduate funds debts of the aging Marquises, marries him, and is said to persist as a “noblewoman.”
A fragment from a Denver Republican piece depicts a lonely range life. The speaker laments a departed beloved and the emptiness of frontier days, with rustic imagery of cow towns, stagecoaches, and moonlit plains reflecting melancholy and longing.
The Philadelphia Press notes a humorous moment about an old manuscript poem of Shakespeare’s sealing theater day valued at 2700 dollars. In another column, Mrs Hlatik’s Exch hosts a gathering where women were to be entertained and bring husbands, with members receiving a card asking for items too precious to discard but useless to them.
A playful, puzzle like dialogue features a romantic girl asking if a ring suits her and a friend praising a new style. The excerpt mentions a Kansas University man and a faculty member with a quiet demeanor, plus a quip about a married man’s respect for his wife's purchases amid social chatter from the St. Louis Republic.
Orville Wright achieves a new world distance and time record at Fort Myer Virginia flying a aeroplane for fifty seven minutes and thirty one seconds covering fifty three flights in total. He maintains control and notes he could have continued if not for minor motor slips.
Ampedean slippers leaders protest the fief count over a Japanese railroad policy in Manchuria. They allege a rebate scheme excludes foreign shippers from Moos cargo under minimum rules and prohibits cargo combining, unlike the Japanese. In London, Lord Courtney opened the seventeenth universal peace conference session urging stronger international law to secure peace. In Bombay, Tilak’s sedition conviction and 1x year banishment trigger riots with 20,000 mill hands on strike, violence against Europeans, and troop deployments. Martinique mayor Antoine Siger’s civil damages suit against the Martinique government follows his assassination. A new patent law triggers a foreign patent revocation wave, boosting domestic investment to 125,000,000 capital.
Dun's Review of Trade reports rising demand for mill and factory outputs with stronger agricultural prices, supporting purchasing power in the West. Breadstuffs outpace last year while hog arrivals dip and stocks of provisions tighten. Chicago August permits total 41 and 71 507,000 in value, city loan negotiated, money quotes 3 1 4 to 4 1 4 percent, debits and clearings up year over year.
New York reports mixed gains as cooler weather and fall festivals stimulate some cities and markets. Readiness shows expanded distributions in Reading and western markets, with southern centers also lifting. Industrial output rises in iron and steel, papermaking strikes resolved, but overall trade remains below last year. failures edge higher week by week.
The tabulated data lists cattle hogs sheep and various grain prices in Cincinnati Detroit Milwaukee New York and Palddo. Prices are given per unit with No 2 and mixed grades for wheat corn oats rye and hay plus butter eggs and clover seed figures.
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