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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 25, 1924
Page
3
Washington dispatch notes the Supreme Court will convene in October for the fall term with a full docket. The report surveys cases including veteran disability definitions and labor issues, while detailing broader economic and international news items from the period.
Edward W. Pickard reports tumult in the Caucasus and southern Russia as Bolshevik resistance faces uprisings aided by Turkish and others, with Moscow cracking down, while reformers seek disarmament, League of Nations dynamics, and debt talks. Follows China’s northern warfare, Berlin and Bucharest moves, and American Legion events. aviation and navy budget debates color the era's international tensions.
Revolt erupts as General Lu abdicates the Chekiang governorship and flees Bangchow, with Liang troops joining Kiangsu and Fukien to march on Hangchow. Shanghai alarms rise as Kiangsu siege and new attacks against Linho near the Yangtze estuary unfold, while foreign observers monitor Hankow and Shanghai Volunteer corps mobilization.
A coroner's jury ordered Rev Hight jailed after poisoning deaths of his wife and a fellow congregant Wilford Sweetin. Chicago toxicologist Dr McNally reports Sweetin died of genic poisoning. Mrs Hight died weeks earlier. Sweetin’s widow fled to Pinckneyville to stay with her brother Joseph Williams.
The American German War Claims Commission awarded more than 65 million dollars. About 34.7 million goes to 61 American insured companies and 24.3 million to the veterans bureau. The commission also held that 12 American insurance firms could not hold Germany liable for losses under 18 policies covering 11 persons killed in the Lusitania disaster.
Maj. Carl Stutz flies an army pursuit plane 540 miles from Selfridge Held to Washington in 3 hours 20 minutes. Strong visibility only fair, weather and air conditions noted as viaibility. United States Army pursuit flight sets a record for speed and endurance.
Oshkosh Wisconsin Harry Welgelt confessed to killing his wife whose body was found hanging in the woodshed of their home. He was sentenced to life imprisonment in the state penitentiary by the district court.
Santa Fe passenger train No. 10 derailed after the engine struck two buckled freight cars on the main line near Galesburg. No injuries reported among passengers or crew.
A cool front swept through Monte Traln breaking a long drought and dropping temperatures by about 30 degrees. Thermometers fell from 77 to 47 degrees in a few hours, leaving residents preparing for relief from dry conditions.
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