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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 27, 1906
Page
1
The Elgin Echo reports on famine looming as Russian harvests prove poor. Winter wheat generally above average but Volga region, spring wheat, rye and oats show disappointing results. Tax collection fails, zemstvo is empty, central government bears the relief burden.
Robert R. Hitt, 72, veteran Illinois congressman from the Thirteenth District, died at Narragansett Pier Rhode Island after four weeks of heart disease. A prominent Republican in Illinois politics for over thirty years, he had served in Congress since 1832 after being assistant Secretary of State. Born in Urbana Ohio, he moved with his father to Mount Morris Illinois where he lived most of his life.
Reports show Chicago defeating St Louis and New York slipping against Detroit while Philadelphia and Boston edge Des Moines and Sioux City in standings. Other items note homestead land opens in Oklahoma, an Union Pacific probe, a Buenos Aires dock fire, a Kentucky shooting, Churchill and Beaton nominating races, a Hong Kong typhoon, and Chicago vying for world series games.
Reports from Japan describe a fatal clash between Japanese poachers and Russians off the Banetinton coast. A Russian officer and nineteen men were killed, with many Japanese also dead or wounded as ships from Nigaii Takata and Makorate were seized. A Japanese captain and interpreter figure in the fighting, and another account cites shore batteries at Vindivostok firing on Japanese boats amid suspicion of reconnaissance.
Gas and oil were struck at a depth of 186 feet beneath the Rockefeller office building in Cleveland. If quantities appear, preparations will be made to use them for fuel and light. Fred I. Kel cher, drilling with a torch, was burned in the blast. A pipe was placed to vent the gas away from boiler flames. The well was sunk at John D. Rockefeller's suggestion.
Bay Director Rogers of the navy, recently designated to succeed Paymaster General Harris, is said to be the only officer eligible to appointment who did not file an application. President Roosevelt noticed Rogers had not applied and sent a letter asking if he would accept, the first hint he was considered.
Ethel Williamson, 24, of Muncie Indiana, drank carbolic acid in her Toledo room then set her clothing ablaze, dying later at a Toledo hospital. Inmates found her body engulfed in flames, clothing torn away as the burns were life threatening.
Robbers blew open safes at two banks in Underwood a stall town in McLean County North Carolina securing about ten thousand dollars in cash. Explosions echoed through the town but residents paid no heed as the four bandits escaped.
A dating robbery looted the Peebles post office, cracking the safe and stealing about $500. A posse formed to pursue the gang, which escaped on a handcar. Identity remains unknown.
Fleas invade Milwaukee Country Club driving members to seek help as match golf is suspended. Insects overwhelm club houses dining rooms and verandas while schools and many factories report infestations risking closures unless relief is found. Health officials note progress depends on showing the infestation is spreading.
A man in a Staten Island prohibition rally tent interrupted the two day meeting by confessing murders and other crimes. He knelt, asked Holy Father for forgiveness, claimed to have killed a man and harmed his wife and her mother. Police have been seeking the Henry Dean suspect since last century. He was locked up.
In a late night stud poker game at the Americas in Pittsburg D. Josey Johnston was exposed for cheating with a dime sized mirror on his ring that allowed him to claim opponents’ money. Frank Sauer grabbed him, Johnston resisted, and Sauer recovered several thousand dollars and diamonds. Johnston faced a fine as a suspicious person and was ordered out of town.
Advices from Hakodate, Japan, state a sealing raid on the Pribyloff Islands was organized and planned by two Japanese schooners. Five Japanese were killed and twelve captured. The raid targeted St Paul Island while American involvement was denied. Robben Island rookery losses totaled about 6,000 seals in 1904 and about 500 in 1905 as guards were withdrawn during the war.
A watchman named Joseph Prable died inside the Towar watch tower on St. Clair avenue near the O. & I railroad crossing in Cleveland. With the corpse not found, the unguarded crossing remained open for hours, though streetcars continued to pass over the tracks. The dead worker was reported to have been at his post when the incident occurred.
A Budapest dispatch reports that an assassination attempt targeted Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir presumptive to Austria Hungary. While traveling through Serajevo to Vienna, stones were hurled at his carriage through windows, but he escaped unharmed.
Amonio Congo of Brooklyn X Y lived twenty one years without bones and stayed in a cradle from birth to death in a case that drew attention from visitors to his father’s home. He could see but could not hear or speak and was unable to move. He stood about 20 inches tall yet enjoyed wealth during his life.
Gilmour Hotel on Bankstreet Ottawa was destroyed by fire during the industrial exposition. Many patrons jumped from windows, several injured, and some unaccounted for as flames spread rapidly before stairway exits were blocked.
Samuel and Edward Groff of Toledo Ohio were released Monday after serving one year for a postal scandal. They received tickets to Toledo and departed. Also noted are various sensational items including a Denver leadville con artist’s death and the Roosevelt eight hour law extension.
Jersey City mother and her three young children were overcome by smoke on the top floor of a tenement at 80 Yorke street. Frank Peterson, aged 5, died in an ambulance en route to hospital. mother and infant child expected to die. The blaze started from an overturned ramp. the mother, Crippled Men Form a Union. The Crippled Railway Men's Union was organized in Chicago with D C Woolverton chosen to present demands to 23 Chicago railroads. John & Lag, contractor, held to grand jury for first degree manslaughter in Minneapolis. Four killed, four seriously injured in storms in Johnson County, Nebraska. President Roosevelt, in a letter to the Cuban minister, offers peace or intervention. War Secretary and Acting Secretary of State travel to Elaynna to press influence.
John T. Shayne a prominent Chicago furrier is adjudged insane by the County Court and a trust company is appointed his trustee. Overwork and high living are blamed for his mental decline. Ethel Roosevelt, daughter of the President, is involved in a buggy accident but unharmed. Wabash Railroad machinists strike to push for higher wages. Former Michigan Governor Aaron M. Blige dies following a stroke at Milwaukee after a year of illness.
President Roosevelt states the United States may intervene in Cuba under the Platt Amendment to restore order. He directs immediate public communication and dispatches Secretary Taft and Assistant Secretary Bacon to Havana. Six cruisers with 2,000 marines are prepared for rapid deployment to Cuba if needed.
Dr Julian P Thomas of the New York Amiteur aeronaut reports a bicycle frame steering device for balloon Nirvana enabling steering at a fixed wind angle and vertical control up to 500 feet by pedaling. He tested a fog direction method with toy balloons during the New York to Oakland voyage. A storage battery passenger car for light rail, built by Brill and Strang, runs on batteries and dynamos, targets 55 mph, and promises lower construction costs per mile.
University of California President Wheeler refuses permission for Prof Seawell of the Architecture department to establish a life class in art with nude studies. An off campus studio has been arranged to conduct the class amid campus dispute.
From Far and Near, Mrs Eliza Fairchild Wheeler mother of Prof A M Wheeler of Yale died aged 101. Surgeon General Walker of England who died recently left his entire library and a collection of manuscripts to the Cloyd library in Cincinnati. Dresdner bank and Schaaf hausen bankverein of Berlin formed a community of interest in December 1903 and will issue 5 000 000 Bow capital.
The ad touts Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription as a potent tonic for women’s irregularities and pains. It claims to strengthen the system, aid childbirth, and ease nervous exhaustion. Readers are urged to send a postal card for a free booklet detailing ingredients and authorities’ endorsements.
London Graphic notes that rapid motor travel overstimulates the eye, causing a false perception of surroundings. The discussion argues the eye is adapting to modern conditions and will encounter unforeseen consequences as mobility increases.
In a playful exchange a bachelor who longs for a strenuous life asks if it costs a red man no more to live than one person. The mat replies that it costs about three times as much for his wife to live.
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