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Newspaper
Fairfield Tribune
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1907
Page
7
Iowa awaits a fair trial for the 2-cent passenger law with no effort to block it. Railroads plan to test impact while opposing 2-cent laws in Arkansas Missouri and Nebraska. Courts to decide legality, new schedules to be issued from Chicago offices.
In Sigourney Iowa Delta brick kiln rises witness says Dave MacLaren of What Cheer fell from the top of a fifty foot chimney while coughing and landed on a brick pile. He is dying at the Delta hospital with the flower parts paralyzed and his age about forty.
Des Moines weather office confirms April now the coldest since the bureau began 29 years ago with a mean temperature of 42 degrees two degrees below the 1881 record. The month also ranked third in dryness with 1.48 inches of rainfall versus the 2.05 inch average.
Engineer William Cahill of the Davenport Rock Island Northwestern road was injured at Le Claire when an extra freight train bumped his engine. He was knocked from the cab, struck the corner of the engine, crushed skull and brain, and remains unconscious between life and death at St Luke's hospital in Davenport.
A folding bed collapsed trapping Mr and Mrs Hugh Taylor of Portland Oregon for about a half hour last week in Creston Iowa They were visiting and own farming interests in the county and were rescued just in time to avert death or serious injury.
Council Bluffs Iowa May 6 F T C Johnson a wealthy farmer living near Bentley was sued for 5000 damages by Miss Nellie Buckley a school teacher in a case heard today.
T H Cunningham sues Chicago Burlington and Quincy and Chicago Rock Island Pacific over damaged calves loaded at Fort Madison last March. He seeks $100 claiming the car was rotten and dilapidated causing calves to fall from the right of way and be pinched between car parts.
John Nelson collapsed across the main line of the Chicago Great Western Railway after drinking beer. Officer Schumaker found him just seconds before a fast train arrived, saving him from certain death.
County supervisor Henry E. Hollen was found guilty after an eight hour jury deliberation in a maladministration trial. He was dismissed from office amid evidence he billed for work in multiple county locations on the same day. Hollen, a longtime local political figure, could face criminal proceedings.
Mrs. C. E. Herman wife of a Lincoln township farmer was hurled from a speeding automobile near Mason City as a wheel came off. She sustained serious injuries and may not recover. Her husband was with her on the trip home when the incident tossed the occupants a considerable distance.
Charles Zimmerman a monomaniac who destroys wires was arrested by an Illinois Central detective in Dubuque Iowa on May 6. He escaped Independence asylum after two years of confinement and had wrecked property. He claimed the buzzing lines disrupted his rest.
Waterloo Iowa May 6 Mandamus proceedings have begun to force the Waterloo Cedar Falls Northern railway to meet provisions. The suit alleges trains lack frequent runs proper fenders signal lights insufficient power heating broken windows and badly deteriorated track.
Ottumwa Iowa May 3 Mrs W W Jackson wife of the county sheriff thwarted a bold attempt to break from the Wapello county jail when she noticed disturbed wainscoting in the jail kitchen and uncovered a tunnel through the wall behind it directing an escape via the kitchen corridor
Alfred Cohen a New York salesman for Horick and Horick is barred by the Ottumwa chambermaids union after a dispute over a waist from his samples. Two maids Barbara Gillispie and Nan Hodge fought Cohen after his insult, with the maids prevailing. Cohen left town bearing visible injuries from the altercation.
Waterloo Massachusetts May 5 Retired Rev George E Scott once infamous for eloping with a sixteen year old parishioner in 1906 faces possible pension withdrawal The Grand Army acts on the matter with a government agent investigating Scott who has lived in Town Falls since leaving Independence asylum Speculation centers on whether misconduct voids his military pension.
A fossil hippo tooth was found in the West Nishnabatona sands of Pottawattamie County near Council Bluffs Iowa. State geologist Dr Samuel Calvin and Prof C C Nutting identified it as the lower right canine of an ancient hippopotamus that once lived in Iowa.
Scientists in Iowa and surrounding areas note fossil hippos and elephant remains suggest Pleistocene climates were subtropical. They point to Africa tusk and tooth evidence as support for warmer, wetter conditions in North America long ago. A report from Elkader dated May 6 details local theft cases and suspects in Clayton county.
In Grant City Indiana on May 6 a reportedly insane man fired a revolver at Fay Lee as she rode by on horseback. The assailant fled after the horse bolted, leaving him at the roadside with a pistol. A posse hunted the area but found no clue to his whereabouts.
May 6 Helen Tansey, ittle daughter of Mr and Mrs A B Tansey, was seriously burned when her clothing caught fire near a bonfire in the yard. A neighbor woman helped and a physician treated burns on her thigh and back. Surgeons do not fear fatal injury.
Des Moines reports the postmaster general’s order boosting rural carrier salaries from 720 to 900 dollars annually adds about 500000 to Iowa’s fund for rural carriers. Des Moines handled disbursements of 1644870 last year with 2307 rural carriers. city carrier pay rises 77350 and clerks 0900.
Mrs. Elmer Young of Mason City Iowa was attacked by a holdup man near a railroad viaduct as she returned from a shopping errand. The 9 pm strike left her bruised but she escaped, running a block before the assailant gave up. her purse remained secure.
At the cornerstone ceremony in Oskaloosa on May 6 Penn college announced a summer build of a new gymnasium and a girls dormitory. The total value of improvements will reach $50,000.
A Des Moines financier advises young men to set a clear financial object and invest even small sums in improved real estate paying cash, with notes secured by mortgage. By discounting own notes and using rental income to pay them, a modest start grows into substantial property and disciplined saving.
In Ottumwa Iowa on May 6 Dr F E Lowry identified a rabies outbreak among cattle four miles northeast of Eldon at Jack Knight’s farm. After examining stock and reviewing deaths in the area he classified the illness as rabies hydrophobia.
The article argues that wet lands, abandoned for crop production, are unsuitable for sheep due to foot rot and poor movement. It notes few Northwest districts are so poorly drained that sheep cannot be grown, but urges abandoning wet heavy land for sheep raising.
William Booher, father of Daisy Booher who died by hanging and fire at Ackley, has searched the country for a watch with the girl’s name engraved on the back. He sought police help in locating the timepiece after examining over 3,000 watches with Detective Brackett in pawn shops.
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