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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1909
Page
9
Last reports indicate twenty to thirty people perished in a railway coach fire. Five bodies have been recovered from the wreck as investigators assess the blaze and list possible causes and missing passengers.
A Davenport man and a Letts woman were involved in a serious incident on the track. The woman was fatally injured while others escaped with non life threatening injuries as authorities investigate the event.
Trenton, Mo., Dec 31 report shows five dead and nine injured when the California special from Chicago to California derailed near Trenton. Fireman O P Lininger among the dead. several passengers injured, cause of wreck unknown, snow and ice hinder rescue efforts.
Letts High School principal Owen Hammersly learned his mother Mrs. Nancy Hammersly was seriously hurt in the Golden State Limited wreck near Trenton Missouri this morning. She was visiting Letts for the winter and was about 75 years old. Davenport stone cutter J Zornig named among the injured in the same crash, traveling for Schrick er Marble and Granite of Davenport to Platte Kansas.
Chief Milleg seeks legislative support to create a state chief of police with a squad of twelve men who can assist local officers anywhere in Iowa to curb waves of crime including riots. An interurban case in Iowa City concerns the two cent rate with attorney demurrer filed. Greek immigrant Theros Kaperones faces deportation to New York for a 1908 murder. Great Lakes freight tonnage for the year tops 79 million tons with November surpassing 1908 and 1907 figures.
Waterloo city engineers fear spring floods along the Cedar river as ice clears. A conference of engineers from Cedar river cities will convene to discuss measures to prevent damage and loss across multiple communities.
Ray Lamphere, imprisoned for arson in Indiana, died of tuberculosis at Michigan City penitentiary. He had slain Mrs Belle Gunness and her children by setting fire to the Gunness home. Lamphere was attended by the prison chaplain and offered no statement on the case.
Frank B. Smith, president of Crucible Steel and a Pittsburg steel executive, collapsed and died of apoplexy in Pittsburg. His sister is married to Secretary of State Knox.
New York December 31 Nicola Tesla asserts a wireless electric light system run by current shipped from a producing plant over other waves will replace all present lighting methods within twenty years. He predicts rapid adoption and a new era in illumination.
Washington Bureau report notes Senator Dolliver confined to his room with recurring eye trouble possibly requiring surgery. Secretary Wilson announces plan to organize a commission to investigate the entire cost of living and determine causes for price increases.
In Battle Creek Michigan on December 31 Mrs. Charles E Spencer wife of a railroad engineer and mother of four was found burned to death after a shed at the rear of their home burned. Her husband woke to smoke and found her body before alarming others. Authorities say indications point to self inflicted death.
Des Moines will host the upcoming state poultry show. J. A. Pease of Fort Dodge was re-elected president. Frea Townsend of Albia was named vice-president. H. A. Guthrie of Des Moines serves as secretary.
The street railway company announces a new rule effective January 1 banning smoking and expectoration on cars. Employees are instructed to enforce the prohibition strictly.
Rev. J. W. Abel of Wesley M. E. church has an AG opinion allowing his congregation to organize a rabbit hunt and kill rabbits with clubs. Mrs. E. Baird of the Humane Society promises to witness and threatens arrest if rabbits survive the first swing.
Iowa City businessmen completed the guaranty of a hundred thousand dollars to insure the interurban line to Davenport with five hundred to spare. The campaign raised sixty thousand in two days and the commercial club added six thousand in twenty minutes.
William E. Huey a prominent Iowa capitalist and fast motor boat owner married a New York society belle in Bellevue Louisiana this week. He plans to return with his bride in a few days.
Spencer Trask a leading financier and head of Spencer Trask & Company died in a rear-end collision on the New York Central near Croton. The Montreal Express halted by a block signal collided with a following freight. One passenger and a porter injured. Trask born 1844 in Brooklyn.
New York stock exchange governors received the committee report on Rock Island common transactions after Monday’s inquiry. Action is expected January 12 with disciplinary measures likely, though details remain confidential.
Fire destroyed American Express office and store rooms near Grand Central. Related Christmas packages and other valuables were lost in the blaze, causing an estimated loss of five million dollars.
Red Oak Iowa December 31 Postmaster C C Platter is dead age 71 He served in the civil war as a captain on the staff of General John A Logan and was formerly a state legislator.
Iowa City Det. 31 reports Frank R. Hatch, local businessman, had his Clinton street store and an Oxford outlet closed by creditors. Attachments on his stock were not enforced until yesterday as an official managed holiday receipts. Hatch's liabilities reportedly exceed his assets after years in business.
One robber shot and killed and two assailants wounded as police surprised a bank bandit gang at Harrah. The wounded men were captured at Lukin Trade Activity. Dis batch from York notes reports of a temporary trade lull and bleak 1910 prospects.
Dan L. Tubbs is a candidate for state game and fish warden in Iowa. The governor will appoint to fill the vacancy after urging from citizens. Tubbs brings three years as deputy warden plus many years as a police officer and detective, seen as well qualified and competent for the duties.
Columbus Junction reports the death of Alanson T. an old soldier, who died suddenly at 8 30 in South Hill from a paralytic stroke. In Paris Robert Bacon, former secretary of state and new US ambassador to France, presented credentials to President Poincare.
A fragment reports a California special train to be put in service for a first run from Chicago around 9 oclock, with months indicated and a plan to remove the Golden State train from service on the same route.
Dubuque Iowa December 321 Joseph Brandenberger was sentenced to life imprisonment at Fort Madison for the murder of Henry Schranz last September. A motion for a new trial was denied and the penalty fixed by the jury. Brandenberger and Schranz were bachelors living together. A quarrel led Brandenberger to fire a double barrel shotgun at Schranz.
Professors from Yale Harvard Michigan Columbia Lehigh Maine Minnesota Nebraska Washington Iowa Pennsylvania Toronto New Brunswick met Chief Forester Pinchot to discuss advancing forestry education. Secretary Wilson welcomed the gathering representing nearly all forestry schools in the country.
General William Booth founder of the Salvation Army was granted a new trial in New York on December 31. He seeks to oust the American Salvation Army after a 1897 suit asking for a permanent injunction to bar the American Army from using Salvation Army manuals and rites and to compel members to surrender their uniforms.
Scores of bankers from across Iowa will gather in Waterloo on Sunday for the funeral of John C Easton who died suddenly of stomach hemorrhage. He served as president of the State Bankers' association and L E Stevens of Ottumwa becomes acting president.
Washington officials and the switchmen seek mediation to resolve the northwest strike. H B Perham and government mediator Knapp Neill met amid no definite developments as railroads oppose reinstating 2500 out men though willing to hire if vacancies arise.
Boone Iowa December 31 Rev Seth M Wilcox rector of Grace church resigns after ten years to take charge at St George s church in Des Moines, moving from Boone to the capital city.
Attorney General Wickersham disclosed a 268 page brief detailing the government’s suit against the tobacco combine. He asks the court to include foreign firms and additional parties, seeking receivership and broader judgments. The brief claims assets of 400 million dollars and alleges persistent duress and monopoly power across major tobacco interests.
J. D. Easton, prominent Iowa Bankers Association figure, died last night in Waterloo from a stomach hemorrhage after only a few days of illness.
Paris reports on December 31 declare the claim that President Fallieres is ill to be false. He spent the day hunting.
In Bluefields on December 31 Estrada rejects Madriz presidency as illegal and refuses peace terms. He pursues an eastward campaign toward the capital with discussions over a Greytown assault. General Mena arrives in Chile after clashes as Zelaya aims to erase his regime.
President Taft reached Washington this morning from New York where he attended the wedding of his niece Miss Louise W. Taft daughter of Henry W. Taft. Also aboard the train were Vice President and Mrs. Sherman.
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