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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1907
Page
3
The article discusses charity and criminology targeting vagrants or hobos. It argues against feeding a vagrant without work and calls for severe railroad laws to curb ride theft. It criticizes city and town responses and favors hard limits on aid and transit to reduce tramp presence.
The article cites Dr. Lantz warning on rats causing up to 100 million dollars in damage yearly including disease and pollution. It suggests barytes as a pest control method and notes German laws restricting casual snapshots, joking that photography could curb accidents and provide future memories.
A dispute in Davenport involving a stenographer and a lady music teacher escalates into a fourfold bloody confrontation. The quarrel centers on which could rightfully attract the affections of a young man, whose name remains undisclosed but is implied to be a gentleman. The incident references Marquis of Queensberry rules.
A Milwaukee bound freight train No 3 crashed into a handcar about two and a half miles east of Keystone. Eleven injured seriously with two fatally. Charles T Elwin of Evanston illinois and H M Fisher of Marion Iowa among the fatally hurt. Conductor Lund and several others badly bruised. The accident occurred as the section crew moved a handcar onto the track and the heavy engine struck it, piling wreckage across the track.
A Burlington express bound for Chicago derailed near Buell Russell at 12 40 injuring eleven passengers, two fatally. The front mail car derailment tugged five other cars into a violent heap with a gas pipe bursting into flames. Relief trains from Chariton and Ottumwa arrived as doctors tended the injured in Russell homes while survivors were moved from the scene.
Secretary of War William Howard Taft delivers a speech in Columbus titled political confession of faith addressing tariff revision and rail-rate regulation. He defends Roosevelt policies, argues for Dingley tariff changes after next election, and contrasts Elkins and rate bills noting prosecutions and jail penalties. He highlights railroad opposition, interstate commerce law flaws, and the need for further amendments to rate fixing.
Centerville suffers worst hail storm in history with seven inch circumference ice balls raining down. Greenhouses damaged, roofs punctured, telephones down, and rural lines knocked out as hail covers a wide territory from Mystic to Unionville and Moravia. No injuries reported amid deafening, freight-train roars and widespread property damage.
Afton area tornado on the afternoon of the 16th fatally injured the wife of George Conn and Mrs. John Shields while their infant son is dead. Conn escaped unharmed as his family’s farm house twelve miles southeast of Afton was torn apart, with both women gravely hurt and carried away by the storm. The twister moved southwest to northeast, ruining crops and buildings but injuring no others known.
Des Moines reports Frank Baird, who turned state's evidence against Bil Richards, was paroled by the board of paroles. Baird, once linked with Richards in a farmer robbery near Knoxville, had been jailed in the penitentiary for fifteen years. Attorneys Sullivan & Sullivan had represented him on release. The case involved a fight during the attempted robbery and allegations of gunfire.
Two Great Western freight trains collided head on near Southwest Fifth Street in Des Moines. Seven cars derailed, two engines wrecked, and crews jumped to safety with only minor bruises reported. The crash occurred on a straight half mile stretch due to a orders misunderstanding. trains were moving at about twenty five miles per hour when the impact happened.
James Scheffler, proprietor of the Manhattan gambling house, is accused of fatally injuring Jas Lankton during a fight. Lankton suffered a fractured skull and was unconscious shortly after the blow, with Scheffler reportedly offering a cash bet of $2,000.
A fierce Friday night storm toppled a dilapidated tenement at 55 Fry Street near a city park site. At 1:30 am the building collapsed crushing five sleepers and injuring 16 others. Victims include Annie Nosal and Annie Marwaranski among the dead. the Nosal house had been moved for park construction.
A fire at Old Orchard Beach Maine on a Thursday night killed two people and injured five, three seriously, with losses around 800000. Seventeen summer hotels sixty cottages and many stores were destroyed as the blaze began in Horgans drug store and may have started from a ramp in the Hotel Olympia annex.
Madison reports the Wisconsin railroad commission ruled Marathon County Railroad, owned by Lieut. Gov. W. D. Connor, unlawful and parasitic. Affected passengers rode free in some cases and small lumber shipments paid no freight. Commission found no published tariff as required by law.
A complaint filed with the Interstate Commerce Commission charges the Chicago and Alton Railroad with grabbing and confiscating another railroad that forms part of the Chicago system. Complainant is John B. Manning of New York City.
The excerpt depicts Capt Bascomb and Capt Somers conversing on a porch about Bascomb’s deafness and his wife. Neighbors note Gersh Bascomb’s steady self-improvement to avoid conflict, while a schoolteacher and Mrs Bascomb discuss hearing during quiet moments. A playful note about a girl seeking a bathing suit adds rural humor.
A terse report notes that in parts of Switzerland many individuals are buried by government actions without regard to wealth or status, highlighting broad social impacts and political implications.
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