12 Apr 1907
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Newspaper
Rock Valley Bee
Location
Rock Valley, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 12, 1907
Page
1
The Rock Valley Bee reports editor and proprietor F. D. Brown with Zi J. Haydon as local editor for the Rock Valley, Iowa publication.
An agreement signed by thirty new Western railroads and the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen raises pay for firemen on most engines by 25 cents per day for ten hour runs or less up to 100 miles. Rates vary by engine size and service, with some reductions in yard duties and overtime adjustments. The move mirrors a recent conductors and trainmen raise while omitting twelve and a half mile per hour service.
An attempted freight wreck on the Cleveland and Pittsburg branch near Alliance Ohio failed when the engineer saw a red signal and emergency brakes stopped the train before an open switch. The suspected saboteur fled the scene, believed linked to the Hudson derailment gang.
A Monday fire leveled the New York City Railway car barn power plant, dominating a block around Seventh Avenue and 146th 147th Streets. The loss nears 1.5 million dollars. over 200 cars burned. only the electric department survived. Fireman Captain I. Ryan died under a collapsing wall, with about a dozen other firefighters and oilers injured but not fatally.
The Supreme Court ruled Isle of Pines is not an American territory and not covered by the Paris treaty provisions. The decision, announced by Chief Justice Fuller, states the island had been integral to Cuba prior to the treaty and falls outside Porto Rico area. Cocoa imports to the United States now average over 1 million dollars monthly, up from 250 thousand a decade ago per the commerce department.
Monday quotations from the Sioux City live stock market list top prices for cattle hogs and futures. Specific figures include top hogs at 36.35 and top heifers at 5.35. The report notes arrivals and market activity with references to prominent figures in finance and labor news of the period.
The attorney general notes the Illinois rail line turmoil may hit stockholders if charter is revoked. Plan urged for the company or stockholders to seek remedy while Stead warns of financial wrecking by financiers and promises action if further inquiry supports relief for the road and its investors.
Ex-President Manuel Lizadro Barrillas was stabbed to death aboard a street car in Mexico City Saturday evening. A youth named Jose Estrada from Ocos Guatemala, 17, confessed the crime, after which he was captured. Barrillas, 62, opposed Guatemala’s current government and was viewed as a potential future president. some Guatemala colonists think Estrada acted as a paid assassin.
Secretary Loeb stated on Friday that names were mentioned at the White House about a dinner and a story of a possible plan to defeat the president's policies in the upcoming presidential campaign. He added there were no further details to release but believed publicity would nip the scheme before the 1908 campaign.
A Paris allied provisions trades union meeting of bakers grocers and others formed a plan for a general strike with no start date yet set but likely to occur soon. A separate Houston report says John Jones a jealous man killed his wife near Wrighton Lake and then shot her mother and Harry Higgins who came to town after a doctor.
A ministerial decree issued at Rome declares one Van dyka painting remaining in Genoa as state property. The life size portrait of a lady, titled this can vas, is described as highly valuable.
A Chicago grand jury returned a second indictment against Reunat John R. Watch former president of the Chicago National Bank accusing him of mismanagement of the institution.
The schooner Laura Li Sprague of Marblehead Massachusetts with Captain Pierce ran ashore off Cracocke inlet near Norfolk Virginia on Sunday. Life savers reportedly brought the schooner’s crew ashore safely.
Private reports from Venezuela indicate that President Castro has suffered a relapse. The message comes amid concern over his health and the stability of leadership in Cuba.
London papers claim Emperor abdication within a month with Grand Duke Michael named regent. Reports allege a military dictatorship to quell revolution, abolition of the lower house, and a planned marriage between Grand Duke Michael and Princess Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein as part of Moscow negotiations.
A tornado struck Alexandria Louisiana early Friday killing at least four people and injuring thirteen. It damaged an area from Bijou Rapids three miles above the city to below on the Red River and wrecked 100 factories stores and dwellings. Reports from the region note additional deaths and extensive property loss, with serious damage in West Feliciana Parish and many African American residents among the casualties.
The Order of Railway Conductors and Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen reach a settlement in Chicago. Baggage men receive a monthly increase of $450 after dropping demand for a nine hour day. Initial asks were 12 percent raise and nine hour day. carriers offered 10 percent. Negotiators include I C C Chairman Knapp and U S Labor Commission Chairman Neill.
Militia Company at Lorain ready for duty amid shipyard strike tensions. Company B Fifth Infantry O N G drills at the armory under Capt Gove as authorities fear disorder when about 206 strike breakers arrive. No further disturbances reported.
An unstable man named Emil Passanen, released from a northern Ohio asylum, threatened to kill his family in Chadron before barricading his home. He armed himself with an ax and a knife, triggering a deadly confrontation with officers. the outcome remains uncertain as authorities struggle to subdue him.
The United States court in Atlanta Ga opens the peonage trial of Stewart Colie Guy Cole M FP Cole H I Ziegler Louis BR Rob inson and J W Brewster. They are charged with holding twenty five German immigrants in peonage and conspiring to commit peonage.
William Adair master mechanic for the Louisville and Nashville railroad was found guilty of discriminating against a labor union member in Cincinnati Ohio by a United States court jury in Covington He was fined $100 by Judge A M J Cochran.
A water main rupture in Sault Ste Marie Alich halts plant operations leaving 32 000 residents without water or fire protection water is brought by river haulage to meet needs and the city faces emergency measures.
Gov Folk commutes sentences of Emil Hartman and Julius Lehnmann, former members of the cof rielegates, from Missouri. The action follows petitions for clemency and alters their incarceration outcomes.
Iowa state news reports a city high school feud as girls recruit handsome outsiders from Davenport Rock Island Moline Dixon Sterling Dubuque Cedar Rapids Anamosa and elsewhere while boys form a Bachelor society to boycott or ostracize the girls. Offenses trigger escalating fines, starting at 5 or 9 cents and rising with repeat violations. The dispute notes girls can manage without boys and will seek beaux from nearby cities to fill class function vacancies.
Rose Coghlan and company planned to present Mrs Warren's Profession at Foster's opera house Des Moines Monday night. Chief J W Jones announced police will act to block the performance, stating only a cast iron injunction could prevent decisive action.
Oil of ordinary quality discovered on a farm leased by D A Lavenberg near Cannell Bluffs while digging a cellar. The find accompanies rumors of a Standard Oil company stockholders’ formation to buy nearby oil lands, stirring speculation among locals.
A prominent Polk County farmer Irving died by suicide with a shotgun at his brother in law Jacobs Miller home near Orilla ten miles south of Des Moines. He had suffered long from worry over palsy and left an estate valued around 106000 after thirty years on 70 acres of rich farmland west of Ankeny.
Prominent Ackley resident Mrs George Denial lies near death after a self inflicted throat and wrist injury in her kitchen. Family doctors refuse to discuss the case as relatives mourn daughter in law Mrs Mas Dental whose consuming illness may have driven the event. Mrs Denial noted as a leading local figure with a son who is a merchant.
Judge Wheeler sustains injunction suit by Nonpareil Printing Co. of Council Bluffs to stop Pottawattamie County Board of Supervisors from abrogating a county printing contract. The board awarded to Nonpareil then canceled it weeks later, re bidding and contracting with others.
W Liffering, former principal of Cleghorn and Larrabee schools, Sioux City, pleaded guilty in district court to petit larceny and was sentenced to thirty days in the county jail. He asked to be sent to Knoxville asylum after serving his term, and the judge agreed. Mrs. Liffering recently secured a divorce.
Thousands of bushels of corn remain unsold as farmers in smaller towns face ongoing car shortages. Shippers blame railroads for delays as larger centers see shipments move while smaller points lack available cars.
At the first regular meeting of the city council Mayor Straight announced marshal Charles LaRue and night policemen Frank Cain and William Rowe. LaRue previously held the marshal post. Cain and Rowe were reappointed after serving in their roles. A wedding in Indianola linked editor T Z Anderson to Eva Anderson, who married Halfield, a Houston attorney. The couple planned travel to Chicago then Houston via New Orleans for a summer in Los Angeles.
Martins Moore and Barney Hansen indicted for the Masonville bank robbery were arraigned before Judge F C Platte. Moore got eight years and six months. Hansen’s sentence was deferred to April 13. Sheriff Hennessey sent Moore to the Adamosa penitentiary. C B French, Creston schools superintendent for over fifteen years, resigned from the board of education amid school conduct complaints. Henry H Cheney Davenport restaurateur died after leaping from a third story window, sustaining fatal injuries. Wend Becceka, 69, city worker in Cedar Rapids, hanged himself after 25 years of service to avoid burden on family. Notice from Internal Revenue in Dubuque says local office graded to first class.
A wide range of labor actions and proposals surface from New York to California and beyond. The Shirtwaist Makers’ Union prepares wage demands in New York. New England and New South Wales groups call for health inspections and government oversight. convicts and public works are debated for highway building and jobs. Florida to Ohio shows strikes, wage and hour fights, and new union initiatives.
Authorities note that fire and odor are unaffected by tiny metal particles. Herr Grahn's test with copper and similar substances shows that heating produces a faint odor initially, which increases with time and then fades as vaporized matter becomes indistinguishable from its cold state.
The article cites the act creating a fund for industrial peace promoted by President Roosevelt with proceeds from the peace prize. It lists labor and industry representatives including United Mine Workers head Ohm Mitchell and Chicago and Northwestern official Marvin TH, plus lawmakers and officials. It also mentions global trade notes on coal from the United Kingdom, Chinese farming needs, and Japan’s banking foreign presence.
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