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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1912
Page
4
Ohio lawmakers seek short ballot reforms and nonpartisan municipal ballots. Iowa Senator Francis proposes a public utilities commission to regulate corporations and replace the railway board, aligning with the Oregon plan. Des Moines, Columbus correspondents note conferences and anticipated legislative actions.
Springfield Ill Dec 28 Thirty cities were represented yesterday at the opening session of the Illinois Commission Government association with 109 delegates present. Edward W Bemis of Chicago urged strong home rule and suggested a dual commission with Chicago and the rest of the state. He questioned the forthcoming legislative report and urged the governor name a new commission to study utility regulation. City Attorney Albert J Stevens of Springfield spoke in detail on the Bemis plan.
In Messina the San Michael church once called the charnel house collapsed yesterday. Bones from generations buried there were scattered over debris, blankets of bone amid ruined walls. Firemen faced danger as walls threatened further collapse before the structure was torn down and brass recovered.
The commission of corporations is ready to submit a report on the Inter national Harvester Company. The six year investigation will be a scathing indictment of the methods of organization and price setting. The government has begun a suit for dissolution. The report aims to influence the current and possibly next administration.
New York restaurant operators push back against Rutherford's New Year Eve critique calling his Chicago and New York party visions shameless and drunken. They invite him to visit as 1913 arrives to prove their curb on dissipation, while noting Chicago's revels rival New York's in excess and spectacle.
The account notes a scene where celebrants, including women and girls usually well behaved, abandon decorum for a night of unrestrained revelry and titillation, shocking observers at the social gathering.
The jury found Ryan and other Union officials guilty of conspiracy and illegal transportation of explosives. The verdicts followed a high profile trial held amid a large crowd outside the federal building, with jurors including Frank Dare of New Lisbon, and the scene marking a pivotal moment in labor relations.
Three women and a man who mortgaged homes to fund Buckley’s bond celebrate his acquittal on charges tied to a dynamite conspiracy. Buckley, Davenport resident and former secretary of the local Iron Workers union, was believed innocent amid the plant explosion case. In Berlin, a son was born to Prince August William and Princess August William, the couple’s first child since their 1908 marriage.
Andrew Donovan files a house contest alleging Martin B Madden of Chicago used improper expenditures to win the First Illinois congressional seat. The notice cites unlawful spending as the basis for challenging Madden's re election bid. The item also notes assorted social and local details from Waterloo and nearby towns.
A young Horace Greeley, then a printer's devil, courted a minister's daughter. The minister invited him to church but warned with a sermon about a daughter tormented by a devil, causing Greeley’s dismay as he sat in the pew.
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