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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1914
Page
7
The Isakura-Jima eruption continues with mounting horror as officials warn conditions in stricken districts are beyond description. An international appeal for aid is issued as firefighting and rescue teams race to reach affected areas.
Two more violent eruptions of Sakura Jima, coupled with a strong earthquake, toppled buildings in Kagoshima. Refugees flee, ashes fall, and officials warn life losses may be larger than first thought as lava, pumice, and new craters reshape the island. The disaster prompts mass migration and international relief appeals.
Des Moines Iowa January 17 The federal court sustained the validity of Iowa's blue sky securities law in a ruling by Judge Smith McPherson who said the case is largely academic and found all five challenges meritless The action was brought by Wm R Comp ton Co of Kansas City and brokers from St Louis New York and other cites The ruling rejects claims the law was improperly enacted exceeds one subject unconstitutionally burdens interstate commerce violates due process or equal protection and improperly assigns authority to the secretary of state
Washington Democrats on the house rules committee blocked a congressional investigation into strikes in the Michigan copper fields and Colorado coal regions. Republicans and Progressives sought a full committee meeting, but the majority declined to report any investigation resolution. The panel heard petitions from Denver officials and labor leaders alleging abuses in the strikes amid a flurry of letters and telegrams.
Testimony before a senate lobby committee alleges the Canadian government funded circulation of newspaper articles to lure Americans to Canada. Cortland Smith of New York, president of the American Newspaper Association, stated the action. The panel planned to summon George Joslyn, head of the Western Newspaper Union in Omaha.
Hamburg reports indicate the German steamer Acilia is lost with 48 crew and 50 passengers. A Chilean telegram says two officers' bodies were found among wreckage in Moat channel near Picton island in Tierra Del Fuego. The 3606 ton vessel left Corral, Chile for Hamburg on Oct. 27, chartered by Kosmog line.
Washington January 17. The house rules committee refused to report a rule to create a select committee on woman suffrage in the house. Taft Object to Tax on Auto. Professor William Howard Taft of Yale objects to the city tax on his car.
In Coboconk Ontario six children of Mrs Weatherby perished today when fire destroyed their home. The mother escaped by jumping from a window.
Blanche Wood, 24, shot herself in a San Francisco hotel in front of her uncle A R B Wood and Edward Roberts after a note about taking her life. Wood then killed himself. both died within minutes. Roberts said Wood once sat on Tennessee's supreme court bench and had recent money troubles and vanished friends.
New York Jan 17 Herastreet s today says improvement is the keynote of this week s dispatches The betterment is sentimental yet substantial with resumed plant operations in iron and steel and freer commercial paper buying Banks seek desirable grades and report supplies in excess of demand Money conditions ease after prior stringency Demand for spring and beyond rises Wheat exports total 6 713 28% bushels versus 6 128 460 last year Failures for the week stand at 413.
A bandit boarded Western and Atlantic train No. 1 at Vinings Georgia, robbed several passengers of hundreds of dollars, and fired on a deputy sheriff before jumping at Dalton. Bolton authorities report a man matching the bandit’s description has been arrested.
A reader from Dark Man county recalls his father moving to the area in 1854 and notes the Courier paper has long been a family mainstay, expressing how much they would miss it if the publication failed.
In Plymouth England a British submarine A 7 lost off Whitesand May. searchers found no clue to its fate. Sweeping by destroyers with weighted cables failed to locate the submarine or crew. lifting craft cannot reach the scene before Sunday night and raising the vessel before Monday evening is deemed unlikely.
Des Moines anti-saloon men filed an appeal with the Iowa Supreme Court from Judge Lawrence De Graf’s district court ruling that the board of supervisors could canvass the petition. The appeal, entered for the May term, likely will advance when the court convenes Monday.
No authentic report on Gen Pascual Orozco’s fate. Rebel leaders think he may be hiding in Texas or headed for a federal garrison in Mexico. Gen Ynez Salazar claims Orozco escaped from Ojinaga. Salazar’s fellow passenger Gen Antonio Rojas was not arrested. Federal soldiers who sought refuge in the U S are held by authorities with Salazar in New Mexico custody.
Washington January 17 election committee recommended Blair Lee Democrat be seated to succeed Republican Jackson of Maryland and voted 9 to 1 to report adversely on Frank P Glass credentials to succeed the late Johnston of Alabama. Temperature data and 1911 1912 1913 records follow.
In Houghton Michigan January 17 officials consider extradition for Chas H Moyer president of the Western Federation of Miners and other indicted leaders. Special Prosecutor Nicholls debates whether conspiracy is extraditable while twenty nine of thirty eight indicted have been arrested and released on bail and bound over to the January 26 court term.
Negotiations are under way for the purchase of the Des Moines and Fort Dodge railroad by the Minneapolis and St. Louis line. The M S L holds a 50 year lease dating from 1905 and claims control of the Des Moines and Fort Dodge is now acquired as a prelude to its physical acquisition.
In Kansas City on January 17, Judge Ralph Latshaw ruled union men may picket if peaceful and nonobjectionable in conduct and language. He reversed a municipal court ruling fining four union barbers $100 each for picketing a non union shop.
Freeport Illinois January 17 the local Daughters of the American Revolution plan a memorial fund for Colonel Benjamin Stephenson the namesake of Stephenson county. Mrs Charles D Knowlton former regent and state historian suggested the project.
Washington D C Jan 11 The senate agreed to schedule a vote on the Alaska railway bill for the legislative day of Thursday January 22. The action centers on whether to authorize construction and operation of a trans Alaska rail line linking key regions.
In Mayville New York on January 17 Edward Beardsley defies Sheriff Anderson as rapid gunfire greets bearded stalemate at his Summerdale farm. Friends Van Cise and Walker attempt entry but are repelled by bullets from attic windows triggering a breach in peaceful negotiations. Authorities restrict traffic within a mile and seek Beardsley for allegedly shooting a local poor master during a dispute.
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