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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1912
Page
6
European conditions worsen as industries in England close down and public services shrink. Unemployment rises while fuel prices climb. German miners walk out and French workers halt activity. a broader strike wave in the United States appears likely.
March 11 dispatches report Britain engulfed by a broad coal and fuel crisis. Up to a million other workers are jobless as factories close and transport narrows. In Europe similar coal strikes ripple through Germany France and Westphalia.
Dealers anticipate higher potato prices for table use amid indications of rising costs. The prospect of increased pricing reflects tightening supply and market expectations in the produce trade.
March 11 Spokane dog Bum, owned by City Councilman Marrar, saved a mother and her four year old daughter from a February fire. The brave three year old wore a steel studded collar and badge after Chief Weeks funded a formal collar and plaque.
Bentley, clerk of the courts in Black Hawk County for nine years and deputy for about ten and a half, announces resignation to pursue a new line of work at similar pay. He will stay in Waterloo, with the board likely to appoint Fred St Pettit as successor until the next Jan. 1.
Farmers expect a price drop for about three weeks as pits open. Frozen pits may blunt the decline. Today potatoes in jackets sell for 1400 bushel 40 cents a peck, Towns 120 per bushel. All local stock comes from cellars. pits remain unopened amid extreme January February cold.
Mrs Christian Hemmick formerly Mrs Albert Clifford Barney withdraws her Oriental Fairy Tay from the Playhouse in Washington after a quarrel with Playhouse president Mr Preston Gibson. She plans to present it at a local theatre.
A socialist meeting in Oakland endorses resolutions calling for the recall of Mayor Mott and the city administration. Attendees include socialists from Oakland Alameda and Berkeley with San Francisco officials. Recall petitions to start immediately allege waterfront control by corporate interests and illegal contracting on the new city hall at $590,000.
Thirty three candidates seek Burlington commission seats while Des Moines and Cedar Rapids hold city primaries under the commission plan. Mayor Hanna faces four opponents as Burlington voters contend with a heavy snowstorm. Mason City lists seven candidates for two school board seats amid Socialist participation. A bond issue for a new school building is debated locally.
Washington March 11. The decree of the supreme court of Tawa upholding the two cent gas ordinance of Cedar Hiples as value for the present was today affirmed by the supreme court of the United States.
Law rence Massachusetts reports a mass picket with 5000 workers and sympathizers near the police station. Police used clubs after a woman striker allegedly displayed a revolver as arrests were made. Six leaders were jailed including four women. The march aimed for talks with American Woolen Co officials in Boston on settlement.
Washington March 11 Senator Dixon big manager forwarded Col Roosevelt letter favoring primaries to William B McKinley director of the Taft campaign bureau In an accompanying note Dixon asked if Taft endorses McKinley as Roosevelt endorses his challenge of March 4 for a general primary test of republican voters sentiments in the approaching campaign The Dixon letter questions endorsement and Tafts position.
Ottumwa records three deaths since Sunday including Curtis Johnson a 33 year old Burlington railroad brakeman ground to bits on the railroad right of way. Chester Clark 42 a drug businessman and brother of U S Marshal Frank Clark died of heart disease. Dr D A LaForce ten prominent Ottumwa physician former mayor and legislature member died. Cedar Rapids notes retirement rail worker Sarcent died after a long career as a Mason and cabinetmaker who donated a globe wood table to the Mason library.
Washington March 11 Guy M Freer a traffic expert testified before the Stanley steel investigating committee that the Duluth Missabe and Northern railroad a United States Steel subsidiary earned 240 percent return on its ore charges in 1910 He denounced the 80 cent per ton ore freight from the Missabe mines to Lake Superior as unreasonable The inquiry resumed to cover transportation aspects of the steel corporation affairs Ore from Lake Superior largely moved by the subsidiary lines to Duluth where it was transferred to steel corporation ships for export to western ports
In Tokyo on March 11 officials lament the U S Senate debate on general arbitration treaties. Japan had consented to modifying the Anglo Japanese alliance by article four, which limits obligations to go to war if a third power’s arbitration is enforced. The move is seen as fruitless by many here.
President Talt travels from Chicago to Toledo with a flood of congratulatory telegrams in White House portfolios. Many messages praised his Toledo speech denouncing recall of official decisions as he passed through Pittsburgh on the way home.
The supreme court handed down an opinion affirming Nelle Wilson against Arthur Mangold in Weliware district with Judge Charles P Ransier presiding. The action seeks damages on a seduction charge, and the opinion is listed as For. gentlemen, San Felice.
The constitution, approved today, transfers supreme authority to the national assembly. The assembly must approve all presidential acts and controls the cabinet, and elects the president and vice president. Sun Yat Sen remains acting president until the new government is launched.
Washington and New York report strong early morning earthquakes traced by seismographs. At Georgetown University shocks began about 5 88 oclock lasting twenty five minutes with peak at 6 40. Brooklyn College also logged a severe quake centered roughly 1500 miles from New York.
Paris reports the U S senate action on arbitration treaties as a rejection in semi official circles. There is hope negotiations may reopen later with Britain and France. The French foreign office says Jusserand is not being transferred.
Sioux City March 111 The city public market ordinance prohibiting grocers from buying on the market to resell before 9 o clock was upheld as constitutional by Judge RB Gaynor in district court. Sam Krumann a prominent grocer was fined 109 dollars for buying a basket of tomatoes last fall to test the ordinance and plans to appeal to the supreme court.
A Minnesota county reports a written confession to a murder committed nearly twenty years ago. The confessed crime led to another man’s conviction and suicide in the county jail before transfer to Stillwater. The case ties to a 48 year old bank robbery conviction in Moorhead and unfolds with revivalist conversions.
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