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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1913
Page
7
In a dramatic shift, former constitutional suffragists are turning militant as protests intensify. The movement’s stance and tactics draw sharper clashes with opponents, signaling a harsher fight ahead.
Officials at Scotland Yard estimate militant suffragists caused over 5 million dollars in property damage in the last three months. Added protection costs for ministers and buildings raise the annual cost to at least 25 million dollars, with three detectives per cabinet member and plain clothes surveillance for suspects.
London reports reveal militant suffragists vow harsher action after the defeat of the woman suffrage bill. Authorities note a surge in bombings and an increase in former constitutional suffragists joining the militant group. Tottenham and St Paul’s Cathedral incidents cited as recent outrages.
A handwritten note dated May 1 1013, written to a wife and mentioning death, was found in a bottle above the Fourth Street dam and turned to police. The message asks any Myrtles with similar initials to contact authorities, but the writer’s identity and intent remain uncertain. Police urge potential spouses to report if matching the clue.
Chartres, France May 8 The French airman Frangeois flew a biplane for 75 minutes with six passengers, setting a duration record for aircraft carrying many aboard. Kewanee and Waterloo baseball teams visit tonight as guests of manager A A Fradenfeld at the Majestic Theatre for the show Whose Little Girl Are You.
London May 8 General Mrs Flora Drummond collapsed in the prisoners enclosure at Bow Street court as proceedings resumed in the malicious damage act case against suffrage leaders. She was removed by a jailer and wardress. The court, crowded, heard revelations from previous hearings about plans for a general raid on post boxes and a suggested attack on the peers via a suffraget typist. A treasury counsel indicated a circular announcing a branch group called the Young Hot Bloods, formed from younger W S P U members with no married women eligible for membership.
A Washington conference of manufacturers and producers convened by the Illinois Manufacturers association outlined plans to push amendments when the Senate reviews the Underwood bill. Leaders included Kirby, Wilder, Byers, Houston, Blake, Watson, Thomas, and Herschel, focusing on tariff revision and the president’s power to negotiate mutual concessions and potential increases.
The May crop report shows winter wheat at 91.9 percent of normal with 30,938,000 acres to be harvested, 1,449,000 acres less than autumn planting and 4,367,000 more than last year's harvested area. Indicated yield 16.6 bushels per acre, total crop about 613,671,000 bushels. Rye 91, meadow land 88.6, hay on farms 10,828,000 tons, pasture 81.7, spring plowing 67.0 percent complete.
Gadar Rapids Iowa May 8 Frank Feildr alleged to have defrauded Cedar Rapids banks of 804 with forged checks was arrested in Chicago last night. He faces charges there for securing 15000 worth of produce with forged checks and fleeing with the proceeds after selling the goods. Feildr had recently moved to Cedar Rapids and bank deposits aided his scheme.
Washington May 8 the Underwood tariff bill enters the house for final debate after a parliamentary delay and a strong party show of support with Democratic leaders in the senate aiming for quick consideration. Plans for a recess during senate passage are discussed as currency questions loom unfinished.
Leavenworth Kansas May 8 Twenty five murders in Missouri Kansas Colorado Iowa and Illinois committed by blows from an ax are attributed to Henry Lea Moore now serving a life term in Missouri. Special agent M W McLaughry of the department of justice announced the theory after an exhaustive study of the ax murders.
Chicago May 8 A maid at H B Wheelock Evanston reports a catlike creature with hands in place of feet swinging from a chandelier. Mrs Wheelock identified it as a monkey earlier and fled when it leaped from a window sill. Police seek organ grinders with active monkeys.
Lausanne hosted the opening of the international Olympic committees congress with about 400 delegates in the university hall. Baron Tierre de Conlibertin and Cuguelmo Ferrero read formal addresses as a stylish audience looked on. Delegates then visited Theodore Roosevelt at Oyster Bay for the Ghent centenary planning.
Congress will take up currency reform in early June after a White House meeting. Representative Oscar W. Underwood said the House will consider banking reforms as President Wilson urged action amid current financial tension.
Paris reports heightened security planned for King Alfonso of Spain amid fears of an anarchist plot. Police in Montpellier uncovered connections with Spanish anarchists and seized documents as part of a broader security sweep. In Fontainebleau the king reviewed troops and received a Norman bay horse from President Poincare.
In Los Angeles on May 8, Misses Levene and Leonitas Parker were sent home from Polytechnic High School for wearing slit skirts. Principal W A Dunn ordered them to change, sparking protests from peers who said a female office worker was allowed to wear the garment, viewed as discrimination.
Springfield Illinois news reports Lieut Gov Barratt O Hara chair of the white slave investigation commission faced a senate inquiry after Deputy Sheriff Richard M Sullivan produced an affidavit testing his character. The session followed O Hara’s request that the senate address an interview quoted in the Springfield Register.
Adicement touts latest New York styles for men and superior grades for older customers at The People’s Store in Corina. Navana cigar promoted as queen of cigars amid promotional language.
In Hurtington Louisiana, May, Frank Tucker and Col. Pledge, about 24 years old, were found dead in a Woodbine lodging room. The room reeked of gas with an open jet, suggesting death by suicide or accidental gas asphyxiation. they were strangers in Burlington, with pockets containing letters pointing to Dandridge Tennessee as a residence. Coroner Prough has not concluded whether the deaths were self destroying or an accidental gas release.
May 8 Chicago officials disclosed a missing hotel register linked to a secret affidavit attacking the morality of Juleut, Guy, O'Hara, globe commission chair. The affidavit, by an unidentified source, claims O'Hara and a Springfield woman registered at the Sherman hotel as T. D. Duncan and wife, with a Springfield millionaire and another woman registered as J. J. Miller and wife. A handwriting comparison is planned.
The Y M C A will organize its new board at a session tomorrow evening in the association building. The meeting will elect a president and other officers, with successors to H R Lee the physical director and Ernest J Starr the former boys secretary. Lawrence Nelson of Jola Kan and George Cockburn of Fort Dodge are top applicants for boys secretary, while Saam of Fort Worth Tex and Carley of Fort Dore seek physical director.
Secretary McAdoo expanded a Treasury Department secrecy order, forbidding disclosure of treasury records to anyone outside the department without written permission. He warned that violations will be dealt with summarily, and Congressmen are included in the restricted group.
Des Moines May 8 Dr Florence Sherbon of Colfax was elected president of the state society of Iowa medical women at the final session last night The other officers are Jeanette Throckmorton vice president G G Dolan second vice president Clara Whitmore secretary Grace Jarger treasurer and Laura Bronson of Iowa City presided at the annual banquet
The text notes a May 8 temperature report with a low around 41 degrees and a high near 9 degrees for a specific period. It also mentions the previous year’s minimum of 54 and maximum of 13, but the data appears garbled.
Washington May 8 A national tuberculosis meeting heard Homer Folks attack Dr Friedmann's Berlin cure and its press agents. He warned the Friedmann controversy could hinder prevention efforts and noted the public spectacle surrounding the claim may outpace real medical advances. Strong entities appear in the discussion as officials and doctors weigh the cure’s impact.
In Weston West Virginia on May 5, Robert Brinkley aged 10 flagged a Baltimore and Ohio passenger train after spotting a burning trestle. He jumped the gap and caused the train to halt as workers erected a temporary skeleton support, likely saving the 100 passengers onboard from disaster.
Washington May 8 Attorneys for Samuel Gompers John Mitchell and Frank Morrison asked the district court of appeals to stay its mandate sentencing Gompers to thirty days in jail and fining Mitchell and Morrison 500 each for contempt in the Buck s Stove and Range case The court granted leave to renew the motion if the appeal cannot be prepared within fifteen days.
In a southern Philadelphia home, Mrs Mary Kulasa, 24, rose from bed to fatally cut her two infant daughters throats with a long butcher knife while her husband slept. Neighbors and police say she had been ill and likely became suddenly insane.
Los Angeles reports an alleged plan to outfit Mexican rebels with aircraft provoking the arrest of Didier Masson and his machinist Thomas Dean in Tucson on neutrality law violations. Dudley W. Robinson, assistant U S attorney, announced the charges and arrests.
Assessors report Black Hawk county as one of Iowa’s richest agriculturally with 40.1 bushels per acre corn, corn value around 1,088,869 dollars, maize pivotal, potato wealth over 500,000 dollars, and egg production about 1,701,? dozen figures, plus 107,695 hogs, 400,278 poultry, 48,775 cattle, and 14,010 horses.
Secretary Bryan returns from California to confer with Governor Johnson over the anti alien land laws as Japan withholds formal protest until inquiry into U S plans after Johnson signs the bill. The move could open formal negotiations and possibly arbitration at The Hague on Japanese citizenship status in the United States. Bryan planned brief talks with President Wilson then to Baltimore and New York for Ghent treaty centenary events.
Near Nogales Arizona May 8 a troop train carrying 250 federal soldiers was blown up by dynamite and most of the passengers killed as insurgents planted mines along the route from Sahuaripa to Alamos near the Sonora Coahuila border. Approximately 2000 Yaqui Indians have joined state troops, according to the report. US army officers heard nothing of a war plane reported missing near Tucson and continued the search.
Kansas City detectives linked Wm. La Trasse to the recent Kansas City Southern train robbery after a man wounded Jesse M. Short of Joplin was shot and $1,100 stolen. La Trasse, a former Wyandotte county jail escapee, was said to be wanted in Chicago for murder and in St. Joseph for jail escape. A bloody shirt found along the tracks east of Kansas City aided the search, while Louis Watson remains in custody pending identification confirmation.
In Waverly Iowa a 1-year-old boy, son of Samuel Whitney, contracted blood poisoning after being bitten on the wrist by two gophers last week. The injury is painful, the wrist swollen, and he is under physician care.
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